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Progress in Irish urban studies
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Progress in Irish Urban Studies is a working paper series which presents expanded articles based on papers presented to the annual research seminar series and provides a means by which post-graduate researchers and…
Urban sprawl in Europe : The ignored challenge
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Europe is a fascinating and diverse continent, one of the most urbanised on earth. Today, approximately 75% of the European population live in urban areas, while still enjoying access to extensive natural or…
Globalization, urban form and governance
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This Conference Book compiles the summary-papers that win be presented at the First Conference of the ALFA-IBIS Network. Part One is an introductory chapter containing a short history of the ALFA-IBIS project, the…
The politics of place : Contentious urban redevelopment in Pittsburgh
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In urban America, large-scale redevelopment is a frequent news item. Many proposals for such redevelopment are challenged—sometimes successfully, and other times to no avail. The Politics of Place considers the…
Urban development : A new perspective
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Although it has often been taken as a general definition of the city and urban culture (whence the commonsense notion that cities must fulfill commercial functions), Pirenne's fomulation was deficient because only the…
Effluent America : Cities, industry, energy, and the environment
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Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between…
The dynamics of urban growth in three Chinese cities
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The theme of this book is the interplay of geography, size, and industrial structure in determining the industrial vigor of cities. At any point in time, a city's economic prospects are determined by location,…
Urban geography plenary lecture : Urban geography (Vol. 30, No. 1)
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Michael Brown - 2008 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture - Public health as urban politics, urban geography : Venereal blopower in Seattle, 1943-1983
Rachel Slocum - Commentary on "Public health as urban politics, urban geography :…
Urbanization, population, environment and security
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The Comparative Urban Studies Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center began a project in 1997 designed to both identify factors that contribute to making urban areas centers of violence and poverty and propose policy…
The future of shrinking cities : Problems, patterns and strategies of urban transformation
Full title : The future of shrinking cities : Problems, patterns and strategies of urban transformation in a global context
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This publication is the outcome of a symposium held at UC Berkeley in February 2007,…
What policies for globalising cities? Rethinking the urban policy agenda
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At a time of increasing globalisation processes, the search for competitiveness in urban regions has become a major political target for both local and central governments. The importance of the cities and their…
Brazil's early urban transition : What can it teach urbanizing countries?
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This paper specifically describes the urbanization experience of Brazil, by far the largest country in Latin America, and which has attained levels of urbanization that surpass those of most European countries. Despite…
The mysteries of the great city: The politics of urban design, 1877-1937
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The Mysteries of the Great City examines the physical, cultural, and political transformations of the American city between the Gilded Age and the New Deal. Focusing on New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati, John Fairfield…
Building Chicago: Suburban developers and the creation of a divided metropolis
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The suburban subdivision, replete with identical houses, lawns, and families, is a familiar icon of contemporary American culture. Equally familiar are suburban governments, which many critics describe as providers of…
For the ciy as a whole: Planning, politics, and the public interest in Dallas, Texas, 1900-1965
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I am interested in "using" Dallas to understand better the changing nature of politics and planning in urban America during the twentieth century. Dallas is hardly typical of all cities, but it is closely…
Sao Paulo: A tale of two cities
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UN-HABITAT’s new Cities and Citizens series examines urban inequality in the developing world through in-depth analysis of intracity data developed by UN-HABITAT and its partner institutions and on-the-ground…