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Cities and social equity: Inequality, territory and urban form
Abstract from the publisher: Cities and Social Equity is a report by the Urban Age research team with commissioned pieces from Ipsos MORI, United Nations Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD), the Centre for…
Cities full of symbols: A theory of urban space and culture
Abstract from the publisher: This book examines design proposals that show symbolic handling of the 9/11 attack on New York, the disaster symbolism of the ship washed ashore by the tsunami in Banda Aceh, and the design of the symbol of the city of…
Cities How They Grow (1952)
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Ce documentaire fait une présentation générale de la croissance urbaine en Amérique du nord et des techniques de planification urbaine.
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Cities with 'slums': From informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa
Organisers' description: The UN’s Development target to improve the lives of 100 million ‘slum’ dwellers has been inappropriately communicated as a target to free cities of slums. Cities with ‘Slums’: from informal…
Cities, politics and power
Abstract from the publisher : Traditionally, the study of ‘power in the city’ was confined to the institutions of urban government and the actors involved in contesting and making political decisions in and for metropolitan societies.…
Commerce et ville ou commerce sans la ville ?
Commerce et ville ou commerce sans la ville ?
Production urbaine, stratégies entrepreneuriales et politiques territoriales de développement durable.
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Alors que le commerce a toujours…
Creating cities: Culture, space and sustainability. The 1st City, Culture and Society conference
Extract from the Introduction by Evelyn Schulz and Hiroshi Okano: The papers gathered here are the outcome of Creating Cities; Culture, Space and Sustainability: The 1st City, Culture and Society (CCS) Conference which took place in Munich, Germany,…
Creative knowledge cities: Myths, visions and realities
Abstract from the publisher: This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative…
Critical urban studies : New directions
Abstract from the publisher : Essays reevaluating and challenging the critiques of the urban studies field. This volume revisits the tradition of critical scholarship characteristic of the urban studies field. Urban scholarship has had detractors…
Crucibles of hazard: Mega-cities and disasters in transition
Abstract from the publisher: As a result of repeated experiences with devastating earthquakes, storms, floods, and wildfires, places like Tokyo, Mexico City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are already identified with catastrophe in both scientific…
Cultures urbaines et sportives alternatives. Socio-anthropologie de l'urbanité ludique
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Les problématiques inhérentes aux "sports urbains" sont nombreuses : politiques, sociales, culturelles et sécuritaires entre autres. En combinant les acquis de la sociologie…
De la ville en politique
Cet ouvrage décrit les évolutions récentes touchant la pensée politique sur la ville, tant en France que dans les pays anglo-saxons et il propose une vision alternative permettant de rompre radicalement avec les tendances…
