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Paris/Babel, une mégalopole européenne
Décrypter la nouvelle réalité de Paris et explorer les rouages connus ou méconnus de cette mégapole européenne, tel est l’enjeu de Paris Babel. Un livre d’initiation, de défrichage et de synthèse qui rend compte d’une ville de douze millions…
La question de l'eau à Istanbul
Introduction :
En quels termes se pose désormais, dans cette mégapole de 14 millions d'habitants, la question de l'eau ?
A Istanbul, l'eau du robinet est désormais potable et aux normes internationales, et les exclus de la desserte sont de…
En quels termes se pose désormais, dans cette mégapole de 14 millions d'habitants, la question de l'eau ?
A Istanbul, l'eau du robinet est désormais potable et aux normes internationales, et les exclus de la desserte sont de…
The New Science of Cities
In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. To understand space, he argues, we must understand flows, and to understand flows, we…
City in sight : Dutch dealings with urban change
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Huge social transformations and turbulent political events - 9/11 and the political murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh - have put urban issues high on the political agenda of the Netherlands. Against this…
Bridging diversity in a globalizing world : Journal of urban and regional analysis (Vol. 2, No. 2)
From the introduction by Izhak Schnell :
Special Issue: “Bridging Diversity in a Globalizing World” Selected Papers given at the IGU - Urban Commission Meeting Regional Conference, July 2010, Tel Aviv, Israel
This volume is a result of…
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,…
Distributed urbanism : Cities after Google Earth
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What form of housing will emerge in Dubai, where the majority of the population are non-citizens and average length of stay three days? How will depopulating cities reclaim vacant space, reorganize infrastructure and…
Cities, texts and social networks, 400–1500
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Cities, Texts and Social Networks examines the experiences of urban life from late antiquity through the close of the fifteenth century, in regions ranging from late Imperial Rome to Muslim Syria, Iraq and al-Andalus,…
The Europeanization of cities : Policies, urban change and urban networks
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The Europeanization of Cities sheds light on the complex interplay between cities and the EU, both how cities engage with the EU and how the EU engages with cities. In particular, the book considers how EU policies and…
Mobile urbanism : Cities and policymaking in the global age
Abstract from the publisher : How knowledge and power flow between places and impact cities worldwide Mobile Urbanism provides a unique set of perspectives on the current global-urban condition. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, leading…
Contention and trust in cities and states
Abstract from the publisher : Cities and nation-states have co-existed uneasily throughout human history. At times fused, at other times opposed, at still other times hierarchically linked, they have been crucibles of identity and social and…
The growth of non-Western cities : Primary and secondary urban networking c. 900 - 1900
Abstract from the publisher : These interdisciplinary studies address pre-1900 non-Western urban growth in the African Sudan, Mexico, the Ottoman Middle East, and South, Southeast, and East Asia. Therein, primary and secondary cities served as…
International handbook of globalization and world cities
Abstract from the publisher: This Handbook offers an unrivalled overview of current research into how globalization is affecting the external relations and internal structures of major cities in the world. By treating cities at a global scale, it…
Mondialisation, villes et territoires. L'économie d'archipel
La mondialisation n'est pas l'avènement d'un espace abstrait, sans distances, sans inscriptions locales autres que précaires et résiduelles. [...] Les Etats et restent des acteurs majeurs et ne sont pas près d'être marginalisés (du moins les grands…
Urban maps : Instruments of narrative and interpretation in the city
Abstract from the publisher : This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offer an interdisciplinary discourse and critique of the complex systems,…
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.…
Urbanisme, Habitat, Société
De Marseille à Créteil, de Villeurbanne à l'Île-aux-Moines en passant par Saint-Ouen, Lyon, Guise, Paris et Méry-sur-Oise, le CNRS propose aux internautes de découvrir les recherches menées dans le domaine de l'urbanisme. Destinée à un large public,…