Abstract from the distributor:
Islington, Docklands, Clapham and East London have all experienced huge changes in recent years through social and aesthetic 'makeovers' as areas have been regenerated and wealthier residents have moved in.…
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This volume documents metropolitan Boston's metamorphosis from a casualty of manufacturing decline in the 1970s to a paragon of the high-tech and service industries in the 1990s. The city's rebound has been part of a…
Abstract from the publisher:
Despite the rapid creation of jobs in the greater Atlanta region, poverty in the city itself remains surprisingly high, and Atlanta's economic boom has yet to play a significant role in narrowing the gap between the…
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A collaborative work among historians, literary specialists, and architects, this collection is directed at filling the gap in our knowledge about minority neighborhoods in the southern Mediterranean.
A series of…
Présentation par l'éditeur de la réédition de "Sociologie de Paris" :
Paris s’embourgeoise. Les richesses et les pouvoirs s’y concentrent. Si tous les Franciliens ne peuvent habiter dans la capitale,…
Présentation par l'éditeur du n° 2011-2 de Notes & Documents :
Après plusieurs décennies de politiques de déségrégation raciale dans les écoles de la ville de Chicago, l’abandon…
Alors que depuis quelques années, une réflexion s'est développée sur le concept de justice spatiale, cet ouvrage a pour ambition de contribuer au renouveau des analyses portant plus spécifiquement sur les liens entre ségrégation urbaine et justice,…
Abstract from the publisher :
Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following a peace process that ended Central America’s longest and bloodiest civil war and impelled the transition…
Présentation par l'éditeur :
S’adressant à un large public (spécialistes ou pas) les auteurs s’interrogent sur notre actuel "droit à la ville", le combat contre les aliénations, pour…
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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…
Extract from the Editorial by Tawa Lama-Rewal and Zérah:
This special issue considers together (i) the role of democracy (or lack of it) in the city (Ramaswamy, Heuzé, Ahmad); (ii) the redeployment of urban politics along with economic…
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Les États-Unis sont volontiers regardés et souvent dénoncés comme le symbole de la séparation des groupes raciaux dans la ville. Cependant, la dichotomie classique entre…
Abstract from the author :
Reconciliation through reintegration? : a study on spatial proximity and social relations in two post-civil war Beirut neighborhoods.
Although the Lebanese Civil War ended in 1991 and Beirut became a reunified city, much…
Abstract from the publisher :
Like other West European countries, the Netherlands are facing a growing uneasiness about its changing demographics. It is within this context that animated discussions concerning immigrant neighbourhoods dominate. The…
Contents:
Jürgen Mansel and Wilhelm Heitmeyer - Precarity, segregation, and poverty in the social space - overview of the research status
Uwe H. Bittlingmayer, Ullrich Bauer, Matthias Richter and Diana Sahrai - The over- and underestimation of…
Présentation par l'éditeur :
De plus en plus, nous vivons en milieu urbain. Les villes occupent désormais une place centrale dans l'organisation et la transformation des pays. Toutefois, loin d'être un tissu tendant…
Organisers' description :
The past two decades have witnessed the emergence throughout Asia of the idea that, through the development of large scale, controlled urban environments master planned and managed on a commercial basis by private…
Abstract from the publisher : Does planning in contested cities inadvertedly make the divisions worse? The 60s and 70s saw a strong role of planning, social engineering, etc but there has since been a move towards a more decentralised…