Présentation par l'éditeur :
Un nouveau rapport publié par l’Organisation mondiale de la Santé (OMS) et le Programme des Nations Unies pour les établissements humains (ONU-HABITAT) montre pour la…
Abstract from the publisher :
In June 2003, PUM presided over a symposium that evaluated migration and urbanization in developing African countries in light of comparative evidence from Asia and Latin America.
Organizing the conference also…
Contents :
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 :…
Abstract from the distributor:
By 2030 nearly 2 billion people will live in informal urban settlements or slums. Although living in abject poverty, slum communities are resilient and create new forms of urbanism. This panel will discuss current work…
Abstract from the publisher :
Virtually all of the growth in the world's population for the foreseeable future will take place in the cities and towns of the developing world. Over the next twenty years, most developing countries will for the first…
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…
Organisers' description:
What does it mean to envision a healthy city - one that nurtures both people and the environment? Environmental Urbanism acknowledges and embraces the relationships between people and their material surroundings. This…
Abstract from the distributor:
In a research called ‘Measuring Socially Sustainable Urban Regeneration in Europe’ by Andrea Colantonio and Tim Dixon et. al. it is argued that previous research on sustainability has been mainly limited…
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Dès sa naissance au XIXe siècle, l’urbanisme a entretenu un rapport étroit avec les problèmes de santé et, par contrecoup, avec la médecine, ses…
Abstract from the publisher:
Alan Marcus's Plague of Strangers examines the origins and development of municipal services in mid-nineteenth century cities from a political, social, and public health point of view. Using Cincinnati as an example of a…
Extract from the 'Biographical Note' by Barclay G. Jones :
Lewis Mumford is certainly correct in describing The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century as a "classic pioneer work". It is the first really sound, comprehensive, and…