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Urban age : London
Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'London : Europe's global city?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 recordings of the entire conference are available on the Urban Age website.…
Zoom sur Rotterdam
Présentation par le diffuseur :
Cette semaine, cap sur Rotterdam aux Pays-Bas. Evènement majeur cette année à Rotterdam : le départ du 97ème Tour de France le 4 Juillet prochain la fameuse compétition…
Mots-clés: architecture flottante, écologie, energie propre, environnement, gestion de l'eau, Hollande, port, Rotterdam, vélo, ville port
Urban age : Berlin
Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'Berlin : An urban experiment?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 recordings of the entire conference are available on the Urban Age website.…
Urban age : Shanghai
Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'Shanghai : The fastest city?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 recordings of the entire conference are available on the Urban Age website.…
Urban age : Johannesburg
Organisers' description :
The principal aim of Urban Age is to shape the thinking and practice of urban leaders and sustainable urban development. This six-year conference series – travelling from New York City, Shanghai, London, Mexico City,…
Beirut normal
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Is there anything to say about Beirut beyond the obvious, and by now exhausted, lessons of post-war reconstruction and identity politics? What is a "Beirut normal"? Is it worth examining? The lecture puts…
Kinetic City: Designing for Informality in Mumbai
Organisers' description :
Mumbai, a Kinetic City, presents a compelling vision that potentially allows us to better understand the blurred lines of contemporary urbanism and the changing roles of people and spaces in urban society. An architecture…
Richard Sennett: The Sociology of Public Life
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In this exciting half-day conference two panels on 'Public Life and Public Policy' and 'Cities and the Public Realm', discuss these themes in the context of the work of Professor Sennett, the eminent sociologist…
The city in the 20th century
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the artistic, cultural and innovative developments of the city in the 20th century and is joined by two practitioners of the geographer’s art; Professor Doreen Massey, who was…
In our time : The city - a history, part 2
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Melvyn Bragg presents the second of a two part discussion about the history of the city.
George Stephenson invented rail transport in the north-east of England in the 1820s, but it was not until over twenty years…
In our time : The city - a history, part 1
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Melvyn Bragg presents the first of a two-part discussion about the history of the city. With Peter Hall, Julia Merritt and Greg Woolf.
The story of cities is widely held to begin in the 8th millennium BC in…
Mots-clés: Bragg Melvyn, cité, genèse des villes, Hall Peter, histoire urbaine, Merritt Julia, Woolfis Greg
Urban technologies and the environment
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What makes cities sustainable?
How do changing urban technologies enable us to change our patterns of behaviour?
Director in charge for the first eco-city, Dongtan near Shanghai, Peter Head of ARUP will describe how to…
Mots-clés: développement durable, écoquartier, environnement, Head Peter, innovation, ville durable
La nouvelle donne immobilière aux USA
Présentation par le diffuseur :
Les Urbanités vous proposent de comprendre la nouvelle donne immobilière qui se met en place dans l’Amérique de Barack Obama. Avec la crise des subprimes, le marché de…
Public participation and urban transformation in Istanbul
In this lecture, 'Public participation and urban transformation in Istanbul : Europe and Turkey from a sociological perspective', part of the City Institute at York University's City Seminar series, Clémence Petit looks at themes of…
From urban social polarization to civic secession?
Alan Walks is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto
Embouteillages, pollution, blocages : Mexico, ville saturée ?
Présentation par le diffuseur :
Le mot saturation est un mot sur lequel on ne s'arrête pas : comme si ce qu'il servait à désigner allait de soi. Cette transparence postulée lui procure une infinie…
Mots-clés: déplacements, Mexico, Musset Alain, pollution, saturation
Are organic cities better than geometric ones?
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Cities seem to come in two kinds: the organic, with their irregular patterns of space; and the geometric, with their regular grids. The former we take to be the bottom-up products of everyday life, the latter the…
Is the 'rule of law' good for cities?
There is a widespread consensus that, everywhere in the world, urban development has to be based on the rule of law. But what is 'the rule of law'? Does any formal legal system qualify - or must it have specific requirements? If there are specific…
[Limited access] or the open city?
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The idea of the open city as a place of social integration, cultural diversity and collective identity is perceived as an irreversible achievement of modernity, and fuels our visions for a sustainable urban future.…
Disparity and diversity in the contemporary city: Social order revisited
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A look at classic urban themes as they are manifested in the contemporary city, focusing on social reproduction of inequality, the meanings of disorder, and the link between the two.
Paul Gilroy is Anthony Giddens…