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Qui a peur de la banlieue ?
Présentation par l'éditeur :
La banlieue fait peur. "Evénements", "révolte", "émeutes", "insurrection" : notre incapacité à nommer ce qui s'est passé…
Mots-clés: banlieue, conflit urbain, Revel Judith, ségrégation urbaine, société urbaine, violence urbaine
Reconciliation through reintegration?
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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…
Collective identities, governance and empowerment in megacities
Organisers' description :
The Eighth Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality on “Collective Identities, Governance and Empowerment in Megacities” took place from 11 – 16 June 2008.
An international essay competition was organized…
Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule
Abstract from the publisher :
During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence, Algiers was the site of recurrent conflicts between colonizer and colonized. Through architecture and urban forms confrontations were crystallized,…
Urbanization, population, environment and security
Extract from the Introduction :
The Comparative Urban Studies Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center began a project in 1997 designed to both identify factors that contribute to making urban areas centers of violence and poverty and propose policy…
Violence in the city : Understanding and supporting community responses to urban violence
Abstract from the publisher :
For millions of people around the world, violence, or the fear of violence, is a daily reality. Much of this violence concentrates in urban centers in the developing world. Cities are now home to half the world's…
Mots-clés: communauté, community, conflit urbain, délinquance, urbanité, violence, violence urbaine, World Bank
Cahiers des Amériques Latines
Les Cahiers des Amériques Latines est une publication de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes de l’Amérique latine. Les anciens numéros (datant de plus de trois ans) sont disponibles en texte intégral sur le site internet de…
Cities in an insecure world
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Some of the most intractable and enduring challenges of development are concerned with reducing insecurity. Early and very current development debates have been concerned with issues of food security.
Ensuring…
The Russian city between tradition and modernity, 1850-1900
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The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity provides a comprehensive history of urban development in European Russia during the last half of the nineteenth century. Using both statistical perspectives on…
Red city, blue period: Social movements in Picasso's Barcelona
Extract from the introduction:
The task I have undertaken in this book is to account for the peculiar sense of solidarity that the citizens of Barcelona developed between 1888 and 1939, and to explain why shared experiences of civic culture and…
Espaces en transactions
4e de couverture :
Les textes réunis dans cet ouvrage parlent tous d’espaces en partages et en transactions. Vivre dans un espace suppose de partager cet espace avec d’autres, d’y inscrire des capacités d’agir…
Cities under siege : The new military urbanism
Abstract from the publisher :
Powerful exposé of how contemporary political violence now perates through sites, space and infrastructures of everyday life
Cities have become the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the…
Arrival city : How the largest migration in history is reshaping our world
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A third of the world’s people are in the midst of the largest population move in human history, as the last of the word’s rural populations abandons agriculture and moves to the urban areas of the…
Mots-clés: bidonville, conflit urbain, migrant, migration urbaine, mutation urbaine, pauvreté, Saunders Doug, urbanisation
Noir urbanisms : Dystopic images of the modern city
Abstract from the publisher :
Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the history of the…
Mots-clés: conflit urbain, crise, crisis, culture urbaine, dystopia, dystopie, film, histoire urbaine, imaginaire, Prakash Gyan, représentations
Asian cities, migrant labor and contested spaces
Abstract from the publisher :
This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the…
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.…
Cities and sovereignty : Identity politics in urban spaces
Abstract from the publisher : Space, governance, and ethnic conflict in contested cities Cities have long been associated with diversity and tolerance, but from Jerusalem to Belfast to the Basque Country, many of the most intractable conflicts of…
Planning in divided cities
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…