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State of the World's Cities 2008/2009 - Harmonious Cities
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Half of humanity now lives in cities, and within two decades, nearly 60 per cent of the world’s people will be urban dwellers. Urban growth is most rapid in the developing world, where cities gain an…
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Le phénomène des enfants des rues est un drame mondial. Pourquoi des enfants qui ont besoin de l’affection et des soins de leurs parents éprouvent-ils le besoin de vivre dans la…
Mots-clés: enfant des rues, exclusion, pauvreté, pays en développement, précarité, sociologie
Villes du sud. Dynamiques, diversités et enjeux démographiques et sociaux
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Le monde en développement, dans son ensemble, s'urbanise rapidement. Selon les Nations unies, la proportion de sa population vivant dans les zones urbaines qui n'était que de 27 % en 1975, est…
Voyage en Afrique urbaine
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L'Afrique est inéluctablement en voie d'urbanisation rapide. Cet ouvrage se propose de déceler ces mutations de l'Afrique tant sous l'angle urbain que sociétal. Il permet d'aborder une…
Mots-clés: Afrique, métropole, mutation urbaineGras Pierre, pays en développement, urbanisation
Transformative cities in the new global order : Accumulation by dispossession
Abstract from the publisher : Globalisation and a neo-liberal world order are impacting the global urban system, resulting in massive transformation of cities across the world. This transformation, which is currently the centre of focus among…
Contemporary urbanism in Brazil: Beyond Brasília
Abstract from the publisher : For decades, a succession of military regimes and democratic governments in Brazil sought to shape the future of their society through the manipulation of urban spaces. Planned cities were built that reflected the…
Social formation in Dhaka, 1985 - 2005 : A longitudinal study of society in a Third World megacity
Abstract from the publisher : By the middle of the twenty-first century, more than fifty per cent of the world's population will live in an urban environment. Most of this new urban growth will take place in Asia and Africa, yet most governments in…
Mots-clés: Dacca, developing countries, Dhaka, mégapole, pauvreté, pays en développement, Siddiqui Kamal, société urbaine, urbanisation
Antiurbain. Origines et conséquences de l'urbaphobie
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La ville, la grande ville surtout, suscite de longue date de vives condamnations. Si la Révolution industrielle fournit encore une inépuisable matière première à la…
Global urbanization
Abstract from the publisher : For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in urban areas. Much of this urbanization has been fueled by the rapidly growing cities of the developing world, exemplified most dramatically…
Urban theory beyond the West: A world of cities
Abstract from the publisher: Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small…
Mots-clés: Edensor Tim, Global South, gouvernance, imaginaire, Jayne Mark, mobilité, pays en développement, théorie, theory, urbanité
Incomplete urbanism: A critical urban strategy for emerging economies
Abstract from the publisher: Incomplete Urbanism is a dynamic, hybrid interactive concept, which destabilizes the current architectural and urban theories and practices. Its main characteristics are indeterminacy, inconsistency and changeability,…
Urban age : Mumbai
Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'Johannesburg : Challenges of inclusion?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 and video recordings of the entire conference are available on the…
African cities, a catalyst for change
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We hear a lot about the poverty and chaos of African cities, but in this edition of Amsterdam Forum, urbanist Abdoumaliq Simone argues that there is also a ferment of resourcefulness that makes cities vibrant places. It…
China and India: Governance, urban development, and sustainability in the cities of the Global South
Organisers' description : The scholarship with regard to the process of urbanization in the context of globalization has been dominated by the "global cities" paradigm in which Saskia Sassen outlines the increasing centrality of cities as…
The future of urban studies: UCL Urban Laboratory annual lecture 2010
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The presentations and discussion explored recent developments in urban studies ranging across topics such as emerging conceptions of urban politics, new approaches to the interpretation of urban culture, and conceptual…
Next eco-city symposium
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Urban environments worldwide are in the midst of multiple shifts, driven by interconnected flows in capital, people, and resources at local, regional and global scales. It…
Telescopic urbanism
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By 2030 between a third and half of the world's population will be leading a precarious, and often abject, life in the neglected urban interstices. Urban scholarship is beginning to turn to this eye-watering problem,…
Mots-clés: Amin Ash, bidonville, inégalité, inequality, pauvreté, pays en développement
The 21st Century medieval city
For his talk “The 21st-century Medieval City,” Robert Neuwirth took an overflow audience to “the cities of tomorrow,” the developing-world shanty-towns where a billion people live now, and three billion (a third of humanity) are expected to be living…
Mots-clés: bidonville, développement urbain, favela, pauvreté, pays en développement, squat