This dissertation discusses the importance to study the form of the contemporary urban landscape. It shows how mapping is the tool by which the formal logic of the contemporary city can be uncovered. Through mapping, the urban landscape can be…
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This ground-breaking volume brings together contributions from scholars across a range of disciplines (including literary studies, history, geography and archaeology) to investigate questions of space, place and…
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This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of…
Extract from a review of Mehrez's lecture, "Celebrating Cairo's 'Underground Historians'" by Nadeen Shaker:
Samia Mehrez, a professor of Arab and Islamic Civilizations, describes Cairo as the protagonist of a story seen and told by its…
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La ville est devenue un thème de réflexion essentiel. Alors que l’urbanisation se complexifie sans cesse, il est nécessaire d’expliquer les théories et…
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The industrialization of the nineteenth-century European city facilitated developing conceptions of the model city, and allowed for large scale urban transformations. The urban discourse in the latter half of the…
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Cet ouvrage, à la croisée de l’histoire politique et de l’histoire urbaine, analyse les liens tissés durant plus d’un siècle entre Paris et les manifestations…
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La première Charte urbaine européenne, adoptée en 1992 par le Congrès des pouvoirs locaux et régionaux du Conseil de l'Europe, engageait une démarche…
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Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in…
Megacities of over 10 million population are a phenomenon not seen before in human history. Among 19 Megacities, 14 are in developing countries and 11 are in Asia. Dhaka represents one of the most extreme examples of rapid Megacity growth having a…
Alonso, in a seminal paper written in 1971 develops the following argument: urban benefits increase with city size in a less than proportional way. Urban costs increase with city size in a more than proportional way. There comes a point where urban…
Extract from the preface by Otto F. Kraushaar: The essays which make up this colume represent the thoughtful efforts of a number of distinguished specialists to examine afresh the implications of urbanism for modern man. They were presented during…
What can we think of Malthus' essay published in 1798 and which pretended that the situation of the world was dramatic because of the increase of the population which was much stronger and quicker than the growth of…
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De la haute couture, de la chirurgie de précision : oui, Malakoff / Pré-Gauchet est réellement un grand projet de ville.
A force de jongler avec les sigles, les élus, les professionnels de la…
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Fondée par les Anglais, colonisée par l'Espagne, Malabo fit venir des Européens, des Cubains, des Africains continentaux. Au cours du XXe siècle, les Bubis, natifs de…
Cette communication s'attache à analyser les distorsions qui existent donc entre les modèles proposés et les réalisations effectives sur le terrain, mais aussi à mettre en évidence les conséquences que cela peut avoir sur le devenir des villes . Il…
Abstract from the publisher : Environment and race at the intersection of city, suburb, and country. In the first book-length scholarly study of the San Fernando Valley— home to one-third of the population of Los Angeles—Laura R.…
Since the late 1980s, much research has been devoted to the strategies that families use in France to avoid sending their children to the public schools assigned to them by the carte scolaire, which defines school districts. But while there is…