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This study formulates conditions for sustainable impacts of inclusive and responsive governance through ‘invited spaces’ offered by the government and ‘claimed spaces’ created by the poor. The study questions how increased contributions to poverty…

Présentation de l'éditeur : De 1987 à 2006, soit sur une période de vingt ans, Jean- Christophe Ballot a réalisé des images de villes aux quatre coins du monde : Paris, Rome, Berlin (deux époques…

In France, a strong control has been traditionally exerted over land-use. However, in the early 1980s, land markets shifted progressively from an administratively controlled regime to a more market-oriented economy. A bubble emerged in the Paris…

Une livraison de la revue Journal of Urban Affairs (Special Issue, may 2014, Volume 36, Issue s1).

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ASIA AND THE PACIFIC RIM: THE NEW PERI-URBANIZATION AND URBAN THEORY
JILL SIMONE GROSS, LIN YE and RICHARD LEGATES

THE NEW FACE OF…

Abstract from the publisher : This book is a striking collection of the personal, often playful and thought-provoking installations in urban environments that use and react to walls, traffic signs, trees, ads, and any and all elements of the modern…

Using newly available spatial price deflators, this paper shows that inequality evaluations in the literature overstate the magnitude of inequality and inequality changes in China, as well as the role played by regional differences in the observed…

Given the increasing importance of affordability in housing policy reform debates, this study develops a new composite approach to measuring housing affordability and employs it to examine the nature of urban housing affordability in Nigeria. The…

Une livraison de la Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine (Volume 42, N° 1, automne 2013).

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David G. Burley
Rooster Town: Winnipeg’s Lost Métis Suburb, 1900–1960

Greg Marquis
Constructing an Urban Drug Ecology in 1970s…

Abstract from the publisher: Urban History occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors. Each…

Abstract from the publisher : Urban History occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors. Each…

Abstract from the publisher : Urban History occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors. Each…

Contents : The functions and fortunes of English small towns at the close of the middle ages: evidence from John Leland's Itinerary - JOHN S. LEE One counter and your own account: redefining illicit labour in early modern Antwerp - BERT DE MUNCK…

Au sommaire de ce volume : Kate Colleran, Scampanata at the widows' windows: a case-study of sound and ritual insult in cinquecento Florence Hannah Barker, Medical advertising and trust in late Georgian England Maurizio Marinelli, Making…

Sommaire du Volume 36, Issue 1 : Griet Vermeesch, War and garrison towns in the Dutch Republic: the cases of Gorinchem and Doesburg ( c. 1570– c. 1660) Margaret Dorey, Controlling corruption: regulating meat consumption as a preventative to…

What do we know about urbanisation in Africa? The classification systems of urban/rural areas differ from one country to another. As a consequence, international comparisons of urbanisation indicators or historical analyses of urban growth are…

The origins of this volume lie in a period of three years' attachment to the Geography Department of the University of Durham as a reasearch student. Of this period a total of about fourteen months was spent carrying out field work and collecting…

Implementation of governance principles entails intra-urban territorializations in sub- Saharan African cities, which increase the risks of fragmentation and raise the question of local scale regulation in both its political and spatial dimensions.

«Qui gouverne quand personne ne gouverne ?» Pour répondre à cette question, plusieurs traits caractéristiques des villes contemporaines sont examinés : violence, criminalité, immigration, mobilité. Il convient aussi de s’intéresser de plus près à…

The present South African city form is a hybrid product of the colonial and formal apartheid discourse which ordained urban spaces as the domain of the white race. As the democratic initiatives of the 1990s gained momentum various strategies were…

Organisers' description : The Tenth Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality were held in Berlin from 18 - 23 March 2009 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). The Roundtables addressed the chances…