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Territoires de l’urbain en Asie du Sud-Est. Métropolisations en mode mineur
Présentation par l'éditeur : Depuis le début des années 2000, l’internationalisation de l’économie et la régionalisation du système monde bouleversent la physionomie des villes de second…
Territoires d'action : aménagement, urbanisme, espace
Dans le domaine de l'urbanisme, le zonage fonctionnaliste est aujourd'hui mis en cause par la rhétorique du projet. Or, dans le même temps, la délimitation de périmètres d'intervention et de prescription apparaît comme une solution généralisée, non…
Terre habitée : humain et urbain à l'ère de la mondialisation
Terre habitée : humain et urbain à l'ère de la mondialisation - Suivi de : De l'attraction urbaine
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Rapportée à la ville en général, à son…
Suburbanization in global society
Abstract from the publisher : Most urban growth over the last several decades has been in suburban areas, but research in urban sociology and other urban disciplines has been focused on the city (the global city, the networked city, the…
Strangers to the city : Urban man in Jos, Nigeria
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The object of this study is to describe and analyze the adjustments individuals make to modern conditions of urban development in a West African community. For most parts of tropical Africa, cities were not part of…
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…
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…
Small town Africa : Studies in rural-urban interaction
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Small towns have often been considered as unimportant and have been largely ignored by policy-makers and researchers. Instead, attention was focussed on the large city or on rural development and agricultural change…
Shanghai new towns : Searching for community and identity in a sprawling metropolis
Abstract from the publisher : Each year, more than 15 million Chinese leave the rural areas of China and move to the cities. This figure exceeds 300,000 in the case of Shanghai. Before 2015, the majority of China’s population will be living…
Shanghai : Its urbanization and culture
Extract from the introduction by George F. McLean and Robert Magliola : Ten years ago an international seminar of The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy took up this question of "urbanization and values". The study printed…
Settlement, urbanization, and population
Abstract from the publisher: This volume presents a collection of studies focussing on population and settlement patterns in the Roman empire in the perspective of the economic development of the Mediterranean world between 100 BC and AD 350. The…
Sebha, ville pionnière au coeur du Sahara lybien
Sebha, ville pionnière au coeur du Sahara lybien. Urbanisation, immigration, développement, tensions.
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Capitale du Fezzan, Sebha a connu ces dernières décennies une croissance…
Sao Paulo: A tale of two cities
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UN-HABITAT’s new Cities and Citizens series examines urban inequality in the developing world through in-depth analysis of intracity data developed by UN-HABITAT and its partner institutions and on-the-ground…
Saigon's edge : On the margins of Ho Chi Minh City
Abstract from the publisher : Exploring the places where the rural and urban intersect, where many of the world’s people live. Much of the world’s population inhabits the urban fringe, an area that is neither fully rural nor urban.…
Risk habitat megacity
Abstract from the publisher: Megacity development and the inherent risks and opportunities for humans and the environment is a theme of growing urgency in the 21st century. Focusing on Latin America where urbanization is most advanced, this book…
Repenser l' urbanisme
L’urbanisation est d’abord une localisation, c’est-à-dire une occupation du sol, d’où la réflexion de Vincent Renard sur le foncier, les formes de propriété, la spéculation, les usages, etc. Mais l’urbanisation n’est pas figée, les citadins circulent…