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The new Asian city: Three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form
Abstract from the publisher: Under Jini Kim Watson’s scrutiny, the Asian Tiger metropolises of Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore reveal a surprising residue of the colonial environment. Drawing on a wide array of literary, filmic, and political…
The new encyclopedia of Southern culture : Volume 15 : Urbanization
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This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern…
The open urban studies journal (Vol. 3, 2010)
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The Open Urban Studies Journal is an Open Access online journal which publishes original research articles, reviews and short articles in the field of urban and regional studies. Topics covered include : theory,…
The San Francisco Bay Area : A metropolis in perspective
NB : The full text of this book is also available via Google Books.
The transition to a predominately urban world and its underpinnings
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This paper describes the dramatic changes in the size of the world’s urban population and of its largest cities over the last 100 years. This includes the almost tenfold increase in the average size of the…
The urban challenge in Africa : Growth and management of its large cities
Extract from the Foreword by Heitor Gurgulino de Souza :
With contributions from prominent urban planning scholars and experts in Africa, The Urban Challenge in Africa: Growth and Management of Its Large Cities, edited by Professor Carole Rakodi of…
Triumph of the city
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A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future.
America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the…
Un milliard d'êtres humains s'y entassent : que faire des bidonvilles ?
Le site de la TSR propose de voir en ligne l'émission de février 2010 consacrée aux bidonvilles : présentation du contexte, reportage, et entretien avec l'invité (Dennis Rodgers).
De plus, sur la page consacrée à l'émission, la TSR donne accès à…
De plus, sur la page consacrée à l'émission, la TSR donne accès à…
Under metropolis: Exploring the cultural history of Buenos Aires underground railways (c. 1886-1945)
Understanding the developing metropolis: Lessons from the city study of Bogotá and Cali, Colombia
Abstract from the publisher: This book is among the most comprehensive studies of a city since Edgar M. Hoover and Raymond Vernon analyzed New York City thirty-five years ago in the classic Anatomy of a Metropolis. The main lesson outlined in the…
Une aventure urbaine : 50 ans de la Société d'économie mixte immobilière de la ville de Martigues
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Martigues, Venise provençale, ville fleurie posée sur l’eau, le charme de ses canaux, de ses îles, de ses ponts, le quartier Le miroir aux oiseaux avec ses maisons colorées…
Urban colossus: Why is New York America's largest city?
Edward Glaeser looks at the history of New York and its contemporary character in order to answer the question of why New York became the largest city in America. He focuses especially on the economic aspects behind the city's growth.
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Urban development : A new perspective
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Although it has often been taken as a general definition of the city and urban culture (whence the commonsense notion that cities must fulfill commercial functions), Pirenne's fomulation was deficient because only the…
Urban diversity : Space, culture, and inclusive pluralism in cities worldwide
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As the world's urban populations grow, cities become spaces where increasingly diverse peoples negotiate such differences as language, citizenship, ethnicity and race, class and wealth, and gender. Using a comparative…
Urban Dynamics
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Urban Dynamics est un projet vidéo international qui tente d'appréhender les dynamiques urbaines par le biais d'un collage d'environnements urbains du monde entier en assemblant des extraits de vidéos faits…
Urban tourism and urban change : Cities in a global economy
Abstract from the publisher : Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy provides both a sociological / cultural analysis of change that has taken place in many of the world's cities. This focused treatment of urban tourism examines…