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Cities (Volume 27, No. 6)
Abstract from the publisher : Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy…
Cities and citizenship : Surviving the 21st century
- Matthew Taylor is the Chief Executive of the RSA.
- Lord Mawson is founder and President of the renowned Bromley by Bow Centre in east London and Co-founder and President of Community Action Network (CAN), a national charity supporting 850…
- Lord Mawson is founder and President of the renowned Bromley by Bow Centre in east London and Co-founder and President of Community Action Network (CAN), a national charity supporting 850…
Cities and citizenship at the U.S.-Mexican border : The Paso del Norte metropolitan region
Abstract from the publisher : At the center of the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border, a sprawling transnational urban space has mushroomed into a metropolitan region with over two million people whose livelihoods depend on global manufacturing,…
Cities and climate change
NB : Note that this report is available as a read-only version, with a large stamp superimposed over the text in the right-hand corner. It is also available for purchase as a print or e-book.
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As the hubs of economic…
Cities and design
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Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society. Competitive spending among affluent households has intensified the importance of style and design at…
Cities and sexualities
Abstract from the publisher: From the hotspots of commercial sex through to the suburbia of twitching curtains, urban life and sexualities appear inseparable. Cities are the source of our most familiar images of sexual practice, and are the spaces…
Cities and social equity: Inequality, territory and urban form
Abstract from the publisher: Cities and Social Equity is a report by the Urban Age research team with commissioned pieces from Ipsos MORI, United Nations Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD), the Centre for…
Cities and sovereignty : Identity politics in urban spaces
Abstract from the publisher : Space, governance, and ethnic conflict in contested cities Cities have long been associated with diversity and tolerance, but from Jerusalem to Belfast to the Basque Country, many of the most intractable conflicts of…
Cities and time
Cities are the human organizations with the greatest longevity but also the fastest rate of change. Just now the world is going massively and unstoppably urban (governments everywhere are trying to stop it, with zero success). In a globalized world,…
Cities at war in early modern Europe
Abstract from the publisher : Between 1550 and 1700, artillery siege warfare transformed the European city, which was theorized, fortified, violated, rebuilt, and celebrated by leading artists and architects. The fortified perimeter, with its…
Cities full of symbols: A theory of urban space and culture
Abstract from the publisher: This book examines design proposals that show symbolic handling of the 9/11 attack on New York, the disaster symbolism of the ship washed ashore by the tsunami in Banda Aceh, and the design of the symbol of the city of…
Cities How They Grow (1952)
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Ce documentaire fait une présentation générale de la croissance urbaine en Amérique du nord et des techniques de planification urbaine.
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