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The language of towns and cities : A visual dictionary

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Abstract from the publisher : The final word on the language of urban planning and design. The Language of Towns & Cities is a landmark publication that clarifies the language by which we talk about urban planning and design. Everyday words…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, dictionary, dictionnaire, Thadani Dhiru A.

The Landscape from Home : a GIS-based hedonic price valuation

We estimate the hedonic price of landscape seen from houses in the urban fringe of Dijon (France). The viewshed and the land cover as seen from the ground are analyzed by geographic methods from satellite images and from a digital elevation model.…

The Kibera Soweto East Project in Nairobi, Kenya

This article analyses the pilot public housing project in Kibera Soweto East in Nairobi under the Kenya Slum Upgrading Programme (KENSUP), courtesy of a partnership between the Government of Kenya and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme…

The just city

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Abstract from the publisher : For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, développement urbain, équité sociale, Fainstein Susan S., justice, néolibéralisme, participation, philosophie, politique urbaine

The invention of the historic city - building the past in East Berlin 1970 - 1990

The idea of a “historic city” is a rather recent phenomenon. As a conceptual framework, it evolved over the course of the 1970s and 1980s from the intellectual foundations of modernist urban design. This is especially well illustrated in East Berlin,…

The invention of Brownstone Brooklyn

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Abstract from the publisher : The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the…

Mots-clés: Brooklyn, gentrification, histoire urbaine, mixité sociale, mutation sociale, mutation urbaine, New York, Osman Suleiman, twentieth century, vingtième siècle

The intra-urban burial inside Greek poleis in Asia Minor

The phenomenon 'intra-urban burial' in Greek influenced Asia Minor can at first be grasped with the extraordinary Maussolleion at Halikarnassos. With this exception Maussollos formed his image in choosing by himself the site of his grave, a big part…

The intellectual versus the city: From Thomas Jefferson to Frank Lloyd Wright

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Extract from the 'Opening Theme': ...[E]nthusiasm for the American city has not been typical or predominant in our intellectual history. Fear has been the more common reaction. For a variety of reasons our most celebrated thinkers have expressed…

The Influence of Time Windows on the Costs of Urban Freight Distribution Services in City Logistics Applications

In freight distribution services a required quality level may have a relevant effect on transportation costs. For this reason an evaluation tool is useful to compare different service settings and support the decision, on the base of quantitative…

The Influence of the Tenure System to the Physical Environments in Nairobi's Human Settlements

Tenure has often been cited as the underlying reason for the wanting physical state that defines slums in Nairobi. The contrary view is that secure tenure would bestow physical environments befitting urban spaces. These positions are hardly…

The impacts of attempts to stimulate private sector involvement and investment in the urban regeneration process: The case of the city of Glasgow

This thesis investigates the impact of attempts to stimulate private sector involvement and investment in the urban regeneration process, looking at the case of urban regeneration institutions operating, and policies implemented, in disadvantaged…

The impact of international migration on the urban structure of Amman

L'impact des migrations internationales sur la structure urbaine d'amman
Peu de pays exportateurs de main-d'œuvre sont aussi profondément touchés par la migration internationale que la Jordanie. En 1976, les transferts de revenus des travailleurs…

The impact of gated Communities on property values: evidence of changes in real estate markets -Los Angeles, 1980-2000

The paper focuses on how gated communities, as private means of providing public infrastructure and security, real estate products and club-economies, produce changes in housing market patterns. Based on an empirical study of Los Angeles (California)…

The imaginative institution : Planning and governance in Madrid

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Abstract from the publisher : Every 20 years since 1920, Madrid has undergone an urban planning cycle in which a city plan was prepared, adopted by law, and implemented by a new institution. This preparation-adoption-institutionalization sequence,…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, gestion locale, gouvernance, Madrid, Neuman Michael, politique de la ville, politique urbaine, renouvellement urbain

The imagination of class: Masculinity and the Victorian urban poor

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Extract from the Introduction: The poor were always with the English. Poverty had been of broad social concern since the Elizabethan period at least: the topic of ongoing debate, periodic legislation, sporadic philanthropy. But the London poor of…

Mots-clés: Bivona Daniel, classe, dix-neuvième siècle, Hinkle Roger B., histoire urbaine, hommes, litérature, littérature, London, Londres, masculinité, masculinity, men, nineteenth century, pauvreté, représentations, Royaume-Uni, United Kingdom, Victorian

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