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La transition urbaine en Afrique subsaharienne
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L’Afrique s’urbanise vite. Dans cet essai synthétique, Christine Kessides analyse les principaux aspects des défis particuliers que doit affronter l’Afrique subsaharienne face à sa…
Cities transformed : Demographic change and its implications in the developing world
Abstract from the publisher :
Virtually all of the growth in the world's population for the foreseeable future will take place in the cities and towns of the developing world. Over the next twenty years, most developing countries will for the first…
Cities the magazine
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CITIES the magazine highlights urban issues and invites discussion on global trends, regional responses and local practice. It connects writers, thinkers, artists, designers and photographers in a common dialogue about…
Paris as revolution: writing the nineteenth-century city
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In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution…
Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule
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During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence, Algiers was the site of recurrent conflicts between colonizer and colonized. Through architecture and urban forms confrontations were crystallized,…
The New York approach : Robert Moses, urban liberals, and the redevelopment of the inner city
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Joel Schwartz's major reinterpretation of urban development in New York City examines Robert Moses's role in shaping the city and demonstrates for the first time that Moses's personal and ruthless crusade to redevelop…
Progress in Irish urban studies
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Progress in Irish Urban Studies is a working paper series which presents expanded articles based on papers presented to the annual research seminar series and provides a means by which post-graduate researchers and…
The revitalization of urban space
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Smagacz uses a comparative approach to look at two very different but related processes: what she calls the “revitalization” of two formerly peripheral and now prosper-
ous, innovative and trendy urban…
City in sight : Dutch dealings with urban change
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Huge social transformations and turbulent political events - 9/11 and the political murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh - have put urban issues high on the political agenda of the Netherlands. Against this…
Renaissance Paris : architecture and growth 1475 - 1600
Abstract from Google Books :
In the modern literature on Renaissance art and architecture, Paris has often been considered the Cinderella of the European capitals. The prestigious buildings that were erected soon after François I decided in…
London 800 - 1216 : The shaping of a city
Abstract from the publisher : London 800-1216 : The shaping of a city takes its place in the eight-volume History of London series, but is designed also to be a self-contained enquiry into the place of ninth- to twelfth-century London in the…
The rise of the Paris red belt
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From 1920 until the present, the working-class suburbs of Paris, known as the Red Belt, have constituted the heart of French Communism, providing the Party not only with its most solid electoral base but with much of…
The challenge of slums : Global report on human settlement 2003
Abstract from the publisher : The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. It presents estimates of the numbers of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors that underlie the…
A shout in the street : An excursion into the modern city
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A remarkable meditation on the topography of the modern city, A Shout in the Street offers a close and sensitive examination of four urban landscapes -- London, Paris, Leningrad, and New York. Peter Jukes pursues the…
Bridging diversity in a globalizing world : Journal of urban and regional analysis (Vol. 2, No. 2)
From the introduction by Izhak Schnell :
Special Issue: “Bridging Diversity in a Globalizing World” Selected Papers given at the IGU - Urban Commission Meeting Regional Conference, July 2010, Tel Aviv, Israel
This volume is a result of…
Habitat international (Vol. 35, No. 1)
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Habitat International is dedicated to the study of urban and rural human settlements: their planning, design, production and management. Its main focus is on urbanisation in its broadest sense in the developing world.…
Complexity theories of cities have come of age
Organisers' description :
Three decades of research have established the field of complexity theories of cities as a dominant approach to cities. Now that the field has come of age, it is time to stop for a moment, look back at what has been…
Imagining the city : Memories and cultures in Cape Town
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Cities are not only made of buildings and roads, they are also constructed through popular imagination and spaces of representation. Imagining the City: Memories and Cultures in Cape Town presents an array of oral and…
The evolving spatial form of cities in a globalizing world economy : Johannesburg and São Paulo
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Using the concept of 'global cities' as a key context to the discussion, Murray draws our attention to the large metropolises that dominate as economic power bases – cities such as New York and Tokyo – and…
Leningrad : Shaping a Soviet city
Extract from the foreword by Stanley Scott and Victor Jones :
The Lane series of books — of which this Leningrad volume is the eighth and most recent — is sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies and the Institute of…