Suburbanization in global society
subject: , périurbanisation, culture urbaine, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine, croissance urbaine, banlieue, périphéries, mutation sociale, urbanisation, Clapson Mark, Hutchison Ray
description: 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 post-industrial city). A majority of the world population lives in urban areas, most in suburban regions, including the shanty towns of Asia, favelas of South America, slums of Africa and banileue and inner-city suburbs of the developed nations. "Suburbanization in Global Society" presents new and innovative contributions in comparative suburban studies for urban regions, not just in Europe and the United States but also including emerging metropolitan regions in China, India and other areas of the world. This volume examines the emerging patterns of suburban development in metropolitan regions around the globe. Research is post-1945 with a particular focus upon social and cultural change in suburbanisation processes in developed as well as emerging urban countries. Mark Clapson is Reader in History in the Department of Social and Historical Studies at the University of Westminster. Ray Hutchison is Professor of Sociology and Urban & Regional Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.
creator: NC
publisher: Emerald
date: December 2010
format: 394
type: Ouvrage

Megacities : Urban form, governance, and sustainability
subject: , mégapole, mégalopole, forme urbaine, gouvernance, développement durable, ville viable, croissance urbaine, développement urbain, foncier, aménagement urbain, Sorensen André, Okata Junichiro
description: Abstract from the publisher : For the first time in human history, more than half the world’s population is urban. A fundamental aspect of this transformation has been the emergence of giant cities, or megacities, that present major new challenges. This book examines how issues of megacity development, urban form, sustainability, and unsustainability are conceived, how governance processes are influenced by these ideas, and how these processes have in turn influenced outcomes on the ground, in some cases in transformative ways. Through 15 in-depth case studies by prominent researchers from around the world, this book examines the major challenges facing megacities today. The studies are organized around a shared set of concerns and questions about issues of sustainability, land development, urban governance, and urban form. Some of the main questions addressed are: What are the most pressing issues of sustainability and urban form in each megacity? How are major issues of sustainability understood and framed by policymakers? Is urban form considered a significant component of sustainability issues in public debates and public policy? Who are the key actors framing urban sustainability challenges and shaping urban change? How is unsustainability, risk, or disaster imagined, and how are those concerns reflected in policy approaches? What has been achieved so far, and what challenges remain? The publication of this book is a step toward answering these and other crucial questions. Contents : Preface - Junichiro Okata Introduction: Megacities, Urban Form, and Sustainability - André Sorensen and Junichiro Okata Part I. Asia Tokyo’s Urban Growth, Urban Form and Sustainability - Junichiro Okata and Akito Murayama In Search of Sustainable Urban Form for Seoul - Kwang-Joong Kim and Sang-Chuel Choe Sustainable Development, Urban Form, and Megacity Governance and Planning in Tehran - Ali Madanipour Re-Forming the Megacity: Calcutta and the Rural–Urban Interface - Ananya Roy La…
creator: NC
publisher: Springer
date: December 2010
format: 418
type: Ouvrage

Cultures of the city : Mediating identities in urban Latin/o America
subject: Amérique latine, Latin America, culture urbaine, art, film, littérature, identité, société urbaine, ville mondiale, world city, espace urbain, Young Richard, Holmes Amanda
description: Abstract from the publisher : Cultures of the City explores the cultural mediation of relationships between people and urban spaces in Latin/o America and how these mediations shape the identities of cities and their residents. Addressing a broad spectrum of phenomena and disciplinary approaches, the contributors to this volume analyze lived urban experiences and their symbolic representation in cultural texts. Individual chapters explore Havana in popular music; Mexico City in art; Buenos Aires, Recife, and Salvador in film; and Asuncion and Buenos Aires in literature. Others focus on particular events, conditions, and practices of urban life including the Havana book fair, mass transit in Bogotá, the restaurant industry in Los Angeles, the media in Detroit, Andean festivals in Lima, and the photographic record of a visit by members of the Zapatista Liberation Army to Mexico City. The contributors examine identity and the sense of place and belonging that connect people to urban environments, relating these to considerations of ethnicity, social and economic class, gender, everyday life, and cultural practices. They also consider history and memory and the making of places through the iterative performance of social practices. As such, places are works in progress, a condition that is particularly evident in contemporary Latin/o American cities where the opposition between local and global influences is a prominent facet of daily life. These core issues are theorized further in an afterword by Abril Trigo, who takes the chapters as a point of departure for a discussion of the dialectics of identity in the Latin/o American global city. Contents : Introduction: Mediating Urban Identities - Richard Young and Amanda Holmes IMAGINING URBAN IDENTITIES Havana in the Nueva Trova Repertoire of Gerardo Alfonso - Robin Moore Last Snapshots/Take 2: Personal and Collective Shipwrecks in Buenos Aires - Geoffrey Kantaris Buenos Aires and the Literary Construction of Urban Space -…
creator: NC
publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
date: December 2010
format: 272
type: Ouvrage

The city in the Ottoman Empire : Migration and the making of urban modernity
subject: Ottoman Empire, Empire ottoman, migration urbaine, modernisation, gouvernance, nineteenth century, dix-neuvième siècle, Freitag Ulrike, Fuhrmann Malte, Lafi Nora, Riedler Florian
description: Abstract from the publisher : The nexus of urban governance and human migration was a crucial feature in the modernisation of cities in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century. This book connects these two concepts to examine the Ottoman city as a destination of human migration, throwing new light on the question of conviviality and cosmopolitanism from the perspective of the legal, administrative and political frameworks within which these occur. Focusing on groups of migrants with various ethnic, regional and professional backgrounds, the book juxtaposes the trajectories of these people with attempts by local administrations and the government to control their movements and settlements. By combining a perspective from below with one that focuses on government action, the authors offer broad insights into the phenomenon of migration and city life as a whole. Chapters explore how increased migration driven by new means of transport, military expulsion and economic factors were countered by the state’s attempts to control population movements, as well as the strong internal reforms in the Ottoman world. Providing a rare comparative perspective on an area often fragmented by area studies boundaries, this book will be of great interest to students of History, Middle Eastern Studies, Balkan Studies, Urban Studies and Migration Studies. Contents : 1. Migration and the Making of Urban Modernity in the Ottoman Empire and Beyond - Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi and Florian Riedler 2. The Ottoman Urban Governance of Migrations and the Stakes of Modernity - Nora Lafi 3. The Ottoman City Council and the Beginning of the Modernization of Urban Space in the Balkans - Tetsuya Sahara 4. Foreigners in Town: Urban Immigration and Local Attitudes in the Romanian Principalities in the Mid-Nineteenth Century - Florea Ioncioaia 5. Mobility and Governance in Early Modern Marseilles - Wolfgang Kaiser 6. Pearl Towns and Early Oil Cities: Migration and Integration in the Ara…
creator: NC
publisher: Routledge
date: November 2010
format: 272
type: Ouvrage

Company towns in the Americas : Landscape, power, and working-class communities
subject: company town, cité ouvrière, ville ouvrière, aménagement urbain, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, capitalisme, société urbaine, Firmat, Volta Redonda, Santos, Fordlândia, Sudbury, El Salvador, Santa Rosa, Río Blanco, Anaconda, Kellogg, Sunflower City, Dinius Oliver J., Vergara Angela
description: Abstract from the publisher : Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding ideologies by examining the histories of company towns in six countries: Argentina (Firmat), Brazil (Volta Redonda, Santos, Fordlândia), Canada (Sudbury), Chile (El Salvador), Mexico (Santa Rosa, Río Blanco), and the United States (Anaconda, Kellogg, and Sunflower City). Company towns across the Americas played similar economic and social roles. They advanced the frontiers of industrial capitalism and became powerful symbols of modernity. They expanded national economies by supporting extractive industries on thinly settled frontiers and, as a result, brought more land, natural resources, and people under the control of corporations. U.S. multinational companies exported ideas about work discipline, race, and gender to Latin America as they established company towns there to extend their economic reach. Employers indeed shaped social relations in these company towns through education, welfare, and leisure programs, but these essays also show how working-class communities reshaped these programs to serve their needs. The editors’ introduction and a theoretical essay by labor geographer Andrew Herod provide the context for the case studies and illuminate how the company town serves as a window into both the comparative and transnational histories of labor under industrial capitalism. Oliver J. Dinius is the Croft Associate Professor of History and International Studies at the University of Mississippi. Angela Vergara is an assistant professor of history at California State University, Los Angeles.
creator: NC
publisher: The University of Georgia Press
date: January 2011
format: 236
type: Ouvrage

Cities and sovereignty : Identity politics in urban spaces
subject: , conflit, conflit urbain, violence urbaine, gouvernance, sovereignty, souveraineté, fragmentation sociale, ségrégation urbaine, ville coloniale, espace public, environnement urbain, identité, politique de la ville, Davis Diane E., Libertun de Duren Nora
description: 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 the past century have played out in urban spaces. The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume examine the interrelationships of ethnic, racial, religious, or other identity conflicts and larger battles over sovereignty and governance. Under what conditions do identity conflicts undermine the legitimacy and power of nation-states, empires, or urban authorities? Does the urban built environment play a role in remedying or exacerbating such conflicts? Employing comparative analysis, these case studies from the Middle East, Europe, and South and Southeast Asia advance our understanding of the origins and nature of urban conflict. Contents : Introduction: Cities and Sovereignty: Identity Conflicts in the Urban Realm / Diane E. Davis and Nora Libertun de Duren Part 1. Modes of Sovereignty, Urban Governance, and the City : 1. Jerusalem at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Spatial Continuity and Social Fragmentation / Nora Libertun de Duren 2. Imperial Nationhood and Its Impact on Colonial Cities: Issues of Intergroup Peace and Conflict in Pondicherry and Vietnam / Anne Raffin 3. Confessionalism and Public Space in Ottoman and Colonial Jerusalem / Salim Tamari Part 2. Scales of Sovereignty and the Remaking of Urban and National Space : 4. Sovereignty, Nationalism, and Globalization in Bilbao and the Basque Country / Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría 5. Contesting the Legitimacy of Urban Restructuring and Highways in Beirut's Irregular Settlements / Agnès Deboulet and Mona Fawaz 6. Urban Locational Policies and the Geographies of Post-Keynesian Statehood in Western Europe / Neil Brenner Part 3. Sovereignty, Representation, and the Urban Built Environment : 7. Iconic Architecture and Urban, National, and Global Identities / Le…
creator: NC
publisher: Indiana University Press
date: January 2011
format: 284
type: Ouvrage

Music and urban society in colonial Latin America
subject: Amérique latine, Latin America, ville coloniale, musique, music, histoire urbaine, géographie urbaine, Knighton Tess, Baker Geoffrey
description: Abstract from the publisher : The Spanish colonial project in Latin America from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries was distinctly urban in focus. The impact of the written word on this process was explored in Ángel Rama's seminal book The Lettered City, and much has been written by historians of art and architecture on its visible manifestations, yet the articulation of sound, urban geography and colonial power - 'the resounding city' - has been passed over in virtual silence. This collection of essays by leading scholars examines the role of music in Spanish colonial urbanism in the New World and explores the urban soundscape and music profession as spheres of social contact, conflict, and negotiation. The contributors demonstrate the role of music as a vital constituent part of the colonial city, as Rama did for writing, and therefore illustrate how musicology may illuminate and take its place in the broader field of Latin American urban history. Contents : Preface 1. The resounding city - Geoffrey Baker 2. Music and ritual in urban spaces: the case of Lima, c.1600 - Tess Knighton 3. A conflicted relationship: music, power and the inquisition in viceregal Mexico City - Javier Marín López 4. Making music, writing myth: urban Guadalupan ritual in eighteenth-century New Spain - Drew Edward Davies 5. 'Gold was music to their ears': conflicting sounds in Santafé (Nuevo Reino de Granada), 1540–1590 - Egberto Bermúdez 6. The 'spirit of independence' in the Fiesta de la Naval of Caracas - David Coifman 7. Employment, enfranchisement and liminality: ecclesiastical musicians in early modern Manila - David R. M. Irving 8. Chapelmasters and musical practice in Brazilian cities in the eighteenth century - Paulo Castagna and Jaelson Trindade 9. Music, authority and civilization in Rio de Janeiro (1763–1790) - Rogério Budasz 10. Transcending the walls of the churches: the circulation of music and musicians in Santiago de Chile - Alejandro Vera 11. The slave's progress: m…
creator: NC
publisher: Cambridge University Press
date: January 2011
format: 392
type: Ouvrage

The paradox of urban space : Inequality and transformation in marginalized communities
subject: , marginalité, race, injustice, inégalité, droit au logement, participation, placemaking, community, communauté, aménagement urbain, Sutton Sharon E., Kemp Susan P., espace urbain
description: Abstract from the publisher : Sutton, Kemp, and their contributors demonstrate the importance of place as a site of oppression and transformation, offering placemaking strategies that agents of change in a variety of disciplines can use in working with youth and adults. Their essays lay out both a theoretical terrain and an array of case studies that put theory into practice. This exciting new work documents the persistent intersection of race, place, and power; illustrates placemaking strategies that enable grassroots resistance; and explores the novel professional roles that new technologies make possible. It concludes with reflections upon the potential of transformative placemaking as an antidote to the erasure of place by global capitalism. Contents : Introduction: Place as Marginality and Possibility - Sharon E. Sutton and Susan P. Kemp PART I: PLACE, RACE, AND POWER : Place: A Site of Social and Environmental Inequity - Sharon E. Sutton and Susan P. Kemp Struggling for the Right to Housing: A Critical Analysis of the Evolution of West Seattle's High Point - Sharon E. Sutton The Ultimate Team Sport?: Urban Waterways and Youth Rowing in Seattle, Washington - Anne Taufen Wessells Recognizing the Lived Experience of Place: Challenges to Genuine Participation in Redeveloping Public Housing Communities - Lynne C. Manzo Beyond Insiders and Outsiders: Conceptualizing Multiple Dimensions of Community Development Stakeholders - Linda Hurley Ishem PART II: PLACEMAKING AS LIVING DEMOCRACY : Place: A Site of Individual and Collective Transformation - Sharon E. Sutton and Susan P. Kemp Refusing Marginality: Youth as Critical Placemakers in Urban Communities - Susan P. Kemp Supporting Grassroots Resistance: Sustained Community/University Partnerships to Contest Chicago’s HOPE VI Program - Roberta M. Feldman Mutual Learning in a Community-University Partnership: What Design-Build Projects Contribute to Placemaking and Placemakers - Steve Badanes PART III: NEW TOOLS, NEW PROF…
creator: NC
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
date: February 2011
format: 296
type: Ouvrage

The city, revisited : Urban theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York
subject: The City, développement urbain, aménagement urbain, Judd Dennis R., Simpson Dick, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles
description: Abstract from the publisher : Reexamining urban scholarship for the twenty-first century The contributors to The City, Revisited trace an intellectual history that begins in 1925 with the publication of the influential classic The City, engaging in a spirited debate about whether the major theories of twentieth-century urban development are relevant for studying the twenty-first-century metropolis. Dennis R. Judd is Professor of Political Science and senior scholar in the Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago. Dick Simpson is Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
creator: NC
publisher: University of Minnesota Press
date: January 2011
format: 368
type: Ouvrage

The new Blackwell companion to the city
subject: , aménagement urbain, politique de la ville, société urbaine, culture urbaine, mobilité, Bridge Gary, Watson Sophie
description: Abstract from the publisher : This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. * The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind * Provides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the field * Uses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadly * Includes contributions from non Western perspectives and cities Contents : Preface - Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson Part I: City Materialities: 1. Reflections on Materialities - Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson 2. Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets - Nik Theodore, Jamie Peck, and Neil Brenner 3. The Liquid City of Megalopolis - John Rennie Short 4. Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York in the Twenty-First Century - Susan S. Fainstein, Ian Gordon, and Michael Harloe 5. Ethnography of an Indian City: Ahmedabad - Amrita Shah 6. Landscape and Infrastructure in the Late-Modern Metropolis - Matthew Gandy 7. Objects and the City - Harvey Molotch 8. Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-Rise Housing in Singapore - Jane M. Jacobs and Stephen Cairns 9. The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings - Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw 10. One Hundred Tons to Armageddon: Cities Combat Carbon - Peter Droege 11. The New Military Urbanism - Stephen Graham 12. The City’s New “Trinity” in Contemporary Shanghai: A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market - Wang Xiaoming, translated by Tyler Rooker 13. Residence Through Revolution and Reform - Ray Forrest Part II: City Mobilities. 14. Reflections on Mobilities - Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson 15. “Nothing Gained by Overcrowding”: The History and Politics of Urban Population Control - Andrew Ross 16. Transnationality and the City - Nina Glick Schiller 17. Migrants Making Technology Markets - Tyler Rooker 18. Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global …
creator: NC
publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
date: February 2011
format: 784
type: Ouvrage

Securing the city : Neoliberalism, space, and insecurity in postwar Guatemala
subject: Guatemala, société urbaine, urbanité, violence urbaine, espace public, emploi, privatisation, ségrégation urbaine, sécurité, espace urbain, délinquance, O'Neill Kevin Lewis, Thomas Kedron, néolibéralisme, Guatemala City
description: Abstract from the publisher : Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following a peace process that ended Central America’s longest and bloodiest civil war and impelled the transition from a state-centric economy to the global free market, Guatemala’s neoliberal moment is now strikingly evident in the practices and politics of security. Postwar violence has not prompted public debates about the conditions that permit transnational gangs, drug cartels, and organized crime to thrive. Instead, the dominant reaction to crime has been the cultural promulgation of fear and the privatization of what would otherwise be the state’s responsibility to secure the city. This collection of essays, the first comparative study of urban Guatemala, explores these neoliberal efforts at security. Contributing to the anthropology of space and urban studies, this book brings together anthropologists and historians to examine how postwar violence and responses to it are reconfiguring urban space, transforming the relationship between city and country, and exacerbating deeply rooted structures of inequality and ethnic discrimination. Contents : Securing the City: An Introduction - Kedron Thomas, Kevin Lewis O'Neill, and Thomas Offit Part One: Urban History and Social Experience Living Guatemala City, 1930s–2000s - Deborah Levenson Primero de Julio: Urban Experiences of Class Decline and Violence - Manuela Camus Cacique for a Neoliberal Age: A Maya Retail Empire on the Streets of Guatemala City - Thomas Offit Privatization of Public Sphere: The Displacement of Street Vendors in Guatemala City - Rodrigo J. Véliz and Kevin Lewis O'Neill Part Two: Guatemala City and Country The Security Guard Industry in Guatemala: Rural Communities and Urban Violence - Avery Dickins de Girón Guatemala's New Violence as Structural Violence: Notes from the Highlands - Peter Benson, Kedron Thomas, and Edward F. Fischer Spaces of Structural Adjustment in …
creator: NC
publisher: Duke University Press
date: 2011
format: 240
type: Ouvrage

Sentient city : Ubiquitous computing, architecture, and the future of urban space
subject: architecture, technology, technologie, computing, informatique, espace urbain, Shepard Mark
description: Abstract from the publisher : Our cities are "smart" and getting smarter as information processing capability is embedded throughout more and more of our urban infrastructure. Few of us object to traffic light control systems that respond to the ebbs and flows of city traffic; but we might be taken aback when discount coupons for our favorite espresso drink are beamed to our mobile phones as we walk past a Starbucks. Sentient City explores the experience of living in a city that can remember, correlate, and anticipate. Five teams of architects, artists, and technologists imagine a variety of future interactions that take place as computing leaves the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets, and public spaces of the city. "Too Smart City" employs city furniture as enforcers: a bench ejects a sitter who sits too long, a sign displays the latest legal codes and warns passersby against transgression, and a trashcan throws back the wrong kind of trash. "Amphibious Architecture" uses underwater sensors and lights to create a human-fish-environment feedback loop; "Natural Fuse" uses a network of "electronically assisted" plants to encourage energy conservation; "Trash Track" follows smart-tagged garbage on its journey through the city’s waste-management system; and "Breakout" uses wireless technology and portable infrastructure to make the entire city a collaborative workplace. These projects are described, documented, and illustrated by 100 images, most in color. Essays by prominent thinkers put the idea of the sentient city in theoretical context. Copublication with the Architectural League of New York Mark Shepard is Assistant Professor of Architecture and Media Study at the University of Buffalo, State University of New York.
creator: NC
publisher: The MIT Press
date: March 2011
format: 200
type: Ouvrage

Global ideologies and urban landscapes
subject: , paysage urbain, mondialisation, sciences politiques, néolibéralisme, politique de la ville, ville mondiale, world city, McNevin Anne, Steger Manfred
description: Abstract from the publisher : How do political ideologies and urban landscapes intersect in the context of globalization? This volume illuminates the production of ideologies as both discursive and spatial phenomena in distinct contributions that ground their analysis in cities of the Global North and South. From Sydney to Singapore, Hong Kong to Hanoi, Las Vegas to Macau, conventional public spaces are in decline as sites of ideological dissent. Instead, we are witnessing the colonisation of urban space by market globalism (today’s dominant global ideology) and securitised surveillance regimes. Against this backdrop, how should we interpret the proliferation of metaphors that claim to communicate the essence of global transformation? In what ways do space and language work together to normalise the truth claims of powerful ideological players? What kinds of social forces mobilise to contest the cooptation of language and space and to pose alternative local and global futures? This volume poses these questions against the collapse of old geographical scales and cartographic techniques for identifying the contours of civil society. The city acts as an entry point to a new spatial analytics of contemporary ideological forces. This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations. Contents : Manfred B. Steger and Anne McNevin - Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes: Introduction Neil Brenner, Jamie Peck and Nik Theodore - After Neoliberalization? James Goodman - Provoking 'globalist Sydney': neoliberal summits and spatial reappropriation Margaret Kohn - Toronto’s Distillery District: Consumption and Nostalgia in a Post-Industrial Chris Hudson - Landscape Delhi: Global mobilities, identity and the postmodern consumption of place Terrell Carver - Materializing the Metaphors of Global Cities: Singapore and Silicon Valley Timothy W. Luke - Gaming Space: Casinopolitan Globalism from Las Vegas to Macau Anne McNevin - Border Policing and Sovereign Terrain: The Spatial…
creator: NC
publisher: Routledge
date: March 2011
format: 134
type: Ouvrage

Neighborhood and life chances : How place matters in modern America
subject: , voisinage, quartier défavorisé, quartier dégradé, pauvreté, centre-ville, logement, citadin, environnement urbain, urbanité, États-Unis, United States, Newburger Harriet B., Birch Eugenie L., Wachter Susan M.
description: Abstract from the publisher : Does the place where you lived as a child affect your health as an adult? To what degree does your neighbor's success influence your own potential? The importance of place is increasingly recognized in urban research as an important variable in understanding individual and household outcomes. Place matters in education, physical health, crime, violence, housing, family income, mental health, and discrimination—issues that determine the quality of life, especially among low-income residents of urban areas. Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to present the findings of studies in the fields of education, health, and housing. The results are intriguing and surprising, particularly the debate over Moving to Opportunity, an experiment conducted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, designed to test directly the effects of relocating individuals away from areas of concentrated poverty. Its results, while strong in some respects, showed very different outcomes for boys and girls, with girls more likely than boys to experience positive outcomes. Reviews of the literature in education and health, supplemented by new research, demonstrate that the problems associated with residing in a negative environment are indisputable, but also suggest the directions in which solutions may lie. The essays collected in this volume give readers a clear sense of the magnitude of contemporary challenges in metropolitan America and of the role that place plays in reinforcing them. Although the contributors suggest many practical immediate interventions, they also recognize the vital importance of continued long-term efforts to rectify place-based limitations on lifetime opportunities. Harriet B. Newburger is Community Development Research Advisor for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Eugenie L. Birch is Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and …
creator: NC
publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
date: March 2011
format: 352
type: Ouvrage

Cities and fascination : Beyond the surplus of meaning
subject: , économie, société urbaine, psychology, psychologie, politique urbaine, culture urbaine, Schmid Heiko, Sahr Wolf-Dietrich, Urry John
creator: NC
publisher: Ashgate
date: March 2011
format: 262
type: Ouvrage

The futures of the city region
subject: , territoire, métropole, planification, urbanisation, développement territorial, géographie urbaine, développement durable, analyse spatiale, forme urbaine, gouvernance, Neuman Michael, Hull Angela
description: Abstract from the publisher : Does the ‘city region’ constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental and corporate, strongly influences and structures the management of urban life. How we conceive the city region has intellectual and practical consequences. First, in helping us grasp rapidly changing realities; and second in facilitating the flow of resources, ideas and learning to enhance the quality of life of citizens. Two themes interweave through this collection, within this broad palette. First are the socio-spatial constructs and their relationship to the empirical evidence of change in the physical and functional aspects of urban form. Second is what they mean for the spatial scales of governance. This latter theme explores territorially based understandings of intervention and the changing set of political concerns in selected case studies. In efforts to address these issues and improve upon knowledge, this collection brings together international scholars building new data-driven, cross-disciplinary theories to create new images of the city region that may prove to supplement if not supplant old ones. The book illustrates the dialectical interplay of theory and fact, time and space, and spatial and institutional which expands on our intellectual grasp of the theoretical debates on ‘city-regions’ through ‘practical knowing’, citing examples from Europe, the United States, Australasia, and beyond. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of Regional Studies. Michael Neuman is Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University, USA. He directs the Sustainable Urbanism Research Consortium and chairs the Sustainable Urbanism Certificate Program. Angela Hull is Professor …
creator: NC
publisher: Routledge
date: April 2011
format: 116
type: Ouvrage

Mobile urbanism : Cities and policymaking in the global age
subject: , mondialisation, politique de la ville, politique urbaine, géographie urbaine, réseaux, gouvernance, McCann Eugene, Ward Kevin
description: Abstract from the publisher : How knowledge and power flow between places and impact cities worldwide Mobile Urbanism provides a unique set of perspectives on the current global-urban condition. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, leading geographers reveal that cities are not isolated objects of study; rather, they are dynamic, global–local assemblages of policies, practices, and ideas. The essays in this volume argue for a theorizing of both urban policymaking and place-making that understands them as groups of territorial and relational geographies. It broadens our comprehension of agents of transference, reconceiving how policies are made mobile, and acknowledging the importance of interlocal policy mobility. Through the richness of its empirical examples from Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia, contributors bring to light the significant methodological challenges that researchers face in the study of an urban–global, territorial–relational conceptualization of cities and suggest productive new approaches to understanding urbanism in a networked world. Contents : Allan Cochrane - Foreword Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward - Introduction. Urban assemblages : Territories, relations, practices, and power Doreen Massey - A counterhegemonic relationality of place Jennifer Robinson - The spaces of circulating knowledge : City strategies and global urban governmentality Jamie Peck - Creative moments : Working culture, through municipal socialism and neoliberal urbanism Kevin Ward - Policies in motion and in place : The case of business improvement districts Eugene McCann - Points of reference : Knowledge of elsewhere in the politics of urban drug policy Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali - The urban political pathology of emerging infectious disease in the age of the global city Donal McNeil - Airports, territoriality, and urban governance Kevin Ward and Eugene McCann - Conclusion. Cities assembled : Space, neoliberalization, (re)territorializ…
creator: NC
publisher: University of Minnesota Press
date: 2011
format: 256
type: Ouvrage

Contention and trust in cities and states
subject: Tilly Charles, Tilly Chris, Hanagan Michael, politique de la ville, réseaux, sciences politiques, gouvernance
description: Abstract from the publisher : Cities and nation-states have co-existed uneasily throughout human history. At times fused, at other times opposed, at still other times hierarchically linked, they have been crucibles of identity and social and political action. Today’s globalization re-elevates the importance of cities, but contrary to what is often claimed, also sustains the importance of nation-states in transformed ways. Contention and Trust in Cities and States explores cities and nation-states throughout history and around the world, bringing together the research of top scholars. It takes as a jumping-off point the work of the late Charles Tilly, but proceeds varied topics ranging from how today’s drug cartels undermine nation-states to how cities, nation-states, and empires treated religious minorities in the middle of the last millennium. Threaded throughout are themes of city-state relations, trust networks and commitment, democracy and inequality, and the importance of historical legacies in shaping state structures, practices, and capacities. Political scientists, sociologists, geographers, urbanists, historians and others concerned with how power and trust play out in cities and nation-states will find this a provocative and valuable collection. Michael Hanagan is Adjunct Professor in History at Vassar College. Chris Tilly is the Director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and Professor in the Urban Planning Department at UCLA.
creator: NC
publisher: Springer
date: April 2011
format: 372
type: Ouvrage

UN urbanism / UN-urbanismus
subject: United Nations, UN, Nations Unies, ONU, reconstruction, ville en guerre, ville détruite, forme urbaine, conflit urbain, mutation urbaine, Mostar, Kabul, Kaboul
creator: NC
publisher: Jovis Verlag
date: October 2010
format: 224
type: Ouvrage

Cities in transition : Globalization, political change and urban development
subject: , mondialisation, développement urbain, mutation urbaine, politique de la ville, Schneider-Sliwa Rita
description: Abstract from the publisher : This book was written with the aim of showing that even in the era of globalization developments appearing in cities are not subject to almost unconditional global forces. Rather, universal forces are decisive eventualities in the process of urban restructuring, often influencing its course and speed, yet developments and particularities within a city strongly influence the course of events and the extent to which negative characteristics of globalization might occur. Local forces are central in the process of change and they may influence the perceived unstoppable process of globalization, leading to considerable qualitative and quantitative differences in the urban development processes of the globalization era. It thus challenges Sassen’s hypothesis that globalization as a process forces uniformity upon individual regions or cities and imprints macro-cultural structural patterns onto local forms. It focuses on the interplay between local and global forces whose influence is strongly affected by the very different spatial and temporal local constellations and development factors which give globalization a local flavour. Berlin, Brussels, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sarajevo and Vienna: Using these important cities the special relationship between global and local/regional forces is analyzed. The case studies were selected based on their political and cultural context and the fact that their social and political fabric was subject to major changes in the recent past. How global processes manifest themselves locally depends to a great extent on how development processes and endogenic potentials are initiated locally in order to cope with the new global economic and societal conditions. Contents : Theoretical framework Global and local forces in cities undergoing political change - R. Schneider-Sliwa Berlin: Coping with the past – looking ahead - K. Lenz The political geography of …
creator: NC
publisher: Springer
date: October 2010
format: 333
type: Ouvrage