Présentation par l'éditeur : The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an ‘illegal’ squatter settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial…
Présentation par l'éditeur : Perspectives 'Villes et Territoires' N°8 - Femmes et villes. Y-a-t'il une pertinence à étudier la place et le rôle des femmes dans les villes ? La ville est un miroir concret des…
Quels sont les rapports qu'entretiennent les femmes marocaines avec leur ville ? Quelle est la place réelle qu'elles occupent dans les espaces public et privé ? Comment la ville de Rabat, capitale moderne, ouverte sur l'Occident porte-t-elle la…
Abstract from the publisher: Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to…
Abstract from the publisher: Urban agriculture is an increasingly popular practice in cities worldwide, and a sustainable future for it is critical, especially for the urban poor of the developing world. This book presents the first findings of…
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Mars 2011
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Extrait du sommaire du n° 3 de Justice spatiale/Spatial Justice :
Dossier thématique
Un droit à la ville ? Réseaux virtuels et centralités…
Extract from the Editorial :
The articles in this edition examine gender issues and human settlement, and emphasise the interconnectedness of all aspects of women's and men's lives, and the links between people's physical surroundings and what they…
From the editorial by Alicia Murría :
Modern city planning and architecture have been places at the service of production, traffic, and consumption, and of a particular idea of the white, Western, heterosexual middle-class male. Only in the…
From the editorial by Christopher Dummitt :
This issue of the London Journal of Canadian Studies takes up the subject of gender and the Canadian city. Most of the articles here were first presented at the London Conference for Canadian…
A first of its kind, this COHRE report examines the worldwide phenomenon of urbanisation from the point of view of women’s housing rights. The report focuses, in particular, on the experiences of women and girls living in slum communities…
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Dans un environnement global où les villes sont en compétition les unes avec les autres, les autorités municipales de Chicago ont mis en place, depuis une vingtaine…
Abstract from the publisher : Women in the city in turn-of-the-century San Francisco In Women and the Everyday City, Jessica Ellen Sewell explores the lives of women in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A period of transformation of both gender…
Abstract from the publisher: Growing urbanization affects women and men in fundamentally different ways, but the relationship between gender and city environments has been ignored or misunderstood. Women and men play different roles, frequent…
Cette étude, initiée courant 2010, propose de mieux saisir l’enjeu républicain qui s’attache à la compréhension de l’usage de la ville par le genre. Il s’agit de déconstruire les représentations collectives qui présupposent que les usages urbains…
Seminar description from the IHR Digital blog :
Tim Reinke-Williams from the University of Northampton presented to the Metropolitan History Seminar group, a paper entitled ‘Gender and sociability in early modern London’. This paper…
Extract from the introduction:
The task I have undertaken in this book is to account for the peculiar sense of solidarity that the citizens of Barcelona developed between 1888 and 1939, and to explain why shared experiences of civic culture and…
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Ce livre fait le pari d’analyser en profondeur les rébellions urbaines sur la moyenne durée (de 1968 à 2005) et de croiser la question des engagements et du genre ce qui implique…
Organisers' description :
“State, Space and Citizenship” is the title of a year of thematic programming on key issues confronting Indian cities, beginning in January 2009. This is sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies at the…