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Children, youth and the city
Abstract from the publisher: More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. This text provides a vivid picture of children and youth in the city, how they make sense of it and how they…
De bons voisins : enquête dans un quartier de la bourgeoisie progressiste
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En 2005, une habitante de Boston, aux Etats-Unis, se plaint auprès d’une association de quartier : sur une des artères commerçantes, juste à côté d’un…
Justice and the American metropolis
Abstract from the publisher : Today’s American cities and suburbs are the sites of “thick injustice”—unjust power relations that are deeply and densely concentrated as well as opaque and seemingly intractable. Thick…
Cape Town after apartheid : Crime and governance in the divided city
Abstract from the publisher : Reveals how liberal democracy and free-market economics reproduce the inequalities of apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa Nearly two decades after the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, how different does the…
Urban asymmetries : Studies and projects on neoliberal urbanization
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The current global economic crisis provides the perfect backdrop for reviewing the dire consequences that neoliberal urban policies have had upon the city, and for discussing possible alternatives to market-driven…
The paradox of urban space : Inequality and transformation in marginalized communities
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…
Making the San Fernando Valley : Rural landscapes, urban development, and white privilege
Abstract from the publisher : Environment and race at the intersection of city, suburb, and country. In the first book-length scholarly study of the San Fernando Valley— home to one-third of the population of Los Angeles—Laura R.…
L'action publique face à la mobilité
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Dans nos sociétés, la mobilité est une valeur éminemment positive et les déplacements prennent une place toujours plus grande dans la vie quotidienne. Pourtant, la…
Vers une citoyenneté urbaine ? La ville et l'égalité des chances
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La construction de l’État-providence s’est accompagnée de la proclamation d’une citoyenneté sociale. Venant après la citoyenneté civile inventée…
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…
The state of Asian cities 2010-11
Abstract from the publisher : The report throws new light on current issues and challenges which national and local governments, the business sector and organised civil society are facing. On top of putting forward a number of recommendations, this…
Detroit divided
Abstract from the publisher: Unskilled workers once flocked to Detroit, attracted by manufacturing jobs paying union wages, but the passing of Detroit's manufacturing heyday has left many of those workers stranded. Manufacturing continues to employ…
The Boston renaissance: Race, space, and economic change in an American metropolis
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This volume documents metropolitan Boston's metamorphosis from a casualty of manufacturing decline in the 1970s to a paragon of the high-tech and service industries in the 1990s. The city's rebound has been part of a…
The Atlanta paradox
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Despite the rapid creation of jobs in the greater Atlanta region, poverty in the city itself remains surprisingly high, and Atlanta's economic boom has yet to play a significant role in narrowing the gap between the…
Sao Paulo: A tale of two cities
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UN-HABITAT’s new Cities and Citizens series examines urban inequality in the developing world through in-depth analysis of intracity data developed by UN-HABITAT and its partner institutions and on-the-ground…
Cities transformed : Demographic change and its implications in the developing world
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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…