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The politics of place : Contentious urban redevelopment in Pittsburgh
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In urban America, large-scale redevelopment is a frequent news item. Many proposals for such redevelopment are challenged—sometimes successfully, and other times to no avail. The Politics of Place considers the…
Globalization, urban form and governance
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This Conference Book compiles the summary-papers that win be presented at the First Conference of the ALFA-IBIS Network. Part One is an introductory chapter containing a short history of the ALFA-IBIS project, the…
Complexity theories of cities have come of age
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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…
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.…
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…
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 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…
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,…
Collective identities, governance and empowerment in megacities
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The Eighth Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality on “Collective Identities, Governance and Empowerment in Megacities” took place from 11 – 16 June 2008.
An international essay competition was organized…
Risks, hazards and urban renewal, 1666 to 2000 : Urban History Group annual conference 2006
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The Annual conference of the Urban History Group took place at the University of Reading this year from the 30th to the 31st March. Entitled ‘Risks, Hazards and Urban Renewal, 1666 to 2000’, the conference…
Footprint : Metropolitan form
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The fifth issue of Footprint investigates the question of metropolitan form. The necessity to focus on the scale of metropolitan areas is manifest as this is the dominant scale of contemporary global life. The process…
Futures of cities : 51st IFHP world congress
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The year 2007 marks a shift to an urban era, an era in which more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. This fact is making many headlines. But what are its implications? How will this impact the…
The new urban question : Urbanism beyond neo-liberalism
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“The New Urban Question – Urbanism beyond Neo-liberalism” is the title of the 4th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) that will take place from November 26th to 28th, 2009 at…
The vital city : EURA 2007 conference
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This major conference on the theme of The Vital City was held under the auspices of the European Urban Research Association (EURA). EURA brings together an inter-disciplinary network of urban researchers from across Europe…
City futures 2004
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An important international conference on globalism and urban change took place in Chicago from July 8-10, 2004.
The aim of the City Futures conference was to boost the quality of international dialogue about urban issues…
City futures 2009 : City futures in a globalising world
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Aims of City Futures in a Globalising World
The central aim of the Madrid Conference in 2009 is to lift the quality of international dialogue about urban issues by:
* Creating a whole conference sharply focussed on…
Reconciliation through reintegration?
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Reconciliation through reintegration? : a study on spatial proximity and social relations in two post-civil war Beirut neighborhoods.
Although the Lebanese Civil War ended in 1991 and Beirut became a reunified city, much…
The resurgent city
The majority of the papers presented at the 2004 conference 'The resurgent city', held at the London School of Economics, are available for download as PDF files.
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This Leverhulme-funded international symposium aims to…
Berlin, ville capitale
A l’occasion de l’anniversaire de la chute du Mur, le 9 novembre 1989, Le Mensuel de l’Université consacre son dossier du mois de novembre à Berlin.
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Berlin, capitale alternative
Le processus est long qui…
Grands ensembles, intentions et pratiques (1850-1970)
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Grands ensembles urbains tenu, les 16-17 novembre 2010, au pôle universitaire Mazier de Saint-Brieuc. Ce cycle de Rencontres est organisé conjointement par l'Université Rennes 2 et la…