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Transformative cities in the new global order : Accumulation by dispossession
Abstract from the publisher : Globalisation and a neo-liberal world order are impacting the global urban system, resulting in massive transformation of cities across the world. This transformation, which is currently the centre of focus among…
Villes et organisation de l'espace en Afrique
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Depuis plusieurs décennies, la ville africaine se présente comme un véritable défi pour tous les spécialistes qui réfléchissent et agissent sur le fait…
Sprawl, justice, and citizenship : The civic costs of the American way of life
Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life? That is a central question posed by critics of suburban and exurban living in America. Yet despite the ubiquity of the critique, it never sticks--Americans by the…
Reconstructing Beirut : Memory and space in a postwar Arab city
Once the cosmopolitan center of the Middle East, Beirut was devastated by the civil war that ran from 1975 to 1991, which dislocated many residents, disrupted normal municipal functions, and destroyed the vibrant downtown district. The aftermath of…
Usonia ou le mythe de la ville-nature américaine
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Voilà minutieusement reconstituée la tradition anti-urbaine aux États-Unis, depuis les premières communautés cherchant une alternative aux formes traditionnelles de…
Espaces en transactions
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Les textes réunis dans cet ouvrage parlent tous d’espaces en partages et en transactions. Vivre dans un espace suppose de partager cet espace avec d’autres, d’y inscrire des capacités d’agir…
Villes, villages, campagnes de l'âge du bronze
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Entre le monde urbanisé oriental et les communautés rurales d'Occident, entre "lettrés" et "barbares", l'Age du bronze est la période de tous les…
Remaking the modern: Space, relocation, and the politics of identity in a global Cairo
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In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve President Anwar Sadat's goal to modernize the housing conditions of the urban poor, the Egyptian…
Post ex sub dis : Urban fragmentations and constructions
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Post, ex, sub and dis - these are but a few of the prefixes that have been used to compose neologisms for describing the contemporary cityscape. Terms such as posturban space, postsuburbia, exurbia and disurbia are…
Urbanisation. South Africa's Challenge
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In Volume 1 of this two-volume publication, the authors review the international literature on urbanisation. They locate urbanisation in broader social transformations, study the role of households in the process of…
The open urban studies journal (Vol. 3, 2010)
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The Open Urban Studies Journal is an Open Access online journal which publishes original research articles, reviews and short articles in the field of urban and regional studies. Topics covered include : theory,…
Small town Africa : Studies in rural-urban interaction
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Small towns have often been considered as unimportant and have been largely ignored by policy-makers and researchers. Instead, attention was focussed on the large city or on rural development and agricultural change…