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Next eco-city symposium
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Urban environments worldwide are in the midst of multiple shifts, driven by interconnected flows in capital, people, and resources at local, regional and global scales. It…
Next eco-cities: Imaginations and futures
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Urban environments worldwide are in the midst of multiple shifts, driven by interconnected flows in capital, people, and resources at local, regional and global scales. It impacts not only cities but also the network…
Transcultural urbanism: Immigrants in the city
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The 21st century city is inevitably global and local, dislodging boundaries between nation states as well as public and private realms. This panel investigates the impact of these transformations on cities at both the…
How cities cope with obduracy and vulnerability
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City planning initiatives and redesign of urban structures often become mired in debate and delay. Despite the fact that cities are considered to be dynamic, innovative and flexible spaces, never finished but always…
Jane Jacobs vs Robert Moses: How stands the debate today?
Abstract from the distributor: Jane Jacobs’s death in 2006 triggered many conversations around town about her legacy to New York. In particular, people have been mulling the question of whose urban vision – hers, or that of her arch…
On the plaza: Post-Soviet urban ensembles
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Among the many things that are anathema in contemporary urban planning, one of the most demonised is the large, ceremonial public square. The vast, proverbially windswept plazas built under 'really existing socialism'…
Policy implications of regional autonomy for Indonesian cities
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Since 1999 when Indonesia initiated the world’s biggest experiment with democratic decentralization (or regional autonomy ) administrations as the primary unit of analysis without disaggregating these two…
London and other Great American Cities 50 years on
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The RSA and the Centre for London at Demos gather a panel of expert commentators at the RSA to mark the 50th anniversary of Jane Jacobs’ landmark book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
Jane…
Designing the post-political city and the insurgent polis
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Swyngedouw points to a climate of global consensus that has become pervasive over the past twenty years, effectively suppressing dissent and excluding most people from governance. He explains this consensus as…
Jane Jacobs today
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Jane Jacobs’ ideas redefined urban planning and her hometowns of New York and Toronto are among many cities that continue to feel the impact of her writings. This panel discussion explores the importance,…
Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, histoire de l'urbanisme, Jacobs Jane, New York, Toronto
Planning privatopolis : Urban integrated megaprojects and the transformation of Asian cities
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The past two decades have witnessed the emergence throughout Asia of the idea that, through the development of large scale, controlled urban environments master planned and managed on a commercial basis by private…
Framing a capital city
Organisers' description : Organized collaboratively by the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA), the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC), and the National Building Museum, Framing a Capital City was organized to help shape the National…
Ground control : Fear and happiness in the 21st century city
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Britons are increasingly aware of living in a society plagued by fear and unhappiness. Could our towns and cities be the cause? Anna Minton offers an in-depth and passionate exploration of the state of Britain today,…
Les politiques d'hygiène à Paris au 19e siècle
Une conférence-débat présentée par André Guillerme, professeur du Cnam, chaire d'Histoire des techniques.
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Le Paris moderne - Histoire des politiques d'hygiène (1855-1898), Presses…
China and India: Governance, urban development, and sustainability in the cities of the Global South
Organisers' description : The scholarship with regard to the process of urbanization in the context of globalization has been dominated by the "global cities" paradigm in which Saskia Sassen outlines the increasing centrality of cities as…
Urban forms and comparisons : Chicago's Near North Side and the localization of gentrification
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Please join us for a comparative and historical analysis of the gentrification of the Near North Side of Chicago.
Professor Bodnar will examine the communities that have replaced the Cabrini-Green housing…
Building the speculative city
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Dr. Weber will discuss her research on periods of rapid change in the physical fabric of the city -- the dizzying "construction booms" when the real estate industry, financial system, and public planning all…
Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, Chicago, développement urbain, économie, foncier, immobilier, mutation urbaine, Weber Rachel
Politics, power, cities
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Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá and one of the world's most challenging urban thinkers, describes the urgent need for governments to create socially inclusive and well-designed transport systems,…
Flight from modernity - aerial photography and the emergence of a social conception of space
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As a technique of representation, aerial photography has often been associated with “top-down” urban planning programs initiated by twentieth-century modern capitalist states. This book seeks to demonstrate…