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La ville et ses minorités : politiques et parcours résidentiels en Angleterre
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L’étude de la privatisation et de l’ethnicisation des politiques du logement et des évolutions résidentielles des minorités ethniques dans deux villes britanniques,…
Solidarités nouvelles pour le logement : une aventure humaine
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Une action citoyenne de proximité, est-ce encore possible aujourd'hui ? Quelle liberté, quels moyens avons-nous d'agir face aux injustices : sans-abri, familles en attente de logement…
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…
Housing disadvantaged people? Insiders and outsiders in French social housing
Abstract from the publisher: Social housing appears to offer a solution for the housing of poor and disadvantaged people. The French "right to housing" offers poor and disadvantaged citizens priority in social housing allocation, and even…
Les villes de la diversité
Présentation par l'éditeur : L'aménagement et la régulation des territoires urbains du vivre ensemble constituent depuis longtemps un objectif des politiques publiques en France comme aux Etats-Unis. Si jusqu'aux…
Planning in divided cities
Abstract from the publisher : Does planning in contested cities inadvertedly make the divisions worse? The 60s and 70s saw a strong role of planning, social engineering, etc but there has since been a move towards a more decentralised…
Du quartier à la ville durable : vers un nouveau modèle urbain ?
Présentation par l'éditeur : Alors que l’État relance son plan Ecoquartiers et que les initiatives pour un urbanisme durable se multiplient en France et à l’étranger, le Comité 21 livre sa vision…
Roppongi crossing : The demise of a Tokyo nightclub district and the reshaping of a global city
Abstract from the publisher : For most of the latter half of the twentieth century, Roppongi was an enormously popular nightclub district that stood out from the other pleasure quarters of Tokyo for its mix of international entertainment and…
The invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
Abstract from the publisher : The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the…
La politique de la ville. Maîtriser les dispositifs et les enjeux
Présentation par l'éditeur : Les élus et professionnels sont aujourd’hui en butte, avec la crise, à de nouvelles demandes sociales, sur fond de montée des précarités, d’augmentation du…
Critical urban studies : New directions
Abstract from the publisher : Essays reevaluating and challenging the critiques of the urban studies field. This volume revisits the tradition of critical scholarship characteristic of the urban studies field. Urban scholarship has had detractors…
Urban diversity : Space, culture, and inclusive pluralism in cities worldwide
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As the world's urban populations grow, cities become spaces where increasingly diverse peoples negotiate such differences as language, citizenship, ethnicity and race, class and wealth, and gender. Using a comparative…
The power of urban ethnic places : Cultural heritage and community life
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The Power of Ethnic Places discusses the growing visibility of ethnic heritage places in U.S. society. The book examines a spectrum of case studies of Chinese, Latino and African American communities in the U.S.,…
The Architecture and memory of the minority quarter in the Muslim Mediterranean city
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A collaborative work among historians, literary specialists, and architects, this collection is directed at filling the gap in our knowledge about minority neighborhoods in the southern Mediterranean.
A series of…
Streets of memory : Landscape, tolerance, and national identity in Istanbul
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In this study of Kuzguncuk, known as one of Istanbul’s historically most tolerant, multiethnic neighborhoods, Amy Mills is animated by a single question: what does it mean to live in a place that once…
What we see : Advancing the observations of Jane Jacobs
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A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the…
Cultural diversity in Russian cities : The urban landscape in the Post-Soviet era
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Cultural diversity — the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture — is a catchphrase increasingly used in place of multiculturalism and in conjunction with…
The gentrification reader
Loretta Lees is Professor of Human Geography at King's College London, UK. Tom Slater is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Elvin Wyly is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada.