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Terre habitée : humain et urbain à l'ère de la mondialisation
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Rapportée à la ville en général, à son…
Global ideologies and urban landscapes
Abstract from the publisher : How do political ideologies and urban landscapes intersect in the context of globalization? This volume illuminates the production of ideologies as both discursive and spatial phenomena in distinct contributions that…
Aerotropolis : The way we'll live next
Abstract from the publisher : This brilliant and eye-opening look at the new phenomenon called the aerotropolis gives us a glimpse of the way we will live in the near future—and the way we will do business too. Not so long ago, airports were…
Urban realism and the cosmopolitan imagination in the nineteenth century
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This book tells a story about the transformation of mid-Victorian urban writing in response both to London's growing size and diversity, and Britain's shifting global fortunes. Tanya Agathocleous departs from customary…
Global urbanization
Abstract from the publisher : For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in urban areas. Much of this urbanization has been fueled by the rapidly growing cities of the developing world, exemplified most dramatically…
Locating migration : Rescaling cities and migrants
Abstract from the publisher : In this book Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Çaglar, along with a stellar group of contributing authors, examine the relationship between migrants and cities in a time of massive urban restructuring. They find that…
L'avantage métropolitain
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Le paradoxe des métropoles est bien connu : principaux centres de création de richesse, elles cumulent également les difficultés (sociales, environnementales,…
Urban tourism and urban change : Cities in a global economy
Abstract from the publisher : Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy provides both a sociological / cultural analysis of change that has taken place in many of the world's cities. This focused treatment of urban tourism examines…
After the factory : Reinventing America's industrial small cities
Abstract from the publisher : The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S. have decayed sharply…
Fluidity of place : Globalization and the transformation of urban space
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Fluidity of Place presents an interdisciplinary conversation with theories of space-time, place and globalization at the cutting edge of social theory. Focussing on the construction of urban space in the context of…
Global urban analysis : A survey of cities in globalization
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Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scale customised data collection on how leading businesses use cities across the…
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…
Cities and citizenship at the U.S.-Mexican border : The Paso del Norte metropolitan region
Abstract from the publisher : At the center of the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border, a sprawling transnational urban space has mushroomed into a metropolitan region with over two million people whose livelihoods depend on global manufacturing,…
Asian cities, migrant labor and contested spaces
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This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the…
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 time of the city : Politics, philosophy and genre
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The Time of the City is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban life in diverse cities. Shifting the territorial emphasis of political studies…
La pauvreté durable ? Au Bangladesh, à Dhaka et dans le monde
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L'Asie du Sud est devenue "l'épicentre de la pauvreté mondiale" avec près de 40% de la population pauvre du monde. L'évolution de la société bangladaise…
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…
The other global city
What is a Global City? Who authorizes the World Class City? This edited volume interrogates the "global cities" literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial "global network." Through a historical-ethnographic…
Architecture et altermondialisation
Présentation par l'éditeur : Cette recherche, menée en 2004 à l'Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux, n'a pas eu besoin de beaucoup de mises à jour pour être toujours d'actualité tant la…