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Settling for less : The planned resettlement of Israel's Negev Bedouin
Abstract from the publisher : The resettlement of the Negev Bedouin (Israel) has been wrought with controversy since its inception in the 1960s. Presenting evidence from a two-decade period, the author addresses how the changes that took place over…
Seeking spatial justice
Abstract from the publisher : An innovative new way of understanding and changing the unjust geographies in which we live In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the…
Searching for the just city : Debates in urban theory and practice
Abstract from the publisher : Cities are many things. Among their least appealing aspects, cities are frequently characterized by concentrations of insecurity and exploitation. Cities have also long represented promises of opportunity and…
Risks, hazards and urban renewal, 1666 to 2000 : Urban History Group annual conference 2006
From the conference report :
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…
Review of urban affairs: The commons. Economic and Political Weekly (Vol. XLVI, No. 50)
Anant Maringanti is an independent scholar specialising in human geography, based in Hyderabad. Amita Baviskar is at the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi. Karen Coelho is at the Madras Institute of Development Studies. Vinay Gidwani is…
Requiem : For the city at the end of the millenium
Abstract from the publisher :
In this small, but sharply-pointed book, renowned theorist Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn of…
Représenter la ville
Présentation par le diffuseur :
En utilisant les outils d’une géographie historique et culturelle, située au croisement de plusieurs disciplines et de plusieurs méthodologies, le but de ce séminaire est…
Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, Musset Aalin, perception, représentations
Rénovation urbaine : les leçons américaines
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Les États-Unis sont volontiers regardés et souvent dénoncés comme le symbole de la séparation des groupes raciaux dans la ville. Cependant, la dichotomie classique entre…
Renouveler la ville
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Les nouvelles orientations d’un métier en pleine mutation.
L’aménageur avait traditionnellement la mission de développer de nouveaux quartiers, voire des villes…
Remembering, forgetting and city builders
Abstract from the publisher : Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to the politics of collective and personal memory construction. Bringing together case…
Remaking Chinese urban form : Modernity, scarcity and space, 1949-2005
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In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment. Drawing on archival…
Reconsidering Jane Jacobs
Abstract from the publisher : Fifty years after the publication of her most influential book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs is perhaps the most widely read urbanist ever. Her ideas contributed to the wholesale…
Reconsidering informality : Perspectives from urban Africa
Abstract from the publisher : This book brings together two bodies of research on urban Africa that have tended to be separate: Studies of urban land use and housing, and studies of work and livelihoods. Africa’s future will be to an…
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…
Quelles villes et quels transports pour un développement durable ?
Le Festival International de Géographie de Saint-Dié-des-Vosges avait pour thème en 2007 « La planète en mal d'énergies ».
Le site du FIG propose une vidéo d'une des tables rondes : «…
Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, développement durable, transport
Queerying planning: Challenging heteronormative assumptions and reframing planning practice
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Current planning practices have largely neglected the needs of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community for safe urban spaces in which to live, work, and play. This volume fills the gap in the…
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…
Politics, power, cities
Organisers' description :
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,…