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Italo Calvino's architecture of lightness : The utopian imagination in an age of urban crisis
Abstract from the publisher : This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well…
Images d'un renouvellement urbain
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Antoine d'Agata, Gabriele Basilico, Yves Bélorgey, Christophe Bourguedieu, Lynne Cohen, Jordi Colomer, John Davies, Patrick Faigenbaum, Charles Fréger, Éric Larrayadieu, Rut Blees…
Fragments of cities: The new American downtowns and neighborhoods
Abstract from the publisher: Larry Bennett's Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods examines the social consequences of both the new approaches to downtown design and the physical upgrading of residential neighborhoods. …
Events and urban regeneration: The strategic use of events to revitalise cities
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In recent years, major sporting and cultural events such as the Olympic Games have emerged as significant elements of public policy, particularly in efforts to achieve urban regeneration. As well as opportunities arising…
Derelict paradise : Homelessness and urban development in Cleveland, Ohio
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A revealing analysis of the origins and evolution of homelessness in a major American city
Seeking answers to the question, "Who benefits from homelessness?" this book takes the reader on a sweeping tour of…
Creatively destroying New York : Fantasies, premonitions, and realities in the provisional city
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This lecture places the attack on the World Trade Center in the context of New York's history as a place that is seemingly destined to be destroyed and rebuilt with stunning regularity. It explores three ways of…
This lecture places the attack on the World Trade Center in the context of New York's history as a place that is seemingly destined to be destroyed and rebuilt with stunning regularity. It explores three ways of…
Contemporary urbanism in Brazil: Beyond Brasília
Abstract from the publisher : For decades, a succession of military regimes and democratic governments in Brazil sought to shape the future of their society through the manipulation of urban spaces. Planned cities were built that reflected the…
Comment reconstruire la ville avec les habitants ?
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Dans ce film de 8 minutes des témoignages d'habitants, de techniciens de collectivités locales ou des bailleurs sociaux donnent un éclairage sur des modalités de participation des…
Cities with 'slums': From informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa
Organisers' description: The UN’s Development target to improve the lives of 100 million ‘slum’ dwellers has been inappropriately communicated as a target to free cities of slums. Cities with ‘Slums’: from informal…
Cities the magazine
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CITIES the magazine highlights urban issues and invites discussion on global trends, regional responses and local practice. It connects writers, thinkers, artists, designers and photographers in a common dialogue about…
Cities and social equity: Inequality, territory and urban form
Abstract from the publisher: Cities and Social Equity is a report by the Urban Age research team with commissioned pieces from Ipsos MORI, United Nations Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD), the Centre for…
Changing plans for America's inner cities
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Cincinnati’s historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood began in the nineteenth century as a nonelite suburb and became in the twentieth century an inner-city slum, burdened with a broad range of problems characteristic…
Cape Town after apartheid : Crime and governance in the divided city
Abstract from the publisher : Reveals how liberal democracy and free-market economics reproduce the inequalities of apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa Nearly two decades after the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, how different does the…
Cairo's informal areas. Between urban challenges and hidden potentials
Abstract from the publisher : "The challenges of an increasingly poor urban population, as well as the mushrooming of illegal or semi-legal settlements and slums, have been acknowledged by both local authorities and international development…