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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…
Sunburnt cities : The great recession, depopulation and urban planning in the American sunbelt
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In recent years there has been a growing focus on urban and environmental studies, and the skills and techniques needed to address the wider challenges of how to create sustainable communities. Central to that demand…
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…
Vientiane architectures d’une capitale : traces, formes, structures, projets
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Ce livre présente une synthèse originale sur la capitale laotienne qui offre aujourd'hui le spectacle d'une ville en pleine transformation. Depuis les réformes économiques…
Inventive city-regions : Path dependence and creative knowledge strategies
Organisers' description : Virtually every city-region in West and Central Europe has developed policies and strategies to attract, retain and encourage creative industries and knowledge-intensive services. Since most of these citiy-regions tend to…
Understanding Cairo : The logic of a city out of control
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Trying to make sense of the urban giant that is Cairo.
This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city’s…
The city, revisited : Urban theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York
Abstract from the publisher : Reexamining urban scholarship for the twenty-first century The contributors to The City, Revisited trace an intellectual history that begins in 1925 with the publication of the influential classic The City, engaging…
Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve. Paradoxes, réussites et perspectives d’une ville atypique
Présentation par l'éditeur : Historiquement, le centre d’Ottignies s’est développé principalement à la faveur du phénomène de la périurbanisation, c’est-à-dire…
Pour des approches intégrées de développement urbain durable
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De plus en plus, nous vivons en milieu urbain. Les villes occupent désormais une place centrale dans l'organisation et la transformation des pays. Toutefois, loin d'être un tissu tendant…
Développement urbain et éco-paysages urbains : une étude sur les quartiers de Mexico et d'Athènes
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Les grandes villes des pays récemment industrialisés, comme Mexico et Athènes, présentent des particularités similaires au niveau de leur structure urbaine, notamment dans…
Bloomberg's New York : Class and governance in the luxury city
Abstract from the publisher : What happens when our mayors are CEOs? New York mayor Michael Bloomberg claims to run the city like a business. In Bloomberg’s New York, Julian Brash applies methods from anthropology, geography, and other…
The making of Hong Kong : From vertical to volumetric
Abstract from the publisher : This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong’s urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense…
Megacities : Urban form, governance, and sustainability
Abstract from the publisher : For the first time in human history, more than half the world’s population is urban. A fundamental aspect of this transformation has been the emergence of giant cities, or megacities, that present major new…
Dubai amplified : The engineering of a port geography
Abstract from the publisher : Following the British withdrawal in 1971, the Gulf Region entered a heady period of political restructuring, awash with oil money that helped fund national aspirations. Infrastructure investment became a central part…
The liberal monument : Urban design and the late modern project
Abstract from the publisher : Architect Alexander D'Hooghe believes urban design has lost its way. Once among the most articulate and avant-garde of disciplines, the field now lacks, he suggests, the confidence necessary to address its most…
Climate change and sustainable urban development in Africa and Asia
Abstract from the publisher : This book is about African and Asian cities. Illustrated through selected case cities, the book brings together a rich collection of papers by leading scholars and practitioners in Africa and Asia to offer empirical…
The urban code of China
NB : As of November 2010, the publisher's site is under construction. Details of the book are available from Amazon. Abstract from the publisher : In reading Chinese cities, as this volume attempts to do, the focus is not primarily on well-known…
La rue Sainte-Catherine
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Célèbre pour son flot ininterrompu d'activités, la rue Sainte-Catherine est un pilier de l'histoire de la ville de Montréal. Dans cet ouvrage, découvrez comment elle s'est…
The just city
Abstract from the publisher : For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused…
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…