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Marginalization in urban China : Comparative perspectives
Abstract from the publisher :
Marginalization in urban China is a consequence of the processes that constrain the disadvantaged from making a claim to citizenship. This book provides insights into marginalization in Chinese cities, and enriches…
Neighborhood and life chances : How place matters in modern America
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Does the place where you lived as a child affect your health as an adult? To what degree does your neighbor's success influence your own potential? The importance of place is increasingly recognized in urban research…
The ghetto : Contemporary global issues and controversies
Abstract from the publisher : Too often the term “ghetto” is simply applied to any African American community, to the inner city as a whole, or recently to anything that is degraded or unrefined. But what is a ghetto? Does it arise…
Justice and the American metropolis
Abstract from the publisher : Today’s American cities and suburbs are the sites of “thick injustice”—unjust power relations that are deeply and densely concentrated as well as opaque and seemingly intractable. Thick…
The sociology of city life
Contents :
I. The beginnings of city life :
1. The origin of city life
2. The emergence of urbanism
II. The location of the city :
1. The urban site
2. General geographic location
III. The physical setting of city life :
1. The developmental history…
Critical Mobilities
The field of mobility studies examines social phenomena through the lens of movement. In this perspective, societies are regarded as being constantly reconfigured as they are shaped by a series of mobile entities (capital, people,…
Understanding the developing metropolis: Lessons from the city study of Bogotá and Cali, Colombia
Abstract from the publisher: This book is among the most comprehensive studies of a city since Edgar M. Hoover and Raymond Vernon analyzed New York City thirty-five years ago in the classic Anatomy of a Metropolis. The main lesson outlined in the…
The 21st Century medieval city
For his talk “The 21st-century Medieval City,” Robert Neuwirth took an overflow audience to “the cities of tomorrow,” the developing-world shanty-towns where a billion people live now, and three billion (a third of humanity) are expected to be living…
Des pauvres à la bibliothèque. Enquête au Centre Pompidou
L’image de l’analphabétisme ou de l’inculture est souvent associée à la pauvreté. Il peut sembler aller de soi que les pauvres sont peu disposés à fréquenter les bibliothèques. Il leur manquerait les ressources élémentaires pour se fondre dans un…
Cities and time
Cities are the human organizations with the greatest longevity but also the fastest rate of change. Just now the world is going massively and unstoppably urban (governments everywhere are trying to stop it, with zero success). In a globalized world,…
The sociology of a New York city block
Alternative link to the book via the Making of America digital library at the University of Michigan.
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…
The state of Asian cities 2010-11
Abstract from the publisher : The report throws new light on current issues and challenges which national and local governments, the business sector and organised civil society are facing. On top of putting forward a number of recommendations, this…
The challenge of slums : Global report on human settlement 2003
Abstract from the publisher : The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. It presents estimates of the numbers of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors that underlie the…
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…
L'état du mal-logement en France 2011
Extrait de la préface de Raymond Etienne : Lorsque l’abbé Pierre concluait les présentations publiques du rapport annuel de la Fondation, il avait pour habitude — inlassablement — de dire et de redire : "Et…
Les dommage collatéraux de la crise du logement sur les conditions de vie de la population
Présentation par l'éditeur : Les quinze dernières années ont été marquées par une hausse des prix de l’immobilier largement déconnectée de l’évolution des revenus des…
Le secteur informel dans les années 80 et 90
Présentation par l'éditeur : Cette étude traite du comportement des différents acteurs du secteur informel urbain - qui s'étend du commerce ambulant à l'habitat clandestin - à partir des…
Questions sociales et questions urbaines
Présentation par l'éditeur : Le monde est urbain et les sujets sociaux sont les premières préoccupations des habitants. Les sciences humaines permettent d’appréhender de concert les questions sociales et les…
Chicago : le moment 68. Territoires de la contestation étudiante et répression politique
Présentation par l'éditeur : Moment d’effervescence politique sans précédent, la fin des années soixante a vu s’embraser des villes aussi différentes que Paris, Mexico, Tokyo ou Chicago, avec,…