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Environment and urbanization
Abstract from the publisher :
This twice-yearly journal focuses on urban and environmental issues and their interconnections, with a particular emphasis on Africa, Asia and Latin America (where most of world's urban population now lives).
Each…
Megacities 10 : Towards the megacities solution
Extract from the Introduction by Steef Buijs :
A handful of megacity regions in the advanced and advancing economies, as clusters of large and overlapping daily urban systems are the prime powerhouses and central nodes of the world network economy.…
What policies for globalising cities? Rethinking the urban policy agenda
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At a time of increasing globalisation processes, the search for competitiveness in urban regions has become a major political target for both local and central governments. The importance of the cities and their…
Megalopolis : The city of the 21st century : World policy journal (Vol. 27, No. 4)
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Connecting cities : India
Extract from the introduction by Chris Johnson :
The bustle and chaos associated with Indian cities encompasses only 27% of the country's population. The other 73% of India's population still live in rural areas and villages spread across the…
Connecting cities : China
Extract from the introduction by Chris Johnson :
Beijing was the first city of modernity to reach one million - the benchmark to be a member of Metropolis. For the past millenium Chinese cities have ranked in the world's top three.
The importance…
Habitat international (Vol. 35, No. 1)
Abstract from the publisher :
Habitat International is dedicated to the study of urban and rural human settlements: their planning, design, production and management. Its main focus is on urbanisation in its broadest sense in the developing world.…
Le ravitaillement de Dakar de 1914 à 1945
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Comment se ravitailler en vivres pendant trois décennies dans une ville stratégique en pleine mutation ? Sont abordés à travers le temps plusieurs thèmes : l'urbanisation,…
Le Paris de Haussmann
C'est en 1853 que Napoléon III nomme à l'Hôtel de Ville un administrateur qui a déjà prouvé son efficacité dans plusieurs préfectures, à Bordeaux en particulier, et dont le nom va devenir…
Utopies, enchantements et hybridité dans la ville ibérique et latino-américaine
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L’un des apports majeurs des sociétés d’Amérique latine au monde est la diversité, l’originalité et la créativité de ses architectures.
Il…
Strangers to the city : Urban man in Jos, Nigeria
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The object of this study is to describe and analyze the adjustments individuals make to modern conditions of urban development in a West African community. For most parts of tropical Africa, cities were not part of…
Villes et organisation de l'espace en République démocratique du Congo
Présentation par l'éditeur :
On trouvera dans ce volume un dossier solide sur les villes de la République démocratique du Congo. Sur le plan historique, l'auteur montre que les villes congolaises ne sont pas des…
To the city : Urban photographs of the New Deal
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In the 1930s and 1940s, as the United States moved from a rural to an urban nation, the pull of the city was irrepressible. It was so strong that even a photographic mission designed to record the essence of rural…