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Minorités, métropoles, mondialisations
N° 154, 2013/3 de la revue Espaces et sociétés.
Le concept de minorité a d'abord désigné les migrants pauvres arrivant dans une ville qui les accueille bien mal. Ayant tendance à se regrouper, ils sont pris dans la tension entre la fidélité à…
Le concept de minorité a d'abord désigné les migrants pauvres arrivant dans une ville qui les accueille bien mal. Ayant tendance à se regrouper, ils sont pris dans la tension entre la fidélité à…
Utopies, enchantements et hybridité dans la ville ibérique et latino-américaine
Présentation par l'éditeur :
L’un des apports majeurs des sociétés d’Amérique latine au monde est la diversité, l’originalité et la créativité de ses architectures.
Il…
Building colonial cities of God: Mendicant orders and urban culture in New Spain
Abstract from the publisher:
This book tracks New Spain's mendicant orders past their so-called golden age of missions into the ensuing centuries and demonstrates that they had equally crucial roles in what Melvin terms the "spiritual…
Risk habitat megacity
Abstract from the publisher: Megacity development and the inherent risks and opportunities for humans and the environment is a theme of growing urgency in the 21st century. Focusing on Latin America where urbanization is most advanced, this book…
Latin America at the crossroads : Architectural Design
Abstract from the publisher : The announcement of Rio de Janeiro as the 2016 Olympic host city has placed Latin America on the world's stage. Latin America has not been the centre of international architectural attention and pilgrimage since the…
Music and urban society in colonial Latin America
Abstract from the publisher : The Spanish colonial project in Latin America from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries was distinctly urban in focus. The impact of the written word on this process was explored in Ángel Rama's seminal…
Cultures of the city : Mediating identities in urban Latin/o America
Abstract from the publisher : Cultures of the City explores the cultural mediation of relationships between people and urban spaces in Latin/o America and how these mediations shape the identities of cities and their residents. Addressing a broad…
Centres de villes durables en Amérique latine - Exorciser les précarités ?
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Si l’histoire du développement en Amérique latine – dont la rapide croissance urbaine constitua l’un des aspects – n’est pas au cœur de cet ouvrage, les…
Urbanisation. South Africa's Challenge
Abstract from the publisher :
In Volume 1 of this two-volume publication, the authors review the international literature on urbanisation. They locate urbanisation in broader social transformations, study the role of households in the process of…
Villes assoiffées. L'approvisionnement en eau dans les villes d'Amérique latine
Présentation par l'éditeur :
De nombreuses villes d'Amérique latine et des Antilles connaissent une pénurie d'eau que la démographie galopante contribue à aggraver. La complexité des aspects…
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…
Regularization of informal settlements in Latin America
Abstract from the publisher : In large Latin American cities the number of dwellings in informal settlements ranges from one-tenth to one-third of urban residences. These informal settlements are caused by low income, unrealistic urban planning,…
Building cities : Neighbourhood upgrading and urban quality of life
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Published by the Institutional Capacity and Finance Sector of the Inter-American Development Bank and the Cities Alliance, this publication documents the evolution of settlement upgrading programmes both in theory and…
The mega-city in Latin America
Abstract from the publisher :
By the year 2000, Latin America will contain five metropolitan areas with more than 8 million people. Their combined population will be over 70 million, and approximately one Latin American in seven will live in those…
Becoming global and the new poverty of cities
Extract from the introduction by Lisa M. Hanley, Blair A. Ruble and Joseph S. Tulchin :
Globalization has had a peculiar impact on cities all over the world, as much in the developed world as in the developing world. Globalization turned out to be…