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Reducing Urban Poverty in the Global South

Urban areas in the Global South now house most of the world’s urban population and are projected to house almost all its increase between now and 2030. There is a growing recognition that the scale of urban poverty has been overlooked – and that it…

Mots-clés: Afrique, Asie, développement urbain, géographie urbaine, inégalités sociales, pauvreté, villes du Sud

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…

Mots-clés: Amérique latine, Asie, Europe, homosexuels, métropoles, migrants aisés, minorités, mondialisation

The reporter, the flâneur, and the critic: The urbanist as outsider in the South Asian mega-city

Abstract from the distributor: ‘No urbanism without urbanists’ might be a slogan that captures the European and North American urban experience over the past two centuries. Indeed, it is arguable that urbanism is not only an empirical…

Mots-clés: Asia, Asie, Bombay, culture urbaine, flâneur, Hogan Trevor, Inde, India, mégapole, Mumbai, New Delhi, sociologie urbaine, urbanism, urbanisme, urbanist, urbaniste

Globopolis versus cosmopolis : Alternative paradigms for livable cities in Asia

Abstract from the distributor : From the late 1980s the production of urban space in Asia has been proceeding under historically new dynamics that are rapidly transforming city life. One dimension of these dynamics is the emergence of a middle class…

Mots-clés: Asia, Asie, cosmopolitisme, Douglass Mike, dynamiques urbaines, espace urbain, global city, gouvernance, mondialisation, néolibéralisme, participation, privatisation, urbanité, ville globale

Planning privatopolis : Urban integrated megaprojects and the transformation of Asian cities

Organisers' description : The past two decades have witnessed the emergence throughout Asia of the idea that, through the development of large scale, controlled urban environments master planned and managed on a commercial basis by private…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, Asia, Asie, espace urbain, gouvernance, politique urbaine, privatisation, projet urbain, ségrégation urbaine, Shatkin Gavin, ville nouvelle

Zoom sur Shanghai

Présentation par le diffuseur : A la fin de chaque mois, les Urbanités “zooment” sur une ville ayant valeur de laboratoire urbain dans le monde. Destination Shanghai cette semaine, où s’ouvre le 1er mai la 75e…

Mots-clés: Asie, Bund, Chine, exposition universelle, gratte-ciel, mégalopole, Pudong, Shanghai, Tian'anmen, World Financial Center

The new Asian city: Three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form

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Abstract from the publisher: Under Jini Kim Watson’s scrutiny, the Asian Tiger metropolises of Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore reveal a surprising residue of the colonial environment. Drawing on a wide array of literary, filmic, and political…

Mots-clés: Asia, Asie, built environment, cadre bâti, croissance urbaine, culture urbaine, espace urbain, film, forme urbaine, littérature, paysage urbain, ville coloniale, Watson Jini Kim

The growth of non-Western cities : Primary and secondary urban networking c. 900 - 1900

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Abstract from the publisher : These interdisciplinary studies address pre-1900 non-Western urban growth in the African Sudan, Mexico, the Ottoman Middle East, and South, Southeast, and East Asia. Therein, primary and secondary cities served as…

Mots-clés: Asia, Asie, croissance urbaine, Hall Kenneth R., histoire urbaine, Mexico, Mexique, Middle East, Moyen-Orient, religion, réseaux, société urbaine, Soudan, Sudan

Worlding cities : Asian experiments and the art of being global

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Abstract from the publisher : Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group…

Mots-clés: Asia, Asie, culture urbaine, développement urbain, forme urbaine, global city, Ong Aihwa, politique urbaine, Roy Ananya, urbanisation, ville globale, ville mondiale, world city

Planning Asian cities : Risks and resilience

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Abstract from the publisher : In Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience, Stephen Hamnett and Dean Forbes have brought together some of the region’s most distinguished urbanists to explore the planning history and recent development of Pacific…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, Asia, Asie, Bangkok, Beijing, développement durable, développement urbain, Forbes Dean, Hamnett Stephen, histoire de l'urbanisme, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Manille, mondialisation, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Singapour, Taipei, Tokyo

Asian cities : Globalization, urbanization and nation-building

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Abstract from the publisher : - Questions the centrality of globalization in explaining change in Asian cities and examines developing Asian cities in their own terms rather than as variants of Western urbanization. - Explores middle cities…

Mots-clés: Asia, Asie, capitalisme, édification de la nation, McKinnon Malcolm, mondialisation, nation-building, urbanisation, urbanité

Global urbanization

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Abstract from the publisher : For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in urban areas. Much of this urbanization has been fueled by the rapidly growing cities of the developing world, exemplified most dramatically…

Mots-clés: Africa, Afrique, Asia, Asie, Birch Eugenie L., croissance urbaine, developing countries, mégapole, mondialisation, pays en développement, planification, urbanisation, Wachter Susan M.

Climate change and sustainable urban development in Africa and Asia

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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…

Mots-clés: Africa, Afrique, Asia, Asie, changement climatique, croissance urbaine, développement durable, développement urbain, Kumssa Asfaw, logement, urbanisation, ville durable, Yuen Belinda

Fluidity of place : Globalization and the transformation of urban space

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Abstract from the publisher : Fluidity of Place presents an interdisciplinary conversation with theories of space-time, place and globalization at the cutting edge of social theory. Focussing on the construction of urban space in the context of…

Mots-clés: Asia, Asie, espace urbain, Jakarta, mégapole, mobilité, mondialisation, Yoshihara Naoki

Asian cities, migrant labor and contested spaces

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Abstract from the publisher : This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the…

Mots-clés: Asia, Asie, conflit urbain, espace urbain, immigration, migrant, migration urbaine, mondialisation, mutation urbaine, Rigg Jonathan, Wong Tai-Chee

Re-inventing global cities: CUPEM 20th anniversary international conference

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Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, Asia, Asie, développement urbain, économie, global city, planification, renouvellement urbain, ville globale, ville mondiale, world city

The state of Asian cities 2010-11

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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…

Mots-clés: Asia, Asie, changement climatique, économie, environnement, gouvernance, inégalité, pauvreté, urbanisation

Climate Resilient Cities

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Abstract from the publisher : Climate change is no longer a distant possibility but a current reality. Loss from flooding and hurricanes is an all too frequent occurrence in many countries in the Region, particularly in cities where people and…

Mots-clés: Asia, Asie, changement climatique, développement durable, écologie, mégapole, Pacific, Pacifique, planification, politique de la ville, Prasad Neeraj, risque naturel, ville portuaire

Global cities conference : Max Planck Institute

Mots-clés: Asia, Asie, culture urbaine, ethnicité, ethnicity, global city, gouvernance, mondialisation, politique urbaine, religion, société urbaine, urbanité, ville globale, ville mondiale, world city

International journal of urban sciences (Vol. 1, No. 1)

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Contents: Jin-Hyun Kim - Reflections on modern cities Saskia Sassen - Cities in the global economy Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello, Peter Nijkamp - The co-evolutionary city Sam Ock Park - Industrial restructuring for the sustainable city in the era…

Mots-clés: Asia, Asie, conomie, Seoul, urbanisation, ville viable

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