Métropoles des Amériques en mutation
métropole, mutation urbaine, Brésil, Buenos Aires, La Nouvelle-Orléans, San Francisco, Seattle, Mexico, Bogotá, Montréal
<div><b>Présentation par l'éditeur :</b></div> </div> Les métropoles des Amériques du Nord et du Sud sont-elles en train de suivre, de plus en plus, les unes et les autres, leurs propres voies ou, tout au contraire, sont-elles en train de converger ? Elles sont, du moins, en pleine mutation et les étudier en regard de leurs similitudes et de leurs différences contribue sans aucun doute à ébranler les idées reçues à leur sujet.<br /> <br /> Ce livre aborde l’évolution des systèmes urbains et des agglomérations métropolitaines des Amériques, les inégalités sociales qui se manifestent entre les habitants, l’engagement dans le développement durable en lien avec les transports et l’accès à l’eau ainsi que des réflexions sur la ville et ses modèles. Regroupant des contributions de chercheurs internationaux, il traite de ces questions à partir de l’exemple de douze métropoles d’Amérique, soit cinq métropoles brésiliennes, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo et Santos, la métropole argentine de Buenos Aires (à travers les zones de Zárate, Campana et Tigre), trois métropoles étasuniennes, La Nouvelle-Orléans, San Francisco (par le biais d’Oakland) et Seattle, la métropole mexicaine de Mexico, la métropole colombienne de Bogotá et, enfin, la métropole canado-québécoise de Montréal.<br /> <br /> Peu à peu, le lecteur sera amené à réévaluer les clivages radicaux qu’il pensait trouver entre le Nord et le Sud, notamment en regard des effets de la mondialisation ou par rapport à la composition sociale des banlieues.</div> </div>
Presses de l'Université du Québec
Octobre 2012
376
Ouvrage
Understanding the developing metropolis: Lessons from the city study of Bogotá and Cali, Colombia
Bogotá, Cali, Colombia, Colombie, croissance urbaine, forme urbaine, pauvreté, travail, commerce, logement, transport, gouvernance, collectivités locales, politique urbaine, pays en développement, Mohan Rakesh
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> 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 <i>Anatomy of a Metropolis</i>. The main lesson outlined in the current book is that the most practical way of coping with city growth is to establish institutional mechanisms that can respond to the rapidly changing and unpredictable demands of a city's residents. Unlike much writing on cities and urbanization in the developing world, this study includes reasons for optimism that the expansion of fast-growing cities in the developing world can be managed.</div> </div> In <i>Understanding the Developing Metropolis</i>, the author analyzes in great depth the structure of two Colombian cities, Bogotá and Cali, by modeling different markets and the behavior of individuals, households, firms, and governments within these markets. He underlines the importance of understanding the behavior of the various actors in a city, and his use of simple economic reasoning contributes much to comprehension not only of urban behavior but also of the structure of the city itself. Approaches developed here are also broadly applicable for analyzing cities in developed countries.</div> </div> This study is unusual in that it brings to the lay reader, in accessible form, the rationale of and results obtained from the sophisticated techniques used in the analysis of urban housing and transportation patterns, labor force behavior, and industrial location patterns within a city. Whereas many urban studies concentrate exclusively on issues related to infrastructure requirements and delivery problems within a city, this study links infrastructure requirements and supply to the behavior of households, firms, and government and to the existing income distribution in the city. This better appreciation of the underlying behavior - which determines what cities look like - could result in much more effectively designed urban policies.</div> </div> <b>Rakesh Mohan </b>is economic adviser to the government of India in the Ministry of Industry.</div> </div>
Rakesh Mohan
Oxford University Press
1994
324
Ouvrage
http://books.google.com/books?id=GF6b7sjJSAcC&printsec=frontcover
Empreintes humaines sur la ville
Amériques, Amérique latine, interactions villes habitants, essor urbain, années 1960, migrations, transformations socio-économiques, mouvements sociaux, mouvements culturels, Bogota, Brasilia, Nouvelle-Orléans, Colombie
<div><b>Sommaire :</b></div>
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Thema n°1<br />
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<b>- Dossier :</b><br />
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Virgínia de Almeida Bessa, <i>À escuta da cidade: Pixinguinha e a paisagem sonora carioca da Primeira República</i><br />
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Luisa Fernanda Sanchez, <i>Trasplantar el árbol de la sabiduría: Malocas, maloqueros urbanos y comunidades de pensamiento en Bogotá</i><br />
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Patrícia Cabral de Arruda , <i>Brasília: marcas identitárias sobre a cidade, marcas urbanas sobre a identidade</i><br />
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Julie Hernandez, <i>Réecritures urbaines: héritages créoles et empreinte étasuniennes à La Nouvelle-Orléans</i><br />
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<b>- Traits d'Union :</b><br />
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Céline Raimbert, <i>Kaléidoscope de la ville et de ses représentations. Regards croisés de la recherche et de l’interdisciplinarité</i><br />
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Elodie Brun, <i>Les maras, un risque sécuritaire et social non maîtrisé</i><br />
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Amandine Delord, <i>Invitation à "motelear". Essai ethnographique sur la pratique du motel (Colombie)</i><br />
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<b>- Rencontres :</b> Entretien avec Sandrine REVET, anthropologue et chargée de cours à l'IHEAL</div>
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NC
IHEAL
Décembre 2008
Revue
http://www.revue-rita.com/les-anciens-numeros/numero-1-empreintes-humaines-sur-la-ville.html
The mega-city in Latin America
Latin America, Amérique latine, mégapole, démographie, transport, croissance urbaine, gouvernance, logement, foncier, Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Bogotá, Gilbert Alan
<b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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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 five cities. Two of them, Mexico City and Sao Paulo, will arguably be the world's two largest cities.<br />
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The sheer number of people living in Latin America's mega-cities is not the only reason for looking at them carefully. Unfortunately, they also demonstrate many of the worst systems of the region's underdevelopment: vast areas of shanty towns, huge numbers of poor people, high concentrations of air and water pollution, and serious levels of traffic congestion. This book is about the prospects for their future.<br />
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Several clear conclusions emerge from the book. First, the largest cities of Latin America differ greatly in terms of their future prospects. It is far easier to be optimistic in Buenos Aires than in Lima. Second, whether urban problems improve or deteriorate has rather little to do with size of city and a great deal to do with trends in the wider economy and society. Increasingly, those trends are determined not just by local decisions but by decisions made outside the region. Third, Latin America's mega-cities are not going to grow to unmanageable proportions because their growth rates have generally slowed. Fourth, management is a critical issue for the future but it is difficult to know whether the quality of management will improve or deteriorate through time.<br />
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The book contains chapters on each of Latin America's six largest cities (Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Lima, and Santa fe de Bogota). The book also has four thematic chapters. The first discusses the demography of urban growth in the region and the other three focus on what are particularly sensitive issues in very large cities: public administration, transportation, and land, housing, and infrastructure.</div>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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Foreword<br />
Preface<br />
1. The Latin American mega-city: An introduction<br />
2 Demographic trends in Latin America's metropolises, 1950-1990<br />
3. Contemporary issues in the government and administration of Latin American mega-cities<br />
4. Land, housing, and infrastructure in Latin America's major cities<br />
5. A hundred million journeys a day: The management of transport in Latin America's mega-cities<br />
6. Buenos Aires: A case of deepening social polarization<br />
7. Lima: mega-city and mega-problem<br />
8. Mexico City: No longer a leviathan?<br />
9. Rio de Janeiro: Urban expansion and structural change<br />
10. São Paulo: A growth process full of contradictions<br />
11. Santa Fé de Bogotá: A Latin American special case?</div>
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<b>Alan Gilbert </b>is a Professor in the Department of Geography at University College London.</div>
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NC
United Nations University Press
1996
282
Ouvrage
http://unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu23me/uu23me00.htm