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Changing plans for America's inner cities
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Cincinnati’s historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood began in the nineteenth century as a nonelite suburb and became in the twentieth century an inner-city slum, burdened with a broad range of problems characteristic…
Fragments of cities: The new American downtowns and neighborhoods
Abstract from the publisher: Larry Bennett's Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods examines the social consequences of both the new approaches to downtown design and the physical upgrading of residential neighborhoods. …
City : Rediscovering the center
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For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior,…
The essential William H. Whyte
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The Essential William H. Whyte offers the core writings of a great observer of the postwar American scene. Included are selections from The Organization Man, Securing Space for Urban America: Conservation Easements,…
Living downtown: The history of residential hotels in the United States
Extract from the Preface: In Downtown San Francisco, just one block from the Transamerica pyramid, is the large relict basement of the International Hotel. The lot has stood empty since 1977. In the Western Addition, one and a half miles to the…
Afrique du Sud : partage du logement et droit de cité. Migrants, réfugiés, indigents à Durban
Afrique du Sud : partage du logement et droit de cité. Migrants, réfugiés, indigents à Durban (1999-2001).
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Migrants et réfugiés étrangers, affluant par milliers dans la…
Centres de villes durables en Amérique latine - Exorciser les précarités ?
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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…
La ville à trois vitesses et autres essais
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Loin des effets journalistiques à caractère sensationnel sur les banlieues, il est temps de comprendre la présente transformation de la question sociale, la remise en cause des…
Lyon, La Confluence. Mémoires en mutation, volume 2
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Cet ouvrage est le second d'une série de trois volumes, consacrés à la transformation d'un territoire singulier : La Confluence, située au coeur de la métropole…
Whose public space? International case studies in urban design and development
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Public spaces mirror the complexities of urban societies: as historic social bonds have weakened and cities have become collections of individuals public open spaces have also changed from being embedded in the social…
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…
Goût de bouchons - Lyon, les villes françaises et l'équation automobile
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Depuis la fin du XIXe siècle, les villes françaises cultivent une relation passionnelle et ambivalente avec l'automobile. Les grandes transformations urbaines du XXe siècle sont le…
Why don't American cities burn?
Abstract from the publisher: At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American…
'Race', culture and the right to the city: Centres, peripheries, margins
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Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the periphery and considers the role that 'race' continues to play in structuring the metropolis,…
Le Caire - Centre en mouvement
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Mon histoire avec le centre-ville du Caire a commencé avant ma naissance en 1950. C'est au café Bauer au 6 rue Fouad 1er que mes parents se sont connus, au cinéma Diana rue El Elfi Bey…