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Violence in the city : Understanding and supporting community responses to urban violence
Abstract from the publisher :
For millions of people around the world, violence, or the fear of violence, is a daily reality. Much of this violence concentrates in urban centers in the developing world. Cities are now home to half the world's…
Urbanization, population, environment and security
Extract from the Introduction :
The Comparative Urban Studies Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center began a project in 1997 designed to both identify factors that contribute to making urban areas centers of violence and poverty and propose policy…
Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule
Abstract from the publisher :
During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence, Algiers was the site of recurrent conflicts between colonizer and colonized. Through architecture and urban forms confrontations were crystallized,…
Tuff city: Urban change and contested space in central Naples
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During the 1990s, Naples’ left-wing administration sought to tackle the city’s infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city’s cultural and architectural…
The Russian city between tradition and modernity, 1850-1900
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The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity provides a comprehensive history of urban development in European Russia during the last half of the nineteenth century. Using both statistical perspectives on…
September 11th and the city / Urban trauma and the resilience of cities
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September 11th and the City
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote "The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities." The test of terrorism, then, may well be the power to inflict the…
September 11th and the City
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote "The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities." The test of terrorism, then, may well be the power to inflict the…
Scales of agency in a global world: Individuals, cities, nations, and beyond
Speaker: Jonathan Glover, Kings College, London
Readings on the Various Scales and Locations of Identity and Power in a Globalizing world
Readings on the Various Scales and Locations of Identity and Power in a Globalizing world
Red city, blue period: Social movements in Picasso's Barcelona
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The task I have undertaken in this book is to account for the peculiar sense of solidarity that the citizens of Barcelona developed between 1888 and 1939, and to explain why shared experiences of civic culture and…
Planning in divided cities
Abstract from the publisher : Does planning in contested cities inadvertedly make the divisions worse? The 60s and 70s saw a strong role of planning, social engineering, etc but there has since been a move towards a more decentralised…
Noir urbanisms : Dystopic images of the modern city
Abstract from the publisher :
Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the history of the…
Muslims in Indian cities: Trajectories of marginalisation
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Muslims constitute the largest minority in India yet, surprisingly, they suffer the most politically and socioeconomically. Forced to contend with severe and persistent prejudice, they often fall victim to violence and…
Faut-il avoir peur de la Banlieue ?
Un entretien diffusé sur Dailymotion par lemonde.fr dans le cadre de "L'Atelier des idées neuves".
Présentation par le diffuseur :
Judith Revel, philosophe et italianiste, est maître de conférences…
Espaces en transactions
4e de couverture :
Les textes réunis dans cet ouvrage parlent tous d’espaces en partages et en transactions. Vivre dans un espace suppose de partager cet espace avec d’autres, d’y inscrire des capacités d’agir…