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Creating cities: Culture, space and sustainability. The 1st City, Culture and Society conference
Extract from the Introduction by Evelyn Schulz and Hiroshi Okano: The papers gathered here are the outcome of Creating Cities; Culture, Space and Sustainability: The 1st City, Culture and Society (CCS) Conference which took place in Munich, Germany,…
Urbanization and growth
From the back cover :
First in a series of thematic volumes, this book was prepared for the Commission on Growth and Development to evaluate the state of knowledge of the relationship between urbanization and economic growth. It does not pretend to…
Urban development : A new perspective
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Although it has often been taken as a general definition of the city and urban culture (whence the commonsense notion that cities must fulfill commercial functions), Pirenne's fomulation was deficient because only the…
The urban challenge in Africa : Growth and management of its large cities
Extract from the Foreword by Heitor Gurgulino de Souza :
With contributions from prominent urban planning scholars and experts in Africa, The Urban Challenge in Africa: Growth and Management of Its Large Cities, edited by Professor Carole Rakodi of…
The mega-city in Latin America
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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…
The new encyclopedia of Southern culture : Volume 15 : Urbanization
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This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern…
The open urban studies journal (Vol. 3, 2010)
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The Open Urban Studies Journal is an Open Access online journal which publishes original research articles, reviews and short articles in the field of urban and regional studies. Topics covered include : theory,…
Nineteenth-Century cities
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Today, I want to do the impossible and talk about urbanization and urban growth in fifty minutes. I'll give the classic example, which is the greatest project of human intervention or rebuilding, that is the…
Today, I want to do the impossible and talk about urbanization and urban growth in fifty minutes. I'll give the classic example, which is the greatest project of human intervention or rebuilding, that is the…
The new Asian city: Three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form
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…
Des causes de la grandeur des villes
Quels sont les facteurs de la croissance urbaine ? Pourquoi certaines villes se développent-elles plus que d’autres ? Comment explique-t-on qu’une population cesse d’augmenter ? Autant de questions, propres aux sciences sociales modernes, qui dès…
Urban colossus: Why is New York America's largest city?
Edward Glaeser looks at the history of New York and its contemporary character in order to answer the question of why New York became the largest city in America. He focuses especially on the economic aspects behind the city's growth.
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Urban tourism and urban change : Cities in a global economy
Abstract from the publisher : Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy provides both a sociological / cultural analysis of change that has taken place in many of the world's cities. This focused treatment of urban tourism examines…
L'enjeu capital(es), les métropoles de la grande échelle
L’architecte est-il encore partie prenante dans la production de l’urbain ? Les domaines d’exercice professionnel de l’architecture ou de l’urbanisme couvrent-ils encore l’ensemble des champs de compétence et de fonctionnalité nécessaires pour…
The evolution of great world cities : Urban wealth and economic growth
Abstract from the publisher : Some cities seem destined to become major financial capitals, yet never do—Seville, for instance, was the centre of Spain's opulent New World Empire, but failed to become a financial metropolis. Others, like…