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Cape Town after apartheid : Crime and governance in the divided city
Abstract from the publisher : Reveals how liberal democracy and free-market economics reproduce the inequalities of apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa Nearly two decades after the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, how different does the…
La sécurité urbaine en questions
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Les phénomènes de violences urbaines ou de délinquance sont complexes et exigent une analyse fine afin de les comprendre et de tenter d’y apporter des solutions concrètes.…
Les ghettos de la nation
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Les émeutes de 2005 ont mis au jour la profondeur de la crise qui secoue la nation française en jetant une lumière crue sur les ghettos qu’on a laissé s’installer…
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…
In the watches of the night: Life in the nocturnal city, 1820-1930
Abstract from the publisher: Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to…
Great American city: Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect
Abstract from the publisher: For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our…