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African metropolitan architecture
Abstract from the publisher: The architecture and built environment of African cities are documented in groundbreaking photographs by acclaimed architect David Adjaye. David Adjaye is renowned for his highly acclaimed buildings in Europe and the…
Mots-clés: Adjaye David, Africa, Afrique, architecture, built environment, cadre bâti, environnement urbain, photographie
Aspects de l'environnement urbain au Brésil
Extrait de l'introduction de Gabriela Da Costa Silva : Si les autorités publiques sont en principe tenues d’agir en vue d’assurer le développement économique et la protection de la qualité de…
Mots-clés: Brésil, croissance urbaine, environnement urbain, politique urbaine, pollution
Beijing inside out : Caochangdi
Organisers' description :
James Stirling Memorial Lecture on the City, LSE Cities Programme in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Center for Architecture, New York.
The speakers examine the problems and possibilities…
Biodiversité urbaine
Présentation par le diffuseur :
À côté du minéral, du bâti, la biodiversité représente le "tissu vivant" de la ville. Dans un monde de plus en plus urbanisé, la…
Cities and design
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Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society. Competitive spending among affluent households has intensified the importance of style and design at…
Cities and sovereignty : Identity politics in urban spaces
Abstract from the publisher : Space, governance, and ethnic conflict in contested cities Cities have long been associated with diversity and tolerance, but from Jerusalem to Belfast to the Basque Country, many of the most intractable conflicts of…
Cities in an insecure world
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Some of the most intractable and enduring challenges of development are concerned with reducing insecurity. Early and very current development debates have been concerned with issues of food security.
Ensuring…
City life
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Cities are more important as cultural entities than their mere function as dormitories and industrial sites. Yet, the understanding of what makes a city 'alive' and appealing in cultural terms is still hotly contested -…
Crucibles of hazard: Mega-cities and disasters in transition
Abstract from the publisher: As a result of repeated experiences with devastating earthquakes, storms, floods, and wildfires, places like Tokyo, Mexico City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are already identified with catastrophe in both scientific…
Mots-clés: catastrophe, disaster, environnement urbain, mégapole, Mitchell James K., planification, politique urbaine, risk, risque, urbanisation
Ecologies urbaines
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Cet ouvrage est issu des travaux du groupe interdisciplinaire de chercheurs qui a eu en charge la préfiguration du programme interdisciplinaire de recherche Ville et Environnement du CNRS. Il…
Effluent America : Cities, industry, energy, and the environment
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Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between…
Enjeux climatiques urbains
Présentation par le diffuseur :
Changement climatique : des questions scientifiques aux enjeux sociétaux est un cycle de conférences est organisé par le CERES-ERTI (ENS) sous les auspices de l’ENS, de l’IPSL…
Envies de villes
Présentation par l'éditeur :
La qualité d’une ville est une notion subjective et relative.
Dans le temps, un bref regard historique nous révèle que l’idée qu’une ville puisse être…
Mots-clés: architecture, environnement, environnement urbain, habitants, perception, urbanisme
Environment and urbanization
Abstract from the publisher :
This twice-yearly journal focuses on urban and environmental issues and their interconnections, with a particular emphasis on Africa, Asia and Latin America (where most of world's urban population now lives).
Each…
Environmental urbanism: Ecological design for healthy cities
Organisers' description:
What does it mean to envision a healthy city - one that nurtures both people and the environment? Environmental Urbanism acknowledges and embraces the relationships between people and their material surroundings. This…
Faith in the antebellum urban order : Religion and the making of early 19th-century New York City
Kyle Roberts is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Dissenting Academy Libraries Project at Queen Mary, University of London.
Garbage in the cities: Refuse, reform, and the environment
Abstract from the publisher: As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a thousand tons a day in New York City alone-that clogged streets and…
Histoire des territoires de Hà-Noi. Quartiers, villages et sociétés urbaines du XIXe au début du XXe siècle
Délaissée par les souverains Nguyên, elle s’est affranchie pendant trois quarts de siècle du poids de l’autorité impériale avant de devenir, autour des années 1880, une ville de juridiction française, le chef-lieu du protectorat du Tonkin et la…
Hors les murs
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Cet ouvrage est le résultat d'une expérience originale menée par deux enseignants avec des élèves de 4e du collège Rosa-Parks de Gentilly.
Pendant une…
Mots-clés: cadre de vie, environnement urbain, Gentilly, habiter, mémoire, patrimoine urbain, paysage urbain, perception, photographie
Informal urbanism: Slum cities and global heath
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By 2030 nearly 2 billion people will live in informal urban settlements or slums. Although living in abject poverty, slum communities are resilient and create new forms of urbanism. This panel will discuss current work…