Karachi. Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City
Karachi, violences, conflits, conflits ethniques, fragmentation sociale, fragmentation territoriale, guerre civile, Pakistan
With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also the most violent. Since the mid-1980s, it has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, which revolve around control of the city and its resources (votes, land and bhatta—‘protection’ money). These struggles for the city have become ethnicised. Karachi, often referred to as a ‘Pakistan in miniature,’ has become increasingly fragmented, socially as well as territorially.
Despite this chronic state of urban political warfare, Karachi is the cornerstone of the economy of Pakistan. Gayer’s book is an attempt to elucidate this conundrum. Against journalistic accounts describing Karachi as chaotic and ungovernable, he argues that there is indeed order of a kind in the city’s permanent civil war. Far from being entropic, Karachi’s polity is predicated upon organisational, interpretative and pragmatic routines that have made violence ‘manageable’ for its populations. Whether such ‘ordered disorder’ is viable in the long term remains to be seen, but for now Karachi works despite—and sometimes through—violence.
Laurent Gayer
http://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/karachi/
HURST
2014-05
256
EN
Ouvrage
Cities and citizenship : Surviving the 21st century
citoyenneté, forme urbaine, fragmentation sociale, espace public, aménagement urbain, ségrégation urbaine, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine, sécurité
- Matthew Taylor is the Chief Executive of the RSA.
- Lord Mawson is founder and President of the renowned Bromley by Bow Centre in east London and Co-founder and President of Community Action Network (CAN), a national charity supporting 850 social entrepreneurs across the UK.
- Wolf Prix is Professor of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria.
- Anna Minton is a writer and journalist, author of 'Ground control : Fear and happiness in the Twenty-First Century city'.
- Ricky Burdett is the Director of the Urban Age programme at the London School of Economics.
This debate is also available to download as an audio file.
Matthew Taylor
Lord Mawson
Ricky Burdett
Anna Minton
Wolf Prix
RSA Events
2009-11-21
41:12
EN
Vidéo
http://www.thersa.org/events/vision/vision-videos/panel-discussion---cities-and-citizenship
Economic and social change and violence in Ahmadabad 1950-2000
, aménagement de l'espace, développement urbain, conflit urbain, violence urbaine, fragmentation sociale, ségrégation urbaine, tissu urbain, India, Inde, Ahmadabad, Ahmedabad
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor :</b></div>
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What dynamics contribute to emergence of social tensions and conflicts in an urban environment? Mass mobilisations and episodes of collective violence have been a constant element in the development of large Indian cities over the twentieth century, and the emergence of a deep fracture between the Hindu and the Muslim community has informed social, political and cultural transformations in post-colonial urban environments. Taking Ahmedabad city (north-western India) as a case study, this paper analyses the explosion of collective violence as part of long-term dynamics of urban transformation. Group tensions can be seen as the expression of social, economic and spatial inequalities that consolidated unbalanced patterns of urban territorial and demographic growth. At the same time, the management of urban growth at a political level contributed to the construction of an urban geography where social differences are inscribed in the organisation of the space. In this context, episodes of collective violence have two dimensions: on one side, they can be read as moments when the many instances of inequality find expression in open confrontations at a street level; on the other, violence leaves deep marks in the city’s social and physical landscape and, in this sense, it is an integral element in the process of urban construction and organisation over time.</div>
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<b>Tommaso Bobbio </b>is a postgraduate research student in the Department of History at Royal Holloway University of London.</div>
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Tommaso Bobbio
1 December 2009
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2009/12/tommaso-bobbio-economic-and-social-change-and-violence-in-ahmadabad-1950-2000/
Kinetic City: Designing for Informality in Mumbai
, société urbaine, culture urbaine, densité urbaine, mutation urbaine, aménagement urbain, aménagement, fragmentation sociale, équité sociale, Mumbai, Mehrotra Rahul, bidonville
<div><b>Organisers' description : </b></div>
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Mumbai, a Kinetic City, presents a compelling vision that potentially allows us to better understand the blurred lines of contemporary urbanism and the changing roles of people and spaces in urban society. An architecture or urbanism of equality in an increasingly inequitable economic condition requires looking deeper to find a wide range of places to mark and commemorate the cultures of those excluded from the spaces of global flows. These don't necessarily lie in the formal production of architecture, but often challenge it. Here the idea of a city is an elastic urban condition, not a grand vision, but a grand adjustment.</div>
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<b>Rahul Mehrotra</b> is Professor of Architecture at MIT and Principal at Rahul Mehrotra Associates, Mumbai.</div>
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podcast listings page</a> on the London School of Economics' website in order to find the link to the mp3 file.</div>
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Rahul Mehrotra
18 May 2010
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/podcasts/publicLecturesAndEvents.htm
From urban social polarization to civic secession?
, gated communities, fragmentation sociale, inégalité résidentielle, sciences politiques, ségrégation résidentielle, ségrégation sociale, Walks Alan, Canada, néolibéralisme
<div><b>Alan Walks </b>is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto</div>
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Alan Walks
5 March 2010
http://www.yorku.ca/city/?page_id=720
[Limited access] or the open city?
, aménagement urbain, intégration, interaction sociale, lieu public, fragmentation sociale, gated communities, espace public, espace urbain, société urbaine, ségrégation urbaine, mutation urbaine, Christiaanse Kees, privatisation
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor : </b></div>
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The idea of the open city as a place of social integration, cultural diversity and collective identity is perceived as an irreversible achievement of modernity, and fuels our visions for a sustainable urban future. Nevertheless, we are witnessing increasing fragmentation and seclusion, which threatens the existence of the open city. Suburban compounds, gated communities, university campuses, covered shopping malls, urban entertainment areas, airport security zones, holiday resorts, all tend to develop into privatized and controlled zones, which are connected with the city at large by a limited number of corridors and access points. Public space - traditionally understood as the ultimate space of social encounter and equality - is being eroded by commerce, changing lifestyles and functionality. This lecture will address whether these conditions are destroying the sensible tissue of the open city, which are intended to encourage social interaction and balance. Are cities degenerating into secluded islands that denying a balanced urban totality? And how might the open city react to these developments?</div>
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<b>Kees Christaanse</b> is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the ETH Zurich and the founder of KCAP, which has offices in Rotterdam, Zurich and London. He is a member of the Mayor's Design for London Advisory Group.</div>
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Kees Christiaanse
20 November 2007
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/PublicEvents/events/2007/20071029t1631z001.aspx
Disparity and diversity in the contemporary city: Social order revisited
, mixité sociale, cadre de vie, délinquance, équité sociale, fragmentation sociale, marginalité, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine, Gilroy Paul, Sampson Robert, ordre social
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor :</b></div>
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A look at classic urban themes as they are manifested in the contemporary city, focusing on social reproduction of inequality, the meanings of disorder, and the link between the two.</div>
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<b>Paul Gilroy</b> is Anthony Giddens Professor in Social Theory at LSE.</div>
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<b>Robert Sampson</b> is Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences and chair of sociology, Harvard University.</div>
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Paul Gilroy,
Robert Sampson
21 October 2008
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/PublicEvents/events/2008/20080820t1234z001.aspx
Les grandes questions sur la ville et l'urbain
urbanisation, fragmentation sociale, mobilité, ville durable, logement
À l’heure où le monde est en train de basculer dans l’urbain généralisé, il est plus que jamais nécessaire de s’interroger sur les défis et les enjeux que ce basculement rend inévitables et auxquels les sept milliards d’individus que compte aujourd’hui notre planète doivent – et devront – répondre. Qu’il s’agisse des processus de fragmentations sociales et territoriales de plus en plus manifestes, de l’individualisme exacerbé, de la mobilité accrue et généralisée, du développement de la ville durable ou encore des conditions de vie et de logement de plus en plus tendues, l’ouvrage répond de façon claire et précise à chacune de ces problématiques. Il revient constamment sur les positions des sociologues classiques et contemporains, ainsi que sur les termes des polémiques et des controverses qui se trouvent au cœur des réflexions sur la ville et l’urbain. À cet égard, l’ouvrage est étayé de nombreux encadrés présentant ici des statistiques, là des réflexions théoriques, ailleurs des définitions.
Sommaire :
• Chapitre premier. — Qu’est-ce que une ville ?
• Chapitre II. — Qu’est-ce qu’une ville à l’heure de la mondialisation ?
• Chapitre III. — La ville favorise-t-elle l’individualisme ?
• Chapitre IV. — La ville se fragmente-t-elle ?
• Chapitre V. — La mobilité est-elle spécifique à la vie urbaine ?
• Chapitre VI. — Comment les citadins peuvent-ils se loger dans la ville ?
• Chapitre VII. — À quelles expériences sensorielles la ville nous invite-t-elle ?
• Chapitre VIII. — Quelle ville pour demain ?
Hervé Marchal
Jean-Marc Stébé
http://www.puf.com/Autres_Collections:Les_grandes_questions_sur_la_ville_et_l%27urbain
PUF
2011-10-26
272
FR
Ouvrage
Cities and sovereignty : Identity politics in urban spaces
, conflit, conflit urbain, violence urbaine, gouvernance, sovereignty, souveraineté, fragmentation sociale, ségrégation urbaine, ville coloniale, espace public, environnement urbain, identité, politique de la ville, Davis Diane E., Libertun de Duren Nora
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Space, governance, and ethnic conflict in contested cities<br /> <br /> 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 the past century have played out in urban spaces. The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume examine the interrelationships of ethnic, racial, religious, or other identity conflicts and larger battles over sovereignty and governance. Under what conditions do identity conflicts undermine the legitimacy and power of nation-states, empires, or urban authorities? Does the urban built environment play a role in remedying or exacerbating such conflicts? Employing comparative analysis, these case studies from the Middle East, Europe, and South and Southeast Asia advance our understanding of the origins and nature of urban conflict.</div> </div> <b>Contents : </b></div> </div> Introduction: Cities and Sovereignty: Identity Conflicts in the Urban Realm / Diane E. Davis and Nora Libertun de Duren<br /> <br /> Part 1. Modes of Sovereignty, Urban Governance, and the City :<br /> 1. Jerusalem at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Spatial Continuity and Social Fragmentation / Nora Libertun de Duren<br /> 2. Imperial Nationhood and Its Impact on Colonial Cities: Issues of Intergroup Peace and Conflict in Pondicherry and Vietnam / Anne Raffin<br /> 3. Confessionalism and Public Space in Ottoman and Colonial Jerusalem / Salim Tamari<br /> <br /> Part 2. Scales of Sovereignty and the Remaking of Urban and National Space :<br /> 4. Sovereignty, Nationalism, and Globalization in Bilbao and the Basque Country / Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría<br /> 5. Contesting the Legitimacy of Urban Restructuring and Highways in Beirut's Irregular Settlements / Agnès Deboulet and Mona Fawaz<br /> 6. Urban Locational Policies and the Geographies of Post-Keynesian Statehood in Western Europe / Neil Brenner<br /> <br /> Part 3. Sovereignty, Representation, and the Urban Built Environment :<br /> 7. Iconic Architecture and Urban, National, and Global Identities / Leslie Sklair<br /> 8. The Temptations of Nationalism in Modern Capital Cities / Lawrence J. Vale<br /> 9. Hurvat haMidrash—The Ruin of the Oracle: Louis Kahn's Influence on the Reconstruction of the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem / Eric Orozco<br /> Conclusion: Theoretical and Empirical Reflections on Cities, Sovereignty, Identity, and Conflict / Diane E. Davis<br /> <br /> <b>Diane E. Davis </b>is Professor of Political Sociology and Head of the International Development Group, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT.<br /> <br /> <b>Nora Libertun de Duren</b> is Director of Planning, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture.</div> </div> </div>
NC
Indiana University Press
January 2011
284
Ouvrage
The literary atlas of Cairo : One hundred years on the streets of the city
, littérature, culture urbaine, tissu urbain, exclusion, fragmentation sociale, Cairo, Caire, Mehrez Samia
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher :</b></div>
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Readings from literary works that re-construct and re-map the city of Cairo.<br />
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Bringing together writings by Egyptians, Arabs, men and women, Muslims, Copts, and Jews, this rich selection maps out many of the changes in Cairo’s geopolitics and its urban fabric, while tracing spatial and social forms of polarization and new patterns of inclusion and exclusion within the expanding megacity. Through its thematic organization, The Literary Atlas of Cairo traces the developments that have taken place over a century in modes of literary production, and presents a unique historical cross-section of the actors within the Cairene literary field, to provide an unprecedented, original, and indispensable educational and research tool for scholars and students as well as a much wider readership interested in Egypt and Cairo in particular as one of the globe’s largest historic, multi-cultural urban centers.</div>
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<b>Samia Mehrez</b> is professor of Arabic literature in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilization and director of the Center for Translation Studies at the American University in Cairo.</div>
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Samia Mehrez
The American University in Cairo Press
May 2010
400
Ouvrage
The Architecture and memory of the minority quarter in the Muslim Mediterranean city
, histoire urbaine, histoire de l'architecture, mémoire, ségrégation urbaine, voisinage, société urbaine, mixité sociale, fragmentation sociale, Mediterranean, méditerranéen, Miller Susan Gilson, Bertagnin
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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A collaborative work among historians, literary specialists, and architects, this collection is directed at filling the gap in our knowledge about minority neighborhoods in the southern Mediterranean.<br />
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A series of portraits examines the minority quarters of six Mediterranean cities: Fez, Marrakesh, Trani, Tangier, Palermo, and Istanbul. Each chapter documents the architectural reminders of minority presence: the houses, churches, synagogues, shrines, legations, and other public spaces that have been abandoned or converted to other uses. Authors also examine the everyday experiences that shaped physical space, such as family life, the economy, interactions with the rest of the city, relations with state authorities, and ties with the hinterland, the region and the wider Mediterranean world. Finally, the book considers how minority space has been exploited and refashioned as a “place of memory” in which uncomfortable visions of the past have been revised and made suitable for current use.</div>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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Foreword - Hashim Sarkis <br />
An introduction to the Mediterranean minority quarter - Susan Gilson Miller <br />
Fragments of the past : reconstructing the history of Palermo's Meschita Quarter - William Granara<br />
The Giudecca of Trani : a Southern Italian synthesis - Susan Gilson Miller, Ilham Khurimakdisi, and Mauro Bertagnin <br />
The Mallâh, the third city of Fez - Susan Gilson Miller, Attilio Petruccioli, and Mauro Bertagnin<br />
The Mallâh of Marrakesh : epicenter of a desert economy - Emily R. Gottreich <br />
The Beni Ider Quarter of Tangier in 1900 : hybridity as a social practice - Susan Gilson Miller <br />
The Balat District of Istanbul : multiethnicity on the Golden Horn - Karen A. Leal</div>
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<b>Susan Gilson Miller</b> is Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Davis.<br />
<b>Mauro Bertagnin</b> is Professor of Technical Architecture, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Udine.</div>
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NC
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Distributor
Harvard University Press
2010
227
Ouvrage
Manhattan projects : The rise and fall of urban renewal in Cold War New York
, histoire urbaine, renouvellement urbain, fragmentation sociale, forme urbaine, ségrégation urbaine, désindustrialisation, déplacement de population, New York, Zipp Samuel
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II. Focusing on four iconic "Manhattan projects"--the United Nations building, Stuyvesant Town, Lincoln Center, and the great swaths of public housing in East Harlem--Zipp unearths a host of forgotten stories and characters that flesh out the conventional history of urban renewal. He shows how boosters hoped to make Manhattan the capital of modernity and a symbol of American power, but even as the builders executed their plans, a chorus of critics revealed the dark side of those Cold War visions, attacking urban renewal for perpetuating deindustrialization, racial segregation, and class division; for uprooting thousands, and for implanting a new, alienating cityscape. Cold War-era urban renewal was not merely a failed planning ideal, Zipp concludes, but also a crucial phase in the transformation of New York into both a world city and one mired in urban crisis.</div>
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<b>Samuel Zipp </b>is Assistant Professor of American Civilization and Urban Studies at Brown University.</div>
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Samuel Zipp
Oxford University Press USA
April 2010
488
Ouvrage
Cultural diversity in Russian cities : The urban landscape in the Post-Soviet era
, mixité sociale, espace public, migrant, immigration, cosmopolitisme, identité, intégration, tissu urbain, lien social, espace résidentiel, sociologie urbaine, société urbaine, Russia, Russie, fragmentation sociale, Gdaniec Cordula
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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Cultural diversity — the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture — is a catchphrase increasingly used in place of multiculturalism and in conjunction with globalization. Even though it is often used as a slogan it does capture a widespread phenomenon that cities must contend with in dealing with their increasingly diverse populations. The contributors examine how Russian cities are responding and through case studies from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, and Sochi explore the ways in which different cultures are inscribed into urban spaces, when and where they are present in public space, and where and how they carve out their private spaces. Through its unique exploration of the Russian example, this volume addresses the implications of the fragmented urban landscape on cultural practices and discourses, ethnicity, lifestyles and subcultures, and economic practices, and in doing so provides important insights applicable to a global context.</div>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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1. Cultural Diversity Between Staging and the Everyday – Experiences from Moscow, St. Petersburg and Other Russian Cities. An Introduction - Cordula Gdaniec <br />
2. Is Chinese Space “Chinese?” New Migrants in St. Petersburg - Megan Dixon <br />
3. Contructions of the “Other”: Racialization of Migrants in Moscow and Novosibirsk - Larisa Kosygina <br />
4. Reshaping Living Space: Concepts of Home Represented by Women Migrants Working in St.Petersburg - Olga Brednikova / Olga Tkach <br />
5. African Communities in Moscow and St. Petersburg: Inclusion and Exclusion to Social Life in Russia - Svetlana Boltovskaya <br />
6. The Construction of ‘Marginality’ and ‘Normality’ – In Search of a Collective Identity Among Youth Cultural Scenes in Sochi - Irina Kosterina / Ulia Andreeva <br />
7. “You Know What Kind of Place This is, Don’t You?” An Exploration of Lesbian Spaces In Moscow - Katja Sarajeva <br />
8. Begging as Economic Practice: Urban Niches in Central St. Petersburg - Maria Scattone</div>
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<b>Cordula Gdaniec</b> is currently an independent researcher. From 2003–2008, she was a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin.</div>
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NC
Berghahn Books
May 2010
196
Ouvrage
Whose public space? International case studies in urban design and development
, lieu public, espace public, renouvellement urbain, rénovation urbaine, mutation urbaine, aménagement de l'espace, centre-ville, participation, lien social, Madanipour Ali, tissu urbain, fragmentation sociale
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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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 fabric of the city to being a part of more impersonal and fragmented urban environments. Can making public spaces help overcome this fragmentation, where accessible spaces are created through inclusive processes? This book offers some answers to this question through analysing the process of urban design and development in international case studies, in which the changing character, level of accessibility, and the tensions of making public spaces are explored.<br />
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The book uses a coherent theoretical outlook to investigate a series of case studies, crossing the cultural divides to examine the similarities and differences of public space in different urban contexts, and its critical analysis of the process of development, management and use of public space, with all its tensions and conflicts. While each case study investigates the specificities of a particular city, the book outlines some general themes in global urban processes. It shows how public spaces are a key theme in urban design and development everywhere, how they are appreciated and used by the people of these cities, but also being contested by and under pressure from different stakeholders.</div>
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<b>Contents </b>:</div>
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1. Introduction - Ali Madanipour <br />
Part 1. Changing Nature of Public Space in City Centres - Ali Madanipour <br />
2. Less Public Than Before? Public Space Improvement in Newcastle City Centre - Müge Akkar Ercan <br />
3. Youth Participation and Revanchist Regimes: Redeveloping Old Eldon Square, Newcastle upon Tyne - Peter Rogers <br />
4. Can Public Space Improvement Revive the City Centre? The Case of Taichung, Taiwan - Hong-Che Chen <br />
5. Change in the public spaces of traditional cities: Zaria, Nigeria - Shaibu Bala Garba <br />
Part 2. Public Space and Everyday Life in Urban Neighbourhoods - Ali Madanipour <br />
6. Marginal Public Spaces in Europe - Ali Madanipour <br />
7. Gating the Streets: The Changing Shape of Public Spaces in South Africa - Karina Landman <br />
8. Public Spaces within Modern Residential Areas in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - Khalid Nasralden Mandeli <br />
9. The Design and Development of Public Open Spaces in an Iranian New Town <br />
10. Making Public Space in Low Income Neighbourhoods in Mexico - Mauricio Hernández Bonilla <br />
11. Co-Production of Public Space: Redefinition of Social Meaning, the Case of Nord-Pas de Calais, France - Paola Michialino <br />
12. Whose Public Space? - Ali Madanipour</div>
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<b>Ali Madanipour</b> is Professor of Urban Design at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK.</div>
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Routledge
2010
274
Ouvrage
The other global city
, mondialisation, cosmopolitisme, fragmentation sociale, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine, gouvernance, mixité sociale, ethnologie, Mayaram Shail
<div>What is a Global City? Who authorizes the World Class City? This edited volume interrogates the "global cities" literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial "global network." Through a historical-ethnographic exploration of inter-ethnic relations in the "other global" cities of Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, Bukhara, Lhasa, Delhi, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo, the well-known contributors highlight cartographies of the Other Global City. The volume contends that thinking about the city in the longue duree and as part of a topography of interconnected regions contests both imperial and nationalist ways of reading cities that have occasioned the many and particularly violent territorial partitions in Asia and the world.</div> </div> <b>Contents :</b></div> </div> Shail Mayaram - Introduction: Re-Reading Global Cities: Topographies of an Alternative Cosmopolitanism in Asia <br /> Engin F. Isin - Beneficence and Difference: Ottoman Awqaf and “Other” Subjects <br /> Emily T. Yeh - Living Together in Lhasa: Ethnic Relations, Coercive Amity, and Subaltern Cosmopolitanism <br /> Aihwa Ong - Intelligent City: From Ethnic Governmentality to Ethnic Evolutionarism <br /> Yasmeen Arif - Impossible Cosmopolis: Dislocations and Relocations in Beirut and Delhi <br /> Yeoh Seng Guan - Limiting Cosmopolitanism: Streetlife “Little India,” Kuala Lumpur <br /> John Lie - Invisibility and Cohabitation in Multiethnic Tokyo <br /> Asef Bayat - Cairo Cosmopolitan: Living Together through Communal Divide, Almost <br /> Caroline Humphrey, Magnus Marsden and Vera Skvirskaja - Cosmopolitanism and the City: Interaction and Co-existence in Bukhara</div> </div> <b>Shail Mayaram</b> is a Professor and Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, India.</div> </div>
NC
NC
2010
242
Ouvrage
State of the world's cities 2010/2011 - cities for all: Bridging the urban divide
, citadin, bidonville, économie, pauvreté, exclusion, équité sociale, fragmentation sociale
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher :</b></div>
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The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this global demographic shift is placing upon current urban infrastructure?<br />
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Following on from previous State of the World's Cities reports, this edition uses the framework of 'The Urban Divide' to analyse the complex social, political, economic and cultural dynamics of urban environments. The book focuses on the concept of the 'right to the city' and ways in which many urban dwellers are excluded from the advantages of city life, using the framework to explore links among poverty, inequality, slum formation and economic growth. The volume will be essential reading for all professionals and policymakers in the field, and a valuable resource for researchers and students in all aspects of urban development.</div>
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UN-Habitat
UN-Habitat
2010
224
Ouvrage
La ville à trois vitesses et autres essais
analyse spatiale, banlieue, centre-ville, fragmentation sociale, gentrification, inégalité résidentielle, inégalité spatiale, mobilité résidentielle, périphéries, recomposition socio-spatiale, ségrégation résidentielle, ségrégation sociale
<div><b>Présentation par l'éditeur :</b></div>
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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 réponses apportées à celle-ci, à travers les politiques urbaine, sociale et de sécurité par l'Etat providence et les tentatives actuelles de renouvellement de ces politiques.</div>
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L'analyse développée ici par Jacques Donzelot, montre que se combine d'une côté, un processus d"altération de la condition salariale qui s'accroît à mesure que l"on va du centre de la société ou de la ville vers la périphérie, des emplois les plus qualifiés vers ceux qui le sont le moins voire point. Un processus qui, dans les fait, conduit à déplacer la population la plus fragilisée et le plus souvent issue de l'immigration vers les territoires de relégation que constituent beaucoup de cités et de grands ensembles. De l"autre on assiste, simultanément, un mouvement en sens inverse, produit par ceux qui veulent quitter la périphérie et éviter toute possible promiscuité.</div>
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L'effet couplé de ces mouvements contraires amène à observer un changement de nature de la question sociale et pas simplement de forme. Parce que le repli identitaire des populations installe au cœur de la société une logique de séparation où l"évitement remplace la confrontation. Se développe ainsi un urbanisme affinitaire qui modifie complètement les termes traditionnels de la cité et installe pernicieusement une ville comme une société à plusieurs vitesses.</div>
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PUCA</a>).</div>
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Jacques Donzelot
Editions de la Villette
Juin 2009
112
Ouvrage
Post ex sub dis : Urban fragmentations and constructions
, forme urbaine, environnement urbain, fragmentation sociale, banlieue, aménagement de l'espace, étalement urbain, ville coloniale, mixité sociale, mondialisation
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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Post, ex, sub and dis - these are but a few of the prefixes that have been used to compose neologisms for describing the contemporary cityscape. Terms such as posturban space, postsuburbia, exurbia and disurbia are part of a dizzying collection of often hotly contested labels. This plethora demonstrates how difficult it has become to name, map and analyse the cityscape. Urban environments have come to evince a radically chaotic and fragmented structure. This book explores how fragmentation has acquired new meanings and how the urban landscape is constantly being deconstructed and reconstructed. Richly illustrated with works by artists and photographers, the volume contains a series of essays on spatial, social and cultural issues written by distinguished scholars from an unusual variety of disciplines.</div>
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<b>The Ghent Urban Studies Team</b> responsible for the writing and editing of this volume is directed by Kristiaan Versluys and Dirk De Meyer at the University of Ghent, Belgium. The collective expertise of GUST ranges from architectural theory, urban planning, and art history to philosophy, literary criticism and cultural theory.</div>
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Ghent Urban Studies Team
010 Publishers
2002
312
Ouvrage
http://books.google.fr/books?id=XbrjHuB0lrkC
The urban condition : Space, community, and self in the contemporary metropolis
, forme urbaine, gated communities, fragmentation sociale, espace public, identité, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine
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What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even postsuburban cityscape? What are edge cities and technoburbs? How has the social composition of cities changed in the postwar era? What do gated communities tell us about social fragmentation? Is public space in the contemporary city being privatized and militarized? How can the urban self still be defined? What role does consumer aestheticism have to play in this? These and many more questions are addressed by this uniquely conceived multidisciplinary study. The Urban Condition seeks to interfere in current debates over the future and interpretation of our urban landscapes by reuniting studies of the city as a physical and material phenomenon and as a cultural and mental (arte)fact. </div>
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<b>The Ghent Urban Studies Team</b> responsible for the writing and editing of this volume is directed by Kristiaan Versluys and Dirk De Meyer at the University of Ghent, Belgium. It is an interdisciplinary research team of young academics that further consists of Kristiaan Borret, Bart Eeckhout, Steven Jacobs, and Bart Keunen. The collective expertise of GUST ranges from architectural theory, urban planning, and art history to philosophy, literary criticism and cultural theory.</div>
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The Ghent Urban Studies Team
010 Publishers
1999
447
Ouvrage
http://books.google.com/books?id=-vbTkMuU9NkC
Systemic impact and sustainability of gated enclaves in the city : Cybergeo dossier
, gated communities, développement durable, foncier, enclavement, sauvegarde, ségrégation résidentielle, fragmentation sociale, périphéries, privatisation, espace urbain
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Karina Landman - The storm that rocks the boat: the systemic impact of gated communities on urban sustainability<br />
Jörg Plöger - The emergence of a “City of Cages” in Lima : neighbourhood appropriation in the context of rising insecurities<br />
Renaud Le Goix - The impact of gated Communities on property values: evidence of changes in real estate markets -Los Angeles, 1980-2000<br />
Eric Charmes - Suburban fragmentation versus mobilities : is suburbanism opposed to urbanism ?<br />
Setha Low - Towards a Theory of Urban Fragmentation: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Fear, Privatization, and the State</div>
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Multiple authors
Revues.org
2006 & 2007
Revue
http://www.revues.org