Telescopic urbanism
pauvreté, pays en développement, bidonville, inégalité, inequality, Amin Ash
<div><b>Abstract from the <a target="_blank" href="http://in-flexiblecities.blogspot.fr/2012/03/ash-amin-telescopic-urbanism.html">organisers</a>:</b></div>
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By 2030 between a third and half of the world's population will be leading a precarious, and often abject, life in the neglected urban interstices. Urban scholarship is beginning to turn to this eye-watering problem, and to questions of sustainable urban competitiveness and growth, but interestingly without referencing one to the other. This paper claims that the 'endless city' is being looked at through the wrong end of the binoculars, with 'business consultancy' urbanism largely disinterested in the city that does not feed international competitiveness and business growth, and 'UN-Habitat' urbanism looking to the settlements where the poor are located for bottom-up solutions to human well-being. The paper muses on the implications of such an urban optic on the chances of the poor, their areas of settlement, and their expectations of support from others in and beyond the city. While acknowledging the realism, inventiveness and achievements of effort initiated or led by the poor, the paper laments the disappearance of ideas of mutuality, obligation and commonality that telescopic urbanism has enabled, in the process scripting out both grand designs and the duty of distant others to address the problems of acute inequality and poverty that will continue to plague the majority city.</div>
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<b>Ash Amin </b>is 1931 Chair in Geography and Fellow of Christ's College at the University of Cambridge.</div>
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Ash Amin
6 March 2012
http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1226559;jsessionid=F4440B1D454961F9A1A7DCE2D43EB7E0
Social justice, inequality and cities
, équité sociale, justice sociale, social justice, politique urbaine, inégalité, inequality, mouvement social, Pulido Laura, Heynen Nik, Watkins Marilyn
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor:</b></div>
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Inequality is intensifying in American cities with profound consequences for people’s well being and for broader society. This panel aims to make sense of where urban inequalities emerge, how they are perpetuated, and why they still exist. The role of community activism around social justice in American cities is addressed, as is strategic engagement with existing public policies and ongoing efforts to transform them. </div>
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<b>Laura Pulido </b>is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity/Geography at the University of Southern California.</div>
<b>Nik Heynen </b>is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia.</div>
<b>Marilyn Watkins </b>is Policy Director at the Economic Opportunity Institute.</div>
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Laura Pulido,
Nik Heynen,
Marilyn Watkins
5 May 2011
http://www.nowurbanism.org/#Past
Children, youth and the city
children, enfants, youth, jeunes, childhood, enfance, inégalité, urbanité, culture, mondialisation, participation, citoyenneté, Hörschelmann Kathrin, van Blerk Lorraine
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. This text provides a vivid picture of children and youth in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions.<br /> <br /> Considering the causes and forms of social inequalities in relation to class, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, ability and geographical location, this book discusses specific issues such as poverty, homelessness and work. Each chapter draws on examples from both the developed and developing world, and throughout the chapters, the book:<br /> <br /> - contrasts experiences of growing up in the city<br /> - discusses how social inequalities, together with societal perceptions of childhood and youth, shape experiences of growing up in cities for different young people<br /> - examines how young people appropriate the city through social and cultural practices<br /> - considers contemporary movements towards the role of children and youths in planning processes.<br /> <br /> Children, Youth and the City argues that young people must be recognized as urban social agents in their own right. This informative book deals with complex theoretical arguments and relates key ideas to this topical subject in a clear and coherent manner. The text is enlivened throughout with global case studies, photographs, discussion questions, suggested reading and websites. It is an excellent resource for students of Human Geography, Urban Studies and Childhood Studies.</div> </div> <b>Kathrin Hörschelmann </b>is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Durham, UK.<br /> <b>Lorraine van Blerk</b> is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Dundee, UK.</div> </div>
Kathrin Hörschelmann Lorraine van Blerk
Routledge
November 2011
256
Ouvrage
De bons voisins : enquête dans un quartier de la bourgeoisie progressiste
lites, bourgeoisie, quartier populaire, gentrification, mixité sociale, inégalité, Boston, Tissot Sylvie
<div><b>Présentation par l'éditeur </b>:</div>
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En 2005, une habitante de Boston, aux Etats-Unis, se plaint auprès d’une association de quartier : sur une des artères commerçantes, juste à côté d’un restaurant réputé pour ses fabuleux brunchs dominicaux, stationnent, en fumant, d’anciens toxicomanes logés dans un foyer de réinsertion. Une négociation s’ensuit, et les liens établis de longue date entre les propriétaires blancs et les associations caritatives, très nombreuses dans cet ancien quartier populaire, permettent de régler l’affaire. De nouvelles règles sont imposées aux résidents du foyer. Ils n’auront désormais plus le droit de stationner regroupés sur les trottoirs. Ils sont invités à marcher quand ils fument. Cet exemple illustre les formes de contrôle que les résidents les plus fortunés savent mettre en oeuvre dans l’espace urbain. Les avocats, les cadres dirigeants, les médecins et les consultants qui habitent ce quartier progressivement embourgeoisé depuis les années 1960 sont parvenus, en se mobilisant, à contrôler les espaces publics et les populations les plus "indésirables", et à surveiller avec vigilance les projets immobiliers et les activités commerciales. C’est pourtant une partie de ces mêmes résidents qui ont défendu l’aménagement, dans la même rue, de logements semi collectifs pour des sans-logis. Face à une opposition virulente, un groupe de propriétaires se sont battus pour ce projet, au nom d’une "diversité" qu’ils brandissent comme un étendard. <br />
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L’ouvrage proposé analyse les transformations qui traversent les élites depuis les années 1960 et apporte ainsi un éclairage nouveau sur le fonctionnement de la distinction sociale. Pour cela, il part d’une enquête dans un quartier populaire d’une grande ville de la côte Est des Etats-Unis : naguère l’un des plus stigmatisés de la ville, peuplé de bars tenus par la mafia, d’hôtels meublés occupés par des immigrés venus du monde entier, de prostituées, et de résidents noirs formant près de la moitié de la population, il est aujourd’hui un quartier branché, vanté pour son architecture et la vie artistique qui fleurit dans les friches industrielles réhabilitées. Cette enquête montre que, loin d’annuler les distances sociales, les migrations des résidents fortunés dans les centres-villes dégradés les reconduisent et parfois les exacerbent : mise à distance des plus démunis, création d’espaces exclusifs, marquage du territoire par de nouveaux commerces et styles de vie... L’espace urbain est bien, de ce point de vue, un des sites privilégiés d’observation des inégalités, et des stratégies qui alimentent la reproduction sociale.</div>
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<b>Sylvie Tissot</b> est professeure de sciences politiques à l'université Saint-Denis Paris 8.</div>
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Sylvie Tissot
Raisons d'agir
17 novembre 2011
313
Ouvrage
Justice and the American metropolis
justice, injustice, justice sociale, social justice, aménagement urbain, politique urbaine, inégalité, inequality, équité sociale, ségrégation urbaine, pauvreté, États-Unis, United States, métropole, Hayward Clarissa Rile, Swanstrom Todd
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Today’s American cities and suburbs are the sites of “thick injustice”—unjust power relations that are deeply and densely concentrated as well as opaque and seemingly intractable. Thick injustice is hard to see, to assign responsibility for, and to change.<br /> <br /> Identifying these often invisible and intransigent problems, this volume addresses foundational questions about what justice requires in the contemporary metropolis. Essays focus on inequality within and among cities and suburbs; articulate principles for planning, redevelopment, and urban political leadership; and analyze the connection between metropolitan justice and institutional design. In a world that is progressively more urbanized, and yet no clearer on issues of fairness and equality, this book points the way to a metropolis in which social justice figures prominently in any definition of success.</div> </div> <b>Contents : </b></div> </div> Clarissa Rile Hayward and Todd Swanstrom - Introduction : Thick injustice</div> </div> I. The roots of injustice in the American metropolis :</div> Stephen Macedo - Property-owning plutocracy : Inequality and American localism</div> Loren King - Public reason and the just city</div> Margaret Kohn - Public space in the progressive era</div> </div> II. Rethinking metropolitan inequality :</div> Douglas W. Rae - Two cheers for very unequal incomes : Toward social justice in central cities</div> Clarence N. Stone - Beyond the equality-efficiency tradeoff</div> </div> III. Planning for justice :</div> Susan S. Fainstein - Redevelopment planning and distributive justice in the American metropolis</div> Thad Williamson - Justice, the public sector, and cities : Relegitimating the activist state</div> </div> IV. Justice and institutions :</div> Gerald Frug - Voting and justice</div> Richard Thompson Ford - The color of territory : How law and borders keep America segregated</div> Margaret Weir - Creating justice for the poor in the new metropolis</div> </div> <b>Clarissa Rile Hayward</b> is associate professor of political science at Washington University in St. Louis.<br /> <b>Todd Swanstrom </b>is Des Lee Professor of Community Collaboration and Public Policy Administration at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.</div> </div>
NC
University of Minnesota Press
August 2011
280
Ouvrage
Cape Town after apartheid : Crime and governance in the divided city
, délinquance, gouvernance, ségrégation urbaine, inégalité, inequality, sécurité, renouvellement urbain, néolibéralisme, pauvreté, développement urbain, apartheid, Cape Town, Le Cap, mondialisation, global city, ville mondiale, Samara Tony Roshan
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Reveals how liberal democracy and free-market economics reproduce the inequalities of apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa<br /> <br /> Nearly two decades after the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, how different does the nation look? In Cape Town, is hardening inequality under conditions of neoliberal globalization actually reproducing the repressive governance of the apartheid era? By exploring issues of urban security and development, Tony Roshan Samara brings to light the features of urban apartheid that increasingly mark not only Cape Town but also the global cities of our day—cities as diverse as Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, and Beijing.<br /> <br /> Cape Town after Apartheid focuses on urban renewal and urban security policies and practices in the city center and townships as this aspiring world-class city actively pursues a neoliberal approach to development. The city’s attempt to escape its past is, however, constrained by crippling inequalities, racial and ethnic tensions, political turmoil, and persistent insecurity. Samara shows how governance in Cape Town remains rooted in the perceived need to control dangerous populations and protect a somewhat fragile and unpopular economic system. In urban areas around the world, where the affluent minority and poor majority live in relative proximity to each other, aggressive security practices and strict governance reflect and reproduce the divided city.<br /> <br /> A critical case for understanding a transnational view of urban governance, especially in highly unequal, majority-poor cities, this closely observed study of postapartheid Cape Town affords valuable insight into how security and governance technologies from the global North combine with local forms to create new approaches to social control in cities across the global South.</div> </div>
Tony Roshan Samara
University of Minnesota Press
June 2011
272
Ouvrage
Urban asymmetries : Studies and projects on neoliberal urbanization
, néolibéralisme, politique urbaine, aménagement urbain, société urbaine, urbanisation, développement urbain, inégalité, Kaminer Tahl, Robles-Dúran Miguel, Sohn Heidi
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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The current global economic crisis provides the perfect backdrop for reviewing the dire consequences that neoliberal urban policies have had upon the city, and for discussing possible alternatives to market-driven development. In this light Urban Asymmetries exposes the contradictions of uneven urban development as a means of providing both a substantial critique of the current urban condition and a discussion of necessary counter practices, policies and strategies for designing in such environments, and inferring that social betterment within the city is possible by strategic use of the tools available to the urbanist and to the architect. The book aims to disprove some of the prevailing disciplinary discourses in architecture and urbanism which see the city as ‘a given’ rather than as an evolving socio-historic phenomenon, and intends to challenge the ubiquitous understanding of architecture as devoid of any social transformative power.</div>
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<b>Tahl Kaminer </b>is a Design and Theory Instructor at the Delft School of Design.</div>
<b>Miguel Robles-Dúran </b>is a Researcher at the Delft School of Design.</div>
<b>Heidi Sohn </b>is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Delft School of Design.</div>
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NC
010 Publishers
2011
288
Ouvrage
The paradox of urban space : Inequality and transformation in marginalized communities
, marginalité, race, injustice, inégalité, droit au logement, participation, placemaking, community, communauté, aménagement urbain, Sutton Sharon E., Kemp Susan P., espace urbain
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Sutton, Kemp, and their contributors demonstrate the importance of place as a site of oppression and transformation, offering placemaking strategies that agents of change in a variety of disciplines can use in working with youth and adults. Their essays lay out both a theoretical terrain and an array of case studies that put theory into practice. This exciting new work documents the persistent intersection of race, place, and power; illustrates placemaking strategies that enable grassroots resistance; and explores the novel professional roles that new technologies make possible. It concludes with reflections upon the potential of transformative placemaking as an antidote to the erasure of place by global capitalism.</div> </div> <b>Contents : </b></div> </div> Introduction: Place as Marginality and Possibility - Sharon E. Sutton and Susan P. Kemp<br /> PART I: PLACE, RACE, AND POWER : <br /> Place: A Site of Social and Environmental Inequity - Sharon E. Sutton and Susan P. Kemp<br /> Struggling for the Right to Housing: A Critical Analysis of the Evolution of West Seattle's High Point - Sharon E. Sutton<br /> The Ultimate Team Sport?: Urban Waterways and Youth Rowing in Seattle, Washington - Anne Taufen Wessells<br /> Recognizing the Lived Experience of Place: Challenges to Genuine Participation in Redeveloping Public Housing Communities - Lynne C. Manzo<br /> Beyond Insiders and Outsiders: Conceptualizing Multiple Dimensions of Community Development Stakeholders - Linda Hurley Ishem<br /> PART II: PLACEMAKING AS LIVING DEMOCRACY : <br /> Place: A Site of Individual and Collective Transformation - Sharon E. Sutton and Susan P. Kemp <br /> Refusing Marginality: Youth as Critical Placemakers in Urban Communities - Susan P. Kemp<br /> Supporting Grassroots Resistance: Sustained Community/University Partnerships to Contest Chicago’s HOPE VI Program - Roberta M. Feldman<br /> Mutual Learning in a Community-University Partnership: What Design-Build Projects Contribute to Placemaking and Placemakers - Steve Badanes<br /> PART III: NEW TOOLS, NEW PROFESSIONAL ROLES : <br /> Transforming Communities through Mapping: Harnessing the Potential of New Technologies - Amy Hillier<br /> On the Social Construction of Place: Using Participatory Methods and Digital Tools to Reconceive Distressed Urban Neighborhoods - Matthew Kelley<br /> Documenting (In) Justice: Community-based Participatory Research and Video - Caitlin Cahill and Matt Bradley<br /> Socially Conscious Design in the Information Age: The Practice of an Architecture for Humanity - David Smolker and Caroline Lanza<br /> Conclusions: Toward a Praxis of Transformative Placemaking - Sharon E. Sutton and Susan P. Kemp</div> </div> <b>Sharon E. Sutton</b> is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Washington.<br /> <b>Susan P. Kemp </b>is the Charles O. Cressey Endowed Associate Professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work.</div> </div>
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Palgrave Macmillan
February 2011
296
Ouvrage
Making the San Fernando Valley : Rural landscapes, urban development, and white privilege
, paysage urbain, environnement urbain, nature dans la ville, périphéries, périurbain, banlieue, aménagement urbain, ruralité, inégalité, race, San Fernando Valley, Vallée de San Fernando, Los Angeles, Barraclough Laura R.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Environment and race at the intersection of city, suburb, and country.</div> </div> In the first book-length scholarly study of the San Fernando Valley— home to one-third of the population of Los Angeles—Laura R. Barraclough combines ambitious historical sweep with an on-theground investigation of contemporary life in this iconic western suburb. She is particularly intrigued by the Valley’s many rural elements, such as dirt roads, tack-and-feed stores, horse-keeping districts, citrus groves, and movie ranches. Far from natural or undeveloped spaces, these rural characteristics are, she shows, the result of deliberate urban planning decisions that have shaped the Valley over the course of more than a hundred years.<br /> <br /> The Valley’s entwined history of urban development and rural preservation has real ramifications today for patterns of racial and class inequality and especially for the evolving meaning of whiteness. Immersing herself in meetings of homeowners’ associations, equestrian organizations, and redistricting committees, Barraclough uncovers the racial biases embedded in rhetoric about “open space” and “western heritage.” The Valley’s urban cowboys enjoy exclusive, semirural landscapes alongside the opportunities afforded by one of the world’s largest cities. Despite this enviable position, they have at their disposal powerful articulations of both white victimization and, with little contradiction, color-blind politics.</div> </div> <b>Laura R. Barraclough</b> is an assistant professor of sociology at Kalamazoo College.</div> </div>
Laura R. Barraclough
The University of Georgia Press
January 2011
316
Ouvrage
L'action publique face à la mobilité
action publique, mobilité, déplacements, développement durable, inégalité, Maksim Hanja, Vincent Stéphanie, Gallez Caroline, Kaufmann Vincent
<div><b>Présentation par l'éditeur :</b></div>
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Dans nos sociétés, la mobilité est une valeur éminemment positive et les déplacements prennent une place toujours plus grande dans la vie quotidienne. Pourtant, la capacité à être mobile n'est pas également répartie entre les groupes sociaux et certains déplacements ont des effets négatifs sur notre environnement.</div>
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Comment concilier la place croissante des déplacements avec les impératifs du développement durable, particulièrement en milieu urbain ? Quel est le rôle de l'action publique dans la régulation des déplacements ?</div>
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NC
L'Harmattan
1er mars 2010
258
Ouvrage
Vers une citoyenneté urbaine ? La ville et l'égalité des chances
citoyenneté, inégalité, ségrégation sociale, ségrégation urbaine, sociologie, Donzelot Jacques
<div><b>Présentation par l'éditeur :</b></div>
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La construction de l’État-providence s’est accompagnée de la proclamation d’une citoyenneté sociale. Venant après la citoyenneté civile inventée au XVIIIe siècle et la citoyenneté politique imposée au XIXe, cette citoyenneté sociale se met en place au milieu du XXe siècle. Elle correspond à la reconnaissance de droits sociaux de portée universelle, garants de "l’égale dignité" de tous selon la déclaration des droits universelle de l’homme votée à l’ONU en 1948. Ces droits sociaux ne suffisent cependant pas pour garantir la dignité aux populations reléguées dans les cités sociales excentrées ou les inner cities, qui ne disposent pas de chances suffisamment crédibles d’accéder à une place convenable dans la société. La ville sépare autant et plus qu’elle rassemble. Aussi faut-il prolonger le projet de satisfaction des besoins vitaux par celui de l’accroissement de l’égalité des chances entre les individus. Le XXIe siècle sera-t-il celui de la citoyenneté urbaine ?</div>
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PUCA</a>).</div>
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conférence-débat</a> du 28 janvier 2009 sur ce sujet.</div>
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Jacques Donzelot
ENS - Rue d'Ulm
18 avril 2009
Non précisé
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Cairo - a city in transition
Cairo, Le Caire, mutation urbaine, logement, informal settlement, quartier informel, développement urbain, politique urbaine, politique du logement, infrastructures, service public, logement, citadin, inégalité, UN-HABITAT, Horwood Christopher
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Christopher Horwood UN-HABITAT
UN-HABITAT The American University in Cairo
2011
181
Ouvrage
Cities and social equity: Inequality, territory and urban form
São Paulo, inégalité, , forme urbaine, équité sociale, pauvreté, exclusion, territoire, sécurité, mobilité, intégration, renouvellement urbain, politique urbaine, Amérique latine, Latin America, Urban Age
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Cities and Social Equity is a report by the Urban Age research team with commissioned pieces from Ipsos MORI, United Nations Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD), the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (CEM), Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) and the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University. In 2008, the Urban Age undertook and commissioned research on the five largest cities in South America (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Bogotá and Lima), which culminated in the Urban Age South America conference in São Paulo in December 2008.<br /> <br /> With a combined population of nearly 60 million and dramatic growth in recent decades, these five cities are places of mix, change and extreme polarisation which can be destabilising, inhumane and wasteful of resources. Cities and Social Equity assesses the impact of inequality in an urban context with comparative research and data collection in the five cities (including innovative mapping of inequality to identify the pockets of privilege and deprivation in each city). While the research work commissioned in the report has a specific focus on the problems facing São Paulo, the region's pre-eminent city, their findings have wider resonance for cities throughout the world. <br /> <br /> Urban Age Research Team: Philipp Rode, Ricky Burdett, Richard Brown, Frederico Ramos, Kay Kitazawa, Antoine Paccoud, and Natznet Tesfay.<br /> <br /> São Paulo Lead Investigators: Paula Miraglia, Eduardo Marques, Ciro Biderman, Nadia Somekh, Carlos Leite de Souza.</div> </div> <b>Contents:</b></div> </div> 1. Introduction</div> 2. Cities compared</div> 3. Inequality, territory and urban form</div> 4. Urban Age city survey</div> 5. Safe spaces, safe city</div> 6. Mobility, integration and accessibility</div> 7. Steering regeneration in cities</div> 8. Implications for policy</div> Appendices</div> </div>
Urban Age Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Urban Age Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science
2009
208
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http://urban-age.net/publications/reports/southAmerica/
The state of Asian cities 2010-11
Asie, Asia, urbanisation, économie, pauvreté, environnement, gouvernance, inégalité, changement climatique
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> The report throws new light on current issues and challenges which national and local governments, the business sector and organised civil society are facing. On top of putting forward a number of recommendations, this report testifies to the wealth of good, innovative practice that countries of all sizes and development stages have accumulated across the region. It shows us that sustainable human settlements are within reach, and that cooperation between public authorities, the private and the voluntary sectors is the key to success. This report highlights a number of critical issues – demographic and economic trends, poverty and inequality, the environment, climate change and urban governance and management.</div> <b>Contents : </b></div> </div> The state of Asian cities : Overview and key findings</div> Urbanizing Asia</div> The economic role of Asian cities</div> Poverty and inequality in Asian cities</div> The urban environment and climate change</div> Urban governance, management and finance</div> </div>
UN-HABITAT
UN-HABITAT
2010
279
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http://www.unhabitat.org/pmss/listItemDetails.aspx?publicationID=3078
Inequality, inclusion and the sense of belonging : 2009 ISA-RC21 Sao Paulo conference
, sociologie urbaine, société urbaine, logement, conflit urbain, renouvellement urbain, aménagement urbain, ségrégation urbaine, pauvreté, mégapole, urbanisation, mutation urbaine, lien social, néolibéralisme, pauvreté, inégalité, inclusion
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Centro de estudos da metropole ISA-RC21
2009
Various
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Detroit divided
Detroit, Détroit, histoire urbaine, emploi, travail, ségrégation urbaine, race, économie, inégalité, Farley Reynolds, Danziger Sheldon, Holzer Harry J., ségrégation résidentielle
<strong>Abstract from the publisher:</strong> Unskilled workers once flocked to Detroit, attracted by manufacturing jobs paying union wages, but the passing of Detroit's manufacturing heyday has left many of those workers stranded. Manufacturing continues to employ high-skilled workers, and new work can be found in suburban service jobs, but the urban plants that used to employ legions of unskilled men are a thing of the past.<br /> <br /> The authors explain why white auto workers adjusted to these new conditions more easily than blacks. Taking advantage of better access to education and suburban home loans, white men migrated into skilled jobs on the city's outskirts, while blacks faced the twin barriers of higher skill demands and hostile suburban neighborhoods.<br /> <br /> Some blacks have prospered despite this racial divide: a black elite has emerged, and the shift in the city toward municipal and service jobs has allowed black women to approach parity of earnings with white women. But Detroit remains polarized racially, economically, and geographically to a degree seen in few other American cities. <strong>Contents:</strong> 1. Introduction: Three centuries of growth and conflict 2. Detroit's history: Racial, spatial, and economic changes 3. The evolution of Detroit's labor market since 1940 4. The Detroit labor market: The employers' perspective 5. The Detroit labor market: The workers' perspective 6. The evolution of racial segregation 7. The persistence of racial segregation 8. Blacks and whites: Differing views on the present and future 9. Revitalizing Detroit: A vision for the future <strong>Reynolds Farley </strong>is Otis Dudley Duncan Collegiate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan, and research scientist at the Population Studies Center of the Institute for Social Research. <strong>Sheldon Danziger </strong>is Henry J. Meyer Collegiate Professor of Social Work and Public Policy and Director of the Center on Poverty Risk and Mental Health at the University of Michigan. <strong>Harry J. Holzer </strong>is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University.
Reynolds Farley Sheldon Danziger Harry J. Holzer
Russell Sage Foundation
2000
328
Ouvrage
books.google.com/books?id=p37lKHnhOj0C&lpg=PP1&dq=detroit%20divided&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Boston renaissance: Race, space, and economic change in an American metropolis
Boston, mutation urbaine, économie, démographie, emploi, industry, industrie, travail, société urbaine, ségrégation urbaine, race, inégalité, inequality, espace urbain, métropole, Bluestone Barry, Stevenson Mary Huff
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This volume documents metropolitan Boston's metamorphosis from a casualty of manufacturing decline in the 1970s to a paragon of the high-tech and service industries in the 1990s. The city's rebound has been part of a wider regional renaissance, as new commercial centers have sprung up outside the city limits. A stream of immigrants have flowed into the area, redrawing the map of ethnic relations in the city. While Boston's vaunted mind-based economy rewards the highly educated, many unskilled workers have also found opportunities servicing the city's growing health and education industries.<br />
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Boston's renaissance remains uneven, and the authors identify a variety of handicaps (low education, unstable employment, single parenthood) that still hold minorities back. Nonetheless this book presents Boston as a hopeful example of how America's older cities can reinvent themselves in the wake of suburbanization and deindustrialization.</div>
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Preface</div>
1. Greater Boston in transition</div>
2. The demographic revolution: From white ethnocentric to multicultural Boston</div>
3. The industrial revolution: From mill-based to mind-based industries</div>
4. The spatial revolution: From hub to metropolis</div>
5. Who we are: How families fare in Greater Boston today</div>
6. Michael Massagli - What do Boston-area residents think of one another?</div>
7. Michael Massagli - Residential preferences and segregation</div>
8. The labor market: How workers with limited schooling are faring in Greater Boston</div>
9. The impact of human, social, and cultural capital on job slots and wages</div>
10. Philip Moss and Chris Tilly - What do Boston area employers seek in their workers?</div>
11. Sharing the fruits of Greater Boston's renaissance</div>
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<b>Barry Bluestone </b>is the Russell B. and Andrée B. Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University.</div>
<b>Mary Huff Stevenson </b>is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Senior Fellow at its McCormack Institute of Public Affairs.</div>
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Barry Bluestone
Mary Huff Stevenson
Russell Sage Foundation
2000
480
Ouvrage
http://books.google.com/books?id=_4rVIsHWyV8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
The Atlanta paradox
, économie, ségrégation urbaine, inégalité, travail, emploi, race, étalement urbain, Atlanta, Sjoquist David L., pauvreté, société urbaine
<b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div>
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Despite the rapid creation of jobs in the greater Atlanta region, poverty in the city itself remains surprisingly high, and Atlanta's economic boom has yet to play a significant role in narrowing the gap between the suburban rich and the city poor. This book investigates the key factors underlying this paradox.<br />
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The authors show that the legacy of past residential segregation as well as the more recent phenomenon of urban sprawl both work against inner city blacks. Many remain concentrated near traditional black neighborhoods south of the city center and face prohibitive commuting distances now that jobs have migrated to outlying northern suburbs.<br />
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The book also presents some promising signs. Few whites still hold overt negative stereotypes of blacks, and both whites and blacks would prefer to live in more integrated neighborhoods. The emergence of a dynamic, black middle class and the success of many black-owned businesses in the area also give the authors reason to hope that racial inequality will not remain entrenched in a city where so much else has changed.</div>
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<b>Contents:</b></div>
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David L. Sjoquist - The Atlanta paradox: Introduction</div>
Truman A. Hartshorn and Keith R. Ihlanfeldt - Growth and change in metropolitan Atlanta</div>
Ronald H. Bayor - Atlanta: The historical paradox</div>
Obie Clayton Jr., Christopher R. Geller, Sahadeo Patram, Travis Patton and David L. Sjoquist - Racial attitudes and perceptions in Atlanta</div>
Mark A. Thompson - Black-white residential segregation in Atlanta</div>
Keith R. Ihlanfeldt and David L. Sjoquist - The geographic mismatch between jobs and housing</div>
Keith R. Ihlanfeldt and David L. Sjoquist - Earnings inequality</div>
Irene Browne and Leann M. Tigges - The intersection of gender and race in Atlanta's labor market</div>
Cynthia Lucas Hewitt - Job segregation, ethnic hegemony, and earnings inequality</div>
Nikki McIntyre Finlay - Finding work in Atlanta: Is there an optimal strategy for disadvantaged job seekers?</div>
Gray Paul Green, Roger B. Hammer and Leann M. Tigges - "Someone to count on": Informal support</div>
David L. Sjoquist - Urban inequality in Atlanta: Policy options</div>
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<b>David L. Sjoquist </b>is Professor of Economics in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.</div>
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NC
Russell Sage Foundation
2000
312
Ouvrage
http://books.google.com/books?id=DZEyEtmSKA8C&lpg=PP1&dq=atlanta%20paradox&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
Sao Paulo: A tale of two cities
inégalité, ségrégation urbaine, favela, exclusion, politique urbaine, urbanisation, logement, citadin, pauvreté, bidonville, Sao Paulo, São Paulo, UN-HABITAT
<b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div>
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UN-HABITAT’s new Cities and Citizens series examines urban inequality in the developing world through in-depth analysis of intracity data developed by UN-HABITAT and its partner institutions and on-the-ground interviews, insights and images. São Paulo: A Tale of Two Cities launches the series, providing a close look at this vast megacity of internal contradictions and complexities. São Paulo has emerged as the economic powerhouse of Brazil, making huge advances in its socioeconomic and political sectors while remaining beset by inequalities and gaps in distributive justice. </div>
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<b>Contents:</b></div>
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Introduction: Understanding urban dynamics inside cities</div>
1. The dynamics of division</div>
2. Urbanising Sao Paulo</div>
3. Division through exclusion</div>
4. A tale of two cities</div>
5. The potential of policy to bridge the urban divide</div>
6. The challenges ahead</div>
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UN-HABITAT
UN-HABITAT
2010
152
Ouvrage
http://www.unhabitat.org/pmss/listItemDetails.aspx?publicationID=2924
Cities transformed : Demographic change and its implications in the developing world
, démographie, developing countries, pays en développement, gouvernance, économie, santé, health, inégalité, mixité sociale, Montgomery Mark R.
<b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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Virtually all of the growth in the world's population for the foreseeable future will take place in the cities and towns of the developing world. Over the next twenty years, most developing countries will for the first time become more urban than rural. The benefits from urbanization cannot be overlooked, but the speed and sheer scale of this transformation present many challenges. A new cast of policy makers is emerging to take up the many responsibilities of urban governance as many national governments decentralize and devolve their functions, programs in poverty, health, education, and public services are increasingly being deposited in the hands of untested municipal and regional governments. Demographers have been surprisingly slow to devote attention to the implications of the urban transformation.<br />
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Drawing from a wide variety of data sources, many of them previously inaccessible, Cities Transformed explores the implications of various urban contexts for marriage, fertility, health, schooling, and children's lives. It should be of interest to all involved in city-level research, policy, planning, and investment decisions.</div>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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Front Matter <br />
Executive Summary<br />
1. Introduction <br />
2. Why Location Matters<br />
3. Urban Population Change: A Sketch<br />
4. Urban Population Dynamics: Models, Measures, and Forecasts<br />
5. Diversity and Inequality<br />
6. Fertility and Reproductive Health<br />
7. Mortality and Morbidity: Is City Life Good For Your Health?<br />
8. The Urban Economy Transformed <br />
9. The Challenge of Urban Governance<br />
10. Looking Ahead <br />
Appendices</div>
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<b>Mark </b><b>R. Montgomery </b>is a Professor in the Economics Department at Stony Brook University </div>
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Mark R. Montgomery et al
The National Academies Press
2003
552
Ouvrage
http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10693&page=R1