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Cities and time
Cities are the human organizations with the greatest longevity but also the fastest rate of change. Just now the world is going massively and unstoppably urban (governments everywhere are trying to stop it, with zero success). In a globalized world,…
Indiens urbanisés et système de santé en Amazonie brésilienne
La migration des populations indigènes au Brésil est un phénomène récent encore peu étudié, surtout celle en direction des villes. Les causes en sont diverses : conflits ou limitation des moyens de subsistance sur les territoires indigènes,…
Du village à la ville : comment les migrants changent le monde
Présentation par l'éditeur : Le XXIe siècle sera le siècle de la dernière, et spectaculaire, grande migration des populations rurales vers les villes. Cette migration, qui a déjà commencé, met…
The city in the Ottoman Empire : Migration and the making of urban modernity
Abstract from the publisher : The nexus of urban governance and human migration was a crucial feature in the modernisation of cities in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century. This book connects these two concepts to examine the Ottoman city…
Locating migration : Rescaling cities and migrants
Abstract from the publisher : In this book Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Çaglar, along with a stellar group of contributing authors, examine the relationship between migrants and cities in a time of massive urban restructuring. They find that…
Marginalization in urban China : Comparative perspectives
Abstract from the publisher :
Marginalization in urban China is a consequence of the processes that constrain the disadvantaged from making a claim to citizenship. This book provides insights into marginalization in Chinese cities, and enriches…
Asian cities, migrant labor and contested spaces
Abstract from the publisher :
This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the…
Arrival city : How the largest migration in history is reshaping our world
Abstract from the publisher :
A third of the world’s people are in the midst of the largest population move in human history, as the last of the word’s rural populations abandons agriculture and moves to the urban areas of the…
Becoming metropolitan : Urban selfhood and the making of modern Cracow
Abstract from the publisher :
The “Age of Great Cities” erupted in East Central Europe in the last quarter of the 19th century as migrants poured into imperial and regional capitals. For citizens of places like Cracow, discovering and…
Les mondes de la mobilité
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Cet essai interroge la mobilité en considérant les transformations sociales qu’elle produit et les nouvelles formes de socialisation qu’elle peut établir. Les auteurs, de…
Afrique du Sud : partage du logement et droit de cité. Migrants, réfugiés, indigents à Durban
Afrique du Sud : partage du logement et droit de cité. Migrants, réfugiés, indigents à Durban (1999-2001).
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Migrants et réfugiés étrangers, affluant par milliers dans la…
Lyon, un chantier limousin. Les maçons migrants, 1848 – 1945
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Au milieu du XIXe siècle, les montagnes du Limousin, rurales et enclavées, semblent totalement coupées de la métropole lyonnaise, centre national de la soierie. Et pourtant, un…
The growth of cities in the nineteenth century : A study in statistics
Extract from the 'Biographical Note' by Barclay G. Jones :
Lewis Mumford is certainly correct in describing The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century as a "classic pioneer work". It is the first really sound, comprehensive, and…
Strangers to the city : Urban man in Jos, Nigeria
Extract from the introduction :
The object of this study is to describe and analyze the adjustments individuals make to modern conditions of urban development in a West African community. For most parts of tropical Africa, cities were not part of…