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Women, slums and urbanisation : Examining the causes and consequences
A first of its kind, this COHRE report examines the worldwide phenomenon of urbanisation from the point of view of women’s housing rights. The report focuses, in particular, on the experiences of women and girls living in slum communities…
Women and urban settlement
Extract from the Editorial :
The articles in this edition examine gender issues and human settlement, and emphasise the interconnectedness of all aspects of women's and men's lives, and the links between people's physical surroundings and what they…
Urbanization, population, environment and security
Extract from the Introduction :
The Comparative Urban Studies Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center began a project in 1997 designed to both identify factors that contribute to making urban areas centers of violence and poverty and propose policy…
The Russian city between tradition and modernity, 1850-1900
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The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity provides a comprehensive history of urban development in European Russia during the last half of the nineteenth century. Using both statistical perspectives on…
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…
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…
Strangers to the city : Urban man in Jos, Nigeria
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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…
Small town Africa : Studies in rural-urban interaction
Abstract from the publisher :
Small towns have often been considered as unimportant and have been largely ignored by policy-makers and researchers. Instead, attention was focussed on the large city or on rural development and agricultural change…
S'adapter au déplacement en milieu urbain
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Au niveau mondial, l'urbanisation - le mouvement des individus vers les villes - continue son essor, et un nombre croissant de personnes déplacées, qu'elles soient réfugiées ou…
Native place, city, and nation: Regional networks and identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937
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This study explores social practices and rituals related to xxiangyi , also called xiangqing and ziyi , Chinese expressions for the sentiment that binds people from the same native place. This sentiment, and the social…
Muzhik and Muscovite : Urbanization in late imperial Russia
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Marginalization in urban China : Comparative perspectives
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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…
Lyon, un chantier limousin. Les maçons migrants, 1848 – 1945
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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…
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…
Les mondes de la mobilité
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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…