Abstract from the publisher :
A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the…
Abstract from the publisher: Critical Scholarship in Urban Sociology.... These classic and recent articles published in IJURR provide a flavour of the kind of critical urban scholarship associated with the journal. IJURR is a forum for scholarship…
From the Introduction by Talja Blokland : This ‘virtual’ issue of IJURR brings together thirteen articles on Dutch cities, published in print in the journal since 2001 or published online (in ‘EarlyView’) and awaiting…
Les transformations sociales à l’œuvre dans les villes reflètent les luttes entre groupes sociaux pour l’investissement des territoires et des pratiques. Une partie historique reviendra sur les mouvements pour le…
Organisers' description :
Urban Encounters: Routes and Transitions explores the dialogue and practice of visual urbanism to bring together international researchers, academics, photographers and artists concerned with the transitional nature of…
Abstract from the publisher :
As the world's urban populations grow, cities become spaces where increasingly diverse peoples negotiate such differences as language, citizenship, ethnicity and race, class and wealth, and gender. Using a comparative…
Organisers' description :
The principal aim of Urban Age is to shape the thinking and practice of urban leaders and sustainable urban development. This six-year conference series – travelling from New York City, Shanghai, London, Mexico City,…
Abstract from the publisher :
Does the neighbourhood in which people live matter for the resourcefulness of their personal network and thus for their opportunities in life? Do residents of a multi-ethnic ‘problem’ area maintain fewer…
See also the other books in this series: Part 1: The Hague (not available online) Part 2: Barcelona Part 3: Birmingham Part 4: Brussels Part 5: Frankfurt Part 7: Comparative analysis
See also the other books in this series:
Part 1: The Hague (not available online)
Part 2: Barcelona
Part 3: Birmingham
Part 4: Brussels
Part 6: Lille
Part 7: Comparative analysis
See also the other books in this series:
Part 1: The Hague (not available online)
Part 2: Barcelona
Part 3: Birmingham
Part 5: Frankfurt
Part 6: Lille
Part 7: Comparative analysis
See also the other books in this series:
Part 1: The Hague (not available online)
Part 2: Barcelona
Part 4: Brussels
Part 5: Frankfurt
Part 6: Lille
Part 7: Comparative analysis
See also the other books in this series:
Part 1: The Hague (not available online)
Part 3: Birmingham
Part 4: Brussels
Part 5: Frankfurt
Part 6: Lille
Part 7: Comparative analysis
See also the other books in this series: Part 1: The Hague (not available online) Part 2: Barcelona Part 3: Birmingham Part 4: Brussels Part 5: Frankfurt Part 6: Lille
Organisers' description :
This major conference on the theme of The Vital City was held under the auspices of the European Urban Research Association (EURA). EURA brings together an inter-disciplinary network of urban researchers from across Europe…
Abstract of the Editorial by George H. Conklin: 2006 is the year that the world as a whole becomes over half urban, yet no longer is the city the home of the industrial factory in the Western world. What shape should the new city take in the…
Extract from the preface by Ernest W. Burgess :
Nine years ago the central topic at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Society was "Rural Sociology." So great was the demand for the volume, especially for use in classes in universities…
The majority of the papers presented at the 2004 conference 'The resurgent city', held at the London School of Economics, are available for download as PDF files.
Organisers' description :
This Leverhulme-funded international symposium aims to…
Abstract from the publisher :
The Power of Ethnic Places discusses the growing visibility of ethnic heritage places in U.S. society. The book examines a spectrum of case studies of Chinese, Latino and African American communities in the U.S.,…
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…