City futures 2004
subject: , logement, développement urbain, logement social, économie, planification, gouvernance, politique urbaine, cadre de vie, équité sociale, aménagement de l'espace, aménagement urbain, mutation urbaine, mondialisation
description: Organisers' description : An important international conference on globalism and urban change took place in Chicago from July 8-10, 2004. The aim of the City Futures conference was to boost the quality of international dialogue about urban issues by: * Creating an entire conference focused on strengthening international exchange, * Engaging different disciplinary perspectives and approaches, and * Welcoming papers that address local, regional, national and international policy concerns. Session topics : Session 1.1 -- Future of city finances Session 1.2 -- Comparative urban economic development Session 1.3 -- Comparative land use planning Session 1.4 -- Planning and affordable housing Session 2.1 -- Divided cities and new responses Session 2.2 -- Public housing debates: decline, revitalization and gentrification Session 2.3 -- Social exclusion in comparative perspective Session 2.4 -- Regional economic development patterns and policies Session 2.5 -- Digital development and the urban future Session 3.1 -- Infrastructure, land and development in a globalizing world Session 3.2 -- Divided cities and urban vulnerability Session 3.3 -- Urbanization and sustainability Session 3.4 -- Urban data and policy analysis in a global world Session 3.5 -- Urban inequality - race, class, caste and gender Session 3.6 -- Cultural heritage and urban development Session 4.1 -- Un-marginalizing marginalized space Session 4.2 -- The global-local nexus Session 4.3 -- Travel to work Session 4.4 -- Urban sprawl(ing) Session 4.5 -- Changing urban space Session 4.6 -- A new spatial order? Session 5.1 -- Constructing new urban space Session 5.2 -- History, culture and planning Session 5.3 -- Competition and cooperation in shaping urban futures Session 5.4 -- Crossing Boundaries Session 5.5 -- Spatial structure and development Session 5.6 -- Change space...space change Session 6.1 -- Community led development Session 6.2 -- Public participation Session 6.3 -- Improving Survey research methods f…
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: European Urban Research Association (EURA) Urban Affairs Association (UAA)
date: 8-10 July 2004
format: Various
type: Autre

The vital city : EURA 2007 conference
subject: , renouvellement urbain, lien social, mixité sociale, environnement urbain, dynamiques urbaines, voisinage, gouvernance, démocratie participative, innovation, politique publique, aménagement urbain, immobilier, logement, forme urbaine, transport, développement durable, éducation
description: 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 and beyond. It provides a forum for cross-national debate on urban policy and acts as a bridge between research and policy in this rapidly urbanising world. The conference, which attracted an audience of over 260 delegates and featured over 180 papers, celebrated EURA's 10th Anniversary. The event provided an opportunity for urban researchers and policy makers to engage in lively debate and exchange knowledge and ideas about the challenges involved in achieving 'The Vital City' in different European settings. Session themes : Resurgent European Cities Diversity, Cohesion and the Richness of Cities Branding the Distinctive City The Urban Environment and 'Quality of Place' Neighbourhood Dynamics and Urban Vitality Strategies for Viable and Vital Neighbourhoods Urban Governance Community Activism and Civic Innovation Health and Public Policy Real Estate Development and City Planning Housing Organisation and Finance Urban Form, Transport and Sustainability The Role of Higher Education in Cities and Regions
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: European Urban Research Association (EURA) University of Glasgow
date: 12-14 September 2007
format: Various
type: Autre

Area-based initiatives in contemporary urban policy : EURA conference
subject: , politique de la ville, politique urbaine, gouvernance, gestion locale, insertion, immigration, emploi, rénovation urbaine, participation
description: Organisers' description : Many contemporary European urban policy initiatives emphasise an area-based approach, which also aims to involve the community in planning and implementation of projects. There is a recognised need to strengthen the democratic element, further social inclusion, integrate social, employment, cultural, and physical regeneration components, and to promote urban renewal for the existing residents, rather than to gentrify. Does this signal a break with previous more sector-organised initiatives and the birth of a new coherent and integrated urban policy better suited to tackle the complex social and economic challenges of the city of the 21 Century? What challenges and barriers confront efforts to rethink city governance? Do participatory methods and partnerships in community involvement render superfluous the traditional democratic models of urban government? Are they better or do they pose new problems in terms of lack of legitimate democratic representation? The aim of the conference is to bring forward recent European and international research and experience regarding the effects of the new generation of urban policy initiatives both emphasising theoretical debate and empirical findings. Session topics : Workshop 1. Participation and community involvement in planning and implementation of urban policy projects and programmes Workshop 2: Challenge to policy and administration of an integrated and comprehensive approach in urban policy Workshop 3: EU Urban Policy vis à vis the development of new practices in the urban policy of European towns and cities Workshop 4: Employment issues, immigration and social inclusion in the neighbourhood. Stigmatisation, image of deprived neighbourhoods, the role of business in the neighbourhood Workshop 5: Models of partnerships and collaborative planning efforts Workshop 6: Methodological issues related to the measurement and evaluation of the effects of urban improvement programmes. Learning processes in th…
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: European Urban Research Association (EURA) Danish Building Institute (SBi)
date: 7 - 9 May 2001
format: Various
type: Autre

European city in comparative perspective
subject: , histoire urbaine, gouvernance, commerce, migration urbaine, ville portuaire, espace public, mémoire, représentations, culture urbaine, périphéries, infrastructures, guerre, identité, pauvreté, sauvegarde, patrimoine, centre historique
description: Papers presented at the 2004 European Association for Urban History (EUAH)'s conference 'European city in comparative perspective : Seventh international conference on urban history' are available for download as full-text PDF files. 144 papers are available, the majority of which are in English (the remainder being in French). Session topics : Eastern Mediterranean Cities compared: Urban Government in Greece, the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire (1820-1925) Living in the city: Urban Elites and their residences Urban Stability and Civic Liberties: Two Fundamental Concepts and the Practice of Crime Control in Early Modern European Cities (1450-1850) Cats and Cities Another (hi)story of modernity: Urban everyday life in the 19th century, Europe West - Europe East Retailers and Consumer Changes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Villes de Flandre et d’Italie: rélectures d’une comparaison traditionnelle The Ancient City in a European Perspective: Feeding the ancient city Green spaces in Cities since 1918: politics, ideologies, and perceptions Public Utilities, Local Resources and Politics Trade, Migration and Urban Networks in European Port-cities (17th-20th centuries) Constructing Urban Memories: The Role of Oral Testimony Methods and problems in Comparative Urban History: Searching for New Indicators of Success and Backwardness of Towns Urban Images and Representations in Europe and beyond during the 20th century Cities and Creative Milieus Wars, Bastions, and Towns: The Impact of Fortifications upon the Civic Community in the Early Modern Europe Périphéries et espaces périphériques dans les villes européennes du moyen age et de l’époque Moderne (XV - XIV siècles): les transformations induites par l’économie Urban Historiography in Comparative Perspective Power and Water problem in European Cities in XV and XVI centuries Cadastres and representations of the cities (XVIII-XIX centuries) Cultural Styles of Provincial Towns in the 18th Century: The Influence of the Metrop…
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: Panteion University European Association for Urban History (EUAH)
date: 2004
format: Various
type: Autre

The new urban question : Urbanism beyond neo-liberalism
subject: , néolibéralisme, urbanisation, culture urbaine, croissance urbaine, développement urbain, économie, société urbaine, développement durable, forme urbaine, métropolisation, gouvernance, aménagement urbain
description: Organisers' description : “The New Urban Question – Urbanism beyond Neo-liberalism” is the title of the 4th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) that will take place from November 26th to 28th, 2009 at Zuiderkerk in Amsterdam and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). The theme of the conference is about the recovery of the discipline of Urbanism under the conditions of urbanization and urban transformation, ecological threats and economical crises. More than 35 years after the publication of La Question Urbaine by Manuel Castells the urban question has to be asked anew. In the meantime the world is experiencing the fastest urbanization in history of man. Never before has human society gone through a comparable process of urban growth, nor have cities expanded as today. Within a few decennia new mega-cities or even meta-cities arose that are confronting the world with new urban cultures, with increasing social contradictions and with new and unknown environmental threats. On the other hand, more than half of the urban population worldwide is living in middle-sized cities up to 500.000 inhabitants that have become the major catchment areas for future population growth. For decennia urban development has been dominated by a globalizing economy and almost unlimited market demands. While economic power more and more became concentrated in global command centers, the influence of public planning decreased in the framework of governmental decentralization. However, the recent economical crisis has shown the limits of growth under the conditions of neo-liberalism. New models for urban development, new concepts for urban design and new approaches for planning and management are demanded that are able to guide the processes of extension and transformation of cities and regions, to bridge social contradictions, to combat segregation and fragmentation and to face the ecological challenges. With other words: The discipline of Urbanism has to be rediscove…
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU)
date: 26 - 28 November 2009
format: Various
type: Autre

Urban ethnography : Its traditions and its future
subject: ethnographie, ethnologie, délinquance, emploi, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine, immigration, migrant, Anderson Elijah
description: From the introduction by Elijah Anderson : The articles collected in this special issue are based on papers presented at the Yale Urban Ethnography Conference, ‘Urban Ethnography: Its Traditions and Its Future’, held at Yale University in the spring of 2008. The ethnographic ﬁeld study is founded on the observation and rendering of nuance, texture, and the lives of the subjects.Informed by sociological theory, the ethnographer employs a careful, bottom-up approach to ﬁeld observations and representations of how people are actually living their everyday lives, interacting with others, making decisions, and understanding their own social situations (Junker and Hughes, 1960). This research yields qualitative data which then enriches our understanding of existing theories and provides the groundwork for the development of new concepts, informing future study. Sustained ethnographic ﬁeldwork aims at accumulating a store of ‘local knowledge’ (Geertz, 1983) and takes seriously the study of the ways in which ordinary people make sense of their social worlds, and navigate within them. These basic ethnographic questions persist and guide us: how do city dwellers go about meeting the exigencies of their everyday lives; what is their interpretation and ‘deﬁnition of the situation’; and how ultimately do they make sense of their social worlds? In addressing these concerns, exciting newresearch by accomplished younger ﬁeldworkers and reﬂections by established ethnographers are brought together in this special issue. Contents : Elijah Anderson - Introduction Gerald D. Jaynes, David E. Apter, Herbert J. Gans, Ruth Horowitz, William Kornblum and James F. Short Jr - The Chicago School and the roots of urban ethnography James F. Short Jr and Lorine A. Hughes - Urban ethnography and research integrity: Empirical and theoretical dimensions Waverly Duck - ‘Senseless’ violence: Making sense of murder Colin Jerolmack - Primary groups and cosmopolitan ties: The rooftop pigeon ﬂyers of New Y…
creator: NC
publisher: SAGE
date: December 2009
format: 371-564
type: Revue

Futures of cities : 51st IFHP world congress
subject: , planification, développement durable, développement urbain, aménagement urbain, aménagement de l'espace, infrastructures, logement
description: Organisers' description : The year 2007 marks a shift to an urban era, an era in which more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. This fact is making many headlines. But what are its implications? How will this impact the futures of cities? Over a century ago, the Danish journalist and photographer Jacob A. Riis gave us How the Other Half Lives, shedding light on the plight oftenement dwellers — people who had moved to the city in search of a better life. Today, we again need to address how this urban half lives. How are we to plan, build, budget, negotiate, develop, promote, govern, service, use, embrace and secure a myriad of different sustainable urban futures? We now call upon policy-makers, practitioners and researchers from the public, private and academic sectors to share their predictions and proposals for the futures of cities! As our urban numbers increase, so do the questions: What are the impacts? On the cityscape, on the countryside, on the built environment,on where we work, where you live, and where Peter plays? What are the indicators? Recent findings, current trends! Hard facts, future figures! What is the measure of urban quality, of adequate housing? What are current construction rates? What are theforecasts for 2030? What implementations are being made? What is being done to tackle rising urbanization? What policies, plans, and programs are being enacted? Who is doing it, and how are things getting done? Session topics : Planning for climate change Space and demographic changes Housing and welfare Public realm and mobility Planning for healthy cities Building green cities Welfare policies in a global perspective Why large scale projects? Housing and planning between state and market Urban liveability Art in cities and planning The art of creative city making Dutch dilemma : Expanding housing in a shrinking world Impacts, indicators, implementations in a Danish context Sustainable futures for megacities Construction of urban identit…
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP)
date: 23-26 September 2007
format: Various
type: Autre

Urban transformation : Controversies, contrasts and challenges
subject: , histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, mutation urbaine, espace urbain, gouvernance, société urbaine, occupation du sol, économie, environnement, politique urbaine
description: Organisers' description : 14th International Planning History Society Conference will take place in Istanbul between the dates July 12-15, 2010. The conference will address the theme of “Urban Transformation: Controversies, Contrasts and Challenges”. The conference theme seeks to provide a window not only for a broad investigation of urban transformation aspects in Planning History across the world, but also for sharing professional and academic knowledge and expertise in Istanbul, in the European Capital of Culture 2010. During the recent globalisation period, Istanbul has become the focus for a number of urban transformation initiatives, which have brought an unprecedented level of challenges in planning, urban governance, cultural and social structure, historic preservation and other areas. Proposals will preferably address one or more of the following sub-themes: * Urban transformation in the planning history * Urban transformation strategies, policies, tools, urban management and governance, * Urban transformation and the urban space * Urban transformation and land use: housing and squatter settlements, commercial and industrial districts, transportation and infrastructure, * Urban transformation and the society * Urban transformation and the economy * Urban transformation and the environment conference website for a full list of papers available as full text.
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: International Planning History Society (IPHS)
date: 12-15 July 2010
format: Various
type: Autre

21st international congress of historical sciences
subject: , histoire urbaine, culture urbaine, mondialisation, sciences politiques, forme urbaine, échange, renouvellement urbain, infrastructures, rue
description: Organisers' description : The International Congress of Historical Sciences takes place every five years. This Congress provides an ideal venue for extensive reports, papers, debates, exchanges, and meetings reflecting historical research in action. It is the meeting place for the global community of historians. List of relevant papers : Prof. Francesca Bocchi - Innovation and Improvement in Infrastructures and Services as a Cultural Product of Italian Medieval Cities Prof. Dr. Jin-Sung Chun - Prussian Classicism as postcolonial lieux de mémoire: A transnational perspective on the Korean metropolis Seoul Dr. Maria Pia Donato & Prof. Marina Formica - Métamorphoses d’une ville-témoin : la (re)création de Rome à l’époque moderne Dr. Adrián Gorelik - The idea of "Latin American City" Prof. Dr. Catherine Horel - Le multiculturalisme dans les villes de l'empire des Habsbourg autour de 1900 Dr. Luda Klusakova - History and Cultural Heritage - Transfers Between Urban and Rural Culture (European experience) Dr. Marjaana Niemi - Urban cultural diversity and the quest for national unity: Helsinki and Dublin in the 1920s and 1930s Prof. Dr. Lars Nilsson - From an industrial to a post-industrial urban culture Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Opll - Urban Culture – Cultural City: A case-study with regard to Vienna Mr. Olusoji Oyeranmi - Globalization, Migration and City Development in Nigeria, Ibadan Example Dr. Katia Pizzi - The City as Cultural Laboratory: Trieste 1918-1954 Prof. Yvan Combeau - Paris in French political historiography Laurenţiu Rădvan - Town streets in the Romanian principalities Marco Mostert - Medieval urban literacy Carlos López Galviz - Metropolitan communications and the experience of urban form : London, Paris and the city railway
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: International committee of historical sciences (ICHS)
date: 22-28 August 2010
format: Various
type: Autre

The city as an entertainment machine
subject: , économie, sciences politiques, entertainment, divertissement, loisir, immobilier, développement urbain, croissance urbaine, sociologie urbaine, société urbaine, mondialisation, Clark Terry Nichols, tissu urbain, cadre de vie
description: To access the document : Click the folder icon in the left-hand column, then click the 'Book manuscripts' folder. Then open the folder 'The city as an entertainment machine' and open the clark.zip file. This will download to your computer a folder containing the full-text of the book, in 15 PDF files. The file named 'prelims' contains the title and contents pages of the book, thereafter each PDF file contains one chapter, as labelled.
creator: NC
publisher: Elsevier
date: 2003
format: 325
type: Ouvrage

Breslauer symposium 2006 : The right to the city and the politics of space
subject: , droit à la ville, sciences politiques, aménagement de l'espace, analyse spatiale, forme urbaine, néolibéralisme, mouvement social, espace public, géographie urbaine, politique de la ville
description: Abstract from the publisher : The Breslauer Symposium was established in 2001 through the generosity of a campus donor and is named in honor of George Breslauer, current Dean of Social Sciences at UC Berkeley. Held annually, its goal is to support graduate student research and writing on international issues related to the pursuit of solutions to real-world problems. Contents of the 2006 Breslauer graduate student symposium - The right to the city and the politics of space : Amouroux, Christa S.: Conflict In Copenhagen: Urban Reconfigurations, Disciplining the Unruly Anand, Nikhil: Disconnecting Experience: Making World-Class Roads in Mumbai Berney, Rachel: Constructing Sustainability: Emerging Spaces in Bogotá's Search for a New Identity Carriere, Michael H.: Building a New House of Hope: The Rise of the African-American Megachurch in Postindustrial Chicago Centner, Ryan: Neoliberalization and Conflicted Sustainability in Argentina: Overlain Landscapes of Buenos Aires Urban Environmental Plan Chu, Cecilia: The Myth and Reality of Housing in Hong Kong: The Controversy over the Demolition of the Hunghom Estate Desai, Renu: Uneasy Negotiations: Urban Redevelopment, Neoliberalism and Hindu Nationalist Politics in Ahmedabad, India Devlin, Ryan: Illegibility, Uncertainty and the Management of Street Vending in New York City Fredericks, Rozy: Participatory Cities? The Cultural Politics of Community-Based Waste Management in Dakar, Senegal Karacas, Cary: Buckets, Bombs, and Bodies: Rights to the Japanese City & the Tokyo Air Raids Kohl, Erica: The Power of Giving: Investigating the Shape of Private Philanthropy, a California Case Study Lebuhn, Henrik: Entrepreneurial Urban Politics and Urban Social Movements in Los Angeles: The Struggle for Urban Farmland in South Central Matsipa, Mpho: "Today It Feels Good to be an African": Nationalist Chronotopes, Freedom Park and the "Struggle" for National Identity in South Africa Miranda, Lucrezia: "It’s Illegal to be Ugly and Do Any…
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: University of California at Berkeley Source eScholarship University of California
date: 2006
format: Various
type: Autre

Liminalities : On the city
subject: , ethnologie, espace urbain, espace public, espace de transit, déplacements, art, film, banlieue, émeute, reconversion, littérature, transport, interaction sociale, Makagon Daniel, représentations
description: Daniel Makagon is an associate professor in the College of Communication at DePaul University in Chicago.
creator: NC
publisher: Liminalities
date: 2008
format: Various pages
type: Revue

ECAS 2009 3rd European conference on African studies
subject: Afrique, Africa, aménagement de l'espace, fragmentation sociale, droit à la ville, migration urbaine, urbanisation, espace public, espace urbain, histoire urbaine, développement urbain, économie, sécurité, ségrégation urbaine
description: The 3rd European conference on African studies included a number of panels and papers on the subject of cities and urban studies, some of which are freely available as full text (see list below - only full-text papers on topics related to urban studies have been listed). Organisers' description : List of papers (click on the panel name to access the full-text papers from that panel): Panel 140 : Navigating urban space Gabriella Korling - Negotiating rights to the city: the development of neighbourhoods in peri-urban Niamey, Niger Maciej Kurcz - How to Survive in an African City? A Migrant in the Face of Urbanization Processes in the South Sudanese Juba Ulrika Andersson - The Wrong Clothes: Reinterpreting Spaces in a Nigerian City Panel 56 : Fragmented and fluid urbanities Christine Hentschel - Navigating crime and the making of instant space, Durban South Africa Edgar Pieterse - Exploratory Notes on African Urbanisms Garth Myers - What if the Postmetropolis is Lusaka? Laura Wenz - The rise of the creative economy in Cape Town/South Africa and its implications for urban development Stephen Marr - No one can see if your belly is empty : The politics and performance of insurgent consumption in Gaborone, Botswana William Freund - Kinshasa - The Congolese elite and the fragmented city Panel 51 : Spatial transformations in African towns Karin Pallaver - A second Zanzibar . Some notes on the history of precolonial and early colonial Tabora, Tanzania (1840-1912). Kristina Helgesson Kjellin - Relating to the Durban Urban Space. Experiences of Spatial Transformations Among South African Pentecostals
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS)
date: 4-7 June 2009
format: Various
type: Autre

Gender and the city : London journal of Canadian studies
subject: genre, gender, Canada, littérature, histoire urbaine, identité, immobilier, emploi, Quebec, Québec, Dummitt Christopher
description: From the editorial by Christopher Dummitt : This issue of the London Journal of Canadian Studies takes up the subject of gender and the Canadian city. Most of the articles here were first presented at the London Conference for Canadian Studies’ Gender and the City conference that was held in February 2006. The essays in this collection demonstrate the ways cities are useful places to look at the changing gendered experiences of Canadians, and also of the ways cities themselves have become symbols of gender and culture. The essays also blend history and literature, beginning with three articles on history and then moving on to three literary pieces. Contents : Christopher Dummitt - Searching for Ralph Connor: A Roundabout Introduction to Gender and the City Robert C.H. Sweeny - Property and Gender: Lessons from a 19th-century town Richard Dennis - Working Women Downtown: Single Women in Toronto 1900–1930 Maureen A. Flanagan - The Workshop or the Home? Gender Visions in the History of Urban Built Environments: Canada and the United States Linda Knowles - ‘Kronk City’: Canadian Cities in the Novels of Carol Shields Julie Rodgers - Redefining Quebec identity: Nous avons tous découvert l’Amérique by Francine Noël Ceri Morgan - Spectacular sexualities on la Sainte-Catherine and Josée Yvon's Danseuses-mamelouk Christopher Dummitt is a Professor at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies and Indigenous Studies at Trent University.
creator: NC
publisher: London Conference for Canadian Studies
date: 2006
format: 140
type: Revue

Footprint : Metropolitan form
subject: , forme urbaine, métropole, morphologie urbaine, aménagement urbain, infrastructures, transport, ville nouvelle, périphéries, Piranesi Giovanni Battista, Solà-Morales Ignasi, Claessens François, Moudon Anne Vernez
description: Abstract from the publishers : The fifth issue of Footprint investigates the question of metropolitan form. The necessity to focus on the scale of metropolitan areas is manifest as this is the dominant scale of contemporary global life. The process of urbanisation and the size of urban agglomerations have dramatically increased since the last decades. These dynamics alone demand radically changed thinking about internal spatial organisation and the form of urban regions. Yet, scholarly focus at the regional level has shifted away from spatial thinking of overall form towards issues of governance, socio-economic statistics, and global networks. While these approaches provide insight into contemporary conditions, lost in translation is the question of metropolitan form: what are the characteristics of its spatio-physical structures? What are its distinguishable elements? And what are the factors that determine the transformation of form through time? By addressing the question of metropolitan form we try to extrapolate - scale-up - the research notions and methods of ‘urban morphology’ from the ‘urban’ to the ‘regional’ scale. Contents : David Prosperi, Anne Vernez Moudon, and François Claessens - The Question of Metropolitan Form: Introduction Stephen Read - Another Form: From the ‘Informational’ to the ‘Infrastructural’ City Olgu Çalişkan - Changing Perspectives on the Planning of Ankara (1924-2007) and Lessons for a New Master-Planning Approach to Developing Cities René van der Velde and Saskia de Wit - The Landscape Form of the Metropolis Qiang Sheng and Linfei Han - Movement Technologies, Scale Structure and Metropolitan Life – an Empirical Research on the Effects of the Transportation System on the Metropolitan Process in Beijing Jing Zhou and Lei Qu - Peripheral Cluster versus New Town: A Comparative Study on Two Types of Peripheral Developments in the Beijing Metropolitan Region Arie Romein, Otto Verkoren and Ana María Fernandez-Maldonado - Polycentric Metropo…
creator: NC
publisher: Delft School of Design
date: Autumn 2009
format: 172
type: Revue

Footprint : Mapping urban complexity in an Asian context
subject: , cartographie, réseaux, déplacements, logement, développement urbain, paysage urbain, analyse spatiale, China, Chine, Japan, Japon, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Inde, Asia, Asie, Bracken Gregory, Sohn Heidi
description: Abstract from the publisher : The second issue of Footprint aims at reuniting two themes which are receiving a great deal of attention in recent times: Asia’s extraordinary urban growth, and the problematique of mapping highly complex urban environments. The 21st century, forecasted by many as the ‘Pacific Century’, brings to the fore the region's economic, social, political and cultural changes, wide-ranging in their manifestation and far-reaching in their consequence. All of these factors are inscribed in the urban environment. In a region where a population of one million constitutes a small settlement and mega-cities such as Tokyo and Shanghai have come to dominate the global network, sheer size is itself an important issue and not just in practical terms. Then there is the apparent chaos that is actually a delicately balanced autopoeisis in cities such as Mumbai, as well as the interesting and potentially useful city-state model of Hong Kong. These conditions and rising phenomena bring important questions on the potentials and relevance of mapping to the fore. The nine contributors to this issue take these questions as their point of departure, and set out to explore some of the region’s most important or complex cities. Urban China is covered by Ruan’s interesting overview of this country’s frenzied economic boom, which he claims is ephemeral; Visser’s attempt to map Beijing –‘ the ungovernable city’ - poses timely critical questions; Qiang’s analysis of the evolution of Beijing’s movement network and the effects it has on urban function; Arkaraprasertkul’s investigation of Shanghai’s Pudong, as well as its older lilong; Karandinou & Koutsoumpos’ thought-provoking and beautifully rendered mapping project of Shanghai’s ‘other’ river, the Suzhou; Bhatia’s examination of Shanghai’s transforming housing typologies; Solomon’s investigation of the development of Hong Kong, particularly Victoria Harbour. Moving further east, Tokyo’s complexity is explored in Lucas’s …
creator: NC
publisher: Delft School of Design
date: Spring 2008
format: 119
type: Revue

City sites : Multimedia essays on New York and Chicago, 1870s-1930s
subject: Chicago, New York, histoire urbaine, analyse spatiale, forme urbaine, iconography, iconographie, culture urbaine, littérature, dix-neuvième siècle, vingtième siècle, twentieth century, nineteenth century, Balshaw Maria, Notaro Anna, Kennedy Liam, Tallack Douglas
description: Abstract from the publishers : City Sites is an inter- and multi-disciplinary study of the iconography, spatial forms and visual and literary cultures of New York and Chicago in the period 1870s to 1930s. City Sites is the result of collaborative research by scholars from Europe and the U.S.A and presents a pioneering approach to American urbanism utilising analytical possibilities offered by new multimedia technologies. City Sites is part of the 3Cities research project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Board and is based at the University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham in the UK. Contents (essays) : New York : Maria Balshaw - From Lenox to Seventh Avenue : Mapping the 'Negro capital of the world' Eric Sandeen - Signs of the times : Waiting for the millennium in Times Square John Walsh - The attraction of the Flatiron building : Construction processes Douglas Tallack - The rhetoric of space : Jacob Riis and New York City's Lower East Side Anna Notaro - Constructing the futurist city : The skyscraper Chicago : Max Page - Maxwell Street and the crucible of culture Christopher Gair - Whose America? White City and the shaping of national identity, 1883-1905 Jude Davies - Meeting places : Shopping for selves in Chicago and New York Liam Kennedy - Black metropolis : The space of the street in the art of Archibald Motley, Jr. William Boelhower - The mysteries of Chicago : Floating in a sea of signs Maria Balshaw is a Research Fellow in American literature at the University of Birmingham. Anna Notero is a lecturer in the School of American and Canadian studies at the University of Nottingham. Liam Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Birmingham. Douglas Tallack is Professor or American Studies and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Nottingham. 3Cities project website.
creator: NC
publisher: University of Birmingham Press
date: 2000
format: N/A
type: Ouvrage

Diversity in cities : Visible and invisible walls - EURODIV 3rd conference
subject: communauté, community, mixité sociale, immigration, migration urbaine, identité, fragmentation sociale, ségrégation urbaine, espace urbain, gated communities, culture urbaine, ethnicité, ethnicity, Europe
description: Abstract from the publisher : The special issue on Cultural Diversity collects a selection of papers presented at the multidisciplinary and multinational Marie Curie project on “Cultural diversity in Europe: A series of Conferences” (EURODIV). This batch of papers has been presented at the Third Conference “Diversity in cities: Visible and invisible walls”. Contents : Viera Bacava, Peter Babincak - Individuals in Communities and Communities in Cities – the ISA (Identity Structure Analysis) Perspective Paschalis Arvanitidis, Dimitris Skouras - Intra-Urban Patterns of Immigrant Location and the Housing Market: A Preliminary Investigation Alessandra Micoli - Participating and Belonging. The Construction and Negotiation of Group Identities in a Neighbourhood of Milan Keti Lelo - Suburbs and Fragmentation Patterns: The Case of Rome Matjaz Ursic - Culture as Exclusion? Migrants and Exclusive Spatial Demarcation in the City Giulio Verdini - Forms of Appropriation and Integration of Cultural Capital in the Metropolitan Area of Montevideo. Space and Global Market from Latin America to Europe Diana Petkova - Culture Shock and Adaptation in a Multiethnic City Nick Dines - The Experience of Diversity in an Era of Urban Regeneration: The Case of Queens Market, East London Andreas Damelang, Max Steinhardt, Silvia Stiller - Europe’s Diverse Labour Force: The Case of German Cities Sirkku Varjonen - Constructing Socio-Cultural Belonging in Narrative and Questionnaire Data Tüzin Baycan-Levent, Aliye Ahu Gülümser - Gated Communities in Istanbul: The New Walls of the City Rossella Lo Conte - Comparison of Open/Heterogeneous – Closed/Homogeneous Local Systems in Dealing with Diversity: London Alessia Mefalopulos - Moving Through Community Networks. Social Capital and Integration Strategies in the Moroccan Community in Italy Riitta Oittinen - In Hoc Signo Vinces. Eurosigns in the City Scenery of Brussels Maria Alessia Montuori - The Visible and the Invisible: Crossing Ethnic and Spatial …
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: SUS.DIV/EURODIV
date: 11 - 12 September 2007
format: Various
type: Autre

Risks, hazards and urban renewal, 1666 to 2000 : Urban History Group annual conference 2006
subject: , aménagement urbain, renouvellement urbain, rénovation urbaine, histoire urbaine
description: From the conference report : The Annual conference of the Urban History Group took place at the University of Reading this year from the 30th to the 31st March. Entitled ‘Risks, Hazards and Urban Renewal, 1666 to 2000’, the conference attracted a diverse range of subjects and covered four centuries. The conference attracted almost fifty delegates from around the globe. Papers available as full text : Utku Balaban - The great anachronism : Urban renewal by 'peasants' José María Cardesín and Iñaki Mendizábal - Urban regeneration and architectural historical research in the Spanish city of Ferrol Molly O'Brien Castro - On the privatization of inner cities : The British Conservative government's urban policy, 1979 - mid-1990s Mark Clapson - Urban dispersal and its social consequences : Town planning, sociology and the English working classes, 1945 - 80 Angela Davis - Destruction or reconstruction? Women's experiences of community and urban living in Oxford c. 1945 - 70 Isabelle Mity - Cronos devouring its children : Urban renewal and the discourse on degeneration in Germany at the time of urbanization
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: Urban History Group
date: 30 - 31 March 2006
format: Various
type: Autre

Systemic impact and sustainability of gated enclaves in the city : Cybergeo dossier
subject: , gated communities, développement durable, foncier, enclavement, sauvegarde, ségrégation résidentielle, fragmentation sociale, périphéries, privatisation, espace urbain
description: Contents : Karina Landman - The storm that rocks the boat: the systemic impact of gated communities on urban sustainability Jörg Plöger - The emergence of a “City of Cages” in Lima : neighbourhood appropriation in the context of rising insecurities Renaud Le Goix - The impact of gated Communities on property values: evidence of changes in real estate markets -Los Angeles, 1980-2000 Eric Charmes - Suburban fragmentation versus mobilities : is suburbanism opposed to urbanism ? Setha Low - Towards a Theory of Urban Fragmentation: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Fear, Privatization, and the State
creator: Multiple authors
publisher: Revues.org
date: 2006 & 2007
type: Revue