Migration into cities : Patterns, processes and regulation
, migration urbaine, gouvernance, insertion, intégration, société urbaine, urbanisation, économie
Organisers' description : Workshop organized by the Irmgard Coninx Foundation and the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (Osnabrück University) held at the Social Science Research Center Berlin on 25-27 October 2007. The workshop intended to explore pertinent migratory patterns and processes into urban agglomerations and examined ways how the responsible administrations attempt to cope with migration-related social consequences and problems. The focus was placed less on the reasons of migration, the motives of migrants and on the concrete living conditions upon arrival, but more on the dynamics and characteristics of migration processes themselves and the options and means to regulate or govern these processes. Papers : Isabel M. Estrada Portales - “Rural Souls in Urban Hells: The Reconstitution of a Supporting Community through Favelas” Réka Geambaşu - “Rural-Urban Migration and the Creation of ‘The New Socialist Man’ in Communist Romania” Oscar Gil - “Engendering Democratic Strategies for Governing Migrants in Urban Centers” Michael Janoschka - “Governance Regimes and Regulation in Local Political Conflicts: Re-Thinking the Political Participation of Migrants” Li-Fang Liang - “The Construction of Global City: Invisible Work and Disposable Labor” Katharina Ludwig - “Family Deregulation? Mobilizing Collectives to Loop Migration Order in Austria” Danzan Narantuya - “Migration into Cities: Mongolia” Ezebunwa E. Nwokocha - “Engaging the Burden of Rural-Urban Migration in a Non-Regulatory System: The Case of Nigeria” Akachi Odoemene - “The Historical Dynamics of Migration into Enugu City, Southeastern Nigeria, 1915-1990” Anisseh Van Engeland - “Afghan Migrations inside Iran: From Camps to Cities” Michael Waibel - “Migration to Greater Ho Chi Minh City in the Course of Doi Moi Policy: Spacial Dimensions, Consequences and Policy Changes with Special Reference to Housing” Yan Wei - “What Should China’s Government Do for Rural-Urban Migrant Workers?” Christiane Wirth-Forsberg - “Access to Housing and Employment of New Migrants: Exploring the Limits of Local Governance” Courtney Work - “The View from Here: Migration and Village Violence in Cambodia” Friederike Zigmann - “Urban Sprawl, Informal Settlements and Government Responses in the Megalopolis of Cairo (Egypt)”
Cities in China : The next generation of urban research, part 3
China, Chine, mutation urbaine, migration urbaine, économie, développement urbain
Papers (only papers in English listed) : Anna Boermel - Discourse and experience : An anthropolical study of 'old age' in urban China (Beijing) Guo Chen - Urban poverty in a socialist country : Myths and realities. Changing urban landscape in transitional China since the 1970s Yanguang Chen - Spatial changes of Chinese cities under the condition of exo-urbanization Angelina Chin - Molding women's urban citizenship : Management of 'deviant' women in Guangzhou in the 1920s and 1930s Yiping Fang - Residential satisfaction conceptual framework revisited - a study on redeveloped neighborhoods in inner city Beijing Shenjing He - The changing rationale and interest distribution of urban redevelopment in Shanghai William Hurst - The unmaking of the Chinese proletariat : The politics of xiagang Dror Kochan - Moving images : Internal migration in contemporary Chinese cinema Zhigang Li - Socioeconomic transformations in Shanghai, 1990-2000 Xuejun Liu - Report on the unemployment in urban China Jianto Lu - Using spatial analysis and spatial modeling techniques to detect the spatial difference between overseas Chinese and non-Chinese investments in urban China Erik Mobrand - Beyond household registers and floating populations : Migration controls and their demise in China Jinghao Sun - Urbanization in the absence of rural-based commercialization : The pivotal role of transportation in late Imperial Jining Dong Wang - Property rights reform in China : A case study of Hutang Town, Jiangsu Province (A progress report) Wenfei Winnie Wang and C. Cindy Fan - Success or failure : Selectivity and reasons of return migration in Sichuan and Anhui, China Xiaogang Wu - Registration status, labor migration, and socioeconomic attainment in China's segmented labor markets Zhou Yu - Heterogenity and dynamics in China's emerging urban housing market : Two sides of a success story from the late 1990s
Cities in China : The next generation of urban research
China, Chine, migration urbaine, politique de la ville, politique urbaine, inégalité, mutation urbaine, voisinage, community, communauté
Organisers' description : The Urban China Research Network hosted "Cities in China: The Next Generation of Urban Research" at the University at Albany on June 14 and 15, 2002. The conference featured the research of recipients of the first two rounds of the Urban China Research Network's small grant program (2000-2001). Papers (only those with full text available listed) : Session 1 : Urban-rural migration in China : Xiaogang Wu - Hukou status and social mobility Session 2 : Urban policies and politics : Li Zhang - Reform of the Hukou system and rural-urban migration in China : The Challenges ahead Ren Yuan - NGOs, public participation and community development in urban China Session 3 : Urban inequality in China : Min Yang - The influence of social inequality on the life satisfaction of urban residents : A case study in Wuhan city Session 4 : Urban transformations : Wang Enru - Commercial structure of Beijing in the reform era Liu Zhi-jun - Rural urbanization and religious transformation? A case study of Zhangdian Town Session 5 : Neighborhoods and community organization : Benjamin Read - Beijing communities and their residents' committees : A survey Pan Tianshu - Shanghai nostalgia : Community-building and place-making in a late socialist city
Review symposium - Loïc Wacquant, Urban Outcasts : Urban geography (Vol. 31, No. 2)
Wacquant Loïc, Urban outcasts, bidonville, quartier défavorisé, quartier dégradé, ghetto, Chicago, pauvreté, précarité
Section contents : Tom Slater - Loïc Wacquant, 2008, Urban outcasts : A comparative sociology of advanced marginality John A. Agnew - Slums, ghettos, and urban marginality Melissa R. Gilbert - Place, space, and agency : Moving beyong the homogenous "ghetto" Steve Herbert - From the South Side to Susanville : Tracing the logics and geographies of contemporary segregation Melissa Nobles - "Here a ghetto, there a ghetto" : The value and peril of comparative study Tom Slater - Ghetto blasting : On Loïc Wacquant's Urban outcasts Nik Theodore - Urban underclass : The wayward travels of a chaotic concept John Western - Just how different? Loïc Wacquant's Chicago-Paris comparisons
Ireland, Irlande, espace public, analyse spatiale, démographie, logement, rénovation urbaine, néolibéralisme, service public, aménagement urbain, gouvernance, politique urbaine
Abstract from the publisher : Progress in Irish Urban Studies is a working paper series which presents expanded articles based on papers presented to the annual research seminar series and provides a means by which post-graduate researchers and practitioners can present recently completed research or research in progress to a wider audience and receive constructive feedback. The series is published on an annual basis and submissions are invited from all individuals conducting contemporary urban-related research. List of papers : VOLUME 4 2008 1. Evaluating the Role of Urban Public Space in Dublin's Evolution as an Entrepreneurial City - P. Lawton 2. Demographic Structure and Spatial Change in the Dublin City-Region, 1996-2006 - C. Walsh 3. The Implications of Housing Market Transformation and Segmentation for Housing Affordability in Ireland - D. Downey VOLUME 3 2007 1. Housing Quality Indicators and Sub-standard Accommodation in the ‘Budget’ Segment of the Private Rented Sector: An Overview of Selected Findings - D. Coates & N. Feely 2. (Re)Producing Cork Docklands: Just Add Water - C. O'Callaghan 3. The Monitoring and Enforcement of Standards in the Irish Private Rented Sector: Evaluating Local Authority Performance - D. Coates & N. Feely VOLUME 2 2006 1. Neo-Liberalism, Public Services and PPPs in Ireland - R. Hearne 2. Irish Planning Practice and a Response to Cultural Diversity - A. Ryan 3. The Politics of Urban Regeneration - J.P. Hogan VOLUME 1 Issue 2 2005 1. Funding Area Partnership Companies (APCs) in a changing landscape of governance: Some preliminary findings - M. Borscheid 2. Challenge, Renegotiation and Change in the Current Phase of Spencer Dock - J.P. Hogan 3. Smart Growth in Ireland: From Rhetoric to Reality - D. Stewart VOLUME 1 Issue 1 2005 1. Are They For Real? Demographic Projections for Spatial Planning in a Modern Ireland - B. Hughes 2. Urban Planning and the Shifting Discourses of Governance: A Case Study of Dublin - H.A. Haidar 3. Why my initial research looks nothing like my Ph.D title: A tale about going from A to B (via ANT) in place promotion research - J. Monagle Note : This journal appears to have ceased publication, and the website is no longer actively maintained at time of writing
, urbanisation, logement, développement durable, développement urbain, ville durable, bidonville, aménagement urbain, foncier, logement social, déplacement de population, immobilier, infrastructures
Abstract from the publisher : Habitat International is dedicated to the study of urban and rural human settlements: their planning, design, production and management. Its main focus is on urbanisation in its broadest sense in the developing world. However, increasingly the interrelationships and linkages between cities and towns in the developing and developed worlds are becoming apparent and solutions to the problems that result are urgently required. The economic, social, technological and political systems of the world are intertwined and changes in one region almost always affect other regions. Habitat International welcomes reports of research on urban issues such as policy and implementation, the links between planning, building and land, finance and management, urban design, the interaction between the natural environment and urban areas the provision of urban services and other related problems. Papers on topics which clearly have broad implications and interrelationships based on the experiences of the developing or developed world will be considered. Submissions exploring these issues within the development context are particularly welcomed. Quality papers, short communications, comments on published papers and reports on relevant conferences from all parts of the world are presented as it is recognised that such urban problems arise everywhere. Hopefully, Habitat International will contribute to their solution. Contents : One decade of urban housing reform in China: Urban housing price dynamics and the role of migration and urbanization, 1995–2005 - Junhua Chen, Fei Guo, Ying Wu Local participatory mechanisms and collective actions for sustainable urban development in Turkey - Cigdem Varol, Ozge Yalciner Ercoskun, Nilufer Gurer The application of urban sustainability indicators – A comparison between various practices - Li-Yin Shen, J. Jorge Ochoa, Mona N. Shah, Xiaoling Zhang Consequences of the two-price system for land in the land and housing market in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - Truong Thien Thu, Ranjith Perera Redefining slums in Egypt: Unplanned versus unsafe areas - Marwa A. Khalifa Satisfaction of residents on public housings built before and after implementation of ISO9000 - S. Thomas Ng, Ekambaram Palaneeswaran, Mohan M. Kumaraswamy State-led land requisition and transformation of rural villages in transitional China - Ying Xu, Bo-sin Tang, Edwin H.W. Chan The negative impact of land acquisition on indigenous communities’ livelihood and environment in Tanzania - Moses Mpogole Kusiluka, Sophia Kongela, Moses Ayoub Kusiluka, Esron D. Karimuribo, Lughano J.M. Kusiluka Integrations, identity and conflicts: A cross-border perspective on residential relocation of Hong Kong citizens to Mainland China - Eddie Chi Man Hui, Francis Kwan Wah Wong, Si Ming Li, Ka Hung Yu Scrutinizing the link between participatory governance and urban environment management. The experience in Arequipa during 2003–2006 - Jordi Peris, Míriam Acebillo-Baqué, Carola Calabuig Jordan: Tourism and conflict with local communities - Ahmed Abu Al Haija Municipal councils, international NGOs and citizen participation in public infrastructure development in rural settlements in Cameroon - Ambe J. Njoh Foreign investment and urban development: A perspective from tourist cities - Li Sheng Role of construction in economic development: Review of key concepts in the past 40 years - Dang T.H. Giang, Low Sui Pheng Central–local conflict and property cycle: A Chinese style - Jing Li, Yat-Hung Chiang, Lennon Choy The impact of secure land tenure on water access levels in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Botswana and Zambia - Martin Sjöstedt An evaluation framework for the sustainability of urban land use: A study of capital cities and municipalities in China - Xiaoling Zhang, Yuzhe Wu, Liyin Shen Objectives, success and failure factors of housing public–private partnerships in Malaysia - A.-R. Abdul-Aziz, P.S. Jahn Kassim Public involvement requirements for infrastructure planning in China - Chunyan Shan, Tetsuo Yai
Complexity theories of cities have come of age
, aménagement urbain, réseaux, forme urbaine, croissance urbaine, complexity theory, théorie de la complexité
Organisers' description : Three decades of research have established the field of complexity theories of cities as a dominant approach to cities. Now that the field has come of age, it is time to stop for a moment, look back at what has been achieved, with appreciation, but also with sober criticism and then look forward at potentials that have yet to be realized. As for potentials yet to be realized, this conference will explore the implications of complexity theories of cities to planning and urban design. As examples to what we have in mind consider, firstly, Mike Batty’s (2008) recent observation that “In the past 25 years, our understanding of cities has slowly begun to reflect Jacobs's message. Cities are no longer regarded as being disordered systems. Beneath the apparent chaos and diversity of physical form, there is strong order …”. Secondly, Portugali’s (2008) criticism that “in their search for statistical data to feed their models practitioners of USM tend to overlook the non-quantifiable urban phenomena” and as a consequence, some of the central questions of 21st Century cities and urbanism”. As for potentials yet to be realized we would like to emphasis in this workshop the implications of CTC to planning and urban design. Papers : Peter Allen - Cities : The visible expression of co-evolving complexity Koen Frenken - Innovation, networks and urban growth : Some reflections on the Barabasi-Albert model Carlos Gershenson - Self-organising transportation systems Hermann Haken - Complexity and complexity theories, do these concepts make sense? Bill Hillier - STHE genetic code for cities - is it simpler than we think? Juval Portugali - Complexity theories of cities : Achievements, criticism and potentials Ekim Tan and Juval Portugali - The responsive city design game Theodore Zamenopoulos - A complexity theoretic view of cities as artefacts of design intentionality
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Researching the spatial and social life of the city : citiesLAB vol. 1
London, Londres, gentrification, analyse spatiale, rue, mixité sociale, paysage urbain, photographie, art, renouvellement urbain
Abstract from the publisher : Our first project comprises a collection of ‘working papers’ established with the aims of both delineating and testing what we refer to as ‘spatial methodologies’ for urban research. This collection, entitled Researching the spatial and social life of the city, forms the first volume of what is now intended to become an annual publication Cities Programme doctoral research student work. London forms the exploratory setting for the papers in this first publication. Each of the papers in the collection suggests ways in which conventional research methods may either be combined and/or extended in order to enable temporal, spatial and social dimensions of the city to be explored concurrently. Contents : Acknowledgements Contributors Preface Introduction Inside the blue fence: an exploration - Juliet Davis Spatiality in gentrifying London: the case of Bermondsey - Jamie Keddie Visualising difference: picturing a multi-ethnic street - Suzanne Hall Elevations, icons and lines: the city abstracted through its skylines - Gunter Gassner Observing the Turbine Hall through flickr: play, behaviour and scale - Corinna Dean
Cities programme, London School of Economics and Political Science
Global cities? The Brown Journal of World Affairs (Vol. 11, No. 2)
ville mondiale, global city, world city, mondialisation
NB : To access the full text of these articles, free registration is required From the abstract for Saskia Sassen's introductory article : Each phase in the long history of the world economy raises specific questions about the particular conditions that make it possible. One of the key properties of the current phase is the ascendance of information technologies and the associated increase in the mobility and liquidity of capital. There have long been cross-border economic processes—flows of capital, labor, goods, raw materials, tourists. But to a large extent these took place within the inter-state system, where the key articulators were national states. The international economic system was ensconced largely in this inter-state system. This has changed rather dramatically over the last decade as a result of privatization, deregulation, the opening up of national economies to foreign firms, and the growing participation of national economic actors in global markets. Section contents : The global city : Introducing a concept - Saskia Sassen The world urban hierarchy : Implications for cities, top to bottom - David A. Smith Our urban future : Making a home for Homo Urbanus - Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka, Jos Maseland and Jay Moor Moving towards inclusive cities - Blair A. Ruble, Joseph S. Tulchin and Lisa M. Hanley Urban planning on a larger scale : Reimagining the city - Bruce Mau
Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University
China, Chine, métropole, croissance urbaine, urbanisation, économie, mégapole, mondialisation
Extract from the introduction by Chris Johnson : Beijing was the first city of modernity to reach one million - the benchmark to be a member of Metropolis. For the past millenium Chinese cities have ranked in the world's top three. The importance of cities to China's development clearly has stretched over 1,000 years, but there is a new renaissance in the country that is now driving growth into many cities. With 119 cities over one million people and 36 over two million, it is clear that the future of China will depend very much on how these cities are managed, how they grow and how they handle issues like climate change. This book examines the rise of the Chinese dragon through the development of its cities. There are more people living in cities in China than any other country in the world, but our understanding of these cities in a global context needs to be lifted to higher levels. Contents : Chris Johnson - Introduction Peter Taylor and Michael Hoyler - Chinese cities in contemporary globalisation Eric Heikkila - Urbanisation with Chinese characteristics CBRE Research Asia - 3 mega-city regions in China Anthony G. O. Yeh and Jian Xu - Greater Pearl River Delta : Urbanisation and challenges Richard Hu - China's urban age Richard Marshall - Shanghai's waterfront
India, Inde, urbanisation, croissance urbaine, mondialisation, exclusion, financement, financing, développement urbain
Extract from the introduction by Chris Johnson : The bustle and chaos associated with Indian cities encompasses only 27% of the country's population. The other 73% of India's population still live in rural areas and villages spread across the countryside - yet across the world, half the population now live in cities. Chetan Vaidya, the director of the Indian National Institute of Urban Affairs (NUIA) believes that India's urban population, currently around 285 million people, is likely to become twice this by 2030, indicating how important the urbanisation of India will be in coming years. Cities like Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore are likely to continue growing while many smaller towns will become cities in their own right. This book traces Indian urbanity from the macro level of the statistics of population growth right down to the provision of an individual water tap in a low income settlement. Contents : Chris Johnson - Introduction Philipp Rode and Rit Chandra - Urban India : Comparing Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and Bangalore Amitabh Kundu - Globalisation and exclusionary urban growth in developing countries : The Indian case Narinder Nayar and Bombay First - Vision Mumbai : A snapshot H.S. Sudhira - The emergence of world city : Bangalore Chetan Vaidya and Hitesh Vaidya - Creative financing of urban infrastructure in India : Market-based financing and public-private partnership options
, mondialisation, réseaux, infrastructures, ville mondiale, world city, global city
Extract from the introduction by Chris Johnson : Until recently cities were seen as places. Think of New York skyscrapers, the streets of Paris, the canals of Venice or Sydney Harbour. Over the last 20 years or so a new reading of cities has emerged and that is their role as connectors of global capital or as satellites for global networks of advanced service providers. The new reading of the relevance of individual cities is based on how global they are as opposed to how local they are. This reading comes partly from the writings of Manuel Castells on the City of Flows and the pioneering research of Saskia Sassen on Global Cities (she framed the concept). But the role of cities as being networks of economic activity also comes from the rise of service providers in the areas of law, accounting, insurance, management, finance and design that are located everywhere. Well - perhaps not everwhere - but certainly where they see individual cities as being globally significant. This book explores this new dimension of global networks, of connected cities, of the role of the internet in linking businesses across the globe, or the rise of aircraft connectivity to world cities. Contents : Chris Johnson - Introduction Saskia Sassen - Cities in today's global age Peter Taylor - World city network Ben Derudder and Frank Witlox - Physical connection : Airline networks and cities Jonathan Rutherford - Virtual connection : Information networks and cities Michael Hoyler and Heike Jöns - Global knowledge networks Davina Jackson - D_City : Networking the data modelling revolution
, territoire, métropole, économie, gouvernance, transport, développement durable, emploi, forme urbaine, Sydney, Australasia, Australasie, réseaux
Contents : Kathy Pain - City regions and economic development John Harrison - City-regions and governance Chris Johnson - Polycentric structuring of Sydney's metropolitan region Jeffrey Kenworth - Urban transport sustainability John Black - Polycentric employment formation in Australasian cities James Calder - 14-hour city
Urban geography plenary lecture : Urban geography (Vol. 30, No. 1)
, géographie urbaine, politique de la ville, politique urbaine, health, santé, service public, emploi, ségrégation résidentielle
Contents : Michael Brown - 2008 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture - Public health as urban politics, urban geography : Venereal blopower in Seattle, 1943-1983 Rachel Slocum - Commentary on "Public health as urban politics, urban geography : Venereal blopower in Seattle, 1943-1983" Roger Keil - Urban politics and public health : What's urban, what's politics? Sébastien Breau - Exports and local labor markets in the Greater Los Angeles Region James DeFillippis, Nina Martin, Annette Bernhardt and Siobhán McGrath Ron Johnston, Michael Poulsen and James Forrest - Research note - Measuring ethnic residential segregation : Putting some more geography in Book review
Megalopolis : The city of the 21st century : World policy journal (Vol. 27, No. 4)
, métropole, mégalopole, mégapole, planification, croissance urbaine, urbanisation, twenty-first century, vingt-et-unième siècle
Alternative link via the MIT Press.
The future of shrinking cities : Problems, patterns and strategies of urban transformation
, décroissance, ville en déclin, planification, mutation urbaine, politique urbaine, aménagement urbain
Full title : The future of shrinking cities : Problems, patterns and strategies of urban transformation in a global context Abstract from the publisher : This publication is the outcome of a symposium held at UC Berkeley in February 2007, organized by the Center for Global Metropolitan Studies at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development, UC Berkeley. It brought together urban and regional planners, architects, engineers, developers, artists, and academics to examine the perspectives of a largely underrepresented topic: shrinking cities. The Future of Shrinking Cities: Problems, Patterns, and Strategies of Urban Transformation in a Global Context presents research carried out under the aegis of the Shrinking Cities International Research Network (SCiRN) and – in addition – selected case studies from the United States. The purpose of the publication is to encourage and inform discussion to improve the quality of life in shrinking cities. The authors identify and examine critical projects and issues in shrinking cities and present lessons learned from relevant projects and experiences in the US and abroad. The comparative approach to shrinking cities, incorporating a wide range of case studies in order to widen the debate, is both unique and innovative. The shrinking city phenomenon is a multidimensional process, comprising cities, parts of cities, or entire metropolitan areas that have experienced dramatic decline in their economic and social bases. Thus, urban shrinkage is often a challenge on the wide scale of metropolitan regions and requires policy-makers to redefine traditional paths of regional governance. Urban decline and the loss of employment opportunities are closely linked in a downward spiral, leading to an out-migration of population. The joint work places shrinking cities in a global perspective, setting the context for in-depth comparisons of selected cities considering specific social, economic, environmental, cultural, and land-use issues. Especially in the United States, planning practice is to a large extent concentrated on either managing urban growth or tackling redevelopment in a fragmented – not a regional – way, despite the fact that in many metropolitan regions urban shrinkage reaches beyond individual cities. In this regard, the papers will help initiate a redefinition of regional governance in the U.S. and also in the other participating countries via comparative research on shrinking cities. Contents : Introduction - Karina Pallagst and Jasmin Aber I What are the Problems of Shrinking Cities? Lessons Learned from an International Comparison : Thorsten Wiechmann - Conversion Strategies under Uncertainty in Post-Socialist Shrinking Cities: The Example of Dresden in Eastern Germany Emmanuèle Cunningham-Sabot and Sylvie Fol - Shrinking Cities in France and Great Britain: A Silent Process? Cristina Martinez-Fernandez and Chung-Tong Wu - Shrinking Cities: A Global Overview and Concerns about Australian Mining Cities Cases Hans Harms - Changes on the Waterfront - Transforming Harbor Areas Sergio Moraes - Inequality and Urban Shrinkage - a Close Relationship in Latin America II Kicking Off the Shrinking Cities Debate in North America : Robert Beauregard - Shrinking Cities in the United States in Historical Perspective: A Research Note Ivonne Audirac - Urban Shrinkage and Fast Metropolitan Growth (Two Faces of Contemporary Urbanism) Karina Pallagst - Shrinking Cities in the United States of America: Three Cases, Three Planning Stories David Leadbeater - Single-industry Resource Communities, “Shrinking,” and the New Crisis of Hinterland Economic Development III Creative Approaches of Revitalizing Shrinking Cities : Helen Mulligan - Environmental Policy Action: Comparative Importance in Differing Categories of Shrinking City Jasmin Aber - The Creative Imperative in a Postindustrial Economy to Foster a More Sustainable Development in Shrinking Cities Jose Vargas - Cerro de San Pedro: Grassroots Movements in Cooperation and Conflict to Stop a Living Community from Disappearing IV Planning and Policy-Making for Shrinking Cities : Rollin Stanley - e = m c2 The Relative City Teresa Gillotti and Daniel Kildee - Land Banks as Revitalization Tools: The Example of Genesee County and the City of Flint, Michigan Joseph Schilling - Blueprint Buffalo—Using Green Infrastructure to Reclaim America’s Shrinking Cities Gabi Troeger-Weiß and Hans-Jörg Domhardt - Germany’s Shrinkage on a Small Town Scale
Institute of Urban and Regional Development (IURD), UC Berkeley
What policies for globalising cities? Rethinking the urban policy agenda
, mondialisation, politique urbaine, économie, développement urbain, urbanisation, changement climatique, gouvernance, société urbaine, OECD
Abstract from the publisher : At a time of increasing globalisation processes, the search for competitiveness in urban regions has become a major political target for both local and central governments. The importance of the cities and their metropolitan areas in the national economy and their major role as global nodes in the international market is increasing the attention which they are receiving. There is a general feeling, shared by both national and local governmental representatives that the current approach to urban policies is not the correct one to face the new challenges which large cities, in a context of increasing global competitiveness, have to deal with today. In short, in OECD member countries, there is an increasing acknowledgment of the importance of policies that address specific urban issues. It is not only a matter of corrective measures, directed towards the solving of traditional urban problems, such as urban uncontrolled expansion, degradation of punctual districts, due to the concentration of environmental and social problems, but also the need to tackle proactive actions to encourage competitiveness and attractiveness. The goal of the conference was to engage a wide number of those interested, including city leaders and representatives of both regional and central governments, to widen the approach with which they envisage urban policies. More specifically, the conference was organised along the following two lines: How can the presence of the cities be made stronger in the context of “implicit urban policies” (not specifically urban), which strongly affect the standards of urban development, but which rarely take into consideration its necessary space implications? If one agrees that a strong and effective urban policy, able to allow the cities to successfully face the globalisation processes, cannot be the exclusive competence of national or regional governments, which new and more flexible intergovernmental joint actions are needed? Contents : OECD International Conference: “What Policies for Globalising Cities? Rethinking the Urban Policy Agenda" 29-30 March 2007- Madrid, Spain Summary Record Annex 1. Agenda of the Conference Annex 2. Summary Records of the Session Annex 3. Speeches from the OECD Secretary General at the Opening and the Closing Ceremonies Annex 4. Proceedings of the Conference Introductory Paper from Ruiz Gallardon, Mayor of Madrid A/ Globalisation, Spatial Economic Change and Urban Policy B/ A Spatial Framework for Urban Policy: New Directions, New Challenges C/ The Repositioning of Cities and Urban Regions in a Global Economy: Pushing Policy and Governance Options D/ Building Successful Cities in the Knowledge Economy: The Role of ‘Soft Policy’ Instruments E/ “Hard” Policy Instruments and Urban Development F/ The Resurgent City: Economy, Society, and Urbanisation in an Interconnected World G/ Governing Globalising Cities, Reshaping Urban Policies H/ Cities and Climate Change Appendix - Figures: part 1, part 2, part 3
Megacities 10 : Towards the megacities solution
, mégalopole, mégapole, territoire, aménagement urbain, planification, économie, urbanisation, politique de la ville, renouvellement urbain, logement, agriculture urbaine
Extract from the Introduction by Steef Buijs : A handful of megacity regions in the advanced and advancing economies, as clusters of large and overlapping daily urban systems are the prime powerhouses and central nodes of the world network economy. These regions, from the US North East, the Euro delta in Europe (including the Randstad, Belgium’s large cities and the Ruhr Area) to the Pearl River Delta, face not only complicated economic challenges but also demographic and natural challenges that clearly demand strategic planning and development at the scale of the megacity region. The international congress organized by the Dutch Megacity Foundation at the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology in November 2008, addressed these various challenges. how can planning at the scale of the Megacity cope with the challenges within, and tensions between, the realms of people, planet & profit? is there potential for (more) synergy between these three realms at the megacity scale, and how can planning help in realizing this potential? These are the central questions to be addressed, whereby the perspective will move from profit to planet to people and finally food, as a topic of special interest in the present situation. Contents : Introduction : Steef Buijs - Towards the megacities solution Megacities lectures : Adriaan Geuze - The necessity of melting polar ice Edward Soja - Regional urbanization and the future of megacities Erik Swyndedouw - City of polis? Profitable politics... or the end of the political John Thackara - Low entropy urbanism Contributions : Arjen van Susteren - Metropolitan regions Marisa Carmona - Planning through projects : Moving from Master Planning to Strategic Planning in 30 cities Iain Reid - Design-led urban regeneration for the benefit of all : Avoiding gentrification and creative inclusive places Luo Ji - From family rental houses to low-rent houses - the research on urban village renewal based on renting Frank Helten - Casablanca 2.0 : A laboratory for rurbanism? Co-report : Peter Smeets - The perspective of metropolitan agriculture
, histoire urbaine, société urbaine, London, Londres
Abstract from the publisher: The scope of The London Journal is broad, embracing all aspects of metropolitan society past and present, including comparative studies. The Journal is multi-disciplinary and is intended to interest all concerned with the understanding and enrichment of London and Londoners: historians, geographers, economists, sociologists, social workers, political scientists, planners, educationalist, archaeologists, conservationists, architects, and all those taking an interest in the fine and performing arts, the natural environment and in commentaries on metropolitan life in fiction as in fact. Contents: Pam Fisher - Houses for the dead: The provision of mortuaries in London, 1843-1889 Kevin Hey - Regulating London's bus services 1919-1924: A reappraisal Simon Pepper and Peter Richmond - Stepney and the politics of high-rise housing: Limehouse Fields to John Scurr House, 1925-1937 Johan Andersson - East End localism and urban decay: Shoreditch's re-emerging gay scene Book reviews
, morphologie urbaine, forme urbaine, aménagement urbain, histoire urbaine
Abstract from the publisher : Urban Morphology is the Journal of the International Seminar on Urban Form. It is published biannually, in April and October.
International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF)