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Why loiter? Women and risk on Mumbai streets

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Abstract from the publisher : Presenting an original take on women’s safety in the cities of twenty-first century India, Why Loiter? maps the exclusions and negotiations that women from different classes and communities encounter in the…

Mots-clés: équité sociale, espace urbain, feminism, féminisme, femme, gender, genre, Inde, India, Khan Sameera, marginalité, Mumbai, Phadke Shilpa, Ranade Shilpa, rue, woman

Why don't American cities burn?

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Abstract from the publisher: At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American…

Mots-clés: centre-ville, délinquance, émeute, États-Unis, exclusion, Katz Michael B., pauvreté, race, ségrégation résidentielle, United States, violence urbaine

Why do people like to live in cities?

Mots-clés: aéroport, airport, économie, emploi, espace urbain, forme urbaine, intégration, migration urbaine, Netherlands, Pays-Bas, urbanité

Why did the cities of the Jawf valley collapse? An archaeo-geographical approach

An archaeo-geographical approach to the settlement of the Jawf valley (in today's Yemen) highlights the trends affecting the urban network of the region during the first millennium BC and in the early Christian era. This approach helps put into…

Whose public space? International case studies in urban design and development

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Abstract from the publisher : Public spaces mirror the complexities of urban societies: as historic social bonds have weakened and cities have become collections of individuals public open spaces have also changed from being embedded in the social…

Mots-clés: aménagement de l'espace, centre-ville, espace public, fragmentation sociale, lien social, lieu public, Madanipour Ali, mutation urbaine, participation, renouvellement urbain, rénovation urbaine, tissu urbain

White (P.) : La ville d'Europe occidentale : géographie humaine. The west european city. A social geography

Whispering city : Rome and its histories

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Abstract from the publisher : In Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud claimed that Rome must be comprehended as "not a human dwelling place but a mental entity," in which the palaces of the Caesars still stand alongside modern…

Mots-clés: Bosworth Richard, histoire urbaine, Rome

Which way China?

Full title : Which way China? Will the world's most populous country embrace sustainable development? Is Dongtan City - Shanghai's new eco-city - the model for saving our cities and sustainable urban development? Organisers' description : Dongtan…

Mots-clés: China, Chine, développement durable, Dongtan City, écoquartier, environnement, environnement urbain, Girardet Herbie, Shanghai, ville modèle

Where the Muezzin calls. Culturalisation of a local conflict in the context of ethnic change in the Ruhr Conurbation / L'appel du muezzin. Conflit culturel et changement ethnique dans la Ruhr

L'appel du muezzin. Conflit culturel et changement ethnique dans la Ruhr.

Le conflit urbain à propos de l'appel du Muezzin à Dortmund est ici examiné en tant qu'exemple d'un type nouveau de conflits sociaux dans une société où la population change…

Where in cities do "rich" and "poor" people live? The urban economics model revisited

We exploit the power of the Alonso-Mills-Muth (AMM) urban economics model and show that various utility functions and plausible conditions offer alternative explanations of households' location by income within a city. These include the existence of…

What we see : Advancing the observations of Jane Jacobs

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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…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, concertation locale, économie, Elizabeth Lynne, Goldsmith Stephen A., infrastructures, Jacobs Jane, mixité sociale, participation, perception, renouvellement urbain, rue, sauvegarde, voisinage

What territories do we need in Europe, today?

Cette communication développe l'hypothèse de l'interterritorialité comme réponse aux nouveaux défis de la gouvernance multi-échelle en Europe

What policies for globalising cities? Rethinking the urban policy agenda

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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…

Mots-clés: changement climatique, développement urbain, économie, gouvernance, mondialisation, OECD, politique urbaine, société urbaine, urbanisation

What is a city? The English experience : Anglo American conference of historians 2009

This paper was part of the Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009, on the theme 'cities'. Conference description by the organisers : The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and…

Mots-clés: Angleterre, Beckett John, city, England, grande ville, histoire urbaine, town, ville

What helps or hinders the adoption of "good planning" principles in shrinking cities? A comparison of recent planning exercises in Sudbury, Ontario and Youngstown, Ohio

Much attention is paid to the increasing number of people living in cities while a relatively understudied but related phenomenon is silently gaining strength: that of “shrinking cities.” In the context of massive economic restructuring and…

What happened to participation? Urban development and authoritarian upgrading in Cairo

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Elena Piffero is Doctor of Philosophy in International Cooperation and Sustainable Development Policies at the University of Bologna, Italy. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license 3.0. Alternative link to the…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, Cairo, citadin, démocratie participative, développement urbain, gouvernance, informal settlement, Le Caire, participation, pays en développement, Piffero Elena, politique urbaine, quartier informel, renouvellement urbain

What do we do when we do urban sociology? Great cities - ordinary lives conference keynote address

The keynote address of this symposium in celebration of Anthony Orum’s retirement: Great Cities/Ordinary Lives Conference - A look at the city and its residents from the bottom up, entitled "What do we do when we do urban…

Mots-clés: sociologie urbaine, Zukin Sharon

West African uncontrolled settlements and the intra-urban mobility model: A case study of the secondary city, Jos, Nigeria

Turner's (1965,1967,1968) study of Lima's squatter settlements led to the view that uncontrolled settlements of the Third World cities are mainly a manifestation of the desires for housing ownership by people who are well integrated in the city and…

Welfare reform and social reproduction in New York City and Toronto

Abstract from the distributor : Simon's research employs a feminist political economy lens to examine how state and civil society groups respond to, manage, and/or mediate crisis tendencies in social reproduction resulting from the neoliberal…

Mots-clés: assistance sociale, Black Simon, feminism, féminisme, genre, gouvernance, néolibéralisme, New York, service public, société urbaine, syndicat, Toronto, travail, union, welfare

Weird city : Sense of place and creative resistance in Austin, Texas

An increasing number of North American cities are demonstrating vocal resistance to perceived homogenization and corporatization of the urban landscape. In Austin, Texas, a grassroots movement has emerged as a form of resistance to these cultural and…

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