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Extract from the introduction by You-tien Hsing: In this special issue, we have tried to bridge studies of the Chinese state and of the Chinese city by employing the concepts of space production and territoriality. Three sets of analytical tools…

La intención de este trabajo es indagar sobre el fenómeno de la inseguridad urbana, tan presente actualmente en los medios de comunicación, en el discurso político y en la opinión pública latinoamericana, particularmente en Argentina. Vincularemos la…

Le concept de violence urbaine impute une catégorie d'actes à une catégorie d'espaces. L'émergence de ce concept s'inscrit dans une dynamique historique particulière des politiques publiques françaises qui a vu un recentrage de la question sociale…

Le lien entre image et espace public est particulièrement évident dans le cas de la littérature, et plus particulièrement de la littérature policière, qui s'appuie sur un imaginaire urbain pour situer les romans dans des villes particulières et…

Le lien entre image et espace public est particulièrement évident dans le cas de la littérature, et plus particulièrement de la littérature policière, qui s’appuie sur un imaginaire urbain pour situer les romans dans des villes particulières et…

This dissertation explores the relationship between urban space and urban text according to the principles outlined by the Moscow-Tartu School of Semiotics in the 1980s and 90s. While the Petersburg Text in V.N. Toporov's formulation has become a…

La démarche de projet a pour ambition la débanalisation de l'individu dans sa relation aux environnements quotidiens. Il s'agit d'élaborer des dispositifs conçus à partir des caractéristiques personnelles d'individus pour créer des univers cohérents…

Etude de cas du TGV Méditerranée (revue de la littérature existante et d'interviews réalisées entre décembre 2008 et juin 2009) dans le cadre d'un programme de recherche international portant sur les Grands Projets de Transports Urbains (Mega Urban…

The population of Nouakchott numbers around 745,000 inhabitants, and accounts for approximately one quarter of Mauritania's total population. It is the capital city of one of the multi-ethnic countries of the Sahelo-Saharan region, and was created…

Journal description from the publisher : Progress in Planning is a multidisciplinary journal of research monographs offering a convenient and rapid outlet for extended papers in the field of spatial and environmental planning. Each issue comprises…

The thesis seeks to demonstrate that during the period between 1986 and 2006, some of the principal cities of the Spanish metropolitan system, have undergone significant change in terms of their European competitiveness. It is suggested that in the…

For his talk “The 21st-century Medieval City,” Robert Neuwirth took an overflow audience to “the cities of tomorrow,” the developing-world shanty-towns where a billion people live now, and three billion (a third of humanity) are expected to be living…

Abstract from the publisher : , is it a historical core, a business district or no physical location at all? Food for a lengthy palaver. Out of the central theme, three sub-themes were distilled to enable in-depth debate: (1) the African City…

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Current debates around networks and urban fragmentation focus on the ownership of the service to explain processes of socio-technical differentiation in cities (splintering). In this perspective, integrated public ownership and management…

Abstract from the publisher : The American Urban Reader brings together the most exciting work on the evolution of the American city, from colonial settlement and western expansion to post-industrial cities and the growth of the suburbs. Each of…

This thesis explores the premise that during the late Victorian and Edwardian eras there existed a significant and influential division within the working class of England's industrial towns and cities. This division, based largely on economic…