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Contents : Lynn A. Staeheli - Editorial : Can American cities be sites of citizenship? What can we do about it? Yehua Dennis Wei - Planning Chinese cities : The limits of transitional institutions* Ya Ping Wang - Low-income communities and urban…

The city in the twenty-first century is in the midst of dramatic changes, and yet many have yet to fully manifest themselves, still concealed in technology and distributed enough to escape general understanding within the existing context of built…

Abstract from the publisher: No detailed comparison of the city-state in medieval Europe has been undertaken over the last century. Research has concentrated on the role of city-states and their republican polities as harbingers of the modern state,…

Abstract from the publisher : Reexamining urban scholarship for the twenty-first century The contributors to The City, Revisited trace an intellectual history that begins in 1925 with the publication of the influential classic The City, engaging…

Conference description: Our theme is "The City: Culture, Society, Technology." Meet us in Vancouver on May 5 and 6, 2011. Topics include : * the city and literature, art or culture * social perspectives on the city * cities and crime *…

This thesis is a social history of Bombay city in the first quarter of the twentieth century. It explores material changes in urban life consequent upon the impact of modernity and the varied range of contestations of the colonial order which they…

Le mouvement migratoire ville-campagne se poursuit en Grande-Bretagne : tendances, modèles , signification.

La migration nette depuis les zones urbaines vers les espaces ruraux reste la dimension la plus importante des dynamiques de distribution du…

This paper presents the experience and some results in the incorporation of the concept of ambience in the studies and intervention projects aimed at environmental policies within CETESB, Environmental Company of São Paulo State. The environmental…

Abstract from the publisher : An acclaimed sociologist illuminates the public life of an American city, offering a major reinterpretation of the racial dynamics in America. Following his award-winning work on inner-city violence, Code of the…

We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a…

Extract from the Editorial, 'The creative power of cities', by Francesco Bandarin: It is expected that by the middle of the present century, 70 percent of the world's population will be urban. Beyond the demographic growth in sheer numbers, cities…

This paper deals with the cultural policy and strategy of Rotterdam, in particular with regard to its designation as 'European City of Culture' for the year 2001. Having been a port and manufacturing city for many years, with a large proportion of…

This paper combines both quantitative and qualitative methods to provide supplemental information and results that clarify the reasons that individuals devote ample time to travel.Through a quantitative analysis of travel-time budgets (TTB) in seven…

In a process of territorial restructuring, there are potential disputes, which often reveal both local and national geopolitical challenges and issues. Two related questions concerning provincial and municipal demarcation are frequently at stake,…

The deployment of urban logistics solutions is one of the main pending questions in the field of urban goods transport research and practice. Indeed, although several solutions and projects have been tested in the last years, only few of them reach…

The theme of this article is the green dimension of urban and architecture design in Yazd as an oasis in the middle of deserts in the centre of Iran where people were able to adapt to very hard climate condition through millenniums. Studying the…

Devon has a high proportion of the national total of private residential homes for the elderly in England. This paper traces their growth and their spatial distribution, based on a detailed survey of about one in four homes in the county. The nature…

Le développement de la migration de retraite en Grande-Bretagne.

La migration à l'âge de la retraite est une expression des occasions qu'une société offre à ses retraités et aux aspirations de confort de vie de la population plus âgée. Cet article…

Le développement de la population hongroise et son habitat en Slovaquie

Depuis que les Hongrois de Slovaquie sont devenus une minorité en 1918-1920, leur nombre, leur répartition et la taille de la région qu'ils habitent ont beaucoup changé. Les…

la population âgée du Royaume-Uni et sa distribution.

Sauf nouvelle baisse importante de la fécondité, le vieillissement démographique de la population britannique est presque achevé. Pendant une vingtaine d'années, il y a eu peu de changement dans…