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The politics of risks: justice, discourses and contexts in risk assessment

I want to enhance a social and political geography of risks and the environment. Therefore, I will present a politicized and contextualized approach of risk issues I wish I could implement in next fieldworks. “Politicized”, because of the power…

The polities of a new technology : Electricity and the city railway in London and Paris, c.1880-1910

Using electricity in railway operation became a real option towards the end of the nineteenth century. Cities were, generally, the main recipients and instigators of its introduction as the new technology was to help alleviate the often insufficient…

The Polycentric City Region That Never Was.

This paper highlights how, in the Paris metropolitan region's case, two polycentric spatial planning policies at national and regional levels incidentally prevented the development of a polycentric Mega-City-Region. The national policy aiming to…

The polycentric city-region that never was: <br />Paris agglomeration, Bassin parisien <br />and spatial planning strategies in France

What is the importance of business services decentralization in a Parisian metropolitan region known for its inherited monocentricity? Using revised statistical and cartographic methodological tools, I try to answer two debates: Is the new Parisian…

The port city in multidisciplinary analysis

The inherent complexity of the port city has drawn attention from a vast number of scholars belonging to a variety of scientific fields. While a full and exhaustive review would reach beyond the scope of this chapter, it proposes evaluating the level…

The portrait of a place - The lived and desired environment in the speech of the residents

The São Paulo State Department of Social Housing (SEHAB) decided to develop a new experience: to search in the residents' speech a precondition to think the urban projects for the area of Cabuçu de Cima (Jaçanã/Tremembé, North Zone) of São Paulo…

The Post-Socialist city : Continuity and change in urban space and imagery

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For twenty years now, cities from Central Europe to Central Asia have seen revolutionary change. Following the collapse of socialism, their outward appearance, functional composition, and symbolic representation have been shattered and reassembled by…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, capitalisme, Dmitrieva Marina, histoire urbaine, Kliems Alfrun, marxisme, modernisation, mutation urbaine, politique culturelle, rénovation urbaine, représentations

The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay

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Abstract from the publisher : This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and…

Mots-clés: Bombay, culture urbaine, littérature, London, Londres, Mumbai, Nairobi, post-colonial city, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Varma Rashmi, ville postcoloniale, vingt-et-unième siècle, vingtième siècle

The power exerted by urban atmosphere over our choice of walk

Research presented here was financed by the National Research Agency (ANR) between 2005 and 2007. It brought together sociologists, architects and town planners around the question of the prerequisites for city-dwellers to decide to walk in town?…

The power of urban ethnic places : Cultural heritage and community life

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Abstract from the publisher : The Power of Ethnic Places discusses the growing visibility of ethnic heritage places in U.S. society. The book examines a spectrum of case studies of Chinese, Latino and African American communities in the U.S.,…

Mots-clés: communauté, community, culture urbaine, États-Unis, ethnic, ethnique, immigration, mixité sociale, mondialisation, patrimoine, ségrégation urbaine, United States, urbanité

The process of black suburbanization

In the past three decades, one of the major trends in metropolitan areas has been the substantial increase in the size of the suburban population. Until the most recent decade, blacks were not a significant part of this trend. In the decade of the…

The Process of Mobility Decision-making in Later Old Age: early findings from an original survey of elderly people in South East England

This paper develops the concept of residential strategis in explanation of housing and locational choice in old age. It argues that the forces which shape decisions to migrate in later life, particularly among the older elderly, are little…

The progressives and the slums: Tenement house reform in New York City, 1890-1917

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Abstract from the publisher: Contents: 1. The origins of tenement reform, 1830-1865 2. The tenement comes of age, 1866-1890 3. Jacob A. Riis: Portrait of a reformer 4. The Tenement House Committee of 1894 5. Lawrence Veiller and the New York…

Mots-clés: bidonville, dix-neuvième siècle, histoire urbaine, insalubrité, logement, Lubove Roy, mouvement social, New York, nineteenth century, pauvreté, quartier dégradé, relogement, renouvellement urbain, Riis Jacob A., tenement, twentieth century, Veiller Lawrence, vingtième siècle

The promise of the city : Space, identity and politics in contemporary social thought

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Abstract from the publisher : The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh…

Mots-clés: culture urbaine, économie, espace urbain, identité, marxisme, sciences politiques, sociologie urbaine, Tajbakhsh Kian

The psychasthenia of deep space : Evaluating the 'reassertion of space in critical social theory'

The aim of this work is to question the notion of space that underlies the claimed ‘spatial turn’ in geographical and social theory. Section 1 examines this theoretical literature, drawing heavily on Soja as the self declared taxonomist of the genre,…

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