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Cities: The international journal of urban policy and planning (Vol. 29, Supplement 1)
Extract from the Editorial: You are reading the first issue of Current Research on Cities... The first four issues will all be supplements to the journal Cities, prior to an independent launch in 2014. Although Current Research on Cities has much…
Cities: The international journal of urban policy and planning (Vol. 29, No. 2)
Abstract from the publisher: Cities offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and policy…
Cities: The international journal of urban policy and planning (Vol. 29, No. 1)
Abstract from the publisher: CITIES offers a comprehensive range of articles on all aspects of urban policy. It provides an international and interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas and information between urban planners and scholars…
Cities, Volume 25 Issue 5
Cities, la revue internationale d'analyse de la gestion urbaine et d'étude des politiques urbaines, vient de publier son volume 25, Issue 5 d'octobre 2008.
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• Editorial Board
• Cultural sources of variations in…
Cities, texts and social networks, 400–1500
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Cities, Texts and Social Networks examines the experiences of urban life from late antiquity through the close of the fifteenth century, in regions ranging from late Imperial Rome to Muslim Syria, Iraq and al-Andalus,…
Cities, sin, and social reform in imperial Germany
Extract from the Introduction: Focusing on Germany during the period when that country experienced its great age of industrial urbanization, this book treats ideas about cities, views of deviant behavior, and the socially reformist implications of…
Cities, real and ideal : Categories for an urban ontology
Abstract from the publisher : Cities are conspicuous among settlements because of their bulk and pace: Venice, Paris, or New York. Each is distinctive, but all share a social structure that mixes systems (families, businesses, and schools), their…
Cities, politics and power
Abstract from the publisher : Traditionally, the study of ‘power in the city’ was confined to the institutions of urban government and the actors involved in contesting and making political decisions in and for metropolitan societies.…
Cities, design and climate change
With cities contributing upwards of 75 per cent of global carbon emissions, urban design is increasingly important when planning for climate change. This discussion examines the creative urban design solutions coming out of the world's cities. …
Cities with 'slums': From informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa
Organisers' description: The UN’s Development target to improve the lives of 100 million ‘slum’ dwellers has been inappropriately communicated as a target to free cities of slums. Cities with ‘Slums’: from informal…
Cities under siege: September 11th and after. City (Vol. 5, No. 3)
Extract from the section introduction by Bob Catterall: The image of a siege suggested itself as we first began on the 13th of September to explore with others the meanings of the attacks, and their implications for policy and action, on New York…
Cities under siege : The new military urbanism
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Powerful exposé of how contemporary political violence now perates through sites, space and infrastructures of everyday life
Cities have become the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the…
Cities transformed : Demographic change and its implications in the developing world
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Virtually all of the growth in the world's population for the foreseeable future will take place in the cities and towns of the developing world. Over the next twenty years, most developing countries will for the first…
Cities the magazine
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CITIES the magazine highlights urban issues and invites discussion on global trends, regional responses and local practice. It connects writers, thinkers, artists, designers and photographers in a common dialogue about…
Cities surround the countryside: urban aesthetics in postsocialist China
Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop the countryside, not only geographically and…
Cities of the Americas. City and community (Vol. 10, No. 4)
Extract from the Editorial: The articles in this issue of City & Community look northward and southward, comparing the urban United States to other cities of the Americas. It brings together three articles on Canadian cities and three essays on…