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From the introduction by Elijah Anderson : The articles collected in this special issue are based on papers presented at the Yale Urban Ethnography Conference, ‘Urban Ethnography: Its Traditions and Its Future’, held at Yale University…

Abstract from the publisher : During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence, Algiers was the site of recurrent conflicts between colonizer and colonized. Through architecture and urban forms confrontations were crystallized,…

Organisers' description : Please join us for a comparative and historical analysis of the gentrification of the Near North Side of Chicago. Professor Bodnar will examine the communities that have replaced the Cabrini-Green housing…

Abstract from the publisher : This journal addresses the broad developmental issues of urbanization in the Third World, providing a distinctive African focus on the subject. It examines urban societies from a variety of perspectives, including:…

With the increase of power of the local authorities, especially with regards to movement of urban goods, we decided to focus on the manner in which local authorities in the area of Brittany planned the implementation of regulations and…

Contents : Michael Brown - 2008 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture - Public health as urban politics, urban geography : Venereal blopower in Seattle, 1943-1983 Rachel Slocum - Commentary on "Public health as urban politics, urban geography :…

Urban goods transport is one of the subjects decision makers have to take into account in the planning process. As they lack knowledge on this particular subject, they tend to underestimate the importance of urban goods movements on their territory.…

This chapter aims to be a guide for researchers and practitioners on choosing the most suitable approach to deal with a target or goal in terms of urban goods public decision support, and to integrate them into transport plans. First, an overview of…

Organisers' description : The Tenth Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality were held in Berlin from 18 - 23 March 2009 on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). The Roundtables addressed the chances…

The present South African city form is a hybrid product of the colonial and formal apartheid discourse which ordained urban spaces as the domain of the white race. As the democratic initiatives of the 1990s gained momentum various strategies were…

«Qui gouverne quand personne ne gouverne ?» Pour répondre à cette question, plusieurs traits caractéristiques des villes contemporaines sont examinés : violence, criminalité, immigration, mobilité. Il convient aussi de s’intéresser de plus près à…

Implementation of governance principles entails intra-urban territorializations in sub- Saharan African cities, which increase the risks of fragmentation and raise the question of local scale regulation in both its political and spatial dimensions.

The origins of this volume lie in a period of three years' attachment to the Geography Department of the University of Durham as a reasearch student. Of this period a total of about fourteen months was spent carrying out field work and collecting…

What do we know about urbanisation in Africa? The classification systems of urban/rural areas differ from one country to another. As a consequence, international comparisons of urbanisation indicators or historical analyses of urban growth are…

Sommaire du Volume 36, Issue 1 : Griet Vermeesch, War and garrison towns in the Dutch Republic: the cases of Gorinchem and Doesburg ( c. 1570– c. 1660) Margaret Dorey, Controlling corruption: regulating meat consumption as a preventative to…

Au sommaire de ce volume : Kate Colleran, Scampanata at the widows' windows: a case-study of sound and ritual insult in cinquecento Florence Hannah Barker, Medical advertising and trust in late Georgian England Maurizio Marinelli, Making…

Contents : The functions and fortunes of English small towns at the close of the middle ages: evidence from John Leland's Itinerary - JOHN S. LEE One counter and your own account: redefining illicit labour in early modern Antwerp - BERT DE MUNCK…

Abstract from the publisher : Urban History occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors. Each…

Abstract from the publisher : Urban History occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors. Each…

Abstract from the publisher: Urban History occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors. Each…