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Cities and citizenship : Surviving the 21st century
- Matthew Taylor is the Chief Executive of the RSA.
- Lord Mawson is founder and President of the renowned Bromley by Bow Centre in east London and Co-founder and President of Community Action Network (CAN), a national charity supporting 850…
- Lord Mawson is founder and President of the renowned Bromley by Bow Centre in east London and Co-founder and President of Community Action Network (CAN), a national charity supporting 850…
Cities and citizenship at the U.S.-Mexican border : The Paso del Norte metropolitan region
Abstract from the publisher : At the center of the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border, a sprawling transnational urban space has mushroomed into a metropolitan region with over two million people whose livelihoods depend on global manufacturing,…
Mots-clés: border, Ciudad Juárez, économie, éducation, El Paso, espace urbain, États-Unis, frontière, Fuentes César M., gouvernance, immigration, Mexico, Mexique, Monárrez Fragoso Julia E., mondialisation, Paso del Norte, pauvreté, sécurité, service public, Staudt Kathleen, United States, violence urbaine
Cities and climate change
NB : Note that this report is available as a read-only version, with a large stamp superimposed over the text in the right-hand corner. It is also available for purchase as a print or e-book.
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As the hubs of economic…
Mots-clés: changement climatique, développement durable, économie, environnement, gouvernance, OECD, ville durable
Cities and design
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Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society. Competitive spending among affluent households has intensified the importance of style and design at…
Cities and peripheries : Anglo American conference of historians 2009
This lecture was part of the Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009, on the theme 'cities'. Conference description by the organisers : The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and…
Cities and sexualities
Abstract from the publisher: From the hotspots of commercial sex through to the suburbia of twitching curtains, urban life and sexualities appear inseparable. Cities are the source of our most familiar images of sexual practice, and are the spaces…
Mots-clés: espace urbain, géographie urbaine, Hubbard Phil, sexualité, sexuality, sociologie urbaine
Cities and social equity: Inequality, territory and urban form
Abstract from the publisher: Cities and Social Equity is a report by the Urban Age research team with commissioned pieces from Ipsos MORI, United Nations Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD), the Centre for…
Cities and sovereignty : Identity politics in urban spaces
Abstract from the publisher : Space, governance, and ethnic conflict in contested cities Cities have long been associated with diversity and tolerance, but from Jerusalem to Belfast to the Basque Country, many of the most intractable conflicts of…
Cities and spatial construction
Cities are empirical realities, the concrete dimension of which is fundamental because it is thus that they present themselves through certain architectural styles, certain modes of circulation, habitation, activity, and populations that are more or…
Cities and time
Cities are the human organizations with the greatest longevity but also the fastest rate of change. Just now the world is going massively and unstoppably urban (governments everywhere are trying to stop it, with zero success). In a globalized world,…
Cities as partners : The challenge to strengthen urban governance through North-South city partnerships
During the last decades, local governments have increasingly become recognised as actors in international development cooperation. It has been estimated that today 70% of the world’s cities are engaged in some form of international cooperation. Many…
Cities at war in early modern Europe
Abstract from the publisher : Between 1550 and 1700, artillery siege warfare transformed the European city, which was theorized, fortified, violated, rebuilt, and celebrated by leading artists and architects. The fortified perimeter, with its…
Cities Compared: Cosmopolitanism in the Mediterranean and Adjacent Regions
The concept of cosmopolitanism was elaborated in the Hellenistic context and has indeed been used and reinterpreted throughout history. What seems most interesting is to discuss the evolution of its meaning from the Greek idea of the government of…
Cities full of symbols: A theory of urban space and culture
Abstract from the publisher: This book examines design proposals that show symbolic handling of the 9/11 attack on New York, the disaster symbolism of the ship washed ashore by the tsunami in Banda Aceh, and the design of the symbol of the city of…
Mots-clés: city branding, culture urbaine, espace urbain, Nas Peter, Nas Peter J. M., politique urbaine, symbol, symbole
Cities How They Grow (1952)
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Ce documentaire fait une présentation générale de la croissance urbaine en Amérique du nord et des techniques de planification urbaine.
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Cities in an insecure world
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Some of the most intractable and enduring challenges of development are concerned with reducing insecurity. Early and very current development debates have been concerned with issues of food security.
Ensuring…
Cities in China : The next generation of urban research
Organisers' description :
The Urban China Research Network hosted "Cities in China: The Next Generation of Urban Research" at the University at Albany on June 14 and 15, 2002. The conference featured the research of recipients of the…