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City futures 2004

Organisers' description : An important international conference on globalism and urban change took place in Chicago from July 8-10, 2004. The aim of the City Futures conference was to boost the quality of international dialogue about urban issues…

Mots-clés: aménagement de l'espace, aménagement urbain, cadre de vie, développement urbain, économie, équité sociale, gouvernance, logement, logement social, mondialisation, mutation urbaine, planification, politique urbaine

The vital city : EURA 2007 conference

Organisers' description : This major conference on the theme of The Vital City was held under the auspices of the European Urban Research Association (EURA). EURA brings together an inter-disciplinary network of urban researchers from across Europe…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, démocratie participative, développement durable, dynamiques urbaines, éducation, environnement urbain, forme urbaine, gouvernance, immobilier, innovation, lien social, logement, mixité sociale, politique publique, renouvellement urbain, transport, voisinage

Area-based initiatives in contemporary urban policy : EURA conference

Organisers' description : Many contemporary European urban policy initiatives emphasise an area-based approach, which also aims to involve the community in planning and implementation of projects. There is a recognised need to strengthen the…

Mots-clés: emploi, gestion locale, gouvernance, immigration, insertion, participation, politique de la ville, politique urbaine, rénovation urbaine

European city in comparative perspective

Papers presented at the 2004 European Association for Urban History (EUAH)'s conference 'European city in comparative perspective : Seventh international conference on urban history' are available for download as full-text PDF files. 144 papers are…

Mots-clés: centre historique, commerce, culture urbaine, espace public, gouvernance, guerre, histoire urbaine, identité, infrastructures, mémoire, migration urbaine, patrimoine, pauvreté, périphéries, représentations, sauvegarde, ville portuaire

The new urban question : Urbanism beyond neo-liberalism

Organisers' description : “The New Urban Question – Urbanism beyond Neo-liberalism” is the title of the 4th Conference of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU) that will take place from November 26th to 28th, 2009 at…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, croissance urbaine, culture urbaine, développement durable, développement urbain, économie, forme urbaine, gouvernance, métropolisation, néolibéralisme, société urbaine, urbanisation

Urban ethnography : Its traditions and its future

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…

Mots-clés: Anderson Elijah, délinquance, emploi, ethnographie, ethnologie, immigration, migrant, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine

Futures of cities : 51st IFHP world congress

Organisers' description : The year 2007 marks a shift to an urban era, an era in which more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. This fact is making many headlines. But what are its implications? How will this impact the…

Mots-clés: aménagement de l'espace, aménagement urbain, développement durable, développement urbain, infrastructures, logement, planification

Urban transformation : Controversies, contrasts and challenges

Organisers' description : 14th International Planning History Society Conference will take place in Istanbul between the dates July 12-15, 2010. The conference will address the theme of “Urban Transformation: Controversies, Contrasts and…

Mots-clés: économie, environnement, espace urbain, gouvernance, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, mutation urbaine, occupation du sol, politique urbaine, société urbaine

21st international congress of historical sciences

Organisers' description : The International Congress of Historical Sciences takes place every five years. This Congress provides an ideal venue for extensive reports, papers, debates, exchanges, and meetings reflecting historical research in…

Mots-clés: culture urbaine, échange, forme urbaine, histoire urbaine, infrastructures, mondialisation, renouvellement urbain, rue, sciences politiques

The city as an entertainment machine

To access the document : Click the folder icon in the left-hand column, then click the 'Book manuscripts' folder. Then open the folder 'The city as an entertainment machine' and open the clark.zip file. This will download to your computer a folder…

Mots-clés: cadre de vie, Clark Terry Nichols, croissance urbaine, développement urbain, divertissement, économie, entertainment, immobilier, loisir, mondialisation, sciences politiques, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine, tissu urbain

Breslauer symposium 2006 : The right to the city and the politics of space

Abstract from the publisher : The Breslauer Symposium was established in 2001 through the generosity of a campus donor and is named in honor of George Breslauer, current Dean of Social Sciences at UC Berkeley. Held annually, its goal is to support…

Mots-clés: aménagement de l'espace, analyse spatiale, droit à la ville, espace public, forme urbaine, géographie urbaine, mouvement social, néolibéralisme, politique de la ville, sciences politiques

Liminalities : On the city

Daniel Makagon is an associate professor in the College of Communication at DePaul University in Chicago.

Mots-clés: art, banlieue, déplacements, émeute, espace de transit, espace public, espace urbain, ethnologie, film, interaction sociale, littérature, Makagon Daniel, reconversion, représentations, transport

ECAS 2009 3rd European conference on African studies

The 3rd European conference on African studies included a number of panels and papers on the subject of cities and urban studies, some of which are freely available as full text (see list below - only full-text papers on topics related to urban…

Mots-clés: Africa, Afrique, aménagement de l'espace, développement urbain, droit à la ville, économie, espace public, espace urbain, fragmentation sociale, histoire urbaine, migration urbaine, sécurité, ségrégation urbaine, urbanisation

Gender and the city : London journal of Canadian studies

From the editorial by Christopher Dummitt : This issue of the London Journal of Canadian Studies takes up the subject of gender and the Canadian city. Most of the articles here were first presented at the London Conference for Canadian…

Mots-clés: Canada, Dummitt Christopher, emploi, gender, genre, histoire urbaine, identité, immobilier, littérature, Québec

Footprint : Metropolitan form

Abstract from the publishers : The fifth issue of Footprint investigates the question of metropolitan form. The necessity to focus on the scale of metropolitan areas is manifest as this is the dominant scale of contemporary global life. The process…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, Claessens François, forme urbaine, infrastructures, métropole, morphologie urbaine, Moudon Anne Vernez, périphéries, Piranesi Giovanni Battista, Solà-Morales Ignasi, transport, ville nouvelle

Footprint : Mapping urban complexity in an Asian context

Abstract from the publisher : The second issue of Footprint aims at reuniting two themes which are receiving a great deal of attention in recent times: Asia’s extraordinary urban growth, and the problematique of mapping highly complex urban…

Mots-clés: analyse spatiale, Asia, Asie, Bangladesh, Bracken Gregory, cartographie, China, Chine, déplacements, développement urbain, Inde, India, Japan, Japon, logement, paysage urbain, réseaux, Sohn Heidi, Sri Lanka

City sites : Multimedia essays on New York and Chicago, 1870s-1930s

Abstract from the publishers : City Sites is an inter- and multi-disciplinary study of the iconography, spatial forms and visual and literary cultures of New York and Chicago in the period 1870s to 1930s. City Sites is the result of collaborative…

Mots-clés: analyse spatiale, Balshaw Maria, Chicago, culture urbaine, dix-neuvième siècle, forme urbaine, histoire urbaine, iconographie, iconography, Kennedy Liam, littérature, New York, nineteenth century, Notaro Anna, Tallack Douglas, twentieth century, vingtième siècle

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