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The city: 2nd international conference. Interdisciplinary themes journal (Vol. 3, No. 1)
Conference description:
Our theme is "The City: Culture, Society, Technology." Meet us in Vancouver on May 5 and 6, 2011. Topics include :
* the city and literature, art or culture
* social perspectives on the city
* cities and crime
*…
Environment and urbanization
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This twice-yearly journal focuses on urban and environmental issues and their interconnections, with a particular emphasis on Africa, Asia and Latin America (where most of world's urban population now lives).
Each…
Canadian journal of urban research
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Published since 1992, the Canadian Journal of Urban Research is a multidisciplinary and scholarly journal dedicated to publishing refereed articles that address a wide range of issues relevant to the field of urban…
International journal of urban sciences (Vol. 1, No. 1)
Contents:
Jin-Hyun Kim - Reflections on modern cities
Saskia Sassen - Cities in the global economy
Roberto Camagni, Roberta Capello, Peter Nijkamp - The co-evolutionary city
Sam Ock Park - Industrial restructuring for the sustainable city in the era…
Mots-clés: Asia, Asie, conomie, Seoul, urbanisation, ville viable
CASA working paper series
This site hosts a large (currently over 150 papers) cache of working papers produced by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London (UCL). CASA is an initiative within University College London to develop emerging…
Culturepoles : City spaces, urban politics and metropolitan theory
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The field of cultural studies continues to be defined in terms of its indeterminacy and interdisciplinarity. Yet, the leitmotifs of the field (commodification, reproduction, hegemony, mass culture, popular culture, and…
Mots-clés: culture, culture urbaine, société urbaine
African migration and urbanization in comparative perspective
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In June 2003, PUM presided over a symposium that evaluated migration and urbanization in developing African countries in light of comparative evidence from Asia and Latin America.
Organizing the conference also…
Mots-clés: Africa, Afrique, health, migration urbaine, santé, system, système, urbanisation
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…
Urban modernity: Cultural innovation in the second Industrial Revolution
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At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. Urban Modernity examines the construction of an…
Urban age : Johannesburg
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The principal aim of Urban Age is to shape the thinking and practice of urban leaders and sustainable urban development. This six-year conference series – travelling from New York City, Shanghai, London, Mexico City,…
Urban age : Shanghai
Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'Shanghai : The fastest city?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 recordings of the entire conference are available on the Urban Age website.…
Urban age : Berlin
Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'Berlin : An urban experiment?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 recordings of the entire conference are available on the Urban Age website.…
Urban age : London
Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'London : Europe's global city?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 recordings of the entire conference are available on the Urban Age website.…
Urban age : Mumbai
Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'Johannesburg : Challenges of inclusion?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 and video recordings of the entire conference are available on the…
Urban age : New York
Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'New York : Almost alright?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 recordings of the entire conference are available on the Urban Age website. Many…
Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, banlieue, emploi, espace public, espace urbain, gouvernance, logement, London, Londres, mobilité, New York, planification, sécurité, transport, voisinage
The right to the city : Prospects for critical urban theory and practice
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The conference will focus on the meaning of the "right to the city" in the context of neoliberal urban restructuring. While the notion of "the right to the city" was popularized by Henri Lefebvre in the…
London lives
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www.londonlives.org) will provide access, using an integrated search facility, to primary sources containing 240,000 pages of manuscripts sources, and 3.2 million names, reflecting the history of eighteenth-century London.…
Mots-clés: histoire urbaine, London, Londres, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine
Urban encounters : Rethinking landscape
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Urban Encounters: Routes and Transitions explores the dialogue and practice of visual urbanism to bring together international researchers, academics, photographers and artists concerned with the transitional nature of…
Urban age : Mexico City
Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'Mexico City : Growth at the limit?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 recordings of the entire conference are available on the Urban Age…
Mots-clés: emploi, espace urbain, gouvernance, logement, Mexico, Mexico City, Mexique, mobilité, planification, transport, voisinage