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Le numéro 128 de la revue Débats et politiques
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La France bénéficie d’un important parc de logements sociaux. Faut-il l’étendre ? Peut-on lui attribuer un rôle…
Réflexions croisées sur les migrations en Afrique de l'Ouest
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Textes issus de la journée d'étude organisée à Poitiers, le jeudi 17 février 2011.
Le dossier de ce 7ème numéro est issu d'un séminaire…
Regards croisés. Métropoles européennes, Berlin, Londres, Madrid, Milan, Paris, la Randstad
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A l’heure où la question métropolitaine est à nouveau posée, un tour d’horizon des grandes métropoles européennes s’impose pour apprécier…
Canadian journal of urban research
Description from the publisher :
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…
Twentieth-century Pittsburgh, Volume One: Government, business, and environmental change
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First published in 1969, Roy Lubove's Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh is a pioneering analysis of elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal in a city once disdained as "hell with the lid off." The book…
The progressives and the slums: Tenement house reform in New York City, 1890-1917
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Contents:
1. The origins of tenement reform, 1830-1865
2. The tenement comes of age, 1866-1890
3. Jacob A. Riis: Portrait of a reformer
4. The Tenement House Committee of 1894
5. Lawrence Veiller and the New York…
Sao Paulo: A tale of two cities
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UN-HABITAT’s new Cities and Citizens series examines urban inequality in the developing world through in-depth analysis of intracity data developed by UN-HABITAT and its partner institutions and on-the-ground…
Megacities 10 : Towards the megacities solution
Extract from the Introduction by Steef Buijs :
A handful of megacity regions in the advanced and advancing economies, as clusters of large and overlapping daily urban systems are the prime powerhouses and central nodes of the world network economy.…
The mega-city in Latin America
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By the year 2000, Latin America will contain five metropolitan areas with more than 8 million people. Their combined population will be over 70 million, and approximately one Latin American in seven will live in those…
"Dear, dirty Dublin" : A city in distress, 1899 - 1916
Extract from the preface :
Only a few cities evoke those clear images that feed the mind and imagination of successive generations or represent for posterity the spirit of an age : Johnson's London, Louis Napoleon's Paris, Brecht's Berlin. And so…
Habitat international (Vol. 35, No. 1)
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Habitat International is dedicated to the study of urban and rural human settlements: their planning, design, production and management. Its main focus is on urbanisation in its broadest sense in the developing world.…
Progress in Irish urban studies
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Progress in Irish Urban Studies is a working paper series which presents expanded articles based on papers presented to the annual research seminar series and provides a means by which post-graduate researchers and…
Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule
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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,…