Une livraison de la revue ORDA - L'ordinaire des Amériques (N° 216, 2014).
Après un numéro 215 consacré aux Représentations des esclavages dans les Amériques, le numéro 216, deuxième de la nouvelle formule de L’Ordinaire des Amériques, aborde le…
Comment penser l'altérité à partir des lieux ? Comment la vie sociale s'organise à partir de certains « lieux autres » ? Si l'on peut considérer les lieux comme des modalités spécifiques d’investissements sociaux de la…
Abstract from the publisher : David Foster brings an intense curiosity and lifelong familiarity to this unique examination of the cultural tapestry of São Paulo, the largest city in South America and the second largest in Latin America. …
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- The companion to Phaidon’s popular The Endless City, with the same mix of smart writing, remarkable photographs and incisive data on the field of urban development and its related disciplines
- An authoritative…
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Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an…
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Sao Paulo et sa région métropolitaine regroupe 18 millions d'habitants : travail, drogue, associations, vie quotidienne, famille sont des thèmes récurrents dans toutes les…
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Pour comprendre comment est gouvernée une mégalopole, il faut prendre en considération des caractéristiques telles que la capacité administrative, les logiques…
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…
A first of its kind, this COHRE report examines the worldwide phenomenon of urbanisation from the point of view of women’s housing rights. The report focuses, in particular, on the experiences of women and girls living in slum communities…
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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…
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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…
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Using the concept of 'global cities' as a key context to the discussion, Murray draws our attention to the large metropolises that dominate as economic power bases – cities such as New York and Tokyo – and…