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20 ans à penser la politique de la ville en Seine-Saint-Denis…
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Vingt ans d'actions de qualification pour accompagner vingt ans de politique de la ville dans le département, cela méritait bien un ouvrage en témoignage de cette belle histoire qui est…
Atlas des Franciliens
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Rassembler dans un document unique les analyses donnant une vision globale et actuelle des caractéristiques des Franciliens et de l’Île-de-France et de leur évolution, telle est…
Settlement, urbanization, and population
Abstract from the publisher: This volume presents a collection of studies focussing on population and settlement patterns in the Roman empire in the perspective of the economic development of the Mediterranean world between 100 BC and AD 350. The…
Creative knowledge cities: Myths, visions and realities
Abstract from the publisher: This book adopts a holistic, integrated and pragmatic approach to exploring the myths, concepts, policies, key conditions and tools for enhancing creative knowledge cities, as well as expounding potentially negative…
The city in the experience economy: Role and transformation
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The book develops a new approach to urban development in which leisure, pleasure or experiences are seen as key drivers. History, authenticity, urban qualities, local culture and leisure offerings or a vibrant retail…
Muslims in Indian cities: Trajectories of marginalisation
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Muslims constitute the largest minority in India yet, surprisingly, they suffer the most politically and socioeconomically. Forced to contend with severe and persistent prejudice, they often fall victim to violence and…
Remaking urban citizenship: Organizations, institutions, and the right to the city
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Due to heightened global migration and transnational mobility, many residents of the world’s cities lack national citizenship in the places to which they have moved for work, refuge, or retirement. The disjuncture…
Writing the modern city: Literature, architecture, modernity
Abstract from the publisher: Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have…
Flammable cities: Urban conflagration and the making of the modern world
Abstract from the publisher: In most cities today, fire has been reduced to a sporadic and isolated threat. But throughout history the constant risk of fire has left a deep and lasting imprint on almost every dimension of urban society. This volume,…
Social housing across Europe
Abstract from the publisher: Who makes the decisions on social housing in general and 'disadvantaged' people in particular? Where is the focus? How do the various government tiers and regulating bodies interact, and how do decisions ripple across…
International handbook of globalization and world cities
Abstract from the publisher: This Handbook offers an unrivalled overview of current research into how globalization is affecting the external relations and internal structures of major cities in the world. By treating cities at a global scale, it…
Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and space
Abstract from the publisher: Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space demonstrates how studies of the Roman city are shifting focus from static architecture to activities and motion within urban spaces. This volume provides detailed case studies…
Urban constellations
Abstract from the publisher: Cities are an unprecedented focus of attention: over half the world now lives in them, culture and politics are shaped by them, and they are also focal points for new relationships between nature, technology and the…
Everyday life in the segmented city
Abstract from the publisher: This volume of "Research in Urban Sociology" is composed of a selection of the papers presented at the conference "Everyday Life in the Segmented City" held in July 2010, Florence. The conference…
Urban theory beyond the West: A world of cities
Abstract from the publisher: Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small…