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"This volume offers valuable anthropological insight into urban Africa, covering a range of cities across a continent that has become one of the fastest urbanizing geographic areas of the globe. Consideration is given to the structures, social formations, and rhythms that constitute the definition of an African city, town, or urban space, and to current concepts for thinking about African cities in the twenty-first century. The contributors examine topics including notions of belonging, the effects of globalization, colonialism and transnationalism on African urban life, the cultural dimensions of infrastructure and public resources, mobility, labor issues, spatial organization, language, and popular culture trends, among other themes. The book reflects on how the ethnography of urban Africa fits within anthropology and urban studies, and on new theoretical concepts and methodologies that can be created through anthropological fieldwork in African cities. It will be of particular interest to scholars and students from anthropology, African studies and urban studies, as well as sociology and geography"--

Urban anthropology. --- Anthropology, Urban --- Ethnology --- Land use, Urban --- Urbanization

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Kristine F. Miller delves into six of New York's public spaces, including Times Square, Trump Tower, and Sony Plaza, to trace how design influences their complicated existence. Design is, in Miller's view, complicit in regulation of public spaces in New York City to exclude undesirables and privilege commercial interests, and in this work she shows how design can reactivate public space and public life.

Public spaces --- Architecture and society --- Land use, Urban --- New York --- 711.61 --- 711.4 --- Urban land use --- Cities and towns --- Urban economics --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Architecture --- Architecture and sociology --- Society and architecture --- Sociology and architecture --- Public places --- Social areas --- Urban public spaces --- Urban spaces --- Openbare ruimte --- Publieke ruimte --- Stedenbouw --- Social aspects --- Human factors --- New York (State) --- New York (N.Y.) --- Land use [Urban ]

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Planning is at the heart of the response to many of the significant challenges of our time, from the climate and environmental crises to social and economic inequalities. It is embedded in, as well as partially constituting, our democratic systems, so that the challenges of democratic decision-making in a complex society cannot be avoided when thinking about planning. Planning law raises some of the most fundamental questions faced by legal scholars, from the legitimacy of authority to the relationship between public and private rights and interests. And yet, planning law has been relatively neglected by legal scholars. The objective of Taking English Planning Law Scholarship Seriously is to create space for planning law scholarship in all of its variety, and for curiosity about law in all of its complexity. The chapters reflect this diversity and complexity, covering a range of the objects of planning (from housing to energy to highways) and a multiplicity of planning tasks and tools (from compulsory purchase to contracting to planning inquiries).

City planning and redevelopment law --- City planning --- City planning law --- Land use, Urban --- Slum clearance law --- Town planning law --- Urban renewal --- Community development --- Planning --- Regional planning --- Law and legislation

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La représentation que l’on se fait des déserts est souvent loin d’être exacte. Aussi, parler du Sahara revient-il très vite à confronter imaginaire et réel. Il faut pourtant se rendre à l’évidence : le Sahara contemporain est d’abord urbain, constellé de villes où se concentre la majeure partie des populations. Une situation dont on connaît encore mal le processus d’urbanisation et la genèse. Comment expliquer en effet que l’une des régions les plus arides du Sahara, carrefour ancien entre le Sahel et le Maghreb, compte aujourd’hui une ville de près de 150 000 habitants et un taux d’urbanisation dépassant les 90 % ? Est-ce essentiellement le fait de l’État libyen qui, riche de la rente des hydrocarbures, a voulu fixer les populations et « borner » ainsi le territoire national ? Et pourquoi une telle urbanisation, loin de péricliter après l’érosion de la rente pétrolière et de l’embargo des années 1990, enregistre-t-elle encore des rythmes de croissance aussi forts ? Comment expliquer aussi qu’un renouveau agricole du désert accompagne le processus d’urbanisation ? Quels en sont - dans le contexte actuel de désengagement étatique - les ressorts, les formes, les acteurs ? Par ailleurs, si l’urbanisation saharienne rime souvent avec l’anonymat, l’uniformité, elle est pourtant porteuse d’identités. Que dire des rapports sociaux qui se tissent dans les villes-carrefours cosmopolites par lesquels transitent les migrants africains, ainsi que dans les rubans oasiens remodelés par les pouvoirs publics ? Attentif aux Hommes, aux lieux, aux réseaux qui sous-tendent l’urbanisation saharienne, l’auteur fournit dans cette étude du Fezzan des clés de lecture pour comprendre les dynamiques qui touchent aujourd’hui le plus grand désert du monde.

Urbanization --- Cities and towns --- Urbanisation --- Villes --- City planning --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Communities - Urban Groups --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Planning --- Government policy --- Management --- Land use --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- urbanisation --- Lybie --- urbanité --- Sahara

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El trabajo que nos ofrece Óscar Alfonso constituye una reconstrucción histórica de cómo se ha estructurado esta segmentación residencial de esta metrópoli, trabajo que está fundamentado en una impresionante investigación sobre las estadísticas de la venta de lotes, la construcción de vivienda formal e informal, todo ello presentado en una excelente cartografía que permite visualizar los procesos sucedidos en este último medio siglo en la construcción de la ciudad, al menos de la oferta de vivienda formal. Como el autor lo advierte, se trata de una historia incompleta, en razón a que más de la mitad de la oferta inmobiliaria ha estado a cargo de la urbanización informal, que en su gran mayoría se corresponde con la vivienda popular, la cual, valga la recordación, ha sido la que predomina en la urbanización del sur de Bogotá. Este trabajo, adicional a los que el autor nos ha ofrecido en años recientes, nos permite comprender los avances y retrocesos que presenta nuestra ciudad en su devenir moderno, sus limitaciones como ciudad incluyente, y los peligros que se corre de llegar a hacer de ella una anti ciudad. Fabio Zambrano P.

Sociology, Urban --- City planning --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Communities - Urban Groups --- History --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Urban sociology --- Planning --- Government policy --- Management --- Land use --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Bogotá (Colombia) --- Social conditions. --- sociología urbana --- Bogotá