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Urban complexity and spatial strategies : towards a relational planning for our times.
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ISBN: 0415380359 9780415380355 9780415380348 9780203099414 9781134180035 9781134180073 9781134180080 Year: 2007 Publisher: Abingdon Routledge


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ISBN: 9789064698385 Year: 2007 Volume: 10 Publisher: Alphen aan de Rijn Canaletto / Repro-Holland

Synergy in polycentric urban regions : complementarity, organising capacity and critical mass
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ISBN: 6612298057 1282298054 9786612298059 1441616721 1607502305 6000014260 9781607502302 9781441616722 9781586037246 1586037242 Year: 2007 Publisher: Delft : Delft University Press,

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In understanding and explaining the functioning of cities, contemporary urban and regional studies attribute great significance to relationships between cities. This book focuses on relationships between cities in polycentric urban regions (PURs), which are regions containing proximate but distinct cities that are rather similar in size.

Town and country in the Middle Ages : contrasts, contacts and interconnections, 1100 - 1500.
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ISBN: 9781905981397 1905981392 9781904350286 1904350283 Year: 2007 Volume: 22 Publisher: Leeds Maney

Voisinages, coexistences, appropriations : groupes sociaux et territoires urbains (Moyen-Âge - 16e siècle).
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ISBN: 9782503520247 2503520243 9782503538761 Year: 2007 Volume: 10 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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Fruit des travaux du colloque intitulé «Groupes sociaux et territoires urbains (Moyen Age-16e siècle)» organisé en décembre 2004 à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, cet ouvrage rassemble douze contributions originales consacrées aux dynamiques sociales de l’espace urbain en Europe de l’ouest durant le bas Moyen Âge.Dans sa première partie, l’ouvrage montre la structuration à long terme de l’espace urbain par les stratégies d’occupation de groupes dominants: chapitres canoniaux, élites scabinales, métiers (Tours, Namur, Trévise). Il confronte ce processus d’appropriation à la capacité de réagencement matériel ou symbolique déployée par certains acteurs urbains. Accident aléatoire (Tortosa), circonstances politiques (Bruges), modulation des rapports à la ville (Ratisbonne) redessinent les territoires respectifs, rallument sans cesse la lutte pour la maîtrise de l’espace et de ses éléments signifiants.Dans sa seconde partie, l’ouvrage donne à penser la société urbaine dans ses relations avec des horizons plus lointains. Dans un premier temps sont abordées les relations des villes avec leur arrière-pays, sur lequel les groupes citadins dominants réinventent sans cesse les modalités économiques et juridiques de leur contrôle (Bruxelles, Chieri, Dijon). Dans un second temps, sont considérées les armatures urbaines de certains territoires (Brabant, Hainaut, Saint-Empire) dont la vivacité économique dépend de l’intensité des relations marchandes.Les articles réunis ici éclairent, souvent d’un jour nouveau, non seulement l’histoire singulière des villes concernées mais plus fondamentalement les processus et les logiques à l’œuvre dans l’agencement et le réagencement permanent des espaces urbains.

The city reader.
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ISBN: 9780415770842 9780415770835 Year: 2007 Publisher: London Routledge

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The fourth edition of the highly successful The City Reader brings together the very best of publications on the city. Classic writings by such authors as Lewis Mumford, Ernest W. Burgess, LeCorbusier, Lewis Wirth, Jane Jacobs and Kevin Lynch meet the best contemporary writings of, among others, Sir Peter Hall, Richard Florida, Mike Davis, Michael Porter, Robert Putnam, Andrus Duany, Saskia Sassen, and Manuel Castells. New to the fourth edition are important classic writings on urban economics by Wilbur Thomson and on bosses and machines by James Bryce, Jane Addams, and William L. Riordan, and new contemporary material on sustainable urban development, the creative class, metropolitics, occidentalism, Asian megacities, and urban futurism by The Bruntland Commission, Richard Florida, Myron Orfield, Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit, Aprodicio Laquian, and Joel Kotkin. Fifty-seven generous selections are included: a combination of forty-six readings from the third edition and eleven entirely new selections. Structured to aid student understanding, the anthology features main and part Introductions, as well as individual introductions to the selected articles. Each selection is introduced with a brief intellectual biography and a review of the author's writings and related literature, an explanation of how the piece fits into the broader context of urban history and practice, competing ideological perspectives on the city, and the major current debates concerning race and gender, globalization, terrorism, the impact of information technology on cities, civic engagement, and postmodernism. The City Reader provides the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies, old and new. It is illustrated with over forty photographs and is essential reading for anyone interested in the city.

Metropolitan world atlas.
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ISBN: 9064505489 9789064505485 Year: 2007 Publisher: Rotterdam 010

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Despite the burgeoning interest in metropolitan growth and globalization there has been no way of directly comparing metropolises - until now, that is. This atlas offers a unique survey of global trade networks and their impact on metropolitan space. It documents a total of 101 metropolises, analysing them in easy-to-read ground plans. It also includes index numbers and tables regarding such aspects as population, density, pollution, travel time, data traffic, air and water travel and the size of Central Business Districts. Its unexpected combination of ground plans and statistics makes this atlas a unique work of reference where for the first time metropolitan areas like Beijing, Lagos, London, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo can be compared with one another and in terms of their position in the global urban network.

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