Les Villes Mondiales

Les Villes Mondiales
Author: Carleton University. Institute of Canadian Studies
Publisher:
Total Pages: 472
Release: 1999
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN:

Réseaux Urbains en Europe

Réseaux Urbains en Europe
Author: Denise Pumain
Publisher: John Libbey Eurotext
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1996
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN: 9782742000661

Examines the emergence of European urban networks and their consequences for the new position that each city has acquired through the internationalization of trade. Describes the networking process from the point of view of transport infrastructure, accesibility, and the new economic and political links that are growing up between cities. Covers mainly the period from 1970 to 1990.

Local and Global

Local and Global
Author: Jordi Borja
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134180063

This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. In this way, cities will remain the focus of social organization, political management and cultural expression, equipped to deal with the enormous social and environmental problems of urbanization.

Capital Cities/Les Capitales

Capital Cities/Les Capitales
Author: John H. Taylor
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1993
Genre: Capitals (Cities)
ISBN: 0886291798

An unusual look at the nature and role of capital cities around the world - past, present and future. The 24 papers by scholars from many countries and disciplines present their thinking on capital cities, with contributions from Amos Rapoport, Claude Raffestin, Peter Hall and Anthony Sutcliffe. 16 papers in English, 8 in French.

Regionalization of the World

Regionalization of the World
Author: Pierre Beckouche
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2024-04-16
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1394284365

On the world map, macro-regions or global regions have gradually emerged, with varying degrees of success and following different trajectories. The authors of this book attempt to determine whether, within the context of globalization, these macro-regions have become an additional level in the spatial deployment of numerous actors, and whether they have come to stand between the national and global levels. This question has arisen because the increasing scales of trade, environmental problems, migration routes, energy distribution, the construction of major infrastructures etc. transcend national boundaries and are leading states to implement macro-regional cooperation. The authors ask whether these large regional groupings are becoming genuine territories and are the fruit of in-depth regional integration – economic, institutional, legal, normative, political, cultural and in terms of identity. If so, these global regions would therefore become referents that make sense and take root in social representations.

BELGEO.

BELGEO.
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2007
Genre: Geography
ISBN:

Understanding the City

Understanding the City
Author: Gülçin Erdi-Lelandais
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2014-06-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1443863203

Henri Lefebvre is undoubtedly one of the most influential thinkers in the field of urban space and its organization; his theories offer reflections still valid for analyzing social relations in urban areas affected by the crisis of the neoliberal economic system. Lefebvre’s ideal of the “right to the city” is now more widely accepted given today’s current cultural and social situation. Most current research on Henri Lefebvre refers solely to his ideas and their theoretical discussion, without focusing on the empirical transcription of the philosopher. This book fills this gap, and proposes examples about the empirical use of Henri Lefebvre’s sociology from the perspective of different cities and researchers in order to understand the city and its evolutions in the context of neoliberal globalization. The book’s main purpose is to revisit Lefebvre’s still-relevant key concepts to propose new comprehensions of the contemporary city. Case studies in this book will show also that the reception of Lefebvrian concepts differs across different contexts, depending on the social and political circumstances of each country. The debates in this book both expand the scope of urban imagination, and help to reinvigorate, unify, and empower shared desires for just urban outcomes. The contributions to this book also illuminate the everyday choices concerning the form and social processes of the city, and the inspiration that they draw from Lefebvre’s theoretical legacy in the realm of urban sociology.