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Installée dans « le coude du fleuve Rouge », Hà Nội compte parmi les plus anciennes capitales d'Asie du Sud-Est. Au fil des siècles, la ville s'est constituée sur un dense substrat de villages. Avec l'ouverture économique des années 1980, Hà Nội rencontre de nombreux blocages pour s'étendre : l'absence d'un réel marché foncier, des densités très élevées, une politique d'autosuffisance alimentaire qui limite les expropriations et la contrainte hydraulique de ce delta très vulnérable. Depuis le début du nouveau millénaire, le changement de vitesse opéré par l'État et les promoteurs immobiliers dans la construction et la planication de la province-capitale pose le problème de l'intégration des villages qui s'urbanisent in situ, du maintien d'une ceinture verte et de la protection contre les inondations. La fusion ville-campagne, qui a toujours fait la spécificité du delta du fleuve Rouge, semble remise en cause. À partir d'un riche corpus de cartes et d'études de terrain, cet ouvrage collectif montre comment l'urbanisation au ras des terroirs est confrontée à l'urbanisation « par le haut », la métropolisation. Combinant les approches disciplinaires à plusieurs échelles spatiales et sociales dans une perspective dynamique, il permet de mesurer l'impact des grands projets de développement urbain sur la vie des villages intégrés dans la fabrique de la ville, et de replacer la strate villageoise périurbaine comme acteur à part entière de la diversité sociodémographique de cette métropole en formation.

Urban Studies --- Hanoï --- Vietnam --- vie urbaine --- utilisation du sol --- périurbanisation

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An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis.American Urban Form--the spaces, places, and boundaries that define city life--has been evolving since the first settlements of colonial days. The changing patterns of houses, buildings, streets, parks, pipes and wires, wharves, railroads, highways, and airports reflect changing patterns of the social, political, and economic processes that shape the city. In this book, Sam Bass Warner and Andrew Whittemore map more than three hundred years of the American city through the evolution of urban form. They do this by offering an illustrated history of "the City"--a hypothetical city (constructed from the histories of Boston, Philadelphia, and New York) that exemplifies the American city's transformation from village to regional metropolis.In an engaging text accompanied by Whittemore's detailed, meticulous drawings, they chart the City's changes. Planning for the future of cities, they remind us, requires an understanding of the forces that shaped the city's past.

Cities and towns --- City and town life --- History. --- ARCHITECTURE/Urban Design --- Villes --- Vie urbaine --- History --- Histoire

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The notion of the postcolonial metropolis has gained prominence in the last two decades both within and beyond postcolonial studies. Disciplines such as sociology and urban studies, however, have tended to focus on the economic inequalities, class disparities, and other structural and formative aspects of the postcolonial metropolises that are specific to Western conceptions of the city at large. It is only recently that the depiction of postcolonial metropolises has been addressed in the writings of Suketu Mehta, Chris Abani, Amit Chaudhuri, Salman Rushdie, Aravind Adiga, Helon Habila, Sefi Atta, and Zakes Mda, among others. Most of these works probe the urban specifics and physical and cultural topographies of postcolonial cities while highlighting their agential capacity to defy, appropriate, and abrogate the superimposition of theories of Western modernity and urbanism. These ASNEL Papers are all concerned with the idea of the postcolonial (in the) metropolis from various disciplinary viewpoints, as drawn from a great range of cityscapes (spread out over five continents). The essays explore, on the one hand, ideas of spatial subdivision and inequality, political repression, social discrimination, economic exploitation, and cultural alienation, and, on the other, the possibility of transforming, reinventing and reconfigurating the ‘postcolonial condition’ in and through literary texts and visual narratives. In this context, the volume covers a broad spectrum of theoretical and thematic approaches to postcolonial and metropolitan topographies and their depictions in writings from Australia and New Zealand, South Africa, South Asia, and greater Asia, as well as the UK, addressing issues such as modernity and market economies but also caste, class, and social and linguistic aspects. At the same time, they reflect on the postcolonial metropolis and postcolonialism in the metropolis by concentrating on an urban imaginary which turns on notions of spatial subdivision and inequality, political repression, social discrimination, economic exploitation, and cultural alienation – as the continuing ‘postcolonial’ condition.

Postcolonialism. --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Littérature postcoloniale. --- Capitales. --- Vie urbaine. --- Grande-Bretagne

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"Jews and Urban Life recognizes that throughout their long history, Jews have often inhabited cities. The reality of this urban experience ranged from ghetto restrictions to robust participation in a range of civic and social activities. Essays in this collection present relevant examples from within the Jewish community itself, moving historically from the biblical period to the modern-day State of Israel. Taking a comparative approach while recognizing the particulars of individual instances, authors examine these phenomena from a wide variety of approaches, genres, and media. Interdisciplinary and accessibly written, the articles display a multitude of instances throughout history showing the range of Jewish life in urban settings"--

City and town life. --- Jews --- Jewish neighborhoods --- Vie urbaine. --- Juifs --- Quartiers juifs --- Intellectual life. --- History. --- Vie intellectuelle. --- Histoire.

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La ville en Asie du Sud, héritière de cités parmi les plus anciennes de la planète, s ’inscrit dans une région à prédominance rurale pourtant génératrice de mégapoles. Ces très grandes villes à l’avant-garde de l’ouverture économique du sous-continent indien vivent des transformations rapides sous l’effet de la mondialisation. Dans l’univers urbain, le poids de la strate coloniale se révèle beaucoup plus riche en hybrides et en créations originales que ce que la logique de la dépossession et de la domination aurait pu laisser supposer. C’est là l’une des spécificités du cas indien, légataire d’un héritage historique unique sur lequel s’est greffée l’empreinte de la modernité, sans que les repères traditionnels perdent tout leur contenu car ils en sont, parfois, fécondés. Trois grandes thématiques traitent ici de l’évolution de ces phénomènes urbains : structure de la ville et recompositions sociospatiales ; tensions sociales et tensions urbaines ; restructuration des espaces économiques. Ce volume collectif mobilise divers champs disciplinaires des sciences sociales et propose une approche comparatiste visant à mettre en perspective l’expérience urbaine indienne avec des situations et des évolutions observées ailleurs en Asie et dans d’autres continents.

cities and towns --- violence --- town planning --- State --- India --- South-East Asia --- City and town life --- Vie urbaine --- Urban Studies --- Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary --- ville --- urbanisme --- État --- comparatisme