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Taille Des Villes Conditions De Vie Et Developpement Economique
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Book Synopsis Cities and Economic Development by : Paul Bairoch
Download or read book Cities and Economic Development written by Paul Bairoch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When and how were cities born? Does urbanization foster innovation and economic development? What was the level of urbanization in traditional societies? Did the Industrial Revolution facilitate urbanization? Has the growth of cities in the Third World been a handicap or an asset to economic development? In this revised translation of De Jéricho à Mexico, Paul Bairoch seeks the answers to these questions and provides a comprehensive study of the evolution of the city and its relation to economic life. Bairoch examines the development of cities from the dawn of urbanization (Jericho) to the explosive growth of the contemporary Third World city. In particular, he defines the roles of agriculture and industrialization in the rise of cities. "A hefty history, from the Neolithic onward. It's ambitious in scope and rich in subject, detailing urbanization and, of course, the links between cities and economies. Scholarly, accessible, and significant."—Newsday "This book offers a path-breaking synthesis of the vast literature on the history of urbanization."—John C. Brown, Journal of Economic Literature "One leaves this volume with the feeling of positions intelligently argued and related to the existing state of theory and knowledge. One also has the pleasure of reading a book unusually well-written. It will long both be a standard and stimulate new thought on the central issue of urban and economic growth."—Thomas A. Reiner, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Book Synopsis Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age by : Juval Portugali
Download or read book Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age written by Juval Portugali and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, our cities are an embodiment of the complex, historical evolution of knowledge, desires and technology. Our planned and designed activities co-evolve with our aspirations, mediated by the existing technologies and social structures. The city represents the accretion and accumulation of successive layers of collective activity, structuring and being structured by other, increasingly distant cities, reaching now right around the globe. This historical and structural development cannot therefore be understood or captured by any set of fixed quantitative relations. Structural changes imply that the patterns of growth, and their underlying reasons change over time, and therefore that any attempt to control the morphology of cities and their patterns of flow by means of planning and design, must be dynamical, based on the mechanisms that drive the changes occurring at a given moment. This carefully edited post-proceedings volume gathers a snapshot view by leading researchers in field, of current complexity theories of cities. In it, the achievements, criticisms and potentials yet to be realized are reviewed and the implications to planning and urban design are assessed.
Book Synopsis European Urbanization, 1500-1800 by : Jan de Vries
Download or read book European Urbanization, 1500-1800 written by Jan de Vries and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons by : Charles Tilly
Download or read book Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons written by Charles Tilly and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1984-12-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bold and lively essay is one of those rarest of intellectual achievements, a big small book. In its short length are condensed enormous erudition and impressive analytical scope. With verve and self-assurance, it addresses a broad, central question: How can we improve our understanding of the large-scale processes and structures that transformed the world of the nineteenth century and are transforming our world today? Tilly contends that twentieth-century social theories have been encumbered by a nineteenth century heritage of "pernicious postulates." He subjects each misleading belief to rigorous criticism, challenging many standard social science paradigms and methodologies. As an alternative to those timeless, placeless models of social change and organization, Tilly argues convincingly for a program of concrete, historically grounded analysis and systematic comparison. To illustrate the strategies available for such research, Tilly assesses the works of several major practitioners of comparative historical analysis, making skillful use of this selective review to offer his own speculative, often unconventional accounts of our recent past. Historically oriented social scientists will welcome this provocative essay and its wide-ranging agenda for comparative historical research. Other social scientists, their graduate and undergraduate students, and even the interested general reader will find this new work by a major scholar stimulating and eminently readable. This is the second of five volumes commissioned by the Russell Sage Foundation to mark its seventy-fifth anniversary. "In this short, brilliant book Tilly suggests a way to think about theories of historical social change....This book should find attentive readers both in undergraduate courses and in graduate seminars. It should also find appreciative readers, for Tilly is a writer as well as a scholar." —Choice
Book Synopsis Patterns of European Urbanisation Since 1500 by : Henk Schmal
Download or read book Patterns of European Urbanisation Since 1500 written by Henk Schmal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1981, Patterns of European Urbanisation Since 1500 examines urbanisation in Europe since 1500, paying particular attention to the underlying factors which govern the differentiated process of urbanisation. The book goes on to formulate some of the ways in which these factors can be generalised in an attempt to delineate the process of urbanisation in theoretic terms.
Book Synopsis Disparities in Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution by : Maurice Levy-Leboyerd
Download or read book Disparities in Economic Development since the Industrial Revolution written by Maurice Levy-Leboyerd and published by Springer. This book was released on 1981-02-19 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hierarchy in Natural and Social Sciences by : Denise Pumain
Download or read book Hierarchy in Natural and Social Sciences written by Denise Pumain and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hierarchy is a form of organisation of complex systems that rely on or produce a strong differentiation in capacity (power and size) between the parts of the system. It is frequently observed within the natural living world as well as in social institutions. According to the authors, hierarchy results from random processes, follows an intentional design, or is the result of the organisation which ensures an optimal circulation of energy for information. This book reviews ancient and modern representations and explanations of hierarchies, and compares their relevance in a variety of fields, such as language, societies, cities, and living species. It throws light on concepts and models such as scaling laws, fractals and self-organisation that are fundamental in the dynamics and morphology of complex systems. At a time when networks are celebrated for their efficiency, flexibility and better social acceptance, much can be learned about the persistent universality and adaptability of hierarchies, and from the analogies and differences between biological and social organisation and processes. This book addresses a wide audience of biologists and social scientists, as well as managers and executives in a variety of institutions.
Book Synopsis Preparing for the Future - A Vision of West Africa in the Year 2020 West Africa Long-Term Perspective Study by : OECD
Download or read book Preparing for the Future - A Vision of West Africa in the Year 2020 West Africa Long-Term Perspective Study written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1999-12-06 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1960 and 2020, the population of West Africa will have increased fivefold, even with the most optimistic assumptions of increased contraceptive use. This unprecedented demographic explosion is accompanied by another major change: Exposure to ...
Book Synopsis Theories and Models of Urbanization by : Denise Pumain
Download or read book Theories and Models of Urbanization written by Denise Pumain and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thorough discussion about fundamental questions regarding urban theories and modeling. It is a curated collection of contributions to a workshop held in Paris on October 12th and 13th 2017 at the Institute of Complex Systems by the team of ERC GeoDiverCity. There are several chapters conveying the answers given by single authors to problems of conceptualization and modeling and others in which scholars reply to their conception and question them. Even, the chapters transcribing keynote presentations were rewritten according to contributions from the respective discussions. The result is a complete “state of the art” of what is our knowledge about urban processes and their possible formalization.
Book Synopsis Urbanization Overspeed in Tropical Africa, 1970-2000 by : Guy Ankerl
Download or read book Urbanization Overspeed in Tropical Africa, 1970-2000 written by Guy Ankerl and published by INU PRESS. This book was released on 1986 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: State of urbanisation in 1980; State of agglomerations in 1980; Trends of urbanisations between 1970-2000; Trends in urban concentration and in the development of agglomerations between 1970-2000; Activities and urbanisation; The underprivileged; Underprivilege, an elusive phenomenon; The household in a transitional society; Differentiating rural and urban underprivileged; Measuring and monitoring the underpriviledged's situation; Societal indicators; Indicators and the underprivileged in urban and rural areas; Public services in urban and rural areas; Housing; Food supply; Underemployment and the residual sector; Elderly, handicapped and children; Women; Rural-urban migration : policy goals and measures for deceleration and redirection; Disincentives for migration; Social problem-solving by collective self-help; Social networks; Effective solidarity ties; Summary of policy recommendations.
Book Synopsis Environment and Development in Africa by : Sam Stuart
Download or read book Environment and Development in Africa written by Sam Stuart and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environment and Development in Africa is a two-part book that first attempts to weave together a set of forecasts as realistically as possible and in a certain sense constitutes the scheme of future trends in the environment and development in Africa. The second part investigates three kinds of "eventualities." Scenario 1 looks at dependent growth and environmental misuse. The second scenario is based on the hypothesis that Africa will have greater autonomy in growth or development. This situation will afford greater room for maneuver within which environmental considerations may find their place.
Book Synopsis History of Humanity: From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century by : Peter Burke
Download or read book History of Humanity: From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century written by Peter Burke and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 1994 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume of the this series examines historical events and cultural, social and political structures which were introduced between the 16th and 18th centuries.
Book Synopsis A Social History of Western Europe, 1880-1980 by : Hartmut Kaelble
Download or read book A Social History of Western Europe, 1880-1980 written by Hartmut Kaelble and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1990 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that the social integration of Western Europe already exists in an advanced form, Kaelble examines eight selected aspects of society: the European family; employment structures; big business; social mobility and education; social inequality in the class system; life in European cities; the rise of the welfare state; and industrial relations. Approaching a 'European history' rather than the traditional collection of national histories, his unique and challenging view of social development will interest not only historians but also sociologists and political scientists.
Book Synopsis Reports and Papers in the Social Sciences by : Social Science Clearing House (Unesco)
Download or read book Reports and Papers in the Social Sciences written by Social Science Clearing House (Unesco) and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Paul Bairoch Publisher :Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales ISBN 13 : Total Pages :428 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (31 download)
Book Synopsis Taille des villes, conditions de vie et développement économique by : Paul Bairoch
Download or read book Taille des villes, conditions de vie et développement économique written by Paul Bairoch and published by Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. This book was released on 1977 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic research on optimum town size in relation to economic development, urbanization rate, population density and living conditions in urban areas - speculates on the social costs of urban development in function with present trends and projections to the year 2000 for developed and developing countries. Bibliography pp. 383 to 409 and statistical tables.
Download or read book Geographia Polonica written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smart Cities written by Claude Rochet and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intelligence of a city is the capacity to learn: to learn the past, its history and the culture of its territory. Unlike the smart city, we do not build a city from scratch and there is nothing, there is no smart city standard car intelligence is measured this ability to fit into a territorial dynamic, a story and a culture. Continuous learning through instantaneous feedback provides the digital to understand and map the urban system and driver.
