P Le Galès - Annual Review of Sociology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
In the 1980s and 1990s, a series of publications, including Saskia Sassen's landmark book The Global City, triggered a new current of research aiming to link a cycle of globalized …
Understanding the interactions between the human sphere and the natural sphere in key places and regions of the world is crucial for promoting sustainability science and achieving …
A Choplin - La vie du ciment en Afrique. Geneva: Metis Presses, 2020 - researchgate.net
Cet ouvrage est le résultat d'une recherche menée grâce à l'Institut de Recherche pour le Développement qui m'a accueillie comme chercheuse entre 2016 et 2018. Je remercie …
This research describes the change in temperatures across approximately 270 tropical cities from 1960 to 2020 with a focus on urban warming. It associates urban growth indicators with …
CONCRETE CITY “Armelle Choplin's Concrete City weaves a novel and engaging analysis of urbanization by tracing the journeys of cement and people making urban life in West …
Synergies between urban planning and public health were synthesized a decade ago by the Lancet Commission's article" Shaping Cities for Health: Complexity and the Planning of …
As is well known, the world is in the middle of an extraordinary burst of urbanization, a global urban transition that accelerated through the 20th century. The world passed 50% of total …
According to the popular view, megacities are troubled polities and unlikely places for the realisation of democratic ideals. This article challenges the popular view and points out the …
We live in a rapidly urbanizing world. Urban development accelerated last century in tandem with demographic and economic growth. From 1960 to 2000, the global human population …