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POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOW IN URBAN STUDIES: Ray Pahl Fellowship, University of Cape Town

20 August 2014
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Ray Pahl Fellowship in Urban Studies (2015) African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town   Application details and further particulars are available here: http://www.ijurr.org/furs/network.html Applications are due by Friday 12 September 2014.   General Informations The Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies (FURS), a charity associated with the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research,…

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Local differences and social inequalities in access to childcare options

18 January 2010
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Cahier N°21 By  Stefania Sabatinelli , University of Milan Bicocca In the last decades one observes a growing scientific emphasis on the relevance of the first years of life for the cognitive, social and emotional development, and a consequent widening of the definition of children’s…

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Cities are back in town : the US/Europe comparison

18 January 2010
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Cahier N°20 Par Patrick Le Galès , Directeur de Recherche, CNRS, CEE and Mathieu Zagrodzki , Doctorant, politique publique, CEVIPOF, Sciences Po From the integrated medieval European cities surrounded by walls, to the colonial Boston or the rapidly growing Phoenix, Las Vegas, or London South…

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Institutional change through innovation : the URBAN Community Initiative in Berlin, 1994 -99

18 January 2010
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Cahier N°16 Charlotte Halpern CEVIPOF/Sciences Po Paris, Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin RTN URBeurope Abstract. Reunification profoundly challenged the local government structure inherited from the Cold War period in Berlin. Yet…

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Gentrification and Globalization : the emergence of a middle range theory

18 January 2010
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Cahier N°14 Tim Butler, King’s College London RTN URBeurope Abstract In this paper I argue that gentrification, despite the many arguments over its continuing validity as a concept, retains its…

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Behaviour, Preferences and Cities : Urban theory and urban resurgence

18 January 2010
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Cahier N°13 Michael Storper, Professor, London School of Economics and Professor, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and Michael Manville, PhD Candidate, Dept of Urban Planning, UCLA RTN URBeurope…

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