Posts Tagged ‘ gentrification ’

Invitation to the Workshop « Governing the large metropolis. Paris – London compared », 26 & 27 May

22 mai 2014
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Invitation to the Workshop « Governing the large metropolis. Paris – London compared », 26 & 27 May

Download the programme: http://cee.sciences-po.fr/fr/agenda/details/574-governing-the-large-metropolis-paris–london-compared.html To know more about the project : http://blogs.sciences-po.fr/recherche-villes/p-le-gales-and-t-vitale-governing-the-large-metropolis-a-research-agenda/  

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LUNCH SEMINAR : « Post earthquake effects and latino gentrification in Chile: waiting for the social ‘aftershock’ response »

6 mai 2013
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LUNCH SEMINAR : « Post earthquake effects and latino gentrification in Chile: waiting for the social ‘aftershock’ response »

LUNCH SEMINAR Mai 7th 12h30 – 14h30 Sciences Po Salle du Conseil 13, rue de l’Université 75007 Paris   Speaker Jorge Inzulza Contardo : « Post earthquake effects and latino gentrification in Chile: waiting for the social ‘aftershock’ response ». Jorge Inzulza Contardo is an architect and professor at the Universidad de Chile/ Facultad de Arquitectura y…

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Seminar on Gentrification and Social Mix Policies

Cities Are Back In Town is organizing a conference on gentrification and social mix policies on Wednesday 21st March, from 5 to 8 pm, in amphithéâtre Erignac (13, rue de l’Université). Guest speakers: Tim Butler and Sylvie Tissot Speaker 1 Tim Butler, Professor of Human Geography at King’s College London, will introduce his last collective…

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Education and Housing: the hot topic around London’s middle classes dinner tables

22 mars 2011
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Tim Butler, « Education and Housing: the hot topic around London’s middle classes dinner tables » (Vincent Wright Lecture), Working papers du Programme Villes et territoires, 2011 (Le .pdf étant volumineux, il est scindé en quatre parties afin de pouvoir être uploadé sur le blog) Première partie Deuxième partie Troisième partie Quatrième partie

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4 février 2011. Séminaire scientifique de l’OSC : la sociologie des grandes métropoles

29 janvier 2011
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« La sociologie des grandes métropoles » Vendredi 4 février 9h30-13h Intervenants: Eduardo Marquès, chercheur au Centro da Estudos da Metropole de São Paulo, accueilli à l’OSC « Social networks, sociability and poverties in two Brazilian metropolis » Tim Butler, professeur de sociologie au King’s College de Londres, invité par Sciences Po « The aspirational contraflow in East London :…

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Globalising European Urban Bourgeoisies?

25 août 2010
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Alberta Andreotti, Patrick Le Galès, Francisco Javier Moreno-Fuentes (2010). “Globalising European Urban Bourgeoisies? Rooted middle classes and partial exit in Paris, Lyon, Madrid and Milan”, Working papers du Programme Villes & territoires, 2010, Paris, Sciences Po European societies were and have remained mainly national societies, characterised among other things by strong territorialisation and the existence of…

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Controlling the urban fabric. The complex game of distance and proximity in European upper-middle classes’ residential strategies

24 août 2010
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Andreotti, Alberta, Patrick Le Galès, Francisco Javier Moreno Fuentes (2010). “Controlling the urban fabric. The complex game of distance and proximity in European upper-middle classes’ residential strategies”, Working papers du Programme Villes & territoires, 2010, Paris, Sciences Po Without challenging the validity of the analysis of processes of urban secession, or the importance of gentrification processes…

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Not barbarians : Transnational mobility and Rootedness of Upper Middle classes in European Cities

24 août 2010
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Andreotti, Alberta, Patrick Le Galès, Francisco Javier Moreno Fuentes, (2010). “Not barbarians : Transnational mobility and Rootedness of Upper Middle classes in European Cities”, Working papers du Programme Villes & territoires, 2010, Paris, Sciences Po Some authors suggest that “mobilities” are the distinctive feature of late modern societies and represent a new social cleavage between a…

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Gentrification and Globalization : the emergence of a middle range theory

7 décembre 2009
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Gentrification and Globalization : the emergence of a middle range theory  by 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 key importance in understanding processes of class change. In some respects the concept has grown…

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