Cities have become the major habitat for human societies. They are also the places where the starkest social inequalities show up. Income, social, land and housing inequalities shape the built environment and living conditions of different neighborhoods of cities, and in return, unequal access to services, environmental quality and favorable health conditions in different neighborhoods and cities fuel the reproduction of interpersonal inequalities. This book examines how inequalities are produced and reproduced both within and between cities. In particular, we review land rent and social segregation theories from diverse disciplinary references and through examples taken from around the world. The attraction of urban centralities, which is further reinforced by the growing financialization of property and urban capital, is also analyzed through the lens of its influence on rent-seeking mechanisms and the ever increasing pressure of population migration.
This monograph presents urban simulation methods that help in better understanding urban dynamics. Over historical times, cities have progressively absorbed a larger part of human population and will concentrate three quarters of humankind before the end of the century. This “urban transition” that has totally transformed the way we inhabit the planet is globally understood in its socio-economic rationales but is less frequently questioned as a spatio-temporal process. However, the cities, because they are intrinsically linked in a game of competition for resources and development, self organize in “systems of cities” where their future becomes more and more interdependent. The high frequency and intensity of interactions between cities explain that urban systems all over the world exhibit large similarities in their hierarchical and functional structure and rather regular dynamics. They are complex systems whose emergence, structure and further evolution are widely governed by the multiple kinds of interaction that link the various actors and institutions investing in cities their efforts, capital, knowledge and intelligence. Simulation models that reconstruct this dynamics may help in better understanding it and exploring future plausible evolutions of urban systems. This would provide better insight about how societies can manage the ecological transition at local, regional and global scales. The author has developed a series of instruments that greatly improve the techniques of validation for such models of social sciences that can be submitted to many applications in a variety of geographical situations. Examples are given for several BRICS countries, Europe and United States. The target audience primarily comprises research experts in the field of urban dynamics, but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students.
Cities have become the major habitat for human societies. They are also the places where the starkest social inequalities show up. Income, social, land and housing inequalities shape the built environment and living conditions of different neighborhoods of cities, and in return, unequal access to services, environmental quality and favorable health conditions in different neighborhoods and cities fuel the reproduction of interpersonal inequalities. This book examines how inequalities are produced and reproduced both within and between cities. In particular, we review land rent and social segregation theories from diverse disciplinary references and through examples taken from around the world. The attraction of urban centralities, which is further reinforced by the growing financialization of property and urban capital, is also analyzed through the lens of its influence on rent-seeking mechanisms and the ever increasing pressure of population migration.
This monograph presents urban simulation methods that help in better understanding urban dynamics. Over historical times, cities have progressively absorbed a larger part of human population and will concentrate three quarters of humankind before the end of the century. This “urban transition” that has totally transformed the way we inhabit the planet is globally understood in its socio-economic rationales but is less frequently questioned as a spatio-temporal process. However, the cities, because they are intrinsically linked in a game of competition for resources and development, self organize in “systems of cities” where their future becomes more and more interdependent. The high frequency and intensity of interactions between cities explain that urban systems all over the world exhibit large similarities in their hierarchical and functional structure and rather regular dynamics. They are complex systems whose emergence, structure and further evolution are widely governed by the multiple kinds of interaction that link the various actors and institutions investing in cities their efforts, capital, knowledge and intelligence. Simulation models that reconstruct this dynamics may help in better understanding it and exploring future plausible evolutions of urban systems. This would provide better insight about how societies can manage the ecological transition at local, regional and global scales. The author has developed a series of instruments that greatly improve the techniques of validation for such models of social sciences that can be submitted to many applications in a variety of geographical situations. Examples are given for several BRICS countries, Europe and United States. The target audience primarily comprises research experts in the field of urban dynamics, but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students.
Si vous avez lu et aimé Le Petit Prince et si vous aimez les devinettes, ce livre vous intéressera probablement. Que veut dire la "magnifique image" du début du livre de Saint-Exupéry? La plupart des lecteurs ne la trouvent pas "magnifique" bien au contraire. Seulement, ceux qui savent que "l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux" voient là une invitation à s'instruire et à réfléchir. Le "chapeau" qui est en réalité bien autre chose est une autre invitation à chercher au-delà des apparences. En lisant ce livre d'une admiratrice de Saint-Exupéry vous verrez ce que représentent la Forêt Vierge mentionnée à la première page, le pilote, le petit prince, l'éternel cache-nez d'or du petit prince et le merveilleux "renard." Vous verrez ce que sont vraiment "les enfants." Vous saisirez le sens profond de la guerre des "moutons" contre "la rose." Vous reconnaîtrez le symbolisme universel de l'arbre, de la corde, de la roue et du puits de science. Vous serez édifiés par l'expérience de l'astronome Turc. Vous verrez comme tout cela se rattache aux événements et à la politique actuels car, comme le remarque l'auteur de ce livre, "tout cela se tient." Vous vous poserez peut-être une question passionnante: Saint Exupéry voyait-il l'avenir? C'est pourquoi le Petit Prince a comme le dit finalement son auteur: "tellement d'importance." If you have read and loved The Little Prince and if you like riddles, this book will probably interest you. What is the meaning of the "magnificent image" at the beginning of that book? Most readers do not find it magnificent, on the contrary. Yet, those who know that "the essential is invisible to the eyes" see in it an invitation to learn and to think. The "hat" that actually is something quite different is another invitation to look beyond appearance. As you read this book by an admirer of Saint-Exupéry, you will see what is represented by the Virgin Forest mentioned on the first page
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