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American urban politics refers to politics within cities of the United States of America. City governments, run by mayors or city councils , hold a restricted amount of governing power. State and federal governments have been granted a large portion of city governance as laid out in the U.S. Constitution .
Anti-urbanism is hostility toward the city as opposed to the country. [1] It may may take the form a simple rejection of city life, or an urbicidal wish to destroy the city. [2] [3] Like other hostile attitudes, it may be an individual sentiment or a collective trope, sometimes evoked by the expression "urbophobia" [4] or "urbanophobia" [5] This trope can become politicized and thus influence ...
Abahlali baseMjondolo assembly The Poor People's Alliance outside the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg in 2009. Several popular movements, such as the shack dwellers' movement Abahlali baseMjondolo in South Africa, [11] the Right to the City Alliance in the United States, [12] Recht auf Stadt, [13] a network of squatters, tenants and artists in Hamburg, and various movements in Asia and ...
Communauté urbaine (French pronunciation: [kɔmynote yʁbɛn] ⓘ; French for "urban community") is the second most integrated form of intercommunality in France, after the Metropolis (French: métropole). A communauté urbaine is composed of a city and its independent suburbs (independent communes).
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Political divisions between urban and rural areas have been noted by political scientists and journalists to have intensified in the 21st century, and in particular since the Great Recession. In Europe , the increasing urban–rural polarization has coincided with the decline of centre-left parties and concomitant rise of far-right and populist ...
A sensitive urban zone (French: Zone urbaine sensible, ZUS) is an urban area in France defined by the authorities to be a high-priority target for city policy, taking into consideration local circumstances related to the problems of its residents. [1] On the 26th of December 1996, 750 ZUS were founded by the décret n°96-1156.
The Société française des Urbanistes (SFU; English: French Society of Urban Planners) is a French national association of urban planners formed in 1911, in part by city planner Alfred Agache. External links