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Crossing the Divide
"The magnitudes, nature, causes, and consequences of population movements between rural and urban sectors of developing countries are examined. The prior literature is reviewed, proving limited in key dimensions. Evidence is presented from a new database encompassing nationally representative data on seventy-five developing countries. Several measures of migration propensities are derived for the separate countries. The situation in each country is documented, both in historical context and following the time of enumeration. Rural-urban migrants enjoy major gains; those who do not move forego substantial, potential gains. Barriers to migrating are very real for disadvantaged groups. Migratio...
Moving Around in Town
The object of this book is intra-urban mobility, namely the diverse forms of mobility occuring within a city: from residential mobility to daily mobility, the latter understood both as commuting and as urban travel for leisure. The specific aim of the volume is to explore mobility in the city at different times, from the XVIIth century to today, and to relate it to the respective social dynamics from different standpoints, moving back and forth from the building to the neighbourhood and the wider metropolis, from Tunis to Paris, from Naples to Barcelone, passing through Rome, Milan and Marseille. The approach adopted is strongly multidisciplinary. The authors come from different disciplines - from History to Demography, from Sociology to Geography -, which has allowed to decline the study of intra-urban mobility both through a look at individuals and their mobility practices and from a territorial and historical context. In so doing, a set of urban issues has been considered, such as social mobility, metropolization processes, migrations and inequalities, access to real estate market.
Platform-Mediated Tourism
This book presents theoretical and empirical perspectives on platform-mediated tourism, with a special focus on Airbnb. The case studies included in this volume show that the impacts of short-term renting on neighbourhoods, residents and tourism operators are uneven, but increasingly significant. During the past decade, digital platforms for short-term rental, transport, social dining etc., have enabled the development of a new generation of entrepreneurs in tourism and mobility. The mediation of services through digital platforms was initially presented as a form of a sharing economy led by non-professional providers, but it has grown into a new form of capitalist speculation. The inadequac...
The Roman Stock Exchange between the 19th and 20th Centuries
This book explores the Italian stock exchange through its construction and consolidation while examining and criticizing the birth of the capital city. Through the evolution of the stock exchange, the transformation of Rome is examined from the capital of a pre-unification state to the papal state, exploring its social, political, administrative and financial fabric. The book examines that path to becoming the capital of Italy, offering a unique volume for researchers, academics, and students of financial history and financial markets.
Les logements de la mobilité (XVIIe-XXIe siècle)
La question du logement des populations mobiles du XVIIe siècle à nos jours est au centre de cet ouvrage. En portant la focale sur ces lieux-carrefours qui sont les « logements de la mobilité », ce livre entend étudier les modes d’habiter comme autant d’expressions de la mobilité. Les contributions réunies s’intéressent donc davantage à la production de ces lieux, à leurs formes et à leurs fonctions, qu’à une étude des structures d’accueil étatiques ou municipales des populations mobiles. L’accent est mis sur le rôle des individus dans l’espace – urbain ou rural –, indépendamment de la durée de leur passage, dans une perspective au ras du sol. Ainsi, les garnis, les bidonvilles, les caravanes, les hôtels meublés, les gourbis, les camps de transit, les squats, les auberges, les fondouks, les tentes, les abris ou encore les bains-douches sont le produit d’une diversité de façons d’habiter la mobilité, de par leurs structures architecturales et les relations sociales qui s’y tissent. L’examen de ces lieux, formes et conditions de vie vient enrichir une histoire des populations mobiles dans la longue durée.
