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London : The story of a great city
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No city can lay claim to a more dramatic history than London. Engulfed in calamities that seemed to mark its end - fire, plague, riot, civil war, mass bombing - from each crisis it has emerged stronger than ever. Its…
Mots-clés: commerce, histoire urbaine, London, Londres, White Jerry
Applying new spatial techniques in the study of late medieval London
"This paper aims to present a summary of elements both of my own PhD research and also some current related ongoing work both within the UK and on the Continent which attempts... to use new or digital approaches to the "spatial turn"…
Mots-clés: analyse spatiale, cartographie, Colson Jeremy, espace urbain, histoire urbaine, London, Londres, méthodologie, Middle Ages, Moyen Âge
Reforming urban labor : Routes to the city, roots in the country
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Reforming Urban Labor is a history of the nineteenth-century social reforms designed by middle-class progressives to domesticate the labor force. Industrial production required a concentrated labor force, but the…
Orbiting London - A conversation with Iain Sinclair
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Iain Sinclair, writer, poet and film-maker, will discuss – in conversation with Iain Boal, (social historian and Fellow of the Institute for the Humanities) his four decades of chronicling the life of the…
Mots-clés: Boal Iain, culture urbaine, littérature, London, Londres, Sinclair Iain, urbanité
Hanoverian London 1714 - 1808
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Hanoverian London, 1714 - 1808, the first of eight volumes to be published in The University of California Press History of London series, surveys the life of the town throughout the eighteenth century. Professor…
'Race', culture and the right to the city: Centres, peripheries, margins
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Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the periphery and considers the role that 'race' continues to play in structuring the metropolis,…
Promenades dans Londres
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Une édition électronique réalisée à partir du livre de Flora Tristan, Promenades dans Londres. Paris : H.-L. Delloye, éditeur ; Londres : W. Jeffs, Libraire, 1840…
Mots-clés: dix-neuvième siècle, Londres, Tristan Flora
Métropoles. Varia
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- Gilles Van Hamme et Mathieu Van Criekingen, Compétitivité économique et question sociale : les illusions des politiques de développement à Bruxelles
- Nicolás Barbieri, Xavier Fina et Joan…
Le choc des métropoles
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Quelle fut, au début du siècle, l’expérience commune de la grande ville en Europe ?
Qu’éprouva-t-on, à Berlin, Paris ou Londres, face à…
Mots-clés: Benjamin Walter, Berlin, Kracauer Siegfried, Londres, métropole, Paris, Simmel Georg, vingtième siècle
The gentrification of London
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Islington, Docklands, Clapham and East London have all experienced huge changes in recent years through social and aesthetic 'makeovers' as areas have been regenerated and wealthier residents have moved in.…
Les baby-boomers : une génération mobile
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Après les débats de ces dernières années sur la réforme des retraites, nul n’est censé ignorer les problèmes liés à…
Lessons for the Big Society: Planning, regeneration and the politics of community participation
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This book provides concrete examples of the ways in which shifting academic debates, policy and political approaches have impacted on a specific place over the past 30 years. It offers a critical analysis of the history,…
London : A pilgrimage
From Peter Ackroyd's introduction to the 2005 Anthem Press edition :
"London: A Pilgrimage" is an enlightening work that brings to life the chaotic and gloomy past of a great city on the cusp of modern times. 180 incredible etchings by…
Mots-clés: art, Doré Gustave, histoire urbaine, Jerrold Blanchard, London, Londres, société urbaine
London and other Great American Cities 50 years on
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The RSA and the Centre for London at Demos gather a panel of expert commentators at the RSA to mark the 50th anniversary of Jane Jacobs’ landmark book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
Jane…