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Modernity and the cities of the Jews. Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History (No. 2)
Extract from the introduction by Cristiana Facchini : First of all, our journey is meant to be a snapshot of Jewish culture through cities, but it also aims to depict a much more complicated picture of the interplay between modernity and Jewish…
The branded city - La ville marquée : Paroles gelées (Vol. 26, No. 1)
From the Introduction by Michelle Bumatay and Katelyn Knox : The theme of the 2009 conference, the "Branded City,' carries a double meaning : first, it references both the city as it has been recorded by artists (writers, painters,…
Histoire urbaine
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Histoire Urbaine est consacrée à l'histoire des villes de l'Antiquité à nos jours. Première revue de ce type en France, elle a pour ambition de faire…
Urban development : A new perspective
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Although it has often been taken as a general definition of the city and urban culture (whence the commonsense notion that cities must fulfill commercial functions), Pirenne's fomulation was deficient because only the…
City at the point : Essays on the social history of Pittsburgh
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An overview of scholarly research, both published and previously unpublished, on the history of a city that has often served as a case study for measuring social change. It synthesizes the literature and assesses how…
Writing cities 1
From the Introduction by Suzanne Hall, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitía and Cecilia Dinardi :
The writing which this volume brings together is as multifaceted as are its objects of investigation. Ranging from theoretical or design-based…
Imagining the city : Memories and cultures in Cape Town
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Cities are not only made of buildings and roads, they are also constructed through popular imagination and spaces of representation. Imagining the City: Memories and Cultures in Cape Town presents an array of oral and…
The new encyclopedia of Southern culture : Volume 15 : Urbanization
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This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern…
Eden on the Charles : The making of Boston
Abstract from the publisher : Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don’t think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by…
Creatively destroying New York : Fantasies, premonitions, and realities in the provisional city
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This lecture places the attack on the World Trade Center in the context of New York's history as a place that is seemingly destined to be destroyed and rebuilt with stunning regularity. It explores three ways of…
This lecture places the attack on the World Trade Center in the context of New York's history as a place that is seemingly destined to be destroyed and rebuilt with stunning regularity. It explores three ways of…
Garbage in the cities: Refuse, reform, and the environment
Abstract from the publisher: As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a thousand tons a day in New York City alone-that clogged streets and…
Cities at war in early modern Europe
Abstract from the publisher : Between 1550 and 1700, artillery siege warfare transformed the European city, which was theorized, fortified, violated, rebuilt, and celebrated by leading artists and architects. The fortified perimeter, with its…
Petersburg fin de siècle
Abstract from the publisher: The final decade of the old order in imperial Russia was a time of both crisis and possibility, an uncertain time that inspired an often desperate search for meaning. This book explores how journalists and other writers…