Cities in translation: Intersections of language and memory
Calcutta, Kolkata, Trieste, Barcelona, Barcelone, Montreal, Montréal, langue, language, multilingualism, multilinguisme, conflit urbain, urbanité, culture urbaine, Simon Sherry
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> All cities are multilingual, but there are some where language relations have a special importance. These are cities where more than one historically rooted language community lays claim to the territory of the city. This book focuses on four such linguistically divided cities: Calcutta, Trieste, Barcelona, and Montreal.<br /> <br /> Though living with the ever-present threat of conflict, these cities offer the possibility of creative interaction across competing languages and this book examines the dynamics of translation in its many forms. By focusing on a category of cities which has received little attention, this study contributes to our understanding of the kinds of language relations that sustain the diversity of urban life.<br /> <br /> Illustrated with photos and maps, Cities in Translation is both an engaging read for a wide-ranging audience and an important text in advancing theory and methodology in translation studies.</div> </div> <b>Sherry Simon </b>is a Professor in the Département d'études françaises at Concordia University.</div> </div>
Sherry Simon
Routledge
September 2011
224
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City and soul in divided societies
, conflit urbain, ségrégation urbaine, cadre de vie, urbanité, société urbaine, violence urbaine, Jerusalem, Jérusalem, Beirut, Beyrouth, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia, Nicosie, Sarajevo, Mostar, Bilbao, Barcelona, Barcelone, Bollens Scott A.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> In this unique book Scott A. Bollens combines personal narrative with academic analysis in telling the story of inflammatory nationalistic and ethnic conflict in nine cities – Jerusalem, Beirut, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia, Sarajevo, Mostar, Bilbao, and Barcelona. Reporting on 17 years of research and over 240 interviews with political leaders, planners, architects, community representatives, and academics, he blends personal reflections, reportage from a wealth of original interviews, and the presentation of hard data in a multidimensional and interdisciplinary exploration of these urban environments of damage, trauma, healing, and repair.<br /> <br /> City and Soul reveals what it is like living and working in these cities, going inside the head of the researcher. This approach extends the reader’s understanding of these places and connects more intimately with the lived urban experience. Bollens observes that a city disabled by nationalistic strife looks like a callous landscape of securitized space, divisions and wounds, frozen in time and in place. Yet, the soul in these cities perseveres.<br /> <br /> Written for general readers and academic specialists alike, City and Soul integrates facts, opinions, photographs, and observations in original ways in order to illuminate the substantial challenges of living in, and governing, polarized and unsettled cities.</div> </div> <b>Scott A. Bollens </b>is Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Irvine.</div> </div>
Scott A. Bollens
Routledge
September 2011
288
Ouvrage
Barcelona : Architecture, city and society 1975-2015
Barcelona, Barcelone, architecture, tourisme, projet urbain, renouvellement urbain, histoire urbaine, morphologie urbaine, société urbaine, Ingrosso Chiara
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Over the last twenty years Barcelona has reached the apex of its public appeal, and the time has come for a critical evaluation of its recent past. Barcelona is an emblematic example of how a European and Mediterranean city can be radically transformed. Starting from the 1980s, through investment in contemporary architecture, tourism, and advanced services, the city abandoned its traditional identity as an industrial center. After 1992, following the Olympics and the international success the city enjoyed as a result, Barcelona became a "model" city, renowned for its architecture, urban projects, attention to urban morphology, and context. Through extensive "in the field" investigation, giving voice to key figures in culture, architecture, and politics, and a vast array of images, the author gives a critical account of the various "stages" in Barcelona’s recent history, putting them into historical context and drawing parallels with local and international currents.</div> </div> <b>Chiara Ingrosso</b> is an architect and researcher in the history of architecture at the Second University of Naples.</div> </div>
Chiara Ingrosso
Skira
June 2011
192
Ouvrage
Urban narratives : Building Barcelona through literature
Barcelona, Barcelone, littérature, histoire urbaine, Gustà Marina, Casacuberta Margarida
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor : </b></div> </div> In a trajectory that follows not only the topographic and social changes undergone by the city, but also the succession of narrative models that reflect these changes, this book proposes a historical and critical revision of the literary image of Barcelona, constructed and elaborated over the last 150 years. Acting as a mirror of the fears and anxieties of the modern individual faced with society's transformations, the city gives shape to the ideal of progress, as well as to the frustrations when this ideal is not realised. Equally problematic and paradoxical, the literary image of the metropolis gravitates between idealisation and demonisation, as demonstrated by the modern novel from the 19th century to the present.</div> </div> <b>Margarida Casacuberta</b> works in the Departament de Filologia i Communicació at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.</div> <b>Marina Gust</b><b>à </b>is a Professor in the Department of Literature at the Universitat de Barcelona.</div> </div>
NC
Fundació Antoni Tàpies Actar D (distributor)
November 2010
320
Ouvrage
Red city, blue period: Social movements in Picasso's Barcelona
culture urbaine, Barcelona, Barcelone, histoire urbaine, politique de la ville, participation, mouvement social, femmes, women, gender, genre, conflit urbain, Kaplan Temma
<div><b>Extract from the introduction:</b></div>
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The task I have undertaken in this book is to account for the peculiar sense of solidarity that the citizens of Barcelona developed between 1888 and 1939, and to explain why shared experiences of civic culture and pageantry were sometimes sufficient to galvanize resistance to national authoritarian governments but not always enough to overcome internecine struggles based on class and gender in the city itself. Most of all, I am concerned here with the process by which principles of regional freedom and economic equity developed and changed in a city long known for its commitment to human dignity and artistic achievement.</div>
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Women occupy a central place in this study of the creation and transformation of civic culture as a forum for political struggle. The grassroots politics in which activist women overwhelmingly participated has often been overlooked in studies of political life in Barcelona at this time. Yet because this study regards streets and cafés as political arenas, women's activities in them and in the movements that emanated from them assume a pivotal position in the arguments that follow.</div>
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From 1888 to 1939 the politics of region, class, and gender expressed themselves in terms of assorted communal manifestations of Barcelona's civic culture. Festivals and other street gatherings were prominent, providing a means to vent officially repressed aspirations as well as officially sanctioned sentiments. The same festivals or public events could serve divergent purposes at different times. They could express or encourage either local solidarity or internal struggle, celebration or opposition. Thus, civic forms could and did evolve over time, providing a rich and flexible political language that, in turn, gave rise to new strains of thought and new political options. This process both influenced and was reflected in the words of artists like Pablo Picasso, who came of age in Barcelona during this period.</div>
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<b>Contents:</b></div>
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Introduction - The symbolic landscape</div>
1. Resistance and ritual, 1888-1896</div>
2. Popular art and rituals</div>
3. Community celebrations and communal strikes, 1902</div>
4. Women out of control</div>
5. Female consciousness and community struggle, 1910-1918</div>
6. Democratic promises in 1917</div>
7. Urban disorder and cultural resistance, 1919-1930</div>
8. Cultural reactions to the Spanish Republic and the Civil War in Barcelona</div>
Epilogue - Cultural resistance in the aftermath</div>
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<b>Temma Kaplan </b>is Professor of History at Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences.</div>
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Temma Kaplan
University of California Press
1992
266
Ouvrage
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9q2nb672/
Towards undivided cities in Western Europe: New challenges for urban policy. Part 2: Barcelona
, économie, politique urbaine, politique du logement, ségrégation urbaine, ségrégation résidentielle, mixité sociale, Barcelona, Barcelone, Kruythoff H. M., Baart B.
<div>See also the other books in this series:</div>
Part 1: The Hague (not available online)</div>
Part 3: Birmingham</a></div>
Part 4: Brussels</a></div>
Part 5: Frankfurt</a></div>
Part 6: Lille</a></div>
Part 7: Comparative analysis</a></div>
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H. M. Kruythoff
B. Baart
Delft University Press
1998
80
Ouvrage
http://repository.tudelft.nl/view/ir/uuid:9b0db173-b5b6-434c-b04f-3d0fc39201f3
Multi-level scales and urban governance in global context: Journal of Urban Affairs virtual issue
, gouvernance, collectivités locales, politique de la ville, politique urbaine, participation, service public, aménagement urbain, Glasgow, Detroit, Toronto, Hamilton, Québec, Quebec, Barcelona, Barcelone
<div><b>Extract from the introduction:</b></div> </div> Welcome to the first virtual issue of the Journal of Urban Affairs. The purpose of the virtual issues is to broaden the visibility of and access to the most cited and downloaded articles from recent issues of the JUA. This virtual issue highlights cutting edge research on governing global cities. The five articles highlighted in this issue deal with urban governance in a comparative context from both the macro and micro levels. As a group they emphasize the importance of intergovernmental actions and relationships, citizen preferences, market forces, and governmental competition on local governance regimes and instructional arrangements. They thus remind urban scholars that while “all politics may be local” the theoretical and practical aspects of governing cities are inherently defined by other, often external and even global forces. They also illustrate how scales and governance issues play out in cities around the world.</div> </div> <b>Contents:</b></div> </div> Introduction</div> Eliot M. Tretter - Scales, regimes, and the urban governance of Glasgow</div> A.J. Jacobs - Embedded contrasts in race, municipal fragmentation, and planning: Divergent outcomes in the Detroit and Greater Toronto-Hamilton regions 1990-2000</div> Kairen Dekker and Ronald van Kempen - Places and participation: Comparing resident participation in post-WWII neighborhoods in Northwest, Central and Southern Europe</div> Georges A. Tanguay and David F. Wihry - Voters' preferences regarding municipal consolidation: Evidence from the Quebec de-merger referenda</div> Germà Bel and Mildred E. Warner - Managing competition in city services: The case of Barcelona</div> </div>
Multiple authors
Wiley-Blackwell
June 2011
Revue
http://www.wiley.com/bw/vi.asp?ref=0735-2166&site=1#694