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La ville évanescente
Présentation par l'éditeur : Dans The Disappearing City, publié en 1932, Wright expose pour la première fois les grandes lignes de son fameux projet de ville de l’avenir. Dans les premiers chapitres, il…
L'histoire de New York
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De nos jours, New York est l'une des villes les plus importantes au monde d'un point de vue économique, politique et culturel. Si la statue de la Liberté et la ligne des gratte-ciel sont des…
Integrated city making: Governance, planning and transport
Abstract from the publisher: Integrated City Making is a report by Philipp Rode, Julie Wagner, Richard Brown, Rit Chandra and Jayaraj Sundaresan of the Urban Age Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2007, Urban Age…
Inside Greenwich Village : A New York City neighborhood, 1898-1918
From the preface : Most books about twentieth-century Greenwich Village history focus on the artists, writers, and cultural radicals whose activities brought the Village international fame as America's bohemia. Other residents of the Village, if…
How the other half lives
See also the Collections Portal of the Museum of the City of New York, where more than 1400 photographs taken by Riis are available to view online.
See also a LibriVox audio recording of the book.
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Helen Levitt. Un lyrisme urbain
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Helen Levitt (1913-2009) est connue pour ses photographies de rue réalisées à New York, essentiellement dans les années 1930-1940.
Conçu à l'époque avec…
Ghettos urbains ? La sécurisation aux États-Unis et en France
L’auteur a mené des enquêtes de terrain dans des quartiers populaires de villes-mondes, Paris et New York, dans le sillage de l’ethnographe américaine Sally Merry, afin de saisir les enjeux liés à la coproduction de la sécurité, lors de programmes de…
Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy
New York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals. Bridging this economic divide is New York’s underground economy, the invisible network of illicit transactions between rich…
Ed Koch and the rebuilding of New York City
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In 1978, Ed Koch assumed control of a city plagued by filth, crime, bankruptcy, and racial tensions. By the end of his mayoral run in 1989 and despite the Wall Street crash of 1987, his administration had begun…
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…
City in sight : Dutch dealings with urban change
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Huge social transformations and turbulent political events - 9/11 and the political murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh - have put urban issues high on the political agenda of the Netherlands. Against this…