Métropoles des Amériques en mutation
métropole, mutation urbaine, Brésil, Buenos Aires, La Nouvelle-Orléans, San Francisco, Seattle, Mexico, Bogotá, Montréal
<div><b>Présentation par l'éditeur :</b></div> </div> Les métropoles des Amériques du Nord et du Sud sont-elles en train de suivre, de plus en plus, les unes et les autres, leurs propres voies ou, tout au contraire, sont-elles en train de converger ? Elles sont, du moins, en pleine mutation et les étudier en regard de leurs similitudes et de leurs différences contribue sans aucun doute à ébranler les idées reçues à leur sujet.<br /> <br /> Ce livre aborde l’évolution des systèmes urbains et des agglomérations métropolitaines des Amériques, les inégalités sociales qui se manifestent entre les habitants, l’engagement dans le développement durable en lien avec les transports et l’accès à l’eau ainsi que des réflexions sur la ville et ses modèles. Regroupant des contributions de chercheurs internationaux, il traite de ces questions à partir de l’exemple de douze métropoles d’Amérique, soit cinq métropoles brésiliennes, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo et Santos, la métropole argentine de Buenos Aires (à travers les zones de Zárate, Campana et Tigre), trois métropoles étasuniennes, La Nouvelle-Orléans, San Francisco (par le biais d’Oakland) et Seattle, la métropole mexicaine de Mexico, la métropole colombienne de Bogotá et, enfin, la métropole canado-québécoise de Montréal.<br /> <br /> Peu à peu, le lecteur sera amené à réévaluer les clivages radicaux qu’il pensait trouver entre le Nord et le Sud, notamment en regard des effets de la mondialisation ou par rapport à la composition sociale des banlieues.</div> </div>
Presses de l'Université du Québec
Octobre 2012
376
Ouvrage
The lost dream : Businessmen and city planning on the Pacific coast, 1890 - 1920
, aménagement urbain, histoire de l'urbanisme, Oakland, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, business, Blackford Mansel G., twentieth century, vingtième siècle
<b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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Mansel Blackford’s The Lost Dream explores the history of city planning in five Pacific Coast cities—Seattle, Portland, Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles—during the Progressive Era. Although city planning had diverse roots, Blackford shows that much of the early planning originated with businessmen who viewed it as a way to shape their urban environments both economically and socially.<br />
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During the opening years of the twentieth century, the business and political leaders in each of these cities began developing comprehensive city plans encompassing harbor improvements, new street and transportation facilities, civic centers, and parks and boulevards. As Blackford shows, businessmen worked through both established political channels and newly formed bodies outside of those channels to become leaders in the planning process. As the planning campaigns evolved, businessmen found themselves both joined and opposed by ever-changing coalitions of professionals, politicians, and workers.<br />
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The way that businessmen had previously interacted with these other parties greatly affected their success in obtaining their goals, but ultimately, Blackford claims, politics lay at the heart of planning. The proposed plans were accepted or rejected in heated citywide elections in which, to be successful, businessmen had to convince others to vote with them—a feat they achieved in only one city. Nevertheless, these plans were often later adopted in some piecemeal fashion, and Blackford concludes his study with an analysis of the legacy of Progressive Era city planning for later periods.<br />
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The Lost Dream makes significant contributions to our understanding of city planning in America and particularly in the American West.<br />
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<b>Mansel G. Blackford </b>is professor of history at The Ohio State University and is the author of a number of books on business history.</div>
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Mansel G. Blackford
The Ohio State University Press
1993
189
Ouvrage
http://www.ohiostatepress.org/books/Book%20Pages/Blackford%20Lost.htm