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Vienna 1900: Art, life and culture
Abstract from the publisher: At the turn of the 20th century, Vienna was one of the most exciting cities on earth - the central gathering spot of the European avant-garde in art, architecture, literature, music, journalism, philosophy, psychiatry,…
São Paulo: Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production
Abstract from the publisher : David Foster brings an intense curiosity and lifelong familiarity to this unique examination of the cultural tapestry of São Paulo, the largest city in South America and the second largest in Latin America. …
City at the center of the world: Space, history, and modernity in Quito
Abstract from the publisher: In the seventeenth century, local Jesuits and Franciscans imagined Quito, the Andean capital of Ecuador, as the “new Rome.” It was the site of miracles and home of saintly inhabitants, the origin of crusades…
Arts et espaces publics
Quels sont les usages de l'esthétique dans ce lieu de tous les échanges, l'"espace public" ? Est-ce que l'art a toujours, dans celui-ci, un rôle à jouer et pourquoi ?
Découvrons dans cet ouvrage comment et pourquoi plusieurs chercheurs et…
Découvrons dans cet ouvrage comment et pourquoi plusieurs chercheurs et…
Creatively destroying New York : Fantasies, premonitions, and realities in the provisional city
Abstract from the distributor :
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…
Gender and territory : The connoted space. Artecontexto (No. 8, 2005, 4)
From the editorial by Alicia Murría :
Modern city planning and architecture have been places at the service of production, traffic, and consumption, and of a particular idea of the white, Western, heterosexual middle-class male. Only in the…
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,…
City of dreams: Seminar (no. 528)
Extract from the introduction 'The Problem': Suketu Mehta - Runaway: A chronicle of metropolitan transience
Orienting Istanbul : Cultural capital of Europe?
Abstract from the publisher : Looking at the globalization, urban regeneration, arts events and cultural spectacles, this book considers a city not until now included in the global city debate. Divided into five parts, each preceded by an…
Berlin : Divided city, 1945 - 1989
Abstract from the publisher : A great deal of attention continues to focus on Berlin’s cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as yet, no single volume looks at the divided city through an interdisciplinary…
Cultures of the city : Mediating identities in urban Latin/o America
Abstract from the publisher : Cultures of the City explores the cultural mediation of relationships between people and urban spaces in Latin/o America and how these mediations shape the identities of cities and their residents. Addressing a broad…
Havana beyond the ruins : Cultural mappings after 1989
Abstract from the publisher : In Havana beyond the Ruins, prominent architects, scholars, and writers based in and outside of Cuba analyze how Havana has been portrayed in literature, music, and the visual arts since Soviet subsidies of Cuba…
Urban constellations
Abstract from the publisher: Cities are an unprecedented focus of attention: over half the world now lives in them, culture and politics are shaped by them, and they are also focal points for new relationships between nature, technology and the…
Urban maps : Instruments of narrative and interpretation in the city
Abstract from the publisher : This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offer an interdisciplinary discourse and critique of the complex systems,…
La Ville à l’épreuve de la démocratie
Trois jours d’échanges, de débats et de retours d’expériences qui se sont déroulés à la Friche Belle de mai les 25, 26 et 27 octobre dernier. Un colloque proposé par l’université populaire « Pensons le matin »
Il s’agissait pour ce colloque de…
Il s’agissait pour ce colloque de…