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Moscou
Editorial de Gwenaël Querrien :
Depuis vingt ans - la fin du régime soviétique datant de 1991 -, le développement économique et urbain de Moscou est spectaculaire, dans la logique néolibérale de la…
Becoming global and the new poverty of cities
Extract from the introduction by Lisa M. Hanley, Blair A. Ruble and Joseph S. Tulchin :
Globalization has had a peculiar impact on cities all over the world, as much in the developed world as in the developing world. Globalization turned out to be…
Metropolis : From the division of labor to urban form
Extract from the introduction :
How do cities develop and grow within the production system of modern capitalism? What forces govern the internal and external organization of their economies? How is the intraurban geography of production arranged,…
Cities surround the countryside: urban aesthetics in postsocialist China
Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop the countryside, not only geographically and…
L'inhabitable capital : Crise mondiale et expropriation
Présentation par l'éditeur : "Nulle part mieux que dans l'immobilier ne se montre cette transmutation métaphysique qui transforme la chose en produit. En effet, pour que l'immobilier devienne une activité hautement…
The Post-Socialist city : Continuity and change in urban space and imagery
For twenty years now, cities from Central Europe to Central Asia have seen revolutionary change. Following the collapse of socialism, their outward appearance, functional composition, and symbolic representation have been shattered and reassembled by…
Advertising, commercial spaces and the urban
Abstract from the publisher : This book provides the first detailed account of contemporary outdoor advertising and its relationship with urban space. Going beyond accounts of urban 'place marketing' or advertising cities to tourists, the book…
Urban cultures in (post)colonial central Europe
Abstract from the publisher : Berlin, Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw are cities indelibly marked by more than forty years of Soviet influence. Urban Cultures in (Post) Colonial Central Europe explores the ways in which these major urban centers have…
Company town : The industrial Edens and satanic mills that shaped the American economy
Abstract from the publisher : Company town: The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Maytag washers, Spam—each is the signature product of a…
Gary, the most American of all American cities
Abstract from the publisher : U.S. Steel created Gary, Indiana. The new steel plant and town built on the site in 1906 were at once a triumph of industrial capitalism and a bold experiment in urban planning. Gary became the canvas onto which the…
Company towns in the Americas : Landscape, power, and working-class communities
Abstract from the publisher : Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding…
Asian cities : Globalization, urbanization and nation-building
Abstract from the publisher : - Questions the centrality of globalization in explaining change in Asian cities and examines developing Asian cities in their own terms rather than as variants of Western urbanization. - Explores middle cities…
Le Capitalisme contre le droit à la ville. Néolibéralisme, urbanisation, résistances
Présentation par l'éditeur : Que peut bien vouloir dire "droit à la ville" ? Cette interrogation est indissociable d’une multitude d’autres questions. Quelle ville voulons-nous ? Quel genre de personnes…
Fantasmagories du capital. L'invention de la ville-marchandise
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Quel rapport entre les spectres d'un couvent parisien, des héroïnes séquestrées dans des châteaux gothiques et les flâneurs des passages couverts de Paris ? Quel point…