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Cities, politics and power
Abstract from the publisher : Traditionally, the study of ‘power in the city’ was confined to the institutions of urban government and the actors involved in contesting and making political decisions in and for metropolitan societies.…
Cities in translation: Intersections of language and memory
Abstract from the publisher: 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.…
City and soul in divided societies
Abstract from the publisher: 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,…
Muslims in Indian cities: Trajectories of marginalisation
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Muslims constitute the largest minority in India yet, surprisingly, they suffer the most politically and socioeconomically. Forced to contend with severe and persistent prejudice, they often fall victim to violence and…
Cities into battlefields: Metropolitan scenarios, experiences and commemorations of total war
Abstract from the publisher: Cities have always had a key role in warfare, as strategic centres which periodically suffered the horrors of siege and sack. With industrialisation, however, they were drawn ever closer to the front line and to direct…
Cities and sovereignty : Identity politics in urban spaces
Abstract from the publisher : Space, governance, and ethnic conflict in contested cities Cities have long been associated with diversity and tolerance, but from Jerusalem to Belfast to the Basque Country, many of the most intractable conflicts of…
Asian cities, migrant labor and contested spaces
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This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the…
Noir urbanisms : Dystopic images of the modern city
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Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the history of the…
Urbanization, population, environment and security
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The Comparative Urban Studies Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center began a project in 1997 designed to both identify factors that contribute to making urban areas centers of violence and poverty and propose policy…
September 11th and the city / Urban trauma and the resilience of cities
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September 11th and the City
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote "The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities." The test of terrorism, then, may well be the power to inflict the…
September 11th and the City
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote "The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities." The test of terrorism, then, may well be the power to inflict the…
Scales of agency in a global world: Individuals, cities, nations, and beyond
Speaker: Jonathan Glover, Kings College, London
Readings on the Various Scales and Locations of Identity and Power in a Globalizing world
Readings on the Various Scales and Locations of Identity and Power in a Globalizing world
Planning in divided cities
Abstract from the publisher : Does planning in contested cities inadvertedly make the divisions worse? The 60s and 70s saw a strong role of planning, social engineering, etc but there has since been a move towards a more decentralised…
Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule
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During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence, Algiers was the site of recurrent conflicts between colonizer and colonized. Through architecture and urban forms confrontations were crystallized,…
Violence in the city : Understanding and supporting community responses to urban violence
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For millions of people around the world, violence, or the fear of violence, is a daily reality. Much of this violence concentrates in urban centers in the developing world. Cities are now home to half the world's…
Red city, blue period: Social movements in Picasso's Barcelona
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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…