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City of dreams: Seminar (no. 528)
Extract from the introduction 'The Problem': Suketu Mehta - Runaway: A chronicle of metropolitan transience
Soul city: Seminar (no. 559)
Extract from the introduction 'The Problem':
The challenge before the city and its political masters is to build on its welcoming and accommodating character, retain its universal concerns without sacrificing its regional specificity and still exude…
Mémoires et transformation urbaine : l'artiste dans le champ des patrimoines...
Mémoires et transformation urbaine : l'artiste dans le champ des patrimoines et des parcours migratoires
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quatrième séminaire est une initiative de la Direction régionale des…
Creating cities: Culture, space and sustainability. The 1st City, Culture and Society conference
Extract from the Introduction by Evelyn Schulz and Hiroshi Okano: The papers gathered here are the outcome of Creating Cities; Culture, Space and Sustainability: The 1st City, Culture and Society (CCS) Conference which took place in Munich, Germany,…
The promise of the city : Space, identity and politics in contemporary social thought
Abstract from the publisher :
The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh…
Inventing Lima : Baroque modernity in Peru's south sea metropolis
Abstract from the publisher : Inventing Lima is the first synthetic cultural history of Peru’s baroque “City of the Kings.” Professor Osorio’s interpretation of ritual life in the Peruvian metropolis significantly revises…
Shanghai : Its urbanization and culture
Extract from the introduction by George F. McLean and Robert Magliola : Ten years ago an international seminar of The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy took up this question of "urbanization and values". The study printed…
Expositions : Literature and architecture in nineteenth-century France
Abstract from the publisher : In Expositions, Philippe Hamon leads us on an engaging intellectual stroll through the spaces and representations of the nineteenth-century French metropolis. Inspired by the cultural histories of Walter Benjamin and…
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…
The city and the world: New York's global future
Abstract from the publisher: At first glance a study on cities and foreign policy may seem a bold leap into the future of international relations, but it represents, rather, a giant step into the present--into what is already taking place across…
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…
Living downtown: The history of residential hotels in the United States
Extract from the Preface: In Downtown San Francisco, just one block from the Transamerica pyramid, is the large relict basement of the International Hotel. The lot has stood empty since 1977. In the Western Addition, one and a half miles to the…