Urban reflections : Narratives of place, planning and change
, aménagement urbain, mutation urbaine, habitants, espace urbain, film, photographie, géographie urbaine, histoire de l'urbanisme, Tewdwr-Jones Mark
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Urban Reflections looks at how places change, the role of planners in bringing about urban change, and the public's attitudes to that change. Drawing on geographical, cinematic and photographic readings, the book offers a fresh incisive story of urban change, one that evokes both real and imagined perspectives of places and planning, and questions what role and purpose urban planning serves in the 21st century. It will interest urban and architectural historians, planners, geographers and all concerned with understanding urban planning and attitudes toward the contemporary city.</div> <br /> <b>Mark Tewdwr-Jones</b> is Professor of Spatial Planning and Governance at University College London's Bartlett School of Planning and Architecture and the UCL Urban Laboratory.</div> </div>
Mark Tewdwr-Jones
The Policy Press
July 2011
328
Ouvrage
Géographie urbaine de l'exclusion dans les grandes métropoles régionales françaises
exclusion, pauvreté, ségrégation urbaine, répartition spatiale, géographie urbaine, Dumont Gérard-François
<div><b>Présentation par l'éditeur :</b></div>
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Quelle méthode pour appréhender la géographie urbaine de l'exclusion ? Quelle répartition spatiale de la pauvreté dans les villes ? Alors que la vision habituelle de la géographie de la pauvreté est celle d'un modèle européen (un centre-ville relativement aisé entouré de banlieues défavorisées), les métropoles françaises fonctionnent plutôt sur un modèle américain (un centre-ville dégradé avec une périphérie mieux lotie). Toutefois il existe d'incontestables diversités spatiales de la pauvreté suivant les agglomérations.</div>
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<b>Gérard-François Dumont</b> est professeur à l'université de Paris-Sorbonne.</div>
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Gérard-François Dumont
L'Harmattan
Juillet 2011
270
Ouvrage
Knowledge economy and the city : Spaces of knowledge
, analyse spatiale, espace urbain, géographie urbaine, économie, knowledge economy, économie de la connaissance, Madanipour Ali
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> This book explores the relationship between space and economy, the spatial expressions of the knowledge economy. The capitalist industrial economy produced its own space, which differed radically from its predecessor agrarian and mercantile economies. If a new knowledge-based economy is emerging, it is similarly expected to produce its own space to suit the new circumstances of production and consumption. If these spatial expressions do exist, even if in incomplete and partial forms, they are likely to be the model for the future of cities.</div> </div> <b>Ali Madanipour </b>is Professor of Urban Design at Newcastle University.</div> </div> </div> </div>
Ali Madanipour
Routledge
May 2011
256
Ouvrage
Canadian urban regions : Trajectories of growth and change
Canada, territoire, dynamiques urbaines, mutation urbaine, métropole, géographie urbaine, économie, Montreal, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Bourne Larry S., Hutton Tom, Shearmur Richard, Simmons Jim
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Urban geography in Canada is constantly undergoing changes and, as such, the study of the discipline must reflect these changes. Approaching the subject from a unique vantage point, Canadian Urban Regions: Trajectories of Growth and Change brings together some of the most respected scholars in the discipline to discuss important developments and examine the path urban geography in Canada is following. The organization of this text will help upper-level students studying urban geography to expand on concepts already gleaned in their introductory years-it moves from a theoretical framework, on to practical case studies, and then to a discussion of where the discipline is headed in the future. By providing insight into both theoretical perspectives and contemporary views, this text fully encompasses the changes and challenges in Canadian urban geography today.</div> </div> <b>Larry S. Bourne </b>is Professor of Geography and Planning, Associate of the Centre for Urban and Community Studies, and Fellow of the Global Cities Program at the University of Toronto.</div> <b>Thomas Hutton </b>is Professor in the Centre for Human Settlements and School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia.</div> <b>Richard Shearmur </b>is a Professor in the Urbanisation Culture Société centre at the Université du Québec.</div> <b>Jim Simmons </b>is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto and a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity at Ryerson University.</div> </div>
Larry S. Bourne Thomas Hutton Richard Shearmur Jim Simmons
Oxford University Press
April 2011
384
Ouvrage
Mobile urbanism : Cities and policymaking in the global age
, mondialisation, politique de la ville, politique urbaine, géographie urbaine, réseaux, gouvernance, McCann Eugene, Ward Kevin
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> How knowledge and power flow between places and impact cities worldwide<br /> <br /> Mobile Urbanism provides a unique set of perspectives on the current global-urban condition. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, leading geographers reveal that cities are not isolated objects of study; rather, they are dynamic, global–local assemblages of policies, practices, and ideas.<br /> <br /> The essays in this volume argue for a theorizing of both urban policymaking and place-making that understands them as groups of territorial and relational geographies. It broadens our comprehension of agents of transference, reconceiving how policies are made mobile, and acknowledging the importance of interlocal policy mobility. Through the richness of its empirical examples from Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia, contributors bring to light the significant methodological challenges that researchers face in the study of an urban–global, territorial–relational conceptualization of cities and suggest productive new approaches to understanding urbanism in a networked world.</div> </div> <b>Contents : </b></div> </div> Allan Cochrane - Foreword</div> Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward - Introduction. Urban assemblages : Territories, relations, practices, and power</div> Doreen Massey - A counterhegemonic relationality of place</div> Jennifer Robinson - The spaces of circulating knowledge : City strategies and global urban governmentality</div> Jamie Peck - Creative moments : Working culture, through municipal socialism and neoliberal urbanism</div> Kevin Ward - Policies in motion and in place : The case of business improvement districts</div> Eugene McCann - Points of reference : Knowledge of elsewhere in the politics of urban drug policy</div> Roger Keil and S. Harris Ali - The urban political pathology of emerging infectious disease in the age of the global city</div> Donal McNeil - Airports, territoriality, and urban governance</div> Kevin Ward and Eugene McCann - Conclusion. Cities assembled : Space, neoliberalization, (re)territorialization, and comparison</div> </div> <b>Eugene McCann</b> is associate professor of geography at Simon Fraser University.<br /> <b>Kevin Ward</b> is professor of human geography at the University of Manchester.</div> </div>
NC
University of Minnesota Press
2011
256
Ouvrage
The futures of the city region
, territoire, métropole, planification, urbanisation, développement territorial, géographie urbaine, développement durable, analyse spatiale, forme urbaine, gouvernance, Neuman Michael, Hull Angela
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Does the ‘city region’ constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental and corporate, strongly influences and structures the management of urban life. How we conceive the city region has intellectual and practical consequences. First, in helping us grasp rapidly changing realities; and second in facilitating the flow of resources, ideas and learning to enhance the quality of life of citizens.<br /> <br /> Two themes interweave through this collection, within this broad palette. First are the socio-spatial constructs and their relationship to the empirical evidence of change in the physical and functional aspects of urban form. Second is what they mean for the spatial scales of governance. This latter theme explores territorially based understandings of intervention and the changing set of political concerns in selected case studies. In efforts to address these issues and improve upon knowledge, this collection brings together international scholars building new data-driven, cross-disciplinary theories to create new images of the city region that may prove to supplement if not supplant old ones.<br /> <br /> The book illustrates the dialectical interplay of theory and fact, time and space, and spatial and institutional which expands on our intellectual grasp of the theoretical debates on ‘city-regions’ through ‘practical knowing’, citing examples from Europe, the United States, Australasia, and beyond.<br /> <br /> This book was originally published as a Special Issue of Regional Studies.</div> </div> <b>Michael Neuman </b>is Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M University, USA. He directs the Sustainable Urbanism Research Consortium and chairs the Sustainable Urbanism Certificate Program.<br /> <b>Angela Hull </b>is Professor of Spatial Planning at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. She directs the Masters in Research Programme and the Planning, Regeneration and Governance research centre.</div> </div>
NC
Routledge
April 2011
116
Ouvrage
Patrick Geddes and town planning : A critical view
Geddes Patrick, aménagement urbain, histoire de l'urbanisme, ville coloniale, géographie urbaine, Hysler-Rubin Noah
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Patrick Geddes is considered a forefather of the modern urban planning movement. This boook studies the various, and even opposing ways, in which Geddes has been interpreted up to this day, providing a new reading of his life, writing and plans.<br /> <br /> Geddes' scrutiny is presented as a case study for Town Planning as a whole. Tying together for the first time key concepts in cultural geography and colonial urbanism, the book proposes a more vigorous historiography, exposing hidden narratives and past agendas still dominating the disciplinary discourse. Written by a cultural geographer and a town planner, this book offers a rounded, full-length analysis of Geddes' vision and its material manifestation, functioning also as a much needed critical tool to evaluate Modern Town Planning as an academic and practical discipline. The book also includes a long overdue model of his urban theory. <br /> <br /> <b>Noah Hysler-Rubin </b>is a research fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University and teaches history and theory of town planning at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>
Noah Hysler-Rubin
Routledge
January 2011
212
Ouvrage
Music and urban society in colonial Latin America
Amérique latine, Latin America, ville coloniale, musique, music, histoire urbaine, géographie urbaine, Knighton Tess, Baker Geoffrey
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> The Spanish colonial project in Latin America from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries was distinctly urban in focus. The impact of the written word on this process was explored in Ángel Rama's seminal book The Lettered City, and much has been written by historians of art and architecture on its visible manifestations, yet the articulation of sound, urban geography and colonial power - 'the resounding city' - has been passed over in virtual silence. This collection of essays by leading scholars examines the role of music in Spanish colonial urbanism in the New World and explores the urban soundscape and music profession as spheres of social contact, conflict, and negotiation. The contributors demonstrate the role of music as a vital constituent part of the colonial city, as Rama did for writing, and therefore illustrate how musicology may illuminate and take its place in the broader field of Latin American urban history.</div> </div> <b>Contents : </b></div> </div> Preface<br /> 1. The resounding city - Geoffrey Baker<br /> 2. Music and ritual in urban spaces: the case of Lima, c.1600 - Tess Knighton<br /> 3. A conflicted relationship: music, power and the inquisition in viceregal Mexico City - Javier Marín López<br /> 4. Making music, writing myth: urban Guadalupan ritual in eighteenth-century New Spain - Drew Edward Davies<br /> 5. 'Gold was music to their ears': conflicting sounds in Santafé (Nuevo Reino de Granada), 1540–1590 - Egberto Bermúdez<br /> 6. The 'spirit of independence' in the Fiesta de la Naval of Caracas - David Coifman<br /> 7. Employment, enfranchisement and liminality: ecclesiastical musicians in early modern Manila - David R. M. Irving<br /> 8. Chapelmasters and musical practice in Brazilian cities in the eighteenth century - Paulo Castagna and Jaelson Trindade<br /> 9. Music, authority and civilization in Rio de Janeiro (1763–1790) - Rogério Budasz<br /> 10. Transcending the walls of the churches: the circulation of music and musicians in Santiago de Chile - Alejandro Vera<br /> 11. The slave's progress: music as profession in Criollo Buenos Aires - Bernardo Illari<br /> 12. Urban music in the wilderness: ideology and power in the Jesuit reducciones, 1609–1767 - Leonardo J. Waisman<br /> 13. Enlightened Reformism versus Jesuit Utopia: music in the foundation of El Carmen de Guarayos (Moxos, Bolivia), 1793–1801 - María Gembero Ustárroz</div> </div> <b>Geoffrey Baker </b>is a Lecturer in the Department of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London</div> <b>Tess Knighton </b>is a College Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Cambridge.</div> </div>
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Cambridge University Press
January 2011
392
Ouvrage
Women and the everyday city : Public space in San Francisco, 1890 - 1915
women, femmes, genre, San Francisco, dix-neuvième siècle, vingtième siècle, nineteenth century, twentieth century, espace public, histoire urbaine, géographie urbaine, histoire de l'architecture, Sewell Jessica Ellen
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Women in the city in turn-of-the-century San Francisco<br /> <br /> In Women and the Everyday City, Jessica Ellen Sewell explores the lives of women in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A period of transformation of both gender roles and American cities, she shows how changes in the city affected women’s ability to negotiate shifting gender norms as well as how women’s increasing use of the city played a critical role in the campaign for women’s suffrage.<br /> <br /> Focusing on women’s everyday use of streetcars, shops, restaurants, and theaters, Sewell reveals the impact of women on these public places—what women did there, which women went there, and how these places were changed in response to women’s presence. Using the diaries of three women in San Francisco (Annie Haskell, Ella Lees Leigh, and Mary Eugenia Pierce, who wrote extensively about their everyday experiences), Sewell studies their accounts of day trips to the city and combines them with memoirs, newspapers, maps, photographs, and her own observations of the buildings that exist today to build a sense of life in San Francisco at this pivotal point in history.<br /> <br /> Working at the nexus of urban history, architectural history, and cultural geography, Women and the Everyday City offers a revealing portrait of both a major American city during its early years and the women who shaped it—and the country—for generations to come.</div> </div> <b>Jessica Ellen Sewell </b>is assistant professor of art history and American studies at Boston University.</div> </div>
Jessica Ellen Sewell
University of Minnesota Press
January 2011
280
Ouvrage
Seeking spatial justice
spatial justice, justice spatiale, géographie urbaine, inégalité spatiale, Los Angeles, aménagement urbain, aménagement de l'espace, Soja Edward W., droit à la ville
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> An innovative new way of understanding and changing the unjust geographies in which we live<br /> <br /> In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient the mass transit system to better serve the city’s poorest residents. A stunning reversal of conventional governance and planning in urban America, which almost always favors wealthier residents, this decision is also, for renowned urban theorist Edward W. Soja, a concrete example of spatial justice in action.<br /> <br /> In Seeking Spatial Justice, Soja argues that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources, services, and access is a basic human right. Building on current concerns in critical geography and the new spatial consciousness, Soja interweaves theory and practice, offering new ways of understanding and changing the unjust geographies in which we live. After tracing the evolution of spatial justice and the closely related notion of the right to the city in the influential work of Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, and others, he demonstrates how these ideas are now being applied through a series of case studies in Los Angeles, the city at the forefront of this movement. Soja focuses on such innovative labor–community coalitions as Justice for Janitors, the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, and the Right to the City Alliance; on struggles for rent control and environmental justice; and on the role that faculty and students in the UCLA Department of Urban Planning have played in both developing the theory of spatial justice and putting it into practice.<br /> <br /> Effectively locating spatial justice as a theoretical concept, a mode of empirical analysis, and a strategy for social and political action, this book makes a significant contribution to the contemporary debates about justice, space, and the city.</div> </div> <b>Edward W. Soja</b> is Distinguished Professor of Urban Planning at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, and for many years was Centennial Visiting Professor in the Cities Programme, London School of Economics.</div> </div>
Edward W. Soja
University of Minnesota Press
2010
288
Ouvrage
Paradigm islands : Manhattan and Venice
Venice, Venise, Manhattan, New York, architecture, géographie urbaine, histoire de l'architecture, espace urbain, forme urbaine, Stoppani Teresa
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Concerning architecture and the city, built, imagined and narrated, this book focuses on Manhattan and Venice, but considers architecture as an intellectual and spatial process rather than a product.<br /> <br /> A critical look at the making of Manhattan and Venice provides a background to addressing the dynamic redefinition and making of space today. The gradual processes of adjustment, the making of a constantly changing dense space, the emphasis on forming rather than on figure, the incorporation of new forms and languages through their adaptation and transformation, make both Manhattan and Venice, in different ways, the ideal places to contextualize and address the issue of an architecture of the dynamic.</div> </div> <b>Teresa Stoppani </b>is Reader in Architecture at the University of Greenwich, UK, where she directs the postgraduate Architecture History and Theory courses, and visiting lecturer in History and Theory Studies at the Architectural Association, London, UK.</div> </div>
Teresa Stoppani
Routledge
October 2010
290
Ouvrage
La France : une géographie urbaine
géographie urbaine, espace urbain, métropolisation, centralité, banlieue, périurbain, mobilité, transport, politique urbaine, environnement, économie, tourisme, France
<div><b>Présentation par l'éditeur :</b></div>
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Comme toute la planète, la France n’a jamais été aussi urbanisée. Le monde urbain change, la France des villes avec lui. Des transformations profondes dans les rapports sociaux à l’espace, au mouvement, aux temps, à l’environnement, à l’action, travaillent les villes, les espaces urbains, leurs populations et acteurs. Les questions urbaines sont au coeur des enjeux de société et d’aménagement.</div>
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Pour continuer à lire et à comprendre l’espace des sociétés urbaines, la géographie urbaine, en tant que construction scientifique, renouvelle ses approches, ses concepts, ses problématiques. La mutation des réalités urbaines entraîne une mutation des façons de faire de la géographie urbaine. L’exploration est à reprendre.</div>
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Loin du modèle interprétatif unique et hors de tout cadre de connaissances normatif, une trentaine de géographes universitaires, enseignants dans toute la France (et parfois ailleurs), proposent ici une lecture renouvelée de l’urbain en France, de ses débats, de ses controverses. Cet ouvrage invite à la réflexion tous celles et ceux qu’interroge l’urbanité de leur temps.<br />
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<b>Laurent Cailly</b> est maître de conférences de géographie à l’université de Tours. <br />
<b>Martin Vanier</b> est professeur de géographie à l’université de Grenoble-1.</div>
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Laurent Cailly,
Martin Vanier
Armand Colin
27 octobre 2010
368
Ouvrage
The fundamentalist city? Religiosity and the remaking of urban space
religion, fondamentalisme, fundamentalism, espace urbain, identité, urbanisation, urbanité, géographie urbaine, AlSayyad Nezar, Massoumi Mejgan
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one. This book explores how the dynamics of different forms of religious fundamentalisms are produced, represented, and practiced in the city. It attempts to establish a relationship between two important phenomena: the historic transition of the majority of the world’s population from a rural to an urban existence; and the robust resurgence of religion as a major force in the shaping of contemporary life in many parts of the world.<br /> <br /> Employing a transnational interrogation anchored in specific geographic regions, the contributors to this volume explore the intellectual and practical challenges posed by fundamentalist groups, movements, and organizations. They focus on how certain ultra religious practices of Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism have contributed to the remaking of global urban space. Their work suggests that it is a grave oversimplification to view religious orthodoxies or doctrines as the main cause of urban terrorism or violence. Instead they argue that such phenomena should be understood as a particular manifestation of modernity’s struggles.<br /> <br /> AlSayyad and Massoumi’s book provides fascinating reading for those interested in religion and the city, with thought provoking pieces from experts in anthropology, geography sociology, religious studies, and urban studies.</div> </div> <b>Contents : </b></div> </div> Part 1: Fundamentalisms: Between City and Nation <br /> The Fundamentalist City? - Nezar AlSayyad <br /> Why in the City? Explaining Urban Fundamentalism - Inger Furseth <br /> The Civility of Inegalitarian Citizenships - James Holston <br /> Part 2: Fundamentalisms and Urbanism <br /> American National Identity, the Rise of the Modern City, and the Birth of Protestant Fundamentalism - Rhys Williams <br /> Producing and Contesting the "Communalized City": Hindutva Politics and Urban Space in Ahmedabad, India - Renu Desai <br /> On Religiosity and Spatiality: Lessons from Hezbollah in Beirut - Mona Harb <br /> Hamas in Gaza Refugee Camps: The Construction of Trapped Spaces for the Survival of Fundamentalism - Francesca Giovannini <br /> Part 3: Identity, Tradition, and Fundamentalisms <br /> Abraham’s Urban Footsteps: Political Geography and Religious Radicalism in Israel/Palestine - Oren Yiftachel and Batya Roded <br /> Fundamentalism at the Urban Frontier: the Taliban in Peshawar - Mejgan Massoumi <br /> Taking the (Inner) City for God: Ambiguities of Urban Social Engagement among Conservative White Evangelicals - Omri Elisha <br /> Postsecular Urbanisms: Situating Delhi within the Rhetorical Landscape of Hindutva - Mrinalini Rajagopalan <br /> Excluding and Including the "Other" in the Global City: Religious Mission among Muslim and Catholic Migrants in London - John Eade</div> </div> <b>Nezar AlSayyad</b> is Professor of Architecture, Planning, and Urban History and Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.<br /> <br /> <b>Mejgan Massoumi</b> is an urban planner and manager at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.</div> </div>
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Routledge
July 2010
316
Ouvrage
Mapping modernity in Shanghai : Space, gender, and visual culture in the sojourners' city, 1853-98
, aménagement urbain, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, histoire de l'architecture, morphologie urbaine, forme urbaine, colonisation, culture urbaine, géographie urbaine, analyse spatiale, China, Chine, Shanghai , espace public, nineteenth century, dix-neuvième siècle, Liang Samuel Y.
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This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of self-contained households, towns, and natural landscapes in a continuous spread, producing a new set of fragmented as well as fluid spaces. In this process, Chinese sojourners actively appropriated new concepts and technology rather than passively responding to Western influences. Liang maps the spatial and material existence of these transient people and reconstructs a cultural geography that spreads from the interior to the neighbourhood and public spaces.<br />
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In this book the author:<br />
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* discusses the courtesan house as a surrogate home and analyzes its business, gender, and material configurations;<br />
* examines a new type of residential neighbourhood and shows how its innovative spatial arrangements transformed the traditional social order and hierarchy;<br />
* surveys a range of public spaces and highlights the mythic perceptions of industrial marvels, the adaptations of colonial spatial types, the emergence of an urban public, and the spatial fluidity between elites and masses.<br />
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Through reading contemporaneous literary and visual sources, the book charts a hybrid modern development that stands in contrast to the positivist conception of modern progress. As such it will be a provocative read for scholars of Chinese cultural and architectural history.</div>
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<b>Samuel Y. Liang</b> is Lecturer in Chinese Cultural Studies and the Director of MA Contemporary China at the University of Manchester, UK.</div>
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Samuel Y. Liang
Routledge
June 2010
230
Ouvrage
The American urban reader : History and theory
, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, géographie urbaine, États-Unis, United States, Corey Steven H., Boehm Lisa Krissoff
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> The American Urban Reader brings together the most exciting work on the evolution of the American city, from colonial settlement and western expansion to post-industrial cities and the growth of the suburbs. Each of the chronologically and thematically organized chapters includes thoughtfully selected scholarly essays from historians, social scientists and journalists, which are supplemented by relevant primary documents that offer more nuanced perspectives and convey the diversity and interdisciplinary nature of the study of the urban condition. A comprehensive companion website offers valuable further reading, compelling supplementary links, slideshows of additional images, and a dialogue opening blog written by one of the authors.<br /> <br /> Lisa Krissoff Boehm and Steven H. Corey together bring 35 years of classroom experience in urban studies and history, and have selected a range of work that is dynamically written and carefully edited to be accessible to students and appropriate for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of how American cities have developed.</div> </div> <b>Steven Hunt Corey</b> is Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban Studies at Worcester State College, Worcester, MA.<br /> <br /> <b>Lisa Krissoff Boehm</b> is Professor of Urban Studies and Director of the Honors Program at Worcester State College in Worcester, MA.</div> </div>
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Routledge
July 2010
594
Ouvrage
La France : villes et systèmes urbains
France, Paris, systèmes urbains, géographie urbaine, dynamiques urbaines, urbanisation, développement urbain, Paulet Jean-Pierre
<div><b>Présentation par l'éditeur :</b></div>
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En France, 80 % de la population vit en ville. La géographie des villes et des systèmes urbains est donc essentielle quand on veut comprendre toutes les problématiques contemporaines du pays.</div>
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Si la renommée des villes française remonte à l’Antiquité pour certaines, c’est la généralisation des villes et le dépeuplement des campagnes au milieu du XXe siècle qui a marqué une rupture. Ce basculement s’est accompagné d’une complexification : la ville ne se comprend plus isolément mais fait partie de systèmes de villes aux problématiques nouvelles.</div>
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Des questions demeurent et de nouvelles s’imposent : erreurs du "bétonnage" d’après-guerre ; désertification de régions entières ; intensification urbaine le long d’axes privilégiés ; domination parisienne et son devenir ; mais aussi : compétition entre les villes, les régions, les quartiers ; qualité de vie du citadin qui nécessite tout à la fois de réparer les erreurs du passé, de régler les problèmes en cours, de compenser des inégalités, de préserver l’environnement. Tout repose sur deux impératifs : bien-être local et durabilité.</div>
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L’auteur éclaire les problématiques de la question en 16 chapitres incisifs enrichis de 30 études de cas et 75 figures originales, tout en guidant l’étudiant dans la bibliographie et vers les sites Internet utiles pour continuer la réflexion.</div>
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Jean-Pierre Paulet
Armand Colin
21 juillet 2010
224
Ouvrage
Cities and design
design, forme urbaine, environnement urbain, fashion, mode, culture urbaine, géographie urbaine, aménagement urbain, Knox Paul L.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society. Competitive spending among affluent households has intensified the importance of style and design at every scale and design professions have grown in size and importance, reflecting distinctive geographies and locating disproportionately in cities most intimately connected with global systems of key business services. Meanwhile, many observers still believe good design can make positive contributions to people’s lives.<br />
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Cities and Design explores the complex relationships between design and urban environments. It traces the intellectual roots of urban design, presents a critical appraisal of the imprint and effectiveness of design professions in shaping urban environments, examines the role of design in the material culture of contemporary cities, and explores the complex linkages among designers, producers and distributors in contemporary cities: for example fashion and graphic design in New York; architecture, fashion and publishing in London; furniture, industrial design, interior design and fashion in Milan; haute couture in Paris; and so on.<br />
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This book offers a distinctive social science perspective on the economic and cultural context of design in contemporary cities, presenting cities themselves as settings for design, design services and the ‘affect’ associated with design.</div>
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<b>Paul Knox </b>is University Distinguished Professor and Senior Fellow for International Advancement at Virginia Tech, where he was Dean of the College of Architecture and Urban Studies from 1997 to 2006. </div>
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Paul L. Knox
Routledge
July 2010
282
Ouvrage
The exposed city : Mapping the urban invisibles
, cartographie, délinquance, densité urbaine, déplacements, analyse spatiale, représentations, SIG, géographie urbaine, Amoroso Nadia
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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Imagine a city invisible to the human eye and only manifested by its non-visual urban phenomena. What shape will it take? If these new urban forms are represented as images, do they become new maps of the city?<br />
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Examining representations of the city not usually visible to the naked eye, The Exposed City takes textual urban data and transforms it into architectural visions. Criminal activities, population densities, transportation patterns, public surveillance, cell phone usage, air quality readings and other spatial statistics all become new maps of the city.<br />
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The ‘unseen’ elements of the city are exposed in innovative maps throughout the book, which are complimented by interviews with Winy Mass and James Corner, in addition to sections by Richard Saul Wurman, the SENSEAble City Lab group and one of the founders of Google Earth.<br />
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Showing new ways to map invisible urban information, Amoroso’s book is ideal for those landscape architecture, urban design and geography students along with professionals interested in the theoretical and practical issues of representing the hidden city through spatial mapping.</div>
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<b>Nadia Amoroso</b> specializes in visual representation as it relates to architecture, landscape architecture and the urban environment. She is a Lecturer at the University of Toronto, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.</div>
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Nadia Amoroso
Routledge
2010
176
Ouvrage
Streets of memory : Landscape, tolerance, and national identity in Istanbul
, ethnologie, géographie urbaine, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine, voisinage, mixité sociale, mémoire, cosmopolitisme, histoire urbaine, Istanbul, Mills Amy, culture urbaine
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In this study of Kuzguncuk, known as one of Istanbul’s historically most tolerant, multiethnic neighborhoods, Amy Mills is animated by a single question: what does it mean to live in a place that once was—but no longer is—ethnically and religiously diverse?<br />
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“Turkification” drove out most of Kuzguncuk’s minority Greeks, Armenians, and Jews in the mid-twentieth century, but they left behind potent vestiges of their presence in the cityscape. Mills analyzes these places in a street-by-street ethnographic tour. She looks at how memory is conveyed and contested in Kuzguncuk’s built environment, whether through the popular television programs filmed on location there or in the cross-class alliance that sprung up to advocate the preservation of an old market garden. Overall, she finds that the neighborhood’s landscape not only connotes feelings of “belonging and familiarity” connected to a “narrative of historic multiethnic harmony” but also makes these ideas appear to be uncontestably real, or true. The resulting nostalgia bolsters a version of Turkish nationalism that seems cosmopolitan and benign. This study of memories of interethnic relationships in a local place examines why the cultural memory of tolerance has become so popular and raises questions regarding the nature and meaning of cosmopolitanism in the contemporary Middle East.<br />
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A major contribution to urban studies, human geography, and Middle East studies, Streets of Memory is imbued with a sense of genuine connection to Istanbul and the people who live there.</div>
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<b>Amy Mills</b> is an assistant professor in the department of geography at the University of South Carolina.</div>
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Amy Mills
University of Georgia Press
June 2010
308
Ouvrage
The gentrification reader
, gentrification, aménagement urbain, géographie urbaine, gouvernance, voisinage, mutation urbaine, mixité sociale, mobilité résidentielle, lien social, renouvellement urbain, relogement, Lees Loretta, Slater Tom, Wyly Elvin
<div><b>Loretta Lees</b> is Professor of Human Geography at King's College London, UK.<br /> <b><br /> Tom Slater</b> is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK.<br /> <br /> <b>Elvin Wyly</b> is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada.</div> </div>
NC
Routledge/Taylor & Francis
March 2010
622
Ouvrage