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The exposed city : Mapping the urban invisibles
Abstract from the publisher :
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…
The fundamentalist city? Religiosity and the remaking of urban space
Abstract from the publisher : 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…
The futures of the city region
Abstract from the publisher : 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…
The gentrification reader
Loretta Lees is Professor of Human Geography at King's College London, UK. Tom Slater is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Elvin Wyly is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Urban geography plenary lecture : Urban geography (Vol. 30, No. 1)
Contents :
Michael Brown - 2008 Urban Geography Plenary Lecture - Public health as urban politics, urban geography : Venereal blopower in Seattle, 1943-1983
Rachel Slocum - Commentary on "Public health as urban politics, urban geography :…
Urban political geographies: A global perspective
Abstract from the publisher: How can we think about the urban within a political and geographical framework? This compelling new textbook scrutinizes urban politics through a theoretical and empirical lens to provide readers with a clear…
Urban reflections : Narratives of place, planning and change
Abstract from the publisher : 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…
Urbanités souterraines
Bienvenue à la nouvelle revue Urbanités dans le paysage des études urbaines !
Extrait de l'éditorial :
Dans ce numéro inaugural, la revue Urbanités s’attaque au problème de la ville en le…
Villes, territoires, réversibilités
Un des fondements de la pensée moderne de l’action collective fut de produire de l’irréversibilité, comme condition historique du progrès. On sait aujourd’hui ce qu’a permis de produire cette posture immodeste, mais aussi ce qui en a coûté, et…
Women and the everyday city : Public space in San Francisco, 1890 - 1915
Abstract from the publisher : Women in the city in turn-of-the-century San Francisco 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…