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Town planning in practice; an introduction to the art of designing cities and suburbs
Extract from the Preface :
When a Bill conferring town planning powers on municipal bodies was promised by the Government, it occurred to me that it would probably be of use if some of the maps, photographs, and other material which I had collected…
Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, histoire de l'urbanisme, Unwin Raymond
The historian and the city
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...[T]he Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the Harvard University Summer Session [decided] to convene a conference, in August, 1961, that would consider the…
Paysages des campus : urbanisme, architecture et patrimoine
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Les "paysages des campus" sont issus de choix qui associent, depuis les lendemains de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des questions d'urbanisme, d'architecture et de patrimoine.
La construction des…
Les faiseurs de villes, 1850-1950
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Les "portraits" de concepteurs de villes, d’urbanistes, d’aménageurs, de rêveurs, déjà publiés dans la revue Urbanisme et regroupés ici,…
Contemporary urbanism in Brazil: Beyond Brasília
Abstract from the publisher : For decades, a succession of military regimes and democratic governments in Brazil sought to shape the future of their society through the manipulation of urban spaces. Planned cities were built that reflected the…
Grands ensembles en situation
Présentation par l'éditeur : Grands ensembles en situation. Journal de bord de quatre chantiers. À la façon d'un journal de bord construit rétrospectivement, cet ouvrage revisite quatre opérations de…
Manifestoes and transformations in the early modernist city
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The industrialization of the nineteenth-century European city facilitated developing conceptions of the model city, and allowed for large scale urban transformations. The urban discourse in the latter half of the…
Civitas by design : Building better communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism
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Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but to strengthen civic ties through better design of built environments. From…
L'invention du grand ensemble. La caisse des dépôts, maître d'ouvrage
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Le milieu des années 50 marque un tournant dans les rapports de la Caisse des dépôts à la difficile question de l'habitat "populaire". Alors qu'elle n'était…
Reforming urban labor : Routes to the city, roots in the country
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Reforming Urban Labor is a history of the nineteenth-century social reforms designed by middle-class progressives to domesticate the labor force. Industrial production required a concentrated labor force, but the…
The American urban reader : History and theory
Abstract from the publisher : 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…
Mapping modernity in Shanghai : Space, gender, and visual culture in the sojourners' city, 1853-98
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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…
Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, analyse spatiale, China, Chine, colonisation, culture urbaine, dix-neuvième siècle, espace public, forme urbaine, géographie urbaine, histoire de l'architecture, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, Liang Samuel Y., morphologie urbaine, nineteenth century, Shanghai
Cities at war in early modern Europe
Abstract from the publisher : Between 1550 and 1700, artillery siege warfare transformed the European city, which was theorized, fortified, violated, rebuilt, and celebrated by leading artists and architects. The fortified perimeter, with its…
Beijing record : A physical and political history of planning modern Beijing
Abstract from the publisher : Beijing Record, the result of ten years of research on the urban transformation of Beijing in the last fifty years, brings to an extended Western audience the inside story on the key decisions that led to Beijing's…
Tashkent : Forging a Soviet city, 1930 - 1966
Abstract from the publisher : Paul Stronski tells the fascinating story of Tashkent, an ethnically diverse, primarily Muslim city that became the prototype for the Soviet-era reimagining of urban centers in Central Asia. Based on extensive research…
Eden on the Charles : The making of Boston
Abstract from the publisher : Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don’t think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by…
The making of Hong Kong : From vertical to volumetric
Abstract from the publisher : This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong’s urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense…
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…
Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, Anaconda, capitalisme, cité ouvrière, company town, Dinius Oliver J., El Salvador, Firmat, Fordlândia, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, Kellogg, Río Blanco, Santa Rosa, Santos, société urbaine, Sudbury, Sunflower City, Vergara Angela, ville ouvrière, Volta Redonda
Les années 1960, hic et nunc : architecture, urbanisme, paysage
Présentation par l'éditeur :
L’héritage des années 1960 marque en profondeur notre présent. Bien plus qu’on ne l’admet, il "travaille" nos pratiques et nos représentations…