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Ab urbe condita... Fonder et refonder la ville : récits et représentations
Présentation par l'éditeur : Ce volume réunit les actes du colloque « Ab urbe condita… Fonder et refonder la ville : récits et représentations » (Pau, mai 2009), organisé en partenariat…
Istanbul
Extrait de la préface de Gwenaël Quirrien : Il suffit de regarder quelques secondes une carte ou une photo satellite pour comprendre la situation géostratégique d'Istanbul, installée sur un promontoire au…
New York
Présentation par l'éditeur : Malgré l’explosion des grandes métropoles asiatiques - entre autres -, New York reste aujourd’hui la référence incontournable d’une modernité urbaine…
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Le centre-ville 1973-2003. Une épopée urbaine
Décrire la ville, la rendre sensible, perceptible, en démontrer les formes, les évolutions, la complexité visible et invisible ; et en expliquer les échecs.
Mais ce récit entend également replacer la conception dans son contexte évènementiel,…
Mais ce récit entend également replacer la conception dans son contexte évènementiel,…
Jérusalem 1900. La ville sainte à l'âge des possibles
Jérusalem n’a pas toujours été un champ de bataille. À l’orée du XXe siècle, une autre histoire se dessine, portée par l’émergence d’une identité citadine partagée, loin des dérives communautaristes qui semblent aujourd’hui l’emporter.
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Des toits sur la grève. Le logement des travailleurs et la question sociale à Bombay (1850-1950)
Bombay, capitale indienne de l’économie et des services, forte de 20 millions d’habitants, s’est hissée au rang de cinquième métropole mondiale. Pôle d’attraction des migrations, sa croissance s’est faite au prix de fortes inégalités, si bien…
The city-state in Europe, 1000-1600: Hinterland, territory, region
Abstract from the publisher: No detailed comparison of the city-state in medieval Europe has been undertaken over the last century. Research has concentrated on the role of city-states and their republican polities as harbingers of the modern state,…
Alep et ses territoires. Fabrique et politique d’une ville (1868-2011)
Capitale économique de la Syrie du Nord et seconde ville du pays, Alep a bâti sa prospérité sur un important commerce local, régional et international et sur le dynamisme de ses activités de production. Jusqu’à la fin de l’époque ottomane, elle était…
The invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
Abstract from the publisher : The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the…
Regards sur Paris – Histoires de la capitale (XIIe-XVIIIe siècles)
Quel regard, tour à tour affectueux, admiratif et irrité, Parisiens et visiteurs de passage ont-ils porté au fil des siècles sur une des plus belles capitales au monde ? Telle est la question à laquelle tente de répondre ce livre, conçu à l'image des…
Ottoman Izmir: The rise of a cosmopolitan port, 1840-1880
Abstract from the publisher: Between 1840 and 1880, the Eastern Mediterranean port of Izmir (Smyrna) underwent unprecedented change. A modern harbor that welcomed international steamships and new railway lines that transported a cornucopia of…
Imagining the urban : Sanskrit and the city in early India
Abstract from the publisher : In Imagining the Urban, Shonaleeka Kaul turns to Sanskrit literature to discover the characteristics—both physical and social—of ancient Indian cities. Kaul examines nearly a thousand years of Sanskrit…
Beirut
Abstract from the publisher : Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work completed by Samir…
Downtown : Its rise and fall, 1880-1950
Abstract from the distributor :
"Downtown" is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. It tells the fascinating story of how downtown--and the way Americans thought about downtown--changed over time. By showing…
"Downtown" is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. It tells the fascinating story of how downtown--and the way Americans thought about downtown--changed over time. By showing…
Motor City : The rise and fall of Detroit
Robert Fishman teaches in the urban design, architecture, and urban planning programs at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. and A.M. in history from Harvard and his A.B. in history from Stanford University. He is a nationally…
Rome before Avignon: A social history of thirteenth-century Rome
Abstract from the publisher: Robert Brentano evokes papal Rome in all its paradox and complicated brilliance. From a detailed re-creation of the physical "town" with its series of brick campanili and green and purple mosaic floors, to the…
Lost landscapes of Detroit
LOST LANDSCAPES OF DETROIT; an eclectic montage of rediscovered and rarely-seen archival film clips exhibiting life; cityscapes, labor and leisure from ‘vanishing Detroit’, as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers from…
Detroit divided
Abstract from the publisher: Unskilled workers once flocked to Detroit, attracted by manufacturing jobs paying union wages, but the passing of Detroit's manufacturing heyday has left many of those workers stranded. Manufacturing continues to employ…
The city in the Roman West, c. 250 BC - c. AD 250
Abstract from the publisher : The city is widely regarded as the most characteristic expression of the social, cultural and economic formations of the Roman Empire. This was especially true in the Latin-speaking West, where urbanism was much less…
Whispering city : Rome and its histories
Abstract from the publisher : In Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud claimed that Rome must be comprehended as "not a human dwelling place but a mental entity," in which the palaces of the Caesars still stand alongside modern…