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Tony Garnier
Tony Garnier (1869-1948), qui édifia l’essentiel de son oeuvre à Lyon – où il naît au cœur du quartier de la Croix-Rousse – est demeuré longtemps méconnu au-delà de sa ville natale.
Incontestablement lié à la figure d’Edouard Herriot, maire…
Incontestablement lié à la figure d’Edouard Herriot, maire…
Histoire des territoires de Hà-Noi. Quartiers, villages et sociétés urbaines du XIXe au début du XXe siècle
Délaissée par les souverains Nguyên, elle s’est affranchie pendant trois quarts de siècle du poids de l’autorité impériale avant de devenir, autour des années 1880, une ville de juridiction française, le chef-lieu du protectorat du Tonkin et la…
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…
Levant : Splendour and catastrophe on the Mediterranean
Abstract from the publisher : Levant is a book of cities. It describes three former centers of great wealth, pleasure, and freedom—Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut—cities of the Levant region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean.…
Babylon of Egypt : The archaeology of Old Cairo and the origins of the city
Abstract from the publisher : An archaeological investigation into the ancient nucleus of medieval and modern Cairo This book presents a history of Old Cairo based on new archaeological evidence gathered between 2000 and 2006 during a major…
In the watches of the night: Life in the nocturnal city, 1820-1930
Abstract from the publisher: Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to…
London under: The secret history beneath the streets
Abstract from the publisher: London Under is a wonderful, atmospheric, imaginative, oozing short study of everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheaters to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts, and modern…
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…
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…
Petites villes en montagne de l'Antiquité au XXe siècle. Europe occidentale et centrale
Collectif, interdisciplinaire et inter-période, cet ouvrage contribue à poser comme objet d’histoire l’identité de la petite ville et met en valeur les spécificités des petites villes sises en montagne.
Le colloque "Petites ville en montagne, de…
Le colloque "Petites ville en montagne, de…
Bordeaux et ses banlieues. La construction d’une agglomération
Où commence et où finit la ville? L’embarras à définir les limites de la ville est à la source de l’essor progressif du terme d’agglomération pour nommer et comprendre l’évolution des phonèmes urbains issus de l’industrialisation et les nouveaux…
Flammable cities: Urban conflagration and the making of the modern world
Abstract from the publisher: In most cities today, fire has been reduced to a sporadic and isolated threat. But throughout history the constant risk of fire has left a deep and lasting imprint on almost every dimension of urban society. This volume,…
Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and space
Abstract from the publisher: Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space demonstrates how studies of the Roman city are shifting focus from static architecture to activities and motion within urban spaces. This volume provides detailed case studies…
Rome: Continuing encounters between past and present
Abstract from the publisher: Few other cities can compare with Rome's history of continuous habitation, nor with the survival of so many different epochs in its present. This volume explores how the city's past has shaped the way in which Rome has…
The growth of non-Western cities : Primary and secondary urban networking c. 900 - 1900
Abstract from the publisher : These interdisciplinary studies address pre-1900 non-Western urban growth in the African Sudan, Mexico, the Ottoman Middle East, and South, Southeast, and East Asia. Therein, primary and secondary cities served as…
New York: The story of a great city
Abstract from the publisher: Manhattan. Gotham. The Big Apple. New York's influence has stretched far beyond its city limits and into every corner of finance, art, and popular culture around the world. Now it finally has a biography big enough to…
Music and urban society in colonial Latin America
Abstract from the publisher : 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…
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…