The proceedings of a 2002 conference held at the Centre of comparative European history, Berlin, on the topic 'The European metropolis 1920 - 2000'.
Contents :
Linking scales and urban network development - R. Wall and G.A. van der Knapp
New Forms…
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Quel rôle pour les archives de l'urbanisme dans la compréhension et la production de la ville ?
Cette question est volontairement à double sens. Étudier l’urbain…
Contents: Mercedes Arroyo - Technical networks and urban territory: A survey of the literature in Spain Bengt Berglund - Urban history in Sweden: An overview Mikael Hård and Marcus Stippak - Discourses on the modern city and urban technology,…
Présentation par l'éditeur : Comme quelques autres villes en France, Tours a la particularité d’être traversée en son centre par une grande infrastructure autoroutière, l’autoroute A10. Certains…
Abstract from the publisher :
In Volume 1 of this two-volume publication, the authors review the international literature on urbanisation. They locate urbanisation in broader social transformations, study the role of households in the process of…
From the preface :
The American city: we think of the Manhattan skyline, of Chicago curving along the shore of Lake Michigan, or of the Golden Gate Bridge arcing into San Francisco. Or, if we think historically, we might envision steerage…
From the foreword by Charles Tilly :
For a generation Sam Warner has written about American urban history by sketching the development of particular cities. A 1994 poll of urban history scholars identified him as the country's most influential…
Abstract from the publisher :
The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity provides a comprehensive history of urban development in European Russia during the last half of the nineteenth century. Using both statistical perspectives on…
From the preface : Frontiers and Identities: Cities in Regions and Nations, edited by Professors Luďa Klusáková and Laure Teulières, is the third volume published by the Thematic Work Group 5 of the pan-European Network of…
From the introduction : During the nineteenth century, a concerted effort was made to transform the Ottoman capital of Istanbul into a Western-style capital, paralleling the general struggle to salvage the Ottoman Empire by reforming its…
From the preface : Many recent urban sociology textbooks have come close to abandoning the traditional concern of urban sociology, which is the community in urban society. Emphasis has shifted to individual adaptations to urban society or to…
Abstract from the publisher :
City planning is an ancient activity but a modern profession. The city planning profession in the United States arose from the urban reform movements of the 1890s and early years of this century. Here, in a volume…
Abstract from the publisher : Inventing Lima is the first synthetic cultural history of Peru’s baroque “City of the Kings.” Professor Osorio’s interpretation of ritual life in the Peruvian metropolis significantly revises…
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…
From the preface : Most books about twentieth-century Greenwich Village history focus on the artists, writers, and cultural radicals whose activities brought the Village international fame as America's bohemia. Other residents of the Village, if…
Extract from the Introduction: Focusing on Germany during the period when that country experienced its great age of industrial urbanization, this book treats ideas about cities, views of deviant behavior, and the socially reformist implications of…
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…
Extract from the Introduction: The poor were always with the English. Poverty had been of broad social concern since the Elizabethan period at least: the topic of ongoing debate, periodic legislation, sporadic philanthropy. But the London poor of…
Extract from the Preface: Several purposes informed the collaborative work behind this volume. First, it provides a sustained examination, from a variety of viewpoints, of one urban place. Banaras was chosen primarily because it had attracted a…