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Becoming metropolitan : Urban selfhood and the making of modern Cracow
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The “Age of Great Cities” erupted in East Central Europe in the last quarter of the 19th century as migrants poured into imperial and regional capitals. For citizens of places like Cracow, discovering and…
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…
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…
Berlin : Divided city, 1945 - 1989
Abstract from the publisher : A great deal of attention continues to focus on Berlin’s cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as yet, no single volume looks at the divided city through an interdisciplinary…
Beyond preservation : Using public history to revitalize inner cities
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Across the United States, historic preservation has become a catalyst for urban regeneration. Entrepreneurs, urban pioneers, and veteran city dwellers have refurbished thousands of dilapidated properties and put them…
Beyrouth, chroniques et détours
Mashallah News, en collaboration avec les graphistes d’AMI, publie un livre sur Beyrouth qui allie narration et photographie. Beyrouth, chroniques et détours, ou en anglais Beirut Re-Collected, est publié par la maison d’édition libanaise Tamyras.…
Beyrouth, Grand Beyrouth
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Beyrouth, Grand-Beyrouth. Derrière le titre pour le moins laconique de ce livre, il n'est pas seulement question de la taille de l'agglomération beyrouthine. Pour rendre compte des…
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…
Brasília, plan and reality : A study of planned and spontaneous urban development
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This book is a considerably revised version of my doctoral dissertation. I wanted it to deal with ongoing social trends instead of the merely exotic or the archaic, so often pursued by anthropologists... Brasília…
Bucarest. L'emblème d'une nation
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L’ouvrage de Ioana Iosa, conçu à partir de sa thèse de doctorat, affirme avant tout sa volonté d’inscrire l’apologie monumentale que représente le Centre…
Building Chicago: Suburban developers and the creation of a divided metropolis
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The suburban subdivision, replete with identical houses, lawns, and families, is a familiar icon of contemporary American culture. Equally familiar are suburban governments, which many critics describe as providers of…
Building colonial cities of God: Mendicant orders and urban culture in New Spain
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This book tracks New Spain's mendicant orders past their so-called golden age of missions into the ensuing centuries and demonstrates that they had equally crucial roles in what Melvin terms the "spiritual…
Cairo : Histories of a city
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From its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids of Giza to its current manifestation as the largest metropolis in Africa, Cairo has forever captured the urban pulse of the Middle East. In Cairo:…
Cincinnati : Queen City of the West, 1819 - 1838
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Daniel Aaron, one of today’s foremost scholars of American history and American studies, began his career in 1942 with this classic study of Cincinnati in frontier days. Aaron argues that the Queen City quickly…
Cinq regards d'Albigeois sur leur ville à travers leurs écrits du for privé, XVIe-XVIIIe siècles
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Depuis une quarantaine d'années, les livres de raison, sources de la vie quotidienne, connaissent un réel renouveau historiographique, de la part des historiens - spécialistes des…
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…