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Urban realism and the cosmopolitan imagination in the nineteenth century
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This book tells a story about the transformation of mid-Victorian urban writing in response both to London's growing size and diversity, and Britain's shifting global fortunes. Tanya Agathocleous departs from customary…
Urban narratives : Building Barcelona through literature
Abstract from the distributor : In a trajectory that follows not only the topographic and social changes undergone by the city, but also the succession of narrative models that reflect these changes, this book proposes a historical and critical…
Urban modernity: Cultural innovation in the second Industrial Revolution
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At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. Urban Modernity examines the construction of an…
Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine
Une livraison de la Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine (Volume 42, N° 1, automne 2013).
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David G. Burley
Rooster Town: Winnipeg’s Lost Métis Suburb, 1900–1960
Greg Marquis
Constructing an Urban Drug Ecology in 1970s…
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David G. Burley
Rooster Town: Winnipeg’s Lost Métis Suburb, 1900–1960
Greg Marquis
Constructing an Urban Drug Ecology in 1970s…
Urban history (Vol. 38, No. 1)
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Urban History occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors. Each…
Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule
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During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence, Algiers was the site of recurrent conflicts between colonizer and colonized. Through architecture and urban forms confrontations were crystallized,…
Urban development : A new perspective
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Although it has often been taken as a general definition of the city and urban culture (whence the commonsense notion that cities must fulfill commercial functions), Pirenne's fomulation was deficient because only the…
Urban colossus: Why is New York America's largest city?
Edward Glaeser looks at the history of New York and its contemporary character in order to answer the question of why New York became the largest city in America. He focuses especially on the economic aspects behind the city's growth.
Edward…
Edward…
Uprooted : How Breslau became Wroclaw during the century of expulsions
Abstract from the publisher : With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand…
Une histoire de Jérusalem
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1850. Endormie au fond d’une province de l’Empire ottoman, Jérusalem est une modeste cité de 15 000 habitants. Juifs, musulmans, chrétiens grecs orthodoxes ou…
Under metropolis: Exploring the cultural history of Buenos Aires underground railways (c. 1886-1945)
Twentieth-century Pittsburgh, Volume Two. The post-steel era
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This volume traces the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the city of Pittsburgh during its urban renewal project, which began in 1977. Roy Lubove demonstrates how the city showed…
Twentieth-century Pittsburgh, Volume One: Government, business, and environmental change
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First published in 1969, Roy Lubove's Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh is a pioneering analysis of elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal in a city once disdained as "hell with the lid off." The book…
Trois paroisses de Rouen, XIIIe-XVe siècle : Saint-Lô, Notre-Dame-la-Ronde et Saint-Herbland
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Appuyée sur une reconstitution parcellaire d'un espace d'environ sept hectares et sur l’abondante documentation rouennaise, cette étude d’histoire urbaine médiévale…
Toulouse au Moyen Age, 1000 ans d'histoire urbaine
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A Toulouse, comme ailleurs, le Moyen Age – considéré comme la période allant de la fin de l’Antiquité au XVe siècle – est une période clef pour…
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…
Tombouctou, son savoir-être multiple : première capitale de la culture islamique d'Afrique
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Venant des cinq continents, d'éminents intellectuels présentent la ville de Tombouctou, en français, en anglais et en arabe. Est retracée l'épopée contemporaine de…