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Pluralité culturelle, identité du lieu et mobilité sociale dans les films consacrés aux banlieues...
Intervention d'Alain Musset dans le cadre du séminaire "Représenter la ville".
En utilisant les outils d’une géographie historique et culturelle, située au croisement de plusieurs disciplines et de plusieurs méthodologies, le but de ce séminaire…
En utilisant les outils d’une géographie historique et culturelle, située au croisement de plusieurs disciplines et de plusieurs méthodologies, le but de ce séminaire…
Remaking the modern: Space, relocation, and the politics of identity in a global Cairo
Abstract from the publisher :
In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve President Anwar Sadat's goal to modernize the housing conditions of the urban poor, the Egyptian…
Remaking Madrid : Culture, politics, and identity after Franco
Abstract from the publisher : Remaking Madrid is the first full-length study of Madrid’s transformation from the dreary home of the Franco dictatorship into a modern and vibrant city. It argues that this remarkable transformation in the…
Remembering, forgetting and city builders
Abstract from the publisher : Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to the politics of collective and personal memory construction. Bringing together case…
Se déplacer pour se situer : places en jeu, enjeux de classes
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Cet ouvrage propose d’aborder nos pratiques et de nos représentations spatiales du quotidien à partir du rapport entre permanence et construction sociale dynamique, à la fois de…
Sociolinguistique urbaine et développement durable urbain
Enjeux et pratiques dans les sociétés francophones et non francophones
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Penser la ville durable est penser autrement l’intervention sociolinguistique non plus comme une forme de gestion…
The city and the moving image : Urban projections
Abstract from the publisher : This edited collection explores the relationship between urban space, architecture and the moving image. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches to film and moving image practices, the book explores the recent…
The city and the world: New York's global future
Abstract from the publisher: At first glance a study on cities and foreign policy may seem a bold leap into the future of international relations, but it represents, rather, a giant step into the present--into what is already taking place across…
The fundamentalist city? Religiosity and the remaking of urban space
Abstract from the publisher : The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one. This book explores how the dynamics of different forms of religious fundamentalisms are produced, represented, and practiced in the city. It…
The promise of the city : Space, identity and politics in contemporary social thought
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The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh…
The revitalization of urban space
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Smagacz uses a comparative approach to look at two very different but related processes: what she calls the “revitalization” of two formerly peripheral and now prosper-
ous, innovative and trendy urban…
The spirit of cities: Why the identity of a city matters in a global age
Abstract from the publisher: Cities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom. The Spirit of Cities…
The time of the city : Politics, philosophy and genre
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The Time of the City is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban life in diverse cities. Shifting the territorial emphasis of political studies…
The urban condition : Space, community, and self in the contemporary metropolis
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What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even postsuburban cityscape? What are edge cities and…
