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City at the center of the world: Space, history, and modernity in Quito
Abstract from the publisher: In the seventeenth century, local Jesuits and Franciscans imagined Quito, the Andean capital of Ecuador, as the “new Rome.” It was the site of miracles and home of saintly inhabitants, the origin of crusades…
Not no Place. Johannesburg. Spaces and Fragments of time
Not No Place is a volume that brings together a vast array of texts, essays, poetry, illustrations and photographs, which vividly portray the depth and identity of the city of Johannesburg.
However, the lived experience of Johannesburg enters Not…
However, the lived experience of Johannesburg enters Not…
São Paulo: Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production
Abstract from the publisher : David Foster brings an intense curiosity and lifelong familiarity to this unique examination of the cultural tapestry of São Paulo, the largest city in South America and the second largest in Latin America. …
The imagination of class: Masculinity and the Victorian urban poor
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…
Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish urban experience: Reading the mobile city
Abstract from the publisher: An important contribution to the still evolving field of 'urban cultural studies,' Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience is the first book to thoroughly apply the French urban philosopher's thoughts on cities…
La poétique de l'habiter
Suite à l’Habiter dans sa poétique première, ce livre recueille les actes du colloque tenu en septembre 2009 à Cerisy-la-Salle. Il s’agit à présent de la création, c’est-à-dire de la poïétique d’un monde autre que l’insoutenable monde actuel.…
Paris between the wars 1919 - 1939 : Art, life and culture
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Between the Victory parade along the Champs-Elysées in 1919 and the Germans' march through the Arc de Triomphe in 1940, Paris enjoyed a twenty-year period of cultural and intellectual expansion, receptive to the…
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…
Place Dizengoff : une dramaturgie urbaine
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C’est l’histoire d’un petit bout de terre au coeur de Tel-Aviv, sur lequel est bâti aujourd’hui le centre commercial Dizengoff Center ; qui était auparavant Nordia, le…
The literary atlas of Cairo : One hundred years on the streets of the city
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Readings from literary works that re-construct and re-map the city of Cairo.
Bringing together writings by Egyptians, Arabs, men and women, Muslims, Copts, and Jews, this rich selection maps out many of the changes in…
Lire les villes. Panoramas du monde urbain contemporain
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Alexandrie, Athènes, Barcelone, Berlin, Beyrouth, Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Ciudad Juárez, Dublin, Édimbourg, Istanbul, Kaboul, Le Caire, Londres, Los Angeles, Madrid, Naples, New York,…
Paris as revolution: writing the nineteenth-century city
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In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution…
Nice-Ville
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Ce livre s’offre comme un retour sur images, sur l’architecture des quartiers populaires. Il est traversé par les silhouettes du petit peuple : celui qui, dans les années…
A shout in the street : An excursion into the modern city
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A remarkable meditation on the topography of the modern city, A Shout in the Street offers a close and sensitive examination of four urban landscapes -- London, Paris, Leningrad, and New York. Peter Jukes pursues the…
Imaginaires de la ville, regards croisés
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Ce colloque propose une approche plurielle de la thématique urbaine et de ses représentations, en convoquant différents champs disciplinaires (civilisation, histoire, littérature,…
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…
Psycho-géographie : poétique de l'exploration urbaine
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Depuis le flâneur des villes jusqu'à l'explorateur de salon, de la dérive au détournement, la psychogéographie nous procure de nouvelles manières…