The right to the city
droit à la ville, sociologie urbaine, histoire urbaine, philosophie, sciences politiques, marxisme, capitalisme, politique de la ville, économie
David Harvey discusses the concept of the right of the city, with a particular focus on political philosophy. Theorists and topics discussed include Marxism, the work of Henri Lefebvre and Haussmann's transformation of Paris.
David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY), Director of The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and author of numerous books.
David Harvey
David Harvey
2008-05-28
29:59
31-45
EN
Vidéo
https://myspace.com/anders_lund_hansen/video/the-right-to-the-city-part-1/36080595
https://myspace.com/anders_lund_hansen/video/the-right-to-the-city-part-2/36080957
Havana beyond the ruins : Cultural mappings after 1989
culture urbaine, Havana, La Havane, marxisme, tourisme, music, musique, littérature, art, développement urbain, habitat, citoyenneté, urbanité, mémoire, Birkenmaier Anke, Whitfield Esther
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> In Havana beyond the Ruins, prominent architects, scholars, and writers based in and outside of Cuba analyze how Havana has been portrayed in literature, music, and the visual arts since Soviet subsidies of Cuba ceased, and the Cuban state has re-imagined Havana as a destination for international tourists and business ventures. Cuba’s capital has experienced little construction since the revolution of 1959; many of its citizens live in poorly maintained colonial and modernist dwellings. It is this Havana—of crumbling houses, old cars, and a romantic aura of ruined hopes—that is marketed in picture books, memorabilia, and films. Meanwhile, Cuba remains a socialist economy, and government agencies maintain significant control of urban development, housing, and employment. Home to more than two million people and a locus of Cuban national identity, Havana today struggles with the some of the same problems as other growing world cities, including slums and escalating social and racial inequalities. Bringing together assessments of the city’s dwellings and urban development projects, Havana beyond the Ruins provides unique insights into issues of memory, citizenship, urban life, and the future of the revolution in Cuba.</div> </div> <b>Anke Birkenmaier</b> is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Indiana University.<br /> <b>Esther Whitfield</b> is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Brown University.</div> </div>
NC
Duke University Press
August 2011
344
Ouvrage
Urban cultures in (post)colonial central Europe
, culture urbaine, capitalisme, marxisme, ville coloniale, identité, Warsaw, Prague, Budapest, Berlin, Varsovie, Lisiak Agata Anna
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Berlin, Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw are cities indelibly marked by more than forty years of Soviet influence. Urban Cultures in (Post) Colonial Central Europe explores the ways in which these major urban centers have redefined their identities in the last two decades. The author suggests that they are both Central European and (post) colonial spaces and that the locations of their (post)coloniality can be found predominantly in communicative and media processes and their results in architecture, film, literature, and new media.<br /> <br /> Agata Anna Lisiak analyzes Berlin, Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw as (post)colonial cities because their politics, cultures, societies, and economies have been shaped by two centers of power: the Soviet Union as the former colonizer, whose influence remains visible predominantly in architecture, infrastructure, social relations, and mentalities, and the Western culture and the Western and/or global capital as the current colonizer, whose impact extends over virtually all spheres of urban life. The cities discussed are not exclusively postcolonial or solely colonial: they are “in-between” the two predicaments and, hence, are best described as (post)colonial. The (post)colonial and “in-between peripheral” identities and locations of the Central European capitals complement each other, and their analysis provides a relevant perspective on the transformation processes that have been shaping the region after 1989.</div> </div> <b>Agata Anna Lisiak</b> completed her PhD in 2009 in communication and media studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. Most recently, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in urban studies at the National Sun Yat-sen University where her research extended to Asian port cities.</div> </div>
Agata Anna Lisiak
Purdue University Press
December 2010
214
Ouvrage
The Post-Socialist city : Continuity and change in urban space and imagery
, aménagement urbain, capitalisme, représentations, politique culturelle, modernisation, mutation urbaine, rénovation urbaine, histoire urbaine, marxisme, Dmitrieva Marina, Kliems Alfrun,
<div>For twenty years now, cities from Central Europe to Central Asia have seen revolutionary change. Following the collapse of socialism, their outward appearance, functional composition, and symbolic representation have been shattered and reassembled by new political forces and market economies. Yet, the legacy of socialist urban planning and imagination has neither just disappeared, nor did it come to coexist peacefully with the new. Rather, the story is one of conflict and hybridity, of replacement as well as of recodification. This volume explores such transformations from a variety of perspectives. Revealing a puzzling, heterogeneous vitality, the chapters contrast similarities with local specifics across half a hemisphere from Berlin to Astana. Authors include urban planners, architects, art and political historians, and literary theorists from across the region as well as from outside. Genres range from scholarly analysis to polemic essay, supported by rich visual material.</div>
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available from the publisher</a> (click on the 'Sample Pages' PDF file).</div>
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<b>Marina Dmitrieva </b>and <b>Alfrun Kliems </b>work at the University of Leipzig, Germany.</div>
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NC
Jovis Verlag
May 2010
272
Ouvrage
Colonial metropolis : The urban grounds of anti-imperialism and feminism in interwar Paris
, sciences politiques, sociologie urbaine, migrant, immigration, culture urbaine, participation, marxisme, colonisation, histoire urbaine, Paris, Boittin Jennifer Anne
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World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected to return without protest to their homes–either overseas or metropolitan. Neither group, however, was willing to be discarded.<br />
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Between the world wars, the mesmerizing capital of France’s colonial empire attracted denizens from Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Paris became not merely their home but also a site for political engagement. Colonial Metropolis tells the story of the interactions and connections of these black colonial migrants and white feminists in the social, cultural, and political world of interwar Paris and of how both were denied certain rights lauded by the Third Republic such as the vote, how they suffered from sensationalist depictions in popular culture, and how they pursued parity in ways that were often interpreted as politically subversive.<br />
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This compelling book maps the intellectual and physical locales that the disenfranchised residents of Paris frequented, revealing where their stories intersected and how the personal and local became political and transnational. With a focus on art, culture, and politics, this study reveals how both groups considered themselves inhabitants of a colonial metropolis and uncovers the strategies they used to colonize the city. Together, through the politics of anti-imperialism, communism, feminism, and masculinity, these urbanites connected performances of colonial and feminine tropes, such as Josephine Baker’s, to contestations of the colonial system.</div>
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<b>Jennifer Anne Boittin</b> is Josephine Berry Weiss Early Career Professor in the Humanities and an assistant professor of French, francophone studies, and history at the Pennsylvania State University.</div>
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Jennifer Anne Boittin
University of Nebraska Press
June 2010
354
Ouvrage
Cities surround the countryside: urban aesthetics in postsocialist China
, politique culturelle, aménagement urbain, identité, littérature, représentations, marxisme, capitalisme, citadin, culture urbaine, Chine, China, Visser Robin
<div>Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop the countryside, not only geographically and demographically, but also in terms of cultural impact. Robin Visser illuminates the cultural dynamics of three decades of radical urban development in China. Interpreting fiction, cinema, visual art, architecture, and urban design, she analyzes how the aesthetics of the urban environment have shaped the emotions and behavior of individuals and cultures, and how individual and collective images of and practices in the city have produced urban aesthetics. In relating the built environment to culture, Visser situates postsocialist Chinese urban aesthetics within local and global economic and intellectual trends.<br /> <br /> In the 1980s, writers, filmmakers, and artists began to probe the contradictions in China’s urbanization policies and rhetoric. Powerful neorealist fiction, cinema, documentaries, paintings, photographs, performances, and installations contrasted forms of glitzy urban renewal with the government’s inattention to a livable urban infrastructure. Narratives and images depicting the melancholy urban subject came to illustrate ethical quandaries raised by urban life. Visser relates her analysis of this art to major transformations in urban planning under global neoliberalism, to the development of cultural studies in the Chinese academy, and to ways that specific cities, particularly Beijing and Shanghai, figure in the cultural imagination. Despite the environmental and cultural destruction caused by China’s neoliberal policies, Visser argues for the emergence of a new urban self-awareness, one that offers creative resolutions for the dilemmas of urbanism through new forms of intellectual engagement in society and nascent forms of civic governance.</div> </div> <b>Robin Visser</b> is Associate Professor of Chinese at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.</div> </div>
Robin Visser
Duke University Press
2010
384
Ouvrage
La situation de la classe laborieuse en Angleterre
Engels Friedrich, Angleterre, classe laborieuse, prolétariat, grande ville, mouvement ouvrier, marxisme, pauvreté, précarité, quartier dégradé
L'ouvrage de Friedrich Engels est disponible en texte intégral sur Les classiques des sciences sociales
Il s'agit d'une édition électronique réalisée à partir du livre de Friedrich Engels (1845), La situation de la classe laborieuse en Angleterre. D’après les observations de l’auteur et des sources authentiques, Paris, Éditions sociales, 1960.
Traduction et notes par Gilbert Badia et Jean Frédéric.
Avant-propos de E. J. Hobsbawm.
friedrich Engels
NC
1845
413
Ouvrage
http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/Engels_friedrich/situation/situation.html
The promise of the city : Space, identity and politics in contemporary social thought
, marxisme, culture urbaine, sciences politiques, économie, espace urbain, identité, sociologie urbaine, Tajbakhsh Kian
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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 offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structure. First, he says, urban identities cannot be understood through individualistic, communitarian, or class perspectives but rather through the shifting spectrum of cultural, political, and economic influences. Second, the layered, unfinished city spaces we inhabit and within which we create meaning are best represented not by the image of bounded physical spaces but rather by overlapping and shifting boundaries. And third, the macro forces shaping urban society include bureaucratic and governmental interventions not captured by a purely economic paradigm.<br />
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Tajbakhsh examines these dimensions in the work of three major critical urban theorists of recent decades: Manuel Castells, David Harvey, and Ira Katznelson. He shows why the answers offered by Marxian urban theory to the questions of identity, space, and structure are unsatisfactory and why the perspectives of other intellectual traditions such as poststructuralism, feminism, Habermasian Critical Theory, and pragmatism can help us better understand the challenges facing contemporary cities.</div>
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<b>Kian Tajbakhsh</b> is Assistant Professor in the Urban Policy Analysis Department at the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School University.</div>
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Kian Tajbakhsh
University of California Press
2001
244
Ouvrage
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt5j49q61h/
Review of urban affairs: Economic and political weekly (Vol. XLVI, No. 31)
India, Inde, croissance urbaine, urbanisation, développement urbain, gouvernance, économie, sciences politiques, marxisme, bidonville, politique urbaine, Maringanti Anant, Baviskar Amita, Coelho Karen, Gidwani Vinay
<div><b>Anant Maringanti</b> is an independent scholar specialising in human geography, based in Hyderabad. <br /> <b>Amita Baviskar</b> is at the Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi. <br /> <b>Karen Coelho</b> is at the Madras Institute of Development Studies. <br /> <b>Vinay Gidwani</b> is with the Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota.</div> </div>
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Sameeksha Trust
30 July 2011
39 - 80
Revue
http://beta.epw.in/block_item/28/
Plans, pragmatism and people : The legacy of Soviet planning for today's cities
Soviet, soviétique, histoire de l'urbanisme, aménagement urbain, marxisme, histoire urbaine, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, French R. Anthony
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In broad terms, the thesis of this book is that a socialist city did indeed develop, but that its characteristics and thus its distinctiveness are an amalgam, on the one hand of socialist features deriving from Marxist theory which postulates a very high level of centralized state power and planned operation of the economy, and on the other hand of surviving elements of earlier capitalism and new elements of rediscovered capitalism, the whole amalgam being heavily affected by those uncontrolled and surely ideologically uncontrollable elements, the individual and technology. Moreover, the theoretical concept of a "City of Socialist Man", and the plans drawn up to bring it into being, have at every stage been focred to yield to pragmatic decisions taken to achieve immediate, shorter-term goals. This modified view, if correct, still means that the ex-Soviet cities today face a special set of circumstances that differ in a number of respects from those occurring in "capitalist" cities and which vitally affect the appearance of the city, its functioning and the way of life of its citizens.</div>
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Preface and acknowledgements</div>
Introduction : The search for a Soviet city</div>
1. The legacy of the pre-Soviet past</div>
2. "The city of socialist man"</div>
3. The realities of the Stalin period</div>
4. Kruschchev to Gorbachev : The third phase of urban development</div>
5. Problems of the Soviet city's legacy</div>
6. The changing social geography of the city</div>
7. The onset of the tyranny of the car</div>
8. Incorporating the past into the present</div>
9. The consequences of Soviet urban planning</div>
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<b>R. Anthony French</b> has edited books including 'The Socialist City' (Wiley, 1979) and 'The Post-Soviet Republics : A systematic geography' (Longman, 1995).</div>
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R. Anthony French
University of Pittsburgh Press
1995
233
Ouvrage
http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=31735057894416;view=toc;c=pittpress
Becoming global and the new poverty of cities
, mondialisation, pauvreté, Latin America, Amérique latine, Eastern Europe, Europe de l'Est, capitalisme, marxisme, économie, mutation sociale, Hanley Lisa M., Ruble Blair A., Tulchin Joseph S., paupérisation
<b>Extract from the introduction by Lisa M. Hanley, Blair A. Ruble and Joseph S. Tulchin :</b></div>
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Globalization has had a peculiar impact on cities all over the world, as much in the developed world as in the developing world. Globalization turned out to be an assault on the urban middle class. As the state shrank while the migration into the city continued, competition with the city together with the competition among cities increasingly became a race to the bottom. <br />
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The process of a hollowing out of the global urban middle class and the degradation of the working poor was perhaps most visible in Latin America and socialist East Europe, regions in which moderate prosperity had become inexorably linked to the state. <br />
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The chapters to follow attempt to tell the story of what this new poverty means for the people involved and for their cities and communities, and to do so through a parallel examination of how these changes have affected the functioning of urban communities in two regions arguably most affected by macro-economic policies imposed from the outside: Latin America and Post-Socialist Eastern Europe.</div>
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Introduction - Lisa M. Hanley, Blair A. Ruble, and Joseph S. Tulchin <br />
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Part 1 : Latin America :<br />
The Myth Of Marginality Revisited : The Case Of Favelas In Rio De Janeiro, 1969–2003 - Janice E. Perlman <br />
Transnational Migration and the Shifting Boundaries of Profit and Poverty in Central America - Patricia Landolt <br />
The New Poverty in Argentina and Latin America - Gabriel Kessler and Mercedes Di Virgilio <br />
The Hound of Los Pinos and the Return of Oscar Lewis : Understanding Urban Poverty in Mexico - William Beezely <br />
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Part 2 : Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe :<br />
Welfare Capitalism After Communism : Labor Weakness And Post-Communist Social Policies - Stephen Crowley <br />
Designing a “Scorecard” to Monitor and Map Social Development of Municipalities in Tomsk oblast (Russia) - Anastasstia Alexandrova and Polina Kuznetsova <br />
Those Left Behind : Trends of “Demodernization” and the Case of the Poor in Post-Communist Hungary - Júlia Szalai</div>
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<b>Lisa M. Hanley </b>is project associate at the Comparative Urban Studies project of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.</div>
<b>Blair A. Ruble</b> is currently Director of the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., where is also serves as a Co-Director of the Comparative Urban Studies Project.</div>
<b>Joseph S. Tulchin </b>is the Director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, D.C., where he also serves as a Co-Director of the Comparative Urban Studies Project.</div>
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NC
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
2005
225
Autre
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1410&fuseaction=topics.publications&group_id=11506
Leningrad : Shaping a Soviet city
, histoire urbaine, histoire de l'urbanisme, marxisme, Leningrad, St Petersburg, Saint-Pétersbourg, société urbaine, économie, ville soviétique, Soviet city, Ruble Blair A.
<b>Extract from the foreword by Stanley Scott and Victor Jones : <br />
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The Lane series of books — of which this Leningrad volume is the eighth and most recent — is sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies and the Institute of International Studies, and examines similarities and differences in metropolitan policy-making in various nations and cultures. Of principal concern is how policies affect the metropolis, including its social needs, economy, land use, physical structure, and natural and man-made environment. Emphasis is on the ways in which political and administrative processes and institutions adapt to changes in the urban condition and respond to national and international influences. What organizational structures and policies govern major metropolitan regions? What new or modified organizations and policies are being urged? By whom, and to what purpose? Under what conditions can life in the metropolis become more satisfying and productive, or less dreary and economically marginal? How can educational, cultural, and intellectual objectives best be promoted?</div>
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<b>Blair A. Ruble </b>is the Director of the Kennan Institute and Chair of the Comparative Urban Studies Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.</div>
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Blair A. Ruble
University of California Press
1990
334
Ouvrage
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft500006hm/
The rise of the Paris red belt
, banlieue populaire, quartier populaire, classe ouvrière, working class, sciences politiques, société urbaine, histoire urbaine, développement urbain, marxisme, communisme, urbanité, quartier dégradé, quartier défavorisé, Paris, red belt, ceinture rouge, banlieue rouge
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From 1920 until the present, the working-class suburbs of Paris, known as the Red Belt, have constituted the heart of French Communism, providing the Party not only with its most solid electoral base but with much of its cultural identity as well. Focusing on the northeastern suburb of Bobigny, Stovall explores the nature of working-class life and politicization as he skillfully documents how this unique region and political culture came into being. The Rise of the Paris Red Belt reveals that the very process of urban development in metropolitan Paris and the suburbs provided the most important opportunities for the local establishment of Communist influence.<br />
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The rapid increase in Paris' suburban population during the early twentieth century outstripped the development of the local urban infrastructure. Consequently, many of these suburbs, often represented to their new residents as charming country villages, soon degenerated into suburban slums. Stovall argues that Communists forged a powerful political block by mobilizing the disillusionment and by improving some of the worst aspects of suburban life.<br />
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As a social history of twentieth-century France, The Rise of the Paris Red Belt calls into question traditional assumptions about the history of both French Communism and the French working-class. It suggests that those interested in working-class politics, especially in the twentieth century, should consider the significance of residential and consumer issues as well as those relating to the workplace. It also suggests that urban history and urban development should not be considered autonomous phenomena, but rather expressions of class relations. The Rise of the Paris Red Belt brings to life a world whose citizens, though often overlooked, are nonetheless the history of modern France.</div>
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From 1920 until the present, the working-class suburbs of Paris, known as the Red Belt, have constituted the heart of French Communism, providing the Party not only with its most solid electoral base but with much of its cultural identity as well. Focusing on the northeastern suburb of Bobigny, Stovall explores the nature of working-class life and politicization as he skillfully documents how this unique region and political culture came into being. The Rise of the Paris Red Belt reveals that the very process of urban development in metropolitan Paris and the suburbs provided the most important opportunities for the local establishment of Communist influence.</div>
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<b>Tyler Stovall </b>is a Professor in the Department of History at the University of California Berkeley.</div>
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Tyler Stovall
University of California Press
1990
249
Ouvrage
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5r29n9vt/