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Listening to the voices and organizing the interests of ordinary people. Great cities-ordinary lives
Race rebelle : luttes dans les quartiers populaires des années 1980 à nos jours
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"Le clivage politique racial, sans effacer les autres clivages, est devenu central, déterminant les stratégies des différents acteurs, bousculant les équilibres, provoquant…
La guérilla jardinière
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Et si nous investissions ces lieux incultes, laissés à l’abandon, ces tristes villes en béton, et si nous les faisions fleurir soudain ?
La guérilla jardinière (ou…
Les origines du logement social en France 1850-1914
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Au terme des journées insurrectionnelles de 1848, la IIe République est proclamée par un gouvernement provisoire où siège Lamartine, Ledru-Rollin et Arago.
Cette…
Time and the suburbs: The politics of built environments and the future of dissent
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By combining provocative prose with photo-essay, Time and the Suburbs explores the disappearance of cities in North America under the weight of suburban, exurban, and other forms of development that are changing the way…
The progressives and the slums: Tenement house reform in New York City, 1890-1917
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Contents:
1. The origins of tenement reform, 1830-1865
2. The tenement comes of age, 1866-1890
3. Jacob A. Riis: Portrait of a reformer
4. The Tenement House Committee of 1894
5. Lawrence Veiller and the New York…
Red city, blue period: Social movements in Picasso's Barcelona
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The task I have undertaken in this book is to account for the peculiar sense of solidarity that the citizens of Barcelona developed between 1888 and 1939, and to explain why shared experiences of civic culture and…
Cities, sin, and social reform in imperial Germany
Extract from the Introduction: Focusing on Germany during the period when that country experienced its great age of industrial urbanization, this book treats ideas about cities, views of deviant behavior, and the socially reformist implications of…
Bird on fire: Lessons from the world's least sustainable city
Abstract from the publisher: Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall,…
The beach beneath the streets : Contesting New York City's public spaces
Abstract from the publisher : Examines New York City as a paradigmatic example of the tensions between privatization and public uses of space in the contemporary United States. Focusing on the liberating promise of public space, The Beach Beneath…
Learning the city: Knowledge and translocal assemblage
Abstract from the publisher: Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politics, arguing both for the centrality of learning for political strategies and…
The right to the city: Popular contention in contemporary Buenos Aires
Abstract from the publisher: Based on extensive, original fieldwork, as well as new survey data, The Right to the City contributes to the study of democratization by focusing on the dilemmas and opportunities of popular contention in the city of…
Ahmedabad : Shock city of twentieth-century India
Abstract from the publisher : In the 20th century, Ahmedabad was India's "shock city." It was the place where many of the nation's most important developments occurred first and with the greatest intensity—from Gandhi’s…
The public and its possibilities : Triumphs and tragedies in the American city
Abstract from the publisher : In his compelling reinterpretation of American history, The Public and Its Possibilities, John Fairfield argues that our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private…
Urban space in contemporary Egyptian literature : Portraits of Cairo
Abstract from the publisher : Part ode, part academic treatise, this book traces the transformation of Cairo’s historic downtown from its spectacular beginning as a French inspired Belle Époque marvel to a site of contest and, more…
Le peuple de Paris au XIXe siècle
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exposition du musée Carnavalet propose de découvrir la vie quotidienne du peuple de Paris au XIXe siècle : comment les deux tiers des Parisiens, qui constituaient alors le peuple de la…