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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ville et débat public : agir en démocratie
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Pourquoi est-il pertinent de s’intéresser au débat public sous l’angle des mouvements sociaux et des acteurs de la société civile ?
Qu’est-ce que ces derniers…
From critical urban theory to the right to the city
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Mots-clés: droit à la ville, Lefebvre Henri, Marcuse Peter, mouvement social
Listening to the voices and organizing the interests of ordinary people. Great cities-ordinary lives
The fifth panel of this symposium in celebration of Anthony Orum’s retirement: Great Cities/Ordinary Lives Conference - A look at the city and its residents from the bottom up
Panel 5 : Listening to the voices and organizing the interests of…
Pourquoi les SDF restent dans la rue
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Pourquoi tant de gens dorment-ils dans la rue ? Pourquoi ne trouve-t-on pas de solutions efficaces ? Telles sont les questions que pose Pascal Noblet, et auxquelles il apporte des réponses…
On the plaza: Post-Soviet urban ensembles
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Among the many things that are anathema in contemporary urban planning, one of the most demonised is the large, ceremonial public square. The vast, proverbially windswept plazas built under 'really existing socialism'…
Tuff city: Urban change and contested space in central Naples
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During the 1990s, Naples’ left-wing administration sought to tackle the city’s infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city’s cultural and architectural…
Urban unrest, social resentment and justice
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The recent events in several cities across the UK, and more widely in Europe, have raised fundamental questions about the legitimacy of public programs, the crisis-prone nature of economies and ongoing resentment and…
Cities in an insecure world
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Some of the most intractable and enduring challenges of development are concerned with reducing insecurity. Early and very current development debates have been concerned with issues of food security.
Ensuring…
Breslauer symposium 2006 : The right to the city and the politics of space
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The Breslauer Symposium was established in 2001 through the generosity of a campus donor and is named in honor of George Breslauer, current Dean of Social Sciences at UC Berkeley. Held annually, its goal is to support…
Do Londoners have a right to the city?
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London grassroot groups are certainly making it clear what they need, from housing and transport to jobs and the environment. Is there a basic demand that underlies these needs? Is the idea of rights to the city a focus…
Social justice, inequality and cities
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Inequality is intensifying in American cities with profound consequences for people’s well being and for broader society. This panel aims to make sense of where urban inequalities emerge, how they are…
Bordeaux et la Commune 1870-1871
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Bordeaux et la Commune, 1870-1871 décrit la société bordelaise de 1848 à 1871. A partir de l'étude du mouvement ouvrier, l'ouvrage met en perspective les grandes…
Mots-clés: Bordeaux, dix-neuvième siècle, Girault Jacques, mouvement social, mutation urbaine
The politics of place : Contentious urban redevelopment in Pittsburgh
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In urban America, large-scale redevelopment is a frequent news item. Many proposals for such redevelopment are challenged—sometimes successfully, and other times to no avail. The Politics of Place considers the…