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Urban political geographies: A global perspective
Abstract from the publisher: How can we think about the urban within a political and geographical framework? This compelling new textbook scrutinizes urban politics through a theoretical and empirical lens to provide readers with a clear…
Keeping the lid on : Urban eruptions and social control since the 19th century
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The contributors to this book have explored various aspects of urban imagination, so intimately related to a peculiar social environment. They are historians and geographers, linguists and cultural students. Their…
Can neighbourhoods save the city? Community development and social innovation
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For decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases…
Insurgent public space : Guerrilla urbanism and the remaking of contemporary cities
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In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These ‘insurgent public spaces’ challenge conventional views of…
Space for urban alternatives? Christiania 1971-2011
Abstract from the publisher: In 1971, a group of young people broke into a closed down military area in Copenhagen. It was located not more than a mile from the Royal Danish Palace and the Danish parliament. Soon, the media published images and…
Emeutes urbaines : le retour du politique
Sommaire du n° 5 de Cultures et Conflits :
Didier Bigo
Editorial. Les jeux du politique et de la transnationalité
Christophe Jaffrelot
Les émeutes entre hindous et musulmans : essai de hiérarchisation des facteurs…
La rue
Sommaire du n° 5 de Tracés : Edouard Gardella, Sophie Conrad et Florent Coste - Editorial Articles Christophe Premat - La "grogne du peuple" Antoine Fleury - La rue : un objet géographique ? Cédric Quertier -…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 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…
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,…