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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hanoverian London 1714 - 1808
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Hanoverian London, 1714 - 1808, the first of eight volumes to be published in The University of California Press History of London series, surveys the life of the town throughout the eighteenth century. Professor…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…