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Mapping modernity in Shanghai : Space, gender, and visual culture in the sojourners' city, 1853-98

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Abstract from the publisher : This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, analyse spatiale, China, Chine, colonisation, culture urbaine, dix-neuvième siècle, espace public, forme urbaine, géographie urbaine, histoire de l'architecture, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, Liang Samuel Y., morphologie urbaine, nineteenth century, Shanghai

Keeping the lid on : Urban eruptions and social control since the 19th century

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Abstract from the publisher : 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…

Mots-clés: Barrow Logie, dix-neuvième siècle, émeute, epidemic, épidémie, Finding Susan, gouvernance, histoire urbaine, mémoire, mouvement social, nineteenth century, Poirier François, société urbaine, twentieth century, vingtième siècle

Eden on the Charles : The making of Boston

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Abstract from the publisher : Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don’t think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by…

Mots-clés: Boston, dix-neuvième siècle, environnement, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, nineteenth century, Rawson Michael

The city in the Ottoman Empire : Migration and the making of urban modernity

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Abstract from the publisher : The nexus of urban governance and human migration was a crucial feature in the modernisation of cities in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century. This book connects these two concepts to examine the Ottoman city…

Mots-clés: dix-neuvième siècle, Empire Ottoman, Freitag Ulrike, Fuhrmann Malte, gouvernance, Lafi Nora, migration urbaine, modernisation, nineteenth century, Ottoman Empire, Riedler Florian

Women and the everyday city : Public space in San Francisco, 1890 - 1915

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Abstract from the publisher : Women in the city in turn-of-the-century San Francisco In Women and the Everyday City, Jessica Ellen Sewell explores the lives of women in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A period of transformation of both gender…

Mots-clés: dix-neuvième siècle, espace public, femmes, genre, géographie urbaine, histoire de l'architecture, histoire urbaine, nineteenth century, San Francisco, Sewell Jessica Ellen, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, women

A joint enterprise : Indian elites and the making of British Bombay

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Abstract from the publisher : An in-depth look at the urban history of British Bombay It was the era of the Raj, and yet A Joint Enterprise reveals the unexpected role of native communities in the transformation of the urban fabric of British…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, Bombay, Chopra Preeti, développement urbain, dix-neuvième siècle, histoire de l'urbanisme, Mumbai, nineteenth century, ville coloniale

Ottoman Izmir: The rise of a cosmopolitan port, 1840-1880

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Abstract from the publisher: Between 1840 and 1880, the Eastern Mediterranean port of Izmir (Smyrna) underwent unprecedented change. A modern harbor that welcomed international steamships and new railway lines that transported a cornucopia of…

Mots-clés: cosmopolitisme, dix-neuvième siècle, Empire Ottoman, espace urbain, histoire urbaine, Izmir, modernisation, nineteenth century, Ottoman Empire, Smyrna, Smyrne, urbanité, ville portuaire, Zandi-Sayek Sibel

In the watches of the night: Life in the nocturnal city, 1820-1930

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Abstract from the publisher: Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to…

Mots-clés: Baldwin Peter C., délinquance, dix-neuvième siècle, emploi, États-Unis, gender, genre, histoire urbaine, leisure, loisirs, night, nineteenth century, nuit, transport, twentieth century, United States, urbanité, vingtième siècle

Faith in the antebellum urban order : Religion and the making of early 19th-century New York City

Kyle Roberts is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Dissenting Academy Libraries Project at Queen Mary, University of London.

Mots-clés: analyse spatiale, dix-neuvième siècle, environnement urbain, espace urbain, histoire urbaine, New York, nineteenth century, religion, Roberts Kyle, société urbaine

Under metropolis: Exploring the cultural history of Buenos Aires underground railways (c. 1886-1945)

Dhan Singh is a postgraduate student in history at the Institute of Historical Research.

Mots-clés: Buenos Aires, croissance urbaine, culture urbaine, déplacements, dix-neuvième siècle, histoire urbaine, métro, métropole, nineteenth century, Singh Dhan, société urbaine, transport, twentieth century, vingtième siècle

Imagining low life before the East End's invention, c. 1780s to 1840s

This paper was part of the Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009, on the theme 'cities'. Conference description by the organisers : The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and…

Mots-clés: dix-huitième siècle, dix-neuvième siècle, East End, eighteenth century, Gatrell Vic, histoire urbaine, imaginaire, London, Londres, nineteenth century, pauvreté, quartier défavorisé

Imagining the East End in literature and social survey, 1880-1990

This paper was part of the Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009, on the theme 'cities'. Conference description by the organisers : The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and…

Mots-clés: Dennis Richard, dix-neuvième siècle, East End, fin de siècle, Gissing George, histoire urbaine, imaginaire, littérature, London, Londres, nineteenth century, quartier défavorisé

Worse than Cimmeran Darkness: Fog and the representation of Victorian London

In this 2011 seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London School of Advanced Study, Joseph de Sapio discusses fog in the representation of Victorian London, particularly from the perspective of tourists to the city. He argues…

Mots-clés: brouillard, citadin, de Sapio Joseph, dix-neuvième siècle, environnement urbain, fog, histoire urbaine, London, Londres, nineteenth century, représentations, tourisme, urbanité, Victorian London

Nineteenth-Century cities

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Today, I want to do the impossible and talk about urbanization and urban growth in fifty minutes. I'll give the classic example, which is the greatest project of human intervention or rebuilding, that is the…

Mots-clés: banlieue, centre-ville, croissance urbaine, dix-neuvième siècle, histoire urbaine, nineteenth century, ségrégation sociale, ségrégation urbaine, société urbaine, urbanisation

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