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The urban racial state : Managing race relations in American cities
Abstract from the publisher : The Urban Racial State introduces a new multi-disciplinary analytical approach to urban racial politics that provides a bridging concept for urban theory, racism theory, and state theory. This perspective, dubbed by…
The time of the city : Politics, philosophy and genre
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The Time of the City is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban life in diverse cities. Shifting the territorial emphasis of political studies…
The third city : Chicago and American urbanism
Abstract from the publisher : Our traditional image of Chicago—as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends—is such a powerful shaper of the city’s identity…
The right to the city
David Harvey discusses the concept of the right of the city, with a particular focus on political philosophy. Theorists and topics discussed include Marxism, the work of Henri Lefebvre and Haussmann's transformation of Paris.
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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…
The new Blackwell companion to the city
Abstract from the publisher : This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives. * The most interdisciplinary collection of its kind * Provides a contemporary update…
The mysteries of the great city: The politics of urban design, 1877-1937
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The Mysteries of the Great City examines the physical, cultural, and political transformations of the American city between the Gilded Age and the New Deal. Focusing on New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati, John Fairfield…
The lure of the city: From slums to suburbs
Abstract from the publisher: Cities, by their very nature, are a mass of contradictions. They can be at once visually stunning, culturally rich, exploitative and unforgiving. In The Lure of the City Austin Williams and Alastair Donald explore the…
The imaginative institution : Planning and governance in Madrid
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Every 20 years since 1920, Madrid has undergone an urban planning cycle in which a city plan was prepared, adopted by law, and implemented by a new institution. This preparation-adoption-institutionalization sequence,…
The fate of cities : Urban America and the Federal Government, 1945-2000
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By the end of the twentieth century, decaying inner cities in America continued to lose ground despite the best efforts of local and federal officials. By then the investment in urban revitalization begun during the…
The city-state in Europe, 1000-1600: Hinterland, territory, region
Abstract from the publisher: No detailed comparison of the city-state in medieval Europe has been undertaken over the last century. Research has concentrated on the role of city-states and their republican polities as harbingers of the modern state,…
The city : Urban communities and their problems
From the preface : Many recent urban sociology textbooks have come close to abandoning the traditional concern of urban sociology, which is the community in urban society. Emphasis has shifted to individual adaptations to urban society or to…
Territoires, villes et métropoles en Italie. Derniers développements
La livraison 12-2013 de la revue Métropoles est disponible sur Revues.org. Métropoles est une revue scientifique en ligne. Elle se veut le carrefour des travaux scientifiques issus de la plupart des disciplines en sciences sociales qui s’intéressent…
Suburban Tokyo : A comparative study in politics and social change
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The rapid growth of suburban communities has been a prominent feature of social change in Japan since the 1920s. In western Tokyo alone the suburban population, which at that time numbered fewer than three hundred…