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Remaking Madrid : Culture, politics, and identity after Franco
Abstract from the publisher : Remaking Madrid is the first full-length study of Madrid’s transformation from the dreary home of the Franco dictatorship into a modern and vibrant city. It argues that this remarkable transformation in the…
What happened to participation? Urban development and authoritarian upgrading in Cairo
Elena Piffero is Doctor of Philosophy in International Cooperation and Sustainable Development Policies at the University of Bologna, Italy. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license 3.0. Alternative link to the…
Starchitecture: Scenes, actors and spectacles in contemporary cities
Abstract from the publisher: Internationally renowned architects are at centre stage in public debates, not only with reference to designing aesthetically striking artefacts, but also to urban regeneration programmes and urban branding. The…
Reconversion, renouvellement et innovation dans les territoires industriels et urbains
Conférences données lors de la journée de l'AGF-Association des Géographes Français et du CERPA-Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche sur les Paysages de l'Université Nancy 2.
- Allocution d’ouverture Michel DESHAIES, professeur, CERPA
- La…
- Allocution d’ouverture Michel DESHAIES, professeur, CERPA
- La…
Staging the new Berlin: Place marketing and the politics of urban reinvention post-1989
Abstract from the publisher: This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in…
The transatlantic collapse of urban renewal : Postwar urbanism from New York to Berlin
Abstract from the publisher : The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically changed by the political and physical realities of sprawl, urban decay,…
Barcelona : Architecture, city and society 1975-2015
Abstract from the publisher : Over the last twenty years Barcelona has reached the apex of its public appeal, and the time has come for a critical evaluation of its recent past. Barcelona is an emblematic example of how a European and Mediterranean…
Ville et marché
Les acteurs de marché font-ils la ville ? Un dossier publié par Charlotte Halpern et Julie Pollard sur Espaces Temps.net.
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- "Les acteurs de marché font-ils la ville ?", par Charlotte Halpern et Julie Pollard
La ville est-elle…
Sommaire :
- "Les acteurs de marché font-ils la ville ?", par Charlotte Halpern et Julie Pollard
La ville est-elle…
Le commerce dans tous ses états. Espaces marchands et enjeux de société
Ce livre est la synthèse de nombreux travaux universitaires français et étrangers dont l’objet est moins d’approcher le commerce stricto sensu et du seul point de vue géographique que de le mettre en rapport avec d’autres facteurs et processus…
The remaking of Istanbul : Portrait of an Ottoman city in the nineteenth century
From the introduction : During the nineteenth century, a concerted effort was made to transform the Ottoman capital of Istanbul into a Western-style capital, paralleling the general struggle to salvage the Ottoman Empire by reforming its…
Regularization of informal settlements in Latin America
Abstract from the publisher : In large Latin American cities the number of dwellings in informal settlements ranges from one-tenth to one-third of urban residences. These informal settlements are caused by low income, unrealistic urban planning,…
Changing plans for America's inner cities
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Cincinnati’s historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood began in the nineteenth century as a nonelite suburb and became in the twentieth century an inner-city slum, burdened with a broad range of problems characteristic…
Manhattan projects : The rise and fall of urban renewal in Cold War New York
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Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in…
Twentieth-century Pittsburgh, Volume Two. The post-steel era
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This volume traces the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the city of Pittsburgh during its urban renewal project, which began in 1977. Roy Lubove demonstrates how the city showed…
Twentieth-century Pittsburgh, Volume One: Government, business, and environmental change
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First published in 1969, Roy Lubove's Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh is a pioneering analysis of elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal in a city once disdained as "hell with the lid off." The book…
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…
The temporary city
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Most of the professional training, thinking and strategies of architects, urban designers and planners, are strictly three-dimensional. In reality of course the city is four dimensional, and one needs to acknowledge the…
Les démolitions dans les projets de renouvellement urbain
Les démolitions dans les projets de renouvellement urbain. Représentations, légitimités et traductions.
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Quelles représentations défendent les acteurs locaux pour…