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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…
L’Eau mondialisée - La gouvernance en question
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Face à un champ de l'eau traditionnellement fragmenté en de multiples thématiques rivales - réseau, ressource, service public, marchandise, bien collectif, droit à l'eau…
Orienting Istanbul : Cultural capital of Europe?
Abstract from the publisher : Looking at the globalization, urban regeneration, arts events and cultural spectacles, this book considers a city not until now included in the global city debate. Divided into five parts, each preceded by an…
Transforming urban waterfronts : Fixity and flow
Abstract from the publisher : In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies. Frequently, these…
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,…
Beijing record : A physical and political history of planning modern Beijing
Abstract from the publisher : Beijing Record, the result of ten years of research on the urban transformation of Beijing in the last fifty years, brings to an extended Western audience the inside story on the key decisions that led to Beijing's…
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…
La Calle : Spatial conflicts and urban renewal in a Southwest city
Abstract from the publisher : On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project - Arizona's first major urban renewal project, which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to…
Reimagining Detroit : Opportunities for redefining an American city
Abstract from the publisher : Experts estimate that perhaps forty square miles of Detroit are vacant—from a quarter to a third of the city —a level of emptiness that creates a landscape unlike any other big city. Author John Gallagher,…
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…
After the factory : Reinventing America's industrial small cities
Abstract from the publisher : The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S. have decayed sharply…
Les démolitions dans les projets de renouvellement urbain
Les démolitions dans les projets de renouvellement urbain. Représentations, légitimités et traductions.
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Quelles représentations défendent les acteurs locaux pour…
Renouvellement urbain (2000-2006) Enjeux et enseignements d'un programme de recherche
Présentation par l'éditeur : Quelles ont été au juste les voies empruntées par le PUCA pour décliner un programme finalisé sur le thème du renouvellement urbain ? Comment une expression…
Derelict paradise : Homelessness and urban development in Cleveland, Ohio
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A revealing analysis of the origins and evolution of homelessness in a major American city
Seeking answers to the question, "Who benefits from homelessness?" this book takes the reader on a sweeping tour of…
Spatial regulation in New York City : From urban renewal to zero tolerance
Abstract from the publisher : This book explores and critiques the process of spatial regulation in post-war New York, focusing on the period after the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, examining the ideological underpinnings and practical applications…
Roppongi crossing : The demise of a Tokyo nightclub district and the reshaping of a global city
Abstract from the publisher : For most of the latter half of the twentieth century, Roppongi was an enormously popular nightclub district that stood out from the other pleasure quarters of Tokyo for its mix of international entertainment and…
Italo Calvino's architecture of lightness : The utopian imagination in an age of urban crisis
Abstract from the publisher : This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well…
Sport in the city : Cultural connections
Abstract from the publisher : Sport is seen as an increasingly important aspect of urban and regional planning. Related programmes have moved to the forefront of agendas for cities of the present and future. This has occurred as the barriers…
Latin America at the crossroads : Architectural Design
Abstract from the publisher : The announcement of Rio de Janeiro as the 2016 Olympic host city has placed Latin America on the world's stage. Latin America has not been the centre of international architectural attention and pilgrimage since the…
Reconsidering Jane Jacobs
Abstract from the publisher : Fifty years after the publication of her most influential book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs is perhaps the most widely read urbanist ever. Her ideas contributed to the wholesale…