Urban history (Vol. 38, No. 1)
, histoire urbaine, société urbaine, aménagement urbain
<b>Abstract from the publisher :</b></div>
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Urban History occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors. Each issue features wideranging research articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities. The journal coverage is worldwide in its scope. In addition, it hosts innovative multi-media websites - including graphics, sound and interactive elements - to accompany selected print articles. The journal also includes book reviews, reviews of recent PhD theses, and surveys of recent articles in academic journals.</div>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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Jacob F. Field - Charitable giving and its distribution to Londoners after the Great Fire, 1666-1676</div>
Clé Lesger - Patterns of retail location and urban form in Amsterdam in the mid-eighteenth century</div>
Lynn Hollen Lees - Discipline and delegation : Colonial governance in Malayan towns, 1880-1930</div>
Lucy Maulsby - The Piazza degli Affari and the contingent nature of urbanism in fascist Milan</div>
Ben Anderson - A liberal countryside? The Manchester Ramblers' Federation and the 'social readjustment' of urban citizens, 1929-1936</div>
Charlotte Wildman - Religious selfhoods and the city in inter-war Manchester</div>
Rhodri Windsor Liscombe - A study in Modern(ist) urbanism : Planning Vancouver, 1945-1965</div>
Reviews</div>
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Multiple authors
Cambridge Journals
May 2011
2 - 207
Revue
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?decade=2010&jid=UHY&volumeId=38&issueId=01&iid=8247495
African cities, a catalyst for change
, développement urbain, pays en développement, société urbaine, mutation urbaine, Afrique, Simone AbdouMaliq
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We hear a lot about the poverty and chaos of African cities, but in this edition of Amsterdam Forum, urbanist Abdoumaliq Simone argues that there is also a ferment of resourcefulness that makes cities vibrant places. It takes many forms and needs to be understood, as it could well form an essential basis for urban development in Africa.<br />
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Abdoumaliq Simone is an urbanist at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His career has encompassed both academia and social activism.<br />
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Professor Simone prefers to go "beyond alarmist discourses of impending slum wars, geopolitical instabilities, resource rushes and intensified impoverishment" and focus on the "efficacy" of African cities, particularly at survival strategies of people "below the radar" of social sciences.<br />
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Although it's hard to generalise about African cities, Prof. Simone identifies several processes that are both problematic and potential resources for future urban development.</div>
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<b>AbdouMaliq Simone </b>is an urbanist and Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London.</div>
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AbdouMaliq Simone
16 March 2007
http://www.rnw.nl/afrique/article/african-cities-catalyst-change
City life
Franklin Adrian, , développement urbain, cadre de vie, culture urbaine, environnement urbain, espace public, tourisme, sociologie urbaine, société urbaine, mutation urbaine
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<p><b>Abstract from the publisher :</b></p>
<p>Cities are more important as cultural entities than their mere function as dormitories and industrial sites. Yet, the understanding of what makes a city 'alive' and appealing in cultural terms is still hotly contested - why are some cities so much more interesting, popular and successful than others?</p>
<p>In this engaging discussion of 'city life' <b>Adrian Franklin</b> takes the reader on a tour of contemporary western cities exploring their historical development and arguing that it is the transformative, ritual and performative qualities of successful cities that makes a difference.</p>
<p>Here is a new urban culture characterized by ecological frames of reference; tracking the making of contemporary city life from traditional times, through early modern, machinic and modernised stages of development.</p>
<p>Adopting dynamic narrative structures and stories to develop its critical position this book creates a vibrant synthesis of city life from its key components:</p>
<p>• leisure and tourism</p>
<p>• recreation and play</p>
<p>• arts and culture</p>
<p>• nature and environment</p>
<p>• architecture and public space.</p>
<p>Emphasising the importance of experience the book represents the fluid complexity of the city as a living space, an environment and a posthumanist space of transformation. It will be of interest to all those engaging with the difficulties of urban life in sociology, human geography, tourism and cultural studies departments.</p>
<p><b>Adrian Franklin </b>is a Professor at the School of Sociology & Social work at the University of Tasmania, Australia</p>
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Adrian Franklin
SAGE
May 2010
256
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Plague of strangers: Social groups and the origins of city services in Cincinnati
, société urbaine, service public, gouvernance, santé, urbanité, histoire urbaine, collectivités locales, nineteenth century, dix-neuvième siècle, Cincinnati, États-Unis, United States, Marcus Alan I., immigration
<b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div>
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Alan Marcus's <i>Plague of Strangers </i>examines the origins and development of municipal services in mid-nineteenth century cities from a political, social, and public health point of view. Using Cincinnati as an example of a national trend, Marcus argues that cities developed police, fire, health, relief, and city development services and regulations in reaction to what they perceived as a new threat from "strangers" - immigrants and others not versed in American urban ways who were invading their cities during the 1830s and 1840s.</div>
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By the mid-nineteenth century, according to Marcus, most Americans had acknowledged that their cities contained social divisions, or subpopulations, and that these diverse people differed only by behavior and could therefore be taught the "right" way to act. This task fell to benevolent organizations. City government emerged as the mechanism to prevent the uneducated and ill-educated from wreaking havoc on themselves and other city residents as behavioral modification progressed.</div>
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Disputes between cities and states marred acceptance of this municipal role, as did recurring skirmishes among entrenched constituencies, such as doctors. And while mid-nineteenth century city governments established similar agencies at the same time, it wasn't until after the Civil War that American city-dwellers recognized the fundamental commonality in the urban environment. It was that realization, according to Marcus, that provided an urban culture and caused private and municipal efforts to come together to start the urban planning movement.</div>
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<b>Contents:</b></div>
Serving the American public</div>
From individual to group</div>
Fighting the plague</div>
Coming apart</div>
Medical complications</div>
Creating a new agency: The Department of Health</div>
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<b>Alan I. Marcu</b><b>s </b>is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Historical Studies of Technology and Science at Iowa State University.</div>
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Alan I. Marcus
The Ohio State University Press
1991
287
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http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6289
Streets of memory : Landscape, tolerance, and national identity in Istanbul
, ethnologie, géographie urbaine, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine, voisinage, mixité sociale, mémoire, cosmopolitisme, histoire urbaine, Istanbul, Mills Amy, culture urbaine
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div>
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In this study of Kuzguncuk, known as one of Istanbul’s historically most tolerant, multiethnic neighborhoods, Amy Mills is animated by a single question: what does it mean to live in a place that once was—but no longer is—ethnically and religiously diverse?<br />
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“Turkification” drove out most of Kuzguncuk’s minority Greeks, Armenians, and Jews in the mid-twentieth century, but they left behind potent vestiges of their presence in the cityscape. Mills analyzes these places in a street-by-street ethnographic tour. She looks at how memory is conveyed and contested in Kuzguncuk’s built environment, whether through the popular television programs filmed on location there or in the cross-class alliance that sprung up to advocate the preservation of an old market garden. Overall, she finds that the neighborhood’s landscape not only connotes feelings of “belonging and familiarity” connected to a “narrative of historic multiethnic harmony” but also makes these ideas appear to be uncontestably real, or true. The resulting nostalgia bolsters a version of Turkish nationalism that seems cosmopolitan and benign. This study of memories of interethnic relationships in a local place examines why the cultural memory of tolerance has become so popular and raises questions regarding the nature and meaning of cosmopolitanism in the contemporary Middle East.<br />
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A major contribution to urban studies, human geography, and Middle East studies, Streets of Memory is imbued with a sense of genuine connection to Istanbul and the people who live there.</div>
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<b>Amy Mills</b> is an assistant professor in the department of geography at the University of South Carolina.</div>
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Amy Mills
University of Georgia Press
June 2010
308
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Measuring socially sustainable urban regeneration in Europe
, développement durable, renouvellement urbain, société urbaine, gouvernance, politique urbaine, cadre de vie, équité sociale, participation, santé, health, emploi, environnement, European Union, Union européenne, Europe, Dixon Tim, Colantonio Andrea
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor:</b></div>
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In a research called ‘Measuring Socially Sustainable Urban Regeneration in Europe’ by Andrea Colantonio and Tim Dixon et. al. it is argued that previous research on sustainability has been mainly limited to environmental and economic concerns. However in recent years social sustainability has gained increased recognition as a fundamental component of sustainable development, beginning to receive political and institutional endorsement within the sustainable development agenda, and the sustainable urban regeneration discourse.<br />
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Rationale: fuzzy understanding of social sustainability<br />
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The delivery of sustainable urban development has moved to the heart of European urban policy through the development of several policy documents and agreements, including the 1998 document “Urban Sustainable Development in the EU: A Framework for Action”, the 2005 “Bristol Accord” and the 2007 “Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities”. Although a growing recognition of social sustainability has spurred an emerging body of research and policy literature, our understanding of this concept is still fuzzy and limited by theoretical and methodological constraints stemming from its context and disciplinary-dependent interpretations. Furthermore, at a practice level, tools, instruments and metrics to foster sustainable urban development currently available are biased toward environmental and economic sustainability. As a result, there is a clear need for further research on both social sustainability and its measurement in the context of sustainable urban regeneration.</div>
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Aims and Objectives<br />
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The main objectives of the research were to:<br />
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- define social sustainability and explore the main themes and dimensions at the heart of this concept, in the context of EU cities;<br />
- examine to what extent, and in what ways, social sustainability is incorporated within urban renewal projects within the EU;<br />
- critically review governance models and vehicles, which seek to deliver socially sustainable communities in urban areas, with special emphasis on Public Private Partnerships (PPPs);<br />
- analyse the current sustainability indicators and tools used by the public, private and Non-Governmental Organisation sectors to deliver social sustainability;<br />
- and examine and identify best practices to measure and monitor socially sustainable urban regeneration.<br />
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Definition of social sustainability<br />
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One of the main findings of this research is the definition of social sustainability which is decribed as: “social sustainability concerns how individuals, communities and societies live with each other and set out to achieve the objectives of development models which they have chosen for themselves, also taking into account the physical boundaries of their places and planet earth as a whole. At a more operational level, social sustainability stems from actions in key thematic areas, encompassing the social realm of individuals and societies, which ranges from capacity building and skills development to environmental and spatial inequalities. In this sense, social sustainability blends traditional social policy areas and principles, such as equity and health, with emerging issues concerning participation, needs, social capital, the economy, the environment, and more recently, with the notions of happiness, wellbeing and quality of life.”</div>
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<b>Tim Dixon </b>and <b>Andrea Colantonio </b>were Project Director and Project Manager/Lead Researcher, respectively, on the research project 'Measuring the Social Dimension of Sustainable Development', on which this report is based.</div>
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Andrea Colantonio
Tim Dixon et al.
The Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD)
Oxford Brookes University
Distributor
European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN)
October 2009
129
Autre
http://www.eukn.org/E_library/Social_Inclusion_Integration/Community_Development/Community_Development/Measuring_Socially_Sustainable_Urban_Regeneration_in_Europe
Urban regeneration and social sustainability
, renouvellement urbain, ville durable, développement durable, société urbaine, politique urbaine, European Union, Union Européenne, Colantonio Andrea, Dixon Tim, Field Brian, Olbrycht Jan, Power Anne
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor : </b></div>
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Urban regeneration is a key focus for public policy throughout Europe. This launch marks an examination of social sustainability through the analysis of its meaning and significance. The authors will offer a comprehensive European perspective to identify best practice in sustainable urban regeneration in five major cities in Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, and the UK. Respondents will discuss current policy thinking and the future of the EU Urban Agenda.</div>
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<b>Andrea Colantonio </b>is Research Coordinator at LSE Cities.</div>
<b>Tim Dixon </b>is Director of the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development, Oxford Brookes University.</div>
<b>Brian Field </b>is Urban Specialist with the European Investment Bank.</div>
<b>Jan Olbrycht </b>is MEP and Chair of the Urban Intergroup, European Parliament.</div>
<b>Anne Power </b>is Professor with the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE.</div>
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<i>Urban regeneration and social sustainability : Best practice from European cities</i></a> (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).</div>
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Andrea Colantonio,
Tim Dixon,
Brian Field,
Jan Olbrycht,
Anne Power
29 June 2011
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=1064
The city as encyclopedia : Lessons from Melbourne's urban past
, histoire urbaine, rue, urbanité, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine, culture urbaine, mémoire, Melbourne, Brown-May Andrew
<div>In this talk, Andrew Brown-May takes his listeners on a virtual tour of historic Melbourne, concentrating on the 'soft city' of people, memory and culture.</div>
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<b>Andrew Brown-May </b>is Associate Professor in Australian History at the University of Melbourne.</div>
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NB: The podcast may be streamed online or streamed/downloaded via iTunes (click on 'View in iTunes')</div>
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Andrew Brown-May
16 April 2008
http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/unimelb.edu.au.1549545206.01549545213.1553498363?i=1427990765
Vertical urbanism
vertical, gratte-ciel, architecture, bidonville, transport, jardin, occupation du sol, espace urbain, société urbaine, politique de la ville, Harris Andrew
<div><b>Organisers' description : </b></div>
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The paper considers how contemporary cities are constructed, framed and understood through vertical axes and dimensions. It charts upward trajectories in not only iconic high-rises, but in vertical gardens, townships, slums and urban farms, and in modes and methods of urban transport. The paper argues that these vertical manifestations and domains of urban life are not simply a response to space constraints and land values but mark and make visible new forms of social and political power, which disrupt notions of centre-periphery in traditional, flatter models of the city. Although recognising the validity and relevance of highlighting and analysing spatial dichotomies between vertical and horizontal urban worlds, the paper seeks to complicate such binaries. Drawing on recent research from Mumbai, the paper explores and identifies overlapping (or vertizontal) connections, practices and assemblages in three-dimensional city-making.</div>
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<b>Andrew Harris </b>is a Lecturer in Urban Studies and Geography at University College London.</div>
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See also other lectures from this conference:</div>
Flight from modernity - aerial photography and the emergence of a social conception of space</a></div>
Vertigo: For a vertical turn in critical social science</a></div>
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Andrew Harris
8 December 2010
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2010/12/andrew-harris-%E2%80%93-vertical-urbanism/
Seno Gumira Ajidarma and the writing of urban space in Indonesia
Jakarta, Indonesia, Indonésie, Ajidarma Seno Gumira, espace urbain, littérature, flâneur, flânerie, société urbaine, twentieth century, twenty-first century, vingtième siècle, vingt-et-unième siècle, Fuller Andy
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor:</b></div>
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This paper considers the work of one of Indonesia’s most prominent contemporary writers, Seno Gumira Ajidarma. In this paper, I look at how Seno’s writing over the last 30 years traces and documents changes in contemporary Indonesian urban societies – and particularly that of Jakarta. This paper considers the importance and relevance of the notion of the urban based flâneur and whether or not the flâneur and the practice of flânerie is part of literary imaginings in contemporary Indonesia. I ask whether or not to be a flâneur and to practice flânerie is a critical social act which questions formal constructions and usages of urban space. This paper looks at the ways in which the practices of listening, hearing, looking and writing are invoked in selected novels, short stories and essays of Seno Gumira Ajidarma.<br />
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<b>Andy Fuller</b> completed his PhD at the University of Tasmania in 2010. He is currently based at Freedom Institute in Jakarta and is also working as a researcher at The University of Melbourne.</div>
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Andy Fuller
7 March 2011
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/publication_details.asp?pubtypeid=AU&pubid=1962
Ground control : Fear and happiness in the 21st century city
, privatisation, espace urbain, aménagement urbain, espace public, surveillance, société urbaine, gouvernance, Minton Anna, Rosen Michael, United Kingdom, Royaume-Uni
<div><b>Organisers' description :</b></div>
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Britons are increasingly aware of living in a society plagued by fear and unhappiness. Could our towns and cities be the cause? Anna Minton offers an in-depth and passionate exploration of the state of Britain today, revealing how private companies have taken control from local government and the electorate, creating spaces designed for profit and watched over by CCTV. Now, untested urban planning has transformed not only our cities, but the very nature of public space, of citizenship, and of trust.</div>
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<b>Anna Minton </b>is an award-winning journalist and the author of numerous reports for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and Demos, as well as the book <i>Ground control : Fear and happiness in the 21st century city.</i></div>
<b>Michael Rosen </b>is an author and broadcaster.</div>
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3/25/10 (currently no. 18).<br />
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Anna Minton,
Michael Rosen
11 February 2010
http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bishopsgate-institute-podcast/id329035541
Zoom sur Tel-Aviv
Tel-Aviv, Jaffa, Israël, histoire, utopie, croissance urbaine, urbanisme, architecture, société urbaine
<div><b>Présentation par le diffuseur :</b></div>
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Rue Nahalat Binyamin à Tel-Aviv, pas loin du shouk ha-Carmel, le marché couvert de fruits, de légumes et d’objets hétéroclites, il y a deux petits vieux qui passent la journée assis sur leur balcon, à regarder la vie en bas. Au petit matin, ils voient les marchands de tissus qui s’agitent à la réception des rouleaux de textile, puis les conducteurs impatients qui remplissent l’air de leurs coups de klaxons et de leurs invectives. Enfin le soir venu, la rue déverse toute la jeunesse de la ville sur les trottoirs. Des dizaines de bars et de cafés se font concurrence dans toute la ville, attirant une clientèle enjouée et infidèle, toujours à la recherche des nouvelles tendances nocturnes de la métropole.<br />
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Les deux petits vieux sur leur balcon sont à peine moins âgés que leur ville. Tel-Aviv célèbre cette année son centième anniversaire. Le rêve de ses fondateurs, qui l’ont appelée "colline du printemps"s était de construire la première cité hébraïque moderne, avec de l’électricité, des égouts, comme en Europe, disaient-ils. Ils ont choisi de la bâtir en bord de mer, éloignée de quelques centaines de mètres du port arabe de Jaffa.<br />
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Aujourd’hui, la ville compte près de 400.000 habitants et son agglomération rassemble 3 millions de personnes, soit plus de la moitié des habitants du pays. Sa croissance continue d’attirer les nouveaux venus et elle se veut toujours un bastion de la modernité. Poumon économique d’Israël, centre de l’activité culturelle, Tel-Aviv a choisi de laisser la place aux idées et aux opinions. A 60 kilomètres de la chaste et compliquée Jérusalem, elle se veut un îlot de liberté, tolérant toutes les pratiques sociales et religieuses...</div>
Suite de l'article Tel-Aviv, un îlot entre Occident et Orient, par Aude Marcovitch</a>)</div>
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<b>Reportages :</b></div>
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Zoom sur Tel-Aviv (1/5) : de l’utopie des pionniers à la modernité : voyage dans l’espace et le temps</a><br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://urbanites.rsr.ch/blog/zoom-sur-tel-aviv-25/">Zoom sur Tel-Aviv (2/5) : Construire plus haut pour densifier le tissu urbain</a><br />
<a href="http://urbanites.rsr.ch/blog/zoom-sur-tel-aviv-55/" target="_blank">Zoom sur Tel-Aviv (3/5) : Jaffa : anciennes pauvretés, nouvelles richesses</a><br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://urbanites.rsr.ch/blog/zoom-sur-tel-aviv-45/">Zoom sur Tel-Aviv (4/5) : Des familles aux couleurs de l’arc-en-ciel</a><br />
<a target="_blank" href="http://urbanites.rsr.ch/blog/zoom-sur-tel-aviv-35/">Zoom sur Tel-Aviv (5/5) : rue Sheinkin, où religieux et laïcs cohabitent sans sourciller</a></div>
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Aude Marcovitch
Novembre 2009
http://urbanites.rsr.ch/
The Boston renaissance: Race, space, and economic change in an American metropolis
Boston, mutation urbaine, économie, démographie, emploi, industry, industrie, travail, société urbaine, ségrégation urbaine, race, inégalité, inequality, espace urbain, métropole, Bluestone Barry, Stevenson Mary Huff
<b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div>
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This volume documents metropolitan Boston's metamorphosis from a casualty of manufacturing decline in the 1970s to a paragon of the high-tech and service industries in the 1990s. The city's rebound has been part of a wider regional renaissance, as new commercial centers have sprung up outside the city limits. A stream of immigrants have flowed into the area, redrawing the map of ethnic relations in the city. While Boston's vaunted mind-based economy rewards the highly educated, many unskilled workers have also found opportunities servicing the city's growing health and education industries.<br />
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Boston's renaissance remains uneven, and the authors identify a variety of handicaps (low education, unstable employment, single parenthood) that still hold minorities back. Nonetheless this book presents Boston as a hopeful example of how America's older cities can reinvent themselves in the wake of suburbanization and deindustrialization.</div>
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<b>Contents:</b></div>
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Preface</div>
1. Greater Boston in transition</div>
2. The demographic revolution: From white ethnocentric to multicultural Boston</div>
3. The industrial revolution: From mill-based to mind-based industries</div>
4. The spatial revolution: From hub to metropolis</div>
5. Who we are: How families fare in Greater Boston today</div>
6. Michael Massagli - What do Boston-area residents think of one another?</div>
7. Michael Massagli - Residential preferences and segregation</div>
8. The labor market: How workers with limited schooling are faring in Greater Boston</div>
9. The impact of human, social, and cultural capital on job slots and wages</div>
10. Philip Moss and Chris Tilly - What do Boston area employers seek in their workers?</div>
11. Sharing the fruits of Greater Boston's renaissance</div>
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<b>Barry Bluestone </b>is the Russell B. and Andrée B. Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University.</div>
<b>Mary Huff Stevenson </b>is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Senior Fellow at its McCormack Institute of Public Affairs.</div>
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Barry Bluestone
Mary Huff Stevenson
Russell Sage Foundation
2000
480
Ouvrage
http://books.google.com/books?id=_4rVIsHWyV8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
Villes et sociétés urbaines en Amérique coloniale
ville coloniale, société urbaine, Amérique, Grunberg Bernard
<div><b>Présentation par l'éditeur :</b></div>
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La fondation des villes espagnoles outre-Atlantique a permis de dominer l'espace conquis. Instrument de la colonisation, les nouvelles cités ont été les lieux d'installation privilégiés des conquérants et des premiers colons. Fondées sur un modèle exporté de l'Ancien Monde, les nouvelles villes ont cependant connu des changements et ont vu se développer en leur sein une société multiculturelle.</div>
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est professeur d'Histoire Moderne à l'université de Reims.</span></div>
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Bernard Grunberg,
(éd.)
L'Harmattan
3 mai 2010
280
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Leningrad : Shaping a Soviet city
, histoire urbaine, histoire de l'urbanisme, marxisme, Leningrad, St Petersburg, Saint-Pétersbourg, société urbaine, économie, ville soviétique, Soviet city, Ruble Blair A.
<b>Extract from the foreword by Stanley Scott and Victor Jones : <br />
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The Lane series of books — of which this Leningrad volume is the eighth and most recent — is sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies and the Institute of International Studies, and examines similarities and differences in metropolitan policy-making in various nations and cultures. Of principal concern is how policies affect the metropolis, including its social needs, economy, land use, physical structure, and natural and man-made environment. Emphasis is on the ways in which political and administrative processes and institutions adapt to changes in the urban condition and respond to national and international influences. What organizational structures and policies govern major metropolitan regions? What new or modified organizations and policies are being urged? By whom, and to what purpose? Under what conditions can life in the metropolis become more satisfying and productive, or less dreary and economically marginal? How can educational, cultural, and intellectual objectives best be promoted?</div>
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<b>Blair A. Ruble </b>is the Director of the Kennan Institute and Chair of the Comparative Urban Studies Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.</div>
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Blair A. Ruble
University of California Press
1990
334
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http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft500006hm/
London : A pilgrimage
, histoire urbaine, société urbaine, London, Londres, art, Doré Gustave, Jerrold Blanchard
From Peter Ackroyd's introduction to the 2005 Anthem Press edition :
"London: A Pilgrimage" is an enlightening work that brings to life the chaotic and gloomy past of a great city on the cusp of modern times. 180 incredible etchings by Gustave Doré escort Jerrold on his odyssey through the pulsating city, into the Lambeth gas works, seedy opium dens and grubby bathing houses; peering curiously into the desperate lives of the flower sellers, lavender girls and organ grinders. "London: A Pilgrimage" was conceived in 1868 by the journalist and playwright Blanchard Jerrold. Accompanied by the famous artist Gustave Dore, Jerrold prowled every corner of the heaving metropolis, sometimes with plain-clothes police for protection. "London: A Pilgrimage" is every bit a forgotten classic of social journalism, a frank and brutal look at the poverty stricken, gin-swilling London of the nineteenth century, written in a perceptive, bold and gripping style.
Blanchard Jerrold (1826–1884) was both journalist and playwright, with Cool as a Cucumber being the most successful of his plays. He was also editor of Lloyd's Weekly News and closely associated with Charles Dickens, even working as one of the contributors for Dickens' weekly periodical Household Words.
Gustave Doré (1832–1883) was an amazingly gifted artist, who was known for the intensity of his engravings and was even called 'the last of the Romantics'. Among his many works are illustrated editions of Paradise Lost, The Bible and The Idylls of the Kings.
Blanchard Jerrold
Gustave Doré
Harper and Brothers (now HarperCollins)(original)
Tufts University (digital version)
Source
Tufts digital library
1872; 1890
191
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http://hdl.handle.net/10427/15523
Cities: Novel readings of the city and the lives of ordinary people. Great cities - ordinary lives
, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine, habitants, urbanité, research, recherche, Bruegmann Robert, Ebner Michael, Denton Nancy, Choldin Harvey
<div>The fourth panel of this symposium in celebration of Anthony Orum’s retirement: Great Cities/Ordinary Lives Conference - A look at the city and its residents from the bottom up</div>
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Panel 4 : Cities : Novel readings of the city and the lives of ordinary people :<br />
Bob Bruegmann - Meet the Jorgensons<br />
Michael Ebner - Islands and archipelagos<br />
Nancy Denton - Using quantitative data in a qualitative manner<br />
Harvey Choldin - A boy reads about Skid Row</div>
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<b>Bob Bruegmann </b>is University Distinguished Professor of Art History, Architecture, and Urban Planning at the Universisty of Illinois</div>
<b>Michael Ebner </b>is the James D. Vail III Professor of History at Lake Forest College.</div>
<b>Nancy Denton </b>is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University at Albany.</div>
<b>Harvey</b> <b>Choldin </b>is a retired Professor of Sociology, formerly of the University of Illinois-Urbana.</div>
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See also recordings of the other conference sessions:</div>
Panel 1: The lives of urban residents in a global world: Europe, Shanghai and Los Angeles</a></div>
Panel 2: Cities: Place, space and everyday infrastructure</a></div>
Panel 3: The lives of urban residents in a global world: Berlin, South Africa, and Chicago</a></div>
Keynote address: What do we do when we do urban sociology? Sharon Zukin</a></div>
Panel 5: Listening to the voices and organizing the interests of ordinary people</a></div>
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Bob Bruegmann,
Michael Ebner,
Nancy Denton,
Harvey Choldin
17 September 2011
http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/podcasts.shtml
Lessons for the Big Society: Planning, regeneration and the politics of community participation
London, Londres, Haringey, politique urbaine, aménagement urbain, collectivités locales, participation, renouvellement urbain, société urbaine, community, communauté, Fanning Bryan, Dillon Denis
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This book provides concrete examples of the ways in which shifting academic debates, policy and political approaches have impacted on a specific place over the past 30 years. It offers a critical analysis of the history, politics and social geography of the high profile London Borough of Haringey, in the decades prior to the 2011 Tottenham riots.<br />
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The Haringey case study acts as a lens through which to explore the evolution of theoretical and policy debates about the relationship between local institutions and the communities they serve. Focusing on the policy areas of planning and regeneration, it considers the local implementation and outcome of central government strategies that have sought to achieve such accountability and responsiveness through community participation strategies. It examines how the local authority responded to central government aspirations for greater community involvement in planning, in the 1970s, and regeneration, from the late 1980s onwards, before looking in detail at the implementation of New Labour neighbourhood renewal and local governance policy in the borough. In doing so, the book provides a longitudinal case study on how various central government community empowerment agendas have played out at a local level. It offers important lessons and indicates how they might work more effectively in future.</div>
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<b>Bryan Fanning </b>is a Professor in the School of Applied Social Science at University College Dublin.</div>
<b>Denis Dillon </b>is a Lecturer in Community Leadership and Public Policy at Birkbeck University of London.</div>
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Bryan Fanning
Denis Dillon
Ashgate
October 2011
176
Ouvrage
Native place, city, and nation: Regional networks and identities in Shanghai, 1853-1937
China, Chine, Shanghai, migration urbaine, histoire urbaine, emotion, émotion, société urbaine, social order, ordre social, identité, Goodman Bryna
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This study explores social practices and rituals related to xxiangyi , also called xiangqing and ziyi , Chinese expressions for the sentiment that binds people from the same native place. This sentiment, and the social institutions which expressed it, profoundly shaped the nature and development of modern Chinese urban society. The two quotations which begin this chapter suggest twin aspects of urban social organization and behavior that correspond to native-place sentiment. The account in the 1907 Shanghai gazetteer describes organization by native place as a necessary, natural, specifically Chinese and indeed "morally excellent" response to the dangers posed by urban admixture and anomie. Daotai Intendment Wu XU's description of the city under his jurisdiction indicates a possible drawback to the "moral excellence" of native-place sentiment, suggesting that, when individuals from different native-place groups mixed together on a city street, they felt no common identity as Chinese. The chapters which follow address these themes—the prominence of native-place sentiment and organization in Chinese cities and the influence of such ideas and social formations on city life, social order and urban and national identity.<br />
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The study is based on Shanghai and covers nearly a century, from the opening of the city to foreign trade in 1843 to the establishment of Guomindang dominance in the Nanjing decade (1927-37). Throughout this period immigrant groups from other areas of China dominated Shanghai's rapidly expanding urban population, which more than quadrupled in the nineteenth century. Shanghai's population in 1800 was between one-quarter and one-third million. By 1910 it was 1.3 million. It doubled again by 1927, to 2.6 million. Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, immigrants comprised at least 75 percent of the total figure. Some of these immigrants came to Shanghai to explore economic opportunities; others came in waves to flee war and famine in their native place.<br />
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Combining forces to meet the imperatives of their new urban surroundings, these immigrants formed native-place associations, huiguan and tongxianghui. Such associations and the sentiments which engendered them were formative elements of Shanghai's urban environment throughout the late Qing and early Republican periods. Social, economic and political organization along lines of regional identity shaped the development of the city.</div>
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<b>Contents:</b></div>
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1. Introduction: The moral excellence of loving the group</div>
2. Foreign imperialism, immigration and disoder: Opium War aftermath and the Small Sword uprisong of 1853</div>
3. Community, hierarchy and authority: Elites and non-elites in the making of native-place culture during the late Qing</div>
4. Expansive practices: Charity, modern enterprise, the city and the state</div>
5. Native-place associations, foreign authority and early popular nationalism</div>
6. The native place and the nation: Anti-imperialist and republican revolutionary mobilization</div>
7. "Modern spirit," institutional change and the effects of warlord government associations in the early republic</div>
8. The native place and the state: Nationalism, state building and public maneuvering</div>
9. Conclusion: Culture, modernity and the sources of national identity</div>
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<b>Bryna Goodman </b>is Professor and Director of Asian Studies in the Department of History, University of Oregon.</div>
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Bryna Goodman
University of California Press
1995
368
Ouvrage
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0m3nb066/
Smart city radio
, société urbaine, économie, éducation, innovation, développement durable, développement urbain, culture urbaine, entretien, planification, transport, aménagement urbain
<div><b>Description from the website : </b></div>
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Smart City is a weekly, hour-long public radio talk show that takes an in-depth look at urban life, the people, places, ideas and trends shaping cities. Host Carol Coletta talks with national and international public policy experts, elected officials, economists, business leaders, artists, developers, planners and others for a penetrating discussion of urban issues.</div>
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<b>Carol Coletta</b> is president and CEO of CEOs for Cities and host and producer of the nationally syndicated public radio show Smart City. In 2008 she was named one of the world's 50 most important urban experts by a leading European think tank.</div>
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Carol Coletta
Various
http://www.smartcityradio.com/pastshows