La politique de la ville, un discours neuf ?
politique de la ville, politique du logement, dix-neuvième siècle, vingtième siècle
Les origines historiques de la politique de la ville XIXe-XXe siècle.
Annie Fourcaut retrace ici l'histoire de la politique de la ville et insiste sur son caractère novateur. Celle-ci se caractérise en effet par des méthodes inédites : interministérialité, contractualisation, discrimination positive. Elle se refère notamment au discours de Bron de François Mitterrand, du 4 décembre 1990, l'un des discours fondateurs de cette politique puis remonte aux origines historiques de cette politique et montre qu'elle apparaît comme une conséquence de l'arrivée de la gauche au pouvoir et comme un avatar de la politique d'aménagement du territoire. Elle revient sur les différentes politiques de logement social, évoque le Musée social et montre que cette politique s'appuie sur l'idée que les problèmes sociaux sont d'abord des problèmes urbains.
Annie Fourcaut
Canal U
2001-11-14
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Vidéo
http://www.canal-u.tv/producteurs/ens_lsh_canal_philo/dossier_programmes/colloque_les_discours_du_politique/la_politique_de_la_ville_un_discours_neuf
Urbanizing China in war and peace, Wuxi 1911-1945
urbanisation, China, Chine, Wuxi, ville en guerre, histoire urbaine, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, Lincoln Toby
<div>Toby Lincoln discusses the themes of his forthcoming book, which focuses on urbanization in China, with an emphasis on the city of Wuxi in the first half of the twentieth century. </div>
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<b>Toby Lincoln </b>is a Lecturer in Chinese Urban History in the School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester.</div>
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Toby Lincoln
23 November 2011
http://historyspot.org.uk/podcasts/metropolitan-history/urbanizing-china-war-and-peace-wuxi-1911-1945
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
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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
The challenges of the twenty-first century city
, gouvernance, politique urbaine, droit à la ville, développement urbain, développement durable, étalement urbain, gestion locale, twenty-first century, vingtième siècle, Ruble Blair, urbanité
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Cities are becoming larger, more diverse, more fluid, and less manageable than in the past. Beyond the obvious issues of infrastructure management, transportation, telecommunications, poverty, health care, migration, and education, custodians of the urban future face unprecedented challenges both from the sheer number of human beings in global urban centers and their complex needs. Furthermore, this new reality is set against a backdrop of expanding international terrorism, a neo-liberal consensus that has counseled against governments accepting responsibility for alleviating social problems, and technological changes that are restructuring everyday life.<br />
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This talk will address a variety of pertinent policy-making considerations that confront the fluidity and complexity of urban life, from ideas of the “right to the city” and humane civitas to the interrelated pragmatism found in arguments regarding sprawl and urban social sustainability.</div>
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<b>Blair Ruble </b>is Director of the Kennan Institute and Chair of the Comparative Urban Studies Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.</div>
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Blair Ruble
14 April 2010
http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci/whatwedo/eventsarchive/events0910/2010ruble.shtml
Gotham's newest newcomers : The impact of post-1965 immigrants on New York City - and vice versa
New York, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, immigration, immigrant, société urbaine, Foner Nancy, Mollenkopf John, Salvo Joseph, Bashi Vilna, Hernandez Ramona, Khandelwal Madhulika, Kwong Peter, Smith Robert
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We are in the middle of one of Gotham's greatest immigration waves, triggered by the 1965 immigration law. Our distinguished panelists will analyze how the newcomers have experienced, and transformed, the city.</div>
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<b>Nancy Foner </b>is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.</div>
<b>John Mollenkopf </b>is the Director of the Center for Urban Research and a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.</div>
<b>Joseph Salvo </b>is Director of the Population Division at the New York City Department of City Planning.</div>
<b>Vilna Bashi Treitler </b>teaches in the Department of Black and Hispanic Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York.</div>
<b>Ramona Hernandez </b>is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Dominican Studies Institute at the City University of New York.</div>
<b>Madhulika Khandelwal </b>is Director of the Asian/American Center and Associate Professor in the Urban Studies Department at Queens College, City University of New York.</div>
<b>Peter Kwong </b>is Professor of Asian American Studies and Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, and Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.</div>
<b>Robert Smith </b>is Professor in the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College, the City University of New York.</div>
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Nancy Foner,
John Mollenkopf,
Joseph Salvo,
Vilna Bashi,
Ramona Hernandez,
Madhulika Khandelwal,
Peter Kwong,
Robert Smith
25 October 2006
http://www.gothamcenter.com/forums/fall2006.shtml
Under metropolis: Exploring the cultural history of Buenos Aires underground railways (c. 1886-1945)
Buenos Aires, métropole, métro, transport, société urbaine, déplacements, croissance urbaine, nineteenth century, twentieth century, dix-neuvième siècle, vingtième siècle, histoire urbaine, Singh Dhan, culture urbaine
<div><b>Dhan Singh </b>is a postgraduate student in history at the Institute of Historical Research.</div>
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Dhan Singh
19 January 2011
http://ihrprojects.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/spot-newsletter-04-february-2011/
Ed Koch and the rebuilding of New York City
Koch Ed, Soffer Jonathan, New York, politique de la ville, renouvellement urbaine, gouvernance, gestion locale, politique urbaine, histoire urbaine, twentieth century, vingtième siècle
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Dean Ellen Schall of NYU’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and Provost Dianne Rekow of NYU’s Polytechnic Institute invite you a book party for author Jonathan Soffer discussing his new book, Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City . Featuring special guest Former Mayor Ed Koch. In 1978, Ed Koch assumed control of a city plagued by filth, crime, bankruptcy and racial tensions. By the end of his mayoral run in 1989, and despite the Wall Street crash of 1987, his administration had begun rebuilding neighborhoods and infrastructure. For better or worse, Koch's efforts convinced many New Yorkers to embrace a new political order subsidizing business, particularly finance, insurance and real estate and privatizing public space. Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City recasts Koch's legacy through personal and mayoral papers, authorized interviews and oral histories, and plots a history of New York City through two rarely studied, yet crucial decades: the bankruptcy of the 1970s and the recovery and crash of the 1980s.</div>
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Jonathan Soffer
14 October 2010
http://wagner.nyu.edu/podcasts/podcastDetail.php?id=168
Arnavant, une histoire industrielle de Marseille
Marseille, histoire industrielle, économie, travail, mutation urbaine, patrimoine, dix-neuvième siècle, vingtième siècle
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Parallèlement aux Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, la zone industrielle d’Arnavant fête ses 40 ans le 17 septembre 2009, et convie le public à découvrir ce vaste périmètre situé entre les 14 et 15e arrondissements, au sud des Aygalades. Son histoire est particulièrement représentative, puisque bien avant la création de la ZI, des usines étaient implantées là dès le XIXe siècle, au début de la révolution industrielle.</div>
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C’est l’occasion d’évoquer l’histoire industrielle de Marseille en compagnie de l’historien Philippe Mioche et de son éditeur Olivier Lambert, qui font paraître ces jours ci un ouvrage sur ce thème.</div>
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On visite ce site d’Arnavant avec Christine Breton, conservateure du patrimoine, accompagnée d’Henri Sciallano, qui nous décrit les lieux tels qu’ils apparaissaient dans la première moitié du XXe siècle.</div>
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Aude Vandenbrouck et Jean-Paul Roch, secrétaire générale et président d’Arnavant, nous parlent du présent de la zone industrielle et des manifestations qui sont proposées au public à l’occasion de ce 40e anniversaire.</div>
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Xavier Thomas
16 septembre 2009
45'
http://www.grenouille888.org/dyn/spip.php?article2328
Arles contemporaine : architectures et patrimoines du XXe siècle
Arles, patrimoine architectural, évolution urbaine, vingtième siècle
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Si l'Antiquité à Arles a été largement exploitée, le patrimoine du XXe siècle est encore méconnu, et par conséquent mal évalué. Il ressort que cette production architecturale est à la fois riche et hétéroclite tant sur le plan quantitatif que qualitatif et qu'elle mérite d'être mise en lumière. L'objet de cet ouvrage, coédité avec le service du patrimoine d'Arles, est donc de partir à la découverte de ce patrimoine exceptionnel, dans son contexte historique, politique, économique et social, et de donner les clés de lecture pour l'architecture et l'urbanisme arlésien contemporains. Y seront abordés les thèmes suivants : la ville et ses territoires, histoire et chronologie de l'évolution urbaine d'Arles et de son territoire en abordant les spécificités de ce dernier ; la production architecturale à proprement parler, dans le but de la replacer dans son contexte de production afin d'en dégager la portée ; la connaissance et la réutilisation du patrimoine du XXe siècle.</div>
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Collectif
Actes Sud
12 septembre 2012
176
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The ever-changing American city 1945-present
tats-Unis, United States, histoire urbaine, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, mutation urbaine, politique urbaine, Bauman John F., Biles Roger, Szylvian Kristin M.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> The Ever-Changing American City seeks to help readers understand the marked changes since 1945 in what constitutes a city in the United States and who lives and works in them. The story of the postwar American city is not a simple tale of decline and rebirth. Nor is it a straightforward account of the struggle between the old urban core or central business district and the suburbs on the urban periphery, for both have had their economic ups and downs. In the decades after World War II, the cityscape was altered to better accommodate the automobile, and the city gradually transformed from a place of production to a place of consumption. During the 1980s, city neighborhoods once occupied by migrants from the American South and immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe began to house newcomers from Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. The economic, environmental, and social issues now facing American cities from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, will require them to continue the process of remaking or reinventing themselves.</div> </div> <b>John F. Bauman</b> is visiting professor of community planning and development at the Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, and professor emeritus of history at California University of Pennsylvania.<br /> <b>Roger Biles</b> is professor of history at Illinois State University.<br /> <b>Kristin M. Szylvian</b> is associate professor of history at St. John's University.</div> </div>
John F. Bauman Roger Biles Kristin M. Szylvian
Rowman & Littlefield
November 2011
416
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In the watches of the night: Life in the nocturnal city, 1820-1930
nuit, night, États-Unis, United States, histoire urbaine, nineteenth century, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, dix-neuvième siècle, urbanité, emploi, délinquance, transport, leisure, loisirs, gender, genre, Baldwin Peter C.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> 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 light up streets, sidewalks, buildings, and public spaces. Peter C. Baldwin’s evocative book depicts the changing experience of the urban night over this period, visiting a host of actors—scavengers, newsboys, and mashers alike—in the nocturnal city.<br /> <br /> Baldwin examines work, crime, transportation, and leisure as he moves through the gaslight era, exploring the spread of modern police forces and the emergence of late-night entertainment, to the era of electricity, when social campaigns sought to remove women and children from public areas at night. While many people celebrated the transition from darkness to light as the arrival of twenty-four hours of daytime, Baldwin shows that certain social patterns remained, including the danger of street crime and the skewed gender profile of night work. Sweeping us from concert halls and brothels to streetcars and industrial forges, In the Watches of the Night is an illuminating study of a vital era in American urban history.</div> </div> <b>Peter C. Baldwin </b>is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Connecticut.</div> </div>
Peter C. Baldwin
The University of Chicago Press
January 2012
296
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Les grands ensembles : une architecture du XXe siècle
grand ensemble, logement social, habiter, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire de l'architecture, vingtième siècle
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L'habitat collectif est loin d'être reconnu unanimement comme objet patrimonial. Les divers regards qu'il a suscités depuis son apparition dans les années 1950 sont encore présents dans la cacophonie des débats actuels. De façon générale, cette architecture n'a pas bonne presse et une opinion commune semble la reléguer parmi les pires erreurs d'un passé proche. Cependant des opinions minoritaires, professées par certains architectes et historiens de l'architecture militent pour sa reconnaissance et la tendance est donc aujourd'hui de juger toute cette production avec un peu plus de sérénité et de curiosité.<br />
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Ce livre rend compte de ces nouveaux regards et propose d'analyser une centaine de sites répartis sur le territoire national dont les qualités constructives, urbaines ou paysagères, nous rappellent que ce que l'on a appelé les grands ensembles ne sont pas une masse informe de logements forcément mal conçus. Certes ils ont répondu à une volonté politique de régler rapidement le problème du besoin urgent de logements au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, mais cette réponse est loin d'avoir été la caricature qui en a été faite. Quelques-uns des architectes les plus créatifs de l'époque se sont attelés à cette tâche immense en développant des idées urbaines et paysagères dont on aimerait aujourd'hui trouver trace dans nombre d'opérations contemporaines.<br />
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Pour appuyer cette analyse, outre les 100 ensembles urbains revisités, le livre offre quelques panoramas plus larges, en particulier des études sur les systèmes paysagers et constructifs, qui doivent aider et donner des clés de compréhension afin que les décideurs actuels soient à même de reconsidérer cette architecture sociale avec plus d'acuité.</div>
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Dominique Carré
19 octobre 2011
256
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Staging the new Berlin: Place marketing and the politics of urban reinvention post-1989
Berlin, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, twwenty-first century, vingt-et-unième siècle, renouvellement urbain, rénovation urbaine, aménagement urbain, mutation urbaine, tourisme, marketing, politique urbaine, gouvernance, Colomb Claire
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> 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 urban governance and physical transformation of the city following the Fall of the Wall, the ‘new’ Berlin was not only being built physically, but staged for visitors and Berliners and marketed to the world through events and image campaigns which featured the iconic architecture of large-scale urban redevelopment sites. Public-private partnerships were set up specifically to market the ‘new Berlin’ to potential investors, tourists, Germans and the Berliners themselves. The book analyzes the images of the city and the narrative of urban change, which were produced over two decades. In the 1990s three key sites were turned into icons of the ‘new Berlin’: the new Postdamer Platz, the new government quarter, and the redeveloped historical core of the Friedrichstadt. Eventually, the entire inner city was ‘staged’ through a series of events which turned construction sites into tourist attractions. New sites and spaces gradually became part of the 2000s place marketing imagery and narrative, as urban leaders sought to promote the ‘creative city’. By combining urban political economy and cultural approaches from the disciplines of urban politics, geography, sociology and planning, the book contributes to a better understanding of the interplay between the symbolic ‘politics of representation’ through place marketing and the politics of urban development and place making in contemporary urban governance.</div> </div> <b>Claire Colomb</b> is Senior Lecturer in Urban Sociology and European Spatial Planning at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London (UCL).</div> </div>
Claire Colomb
Routledge
November 2011
368
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Petersburg fin de siècle
St. Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Saint-Pétersbourg, fin de siècle, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, histoire urbaine, Steinberg Mark D.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> The final decade of the old order in imperial Russia was a time of both crisis and possibility, an uncertain time that inspired an often desperate search for meaning. This book explores how journalists and other writers in St. Petersburg described and interpreted the troubled years between the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917.<br /> <br /> Mark Steinberg, distinguished historian of Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, examines the work of writers of all kinds, from anonymous journalists to well-known public intellectuals, from secular liberals to religious conservatives. Though diverse in their perspectives, these urban writers were remarkably consistent in the worries they expressed. They grappled with the impact of technological and material progress on the one hand, and with an ever-deepening anxiety and pessimism on the other. Steinberg reveals a new, darker perspective on the history of St. Petersburg on the eve of revolution and presents a fresh view of Russia's experience of modernity.<br /> <br /> <b>Mark Steinberg</b> is professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and editor of the journal Slavic Review.</div> </div>
Mark D. Steinberg
Yale University Press
September 2011
416
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Henri Sauvage
Sauvage Henri, Minnaert Jean-Baptiste, histoire de l'architecture, vingtième siècle, Art nouveau, Art déco, Villa Majorelle, La Samaritaine, Immeuble de la rue Vavin, habitations à bon marché, HBM
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Constructeur inventif et prolifique, Henri Sauvage (1873-1932) est l’un des pionniers de l’architecture du 20e siècle : ses recherches sur les immeubles à gradins et la préfabrication constituent l’une des bases des travaux menés par les générations de l’après-guerre.</div>
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De l’Art nouveau à l’Art déco, il a constamment renouvelé son art. La villa Majorelle à Nancy, les habitations à bon marché, l’immeuble de la rue Vavin et La Samaritaine à Paris, les magasins Decré à Nantes sont les principaux jalons d’une oeuvre multiforme, qui comprend également des papiers peints et de remarquables ensembles mobiliers.<br />
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<b>Jean-Baptiste Minnaert</b> est professeur d’histoire de l’art contemporain à l’université François-Rabelais de Tours et membre de l’équipe de recherche InTRu (Interactions, transferts, ruptures artistiques et culturels). Il a consacré à Henri Sauvage une thèse de doctorat (soutenue à Paris IV en 1994) et trois ouvrages (Henri Sauvage, 1873-1932. Projets et architectures à Paris, IFA, 1994, The architectural drawings of Henri Sauvage, Garland, 1994, Henri Sauvage, ou l’exercice du renouvellement, Norma, 2002). Il s’est ensuite spécialisé dans l’analyse des espaces urbains (faubourg Saint-Antoine à Paris, Héliopolis au Caire) et l’historiographie de l’architecture et du patrimoine. Membre du Conseil national de l’Inventaire général du patrimoine culturel, il consacre aujourd’hui ses recherches à la question du périurbain.</div>
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Jean-Baptiste Minnaert
Infolio et Editions du Patrimoine
2011
192
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From Empire to Empire: Jerusalem between Ottoman and British rule
Jerusalem, Jérusalem, histoire urbaine, World War I, Première Guerre mondiale, Ottoman Empire, British Empire, Empire ottoman, Empire britannique, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, ville en guerre, Jacobson Abigail
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> The history of Jerusalem as traditionally depicted is the quintessential history of conflict and strife, of ethnic tension, and of incompatible national narratives and visions. It is also a history of dramatic changes and moments, one of the most radical ones being the replacement of the Ottoman regime with British rule in December 1917. From Empire to Empire challenges these two major dichotomies, ethnic and temporal, which shaped the history of Jerusalem and its inhabitants. It links the experiences of two ethnic communities living in Palestine, Jews and Arabs, as well as bridging two historical periods, the Ottoman and British administrations.<br /> <br /> Drawing upon a variety of sources, Jacobson demonstrates how political and social alliances are dynamic, context-dependent, and purpose-driven. She also highlights the critical role of foreign intervention, governmental and nongovernmental, in forming local political alliances and in shaping the political reality of Palestine during the crisis of World War I and the transition between regimes.<br /> <br /> From Empire to Empire offers a vital new perspective on the way World War I has been traditionally studied in the Palestinian context. It also examines the effects of war on the socioeconomic sphere of a mixed city in crisis and looks into the ways the war, as well as Ottoman policies and administrators, affected the ways people perceived the Ottoman Empire and their location within it. From Empire to Empire illuminates the complex and delicate relations between ethnic and national groups and offers a different lens through which the history of Jerusalem can be seen: it proposes not only a story of conflict but also of intercommunal contacts and cooperation.</div> </div> <b>Abigail Jacobson </b>teaches at the Interdisciplinary Centre in Herzlia, Israel.</div> </div>
Abigail Jacobson
Syracuse University Press
2011
264
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The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay
ville postcoloniale, post-colonial city, littérature, culture urbaine, London, Londres, Nairobi, Bombay, Mumbai, twentieth century, twenty-first century, vingtième siècle, vingt-et-unième siècle, Varma Rashmi
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and contemporary debates on urbanism through the filter of postcolonial fictions and the cultural fields surrounding and containing them. In particular, she presents a representational history of London, Nairobi and Bombay in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and engages three key theoretical frameworks—the city within postcolonial theory and culture (its troubled salience in the construction of postcolonial public spheres and identities, from local, rural, ethnic/"tribal", and regional to "national", cosmopolitan and transnational subjects and spaces); postcolonial fictions as constituting a new world literary space and as a site of the articulation of contending narratives of urban space, global culture and postcolonial development; and postcolonial feminist citizenship as a universal political project challenging current neo-liberal and post neo-liberal contractions and eviscerations of public spaces and rights.</div> </div> <b>Rashmi Varma </b>is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.</div> </div>
Rashmi Varma
Routledge
August 2011
224
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Uprooted : How Breslau became Wroclaw during the century of expulsions
Breslau, Wroclaw, WrocBaw, déplacement de population, migration, histoire urbaine, culture urbaine, après guerre, postwar, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, Thum Gregor
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants--almost all of them ethnic Germans--were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers from all parts of prewar Poland. Uprooted examines the long-term psychological and cultural consequences of forced migration in twentieth-century Europe through the experiences of Wroclaw's Polish inhabitants.<br /> <br /> In this pioneering work, Gregor Thum tells the story of how the city's new Polish settlers found themselves in a place that was not only unfamiliar to them but outright repellent given Wroclaw's Prussian-German appearance and the enormous scope of wartime destruction. The immediate consequences were an unstable society, an extremely high crime rate, rapid dilapidation of the building stock, and economic stagnation. This changed only after the city's authorities and a new intellectual elite provided Wroclaw with a Polish founding myth and reshaped the city's appearance to fit the postwar legend that it was an age-old Polish city. Thum also shows how the end of the Cold War and Poland's democratization triggered a public debate about Wroclaw's "amputated memory." Rediscovering the German past, Wroclaw's Poles reinvented their city for the second time since World War II.<br /> <br /> Uprooted traces the complex historical process by which Wroclaw's new inhabitants revitalized their city and made it their own.<br /> <br /> <b>Gregor Thum</b> is assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh.</div> </div>
Gregor Thum
Princeton University Press
August 2011
544
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The transatlantic collapse of urban renewal : Postwar urbanism from New York to Berlin
post-war, après-guerre, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, renouvellement urbain, histoire de l'urbanisme, aménagement urbain, politique urbaine, Klemek Christopher
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> 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, and urban renewal. With a sweep that encompasses New York, London, Berlin, Philadelphia, and Toronto, among others, Christopher Klemek traces changing responses to the challenging issues that most affected the lives of the world’s cities. <br /> <br /> In the postwar decades, the principles of modernist planning came to be challenged—in the grassroots revolts against the building of freeways through urban neighborhoods, for instance, or by academic critiques of slum clearance policy agendas—and then began to collapse entirely. Over the 1960s, several alternative views of city life emerged among neighborhood activists, New Left social scientists, and neoconservative critics. Ultimately, while a pessimistic view of urban crisis may have won out in the United States and Great Britain, Klemek demonstrates that other countries more successfully harmonized urban renewal and its alternatives. This much anticipated book provides one of the first truly international perspectives on issues central to historians and planners alike, making it essential reading for anyone engaged with either field.</div> </div> <b>Christopher Klemek </b>is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at George Washington University.</div> </div>
Christopher Klemek
University of Chicago Press
July 2011
328
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São Paulo: Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production
São Paulo, culture urbaine, littérature, art, photographie, film, société urbaine, développement urbain, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, Foster David William
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> David Foster brings an intense curiosity and lifelong familiarity to this unique examination of the cultural tapestry of São Paulo, the largest city in South America and the second largest in Latin America.<br /> <br /> Examining everything from the poetics of Mário de Andrade to the Eisner Award–winning graphic novels of Fabio Moon and Gabriel Bá, Foster paints a portrait as colorful and multifaceted as the city it reveals. He offers representative examples of poetry, fiction, graphic art, photography, film, and social commentary to introduce readers to some of the most important cultural dimensions of the city as well as some of its most outstanding writers and artists.<br /> <br /> Foster selects his featured artists and works with care and precision in order to reveal insights into the development of the city throughout the twentieth century. This is a tour-de-force overview of the cultural output of one of the world’s great urban centers, one that future researchers on Brazilian culture will ignore at their peril.</div> </div> <i>Buenos Aires : Perspectives on the city and cultural production</i></a> (1998, University Press of Florida).</div> </div>
David William Foster
University Press of Florida
June 2011
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