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São Paulo: Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production
Abstract from the publisher : 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. …
Seno Gumira Ajidarma and the writing of urban space in Indonesia
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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…
Shangai - Le "Paris" de l'Orient
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L'histoire de la ville chinoise de Shangai de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle à 1943, pendant tout le temps où elle fut considérée et gérée comme un…
Mots-clés: Brizay Bernard, Chine, dix-neuvième siècle, histoire, Shangai, vingtième siècle
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…
Streetlife : How cities made modern Europe
Abstract from the publisher : The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and…
Mots-clés: culture urbaine, Europe, histoire urbaine, Jerram Leif, rue, société urbaine, twentieth century, urbanité, vingtième siècle
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…
Tally’s Corner : les Noirs du coin de la rue
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Tally's Corner est devenu un texte-clé dans l’analyse et la compréhension des phénomènes urbains liés à la pauvreté. Alors que les révoltes…
Mots-clés: États-Unis, Liebow Elliot, Noirs américains, pauvreté, précarité, vingtième siècle
Tashkent : Forging a Soviet city, 1930 - 1966
Abstract from the publisher : Paul Stronski tells the fascinating story of Tashkent, an ethnically diverse, primarily Muslim city that became the prototype for the Soviet-era reimagining of urban centers in Central Asia. Based on extensive research…
The challenges of the twenty-first century city
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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…
The European metropolis 1920 - 2000
The proceedings of a 2002 conference held at the Centre of comparative European history, Berlin, on the topic 'The European metropolis 1920 - 2000'.
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Linking scales and urban network development - R. Wall and G.A. van der Knapp
New Forms…
The ever-changing American city 1945-present
Abstract from the publisher: 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…
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 invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
Abstract from the publisher : The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the…
The lost dream : Businessmen and city planning on the Pacific coast, 1890 - 1920
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Mansel Blackford’s The Lost Dream explores the history of city planning in five Pacific Coast cities—Seattle, Portland, Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles—during the Progressive Era. Although…
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 postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay
Abstract from the publisher : 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…
The progressives and the slums: Tenement house reform in New York City, 1890-1917
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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 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,…
The Urban Condition
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What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even postsuburban cityscape ? What are edge cities and…