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New ideals in the planning of cities, towns and villages
Extract from a review of 'New ideals in the planning of cities, towns and villages' from the Discovering Urbanism blog : "Probably more than anyone else, John Nolen was the voice of the early American city planning establishment... New ideals…
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…
Women and the everyday city : Public space in San Francisco, 1890 - 1915
Abstract from the publisher : Women in the city in turn-of-the-century San Francisco In Women and the Everyday City, Jessica Ellen Sewell explores the lives of women in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A period of transformation of both gender…
Ahmedabad : Shock city of twentieth-century India
Abstract from the publisher : In the 20th century, Ahmedabad was India's "shock city." It was the place where many of the nation's most important developments occurred first and with the greatest intensity—from Gandhi’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…
Uprooted : How Breslau became Wroclaw during the century of expulsions
Abstract from the publisher : 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…
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. …
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,…
La politique de la ville, un discours neuf ?
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 :…
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 :…
From Empire to Empire: Jerusalem between Ottoman and British rule
Abstract from the publisher: 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…
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…
Du logement à la ville (1945-2000). Chronique d'un demi-siècle de bouleversements
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L’ambition de cet ouvrage est de retracer, dans ses grandes lignes, le cheminement de la politique de l’État vis à vis du logement, en particulier social, en France, depuis la fin…
Cayenne entre 1919 et 1939 : une ville, des vies
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Cayenne entre 1919 et 1939. Un entre-deux-guerres qui laisse peu de souvenirs, à part ceux de quelques soubresauts politiques. L'auteure retrace le quotidien des Cayennais à l'aide des…
Paris between the wars 1919 - 1939 : Art, life and culture
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Between the Victory parade along the Champs-Elysées in 1919 and the Germans' march through the Arc de Triomphe in 1940, Paris enjoyed a twenty-year period of cultural and intellectual expansion, receptive to the…
1945-1975 : une histoire de l'habitat
40 ensembles de logements "Patrimoine du XXe siècle"
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L'Ile-de-France possède de nombreux ensembles de logements, construits pendant les Trente Glorieuses grâce à…
Programmes et manifestes de l'architecture du XXe siècle
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Les avant-gardes architecturales depuis 1909, les architectes du Mouvement moderne puis leurs détracteurs se sont exprimés par leurs réalisations, mais davantage par leurs écrits…
Ismaïlia. Architectures XIXe-XXe siècles
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Cet ouvrage, consacré à Ismaïlia, deuxième ville créée ex nihilo le long du canal de Suez en 1862, fait suite au guide d’architecture de Port-Saïd…