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Ces Marseillais venus d'Orient. L'immigration libanaise à Marseille aux XIXe et XXe siècles
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Pour qui s'éloigne du Liban, se rendre à Marseille n'est pas tout à fait partir. Et ils sont nombreux à venir s'ancrer, pour un temps ou pour toujours, dans cette cité…
To the city : Urban photographs of the New Deal
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In the 1930s and 1940s, as the United States moved from a rural to an urban nation, the pull of the city was irrepressible. It was so strong that even a photographic mission designed to record the essence of rural…
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…
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…
L'autobus et Paris : histoire de mobilités
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Berceau de l'automobile et ville identifiée à son métro, Paris semble aujourd'hui réserver à son réseau d'autobus un rôle secondaire. Un sentiment que ne…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Remaking Chinese urban form : Modernity, scarcity and space, 1949-2005
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In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment. Drawing on archival…
A hauteur de Paris
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Formé à l'École nationale des Arts Décoratifs de Nice, Marcel Bovis se convertit à la photographie pendant son service militaire ; il en fait son métier à…
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. …
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Henri Sauvage
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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…
Petersburg fin de siècle
Abstract from the publisher: 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…