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Problems of city life: A study in urban sociology
Extract from Part I - Introductory: The modern city:
The most striking characteristics of present-day civilization are industrialization and urbanization. They present the environment, both natural and human, to which an increasing majority of people…
Mots-clés: Davie Maurice R., éducation, health, leisure, logement, loisirs, recreation, santé, sociologie urbaine, twentieth century, urbanité, vingtième siècle
Requiem : For the city at the end of the millenium
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In this small, but sharply-pointed book, renowned theorist Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn of…
Keeping the lid on : Urban eruptions and social control since the 19th century
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The contributors to this book have explored various aspects of urban imagination, so intimately related to a peculiar social environment. They are historians and geographers, linguists and cultural students. Their…
Beijing record : A physical and political history of planning modern Beijing
Abstract from the publisher : Beijing Record, the result of ten years of research on the urban transformation of Beijing in the last fifty years, brings to an extended Western audience the inside story on the key decisions that led to Beijing's…
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…
Berlin : Divided city, 1945 - 1989
Abstract from the publisher : A great deal of attention continues to focus on Berlin’s cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as yet, no single volume looks at the divided city through an interdisciplinary…
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…
Ed Koch and the rebuilding of New York City
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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…
Urban space and national identity in early twentieth century São Paulo, Brazil : Crafting modernity
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Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an…
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…
Mots-clés: architecture, art, Bouvet Vincent, culture, danse, Durozoi Gérard, film, histoire urbaine, littérature, Paris, philosophie, twentieth century, vingtième siècle
Petersburg / Petersburg : Novel and city, 1900 - 1921
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Since its founding three hundred years ago, the city of Saint Petersburg has captured the imaginations of the most celebrated Russian writers, whose characters map the city by navigating its streets from the…
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…
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…
Mots-clés: Ahmedabad, histoire urbaine, Inde, India, mouvement social, Spodek Howard, twentieth century, vingtième siècle
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
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…
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. …