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Reconsidering Jane Jacobs
Abstract from the publisher : Fifty years after the publication of her most influential book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs is perhaps the most widely read urbanist ever. Her ideas contributed to the wholesale…
Remembering, forgetting and city builders
Abstract from the publisher : Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to the politics of collective and personal memory construction. Bringing together case…
Roppongi crossing : The demise of a Tokyo nightclub district and the reshaping of a global city
Abstract from the publisher : For most of the latter half of the twentieth century, Roppongi was an enormously popular nightclub district that stood out from the other pleasure quarters of Tokyo for its mix of international entertainment and…
Seeing cities change: Local culture and class
Abstract from the publisher: Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them. In contemporary urban areas, all sorts of diversity are simultaneously…
Self and community in the city
Extract from the preface :
This work reports on a small portion of my continuing sociological research on city neighborhoods. The subjects which are dealt with here are quite delicate and my long-term involvement in the community is both an…
Mots-clés: Brooklyn, culture urbaine, identité, Krase Jerome, New York, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine, voisinage
Streets of memory : Landscape, tolerance, and national identity in Istanbul
Abstract from the publisher :
In this study of Kuzguncuk, known as one of Istanbul’s historically most tolerant, multiethnic neighborhoods, Amy Mills is animated by a single question: what does it mean to live in a place that once…
The Architecture and memory of the minority quarter in the Muslim Mediterranean city
Abstract from the publisher :
A collaborative work among historians, literary specialists, and architects, this collection is directed at filling the gap in our knowledge about minority neighborhoods in the southern Mediterranean.
A series of…
The city
Contents :
Robert E. Park - The city : Suggestions for the investigation of human behavior in the urban environment
Ernest W. Burgess - The growth of the city : An introduction to a research project
R. D. McKenzie - The ecological approach to the…
The gentrification reader
Loretta Lees is Professor of Human Geography at King's College London, UK. Tom Slater is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Elvin Wyly is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
The lives of urban residents in a global world. Great cities - ordinary lives conference panel 3
The third panel of this symposium in celebration of Anthony Orum’s retirement: Great Cities/Ordinary Lives Conference - A look at the city and its residents from the bottom up
Panel 3 : The lives of urban residents in a global world : Berlin,…
The revitalization of urban space
Abstract from the publishers :
Smagacz uses a comparative approach to look at two very different but related processes: what she calls the “revitalization” of two formerly peripheral and now prosper-
ous, innovative and trendy urban…
The third city : Chicago and American urbanism
Organisers' description :
In the first seminar of the Spring 2011 GCI Comparative Urbanisms Series, Professor Bennett will discuss his new book The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism, which examines a variety of Chicago literature,…
The urban wilderness : A history of the American city
From the foreword by Charles Tilly :
For a generation Sam Warner has written about American urban history by sketching the development of particular cities. A 1994 poll of urban history scholars identified him as the country's most influential…
The vital city : EURA 2007 conference
Organisers' description :
This major conference on the theme of The Vital City was held under the auspices of the European Urban Research Association (EURA). EURA brings together an inter-disciplinary network of urban researchers from across Europe…
Twentieth-century Pittsburgh, Volume Two. The post-steel era
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This volume traces the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the city of Pittsburgh during its urban renewal project, which began in 1977. Roy Lubove demonstrates how the city showed…
Unequal networks: Spatial segregation, relationships and inequality in the city
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Does the neighbourhood in which people live matter for the resourcefulness of their personal network and thus for their opportunities in life? Do residents of a multi-ethnic ‘problem’ area maintain fewer…
Urban age : Johannesburg
Organisers' description :
The principal aim of Urban Age is to shape the thinking and practice of urban leaders and sustainable urban development. This six-year conference series – travelling from New York City, Shanghai, London, Mexico City,…
Urban age : Mexico City
Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'Mexico City : Growth at the limit?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 recordings of the entire conference are available on the Urban Age…
Mots-clés: emploi, espace urbain, gouvernance, logement, Mexico, Mexico City, Mexique, mobilité, planification, transport, voisinage
Urban age : New York
Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'New York : Almost alright?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 recordings of the entire conference are available on the Urban Age website. Many…
Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, banlieue, emploi, espace public, espace urbain, gouvernance, logement, London, Londres, mobilité, New York, planification, sécurité, transport, voisinage
Utopies, relations de voisinage et mythologies urbaines à Villeneuve d'Ascq
Extrait de l'introduction :
Cette recherche porte sur les pratiques de la cohabitation en milieu urbain. Elle vise à comprendre comment les citadins-habitants, dans la confrontation et l’association, interagissent en s’appuyant…