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Quartiers et mémoires de migrations
L’équipe Diasporas (FRAMESPA - UMR 5136) et la Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration ont organisé du 13 au 15 octobre 2009 des journées d’étude autour de trois axes : - une…
Cleveland and sprawl : A global perspective
Bruegmann's fields of research and teaching are architectural, urban, landscape, and planning history and historic preservation. He has received scholarships and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Graham Foundation, the…
The right to the city
David Harvey discusses the concept of the right of the city, with a particular focus on political philosophy. Theorists and topics discussed include Marxism, the work of Henri Lefebvre and Haussmann's transformation of Paris.
David Harvey is a…
David Harvey is a…
Lost landscapes of Detroit
LOST LANDSCAPES OF DETROIT; an eclectic montage of rediscovered and rarely-seen archival film clips exhibiting life; cityscapes, labor and leisure from ‘vanishing Detroit’, as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers from…
The 21st Century medieval city
For his talk “The 21st-century Medieval City,” Robert Neuwirth took an overflow audience to “the cities of tomorrow,” the developing-world shanty-towns where a billion people live now, and three billion (a third of humanity) are expected to be living…
Motor City : The rise and fall of Detroit
Robert Fishman teaches in the urban design, architecture, and urban planning programs at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. and A.M. in history from Harvard and his A.B. in history from Stanford University. He is a nationally…
Turning points : Modern Seoul
In this lecture, part of the Case Western Reserve University symposium 'Tipping Points in Urban Change: Modern Perspectives on Agents of Urbanization', Peter G. Rowe discusses shifting mindsets in the recent history Seoul. Much of his lecture focuses…
Tipping points in urban change: Modern perspectives on agents of urbanization
This symposium considered the similarities and differences in the histories of urban modernization in cities during the late 19th through the early 21st century—with a look at global cities now under construction or in the planning stages. The…
Cities and time
Cities are the human organizations with the greatest longevity but also the fastest rate of change. Just now the world is going massively and unstoppably urban (governments everywhere are trying to stop it, with zero success). In a globalized world,…
Urban colossus: Why is New York America's largest city?
Edward Glaeser looks at the history of New York and its contemporary character in order to answer the question of why New York became the largest city in America. He focuses especially on the economic aspects behind the city's growth.
Edward…
Edward…
Cities and citizenship : Surviving the 21st century
- Matthew Taylor is the Chief Executive of the RSA.
- Lord Mawson is founder and President of the renowned Bromley by Bow Centre in east London and Co-founder and President of Community Action Network (CAN), a national charity supporting 850…
- Lord Mawson is founder and President of the renowned Bromley by Bow Centre in east London and Co-founder and President of Community Action Network (CAN), a national charity supporting 850…
Les villes du futur : rêves ou cauchemars ?
Présentation par l'organisateur :
L’avenir des villes est trop peu présent dans les débats politiques. Pourtant, c’est sans doute dans les villes que se jouera une partie du destin de l’humanité, car déjà plus de la moitié de la population de…
L’avenir des villes est trop peu présent dans les débats politiques. Pourtant, c’est sans doute dans les villes que se jouera une partie du destin de l’humanité, car déjà plus de la moitié de la population de…
Traplines in Vancouver
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A Vancouver, sur la côte pacifique du Canada. Peter and Doe vont relever leur piège, leur trapline. Ils fouillent les poubelles pour ramasser canettes et bouteilles à 5 ou 20 cents. Le produit est ramené au dépôt de…
A Vancouver, sur la côte pacifique du Canada. Peter and Doe vont relever leur piège, leur trapline. Ils fouillent les poubelles pour ramasser canettes et bouteilles à 5 ou 20 cents. Le produit est ramené au dépôt de…
Nineteenth-Century cities
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Today, I want to do the impossible and talk about urbanization and urban growth in fifty minutes. I'll give the classic example, which is the greatest project of human intervention or rebuilding, that is the…
Today, I want to do the impossible and talk about urbanization and urban growth in fifty minutes. I'll give the classic example, which is the greatest project of human intervention or rebuilding, that is the…
Paris and the Belle Epoque
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Modern Paris was indelibly shaped by the rebuilding project ordered by Napoleon III and carried out by Baron Haussmann in the 1850s and '60s. The large-scale demolition of whole neighborhoods in central Paris,…
Modern Paris was indelibly shaped by the rebuilding project ordered by Napoleon III and carried out by Baron Haussmann in the 1850s and '60s. The large-scale demolition of whole neighborhoods in central Paris,…
Shanghai et le dispositif du Lotus Bleu
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Le "Lotus Bleu" est composé entre 1934 et 1935 par Hergé et Tchang Tchong-jen. La Shanghai des années trente, des concessions et de l’occupation japonaise y est le théâtre principal des aventures de Tintin. Shanghai…
Le "Lotus Bleu" est composé entre 1934 et 1935 par Hergé et Tchang Tchong-jen. La Shanghai des années trente, des concessions et de l’occupation japonaise y est le théâtre principal des aventures de Tintin. Shanghai…
Les hommes grenier
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On dit souvent que Hongkong est le « Monaco de l'Asie ». C'est assez juste a ce détail prêt. L'île de Hongkong regorge des fortunes les plus importantes d'Asie mais la partie géographiquement rattachée au territoire…
On dit souvent que Hongkong est le « Monaco de l'Asie ». C'est assez juste a ce détail prêt. L'île de Hongkong regorge des fortunes les plus importantes d'Asie mais la partie géographiquement rattachée au territoire…
Reconversion, renouvellement et innovation dans les territoires industriels et urbains
Conférences données lors de la journée de l'AGF-Association des Géographes Français et du CERPA-Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche sur les Paysages de l'Université Nancy 2.
- Allocution d’ouverture Michel DESHAIES, professeur, CERPA
- La…
- Allocution d’ouverture Michel DESHAIES, professeur, CERPA
- La…
City as stage, city as process
Organisers' description :
City as Stage, City as Process brings together speakers from art and (counter) culture, architecture, urbanism, and media technology to discuss such questions as: In what way is the city not a fixed entity, but a process?…
City as Stage, City as Process brings together speakers from art and (counter) culture, architecture, urbanism, and media technology to discuss such questions as: In what way is the city not a fixed entity, but a process?…
September 11th and the city / Urban trauma and the resilience of cities
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September 11th and the City
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote "The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities." The test of terrorism, then, may well be the power to inflict the…
September 11th and the City
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote "The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities." The test of terrorism, then, may well be the power to inflict the…