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Kinetic City: Designing for Informality in Mumbai
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Mumbai, a Kinetic City, presents a compelling vision that potentially allows us to better understand the blurred lines of contemporary urbanism and the changing roles of people and spaces in urban society. An architecture…
Richard Sennett: The Sociology of Public Life
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In this exciting half-day conference two panels on 'Public Life and Public Policy' and 'Cities and the Public Realm', discuss these themes in the context of the work of Professor Sennett, the eminent sociologist…
The city in the 20th century
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the artistic, cultural and innovative developments of the city in the 20th century and is joined by two practitioners of the geographer’s art; Professor Doreen Massey, who was…
In our time : The city - a history, part 2
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Melvyn Bragg presents the second of a two part discussion about the history of the city.
George Stephenson invented rail transport in the north-east of England in the 1820s, but it was not until over twenty years…
In our time : The city - a history, part 1
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Melvyn Bragg presents the first of a two-part discussion about the history of the city. With Peter Hall, Julia Merritt and Greg Woolf.
The story of cities is widely held to begin in the 8th millennium BC in…
Mots-clés: Bragg Melvyn, cité, genèse des villes, Hall Peter, histoire urbaine, Merritt Julia, Woolfis Greg
Urban technologies and the environment
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What makes cities sustainable?
How do changing urban technologies enable us to change our patterns of behaviour?
Director in charge for the first eco-city, Dongtan near Shanghai, Peter Head of ARUP will describe how to…
Mots-clés: développement durable, écoquartier, environnement, Head Peter, innovation, ville durable
La nouvelle donne immobilière aux USA
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Les Urbanités vous proposent de comprendre la nouvelle donne immobilière qui se met en place dans l’Amérique de Barack Obama. Avec la crise des subprimes, le marché de…
Public participation and urban transformation in Istanbul
In this lecture, 'Public participation and urban transformation in Istanbul : Europe and Turkey from a sociological perspective', part of the City Institute at York University's City Seminar series, Clémence Petit looks at themes of…
From urban social polarization to civic secession?
Alan Walks is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto
Embouteillages, pollution, blocages : Mexico, ville saturée ?
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Le mot saturation est un mot sur lequel on ne s'arrête pas : comme si ce qu'il servait à désigner allait de soi. Cette transparence postulée lui procure une infinie…
Mots-clés: déplacements, Mexico, Musset Alain, pollution, saturation
Are organic cities better than geometric ones?
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Cities seem to come in two kinds: the organic, with their irregular patterns of space; and the geometric, with their regular grids. The former we take to be the bottom-up products of everyday life, the latter the…
Is the 'rule of law' good for cities?
There is a widespread consensus that, everywhere in the world, urban development has to be based on the rule of law. But what is 'the rule of law'? Does any formal legal system qualify - or must it have specific requirements? If there are specific…
[Limited access] or the open city?
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The idea of the open city as a place of social integration, cultural diversity and collective identity is perceived as an irreversible achievement of modernity, and fuels our visions for a sustainable urban future.…
Disparity and diversity in the contemporary city: Social order revisited
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A look at classic urban themes as they are manifested in the contemporary city, focusing on social reproduction of inequality, the meanings of disorder, and the link between the two.
Paul Gilroy is Anthony Giddens…
The Tycoon and the Tough: towards a comparative anthropology of urban marginality
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Anthropologists often use key figures, such as the street tough, the child witch, and the flâneur, as a means to elucidate, personify, and critique underlying dynamics of social and cultural transformation. It…
Reading London
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How do we attempt to understand the sprawling "modern Babylon" that is London, with its layers of social, political and cultural history? Can art, architecture and literature help us to 'read' this complex…
Our urban future: the death of distance and the rise of cities
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Improvements in transportation and communication technologies have led some to predict the death of distance, and with that, the death of the city. In this lecture Professor Ed Glaeser will argue that these…
Mots-clés: économie, Glaeser Edward, mobilité, morphologie urbaine, mutation urbaine, prospective, société urbaine
Là-bas fait des petits à Saint-Denis
Un reportage diffusé dans Là bas si j'y suis de Daniel Mermet
Ici au Franc Moisin, aujourd’hui, il y le Stade de France, des jardins ouvrier, le fort de l’Est, des cités et le lycée Suger. Depuis…
Mots-clés: Chao Antoine, jardins ouvriers, langage, Le Franc-Moisin, lycéens, radio, représentations, Saint-Denis, son, Stade de France, stigmatisation
Zoom sur Shanghai
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A la fin de chaque mois, les Urbanités “zooment” sur une ville ayant valeur de laboratoire urbain dans le monde. Destination Shanghai cette semaine, où s’ouvre le 1er mai la 75e…
Mots-clés: Asie, Bund, Chine, exposition universelle, gratte-ciel, mégalopole, Pudong, Shanghai, Tian'anmen, World Financial Center
La naissance du mythe de Marrakech du Musée social à Internet
Cette conférence retrace les grandes lignes du développement urbain mis en place à Marrakech pendant le protectorat marocain et plus particulièrement pendant la période lyauteyenne. L’accent est mis, d’une part, sur l’origine d‘une série de…
Mots-clés: Borghi Rachele, colonisation, développement urbain, Maroc, Marrakech, politique urbaine, représentations