Extract from the introduction by You-tien Hsing:
In this special issue, we have tried to bridge studies of the Chinese state and of the Chinese city by employing the concepts of space production and territoriality. Three sets of analytical tools…
From the editorial by Alicia Murría :
Modern city planning and architecture have been places at the service of production, traffic, and consumption, and of a particular idea of the white, Western, heterosexual middle-class male. Only in the…
From the editorial by Emma Vivian O'Shaughnessy :
We hope that this edition of postamble presents avenues through which readers can imagine a different type of urban language, one that accommodates the differences between all the world’s…
Abstract from the publisher : Between 1550 and 1700, artillery siege warfare transformed the European city, which was theorized, fortified, violated, rebuilt, and celebrated by leading artists and architects. The fortified perimeter, with its…
Abstract from the publisher : Urban Reflections looks at how places change, the role of planners in bringing about urban change, and the public's attitudes to that change. Drawing on geographical, cinematic and photographic readings, the book…
Abstract from the publisher : On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project - Arizona's first major urban renewal project, which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to…
Si à la suite du « tournant topographique » dans les sciences humaines on a élaboré des instruments sophistiqués pour analyser la construction sociale et culturelle de l'espace urbain, il reste à élucider les déplacements individuels auxquels cet…
Abstract from the publisher: Under Jini Kim Watson’s scrutiny, the Asian Tiger metropolises of Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore reveal a surprising residue of the colonial environment. Drawing on a wide array of literary, filmic, and political…
Henri Lefebvre is undoubtedly one of the most influential thinkers in the field of urban space and its organization; his theories offer reflections still valid for analyzing social relations in urban areas affected by the crisis of the neoliberal…
Abstract from the publisher : The Roman province of Africa was one of richest in the Empire and as a result has some of the most spectacular remains. "The Cities of Roman Africa" examines the development of urban space and cultural life…
L'objectif de cet ouvrage est de conduire une réflexion par rapport à l'organisation sociale de l'espace urbain en situation de contact de différents codes symboliques. Il s'agit de préciser dans quelle mesure la diversité est issue des mouvements…
Abstract from the publisher : Does planning in contested cities inadvertedly make the divisions worse? The 60s and 70s saw a strong role of planning, social engineering, etc but there has since been a move towards a more decentralised…
Une réflexion sociologique et anthropologique sur l’imaginaire urbain.
Jubilation de l’éphémère, bonheur de vivre et de jouir, intensivité du moment : la ville et ses métamorphoses sont un puissant révélateur des appétences toujours recommencées…
Abstract from the publisher : Exploring the places where the rural and urban intersect, where many of the world’s people live. Much of the world’s population inhabits the urban fringe, an area that is neither fully rural nor urban.…