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The right to the city: Popular contention in contemporary Buenos Aires

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Abstract from the publisher: Based on extensive, original fieldwork, as well as new survey data, The Right to the City contributes to the study of democratization by focusing on the dilemmas and opportunities of popular contention in the city of…

Mots-clés: Buenos Aires, citoyenneté, démocratie participative, droit à la ville, Ippolito-O'Donnell Gabriela, mouvement social

The right to the city : Prospects for critical urban theory and practice

Organisers' description : The conference will focus on the meaning of the "right to the city" in the context of neoliberal urban restructuring. While the notion of "the right to the city" was popularized by Henri Lefebvre in the…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, capitalisme, développement durable, développement urbain, droit à la ville, équité sociale, Marcuse Peter, mondialisation, néolibéralisme, politique de la ville, société urbaine

The right to the city

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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…

Mots-clés: capitalisme, droit à la ville, économie, histoire urbaine, marxisme, philosophie, politique de la ville, sciences politiques, sociologie urbaine

The revitalization of urban space

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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…

Mots-clés: Cracovie, espace urbain, gentrification, habitants, identité, Krakow, Milan, mutation sociale, périphéries, renouvellement urbain, Smagacz Marta, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine, voisinage

The resurgent city

The majority of the papers presented at the 2004 conference 'The resurgent city', held at the London School of Economics, are available for download as PDF files. Organisers' description : This Leverhulme-funded international symposium aims to…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, culture urbaine, économie, gestion locale, habitants, infrastructures, interaction sociale, mixité sociale, renouvellement urbain, sécurité, ségrégation urbaine, ville durable

The reporter, the flâneur, and the critic: The urbanist as outsider in the South Asian mega-city

Abstract from the distributor: ‘No urbanism without urbanists’ might be a slogan that captures the European and North American urban experience over the past two centuries. Indeed, it is arguable that urbanism is not only an empirical…

Mots-clés: Asia, Asie, Bombay, culture urbaine, flâneur, Hogan Trevor, Inde, India, mégapole, Mumbai, New Delhi, sociologie urbaine, urbanism, urbanisme, urbanist, urbaniste

The renegotiation cost of public transport services contracts

The renegotiation of regulatory contracts is known to prevent regulators from achieving the full commitment efficient outcome in dynamic contexts. However, assessing the cost of such renegotiation remains an open issue from an empirical viewpoint. To…

The remaking of Istanbul : Portrait of an Ottoman city in the nineteenth century

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From the introduction : During the nineteenth century, a concerted effort was made to transform the Ottoman capital of Istanbul into a Western-style capital, paralleling the general struggle to salvage the Ottoman Empire by reforming its…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, Çelik Zeynep, dix-neuvième siècle, forme urbaine, histoire de l'architecture, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, Istanbul, modernisation, nineteenth century, renouvellement urbain, tissu urbain, transport

The relationship between urban street configuration and office rent patterns in Berlin

This thesis presents a study of the influence of urban street configuration on the pattern of commercial office rents in Berlin. The hypothesis is that there is a relationship between the two, and that the alteration of the street network with…

The redemption of the commons. Contributions to urban planning from territorial intelligence and ecological economics.

Shine and heat was my first impression of Dolavon, then the contrast of its canal: shadow and water where children play. An intense and pleasant contrast. The town offers the harmony shown by those places where human voracity has been somewhat…

The reconstructions of Beirut

The chapter is based on the analysis of the reconstructions' projects in Beirut and their implementation between 1977 and 2004. A special attention is given to plans that were never implemented but, we contend, left imprints both at the legal level…

The public and its possibilities : Triumphs and tragedies in the American city

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Abstract from the publisher : In his compelling reinterpretation of American history, The Public and Its Possibilities, John Fairfield argues that our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private…

Mots-clés: citadin, citoyenneté, démocratie participative, États-Unis, Fairfield John D., guerre, histoire urbaine, mouvement social, mutation sociale, participation, périurbanisation, politique publique, politique urbaine, United States

The psychogeographic mapping of a city: City-dwellers and lived spaces in Walker Evans' Havana

Full title: The psychogeographic mapping of a city: City-dwellers and lived spaces in Walker Evans' Havana portfolio (1933) In this research seminar, James Clifford Kent starts by introducing 'the origins of fascinations with Walker Evans and his…

Mots-clés: Evans Walter, flânerie, flâneur, Havana, histoire urbaine, Kent James Clifford, La Havane, photographie, psychogéographie, psychogeography

The psychasthenia of deep space : Evaluating the 'reassertion of space in critical social theory'

The aim of this work is to question the notion of space that underlies the claimed ‘spatial turn’ in geographical and social theory. Section 1 examines this theoretical literature, drawing heavily on Soja as the self declared taxonomist of the genre,…

The promise of the city : Space, identity and politics in contemporary social thought

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Abstract from the publisher : The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh…

Mots-clés: culture urbaine, économie, espace urbain, identité, marxisme, sciences politiques, sociologie urbaine, Tajbakhsh Kian

The progressives and the slums: Tenement house reform in New York City, 1890-1917

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Abstract from the publisher: Contents: 1. The origins of tenement reform, 1830-1865 2. The tenement comes of age, 1866-1890 3. Jacob A. Riis: Portrait of a reformer 4. The Tenement House Committee of 1894 5. Lawrence Veiller and the New York…

Mots-clés: bidonville, dix-neuvième siècle, histoire urbaine, insalubrité, logement, Lubove Roy, mouvement social, New York, nineteenth century, pauvreté, quartier dégradé, relogement, renouvellement urbain, Riis Jacob A., tenement, twentieth century, Veiller Lawrence, vingtième siècle

The Process of Mobility Decision-making in Later Old Age: early findings from an original survey of elderly people in South East England

This paper develops the concept of residential strategis in explanation of housing and locational choice in old age. It argues that the forces which shape decisions to migrate in later life, particularly among the older elderly, are little…

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