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The battles of Germantown: Public history and preservation in America's most historic neighborhood during the twentieth century

This dissertation examines how public history and historic preservation have changed during the twentieth century by examining the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1683, Germantown is one of America’s most…

The battle with the slum

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Extract from the Introduction, 'What the fight is about' : The slum is as old as civilization... The battle with the slum began the day civilization recognized in it her enemy. It was a losing fight until conscience joined forces with fear and…

Mots-clés: bidonville, histoire urbaine, New York, pauvreté, quartier défavorisé, quartier dégradé, Riis Jacob, société urbaine, tenement, urbanité

The Atomic City

Une intervention de Lindsey Freeman mise en ligne au format audio sur La forge numérique de la MRSH de Caen Présentation par le diffuseur : During the Second World War, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was a secret government city created from…

Mots-clés: Atomic City, bombe nucléaire, Freeman Lindsey, Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge, utopies, ville nucléaire

The atmospheric “skin” of the city

What is an urban atmosphere? Through an atmospherological (aesthetical-phenomenological) approach, primarily inspired by the new aesthetics (Böhme) and the new phenomenology (Schmitz), the paper investigates what creates the overall impression…

The Atlanta paradox

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Abstract from the publisher: Despite the rapid creation of jobs in the greater Atlanta region, poverty in the city itself remains surprisingly high, and Atlanta's economic boom has yet to play a significant role in narrowing the gap between the…

Mots-clés: Atlanta, économie, emploi, étalement urbain, inégalité, pauvreté, race, ségrégation urbaine, Sjoquist David L., société urbaine, travail

The Asian Mediterranean: Port cities and trading networks in China, Japan and Southeast Asia

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Abstract from the publisher: This insightful book draws upon a wide range of disciplines – political economy, geography and international relations – to examine how Asia has returned to its central position in the world economy. As in…

Mots-clés: asie du sud-est, Chine, économie, Gipouloux François, histoire urbaine, Japon, ville portuaire

The Art of the City - L 'art de la ville

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Présentation par l'éditeur du n° 25 de la revue Anglophonia : Les textes rassemblés dans ce numéro ont été présentés lors du colloque international "L’art de la ville" qui…

The Architecture and memory of the minority quarter in the Muslim Mediterranean city

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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…

Mots-clés: Bertagnin, fragmentation sociale, histoire de l'architecture, histoire urbaine, Mediterranean, méditerranéen, mémoire, Miller Susan Gilson, mixité sociale, ségrégation urbaine, société urbaine, voisinage

The apartheid city : construction, decline and reconstruction

The anatomy of a working-class neighbourhood: West Sparkbrook 1871-1914

This thesis explores the premise that during the late Victorian and Edwardian eras there existed a significant and influential division within the working class of England's industrial towns and cities. This division, based largely on economic…

The American urban reader : History and theory

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Abstract from the publisher : The American Urban Reader brings together the most exciting work on the evolution of the American city, from colonial settlement and western expansion to post-industrial cities and the growth of the suburbs. Each of…

Mots-clés: Boehm Lisa Krissoff, Corey Steven H., États-Unis, géographie urbaine, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, United States

The ambiguous infrastructural ideal: the urbanisation of water and power in the 'golden age' of utility networks

Current debates around networks and urban fragmentation focus on the ownership of the service to explain processes of socio-technical differentiation in cities (splintering). In this perspective, integrated public ownership and management…

The Ambiguous Image of New Deal «Model Towns»

I - Fabricating the environmentII - A Safe WorldIII - The Paradox of community

The African city centre re(sourced) : African Perspectives 2009 congress

Abstract from the publisher : , is it a historical core, a business district or no physical location at all? Food for a lengthy palaver. Out of the central theme, three sub-themes were distilled to enable in-depth debate: (1) the African City…

Mots-clés: Africa, Afrique, centre-ville, espace urbain, forme urbaine

The 21st Century medieval city

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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…

Mots-clés: bidonville, développement urbain, favela, pauvreté, pays en développement, squat

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