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City : Rediscovering the center
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For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior,…
The urban condition : Space, community, and self in the contemporary metropolis
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What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even postsuburban cityscape? What are edge cities and…
Post ex sub dis : Urban fragmentations and constructions
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Post, ex, sub and dis - these are but a few of the prefixes that have been used to compose neologisms for describing the contemporary cityscape. Terms such as posturban space, postsuburbia, exurbia and disurbia are…
The essential William H. Whyte
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The Essential William H. Whyte offers the core writings of a great observer of the postwar American scene. Included are selections from The Organization Man, Securing Space for Urban America: Conservation Easements,…
America becomes urban : The development of U.S. cities and towns 1780-1980
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The American city: we think of the Manhattan skyline, of Chicago curving along the shore of Lake Michigan, or of the Golden Gate Bridge arcing into San Francisco. Or, if we think historically, we might envision steerage…
The promise of the city : Space, identity and politics in contemporary social thought
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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…
American urban architecture : Catalysts in the design of cities
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In pre-twentieth-century Europe, cities often reflected common ideas about the design of urban buildings. Typically the form of cities was cohesive, and public spaces were clearly defined because each building played a part in an…
The urban wilderness : A history of the American city
From the foreword by Charles Tilly :
For a generation Sam Warner has written about American urban history by sketching the development of particular cities. A 1994 poll of urban history scholars identified him as the country's most influential…
Remaking the modern: Space, relocation, and the politics of identity in a global Cairo
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In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve President Anwar Sadat's goal to modernize the housing conditions of the urban poor, the Egyptian…
The Russian city between tradition and modernity, 1850-1900
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The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity provides a comprehensive history of urban development in European Russia during the last half of the nineteenth century. Using both statistical perspectives on…
Frontiers and identities : Cities in regions and nations
From the preface : Frontiers and Identities: Cities in Regions and Nations, edited by Professors Luďa Klusáková and Laure Teulières, is the third volume published by the Thematic Work Group 5 of the pan-European Network of…
Patrimoines en situation. Constructions et usages en différents contextes urbains
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Cet ouvrage trouve son origine dans un colloque, Les patrimoines dans la ville : de la construction des savoirs aux politiques de sauvegarde au Maroc et dans le Monde arabe, organisé les 18, 19 et 20…
Cultiver de meilleures villes : agriculture urbaine et développement durable
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Les Nations Unies estiment qu’au cours des 25 prochaines années, la quasi-totalité de la croissance démographique se produira dans les villes des pays en développement. Si…
The remaking of Istanbul : Portrait of an Ottoman city in the nineteenth century
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…
The city : Urban communities and their problems
From the preface : Many recent urban sociology textbooks have come close to abandoning the traditional concern of urban sociology, which is the community in urban society. Emphasis has shifted to individual adaptations to urban society or to…
American city planning since 1890
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City planning is an ancient activity but a modern profession. The city planning profession in the United States arose from the urban reform movements of the 1890s and early years of this century. Here, in a volume…
Inventing Lima : Baroque modernity in Peru's south sea metropolis
Abstract from the publisher : Inventing Lima is the first synthetic cultural history of Peru’s baroque “City of the Kings.” Professor Osorio’s interpretation of ritual life in the Peruvian metropolis significantly revises…
Shanghai : Its urbanization and culture
Extract from the introduction by George F. McLean and Robert Magliola : Ten years ago an international seminar of The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy took up this question of "urbanization and values". The study printed…
Bruxelles-Midi. L'urbanisme du sacrifice et des bouts de ficelle
Quatrième de couverture : L’histoire de Bruxelles est jalonnée de grands projets immobiliers qui, cycliquement, ont dévasté le tissu urbain et se sont terminés par un "Plus jamais ça !".…
Cities and climate change
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As the hubs of economic…