Urban interventions : Personal projects in public spaces
subject: , art dans la ville, lieu public, espace public
description: Abstract from the publisher : This book is a striking collection of the personal, often playful and thought-provoking installations in urban environments that use and react to walls, traffic signs, trees, ads, and any and all elements of the modern city. It is the first book to document these very current art projects – as well as their interplay with fine art, architecture, performance, installation, activism and urbanism – in a comprehensive way. This perceptive work brings art to the masses and helps us to rediscover our every day surroundings. It challenges us to question if the cities we have are the cities we need while adding a touch of magic to mundane places and situations.
creator: NC
publisher: Gestalten
date: 2010
format: 288
type: Ouvrage

Transforming urban waterfronts : Fixity and flow
subject: waterfront, front de mer, renouvellement urbain, développement urbain, ville portuaire, néolibéralisme, foncier, immobilier, rénovation urbaine, Desfor Gene, Laidley Jennefer, Schubert Dirk, Stevens Quentin
description: Abstract from the publisher : In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies. Frequently, these mega-projects have been intended to transform derelict docklands into communities of hope with sustainable urban economies—economies intended to both compete in and support globally-networked hierarchies of cities. This collection engages with major theoretical debates and empirical findings on the ways waterfronts transform and have been transformed in port-cities in North and South America, Europe, the Caribbean. It is organized around the themes of fixities (built environments, institutional and regulatory structures, and cultural practices) and flows (information, labor, capital, energy, and knowledge), which are key categories for understanding processes of change. By focusing on these fixities and flows, the contributors to this volume develop new insights for understanding both historical and current cases of change on urban waterfronts, those special areas of cities where land and water meet. As such, it will be a valuable resource for teaching faculty, students, and any audience interested in a broad scope of issues within the field of urban studies. Introduction: Fixity and Flow of Urban Waterfront Change - Gene Desfor and Jennefer Laidley Section I: The Waterfront and the City 1. Maritime Ports and the Politics of Reconnection - Peter V. Hall and Anthony Clark 2. Fragmentation on the Waterfront: Coastal Squatting Settlements and Urban Renewal Projects in the Caribbean - Mélanie Gidel 3. Dockland Regeneration, Community, and Social Organization in Dublin - Astrid Wonneberger 4. Waterfront Revitalizations: From a Local to a Regional Perspective in London, Barcelona, Rotterdam, and Hamburg - Dirk Schubert Section II: Global and Local Dynamics on the Waterfront 5. Urban Waterfront Transformation as a Politics of Mobili…
creator: NC
publisher: Routledge
date: September 2010
format: 336
type: Ouvrage

Noir urbanisms : Dystopic images of the modern city
subject: dystopie, film, culture urbaine, représentations, histoire urbaine, conflit urbain, crise, crisis, dystopia, imaginaire, Prakash Gyan
description: Abstract from the publisher : Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the history of the modern city through its critical representations in art, cinema, print journalism, literature, sociology, and architecture. It focuses on visual forms of dystopic representation--because the history of the modern city is inseparable from the production and circulation of images--and examines their strengths and limits as urban criticism. Contributors explore dystopic images of the modern city in Germany, Mexico, Japan, India, South Africa, China, and the United States. Their topics include Weimar representations of urban dystopia in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis; 1960s modernist architecture in Mexico City; Hollywood film noir of the 1940s and 1950s; the recurring fictional destruction of Tokyo in postwar Japan's sci-fi doom culture; the urban fringe in Bombay cinema; fictional explorations of urban dystopia in postapartheid Johannesburg; and Delhi's out-of-control and media-saturated urbanism in the 1980s and 1990s. What emerges in Noir Urbanisms is the unsettling and disorienting alchemy between dark representations and the modern urban experience. Contents : Introduction : Imaging the Modern City, Darkly - Gyan Prakash MODERNISM AND URBAN DYSTOPIA The Phantasm of the Apocalypse : Metropolis and Weimar Modernity - Anton Kaes Sounds Like Hell : Beyond Dystopian Noise - James Donald Tlatelolco : Mexico City's Urban Dystopia - Rubén Gallo THE AESTHETICS OF THE DARK CITY A Regional Geography of Film Noir : Urban Dystopias On- and Offscreen - Mark Shiel Oh No, There Goes Tokyo : Recreational Apocalypse and the City in Postwar Japanese Popular Culture - William M. Tsutsui Postsocialist Urban Dystopia? - Li Zhang Friction, Collision, and the Grotesque : The Dystopic Fragments of Bombay Cinema - Ranjani Mazumdar IMAGING URBAN C…
creator: NC
publisher: Princeton University Press
date: September 2010
format: 288
type: Ouvrage

Asian cities, migrant labor and contested spaces
subject: , migration urbaine, migrant, immigration, mondialisation, conflit urbain, espace urbain, mutation urbaine, Asie, Asia, Wong Tai-Chee, Rigg Jonathan
description: Abstract from the publisher : This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase of globalization. Cities have become centrally implicated in globalization processes and, therefore, have become objects and sites of intense study. The contributors to this book reflect on the impact and significance of migration with a particular focus on the contested spaces that are emerging in urban contexts and the economic, social, religious and cultural domains with which they intersect. They also examines the roles and effects of different forms of migration in the cauldron of urban change, from low-skilled domestic migrants who maintain a close engagement with their rural homes, to highly skilled/professional transnational migrants, to legal and illegal international migrants who arrive with the hope of transforming their livelihoods. Providing a mosaic of insights into the links between migration, marginalization and contestation in Asia’s urban contexts, Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, migration studies, urban studies and human geography. Contents : Introduction: Contemporary Urban Migration and a Theoretical Approach 1. Contestation and Exclusion in Asian Urban Spaces Under the Impact of Globalization: An Introduction - Jonathan Rigg and Tai-Chee Wong 2. International and Intra-national Migrations: Human Mobility in Pacific Asian Cities in the Globalization Age - Tai-Chee Wong Part I: The International Migration Dimension in Asian Cities 3. The Migrant as a Nexus of Social Relations: An Empirical Analysis - Him Chung and Kai-chi Leung 4. Post-industrialism and Residencing ‘New Immigration’ in Singapore - Leo van Grunsven 5. Integrative Rhetoric and Exc…
creator: NC
publisher: Routledge
date: August 2010
format: 312
type: Ouvrage

Cities and citizenship at the U.S.-Mexican border : The Paso del Norte metropolitan region
subject: Paso del Norte, Ciudad Juárez, El Paso, États-Unis, Mexique, United States, Mexico, border, frontière, violence urbaine, économie, mondialisation, sécurité, espace urbain, service public, pauvreté, immigration, éducation, gouvernance, Staudt Kathleen, Fuentes César M., Monárrez Fragoso Julia E.
description: Abstract from the publisher : At the center of the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border, a sprawling transnational urban space has mushroomed into a metropolitan region with over two million people whose livelihoods depend on global manufacturing, cross-border trade, and border control jobs. Our volume advances knowledge on urban space, gender, education, security, and work, focusing on Ciudad Juárez, the export-processing (maquiladora) manufacturing capital of the Americas and the infamous site of femicide and outlier murder rates connected with arms and drug trafficking. Given global economic trends, this transnational urban region is a likely paradigmatic future for other world regions. Contents : Preface: Living and Working in a Global Manufacturing Border Urban Space: A Paradigm for the Future? - Kathleen Staudt THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC MODEL Globalization, Trans-border Networks, and Mexico-U.S. Border Cities - César M. Fuentes and Sergio Peña SECTION I: SECURITY AND SAFETY IN THE BORDER REGION Death at the Border - Julia Monárrez Fragoso The Disarticulation of Justice: Precarious Life and Cross-Border Feminicides in the Paso del Norte Region - Julia Monárrez Fragoso and Cynthia Bejarano Surviving Domestic Violence in the Paso del Norte Region - Kathleen Staudt and Rosalba Robles Ortega SECTION II: GLOBALIZED PRODUCTION, URBAN SPACE, AND PUBLIC SERVICES Globalization and its Effects on Urban Socio-Spatial Structure in a Transfrontier Metropolis: El Paso, TX - Ciudad Juárez, CHIH - Sunland Park, NM - César M. Fuentes and Sergio Peña Global Production and Precarious Labor: Harness Production in Ciudad Juárez - Martha Miker Palafox SECTION III: LIVING WITH GLOBALIZED RISKS: POVERTY, IMMIGRATION, AND EDUCATION Centering the Margins: The Transformation of Community in Colonias at the U.S.-Mexico Border - Guillermina Nuñez-Mchiri and Georg Klamminger Schooling for Global Competitiveness in the Border Metropolitan Region - Kathleen Staudt and Zulma Méndez Alianza para la Calidad …
creator: NC
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
date: September 2010
format: 272
type: Ouvrage

Berlin : Divided city, 1945 - 1989
subject: Berlin, vintième siècle, twentieth century, histoire urbaine, identité, art, architecture, musique, culture urbaine, ségrégation urbaine, film, littérature, literature, music, Broadbent Philip, Hake Sabine
description: Abstract from the publisher : A great deal of attention continues to focus on Berlin’s cultural and political landscape after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but as yet, no single volume looks at the divided city through an interdisciplinary analysis. This volume examines how the city was conceived, perceived, and represented during the four decades preceding reunification and thereby offers a unique perspective on divided Berlin’s identities. German historians, art historians, architectural historians, and literary and cultural studies scholars explore the divisions and antagonisms that defined East and West Berlin; and by tracing the little studied similarities and extensive exchanges that occurred despite the presence of the Berlin Wall, they present an indispensible study on the politics and culture of the Cold War. Contents : Introduction - Philip Broadbent and Sabine Hake PART I: COLD WAR BEGINNINGS Life Among the Ruins: Sex, Space, and Subculture in Zero Hour Berlin - Jennifer Evans The Propagandistic Role of Modern Art in Postwar Berlin - Maike Steinkamp Back to the Future: New Music’s Revival and Redefinition in Occupied Berlin - Elizabeth Janik The Nylon Curtain: Architectural Unification in Divided Berlin - Greg Castillo Mediascape and Soundscape: Two Landscapes of Modernity in Cold War Berlin - Heiner Stahl PART II: EAST BERLIN, THE SOCIALIST CAPITAL Painting the Berlin Wall in Leipzig: The Politics of Art in 1960s East Germany April Eisman “You Have to Draw a Line Somewhere”: Tropes of Division in DEFA Films from the early 1960s - Mariana Ivanova Building the East German Television Tower - Heather Gumbert Deborah Asher Barnstone: Transparency in Divided Berlin: The Palace of the Republic - Heather Gumbert PART III: WEST BERLIN, SHOWCASE OF THE WEST “I Still Have a Suitcase in Berlin”: Hildegard Knef’s Cold War Movies - Ulrich Bach Benno Ohnesorg, Rudi Dutschke, and the Student Movement in West Berlin: Critical Reflections after Forty Years - David Barclay …
creator: NC
publisher: Berghahn Books
date: September 2010
format: 204
type: Ouvrage

Urban pollution : Cultural meanings, social practices
subject: , ethnologie, anthropologie, immigration, pollution, espace urbain, société urbaine, culture urbaine, cleanliness, propreté, Dürr Eveline, Jaffe Rivke
description: Abstract from the publisher : Re-examining Mary Douglas’ work on pollution and concepts of purity, this volume explores modern expressions of these themes in urban areas, examining the intersections of material and cultural pollution. It presents ethnographic case studies from a range of cities affected by globalization processes such as neoliberal urban policies, privatization of urban space, continued migration and spatialized ethnic tension. What has changed since the appearance of Purity and Danger? How have anthropological views on pollution changed accordingly? This volume focuses on cultural meanings and values that are attached to conceptions of ‘clean’ and ‘dirty’, purity and impurity, healthy and unhealthy environments, and addresses the implications of pollution with regard to discrimination, class, urban poverty, social hierarchies and ethnic segregation in cities. Contents : Introduction: Cultural and Material Forms of Urban Pollution - Rivke Jaffe and Eveline Dürr ‘Tidy Kiwis/Dirty Asians’: Cultural Pollution and Migration in Auckland, New Zealand - Eveline Dürr Private Cleanliness, Public Mess: Purity, Pollution and Space in Kottar, South India - Damaris Lüthi The Jungle and the City: Perceptions of the Urban among Indo-Fijians in Suva, Fiji - Susanna Trnka Gendered Fears of Pollution: Traversing Public Space in Neoliberal Cairo - Anouk de Koning The Choice between Clean and Dirty: Discourses of Aesthetics, Morality and Progress in Post-Revolutionary Asmari, Eritrea - Magnus Treiber Using Pollution to Frame Collective Action: Urban Grassroots Mobilisations in Budapest - Szabina Kerényi Cleanness, Order and Security: The Re-emergence of Restrictive Definitions of Urbanity in Europe - Johanna Rolshoven Social Equity and Social Housing Densification in Glen Innes, New Zealand: A Political Ecology Approach - Kathryn Scott, Angela Shaw and Christina Bava Afterword: Impure Thoughts on Messy Cities - Aidan Davison Eveline Dürr is Professor at the Institute o…
creator: NC
publisher: Berghahn Books
date: August 2010
format: 216
type: Ouvrage

Urban diversity : Space, culture, and inclusive pluralism in cities worldwide
subject: , croissance urbaine, mondialisation, immigration, intégration, exclusion, mixité sociale, espace urbain, Wanjiku Kihato Caroline
description: Abstract from the publisher : As the world's urban populations grow, cities become spaces where increasingly diverse peoples negotiate such differences as language, citizenship, ethnicity and race, class and wealth, and gender. Using a comparative framework, Urban Diversity examines the multiple meanings of inclusion and exclusion in fast—changing urban contexts. The contributors identify specific areas of contestation, including public spaces and facilities, governmental structures, civil society institutions, cultural organizations, and cyberspace. The contributors also explore the socioeconomic and cultural mechanisms that can encourage inclusive pluralism in the world's cities, seeking approaches that view diversity as an asset rather than a threat. Exploring old and new public spaces, practices of marginalized urban dwellers, and actions of the state, the contributors to Urban Diversity assess the formation and reformation of processes of inclusion, whether through deliberate actions intended to rejuvenate democratic political institutions or the spontaneous reactions of city residents. Caroline Wanjiku Kihato is a senior research fellow at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand.
creator: NC
publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press Johns Hopkins University Press
date: September 2010
format: 400
type: Ouvrage

The Europeanization of cities : Policies, urban change and urban networks
subject: Europe, Union Européenne, European Union, réseaux, mutation urbaine, integration, intégration, Hamedinger Alexander, Wolffhardt Alexander
description: Abstract from the publisher : The Europeanization of Cities sheds light on the complex interplay between cities and the EU, both how cities engage with the EU and how the EU engages with cities. In particular, the book considers how EU policies and programmes are acting as a driving force for urban change, and what motivates cities to be present on the EU stage. Furthermore, it addresses the role of cities in the process of European integration (e.g., social policy). The book explores different approaches (mainly institutionalist concepts) to understand the Europeanization of cities and gives empirical evidence for changes on the local level (e.g., Budapest, Amsterdam, Vienna, Birmingham), related to the process of European integration and to the extension of networks between European cities . In theoretical terms, Europeanization of cities seems to be a promising approach, but one that still has to be consolidated. This book helps to delineate a distinct research field which brings together different disciplines (social economic, political, geography) and different aspects. Contents : Introduction : Understanding the interplay between Europe and the cities : Frameworks and perspectives - Alexander Hamedinger and Alexander Wolffhardt Part I Vertical dynamics of Europeanization : The ‘European turn’ of Amsterdam and The Hague: Urban Europeanization in practice - Thea Dukes Return to the European URBAN experience: From the invention of the URBAN programme to its local appropriation in France and England - Irène Mboumoua Lille Métropole: A European city by nature and by choice - Thierry Baert Varieties of Download Europeanization: Post-URBAN Regeneration in Berlin and Vienna - Florian Wukovitsch Europeanization of Ljubljana: Towards competitiveness and sustainability? - Nataša Pichler-Milanović The approach of Budapest to the European Union: The Europeanization of a post-socialist city - Iván Tosics The role of cities in EU social policy - Michele Calandrino and Simon …
creator: NC
publisher: Techne Press
date: 2010
format: 248
type: Ouvrage

Critical urban studies : New directions
subject: , sciences politiques, politique de la ville, politique urbaine, mixité sociale, logement, étalement urbain, pauvreté, Davies Jonathan S., Imbroscio David L.
description: Abstract from the publisher : Essays reevaluating and challenging the critiques of the urban studies field. This volume revisits the tradition of critical scholarship characteristic of the urban studies field. Urban scholarship has had detractors of late, particularly in mainstream political science, where it has been accused of parochialism and insularity. Critical Urban Studies offers a sharp repudiation of this critique, reasserting the need for critical urban scholarship and demonstrating the fundamental importance of urban studies for understanding and changing contemporary social life. Contributors to the volume identify an orthodox perspective in the field, subject it to critique, and map out a future research agenda for the field. The result is a series of inventive essays pointing scholars and students to the major theoretical and policy challenges facing urbanists and other critical social scientists. Contents : Foreword - Clarence N. Stone Introduction - Jonathan S. Davies and David L. Imbroscio PART I: Critical Urban Theory √City - Elvin Wyly Critical Perspectives on the City: Constructivist, Interpretive Analysis of Urban Politics - Mara S. Sidney Seeing like a City: How to Urbanize Political Science - Warren Magnusson Reflections on Urbanity as an Object of Study and a Critical Epistemology - Julie-Anne Boudreau Back to the Future: Marxism and Urban Politics - Jonathan S. Davies Keeping it Critical: Resisting the Allure of the Mainstream - David L. Imbroscio PART II: Critical Urban Policy The Trouble with Diversity - Jeff Spinner-Halev Do Multicultural Cities Help Equality? - Yasminah Beebeejaun Why Do We Want Mixed-Income Housing and Neighborhoods? - James DeFilippis and Jim Fraser Dispersal as Anti-Poverty Policy - Edward G. Goetz and Karen Chapple Beyond Sprawl and Anti-Sprawl - Thad Williamson Jonathan S. Davies is Reader in Public Policy at the University of Warwick. David L. Imbroscio is Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisvi…
creator: NC
publisher: SUNY Press
date: November 2010
format: 234
type: Ouvrage

Global urban analysis : A survey of cities in globalization
subject: global city, ville mondiale, mondialisation, économie, Taylor Peter J.
description: Abstract from the publisher : Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scale customised data collection on how leading businesses use cities across the world: as headquarter locations, for finance, for professional and creative services, for media. These data - involving up to 2000 firms and over 500 cities - provide evidence for both how the leading cities, sometimes called global cities, are coming to dominate the world economy, and how hundreds of other cities are faring in this brave new urban world. Thus can the likes of London, New York and Hong Kong be tracked as well as Manchester, Cleveland and Guangzhou, and even Plymouth, Chattanooga and Xi'an. Cities are assessed and ranked in terms of their importance for various functions such as for financial services, legal services and advertising, plus novel findings are reported for the geographical orientations of their connections. This is truly a comprehensive survey of cities in globalization covering global, world-regional, and national scales of analysis: - 4 key chapters outline the global structure of the world economy featuring the leading cities; - 9 regional chapters covering the whole world also feature the level of services provided by 'medium' cities; - 22 chapters on selected countries and sub-regions indicate global-ness and local-ness and feature an even wider range of cities. Written in an easy to understand style, this book is a must read for anybody interested in their own city in the world and how it relates to other cities. Peter J. Taylor is Professor of Geography and Environmental Management at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK, and Director of the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network.
creator: NC
publisher: Earthscan
date: October 2010
format: 300
type: Ouvrage

After the factory : Reinventing America's industrial small cities
subject: , ville en déclin, désindustrialisation, économie, renouvellement urbain, histoire urbaine, développement durable, développement urbain, United States, États-Unis, Connolly James J., mondialisation
description: Abstract from the publisher : The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S. have decayed sharply as the high-wage manufacturing jobs that provided the foundation for their prosperity disappeared. A few larger cities had the resources to adjust, but most smaller places that relied on factory work have struggled to do so. Unless and until they find new economic roles for themselves, the small cities will continue to decline. Reinventing these smaller cities is a tall order. A few might still function as nodes of industrial production. But landing a foreign-owned auto manufacturer or a green energy plant hardly solves every problem. The new jobs will not be unionized and thus will not pay nearly as much as the positions lost. The competition among localities for high-tech and knowledge economy firms is intense. Decaying towns with poor schools and few amenities are hardly in a good position to attract the "creative-class" workers they need. Getting to the point where they can lure such companies will require extensive retooling, not just economically but in terms of their built environment, cultural character, political economy, and demographic mix. Such changes often run counter to the historical currents that defined these places as factory towns. After the Factory examines the fate of industrial small cities from a variety of angles. It includes essays from a variety of disciplines that consider the sources and character of economic growth in small cities. They delve into the history of industrial small cities, explore the strategies that some have adopted, and propose new tacks for these communities as they struggle to move forward in the twenty-first century. Together, they constitute a unique look at an important and understudied dimension of urban studies and globalization. Contents : Can They Do It? The Capacity …
creator: NC
publisher: Lexington Books
date: October 2010
format: 254
type: Ouvrage

Marginalization in urban China : Comparative perspectives
subject: , droit à la ville, migration urbaine, marginalité, pauvreté, ségrégation résidentielle, néolibéralisme, gouvernance, foncier, urbanisation, citoyenneté, China, Chine, Wu Fulong, Webster Chris
description: Abstract from the publisher : Marginalization in urban China is a consequence of the processes that constrain the disadvantaged from making a claim to citizenship. This book provides insights into marginalization in Chinese cities, and enriches social inequality research by creating comparative perspectives on property right changes, rural to urban migration, the role of the state and welfare restructuring. It covers a wide range of topics such as social inequality and the polarization debates, neoliberalism and the urban poor, urbanization, citizenship and property rights, residential segregation, and reemployment training. The contributors draw on their extensive experiences in urban inequality research to highlight that marginalization in urban China is related to constrained rights rather than deserted 'outcasts'. They base their analyses on up-to-date empirical materials from in-depth interviews, quantitative social surveys, and detailed population census data, which have not been disclosed on such a detailed geographical scale before. Contents : Introduction : China's Urban Marginalization in Comparative Perspectives - F. Wu & C. Webster PART I : CONCEPT AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES OF MARGINALIZATION Urban Inequality : Its Definition, Measurement, Causes and Importance - C. Hamnett Neoliberalism and the Urban Poor : A View from Latin America - A. Gilbert PART II : PROPERTY RIGHTS AND MARGINALIZATION IN CHINA Entitlement to the Benefits of Urbanisation : Comparing Migrant and Peri-Urban 'Peasants' - C. Webster & Y. Zhao Property Rights, Citizenship and the Making of the New Poor in Urban China - F. Wu The Strength of Property Rights, Prospects for the Disadvantaged, and Constraints on the Actions of the Politically Powerful in Hong Kong and China - A. Smart Empowerment or Marginalization : Land, Housing and Property Rights in Poor Neighbourhoods - H.B. Shin PART III : RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION AND MARGINALIZATION Rural-Urban Migration in China : Scale, Composition…
creator: NC
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
date: October 2010
format: 336
type: Ouvrage

Petersburg / Petersburg : Novel and city, 1900 - 1921
subject: Petersburg, Pétersbourg, St. Petersburg, Saint-Pétersbourg, Saint Petersburg, Bely Andrei, Biély Andreï, Bély André, littérature, twentieth century, vigtième siècle, Matich Olga
description: Abstract from the publisher : Since its founding three hundred years ago, the city of Saint Petersburg has captured the imaginations of the most celebrated Russian writers, whose characters map the city by navigating its streets from the aristocratic center to the gritty outskirts. While Tsar Peter the Great planned the streetscapes of Russia’s northern capital as a contrast to the muddy and crooked streets of Moscow, Andrei Bely’s novel Petersburg (1916), a cornerstone of Russian modernism and the culmination of the “Petersburg myth” in Russian culture, takes issue with the city’s premeditated and supposedly rational character in the early twentieth century. “Petersburg”/Petersburg studies the book and the city against and through each other. It begins with new readings of the novel—as a detective story inspired by bomb-throwing terrorists, as a representation of the aversive emotion of disgust, and as a painterly avant-garde text—stressing the novel’s phantasmagoric and apocalyptic vision of the city. Taking a cue from Petersburg’s narrator, the rest of this volume (and the companion Web site, stpetersburg.berkeley.edu) explores the city from vantage points that have not been considered before—from its streetcars and iconic art-nouveau office buildings to the slaughterhouse on the city fringes. From poetry and terrorist memoirs, photographs and artwork, maps and guidebooks of that period, the city emerges as a living organism, a dreamworld in flux, and a junction of modernity and modernism. Olga Matich is professor of Russian literature and culture at the University of California, Berkeley.
creator: NC
publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
date: November 2010
format: 320
type: Ouvrage

Shanghai new towns : Searching for community and identity in a sprawling metropolis
subject: Shanghai, ville nouvelle, urbanisation, croissance urbaine, aménagement urbain, den Hartog Harry
description: Abstract from the publisher : Each year, more than 15 million Chinese leave the rural areas of China and move to the cities. This figure exceeds 300,000 in the case of Shanghai. Before 2015, the majority of China’s population will be living in urban areas. Shanghai New Towns documents and analyses the meteoric rate of urbanization of the countryside round Shanghai, most particularly the part played there by New Towns and New Villages. This decentralized planning model takes its cue from classic examples from Russia and Western Europe. A few pilot new towns have been developed on paper with help from Western designers and then adapted to suit Chinese standards. This book shows how the plans have been put into practice. Photos, essays by Chinese and Western critics and descriptions of projects illustrate what daily life looks like and how these new cities function within the Yangtze River Delta Metropolitan Area as a whole. It dwells at length on the international exchange of knowledge and the differences in method. Harry den Hartog is an urban designer, critic, researcher and writer on urban themes.
creator: NC
publisher: 010 publishers
date: November 2010
format: 416
type: Ouvrage

Urban narratives : Building Barcelona through literature
subject: Barcelona, Barcelone, littérature, histoire urbaine, Gustà Marina, Casacuberta Margarida
description: Abstract from the distributor : In a trajectory that follows not only the topographic and social changes undergone by the city, but also the succession of narrative models that reflect these changes, this book proposes a historical and critical revision of the literary image of Barcelona, constructed and elaborated over the last 150 years. Acting as a mirror of the fears and anxieties of the modern individual faced with society's transformations, the city gives shape to the ideal of progress, as well as to the frustrations when this ideal is not realised. Equally problematic and paradoxical, the literary image of the metropolis gravitates between idealisation and demonisation, as demonstrated by the modern novel from the 19th century to the present. Margarida Casacuberta works in the Departament de Filologia i Communicació at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Marina Gustà is a Professor in the Department of Literature at the Universitat de Barcelona.
creator: NC
publisher: Fundació Antoni Tàpies Actar D (distributor)
date: November 2010
format: 320
type: Ouvrage

Climate change and sustainable urban development in Africa and Asia
subject: , développement urbain, développement durable, changement climatique, ville durable, urbanisation, croissance urbaine, logement, Africa, Afrique, Asia, Asie, Kumssa Asfaw, Yuen Belinda
description: Abstract from the publisher : This book is about African and Asian cities. Illustrated through selected case cities, the book brings together a rich collection of papers by leading scholars and practitioners in Africa and Asia to offer empirical analysis and up-to-date discussions and assessments of the urban challenges and solutions for their cities. A number of key topics concerning housing, sustainable urban development and climate change in Africa and Asia are explored along with how policy interventions and partnerships deliver specific forms of urban development. Audience: This book is intended for all who are interested in the state of the cities and urban development in Africa and Asia. Africa and Asia present, in many ways, useful lessons in dealing with the burgeoning urban population, and the problems surrounding this influx of people and climate change in the developing world. Contents : Part I Introduction Africa and Asia: Two of the World’s Fastest Growing Regions - Belinda Yuen and Asfaw Kumssa Part II Climate Change and Urban Development Climate Change and Living Cities: Global Problems with Local Solutions - Priyanka Anand and Kallidaikurichi Seetharam Climate Change in the Context of Urban Development in Africa - Kempe Ronald Hope, Sr. A Region of Contrasts: Urban Development, Housing and Poverty in Asia - Kioe Sheng Yap The Effects of Climate Change on Urban Human Settlements in Africa Aloysius Clemence Mosha Part III Climate Change and Housing: Case Studies from Africa and Asia Climate Change and the Housing Environment in Ghana - Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwa and Michael Poku-Boansi Creating a Sustainable Living Environment for Public Housing in Singapore - Johnny Liang Heng Wong Climatic Change and Housing Issues in South Africa - Bornwell C. Chikulo Climate Change and Sustainable Housing in Uganda - Stephen A.K. Magezi Housing and Climate Change: Adaptation Strategies in Vietnam - Vinh Hung Hoang Part IV Climate Change and Its Effect on Cities: Case Stu…
creator: NC
publisher: Springer
date: December 2010
format: 266
type: Ouvrage

Urban plots, organizing cities
subject: , tissu urbain, espace urbain, sociabilité, société urbaine, espace public, culture urbaine, Gabbi Francesco, Coletta Claudio, Sonda Giovanna
description: Abstract from the publisher : By focusing on the interplay between material, social and narrative dimensions of the city, this book examines urban complexity, namely the dynamic and entangled nature of urban issues, and puts forward a notion of the city as an urban texture. Taking an innovative interdisciplinary approach, it perceives the way cities are organized as a restless stratification of materials, meanings and uses, and deals with the interrelationships between actors, places, administrative rationalities and artefacts. It argues that urban fabric is 'manufactured' in this interplay between imagery and practices (of all the stake-holders, including planners, city managers and city users). Illustrated by in-depth empirical studies from across Europe and Latin America, the book explores material and symbolic aspects of the urban experience. In particular, the contributors focus on the less visible ways of organizing urban spaces, such as those enacted and embodied by local news, artefacts such as signals, maps, regulations, public acts, artistic performances, sensory experience and collective memories. The book offers an articulated discussion on these various means of spatial organisation, thereby providing insights into situations of conflict and proposing innovative ways forward for enhancing urban sociability. Contents : Foreword: the city narrated, the city organized? Introduction: urban plots, organizing cities - Giovanna Sonda, Claudio Coletta and Francesco Gabbi The graphical performation of a public space: the subway signs and their scripts - Jérôme Denis and David Pontille The wall and the mobile phone: organizing, governing, resisting - Andrea Mubi Brighenti Redefining the right to the city: representations of public space as part of the urban struggles - Stavros Stavrides Hybrid cities: narratives of urban development and popular culture, the case of Medellín (Colombia) - Beatriz Acevedo and Ana Maria Carreira Organizing urban space: tools, process…
creator: NC
publisher: Ashgate
date: December 2010
format: 178
type: Ouvrage

Locating migration : Rescaling cities and migrants
subject: , migration urbaine, migrant, néolibéralisme, world city, ville mondiale, mondialisation, urbanité, insertion, intégration, rénovation urbaine, Caglar Ayse, Glick Schiller Nina
description: Abstract from the publisher : In this book Nina Glick Schiller and Ayse Çaglar, along with a stellar group of contributing authors, examine the relationship between migrants and cities in a time of massive urban restructuring. They find that locality matters in migration research and migrants matter in the reconfiguration of contemporary cities. This book provides a new approach to the study of migrant settlement and transnational connection in which cities rather than nation-states, ethnic groups, or transnational communities serve as the starting point for comparative analysis. Neither negating nor privileging the nation-state, Locating Migration provides ethnographic insights into the various ways in which migrants and specific cities together mutually constitute and contest the local, national, and global. Cities are approached not as containers but as fluid and historically differentiated analytical entry points. Chapters explore migrants' relationship to the neoliberal rebranding, redevelopment, and rescaling of down-and-out, aspiring, and global cities in the United States and Europe. The various chapters document the pathways of incorporation and transnational connection of migrants from Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. Migrants are approached not as a homogenous category but in terms of their range of experiences of class, racialization, gender, history, politics, and religion. Setting aside the migrant/native divide that haunts most migration studies, the authors of this book view migrants as residents of cities and actors within them, understanding that to be a resident of a city is to live within, contribute to, and contest globe-spanning processes that shape urban economy, politics, and culture. Contents : Introduction : migrants and cities - Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller The urban question and the scale question : some conceptual clarification - Neil Brenne The socioterritoriality of cities : a framework for understanding the incorporatio…
creator: NC
publisher: Cornell University Press
date: December 2010
format: 288
type: Ouvrage

Global urbanization
subject: , urbanisation, croissance urbaine, planification, mondialisation, pays en développement, developing countries, Asia, Asie, Africa, Afrique, mégapole, Birch Eugenie L., Wachter Susan M.
description: Abstract from the publisher : For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in urban areas. Much of this urbanization has been fueled by the rapidly growing cities of the developing world, exemplified most dramatically by booming megacities such as Lagos, Karachi, and Mumbai. In the coming years, as both the number and scale of cities continue to increase, the most important matters of social policy and economic development will necessarily be urban issues. Urbanization, across the world but especially in Asia and Africa, is perhaps the critical issue of the twenty-first century. Global Urbanization surveys essential dimensions of this growth and begins to formulate a global urban agenda for the next half century. Drawing from many disciplines, the contributors tackle issues ranging from how cities can keep up with fast-growing housing needs to the possibilities for public-private partnerships in urban governance. Several essays address the role that cutting-edge technologies such as GIS software, remote sensing, and predictive growth models can play in tracking and forecasting urban growth. Reflecting the central importance of the Global South to twenty-first-century urbanism, the volume includes case studies and examples from China, India, Uganda, Kenya, and Brazil. While the challenges posed by large-scale urbanization are immense, the future of human development requires that we find ways to promote socially inclusive growth, environmental sustainability, and resilient infrastructure. The timely and relevant scholarship assembled in Global Urbanization will be of great interest to scholars and policymakers in demography, geography, urban studies, and international development. Eugenie L. Birch is Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education, Department of City and Regional Planning, PennDesign. Susan M. Wachter is Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Real Estate and Finance at the Wh…
creator: NC
publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
date: December 2010
format: 384
type: Ouvrage