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Sociologie de Lyon
Présentation par l'éditeur : Lyon, ville bourgeoise et froide, jalouse de Paris ; Lyon, ville de la soie, des Canuts et de Guignol ; Lyon, capitale de la gastronomie... Nombreux sont les stéréotypes associés…
Cities under siege : The new military urbanism
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Powerful exposé of how contemporary political violence now perates through sites, space and infrastructures of everyday life
Cities have become the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the…
Spatial planning and urban development : Critical perspectives
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Urban planning is a complex field of knowledge and practice. Through the decades, theoretical debate has formed an eclectic set of possible perspectives, without finding, in our opinion, a coherent paradigmatic…
Manifestoes and transformations in the early modernist city
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The industrialization of the nineteenth-century European city facilitated developing conceptions of the model city, and allowed for large scale urban transformations. The urban discourse in the latter half of the…
Cities, texts and social networks, 400–1500
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Cities, Texts and Social Networks examines the experiences of urban life from late antiquity through the close of the fifteenth century, in regions ranging from late Imperial Rome to Muslim Syria, Iraq and al-Andalus,…
Streets of memory : Landscape, tolerance, and national identity in Istanbul
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In this study of Kuzguncuk, known as one of Istanbul’s historically most tolerant, multiethnic neighborhoods, Amy Mills is animated by a single question: what does it mean to live in a place that once…
Requiem : For the city at the end of the millenium
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In this small, but sharply-pointed book, renowned theorist Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn of…
Colonial metropolis : The urban grounds of anti-imperialism and feminism in interwar Paris
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World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected to return without protest to their homes–either overseas or…
La pauvreté durable ? Au Bangladesh, à Dhaka et dans le monde
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L'Asie du Sud est devenue "l'épicentre de la pauvreté mondiale" avec près de 40% de la population pauvre du monde. L'évolution de la société bangladaise…
Le logement social en Europe au début du XXIe siècle. La révision générale
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Cet ouvrage analyse les transformations du logement social dans l’Union européenne au cours des trois dernières décennies. La politique du logement offre une excellente…
L’Eau mondialisée - La gouvernance en question
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Face à un champ de l'eau traditionnellement fragmenté en de multiples thématiques rivales - réseau, ressource, service public, marchandise, bien collectif, droit à l'eau…
Distributed urbanism : Cities after Google Earth
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What form of housing will emerge in Dubai, where the majority of the population are non-citizens and average length of stay three days? How will depopulating cities reclaim vacant space, reorganize infrastructure and…
Beyond preservation : Using public history to revitalize inner cities
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Across the United States, historic preservation has become a catalyst for urban regeneration. Entrepreneurs, urban pioneers, and veteran city dwellers have refurbished thousands of dilapidated properties and put them…
Montpellier, la ville inventée
Présentation par l'éditeur : Montpellier est passée du statut de capitale régionale à celui de technopole jusqu’à s’afficher peu à peu métropole. Concernant les questions…
Urban modernity: Cultural innovation in the second Industrial Revolution
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At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. Urban Modernity examines the construction of an…
Favela : Four decades of living on the edge in Rio de Janeiro
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A billion people, almost half of all city dwellers in the developing world, live in squatter settlements. The most famous of these settlements are the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, which have existed for over a century…
Manhattan projects : The rise and fall of urban renewal in Cold War New York
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Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in…
What we see : Advancing the observations of Jane Jacobs
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A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the…
Cultural diversity in Russian cities : The urban landscape in the Post-Soviet era
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Cultural diversity — the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture — is a catchphrase increasingly used in place of multiculturalism and in conjunction with…
Villes et sociétés urbaines en Amérique coloniale
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La fondation des villes espagnoles outre-Atlantique a permis de dominer l'espace conquis. Instrument de la colonisation, les nouvelles cités ont été les lieux d'installation…