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Kinshasa. Architecture et paysages urbains
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Parmi les plus vastes mégalopoles, Kinshasa témoigne d'une urbanisation débridée. De son noyau colonial historique aux banlieues en construction, la ville et ses habitants sont…
Le Paris moderne - Histoire des politiques d'hygiène (1855-1898)
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Fabienne Chevallier retrace à l’aide de sources encore inédites l’émergence de la modernité de Paris au XIXe siècle, sous-tendue par la notion de "Bien…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Le Cap
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"Auberge des océans", bout du monde et aboutissement d’un continent, Le Cap est une ville mythique dont la légende est sans doute mieux connue que l’histoire…
Contemporary urbanism in Brazil: Beyond Brasília
Abstract from the publisher : For decades, a succession of military regimes and democratic governments in Brazil sought to shape the future of their society through the manipulation of urban spaces. Planned cities were built that reflected the…
The public and its possibilities : Triumphs and tragedies in the American city
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…
Ville et religion en Europe du XVIe au XXe siècle
Présentation par l'éditeur : Parmi les finalités de cet ouvrage, il y a la volonté d’instaurer un dialogue entre historiens du religieux et historiens de l’urbain. En effet, l’espace du religieux, en…
Restless cities
Leading intellectuals reimagine the city as a site of ceaseless change and motion. The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. Restless Cities celebrates the ceaselessly inventive character of the metropolitan city from the nineteenth…
Ismaïlia. Architectures XIXe-XXe siècles
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Cet ouvrage, consacré à Ismaïlia, deuxième ville créée ex nihilo le long du canal de Suez en 1862, fait suite au guide d’architecture de Port-Saïd…
New York
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New York est assurément une "ville d’art", par les collections exceptionnelles que ses musées ont accueilli depuis la fin du XIXe siècle, par la place prise par la ville…
The historian and the city
Extract from the Preface:
...[T]he Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the Harvard University Summer Session [decided] to convene a conference, in August, 1961, that would consider the…
The growth of cities in the nineteenth century : A study in statistics
Extract from the 'Biographical Note' by Barclay G. Jones :
Lewis Mumford is certainly correct in describing The Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century as a "classic pioneer work". It is the first really sound, comprehensive, and…
The battle with the slum
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…
How the other half lives
See also the Collections Portal of the Museum of the City of New York, where more than 1400 photographs taken by Riis are available to view online.
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