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'Race', culture and the right to the city: Centres, peripheries, margins
Abstract from the publisher:
Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the periphery and considers the role that 'race' continues to play in structuring the metropolis,…
London under: The secret history beneath the streets
Abstract from the publisher: London Under is a wonderful, atmospheric, imaginative, oozing short study of everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheaters to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts, and modern…
London, 1100-1600: The archaeology of a capital city
Abstract from the publisher: Since the early 1970s the increasingly effective conduct of archaeological work in the City of London and surrounding parts of the conurbation have revolutionised our view of the development and European importance of…
Lessons for the Big Society: Planning, regeneration and the politics of community participation
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This book provides concrete examples of the ways in which shifting academic debates, policy and political approaches have impacted on a specific place over the past 30 years. It offers a critical analysis of the history,…
The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay
Abstract from the publisher : This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and…
The stones of London : A history in twelve buildings
Abstract from the publisher : In a sweeping narrative, from its mythic origins to the glittering towers of the contemporary financial capital, THE STONES OF LONDON tells the story of twelve London buildings in a kaleidoscopic and unexpected history…
The evolution of great world cities : Urban wealth and economic growth
Abstract from the publisher : Some cities seem destined to become major financial capitals, yet never do—Seville, for instance, was the centre of Spain's opulent New World Empire, but failed to become a financial metropolis. Others, like…
Le village dans la ville
Présentation par l'éditeur : "Il faut se réjouir de la réédition de ce classique de l'anthropologie urbaine devenu une référence incontournable des études de la parenté occidentale…
Reforming urban labor : Routes to the city, roots in the country
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Reforming Urban Labor is a history of the nineteenth-century social reforms designed by middle-class progressives to domesticate the labor force. Industrial production required a concentrated labor force, but the…
Londres, 1700-1900 : naissance d'une capitale culturelle
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Si Londres est aujourd’hui un des grands marchés de l’art, on oublie souvent qu’elle l’a été depuis trois siècles. Dans une Grande-Bretagne protestante…
Les baby-boomers : une génération mobile
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Après les débats de ces dernières années sur la réforme des retraites, nul n’est censé ignorer les problèmes liés à…
London labour and the London poor (Vol. 2)
Extract from the Preface to Volume One : The present volume is the first of an intended series, which it is hoped will form, when complete, a cyclopaedia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great Metropolis. Henry Mayhew (1812 - 1887)…
London labour and the London poor (Vol. 3)
The present volume is the first of an intended series, which it is hoped will form, when complete, a cyclopaedia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great Metropolis. Henry Mayhew (1812 - 1887) was an English social researcher, journalist…
London labour and the London poor (Vol. 1)
Full title : London labour and the London poor; a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. Extract from the Preface : The present volume is the first of an intended…
Promenades dans Londres
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Une édition électronique réalisée à partir du livre de Flora Tristan, Promenades dans Londres. Paris : H.-L. Delloye, éditeur ; Londres : W. Jeffs, Libraire, 1840…
London : A pilgrimage
From Peter Ackroyd's introduction to the 2005 Anthem Press edition :
"London: A Pilgrimage" is an enlightening work that brings to life the chaotic and gloomy past of a great city on the cusp of modern times. 180 incredible etchings by…
The imagination of class: Masculinity and the Victorian urban poor
Extract from the Introduction: The poor were always with the English. Poverty had been of broad social concern since the Elizabethan period at least: the topic of ongoing debate, periodic legislation, sporadic philanthropy. But the London poor of…
Integrated city making: Governance, planning and transport
Abstract from the publisher: Integrated City Making is a report by Philipp Rode, Julie Wagner, Richard Brown, Rit Chandra and Jayaraj Sundaresan of the Urban Age Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2007, Urban Age…