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Petite sociologie de la signalétique. Les coulisses des panneaux du métro
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Dans les villes, sur les routes, au supermarché : les panneaux indicateurs sont partout. Si leur présence semble évidente, leur forme, leur contenu, leur emplacement ne vont pourtant…
New York - Histoires, promenades, anthologie et dictionnaire
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Malgré la concurrence d'autres cités tentaculaires dans le monde, New York conserve un extraordinaire pouvoir de fascination.
Emblème du matérialisme triomphant, cette ville est…
Atlas de New York
New York, à la croisée des réseaux économiques et culturels, incarne la toute puissance de la ville globale. Première mégapole du monde dans les années 1950, elle n’a plus le monopole de la modernité face à la mégapole asiatique de Tokyo ou celle de…
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 sociology of a New York city block
Alternative link to the book via the Making of America digital library at the University of Michigan.
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.
See also a LibriVox audio recording of the book.
Alternative link to a different full-text version…
The city and the world: New York's global future
Abstract from the publisher: At first glance a study on cities and foreign policy may seem a bold leap into the future of international relations, but it represents, rather, a giant step into the present--into what is already taking place across…
Inside Greenwich Village : A New York City neighborhood, 1898-1918
From the preface : Most books about twentieth-century Greenwich Village history focus on the artists, writers, and cultural radicals whose activities brought the Village international fame as America's bohemia. Other residents of the Village, if…
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…
Modernity and the cities of the Jews. Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History (No. 2)
Extract from the introduction by Cristiana Facchini : First of all, our journey is meant to be a snapshot of Jewish culture through cities, but it also aims to depict a much more complicated picture of the interplay between modernity and Jewish…
Cities under siege: September 11th and after. City (Vol. 5, No. 3)
Extract from the section introduction by Bob Catterall: The image of a siege suggested itself as we first began on the 13th of September to explore with others the meanings of the attacks, and their implications for policy and action, on New York…
The progressives and the slums: Tenement house reform in New York City, 1890-1917
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Contents:
1. The origins of tenement reform, 1830-1865
2. The tenement comes of age, 1866-1890
3. Jacob A. Riis: Portrait of a reformer
4. The Tenement House Committee of 1894
5. Lawrence Veiller and the New York…
The mysteries of the great city: The politics of urban design, 1877-1937
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The Mysteries of the Great City examines the physical, cultural, and political transformations of the American city between the Gilded Age and the New Deal. Focusing on New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati, John Fairfield…
A shout in the street : An excursion into the modern city
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A remarkable meditation on the topography of the modern city, A Shout in the Street offers a close and sensitive examination of four urban landscapes -- London, Paris, Leningrad, and New York. Peter Jukes pursues the…
City in sight : Dutch dealings with urban change
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Huge social transformations and turbulent political events - 9/11 and the political murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh - have put urban issues high on the political agenda of the Netherlands. Against this…
The New York approach : Robert Moses, urban liberals, and the redevelopment of the inner city
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Joel Schwartz's major reinterpretation of urban development in New York City examines Robert Moses's role in shaping the city and demonstrates for the first time that Moses's personal and ruthless crusade to redevelop…