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Beijing record : A physical and political history of planning modern Beijing
Abstract from the publisher : Beijing Record, the result of ten years of research on the urban transformation of Beijing in the last fifty years, brings to an extended Western audience the inside story on the key decisions that led to Beijing's…
Cities at war in early modern Europe
Abstract from the publisher : Between 1550 and 1700, artillery siege warfare transformed the European city, which was theorized, fortified, violated, rebuilt, and celebrated by leading artists and architects. The fortified perimeter, with its…
Mapping modernity in Shanghai : Space, gender, and visual culture in the sojourners' city, 1853-98
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This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of…
The American urban reader : History and theory
Abstract from the publisher : The American Urban Reader brings together the most exciting work on the evolution of the American city, from colonial settlement and western expansion to post-industrial cities and the growth of the suburbs. Each of…
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…
L'invention du grand ensemble. La caisse des dépôts, maître d'ouvrage
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Le milieu des années 50 marque un tournant dans les rapports de la Caisse des dépôts à la difficile question de l'habitat "populaire". Alors qu'elle n'était…
Civitas by design : Building better communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism
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Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but to strengthen civic ties through better design of built environments. From…
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…
Grands ensembles en situation
Présentation par l'éditeur : Grands ensembles en situation. Journal de bord de quatre chantiers. À la façon d'un journal de bord construit rétrospectivement, cet ouvrage revisite quatre opérations de…
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…
Les faiseurs de villes, 1850-1950
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Les "portraits" de concepteurs de villes, d’urbanistes, d’aménageurs, de rêveurs, déjà publiés dans la revue Urbanisme et regroupés ici,…
Paysages des campus : urbanisme, architecture et patrimoine
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Les "paysages des campus" sont issus de choix qui associent, depuis les lendemains de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des questions d'urbanisme, d'architecture et de patrimoine.
La construction des…
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…
Town planning in practice; an introduction to the art of designing cities and suburbs
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When a Bill conferring town planning powers on municipal bodies was promised by the Government, it occurred to me that it would probably be of use if some of the maps, photographs, and other material which I had collected…
New ideals in the planning of cities, towns and villages
Extract from a review of 'New ideals in the planning of cities, towns and villages' from the Discovering Urbanism blog : "Probably more than anyone else, John Nolen was the voice of the early American city planning establishment... New ideals…
Garden cities of to-morrow
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Among the many 'utopian' proposals of the 19th century, this particular short text stands out. Howard was a 19th century British reformer and city planner. He was influenced by Bellamy's Looking Backwards. He saw new,…
American city planning since 1890
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City planning is an ancient activity but a modern profession. The city planning profession in the United States arose from the urban reform movements of the 1890s and early years of this century. Here, in a volume…
The remaking of Istanbul : Portrait of an Ottoman city in the nineteenth century
From the introduction : During the nineteenth century, a concerted effort was made to transform the Ottoman capital of Istanbul into a Western-style capital, paralleling the general struggle to salvage the Ottoman Empire by reforming its…
America becomes urban : The development of U.S. cities and towns 1780-1980
From the preface :
The American city: we think of the Manhattan skyline, of Chicago curving along the shore of Lake Michigan, or of the Golden Gate Bridge arcing into San Francisco. Or, if we think historically, we might envision steerage…
The urban machine: Recent literature on European cities in the 20th century
Contents: Mercedes Arroyo - Technical networks and urban territory: A survey of the literature in Spain Bengt Berglund - Urban history in Sweden: An overview Mikael Hård and Marcus Stippak - Discourses on the modern city and urban technology,…