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Nineteenth-Century cities

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Today, I want to do the impossible and talk about urbanization and urban growth in fifty minutes. I'll give the classic example, which is the greatest project of human intervention or rebuilding, that is the…

Mots-clés: banlieue, centre-ville, croissance urbaine, dix-neuvième siècle, histoire urbaine, nineteenth century, ségrégation sociale, ségrégation urbaine, société urbaine, urbanisation

Urban colossus: Why is New York America's largest city?

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Edward Glaeser looks at the history of New York and its contemporary character in order to answer the question of why New York became the largest city in America. He focuses especially on the economic aspects behind the city's growth.

Edward…

Mots-clés: croissance urbaine, économie, histoire urbaine, mutation urbaine

Tipping points in urban change: Modern perspectives on agents of urbanization

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This symposium considered the similarities and differences in the histories of urban modernization in cities during the late 19th through the early 21st century—with a look at global cities now under construction or in the planning stages. The…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, Détroit, économie, histoire urbaine, modernisation, mutation urbaine, Seoul

Motor City : The rise and fall of Detroit

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Robert Fishman teaches in the urban design, architecture, and urban planning programs at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. and A.M. in history from Harvard and his A.B. in history from Stanford University. He is a nationally…

Mots-clés: désindustrialisation, Détroit, économie, forme urbaine, histoire urbaine, mutation urbaine, ville en déclin

Lost landscapes of Detroit

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LOST LANDSCAPES OF DETROIT; an eclectic montage of rediscovered and rarely-seen archival film clips exhibiting life; cityscapes, labor and leisure from ‘vanishing Detroit’, as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers from…

Mots-clés: Détroit, géographie urbaine, histoire urbaine, patrimoine urbain, ville en déclin

The right to the city

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David Harvey discusses the concept of the right of the city, with a particular focus on political philosophy. Theorists and topics discussed include Marxism, the work of Henri Lefebvre and Haussmann's transformation of Paris.

David Harvey is a…

Mots-clés: capitalisme, droit à la ville, économie, histoire urbaine, marxisme, philosophie, politique de la ville, sciences politiques, sociologie urbaine

Quartiers et mémoires de migrations

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L’équipe Diasporas (FRAMESPA - UMR 5136) et la Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration ont organisé du 13 au 15 octobre 2009 des journées d’étude autour de trois axes : - une…

Mots-clés: ethnologie, histoire urbaine, immigration, mémoire, quartier populaire, sociologie urbaine

Histoire des villes

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Un entretien mis en ligne par les Archives Audiovisuelles de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines et Sociales Donatella CALABI consacre son travail de recherche aux origines de l'urbanisme en Europe ainsi qu'à la ville à l'âge…

Mots-clés: Calabi Donatella, Europe, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, Venise, ville européenne

Madrid, ville de cour

Présentation par le diffuseur : Le retour de Philippe III et de sa cour à Madrid en 1606 implique une nouvelle donne pour les rapports entre la société de cour espagnole et la société madrilène. Le…

Mots-clés: cour, gouvernement, histoire urbaine, Madrid, société urbaine

L’histoire, vue de Bab el Oued

Présentation par le diffuseur : Abderrhamane Khelifa est archéologue, historien, il fut directeur de l’agence nationale d’archéologie et de protection des sites historiques, puis directeur du patrimoine culturel au…

Mots-clés: Alger, colonisation, histoire urbaine, Khelifa Abderrhamane, patrimoine urbain

The psychogeographic mapping of a city: City-dwellers and lived spaces in Walker Evans' Havana

Full title: The psychogeographic mapping of a city: City-dwellers and lived spaces in Walker Evans' Havana portfolio (1933) In this research seminar, James Clifford Kent starts by introducing 'the origins of fascinations with Walker Evans and his…

Mots-clés: Evans Walter, flânerie, flâneur, Havana, histoire urbaine, Kent James Clifford, La Havane, photographie, psychogéographie, psychogeography

The flâneur on the bus: Franz Hessel and Joseph Roth in Weimar Berlin

Organisers' description of the seminar series (source): The School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway is pleased to announce a series of lunchtime Research Seminars in Comparative Literature and Culture. The…

Mots-clés: Berlin, flânerie, flâneur, Hessel Franz, histoire urbaine, Hughes Jon, littérature, Roth Joseph

Applying new spatial techniques in the study of late medieval London

"This paper aims to present a summary of elements both of my own PhD research and also some current related ongoing work both within the UK and on the Continent which attempts... to use new or digital approaches to the "spatial turn"…

Mots-clés: analyse spatiale, cartographie, Colson Jeremy, espace urbain, histoire urbaine, London, Londres, méthodologie, Middle Ages, Moyen Âge

Two Parisian re-writings of the flâneur: The failure and the planner

Abstract from the organisers (source): A series of research seminars exploring the flâneur – meaning anidler or loafer – will be launched this week by the School of Modern Languages,Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway,…

Mots-clés: Baudelaire Charles, Benjamin Walter, flâneur, histoire urbaine, littérature, Paris, rue, Thompson Hannah

Urbanizing China in war and peace, Wuxi 1911-1945

Toby Lincoln discusses the themes of his forthcoming book, which focuses on urbanization in China, with an emphasis on the city of Wuxi in the first half of the twentieth century. Toby Lincoln is a Lecturer in Chinese Urban History in the School of…

Mots-clés: China, Chine, histoire urbaine, Lincoln Toby, twentieth century, urbanisation, ville en guerre, vingtième siècle, Wuxi

Mapping Cairo: Modern literary representations of the city

Extract from a review of Mehrez's lecture, "Celebrating Cairo's 'Underground Historians'" by Nadeen Shaker: Samia Mehrez, a professor of Arab and Islamic Civilizations, describes Cairo as the protagonist of a story seen and told by its…

Mots-clés: Cairo, espace urbain, histoire urbaine, Le Caire, littérature, Mehrez Samia

History as urban archaeology - Writing 'Mumbai Fables'

A lecture by Gyan Prakash, author of Mumbai Fables (Princeton University Press, 2010). Princeton University Press: A place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of…

Mots-clés: Bombay, culture urbaine, histoire urbaine, Mumbai, Mumbai Fables, Prakash Gyan, urbanité

Worse than Cimmeran Darkness: Fog and the representation of Victorian London

In this 2011 seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London School of Advanced Study, Joseph de Sapio discusses fog in the representation of Victorian London, particularly from the perspective of tourists to the city. He argues…

Mots-clés: brouillard, citadin, de Sapio Joseph, dix-neuvième siècle, environnement urbain, fog, histoire urbaine, London, Londres, nineteenth century, représentations, tourisme, urbanité, Victorian London

On the geopolitical and discursive origins of cosmopolitanism in Hong Kong

Abstract from the distributor: This talk proposes to explore the complex origins of a unique cosmopolitan culture in 1980s Hong Kong, which among other things represented the historical intersection of a changing colonialism, divisive nationalist…

Mots-clés: Chun Allen, cosmopolitisme, culture urbaine, histoire urbaine, Hong Kong

Ideas of the metropolis : Anglo American conference of historians 2009

This lecture was part of the Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009, on the theme 'cities'. Conference description by the organisers : The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and…

Mots-clés: culture urbaine, histoire urbaine, identité, Keene Derek, métropole, prestige, status

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