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L'actualité de Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe : aspirations sociales et espace urbain
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L'oeuvre de Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe (1913-1996) reste présente essentiellement dans trois domaines : l'urbanisme, les aspirations sociales et les dynamiques de la contre-culture. L'ouvrage…
Great American city: Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect
Abstract from the publisher: For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our…
Everyday life in the segmented city
Abstract from the publisher: This volume of "Research in Urban Sociology" is composed of a selection of the papers presented at the conference "Everyday Life in the Segmented City" held in July 2010, Florence. The conference…
Cities and sexualities
Abstract from the publisher: From the hotspots of commercial sex through to the suburbia of twitching curtains, urban life and sexualities appear inseparable. Cities are the source of our most familiar images of sexual practice, and are the spaces…
Sanctuaries of the city: Lessons from Tokyo
Abstract from the publisher: This book proposes that we can learn from Tokyo about the instrinsic importance of in-between realms to an international culture: the sanctuaries. It argues that certain urban societies are more robust than others…
The ghetto : Contemporary global issues and controversies
Abstract from the publisher : Too often the term “ghetto” is simply applied to any African American community, to the inner city as a whole, or recently to anything that is degraded or unrefined. But what is a ghetto? Does it arise…
Henri Lefebvre on space : Architecture, urban research, and the production of theory
Abstract from the publisher : In this innovative work, Łukasz Stanek frames a uniquely contextual appreciation of Henri Lefebvre’s idea that space is a social product. Stanek explicitly confronts both the philosophical and the empirical…
The cosmopolitan canopy : Race and civility in everyday life
Abstract from the publisher : An acclaimed sociologist illuminates the public life of an American city, offering a major reinterpretation of the racial dynamics in America. Following his award-winning work on inner-city violence, Code of the…
Les agents immobiliers. Pour une sociologie des acteurs des marchés du logement
Présentation par l'éditeur : Alors que plus de la moitié des ménages français sont propriétaires de leur logement, on sait encore peu de choses sur la manière dont se construisent les choix des…
Suburbanization in global society
Abstract from the publisher : Most urban growth over the last several decades has been in suburban areas, but research in urban sociology and other urban disciplines has been focused on the city (the global city, the networked city, the…
Michel Bassand un sociologue de l’espace et son monde
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Par sa pensée pionnière et originale, Michel Bassand a marqué la sociologie urbaine européenne. Cet ouvrage propose une synthèse de ses principaux apports, des recherches…
Sociologie de Lyon
Présentation par l'éditeur : Lyon, ville bourgeoise et froide, jalouse de Paris ; Lyon, ville de la soie, des Canuts et de Guignol ; Lyon, capitale de la gastronomie... Nombreux sont les stéréotypes associés…
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…
Favela : Four decades of living on the edge in Rio de Janeiro
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A billion people, almost half of all city dwellers in the developing world, live in squatter settlements. The most famous of these settlements are the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, which have existed for over a century…
Cultural diversity in Russian cities : The urban landscape in the Post-Soviet era
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Cultural diversity — the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture — is a catchphrase increasingly used in place of multiculturalism and in conjunction with…
Transformative cities in the new global order : Accumulation by dispossession
Abstract from the publisher : Globalisation and a neo-liberal world order are impacting the global urban system, resulting in massive transformation of cities across the world. This transformation, which is currently the centre of focus among…
Enhancing the city : New perspectives for tourism and leisure
Abstract from the publisher : Departing from a survey on the post-modern landscapes of tourism, this book explores the transformations the city has undergone and the way it has become a simulacrum offered to tourists, spectacularised with the aim…
The other global city
What is a Global City? Who authorizes the World Class City? This edited volume interrogates the "global cities" literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial "global network." Through a historical-ethnographic…
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…