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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…
Saigon's edge : On the margins of Ho Chi Minh City
Abstract from the publisher : Exploring the places where the rural and urban intersect, where many of the world’s people live. Much of the world’s population inhabits the urban fringe, an area that is neither fully rural nor urban.…
Métamorphoses des villes industrielles. Vivre la ville désindustrialisée
Depuis plus de quarante ans, les villes industrielles connaissent de profonds bouleversements socio-économiques et politiques. Petite ou moyenne, la ville industrielle est abordée par une réflexion sur l'habiter. Souvent réduite à des fonctions…
Nature en ville, natures de la ville
Enregistrements vidéo de la journée d’étude organisée à l’Institut des Sciences de l’Homme (ISH, Lyon) le 15 novembre 2013.
Cette journée est consacrée à la nature en ville comme valeur - nouvelle ? - de l'espace urbain. Dans un contexte de…
Cette journée est consacrée à la nature en ville comme valeur - nouvelle ? - de l'espace urbain. Dans un contexte de…
Vienna 1900: Art, life and culture
Abstract from the publisher: At the turn of the 20th century, Vienna was one of the most exciting cities on earth - the central gathering spot of the European avant-garde in art, architecture, literature, music, journalism, philosophy, psychiatry,…
Migrants and strangers in an African city: Exile, dignity, belonging
Abstract from the publisher: In cities throughout Africa, local inhabitants live alongside large populations of “strangers.” Bruce Whitehouse explores the condition of strangerhood for residents who have come from the West African Sahel…
Urbanisation sans urbanisme, une histoire de la ville diffuse
L’urbanisme traditionnel peine à appréhender des formes d’urbanisation aujourd’hui largement majoritaires en Europe : les territoires contemporains "d’entre-deux", ni urbains ni ruraux. Ils posent question à ceux qui les analysent, les organisent…
Le projet urbain en temps de crise : l'exemple de Lisbonne
Mise à sac, tremblement de terre, incendie ou révolutions : plus qu'ailleurs ce sont les moments de crise qui battent la mesure des évolutions urbaines à Lisbonne. De hauts faits qui contrastent fortement avec une certaine inertie dans le changement,…
Cities of signs: Learning the logic of urban spaces
Abstract from the publisher: Signs exist as fundamental markers of the urban landscape. Whether in the form of street signs offering directions, the airbrushed promises of advertising media or the vandalized détournements of street art, signs…
The city : Urban communities and their problems
From the preface : Many recent urban sociology textbooks have come close to abandoning the traditional concern of urban sociology, which is the community in urban society. Emphasis has shifted to individual adaptations to urban society or to…
Reading the Islamic city: Discursive practices and legal judgment
Abstract from the publisher: Reading the Islamic City offers insights into the implications the practices of the Maliki school of Islamic law have for the inhabitants of the Islamic city, the madinah. The problematic term madinah fundamentally…
Children, youth and the city
Abstract from the publisher: More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. This text provides a vivid picture of children and youth in the city, how they make sense of it and how they…
Chandigarh - living with Le Corbusier
Abstract from the publisher : In the nineteen-fifties the architectural profession turned its gaze towards India where Le Corbusier had been commissioned to build an ideal modern city. Today, Chandigarh is a pulsating metropolis while, at the same…
Unfolding the semiotic web in urban discourse
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The main focus of this volume is on urbanity as a discursive way of human life in the city. Discourse is specified here in terms of semiotic codes and processes that link city dwellers as communicating selves into…
The rise of the Paris red belt
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From 1920 until the present, the working-class suburbs of Paris, known as the Red Belt, have constituted the heart of French Communism, providing the Party not only with its most solid electoral base but with much of…
Un philosophe en ville. Essais
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Curieusement, l’architecture et la ville n’attirent guère les philosophes, qui semblent plus à l’aise avec les droits de l’homme, les nouvelles technologies ou…
Violence in the city : Understanding and supporting community responses to urban violence
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For millions of people around the world, violence, or the fear of violence, is a daily reality. Much of this violence concentrates in urban centers in the developing world. Cities are now home to half the world's…