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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…
Bloomberg's New York : Class and governance in the luxury city
Abstract from the publisher : What happens when our mayors are CEOs? New York mayor Michael Bloomberg claims to run the city like a business. In Bloomberg’s New York, Julian Brash applies methods from anthropology, geography, and other…
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…
Arteries of New York City (1941)
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Ce documentaire montre les diférents moyens de transport mis en oeuvre pour entrer et sortir de la ville de New York ou pour se déplacer à l'intérieur même de la métropole…
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…
'Race', culture and the right to the city: Centres, peripheries, margins
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Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the periphery and considers the role that 'race' continues to play in structuring the metropolis,…