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L'avènement d'une ville universitaire. La création de Louvain-la-Neuve. Hommage à Michel Woitrin
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Au terme d’une longue crise entamée dès le début du 20e siècle mais qui se précipita à partir des lois linguistiques de 1962, le Gouvernement belge…
La politesse des maisons : Renée Gailhoustet, architecte
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Bénédicte Chaljub, elle-même architecte et plasticienne, présente l’œuvre originale de Renée Gailhoustet, protagoniste majeure et discrète de…
Le territoire des philosophes - Lieu et espace dans la pensée au XXe siècle
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L’espace, le lieu, le territoire, la ville, le paysage ne sont pas des sujets étudiés prioritairement par les philosophes contemporains, alors même que l’urbanisation…
Du logement à la ville (1945-2000). Chronique d'un demi-siècle de bouleversements
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L’ambition de cet ouvrage est de retracer, dans ses grandes lignes, le cheminement de la politique de l’État vis à vis du logement, en particulier social, en France, depuis la fin…
Les carnets d'architecture de la Méditerranée d'Albert Laprade
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Plus de 3 000 croquis d'Albert Laprade
Du Maroc au Portugal, de l'Espagne à la France, de l'Italie à la Turquie, en passant par la Croatie, la Serbie, l'Albanie et la Grèce, Albert…
Bagdad arts déco
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Avec les Sumériens et les Assyriens, la Mésopotamie porta au plus haut raffinement l'art de la construction et du décor en brique. Cette technique, transmise par les Abbassides, s'est…
Problems of city life: A study in urban sociology
Extract from Part I - Introductory: The modern city:
The most striking characteristics of present-day civilization are industrialization and urbanization. They present the environment, both natural and human, to which an increasing majority of people…
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…
The Urban Condition
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What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even postsuburban cityscape ? What are edge cities and…
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 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,…
Modernity and the cities of the Jews. Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History (No. 2)
Extract from the introduction by Cristiana Facchini : First of all, our journey is meant to be a snapshot of Jewish culture through cities, but it also aims to depict a much more complicated picture of the interplay between modernity and Jewish…
Revue Urbanisme
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Garbage in the cities: Refuse, reform, and the environment
Abstract from the publisher: As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a thousand tons a day in New York City alone-that clogged streets and…
Twentieth-century Pittsburgh, Volume Two. The post-steel era
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This volume traces the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the city of Pittsburgh during its urban renewal project, which began in 1977. Roy Lubove demonstrates how the city showed…
Twentieth-century Pittsburgh, Volume One: Government, business, and environmental change
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First published in 1969, Roy Lubove's Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh is a pioneering analysis of elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal in a city once disdained as "hell with the lid off." The book…
The progressives and the slums: Tenement house reform in New York City, 1890-1917
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1. The origins of tenement reform, 1830-1865
2. The tenement comes of age, 1866-1890
3. Jacob A. Riis: Portrait of a reformer
4. The Tenement House Committee of 1894
5. Lawrence Veiller and the New York…
Visions of Eden: Environmentalism, urban planning, and city building in St. Petersburg, Florida
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This book examines the efforts of planners and their advocates to harmonize city building and environmental protection. Despite its geriatric image, St. Petersburg is a young city, the product of America's amazing…
For the ciy as a whole: Planning, politics, and the public interest in Dallas, Texas, 1900-1965
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I am interested in "using" Dallas to understand better the changing nature of politics and planning in urban America during the twentieth century. Dallas is hardly typical of all cities, but it is closely…