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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,…
To the city : Urban photographs of the New Deal
Abstract from the publisher :
In the 1930s and 1940s, as the United States moved from a rural to an urban nation, the pull of the city was irrepressible. It was so strong that even a photographic mission designed to record the essence of rural…
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…
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…
Under metropolis: Exploring the cultural history of Buenos Aires underground railways (c. 1886-1945)
Uprooted : How Breslau became Wroclaw during the century of expulsions
Abstract from the publisher : With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand…
Urban space and national identity in early twentieth century São Paulo, Brazil : Crafting modernity
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Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an…
Utopies réalisées. 5 sites en région urbaine de Lyon
Utopies réalisées. 5 sites en région urbaine de Lyon. Un autre regard sur l'architecture du XXe siècle.
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La région lyonnaise réunit cinq sites emblématiques…
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…
Women and the everyday city : Public space in San Francisco, 1890 - 1915
Abstract from the publisher : Women in the city in turn-of-the-century San Francisco In Women and the Everyday City, Jessica Ellen Sewell explores the lives of women in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A period of transformation of both gender…
XXe. Un siècle d'architectures à Genève. Promenades
Auteur
Sous la direction de Catherine Courtiau, Isabelle Claden et Christian Bischoff
Type
Ouvrage
Date
Novembre 2009
Editeur
Editions Infolio
Pages
512
Prix
58 CHF
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