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Tenement cites: From 19th century Berlin to 21st century Nairobi
Abstract from the publisher: Nairobi today has over 10,000 multi-story tenement buildings, many of them offering single rooms and up to eight stories high. Privately owned and exploiting urban space to the maximum, these bear similarities to housing…
Inventive city-regions : Path dependence and creative knowledge strategies
Organisers' description : Virtually every city-region in West and Central Europe has developed policies and strategies to attract, retain and encourage creative industries and knowledge-intensive services. Since most of these citiy-regions tend to…
Italo Calvino's architecture of lightness : The utopian imagination in an age of urban crisis
Abstract from the publisher : This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well…
Making the San Fernando Valley : Rural landscapes, urban development, and white privilege
Abstract from the publisher : Environment and race at the intersection of city, suburb, and country. In the first book-length scholarly study of the San Fernando Valley— home to one-third of the population of Los Angeles—Laura R.…
Fragments of cities: The new American downtowns and neighborhoods
Abstract from the publisher: Larry Bennett's Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods examines the social consequences of both the new approaches to downtown design and the physical upgrading of residential neighborhoods. …
Spectacular reconstructions: Ways of seeing and the politics of recovery in American urban disasters
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Kevin Rozario uses the two most devastating urban catastrophes in American history, the Chicago fire of 1871 and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, to explore how extraordinary recovery from sudden ruination can…
Kevin Rozario uses the two most devastating urban catastrophes in American history, the Chicago fire of 1871 and the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, to explore how extraordinary recovery from sudden ruination can…
Beijing record : A physical and political history of planning modern Beijing
Abstract from the publisher : Beijing Record, the result of ten years of research on the urban transformation of Beijing in the last fifty years, brings to an extended Western audience the inside story on the key decisions that led to Beijing's…
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…
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…
Paris and the Belle Epoque
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Modern Paris was indelibly shaped by the rebuilding project ordered by Napoleon III and carried out by Baron Haussmann in the 1850s and '60s. The large-scale demolition of whole neighborhoods in central Paris,…
Modern Paris was indelibly shaped by the rebuilding project ordered by Napoleon III and carried out by Baron Haussmann in the 1850s and '60s. The large-scale demolition of whole neighborhoods in central Paris,…
Aerotropolis : The way we'll live next
Abstract from the publisher : This brilliant and eye-opening look at the new phenomenon called the aerotropolis gives us a glimpse of the way we will live in the near future—and the way we will do business too. Not so long ago, airports were…
Nantes, récit d'une traversée. Madeleine - Champ-de-Mars
Une traversée du quartier nantais Madeleine-Champ-de-Mars en compagnie de personnalités locales : architectes, acteurs culturels, élus, mais surtout riverains se passent le relais pour raconter leur Nantes à l'auteur Jean-Yves Petiteau, entre…
Aménager la ville. Les centres urbains français entre conservation et rénovation (de 1943 à nos jours)
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Comment aménager les centres urbains en respectant la ville ancienne tout en l’adaptant aux nouveaux modes de vie ? La question est à l’ordre du jour dès les années 1940 en France. La complexité des enjeux – fournir…
Comment aménager les centres urbains en respectant la ville ancienne tout en l’adaptant aux nouveaux modes de vie ? La question est à l’ordre du jour dès les années 1940 en France. La complexité des enjeux – fournir…
Company town : The industrial Edens and satanic mills that shaped the American economy
Abstract from the publisher : Company town: The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohler bathroom fixtures, Maytag washers, Spam—each is the signature product of a…
Planning in divided cities
Abstract from the publisher : Does planning in contested cities inadvertedly make the divisions worse? The 60s and 70s saw a strong role of planning, social engineering, etc but there has since been a move towards a more decentralised…
Habitat et transition énergétique
Sous le sceau de la performance énergétique, nos logements se modernisent avec l'affirmation des normes environnementales. Mais ces objectifs chiffrés sont bien loin de décrire l'importance que joue l'habitat dans la transition écologique. Comme…
What happened to participation? Urban development and authoritarian upgrading in Cairo
Elena Piffero is Doctor of Philosophy in International Cooperation and Sustainable Development Policies at the University of Bologna, Italy. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license 3.0. Alternative link to the…
Seeking spatial justice
Abstract from the publisher : An innovative new way of understanding and changing the unjust geographies in which we live In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the…
The language of towns and cities : A visual dictionary
Abstract from the publisher : The final word on the language of urban planning and design. The Language of Towns & Cities is a landmark publication that clarifies the language by which we talk about urban planning and design. Everyday words…
Urban utopias
Readings on Urban Utopias in Theory and Practice
David Harvey is a leading theorist in the field of urban studies, currently working in the Anthropology department at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Centre.
David Harvey is a leading theorist in the field of urban studies, currently working in the Anthropology department at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Centre.