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Securing the city : Neoliberalism, space, and insecurity in postwar Guatemala
Abstract from the publisher :
Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following a peace process that ended Central America’s longest and bloodiest civil war and impelled the transition…
Settling for less : The planned resettlement of Israel's Negev Bedouin
Abstract from the publisher : The resettlement of the Negev Bedouin (Israel) has been wrought with controversy since its inception in the 1960s. Presenting evidence from a two-decade period, the author addresses how the changes that took place over…
Soul city: Seminar (no. 559)
Extract from the introduction 'The Problem':
The challenge before the city and its political masters is to build on its welcoming and accommodating character, retain its universal concerns without sacrificing its regional specificity and still exude…
Mots-clés: Calcutta, culture urbaine, film, Kolkata, politique de la ville, urbanité
Space for urban alternatives? Christiania 1971-2011
Abstract from the publisher: In 1971, a group of young people broke into a closed down military area in Copenhagen. It was located not more than a mile from the Royal Danish Palace and the Danish parliament. Soon, the media published images and…
Strangers to the city : Urban man in Jos, Nigeria
Extract from the introduction :
The object of this study is to describe and analyze the adjustments individuals make to modern conditions of urban development in a West African community. For most parts of tropical Africa, cities were not part of…
Mots-clés: anthropologie, ethnologie, Jos, migration urbaine, mutation sociale, Nigeria, Plotnicov Leonard, urbanisation, urbanité
Streetlife : How cities made modern Europe
Abstract from the publisher : The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and…
Mots-clés: culture urbaine, Europe, histoire urbaine, Jerram Leif, rue, société urbaine, twentieth century, urbanité, vingtième siècle
The battle with the slum
Extract from the Introduction, 'What the fight is about' :
The slum is as old as civilization... The battle with the slum began the day civilization recognized in it her enemy. It was a losing fight until conscience joined forces with fear and…
The challenges of the twenty-first century city
Organisers' description :
Cities are becoming larger, more diverse, more fluid, and less manageable than in the past. Beyond the obvious issues of infrastructure management, transportation, telecommunications, poverty, health care, migration, and…
The city
Contents :
Robert E. Park - The city : Suggestions for the investigation of human behavior in the urban environment
Ernest W. Burgess - The growth of the city : An introduction to a research project
R. D. McKenzie - The ecological approach to the…
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…
The city as encyclopedia : Lessons from Melbourne's urban past
In this talk, Andrew Brown-May takes his listeners on a virtual tour of historic Melbourne, concentrating on the 'soft city' of people, memory and culture.
Andrew Brown-May is Associate Professor in Australian History at the University of…
Mots-clés: Brown-May Andrew, culture urbaine, histoire urbaine, Melbourne, mémoire, rue, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine, urbanité
The fundamentalist city? Religiosity and the remaking of urban space
Abstract from the publisher : The relationship between urbanism and fundamentalism is a very complex one. This book explores how the dynamics of different forms of religious fundamentalisms are produced, represented, and practiced in the city. It…
The life and death of cities: Accounting for environmental and social sustainability
Abstract from the distributor:
For all their vibrancy and liveliness, cities face a growing challenge of providing secure and sustainable places to live. Even the world’s most ‘liveable cities’—Vancouver, Melbourne, Helsinki…
The lives of urban residents in a global world. Great cities - ordinary lives conference panel 1
The first panel of this symposium in celebration of Anthony Orum’s retirement: Great Cities/Ordinary Lives Conference - A look at the city and its residents from the bottom up
Panel 1 : The lives of urban residents in a global world : Europe,…
The lives of urban residents in a global world. Great cities - ordinary lives conference panel 3
The third panel of this symposium in celebration of Anthony Orum’s retirement: Great Cities/Ordinary Lives Conference - A look at the city and its residents from the bottom up
Panel 3 : The lives of urban residents in a global world : Berlin,…
The lure of the city: From slums to suburbs
Abstract from the publisher: Cities, by their very nature, are a mass of contradictions. They can be at once visually stunning, culturally rich, exploitative and unforgiving. In The Lure of the City Austin Williams and Alastair Donald explore the…
The power of urban ethnic places : Cultural heritage and community life
Abstract from the publisher :
The Power of Ethnic Places discusses the growing visibility of ethnic heritage places in U.S. society. The book examines a spectrum of case studies of Chinese, Latino and African American communities in the U.S.,…
The rise of the Paris red belt
Abstract from the publisher :
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…
The sociology of city life
Contents :
I. The beginnings of city life :
1. The origin of city life
2. The emergence of urbanism
II. The location of the city :
1. The urban site
2. General geographic location
III. The physical setting of city life :
1. The developmental history…
Tied up in Tehran : Women, social change and the politics of daily life
Abstract from the distributor :
Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach and based on extensive field work experience, the book project Tied Up in Tehran addresses one of the key paradoxes of contemporary Iran: women’s fragmented experiences…
Mots-clés: espace urbain, femmes, gender, genre, identité, Moruzzi Norma Claire, mutation sociale, politique de la ville, Téhéran, Tehran, urbanité, usage de la ville, women