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Contemporary urbanism in Brazil: Beyond Brasília
Abstract from the publisher : For decades, a succession of military regimes and democratic governments in Brazil sought to shape the future of their society through the manipulation of urban spaces. Planned cities were built that reflected the…
The gentrification reader
Loretta Lees is Professor of Human Geography at King's College London, UK. Tom Slater is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Elvin Wyly is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
What we see : Advancing the observations of Jane Jacobs
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A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the…
Beyond preservation : Using public history to revitalize inner cities
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Across the United States, historic preservation has become a catalyst for urban regeneration. Entrepreneurs, urban pioneers, and veteran city dwellers have refurbished thousands of dilapidated properties and put them…
Distributed urbanism : Cities after Google Earth
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What form of housing will emerge in Dubai, where the majority of the population are non-citizens and average length of stay three days? How will depopulating cities reclaim vacant space, reorganize infrastructure and…
L’Eau mondialisée - La gouvernance en question
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Face à un champ de l'eau traditionnellement fragmenté en de multiples thématiques rivales - réseau, ressource, service public, marchandise, bien collectif, droit à l'eau…
Requiem : For the city at the end of the millenium
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In this small, but sharply-pointed book, renowned theorist Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn of…
Manifestoes and transformations in the early modernist city
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The industrialization of the nineteenth-century European city facilitated developing conceptions of the model city, and allowed for large scale urban transformations. The urban discourse in the latter half of the…
Spatial planning and urban development : Critical perspectives
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Urban planning is a complex field of knowledge and practice. Through the decades, theoretical debate has formed an eclectic set of possible perspectives, without finding, in our opinion, a coherent paradigmatic…
Cities under siege : The new military urbanism
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Powerful exposé of how contemporary political violence now perates through sites, space and infrastructures of everyday life
Cities have become the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the…
Civitas by design : Building better communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism
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Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but to strengthen civic ties through better design of built environments. From…
Mythes et pratiques de la coordination urbanisme-transport
Mythes et pratiques de la coordination urbanisme-transport. Regards croisés sur quatre agglomérations suisses et françaises.
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Mieux coordonner les politiques d'urbanisme et de transport…
The Post-Socialist city : Continuity and change in urban space and imagery
For twenty years now, cities from Central Europe to Central Asia have seen revolutionary change. Following the collapse of socialism, their outward appearance, functional composition, and symbolic representation have been shattered and reassembled by…
Cities and design
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Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society. Competitive spending among affluent households has intensified the importance of style and design at…
Mapping modernity in Shanghai : Space, gender, and visual culture in the sojourners' city, 1853-98
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This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of…
Cities at war in early modern Europe
Abstract from the publisher : Between 1550 and 1700, artillery siege warfare transformed the European city, which was theorized, fortified, violated, rebuilt, and celebrated by leading artists and architects. The fortified perimeter, with its…
Remembering, forgetting and city builders
Abstract from the publisher : Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to the politics of collective and personal memory construction. Bringing together case…
Espaces urbains à l'aube du XXIe siècle. Patrimoine et héritages culturels
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Quand l’urbanisme est au service d’une certaine philosophie de la ville engagée dans la préservation des héritages culturels, la conservation traditionnelle mais aussi la…
The imaginative institution : Planning and governance in Madrid
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Every 20 years since 1920, Madrid has undergone an urban planning cycle in which a city plan was prepared, adopted by law, and implemented by a new institution. This preparation-adoption-institutionalization sequence,…
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…