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Le Cap
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"Auberge des océans", bout du monde et aboutissement d’un continent, Le Cap est une ville mythique dont la légende est sans doute mieux connue que l’histoire…
Manhattan projects : The rise and fall of urban renewal in Cold War New York
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Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in…
Urban modernity: Cultural innovation in the second Industrial Revolution
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At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. Urban Modernity examines the construction of an…
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…
Colonial metropolis : The urban grounds of anti-imperialism and feminism in interwar Paris
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World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected to return without protest to their homes–either overseas or…
Streets of memory : Landscape, tolerance, and national identity in Istanbul
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In this study of Kuzguncuk, known as one of Istanbul’s historically most tolerant, multiethnic neighborhoods, Amy Mills is animated by a single question: what does it mean to live in a place that once…
Cities, texts and social networks, 400–1500
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Cities, Texts and Social Networks examines the experiences of urban life from late antiquity through the close of the fifteenth century, in regions ranging from late Imperial Rome to Muslim Syria, Iraq and al-Andalus,…
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…
Le Paris moderne - Histoire des politiques d'hygiène (1855-1898)
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Fabienne Chevallier retrace à l’aide de sources encore inédites l’émergence de la modernité de Paris au XIXe siècle, sous-tendue par la notion de "Bien…
Kinshasa. Architecture et paysages urbains
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Parmi les plus vastes mégalopoles, Kinshasa témoigne d'une urbanisation débridée. De son noyau colonial historique aux banlieues en construction, la ville et ses habitants sont…
The Architecture and memory of the minority quarter in the Muslim Mediterranean city
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A collaborative work among historians, literary specialists, and architects, this collection is directed at filling the gap in our knowledge about minority neighborhoods in the southern Mediterranean.
A series of…
Becoming metropolitan : Urban selfhood and the making of modern Cracow
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The “Age of Great Cities” erupted in East Central Europe in the last quarter of the 19th century as migrants poured into imperial and regional capitals. For citizens of places like Cracow, discovering and…
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…
Héliopolis
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Depuis la nuit des temps, Héliopolis évoque une ville mystérieuse de l'Egypte ancienne qui, en Orient comme en Occident, nourrit l'imaginaire collectif.
Cette cité d'au moins…
Labé ville-champignon de Guinée
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Situé au cœur du massif du Fouta Djallon, Labé offre l'aspect d'une ville en pleine expansion spatiale et démographique avec des activités multiples. A l'origine simple…
Reforming urban labor : Routes to the city, roots in the country
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Reforming Urban Labor is a history of the nineteenth-century social reforms designed by middle-class progressives to domesticate the labor force. Industrial production required a concentrated labor force, but the…
Ecrire Bangkok. La ville dans la nouvelle contemporaine en Thaïlande
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Par la fiction, avec son aide, vivre et appréhender la "ville", ici mégalopolis et capitale sur-dimensionnée de plus de dix millions d’habitants, permet de donner une…
The American urban reader : History and theory
Abstract from the publisher : The American Urban Reader brings together the most exciting work on the evolution of the American city, from colonial settlement and western expansion to post-industrial cities and the growth of the suburbs. Each of…
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…
Keeping the lid on : Urban eruptions and social control since the 19th century
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The contributors to this book have explored various aspects of urban imagination, so intimately related to a peculiar social environment. They are historians and geographers, linguists and cultural students. Their…