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Cultures of the city : Mediating identities in urban Latin/o America
Abstract from the publisher : Cultures of the City explores the cultural mediation of relationships between people and urban spaces in Latin/o America and how these mediations shape the identities of cities and their residents. Addressing a broad…
Suburbanization in global society
Abstract from the publisher : Most urban growth over the last several decades has been in suburban areas, but research in urban sociology and other urban disciplines has been focused on the city (the global city, the networked city, the…
Urban plots, organizing cities
Abstract from the publisher : By focusing on the interplay between material, social and narrative dimensions of the city, this book examines urban complexity, namely the dynamic and entangled nature of urban issues, and puts forward a notion of the…
Urban tourism and urban change : Cities in a global economy
Abstract from the publisher : Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy provides both a sociological / cultural analysis of change that has taken place in many of the world's cities. This focused treatment of urban tourism examines…
Paris, capitale du relief. Une photographie de la ville au quotidien en 1860
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Lorsque vers 1850 le physicien David Brewster propose aux opticiens britanniques - qui le refusent - une boîte pour visionner des images en trois dimensions, nul n'est à même d'imaginer…
Social formation in Dhaka, 1985 - 2005 : A longitudinal study of society in a Third World megacity
Abstract from the publisher : By the middle of the twenty-first century, more than fifty per cent of the world's population will live in an urban environment. Most of this new urban growth will take place in Asia and Africa, yet most governments in…
Cities, politics and power
Abstract from the publisher : Traditionally, the study of ‘power in the city’ was confined to the institutions of urban government and the actors involved in contesting and making political decisions in and for metropolitan societies.…
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…
Dakar, chemins de traverses
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Un lointain si proche nous invite à partager le quotidien d’une famille dakaroise dont l’auteur a été l’intime pendant près d’un an.
L’ouvrage,…
Spaces for consumption
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Spaces for Consumption offers an in-depth and sophisticated analysis of the processes that underpin the commodification of the city and explains the physical manifestation of consumerism as a way of life.
Engaging…
Urban pollution : Cultural meanings, social practices
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Re-examining Mary Douglas’ work on pollution and concepts of purity, this volume explores modern expressions of these themes in urban areas, examining the intersections of material and cultural pollution. It…
Des religions dans la ville
Des religions dans la ville. Ressorts et stratégies de coexistence dans l'Europe des XVIe-XVIIIe siècles.
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A l’époque moderne, les conflits violents ne sont pas l’unique…
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…
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…
Can neighbourhoods save the city? Community development and social innovation
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For decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases…
Strasbourg romantique. Au siècle des peintres et des écrivains voyageurs
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Des grands monuments aux scènes de la vie quotidienne, Strasbourg-la-romantique a beaucoup inspiré les artistes du XIXe. L’historien d’art Régis Spiegel raconte ce…
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 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…
Performance and the contemporary city : An interdisciplinary reader
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Cities, with their rising populations and complex configurations, have become key symbols of a fast-changing modernity. This timely collection gathers together various urban writings from a range of relevant…
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,…