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Mapping the medieval city : Space, place and identity in Chester c. 1200-1600
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This ground-breaking volume brings together contributions from scholars across a range of disciplines (including literary studies, history, geography and archaeology) to investigate questions of space, place and…
Monumentalité(s) urbaine(s) aux XIXe et XXe siècles
Présentation par l'éditeur : Principe de composition urbaine, voire d'organisation de l'espace en général, la monumentalité a accompagné l'évolution humaine dès la séparation…
Urban maps : Instruments of narrative and interpretation in the city
Abstract from the publisher : This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offer an interdisciplinary discourse and critique of the complex systems,…
Urban reflections : Narratives of place, planning and change
Abstract from the publisher : Urban Reflections looks at how places change, the role of planners in bringing about urban change, and the public's attitudes to that change. Drawing on geographical, cinematic and photographic readings, the book…
Henri Lefebvre on space : Architecture, urban research, and the production of theory
Abstract from the publisher : In this innovative work, Łukasz Stanek frames a uniquely contextual appreciation of Henri Lefebvre’s idea that space is a social product. Stanek explicitly confronts both the philosophical and the empirical…
Queerying planning: Challenging heteronormative assumptions and reframing planning practice
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Current planning practices have largely neglected the needs of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community for safe urban spaces in which to live, work, and play. This volume fills the gap in the…
Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish urban experience: Reading the mobile city
Abstract from the publisher: An important contribution to the still evolving field of 'urban cultural studies,' Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience is the first book to thoroughly apply the French urban philosopher's thoughts on cities…
La Ville en scène en France et en Europe (1552-1709)
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La contribution de ce volume consiste à s'adresser aux questions que provoque l'émergence du théâtre européen, mais surtout le théâtre français, dans le…
Cities and sexualities
Abstract from the publisher: From the hotspots of commercial sex through to the suburbia of twitching curtains, urban life and sexualities appear inseparable. Cities are the source of our most familiar images of sexual practice, and are the spaces…
The city of the senses: Urban culture and urban space
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Offering an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the city which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and urban space, the author approaches the city as essentially a "material" place where…
The new Asian city: Three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form
Abstract from the publisher: Under Jini Kim Watson’s scrutiny, the Asian Tiger metropolises of Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore reveal a surprising residue of the colonial environment. Drawing on a wide array of literary, filmic, and political…
Apocalypses, la disparition des villes : De Dresde à Détroit (1944-2010)
Présentation par l'éditeur : "Apocalypses : la disparition des villes" présente le travail des photographes ayant enregistré les grandes tragédies du XXe siècle, et celui des contemporains qui,…
Ottoman Izmir: The rise of a cosmopolitan port, 1840-1880
Abstract from the publisher: Between 1840 and 1880, the Eastern Mediterranean port of Izmir (Smyrna) underwent unprecedented change. A modern harbor that welcomed international steamships and new railway lines that transported a cornucopia of…
La ville, une impression sociale
Présentation par l'éditeur : La mise en relation du corps, de l'image et des mondes urbains, mène à l'idée d'un exil fondateur, d'un déracinement heureux. On est ici très loin de l'obligation de…
Nouméa, ville océanienne ?
Présentation par l'éditeur : A Nouméa cohabitent deux villes entremêlées et antagonistes : la ville blanche, fief européen produit par la colonisation du pays, et celle des "squats"…
Cities full of symbols: A theory of urban space and culture
Abstract from the publisher: This book examines design proposals that show symbolic handling of the 9/11 attack on New York, the disaster symbolism of the ship washed ashore by the tsunami in Banda Aceh, and the design of the symbol of the city of…
Cities of signs: Learning the logic of urban spaces
Abstract from the publisher: Signs exist as fundamental markers of the urban landscape. Whether in the form of street signs offering directions, the airbrushed promises of advertising media or the vandalized détournements of street art, signs…
Espaces de vie, espaces enjeux : entre investissements ordinaires et mobilisations politiques
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L’espace est autant objet d’appropriation ordinaire que d’inscription dans des politiques publiques variées. Entendant la notion de mobilisation en un sens large, c’est la…
Writing the modern city: Literature, architecture, modernity
Abstract from the publisher: Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have…