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Company towns in the Americas : Landscape, power, and working-class communities
Abstract from the publisher : Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding…
Women and the everyday city : Public space in San Francisco, 1890 - 1915
Abstract from the publisher : Women in the city in turn-of-the-century San Francisco In Women and the Everyday City, Jessica Ellen Sewell explores the lives of women in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A period of transformation of both gender…
Histoire sociale du politique : les villes de l’Ouest atlantique français à l’époque moderne
Histoire sociale du politique : les villes de l’Ouest atlantique français à l’époque moderne (XVIe-XVIIIe siècle)
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En prenant les municipalités comme objet…
Assainir l'agglomération parisienne
Assainir l'agglomération parisienne - Histoire d'une politique publique interdépartementale de l'assainissement (XIXe-XXe siècles)
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Dans un contexte, le nôtre, où…
Singapore from Temasek to the 21st century : Reinventing the global city
Abstract from the publisher : Once a centre for international trade and finance, Singapore is now a "global city." Singapore from Temasek to the 21st Century: Reinventing the Global City examines its evolution from trading port to…
Music and urban society in colonial Latin America
Abstract from the publisher : The Spanish colonial project in Latin America from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries was distinctly urban in focus. The impact of the written word on this process was explored in Ángel Rama's seminal…
La soif de Jérusalem. Essai d'hydrohistoire (1840-1948)
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L’histoire urbaine de Jérusalem aux XIXe et XXe siècles, ensevelie sous les mémoires concurrentes, a fini par s’effacer derrière les conflits symboliques et…
Jerusalem : The biography
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Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilisations. From King David to…
The waters of Rome : Aqueducts, fountains, and the birth of the Baroque city
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In this pioneering study of the water infrastructure of Renaissance Rome, urban historian Katherine Rinne offers a new understanding of how technological and scientific developments in aqueduct and fountain…
Crime and punishment in Istanbul 1700 - 1800
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This vividly detailed revisionist history exposes the underworld of the largest metropolis of the early modern Mediterranean and through it the entire fabric of a complex, multicultural society. Fariba Zarinebaf maps…
Atlas Mexico
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A Mexico, les zones d'habitat précaire cohabitent avec des quartiers fermés et sécurisés. La fortune de l'homme d'affaire Carlos Slim vient de dépasser celle de…
Urban realism and the cosmopolitan imagination in the nineteenth century
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This book tells a story about the transformation of mid-Victorian urban writing in response both to London's growing size and diversity, and Britain's shifting global fortunes. Tanya Agathocleous departs from customary…
Vientiane architectures d’une capitale : traces, formes, structures, projets
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Ce livre présente une synthèse originale sur la capitale laotienne qui offre aujourd'hui le spectacle d'une ville en pleine transformation. Depuis les réformes économiques…
The invention of Brownstone Brooklyn
Abstract from the publisher : The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the…
Imagining the urban : Sanskrit and the city in early India
Abstract from the publisher : In Imagining the Urban, Shonaleeka Kaul turns to Sanskrit literature to discover the characteristics—both physical and social—of ancient Indian cities. Kaul examines nearly a thousand years of Sanskrit…
La cité à travers l'histoire
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Qu’est-ce que la cité ? Comment a-t-elle commencé ? Quelles ont été les phases de son développement ? Est-elle destinée à disparaître, ou notre…
Bucarest. L'emblème d'une nation
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L’ouvrage de Ioana Iosa, conçu à partir de sa thèse de doctorat, affirme avant tout sa volonté d’inscrire l’apologie monumentale que représente le Centre…
The cities of Roman Africa
Abstract from the publisher : The Roman province of Africa was one of richest in the Empire and as a result has some of the most spectacular remains. "The Cities of Roman Africa" examines the development of urban space and cultural life…
Ahmedabad : Shock city of twentieth-century India
Abstract from the publisher : In the 20th century, Ahmedabad was India's "shock city." It was the place where many of the nation's most important developments occurred first and with the greatest intensity—from Gandhi’s…
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…