Applying new spatial techniques in the study of late medieval London
Middle Ages, Moyen Âge, London, Londres, histoire urbaine, méthodologie, analyse spatiale, espace urbain, cartographie, Colson Jeremy
<div>"This paper aims to present a summary of elements both of my own PhD research and also some current related ongoing work both within the UK and on the Continent which attempts... to use new or digital approaches to the "spatial turn" in late medieval urban history. I'll summarise and assess the new approaches adopted by other scholars and then move on to the use of such techniques in my own work and evaluate their usefulness."</div>
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<b>Justin Colson </b>is a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.</div>
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Jeremy Colson
7 December 2011
http://historyspot.org.uk/podcasts/metropolitan-history/applying-new-spatial-techniques-study-late-medieval-london
The gentrification of London
, gentrification, renouvellement urbain, ségrégation urbaine, démographie, habitants, société urbaine, London, Londres, Hamnett Chris, Hunter Tom, Partridge David, Elms Robert
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor:</b></div>
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Islington, Docklands, Clapham and East London have all experienced huge changes in recent years through social and aesthetic 'makeovers' as areas have been regenerated and wealthier residents have moved in. Gentrification has its supporters as well as its opponents. It can bring wealth, social and environmental improvements, but it can also displace or exclude communities and bring small businesses to ruin. This discussion looks at the impact of gentrification on the demographics and shape of London, as well as the winners and losers. The speakers included Professor <b>Chris Hamnett</b> (King's College, London), <b>Tom Hunter</b> (photographer) and <b>David Partridge </b>(Joint Chief Executive, Argent). Event curated and chaired by <b>Robert Elms </b>(award-winning writer and broadcaster).</div>
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Chris Hamnett,
Tom Hunter,
David Partridge,
Robert Elms
13 July 2011
http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/audios.aspx?vid=7154
A city at risk from the City?
City of London, London, Londres, économie, finance, Faith Nicholas
<div><b>Organisers' description:</b></div>
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The recent financial crisis has demonstrated how vulnerable the world is to the actions of its financial institutions. It has provoked questions about the power of, and lack of control exerted over those who influence our economy. Because economic power in London is centralised mainly within the square mile, this relatively small geographical area wields an overwhelming command over not only the rest of London, but far beyond. We have witnessed the fall-out from this economic clout recently, but there are also benefits to living in a world financial centre. Does the City threaten or contribute to the city that houses it? Nicholas Faith examines the City, its power and pitfalls. This event was curated by Robert Elms as part of the London in Peril season.</div>
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<b>Nicholas Faith</b> is a former senior editor of The Economist and the Sunday Times. His books include Safety in Numbers: The Mysterious World of Swiss Banking.</div>
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Nicholas Faith
19 July 2011
http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/audios.aspx?vid=7157
Worse than Cimmeran Darkness: Fog and the representation of Victorian London
fog, brouillard, Victorian London, London, Londres, nineteenth century, dix-neuvième siècle, histoire urbaine, représentations, environnement urbain, citadin, tourisme, urbanité, de Sapio Joseph
<div>In this 2011 seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London School of Advanced Study, Joseph de Sapio discusses fog in the representation of Victorian London, particularly from the perspective of tourists to the city. He argues that, beyond their use in the literature of the period, representations of London fog 'can provide an alternative environment for considering the relationship between the citizen and the urban system', as fogs sever the relationship between an observer and the urban environment. The paper is 'designed as something of a starting-point for exploring the ways in which these representations of the fog-bound city pose challenges to the ideas of the urban system based on vision and movement. It argues that the urban environment during a thick fog is considerably altered from its nominal, everyday state, and the set of practices by which the modern city is constituted in the observer's mind are, as a result, inverted in a theatre of the street'.</div>
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<b>Joseph de Sapio </b>is a D.Phil candidate in History at the University of Oxford, where he is researching the role of tourism in nineteenth century London, and its influence on the physical and social development of the city.</div>
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales License</a>.</div>
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Joseph de Sapio
26 October 2011
https://historyspot.org.uk/podcasts/metropolitan-history/worse-cimmeran-darkness-fog-and-representation-victorian-london
Histoires de villes
Tokyo, Shanghai, Dublin, Londres, Bruxelles, Berlin, New York, Buenos Aires, littérature, représentations
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Marco Calamandrei
Du 26 juillet au 20 août 2010
Emission d'1 heure
London and other Great American Cities 50 years on
Jacobs Jane, London, Londres, aménagement urbain, The death and life of great American cities, Power Anne, Hall Peter, Greenhalgh Stephen, Rogers Ben, renouvellement urbain, forme urbaine
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor : </b></div>
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The RSA and the Centre for London at Demos gather a panel of expert commentators at the RSA to mark the 50th anniversary of Jane Jacobs’ landmark book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.<br />
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Jane Jacobs’ book, first published in 1961, transformed the way we think about our cities and helped discredit the then near universal belief in slum clearance, high rise housing projects and urban motorways. <br />
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Building on close observation of her own Greenwich Village neighbourhood, Jacobs mounted a thorough and original defence of 'traditional' city forms against the dominant approaches to urban planning in her day, including the 'garden city' movement and Modernist city planning. She argued that dense, mixed income mix-used neighbourhoods, designed around short city blocks with busy amenity-lined streets and small parks, had a huge range of benefits unappreciated by modern urban planners who mistakenly associated the old city with all the evils of the 19th century slum. Jacobs claimed that cities could be great engines of cohesion, innovation, and prosperity, but only where they were properly led and managed.<br />
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But has her thinking stood the test of time? What did she get right and what wrong? And in particular what are the implications of her insights for London, the UK's largest, and most unequal city? <br />
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<b>Anne Power</b> is Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics.<br />
<b>Peter Hall</b> is Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration at UCL.<br />
<b>Stephen Greenhalgh</b> is Leader of the Council, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham.</div>
<b>Ben Rogers </b>is an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Public Policy Research and Demos.</div>
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Anne Power,
Peter Hall,
Stephen Greenhalgh,
Ben Rogers
17 May 2011
http://www.thersa.org/large-text/events/audio-and-past-events/2011/london-and-other-great-american-cities-50-years-on
Imagining the East End in literature and social survey, 1880-1990
histoire urbaine, fin de siècle, littérature, imaginaire, nineteenth century, dix-neuvième siècle, Gissing George, quartier défavorisé, London, Londres, East End, Dennis Richard
<div>This paper was part of the <a href="https://www.history.ac.uk/aac2009" target="_blank">Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009</a>, on the theme 'cities'.</div>
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<b>Conference description by the organisers :</b></div>
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The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and their role in cultural formation, the relations between cities, territories and larger political units, the ideologies and cosmologies of the city and what distinguishes the city or town from other forms of settlement or ways of life.</div>
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<b>Paper abstract from the organisers : </b></div>
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This paper will explore the emergence of 'East End' as a category of description and analysis in fiction and social scientific discourse.<br />
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Where, exactly (or even approximately!), was the 'East End' and what were its social, cultural and geographical attributes? The paper will pay particular attention to the writings of George Gissing, whose reputation as a novelist of slum life has often led to his being associated with the East End; to the relationship between Gissing and other 'East Enders', such as Arthur Morrison, Walter Besant and the Rev. Osborne Jay; and to the parallels and interactions between Gissing's fiction and Charles Booth's Labour and Life of the People and the associated 'Descriptive Map of London Poverty 1889'. Of special interest is Gissing's early novel, The Unclassed. In its first edition as a three-volume novel (1884), the slums that play a prominent role in The Unclassed were situated in Westminster, but by 1895, in revising – mainly abridging – the novel into a single volume, Gissing relocated the slums to the East End, reflecting shifts in both popular perceptions of the East End and 'real' ongoing changes in the geography of poverty in London in the 1890s that are also revealed by the 1898–99 revised edition of Booth's poverty maps.</div>
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<b>Richard Dennis </b>is a Professor in the Department of Geography at UCL.<br />
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NB : This recording may be streamed via your web browser or opened in iTunes.</div>
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See also recordings of the other conference sessions:</div>
Ideas of the metropolis</a></div>
What is a city? The English experience</a></div>
Cities and peripheries</a></div>
Imagining low life before the East End's invention, c. 1780s to 1840s</a></div>
Multicultural London: Past, present and future. A history and policy discussion</a></div>
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Richard Dennis
2 July 2009
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/itunes-u/anglo-american-conference/id440518170
Imagining low life before the East End's invention, c. 1780s to 1840s
Londres, London, East End, histoire urbaine, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, dix-huitième siècle, dix-neuvième siècle, pauvreté, quartier défavorisé, Gatrell Vic, imaginaire
<div>This paper was part of the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.history.ac.uk/aac2009">Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009, on the theme 'cities'</a>.</div>
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<b>Conference description by the organisers :</b></div>
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The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and their role in cultural formation, the relations between cities, territories and larger political units, the ideologies and cosmologies of the city and what distinguishes the city or town from other forms of settlement or ways of life.</div>
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<b>Paper abstract from the organisers : </b></div>
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This paper looks at East London life before Victorian observers 'invented', 'ideologically constructed', 'mythicised', or 'problematised' the 'East End' (as the fashionable phrases nowadays go). It sets aside the Victorian judgements and anxieties through which many historians still filter their views of East London and, without denying its deprivations, it speculates how best we might treat its 'low life' in its own and more positive terms.<br />
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Recalling Dr Johnson's advice to Boswell in 1783 to go with curious eye and philosophic mind to Wapping the better to measure London's 'wonderful extent and variety', the paper focuses on the century after 1750 or so, to wonder what it was that outsiders were responding to when they described East Enders as 'happy', and allowed them their own exuberant vitality.</div>
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<b>Vic Gatrell </b>is a retired Professor of History at the University of Cambridge.</div>
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NB : This recording may be streamed via your web browser or opened in iTunes.</div>
</div>
See also recordings of the other conference sessions:</div>
Ideas of the metropolis</a></div>
What is a city? The English experience</a></div>
Cities and peripheries</a></div>
Imagining the East End in literature and social survey, 1880-1990</a></div>
Multicultural London: Past, present and future. A history and policy discussion</a></div>
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Vic Gatrell
2 July 2009
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/itunes-u/anglo-american-conference/id440518170
Multicultural London : Past, present and future. A history and policy discussion
London, multicultural, multiculturel, histoire urbaine, Londres, Gavron Kate, White Jerry, immigration, mixité sociale, East End
<div><b>Conference description by the organisers : </b></div>
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The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and their role in cultural formation, the relations between cities, territories and larger political units, the ideologies and cosmologies of the city and what distinguishes the city or town from other forms of settlement or ways of life.</div>
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<b>Jerry White </b>is Professor of History at Birkbeck and author of <i>London in the twentieth century, A city and its people</i> (Viking, 2001).</div>
<b>Kate Gavron </b>is Trustee of the Young Foundation and co-author of <i>The new East End : Kinship, race and conflict </i>(Profile, 2006).</div>
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<b>NB : </b>These recordings may be streamed via your web browser or opened in iTunes.</div>
</div>
See also recordings of the other conference sessions:</div>
Ideas of the metropolis</a></div>
What is a city? The English experience</a></div>
Cities and peripheries</a></div>
Imagining the East End in literature and social survey, 1880-1990</a></div>
Imagining low life before the East End's invention, c. 1780s to 1840s</a></div>
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Jerry White (part 1),
Kate Gavron (part 2)
2 July 2009
https://www.history.ac.uk/aac2009
Food and public space in a global city
food, nourriture, alimentation, agriculture urbaine, espace urbain, aménagement de l'espace, jardin, ville globale, global city, London, Londres, ville durable, Parks Rosie, Steel Carolyn, Smyth Paul, Caraher Martin, Reynolds Ben
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor : </b></div>
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The colloquium will be focused on one particular city – London – and will bring together the themes of food growing, ‘public’ space and the city to explore thought-provoking questions around food equity, access to public and semi-private space, and the ability of different socio-economic groups to establish their own interests in city planning and construction processes that have consequences for private and community-based food production and distribution (e.g. the provision and retention of community food growing spaces, the creation of productive and educative school grounds, the provision of housing with growing and food preparation spaces). The issue of food, food production and public spaces in cities is currently high on the political agenda. While urban agriculture has a long history, contemporary concerns over the environmental impacts of ‘food miles’ and our industrialised countryside, food security issues, together with growing recognition of the health, social and community benefits of gardening, are driving the issue of local urban food production up the political agenda. With waiting lists for allotments in Camden, for example, currently stretching to an estimated 40 years, and with the nation’s front gardens disappearing under tarmac car parking, attention is turning to the food growing potential of a multitude of overlooked and undervalued city sites.</div>
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<b>Sessions :</b></div>
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Rosie Parks - Introduction</div>
Carolyn Steel - Citopia : Thinking through food</div>
Paul Smyth - An urban farming experiment</div>
Martin Caraher - Food and urban space</div>
Ben Reynolds - Sustainable food matters</div>
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Rosie Parks,
Carolyn Steel,
Paul Smyth,
Martin Caraher,
Ben Reynolds
21 May 2011
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/05/food-and-public-space-in-a-global-city/
Orbiting London - A conversation with Iain Sinclair
London, Londres, littérature, culture urbaine, urbanité, Sinclair Iain, Boal Iain
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor : </b></div>
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<b>Iain Sinclair</b>, writer, poet and film-maker, will discuss – in conversation with <b>Iain Boal</b>, (social historian and Fellow of the Institute for the Humanities) his four decades of chronicling the life of the capital. More than any contemporary author Sinclair’s work is suffused with the spirit of place, of London as a palimpsest, in particular the environs of Hackney, his home since the mid-60s. Sinclair’s books include Downriver, Rodinsky’s Room, London Orbital, Lights out for the Territory, London: City of Disappearances, Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire.</div>
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Iain Sinclair,
Iain Boal
21 March 2011
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/03/orbiting-london-a-conversation-with-iain-sinclair/#comments
Gender and sociability in early modern London
women, femmes, gender, genre, London, Londres, voisinage, community, communauté, interaction sociale, société urbaine, lien social, Reinke-Williams Tim, sixteenth century, seventeenth century, seizième s!ècle, dix-septième siècle, histoire urbaine
<div><b>Seminar description from the <a href="http://ihrprojects.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/spot-newsletter-19-october-2010/" target="_blank">IHR Digital blog</a> : </b></div>
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Tim Reinke-Williams from the University of Northampton presented to the Metropolitan History Seminar group, a paper entitled ‘Gender and sociability in early modern London’. This paper examines women of the middling sort and labouring poor in relation to London neighbourhood communities of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Reinke-Williams scrutinises this topic through neighbourliness, company and civility.</div>
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<b>Tim Reinke-Williams </b>is a Lecturer in History at the University of Northampton.</div>
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Tim Reinke-Williams
13 October 2010
http://www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/metropolitan-history/2010-10-13-Tim-Reinke-Williams
London : The story of a great city
, histoire urbaine, London, Londres, White Jerry, commerce
<div><b>Organisers' description : </b></div>
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No city can lay claim to a more dramatic history than London. Engulfed in calamities that seemed to mark its end - fire, plague, riot, civil war, mass bombing - from each crisis it has emerged stronger than ever. Its cultural life, and the long heritage that underpins it, has made London one of the most visited and best-loved places on Earth.<br />
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In this talk Jerry White encapsulates the extraordinary rise of this great city from a remote outpost of Rome's northern empire, through the roll-call of great Londoners over the centuries, the endurance of its people in the face of disaster and war, the dark side of crime and mayhem to its innovations in enterprise and pleasure.</div>
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<b>Jerry White</b> is Visiting Professor in London History at Birbeck, University of London. His latest book is 'London : The story of a great city'.</div>
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Jerry White
3 June 2010
http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/audios.aspx?vid=7026
Do Londoners have a right to the city?
, droit à la ville, équité sociale, injustice, planification, London, Londres, économie, mouvement social, Edwards Michael, Catterall Bob, Gibbons Andrea, Kuklowsky Celine
<div><b>Organisers' description : </b></div>
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London grassroot groups are certainly making it clear what they need, from housing and transport to jobs and the environment. Is there a basic demand that underlies these needs? Is the idea of rights to the city a focus for that demand? This meeting explores the idea that Right to the City (RTTC) is a good focus for these needs and demands. It is called by individuals from UCL's Bartlett School of Planning, UCL's Urban Lab, the London-based international journal CITY, and the Just Space Network of London community groups. The meeting is the start of a potential series triggered partly by the talks given last autumn in London by Peter Marcuse, veteran lawyer, planning educator and activist in New York. It takes advantage of the presence in London of 2 activists who have been involved with the US RTTC movement and of the discussion advanced and continuing in CITY by Peter Marcuse and his colleagues. This meeting will be a series of short talks on the London issues, a short talk on the USA movement and then time for a substantial structured debate and discussion.</div>
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<b>Michael Edwards </b>is a Senior Lecturer and Leverhulme Fellow in the Bartlett School of Planning at University College London.</div>
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<b>Bob Catterall </b>is Editor-in-Chief of City journal.</div>
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<b>Andrea Gibbons </b>is an assistant editor of City journal and a research student at the London School of Economics.</div>
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<b>Celine Kuklowsky </b>is an assistant editor of City journal and works in the Social Policy Department at the London School of Economics.</div>
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Michael Edwards,
Bob Catterall,
Andrea Gibbons,
Celine Kuklowsky
30 March 2010
http://justspace2010.wordpress.com/welcome-to-just-space/30-march-public-meeting/
London lives
, histoire urbaine, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine, London, Londres
<div><b>Organisers' description : </b></div>
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www.londonlives.org</a>) will provide access, using an integrated search facility, to primary sources containing 240,000 pages of manuscripts sources, and 3.2 million names, reflecting the history of eighteenth-century London. It includes the 18th century material from the Old Bailey Online; the manuscript records of quarter sessions, three London parishes, Bridewell, St Thomas’s Hospital, and the Carpenter’s Company; datasets from the Westminster Pauper Biographies Project; and several datasets formerly deposited with the Arts and Humanities Data Service.<br />
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Conceived as an unconference, this event is designed to allow as many participants as possible to contribute in as many ways as possible. Contributions are invited from anyone whose research will benefit from use of the site.</div>
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<b>List of podcasts : </b></div>
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Tim Hitchcock - Introduction and welcome<br />
Robert Shoemaker - Criminal Lives and the Making of Modern Criminal Justice <br />
Becky DiBiasio - Ghosts and the Old Bailey<br />
Janice Turner - "Shifting it for themselves" - Working women on Rosemary Lane 1737-1755<br />
Ernesto Priego - "The Harlot's Progress" - Bell's Life in London and the birth of the British comic strip<br />
Susan Gane - Irish silk weavers<br />
Melanie Winterbotham - William Winterbotham (1763-1829), political prisoner and ordinary Londoner<br />
Margaret Makepeace - The East India Company's London warehouse labourers<br />
Mary Clayton - Blood money<br />
Rachel Ramsey - From casement to sashes : How windows redefine crime in Early Modern England<br />
Heather Shore - Criminal Connections: Uncovering Plebeian Networks in the Metropolis <br />
McDara Dwyer - The Irish Crime Explosion of the 1740’s: Its Origins, Course and the Response, 1736 – 1756 <br />
Simon Dixon - The Quakers of St Dionis Backchurch, 1680-1800 <br />
Ben Heller - Finding Pleasure in Plebeian Lives <br />
Louise Falcini - Washerwomen, Laundresses, Barbers and Boot Blacks: the Business of Cleanliness Shekhar Krishnan - Urban History and the Geospatial Web<br />
Sharon Howard - London Lives and Bastardy <br />
Conference panel discussion<br />
Tim Hitchcock - Renegotiating the Bloody Code : London in the 1780s</div>
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Multiple authors
5 July 2010
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2010/07/a-one-day-unconference-to-mark-the-completion-of-the-london-lives-website/
Urban age : New York
New York, , mobilité, transport, voisinage, logement, espace urbain, espace public, emploi, London, Londres, sécurité, gouvernance, planification, aménagement urbain, banlieue
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Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'New York : Almost alright?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 recordings of the entire conference are available on the <a href="http://www.urban-age.net/" target="_blank">Urban Age website</a>. Many presentations also have accompanying slideshow presentations available for download in PDF format.</div>
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<b>Organisers' description : </b><br />
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New York is certainly the most populous and perhaps the most urban of America’s cities. Such qualities are not universally seen as representing positive attributes in a country in which the traditional city is regarded with a certain degree of political and popular suspicion and which is continually elaborating new forms of exurbia.<br />
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Understanding New York’s very particular nature and its prospects is an essential part of coming to terms with the evolving nature of the contemporary city, as it faces up to the reality of the extraordinary size jump of the later years of the 20th century. Scores of cities now have populations far larger than entire European nations. A city with an effective population of 18 million people - now the size of both New York and London - is an entity with no historic precedent. If such a metropolitan area is to achieve the cohesion and the sense of identity that until now has been regarded as the fundamental essence of any successful city, then it must either learn from and build upon New York’s experiences, or else find an alternative workable model.<br />
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As the first stage in a cumulative sequence of conferences organized by the Cities programme of the London School of Economics, with the support of the Alfred Herrhausen Society for International Dialogue, to be held in six cities across four continents, Urban Age is exploring the deliberately provocative proposition that New York is almost all right. Through a mix of muddle and dynamism, New York is succeeding as a city. It continually attracts new people, and creates new jobs for them.</div>
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<b>Session topics : </b></div>
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Opening Session<br />
New York and London<br />
Labour Market and Work Places<br />
Lunch talk : An Urban Age in a Suburban Country?<br />
Mobility and Transport<br />
Debate : Connecting urban governance and planning<br />
Public Life and Urban Space<br />
Housing and Neighbourhoods<br />
Debate : Towards an urban model<br />
Conclusions : New York is almost alright? Towards a programme for the Urban Age</div>
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Multiple authors
2005
http://www.urban-age.net/03_conferences/conf_newYork.html
Urban age : London
London, Londres, United Kingdom, Royaume-Uni, , croissance urbaine, planification, aménagement urbain, renouvellement urbain, rénovation urbaine, sport, intégration
<div>Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'London : Europe's global city?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 recordings of the entire conference are available on the <a href="http://www.urban-age.net" target="_blank">Urban Age website</a>. Many presentations also have accompanying slideshow presentations available for download in PDF format.<br />
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Organisers' description :<br />
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Can London cope with its future growth? Is it really Europe's only global city? What is the impact of massive regeneration projects?<br />
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These are some of the questions that civic leaders, city-builders, architects and academics from around the world asked when they meet in London from 11 to 13 November 2005. The Mayors of Washington DC, Sao Paulo, Amsterdam, Barcelona and Edinburgh joined world-renowned urbanists Richard Rogers, Rem Koolhaas and Saskia Sassen to debate the future of a city facing momentous growth.</div>
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Core themes included how quality of life can be maintained by promoting health; and city environments that work for people of different generations and incomes.<br />
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To better understand the social impacts of current trends in London’s labour markets, housing, transport and public life, the Urban Age conference investigated the following key projects in North, South, West and East London:<br />
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1. The redevelopment of White City and the formation of a knowledge-based economic cluster in West London<br />
2. The transformation of King’s Cross<br />
3. The Olympic Village and its legacy in the development of affordable housing in diverse and attractive neighbourhoods in the Lower Lea Valley in East London<br />
4. The regeneration of Elephant & Castle and the reintegration of residential communities to the city centre in South London</div>
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<b>Session topics : </b></div>
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Opening session : Urban Age Project: The story so far</div>
Debate : The European city model</div>
Panel discussion</div>
The Future of London : London: the global context; Living in London; Designing London; Moving in London; Delivering urban governance; Debate</div>
Expanding the city core - The White City challenge in West London : The White City scheme; Labour market demands; Responses; Debate</div>
Changing values - Elephant & Castle – The future of public life in South London : Elephant & Castle: a regeneration story; Security and community; Responses; Debate</div>
Bringing London together - King’s Cross: A Gateway to Europe : The King’s Cross scheme; Making London central; Responses; Debate</div>
Accommodating growth or conflict? The Olympics and Urban Legacy : The Olympic Park in the Lower Lea Valley; Integrating communities in East London; Responses; Debate</div>
Panel discussion : Planning in an unnplanned city - Has planning forgotten about design</div>
London in the Urban Age - An international reflection</div>
Statements from Urban Age experts</div>
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Multiple authors
2005
http://www.urban-age.net/03_conferences/programmeLondon.html
Reading London
, art dans la ville, littérature, histoire urbaine, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine, représentations, London, Londres, Alsop Will, Ashton Rosemary, Hollis Leo, Obrist Hans Ulrich
<div><b>Abstract from the distributor : </b></div>
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How do we attempt to understand the sprawling "modern Babylon" that is London, with its layers of social, political and cultural history? Can art, architecture and literature help us to 'read' this complex city?</div>
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LSE website</a>.</div>
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<b>Will Alsop</b> OBE is Design Principal at RMJM’s European flagship office in London, and is one of Britain’s most renowned architects.</div>
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<b>Rosemary Ashton</b> is Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at UCL, and the lead investigator of a 3-year Leverhulme funded research project studying the growth of Bloomsbury from swampy waste land to London's intellectual and cultural centre.</div>
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<b>Leo Hollis</b> was born in London and educated at Stonyhurst College. He read history at the University of East Anglia. he has written on both the history of London and Paris.</div>
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<b>Hans Ulrich Obrist</b> became Co-director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery in April 2006. Prior to this he was Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris since 2000, as well as curator of museum in progress, Vienna, from 1993-2000.</div>
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Will Alsop,
Rosemary Ashton,
Leo Hollis,
Hans Ulrich Obrist
13 February 2010
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2010/20100213t1300vSZ.aspx
Métropoles de papiers. Naissance de l'archéologie urbaine à Paris et à Londres (XVIIe-XXe siècles)
métropole, archéologie, Paris, Londres, histoire urbaine
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La métropole n'est plus dans la ville s’indigne-t-on sous le règne de Louis XIV ! Le temps des capitales culturelles s’ouvre en effet sur une crise de la représentation urbaine en raison de l’agrandissement sans précédent des villes occidentales. Dignes héritières des puissantes cités de l’Antiquité, de Babylone, d’Athènes ou de Rome, les métropoles de la modernité sont hantées depuis la Renaissance par la possible fin de la civilisation urbaine. Pour donner à lire l’avenir, les hommes de sciences se tournent alors vers le passé et se lancent dans une quête inlassable des origines de la ville, sources de toute grandeur.<br />
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L’archéologie urbaine qui se développe à Londres et à Paris entre le XVIIe et le XIXe siècle va ainsi constituer un véritable paradigme pour penser toute approche historique de la ville, de l’histoire physique à l’histoire matérielle, en passant par l’histoire visuelle.<br />
Science partisane, ce savoir conforte un nouvel imaginaire politique qui repense le lien entre appartenance et territoire à mesure que l’émigration urbaine s’intensifie et que les métropoles s’élargissent. Une identité métropolitaine s’invente alors.<br />
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Ce livre-enquête déchiffre et restitue ce travail de mise en visibilité d’un devenir urbain, des recherches antiquaires aux musées de ville.<br />
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<b>Stéphane Van Damme</b> est professeur d'histoire moderne au département d'histoire de Sciences Po</div>
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Stéphane Van Damme
Les Belles Lettres
15 juin 2012
312
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Atlas de Londres
Londres, mutation urbaine, développement urbain, cosmopolitisme, Jeux Olympiques, Appert Manuel, Bailoni Mark, Papin Delphine
<div><b>Présentation par l'éditeur :</b></div>
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« The world in one city », dit-on encore aujourd’hui : Londres se situe parmi les villes les plus cosmopolites du monde. Ville mondiale et connectée parce qu’elle est aussi une place financière majeure. S’y pressent les puissants de la planète, et les plus démunis d’Europe. Cité inégalitaire également, dotée d’infrastructures parfois anachroniques, où se côtoient les tours de verres, les maisons victoriennes, les friches, la City, le banglatown, club de l’Arsenal et pubs select… Quel est donc l’avenir de ce laboratoire urbain ? Londres devient-elle une nouvelle espèce de ville européenne, verticale ? La tenue des JO sera-t-elle l’occasion de garantir un développement sur le long terme ? Comment se mesure-t-elle désormais avec sa grande rivale Paris, en tous points contraire et pourtant voisine ? Etrange, mouvante, contrastée, Londres n’en finit pas de fasciner. <br />
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<b>Manuel Appert</b> est maître de conférences à l'université de Lyon 2.</div>
<b>Mark Bailoni</b> est maître de conférences à l'université de Lorraine.</div>
<b>Delphine Papin</b> est docteure en géopolitique.</div>
<b>Eugénie Dumas</b> est géographe cartographe indépendante.</div>
<b>Cyrus Cornut</b> est photographe du collectif Dolce Vita/Picturetank.</div>
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Manuel Appert,
Mark Bailoni,
Delphine Papin
Autrement
11 avril 2012
96
Ouvrage