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Researching the spatial and social life of the city : citiesLAB vol. 1

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Abstract from the publisher : Our first project comprises a collection of ‘working papers’ established with the aims of both delineating and testing what we refer to as ‘spatial methodologies’ for urban research. This…

Mots-clés: analyse spatiale, art, gentrification, London, Londres, mixité sociale, paysage urbain, photographie, renouvellement urbain, rue

The London journal (Vol. 34, No. 1)

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Abstract from the publisher: The scope of The London Journal is broad, embracing all aspects of metropolitan society past and present, including comparative studies. The Journal is multi-disciplinary and is intended to interest all concerned with…

Mots-clés: histoire urbaine, London, Londres, société urbaine

Urban age : London

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 Urban Age website.…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, croissance urbaine, intégration, London, Londres, planification, renouvellement urbain, rénovation urbaine, Royaume-Uni, sport, United Kingdom

Urban age : New York

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 Urban Age website. Many…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, banlieue, emploi, espace public, espace urbain, gouvernance, logement, London, Londres, mobilité, New York, planification, sécurité, transport, voisinage

London lives

Organisers' description : www.londonlives.org) 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.…

Mots-clés: histoire urbaine, London, Londres, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine

A city at risk from the City?

Organisers' description: 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…

Mots-clés: City of London, économie, Faith Nicholas, finance, London, Londres

The making of the English middle class: Business, society and family life in London, 1660-1730

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Mots-clés: bourgeoisie, classe moyenne, dix-huitième siècle, dix-septième siècle, Earle Peter, économie, eighteenth century, emploi, famille, family, histoire urbaine, London, Londres, seventeenth century, société urbaine

A shout in the street : An excursion into the modern city

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Abstract from the publisher : A remarkable meditation on the topography of the modern city, A Shout in the Street offers a close and sensitive examination of four urban landscapes -- London, Paris, Leningrad, and New York. Peter Jukes pursues the…

Mots-clés: Jukes Peter, Leningrad, littérature, London, Londres, New York, Paris, paysage urbain, rue, Saint-Pétersbourg, société urbaine, St Petersburg

London : City of the Romans

Extract from the preface : This book is a synthesis of many people's studies of the origin and early history of London, of which I have endeavoured to make a coherent story. Our knowledge of this subject has been vastly increased in recent years by…

Mots-clés: Ancient Rome, archéologie, histoire urbaine, Londinium, London, Londres, Merrifield Ralph, Rome antique

Imagining the East End in literature and social survey, 1880-1990

This paper was part of the Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009, on the theme 'cities'. Conference description by the organisers : The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and…

Mots-clés: Dennis Richard, dix-neuvième siècle, East End, fin de siècle, Gissing George, histoire urbaine, imaginaire, littérature, London, Londres, nineteenth century, quartier défavorisé

Food and public space in a global city

Abstract from the distributor : 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…

Mots-clés: agriculture urbaine, alimentation, aménagement de l'espace, Caraher Martin, espace urbain, food, global city, jardin, London, Londres, nourriture, Parks Rosie, Reynolds Ben, Smyth Paul, Steel Carolyn, ville durable, ville globale

Métropoles de papiers. Naissance de l'archéologie urbaine à Paris et à Londres (XVIIe-XXe siècles)

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Présentation par l'éditeur : 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…

Mots-clés: archéologie, histoire urbaine, Londres, métropole, Paris

Gender and sociability in early modern London

Seminar description from the IHR Digital blog : 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…

Mots-clés: communauté, community, dix-septième siècle, femmes, gender, genre, histoire urbaine, interaction sociale, lien social, London, Londres, Reinke-Williams Tim, seizième s!ècle, seventeenth century, sixteenth century, société urbaine, voisinage, women

Imagining low life before the East End's invention, c. 1780s to 1840s

This paper was part of the Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009, on the theme 'cities'. Conference description by the organisers : The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and…

Mots-clés: dix-huitième siècle, dix-neuvième siècle, East End, eighteenth century, Gatrell Vic, histoire urbaine, imaginaire, London, Londres, nineteenth century, pauvreté, quartier défavorisé

Reading London

Abstract from the distributor : 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…

Mots-clés: Alsop Will, art dans la ville, Ashton Rosemary, histoire urbaine, Hollis Leo, littérature, London, Londres, Obrist Hans Ulrich, représentations, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine

London 800 - 1216 : The shaping of a city

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Abstract from the publisher : London 800-1216 : The shaping of a city takes its place in the eight-volume History of London series, but is designed also to be a self-contained enquiry into the place of ninth- to twelfth-century London in the…

Mots-clés: Brooke Christopher, collectivités locales, commerce, forme urbaine, gestion locale, gouvernance, histoire urbaine, London, Londres, Middle Ages, Moyen Âge, religion, société urbaine

The evolution of great world cities : Urban wealth and economic growth

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Abstract from the publisher : Some cities seem destined to become major financial capitals, yet never do—Seville, for instance, was the centre of Spain's opulent New World Empire, but failed to become a financial metropolis. Others, like…

Mots-clés: Amsterdam, croissance urbaine, économie, géographie, geography, histoire urbaine, infrastructures, Kennedy Christopher, London, Londres, New York, technologie, technology, Venice, Venise, ville mondiale, world city

The imagination of class: Masculinity and the Victorian urban poor

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Extract from the Introduction: The poor were always with the English. Poverty had been of broad social concern since the Elizabethan period at least: the topic of ongoing debate, periodic legislation, sporadic philanthropy. But the London poor of…

Mots-clés: Bivona Daniel, classe, dix-neuvième siècle, Hinkle Roger B., histoire urbaine, hommes, litérature, littérature, London, Londres, masculinité, masculinity, men, nineteenth century, pauvreté, représentations, Royaume-Uni, United Kingdom, Victorian

London labour and the London poor (Vol. 1)

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Full title : London labour and the London poor; a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. Extract from the Preface : The present volume is the first of an intended…

Mots-clés: dix-neuvième siècle, London, Londres, Mayhew Henry, nineteenth century, pauvreté, société urbaine, travail

London labour and the London poor (Vol. 3)

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The present volume is the first of an intended series, which it is hoped will form, when complete, a cyclopaedia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great Metropolis. Henry Mayhew (1812 - 1887) was an English social researcher, journalist…

Mots-clés: dix-neuvième siècle, London, Londres, Mayhew Henry, nineteenth century, pauvreté, rue, sans-domicile, société urbaine, travail

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