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London labour and the London poor (Vol. 2)
Extract from the Preface to Volume One : 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)…
London, 1100-1600: The archaeology of a capital city
Abstract from the publisher: Since the early 1970s the increasingly effective conduct of archaeological work in the City of London and surrounding parts of the conurbation have revolutionised our view of the development and European importance of…
The stones of London : A history in twelve buildings
Abstract from the publisher : In a sweeping narrative, from its mythic origins to the glittering towers of the contemporary financial capital, THE STONES OF LONDON tells the story of twelve London buildings in a kaleidoscopic and unexpected history…
Regards croisés. Métropoles européennes, Berlin, Londres, Madrid, Milan, Paris, la Randstad
Présentation par l'éditeur :
A l’heure où la question métropolitaine est à nouveau posée, un tour d’horizon des grandes métropoles européennes s’impose pour apprécier…
City visions 1910 / 2010 : Urban planning in Berlin, London, Paris and Chicago 1910 and 2010
Extract from the catalogue :
The exhibition City Visions 1910 | 2010 is a celebration of the anniversary of the General Town Planning Exhibition. It compares two key moments in time: The years around 1910 and 2010.
1910
The planning exhibition…
Londres, 1700-1900 : naissance d'une capitale culturelle
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Si Londres est aujourd’hui un des grands marchés de l’art, on oublie souvent qu’elle l’a été depuis trois siècles. Dans une Grande-Bretagne protestante…
London under: The secret history beneath the streets
Abstract from the publisher: London Under is a wonderful, atmospheric, imaginative, oozing short study of everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheaters to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts, and modern…
Integrated city making: Governance, planning and transport
Abstract from the publisher: Integrated City Making is a report by Philipp Rode, Julie Wagner, Richard Brown, Rit Chandra and Jayaraj Sundaresan of the Urban Age Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2007, Urban Age…
The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay
Abstract from the publisher : This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and…
Le village dans la ville
Présentation par l'éditeur : "Il faut se réjouir de la réédition de ce classique de l'anthropologie urbaine devenu une référence incontournable des études de la parenté occidentale…