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La ville évanescente
Présentation par l'éditeur : Dans The Disappearing City, publié en 1932, Wright expose pour la première fois les grandes lignes de son fameux projet de ville de l’avenir. Dans les premiers chapitres, il…
New York
Présentation par l'éditeur : Malgré l’explosion des grandes métropoles asiatiques - entre autres -, New York reste aujourd’hui la référence incontournable d’une modernité urbaine…
Ghettos urbains ? La sécurisation aux États-Unis et en France
L’auteur a mené des enquêtes de terrain dans des quartiers populaires de villes-mondes, Paris et New York, dans le sillage de l’ethnographe américaine Sally Merry, afin de saisir les enjeux liés à la coproduction de la sécurité, lors de programmes de…
The sociology of a New York city block
Alternative link to the book via the Making of America digital library at the University of Michigan.
Spatial regulation in New York City : From urban renewal to zero tolerance
Abstract from the publisher : This book explores and critiques the process of spatial regulation in post-war New York, focusing on the period after the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, examining the ideological underpinnings and practical applications…
Paradigm islands : Manhattan and Venice
Abstract from the publisher : Concerning architecture and the city, built, imagined and narrated, this book focuses on Manhattan and Venice, but considers architecture as an intellectual and spatial process rather than a product. A critical look…
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…
Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy
New York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals. Bridging this economic divide is New York’s underground economy, the invisible network of illicit transactions between rich…
Atlas de New York
New York, à la croisée des réseaux économiques et culturels, incarne la toute puissance de la ville globale. Première mégapole du monde dans les années 1950, elle n’a plus le monopole de la modernité face à la mégapole asiatique de Tokyo ou celle de…
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…
New York: The story of a great city
Abstract from the publisher: Manhattan. Gotham. The Big Apple. New York's influence has stretched far beyond its city limits and into every corner of finance, art, and popular culture around the world. Now it finally has a biography big enough to…
The city, revisited : Urban theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York
Abstract from the publisher : Reexamining urban scholarship for the twenty-first century The contributors to The City, Revisited trace an intellectual history that begins in 1925 with the publication of the influential classic The City, engaging…
Modernity and the cities of the Jews. Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History (No. 2)
Extract from the introduction by Cristiana Facchini : First of all, our journey is meant to be a snapshot of Jewish culture through cities, but it also aims to depict a much more complicated picture of the interplay between modernity and Jewish…
Cities under siege: September 11th and after. City (Vol. 5, No. 3)
Extract from the section introduction by Bob Catterall: The image of a siege suggested itself as we first began on the 13th of September to explore with others the meanings of the attacks, and their implications for policy and action, on New York…
City in sight : Dutch dealings with urban change
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Huge social transformations and turbulent political events - 9/11 and the political murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh - have put urban issues high on the political agenda of the Netherlands. Against this…