September 11th and the city / Urban trauma and the resilience of cities
conflit urbain, guerre, violence urbaine, reconstruction, ville détruite, terrorism, terrorisme, natural disaster, catastrophe naturelle
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September 11th and the City
Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote "The test of civilization is the power of drawing the most benefit out of cities." The test of terrorism, then, may well be the power to inflict the greatest harm to those same centers of culture, commerce, and exchange. This is something that the September 11 terrorists well understood. Mohamed Atta was a man well acquainted with the power and majesty of cities--and presumably their durability and resilience. He was trained as an engineer, architect and urban planner. Yet, warped by fundamentalism, Atta became the "perverted dreamer" that E. B. White imagined decades ago in Here is New York, a man who would "loose the lightning" on Manhattan and attempt to destroy it, symbolically and literally. And even as the rubble of the World Trade Center smoldered in the days and weeks following September 11, pundits in the United States, too, foretold of the death of downtown and the end of the city as we know it. But cities have endured trauma and violence for millennia, much of it far worse than that unleashed by Mohamed Atta on September 11. Any study of the city in history will reveal that human settlements possess an essential ability to resurrect themselves in the wake of devastation, a point that the Resilient City colloquium hopes to reaffirm.
Urban Trauma and the Resilience of Cities
This paper examines the near-ubiquity of urban resilience by analyzing the concepts of trauma, recovery, and remembrance. It questions the definition of "resilience," by exploring the relationship between recovery of the built environment and other ways that a "return to normalcy" may be measured. Urban trauma, like urban resilience, takes many forms, and can be categorized in many ways. First, there is the scale of destruction-which may range from a small single precinct to an entire city (or, potentially, an even larger area). Second, one may rank these traumas in terms of their human toll, as measured by deaths and disruption of lives. Third, one may organize these destructive acts according to their presumed cause-some result from the largely-uncontrollable forces of nature, such as earthquakes and floods; others are hybrids of natural forces and human action, such as fires; while still others result more wholly from deliberate human will, whether executed by conquering armies, aerial bombardment, or terrorist strikes. It is not enough to ask general questions about urban recovery; we must ask who recovers which aspects of the city, and by what mechanisms. The process of post-disaster recovery is a window into the power structure of the society that has been stricken. Similarly, to ask about remembrance is to inquire how what is remembered gets constructed, when, and by whom.
Thomas J. Campanella is a Faculty Fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina, and a former Fulbright fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Lawrence J. Vale is a Professor and Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT School of Architecture and Planning.
Thomas J. Campanella
Lawrence J. Vale
MIT Video
2002-02-11
01:06:42
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Enregistrement vidéo
http://videolectures.net/mitworld_campanella_vale_scut/
Scales of agency in a global world: Individuals, cities, nations, and beyond
conflit urbain, conflit, violence urbaine, violence, politique urbaine, philosophie, guerre
Speaker: Jonathan Glover, Kings College, London
Readings on the Various Scales and Locations of Identity and Power in a Globalizing world
Jonathan Glover
MIT
2004
109:27
EN
Vidéo
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/urban-studies-and-planning/11-949-city-visions-past-and-future-spring-2004/video-lectures/week-11/
Faut-il avoir peur de la Banlieue ?
Revel Judith, Birnbaum Jean, banlieue, émeute, conflit urbain, discrimination, exclusion, philosophie
<div>Un entretien diffusé sur <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/" target="_blank">Dailymotion</a> par lemonde.fr dans le cadre de "L'Atelier des idées neuves".</div>
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Judith Revel, philosophe et italianiste, est maître de conférences à l'Université Paris-I (Panthéon-Sorbonne).</div>
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Qui a peur de la banlieue ?</a>, un essai dans lequel elle tire les leçons de deux années passées à enseigner dans un lycée de la Seine-Saint-Denis, en région parisienne.</div>
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Evoquant les émeutes de 2005, elle tente ici de redonner à la banlieue un visage soustrait aux fantasmes, et appelle ses habitants à refonder une parole légitime.</div>
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Entretien : Jean Birnbaum<br />
Iconographie : Léo Ridet<br />
Réalisation : Karim El Hadj</div>
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Entretien
17 décembre 2008
4'36"
Wounded cities
violence urbaine, conflit urbain, catastrophe, exclusion, ethnologie, ségrégation urbaine, lien social, mémoire, Till Karen
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In contrast to theorizing cities that have experienced disaster or trauma as systems that need to become more resilient, in this talk Karen Till argues that cities marked by past structures of violence and exclusion should be understood as both wounded places and as environments that offer its residents care. The talk draws upon her book in progress and ethnographic research in Bogota, Cape Town and Roanoke, Virginia -- cities in which settlement clearances have produced spaces so steeped in oppression that the geographies of displacement continue to structure urban social relations. She will introduce her concepts of 'wounded city', 'memory-work' and a 'place-based ethics of care' as a means of retheorizing the city. She argues that the memory-work of artists, activists and residents offer alternative models to imagine more socially just urban futures. A deeper appreciation of the lived and place-based experiences and expertise of these urban inhabitants would enable planners, policy makers and urban theorists to consider more ethical and sustainable forms of urban change.<br />
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Karen Till's book in progress, Wounded Cities, is based on more than ten years of ethnographic research and examines cities scarred by difficult national histories (Berlin, Germany, Cape Town, South Africa, Bogotá, Colombia, and Minneapolis and Roanoke, USA). The book engages recent debates about divided, resilient and resurgent cities by incorporating ethnographic and residents' insights, as well as relevant interdisciplinary discussions about heritage and memory; rights and cosmopolitics; and collaborative governance and civil society.<br />
Her talk is based on her just published article 'Wounded Cities' in Political Geography 31 (1) (January 2012): 3-14, that includes responses by Rob Shields, Jeff Garmany, and Kevin Ward, with Dr. Till's reply, and outlines some of the major concepts in a preliminary fashion that will be discussed in depth in the book.<br />
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<b>Karen Till</b> is Lecturer in Geography at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and Director of the Space & Place Research Collaborative.</div>
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Karen E. Till
7 February 2012
http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1217540;jsessionid=F2F0A0F3BFC82CAAE07D7CCFECBD16EF
Governing polarized cities
, collectivités locales, gouvernance, ségrégation urbaine, conflit urbain, politique de la ville, Bollens Scott, Brussels, Bruxelles, Johannesburg, Belfast, Sarajevo, Jerusalem, Jérusalem, Baghdad, Bagdad, Kirkuk, Kirkouk
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This article provides a comparative analysis of different institutional approaches to dealing with antagonistic group identity claims on the city. I discuss Brussels, Johannesburg, Belfast, Sarajevo, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Kirkuk. These cities are broken down into three categories—(1) cities that have utilized power sharing and forms of transitional democratization effectively enough that stability of the local and national state has occurred, (2) cities that have made some progress but are vulnerable to regression because local political arrangements are not sufficiently stabilizing, and (3) cities where power sharing is itself contested and a potential contributor to further instability. The case studies of local governance of polarized cites reported point to their institutional diversity, frequent fragility, and the evolutionary nature of even the “best case” examples. A difficult predicament is faced by local government reform in cities of inter-group conflict. Shared local governance arrangements need to produce measurable differences on the ground in the short term sufficient to allow institutional legitimacy. Yet, necessary power-sharing limitations on local democracy may make local government less effective in producing these needed tangible changes.</div>
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<b>Scott Bollens </b>is the Warmington Chair in Peace and International Cooperation and a Professor in the Department of Planning, Policy and Design at the University of California, Irvine.</div>
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available to download</a> from the University of Pennsylvania (scroll down or search for the PDF link).</div>
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Scott Bollens
28 October 2008
http://www.polisci.upenn.edu/ppec/sawyer/Speakers/Scott_Bollens.html
Kevin Mumford, "Newark : A history of race, rights and riots in America" : New books in history
Newark, race, politique de la ville, conflit urbain, histoire urbaine, ségrégation urbaine, Mumford Kevin, Poe Marshall
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In this week’s interview, we discussed Dr. Mumford’s latest book, Newark: A History of Race, Rights and Riots in America. David Roediger of the University of Illinois raves that “Meticulously researched and engagingly written, Newark tells an important story.”</div>
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Newark’s volatile past is infamous. The city has become synonymous with the Black Power movement and urban crisis. Its history reveals a vibrant and contentious political culture punctuated by traditional civic pride and an understudied tradition of protest in the black community. Newark charts this important city's place in the nation, from its founding in 1666 by a dissident Puritan as a refuge from intolerance, through the days of Jim Crow and World War II civil rights activism, to the height of postwar integration and the election of its first black mayor.<br />
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In this broad and balanced history of Newark, Kevin Mumford applies the concept of the public sphere to the problem of race relations, demonstrating how political ideas and print culture were instrumental in shaping African American consciousness. He draws on both public and personal archives, interpreting official documents - such as newspapers, commission testimony, and government records—alongside interviews, political flyers, meeting minutes, and rare photos.<br />
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From the migration out of the South to the rise of public housing and ethnic conflict, Newark explains the impact of African Americans on the reconstruction of American cities in the twentieth century.</div>
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<b>Kevin Mumford</b> is Associate Professor of History and African American studies at the University of Iowa.</div>
<b>Marshall Poe </b>is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History at the University of Iowa.</div>
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Marshall Poe,
Kevin Mumford
14 February 2008
http://newbooksinhistory.com/2008/02/14/kevin-mumford-newark-a-history-of-race-rights-and-riots-in-america/
Economic and social change and violence in Ahmadabad 1950-2000
, aménagement de l'espace, développement urbain, conflit urbain, violence urbaine, fragmentation sociale, ségrégation urbaine, tissu urbain, India, Inde, Ahmadabad, Ahmedabad
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What dynamics contribute to emergence of social tensions and conflicts in an urban environment? Mass mobilisations and episodes of collective violence have been a constant element in the development of large Indian cities over the twentieth century, and the emergence of a deep fracture between the Hindu and the Muslim community has informed social, political and cultural transformations in post-colonial urban environments. Taking Ahmedabad city (north-western India) as a case study, this paper analyses the explosion of collective violence as part of long-term dynamics of urban transformation. Group tensions can be seen as the expression of social, economic and spatial inequalities that consolidated unbalanced patterns of urban territorial and demographic growth. At the same time, the management of urban growth at a political level contributed to the construction of an urban geography where social differences are inscribed in the organisation of the space. In this context, episodes of collective violence have two dimensions: on one side, they can be read as moments when the many instances of inequality find expression in open confrontations at a street level; on the other, violence leaves deep marks in the city’s social and physical landscape and, in this sense, it is an integral element in the process of urban construction and organisation over time.</div>
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<b>Tommaso Bobbio </b>is a postgraduate research student in the Department of History at Royal Holloway University of London.</div>
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Tommaso Bobbio
1 December 2009
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2009/12/tommaso-bobbio-economic-and-social-change-and-violence-in-ahmadabad-1950-2000/
Cities under siege
, guerre, ville en guerre, sécurité, aménagement urbain, conflit urbain, ordre social, violence urbaine, Graham Stephen, Jones Gareth
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Cities have become the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centres of the West, Cities Under Siege traces how political violence now operates through the sites, spaces, infrastructures and symbols of the world's rapidly expanding metropolitan areas. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Graham shows how Western and Israeli militaries and security forces now perceive all urban terrain as a real or imagined conflict zone inhabited by lurking, shadow enemies, and urban inhabitants as targets that need to be continually tracked, scanned, controlled and targeted. He examines the transformation of Western militaries into high-tech urban counter-insurgency forces, the militarization and surveillance of March international borders, the labelling as "terrorist" of democratic dissent and Politics/Geography protests, and the enacting of legislation suspending "normal" civilian law. In doing so, he reveals how the New Military Urbanism now permeates the entire fabric of our urban lives, from subway and transport systems hardwired with high-tech "command and control" systems and the infection of civilian policy with all-pervasive "security" discourses; to the pervasive militarization of popular culture.</div>
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<b>Stephen Graham</b> is Professor of Cities and Society at Newcastle University, and previously taught at Durham and MIT, among other universities. His books include Cities, War and Terrorism, the Cybercities Reader, and (with Simon Marvin) Splintering Urbanism.<br />
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<b>Gareth Jones</b> is Senior Lecturer in Development Geography at LSE, and previously lectured at the University of Wales, Swansea, having also spent time at University of California San Diego and the Universidad de las Americas-Puebla in Mexico.</div>
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notice for the book</a> 'Cities under siege'.</div>
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Stephen Graham,
Gareth Jones
7 June 2010
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=682
Muslims in Indian cities: Trajectories of marginalisation
ethnicité, ethnicity, ségrégation urbaine, Muslim, Musulman, violence urbaine, conflit urbain, marginalité, société urbaine, Inde, India, Gayer Lauren, Jaffrelot Christophe
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Muslims constitute the largest minority in India yet, surprisingly, they suffer the most politically and socioeconomically. Forced to contend with severe and persistent prejudice, they often fall victim to violence and collective acts of murder. While the quality of Muslim life may lag behind that of Hindus nationally, local, inclusive cultures have been resilient in the south and the east. In the Hindi belt and in the north, Muslims have known less peace, especially in the riot-prone areas of Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Jaipur, and Aligarh, and in the capitals of former Muslim states–Delhi, Hyderabad, Bhopal, and Lucknow. These cities are rife with Muslim ghettos and slums, though self-segregation has also played a part in forming Muslim enclaves, as in Delhi and Aligarh, where traditional elites and the new Muslim middle class regrouped for physical and cultural protection. This book deploys a quantitative methodology combining firsthand testimony with sound critical analysis.</div>
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<b>Christophe Jaffrelot</b> was until recently director of the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI).</div>
<b>Laurent Gayer</b> is research director of the French Centre de Sciences Humaines in New Delhi.</div>
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Columbia University Press
February 2012
320
Ouvrage
Tuff city: Urban change and contested space in central Naples
espace public, renouvellement urbaine, patrimoine urbaine, sécurité, tourisme, immigration, mouvement social, centre historique, citoyenneté, conflit urbain, Naples, Dines Nick
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During the 1990s, Naples’ left-wing administration sought to tackle the city’s infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city’s cultural and architectural heritage. This book examines the conflicts surrounding the reimaging and reordering of the city’s historic center through detailed case studies of two piazzas and a centro sociale, focusing on a series of issues that include decorum, security, pedestrianization, tourism, immigration, and new forms of urban protest. This monograph is the first in-depth study of the complex transformations of one of Europe’s most fascinating and misunderstood cities. It represents a new critical approach to the questions of public space, citizenship and urban regeneration as well as a broader methodological critique of how we write about contemporary cities.<br />
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<b>Nick Dines</b> lived and worked in Naples for seven years. He currently lives in Rome, where he holds teaching posts in migration studies at Roma Tre University and the sociology of Southern Italy at John Cabot University.</div>
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Nick Dines
Berghahn Books
February 2012
344
Ouvrage
Cities in translation: Intersections of language and memory
Calcutta, Kolkata, Trieste, Barcelona, Barcelone, Montreal, Montréal, langue, language, multilingualism, multilinguisme, conflit urbain, urbanité, culture urbaine, Simon Sherry
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> All cities are multilingual, but there are some where language relations have a special importance. These are cities where more than one historically rooted language community lays claim to the territory of the city. This book focuses on four such linguistically divided cities: Calcutta, Trieste, Barcelona, and Montreal.<br /> <br /> Though living with the ever-present threat of conflict, these cities offer the possibility of creative interaction across competing languages and this book examines the dynamics of translation in its many forms. By focusing on a category of cities which has received little attention, this study contributes to our understanding of the kinds of language relations that sustain the diversity of urban life.<br /> <br /> Illustrated with photos and maps, Cities in Translation is both an engaging read for a wide-ranging audience and an important text in advancing theory and methodology in translation studies.</div> </div> <b>Sherry Simon </b>is a Professor in the Département d'études françaises at Concordia University.</div> </div>
Sherry Simon
Routledge
September 2011
224
Ouvrage
Cities into battlefields: Metropolitan scenarios, experiences and commemorations of total war
, ville en guerre, conflit urbain, culture urbaine, violence urbaine, mémoire, memory, commemoration, commémoration, Goebel Stefan, Keene Derek
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> Cities have always had a key role in warfare, as strategic centres which periodically suffered the horrors of siege and sack. With industrialisation, however, they were drawn ever closer to the front line and to direct and continuous experience of fighting and destruction. 'Cities into Battlefields: Metropolitan Scenarios, Experiences and Commemorations of Total War' explores the cultural imprint of military conflict on metropolises world wide in the era of the First and Second World Wars. It brings together cultural and urban historians and scholars of related disciplines including anthropology, education, and geography. The volume examines how the emergence of 'total' warfare blurred the boundaries between home and front and transformed cities into battlefields. The logic of total mobilisation turned the social and cultural fabric of urban life upside down.<br /> <br /> Arranged so as to bring out the evolution of experience over time, the essays explore Eastern and Central Europe, Britain and Western Europe, and Japan and address several key themes. The first strand - scenarios - explores the apocalyptic imagination of intellectuals and experts in peacetime. Artists and writers anticipating doom presented the coming upheaval as an urban event - a commonplace of late-Victorian and post-1918 pessimism. On a different plane, civil servants and engineers materialised visions of urban chaos and devised countermeasures in case of emergencies. Both groups helped to furnish a repertoire of cultural forms which channelled and encoded the actual experience of war. The second strand deals with metropolitan experiences, notably mobilisation, deprivation, and destruction in wartime. Ruins and the repercussions of war is the central theme of the third strand - commemorations - which investigates post-war efforts to remember and forget. The quest for meaningful forms of commemoration was hard enough after the First World War; the Second World War, which saw whole cities disappear in flames, raised the possibility that the limits of representation had been reached. The central contention of this volume - that total war in the twentieth century has a significant but often overlooked metropolitan dimension - is fully addressed, thereby filling a conspicuous gap in the currently available literature.</div> </div> <b>Contents:</b></div> </div> Stefan Goebel and Derek Keene - Towards a metropolitan history of total war: An introduction</div> Susan R. Grayzel - 'A promise of terror to come": Air power and the destruction of cities in British imagination and experience, 1908-39</div> Peter Stansky - '9/7', the first day of the London blitz: The context</div> Patrice Higonnet - Parisian peculiarities: The French capital in the age of total war</div> Eyal Ginio - Constructing a symbol of defeat and national rejuvenation: Edirne (Adrianople) in Ottoman propaganda and writing during the Balkan Wars</div> Jovana Kneževic - Reclaiming their city: Belgraders and the combat against Habsburg propaganda through rumours, 1915-81</div> Maureen Healey - Local space and total war: Enemies in Vienna in the two world wars</div> Tim Cole - Ghettos and the remaking of urban space: A comparative study of Budapest and Warsaw</div> Antony Beevor - Total warfare in a city: Stalingrad, Berlin - and Baghdad</div> Stefan Goebel - Commemorative cosmopolis: Transnational networks of remembrance in post-war Coventry</div> Lisa Yoneyama - Memories in ruins: Hiroshima's nuclear annihilation and beyond</div> Julie Higashi - The spirit of war remains intact: The politics of space in Tokyo and the Yasukuni shrine</div> Jay Winter - Conclusion: Metropolitan history and national history in the age of total war</div> </div> <b>Stefan Goebel </b>is Senior Lecturer in History and Director of Learning and Teaching at the University of Kent.</div> <b>Derek Keene </b>is Leverhulme Professor of Comparative Metropolitan History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.</div> </div>
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Ashgate
September 2011
254
Ouvrage
City and soul in divided societies
, conflit urbain, ségrégation urbaine, cadre de vie, urbanité, société urbaine, violence urbaine, Jerusalem, Jérusalem, Beirut, Beyrouth, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia, Nicosie, Sarajevo, Mostar, Bilbao, Barcelona, Barcelone, Bollens Scott A.
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher:</b></div> </div> In this unique book Scott A. Bollens combines personal narrative with academic analysis in telling the story of inflammatory nationalistic and ethnic conflict in nine cities – Jerusalem, Beirut, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia, Sarajevo, Mostar, Bilbao, and Barcelona. Reporting on 17 years of research and over 240 interviews with political leaders, planners, architects, community representatives, and academics, he blends personal reflections, reportage from a wealth of original interviews, and the presentation of hard data in a multidimensional and interdisciplinary exploration of these urban environments of damage, trauma, healing, and repair.<br /> <br /> City and Soul reveals what it is like living and working in these cities, going inside the head of the researcher. This approach extends the reader’s understanding of these places and connects more intimately with the lived urban experience. Bollens observes that a city disabled by nationalistic strife looks like a callous landscape of securitized space, divisions and wounds, frozen in time and in place. Yet, the soul in these cities perseveres.<br /> <br /> Written for general readers and academic specialists alike, City and Soul integrates facts, opinions, photographs, and observations in original ways in order to illuminate the substantial challenges of living in, and governing, polarized and unsettled cities.</div> </div> <b>Scott A. Bollens </b>is Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Irvine.</div> </div>
Scott A. Bollens
Routledge
September 2011
288
Ouvrage
UN urbanism / UN-urbanismus
United Nations, UN, Nations Unies, ONU, reconstruction, ville en guerre, ville détruite, forme urbaine, conflit urbain, mutation urbaine, Mostar, Kabul, Kaboul
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Jovis Verlag
October 2010
224
Ouvrage
Planning in divided cities
, aménagement urbain, ségrégation résidentielle, ségrégation sociale, ségrégation urbaine, conflit urbain, mixité sociale, politique urbaine, espace urbain, Belfast, Jerusalem, Jérusalem, Chicago, Gaffikin Frank, Morrissey Mike
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Does planning in contested cities inadvertedly make the divisions worse? The 60s and 70s saw a strong role of planning, social engineering, etc but there has since been a move towards a more decentralised ‘community planning’ approach.<br /> <br /> The book examines urban planning and policy in the context of deeply contested space, where place identity and cultural affinities are reshaping cities. Throughout the world, contentions around identity and territory abound, and in Britain, this problem has found recent expression in debates about multiculturalism and social cohesion. These issues are most visible in the urban arena, where socially polarised communities co-habit cities also marked by divided ethnic loyalties. The relationship between the two is complicated by the typical pattern that social disadvantage is disproportionately concentrated among ethnic groups, who also experience a social and cultural estrangement, based on religious or racial identity. <br /> <br /> Navigating between social exclusion and community cohesion is essential for the urban challenges of efficient resource use, environmental enhancement, and the development of a flourishing economy.<br /> <br /> The book addresses planning in divided cities in a UK and international context, examining cities such as Chicago, hyper-segregated around race, and Jerusalem, acting as a crucible for a wider conflict.<br /> <br /> The first section deals with concepts and theories, examining the research literature and situating the issue within the urban challenges of competitiveness and inclusion. Section 2 covers collaborative planning and identifies models of planning, policy and urban governance that can operate in contested space. Section 3 presents case studies from Belfast, Chicago and Jerusalem, examining both the historical/contemporary features of these cities and their potential trajectories. The final section offers conclusions and ways forward, drawing the lessons for creating shared space in a pluralist cities and addressing cohesion and multiculturalism. <br /> <br /> • Addresses important contemporary issue of social cohesion vs. urban competitiveness<br /> • focus on impact of government policies will appeal to practitioners in urban management, local government and regeneration<br /> • Examines role of planning in cities worldwide divided by religion, race, socio-economic, etc<br /> • Explores debate about contested space in urban policy and planning<br /> • Identifies models for understanding contested spaces in cities as a way of improving effectiveness of government policy</div> </div> <b>Frank Gaffikin </b>and <b>Mike Morrissey </b>are Professors in the Institute of Spatial and Environmental Planning, School of Planning and Civil Engineering at Queen's University Belfast.</div> </div> </div> </div> </div>
Frank Gaffikin Mike Morrissey
Wiley-Blackwell
March 2011
336
Ouvrage
Cities and sovereignty : Identity politics in urban spaces
, conflit, conflit urbain, violence urbaine, gouvernance, sovereignty, souveraineté, fragmentation sociale, ségrégation urbaine, ville coloniale, espace public, environnement urbain, identité, politique de la ville, Davis Diane E., Libertun de Duren Nora
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Space, governance, and ethnic conflict in contested cities<br /> <br /> Cities have long been associated with diversity and tolerance, but from Jerusalem to Belfast to the Basque Country, many of the most intractable conflicts of the past century have played out in urban spaces. The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume examine the interrelationships of ethnic, racial, religious, or other identity conflicts and larger battles over sovereignty and governance. Under what conditions do identity conflicts undermine the legitimacy and power of nation-states, empires, or urban authorities? Does the urban built environment play a role in remedying or exacerbating such conflicts? Employing comparative analysis, these case studies from the Middle East, Europe, and South and Southeast Asia advance our understanding of the origins and nature of urban conflict.</div> </div> <b>Contents : </b></div> </div> Introduction: Cities and Sovereignty: Identity Conflicts in the Urban Realm / Diane E. Davis and Nora Libertun de Duren<br /> <br /> Part 1. Modes of Sovereignty, Urban Governance, and the City :<br /> 1. Jerusalem at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Spatial Continuity and Social Fragmentation / Nora Libertun de Duren<br /> 2. Imperial Nationhood and Its Impact on Colonial Cities: Issues of Intergroup Peace and Conflict in Pondicherry and Vietnam / Anne Raffin<br /> 3. Confessionalism and Public Space in Ottoman and Colonial Jerusalem / Salim Tamari<br /> <br /> Part 2. Scales of Sovereignty and the Remaking of Urban and National Space :<br /> 4. Sovereignty, Nationalism, and Globalization in Bilbao and the Basque Country / Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría<br /> 5. Contesting the Legitimacy of Urban Restructuring and Highways in Beirut's Irregular Settlements / Agnès Deboulet and Mona Fawaz<br /> 6. Urban Locational Policies and the Geographies of Post-Keynesian Statehood in Western Europe / Neil Brenner<br /> <br /> Part 3. Sovereignty, Representation, and the Urban Built Environment :<br /> 7. Iconic Architecture and Urban, National, and Global Identities / Leslie Sklair<br /> 8. The Temptations of Nationalism in Modern Capital Cities / Lawrence J. Vale<br /> 9. Hurvat haMidrash—The Ruin of the Oracle: Louis Kahn's Influence on the Reconstruction of the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem / Eric Orozco<br /> Conclusion: Theoretical and Empirical Reflections on Cities, Sovereignty, Identity, and Conflict / Diane E. Davis<br /> <br /> <b>Diane E. Davis </b>is Professor of Political Sociology and Head of the International Development Group, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT.<br /> <br /> <b>Nora Libertun de Duren</b> is Director of Planning, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture.</div> </div> </div>
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Indiana University Press
January 2011
284
Ouvrage
Cities, politics and power
, politique de la ville, politique urbaine, société urbaine, conflit urbain, gouvernance, identité, power, pouvoir, réseaux, Parker Simon
<div><b>Abstract from the publisher : </b></div> </div> Traditionally, the study of ‘power in the city’ was confined to the institutions of urban government and the actors involved in contesting and making political decisions in and for metropolitan societies. Increasingly, however, attention has turned to the function of the city not only as a centre of urban governance but as a major economic, social, cultural and strategic force in its own right.<br /> <br /> Cities, Politics and Power combines this traditional concern with how the cities in which we live are organised and run with a broader focus on cities and urban regions as multiple sites and agents of power. This book is divided into five sections, with a short introduction outlining the argument and organisation of the text. Part two charts the development of the urban polity and considers the ways in which coercion and force continue to be used to segregate, oppress and annihilate urban populations. Part three critically examines the key collective actors and processes that compete for and organise political power within cities, and how urban governance operates and interacts with lesser and greater scales of government and networks of power. Part four then explores the ways in which ‘the political’ is constituted by urban inhabitants, and how social identity, information and communication networks, and the natural and built environment all comprise intersecting fields of urban power. The conclusion calls for a broader theoretical and thematic approach to the study of urban politics.<br /> <br /> This book makes extensive use of comparative and historical case studies, providing broad coverage of politics and urban movements in both the Global North and the Global South, with a particular focus on the UK, USA, Canada, Latin America and China. It is written in an accessible and lucid style and provides suggestions for further reading at the end each chapter.<br /> <br /> <b>Simon Parker </b>is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of York where he teaches urban theory and comparative politics.</div> </div>
Simon Parker
Routledge
November 2010
212
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Asian cities, migrant labor and contested spaces
, migration urbaine, migrant, immigration, mondialisation, conflit urbain, espace urbain, mutation urbaine, Asie, Asia, Wong Tai-Chee, Rigg Jonathan
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This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the 1990s following the end of the Cold War which marked the advent of a renewed phase of globalization. Cities have become centrally implicated in globalization processes and, therefore, have become objects and sites of intense study.<br />
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The contributors to this book reflect on the impact and significance of migration with a particular focus on the contested spaces that are emerging in urban contexts and the economic, social, religious and cultural domains with which they intersect. They also examines the roles and effects of different forms of migration in the cauldron of urban change, from low-skilled domestic migrants who maintain a close engagement with their rural homes, to highly skilled/professional transnational migrants, to legal and illegal international migrants who arrive with the hope of transforming their livelihoods.<br />
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Providing a mosaic of insights into the links between migration, marginalization and contestation in Asia’s urban contexts, Asian Cities, Migrant Labor and Contested Spaces will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian studies, migration studies, urban studies and human geography.</div>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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Introduction: Contemporary Urban Migration and a Theoretical Approach <br />
1. Contestation and Exclusion in Asian Urban Spaces Under the Impact of Globalization: An Introduction - Jonathan Rigg and Tai-Chee Wong <br />
2. International and Intra-national Migrations: Human Mobility in Pacific Asian Cities in the Globalization Age - Tai-Chee Wong <br />
Part I: The International Migration Dimension in Asian Cities <br />
3. The Migrant as a Nexus of Social Relations: An Empirical Analysis - Him Chung and Kai-chi Leung <br />
4. Post-industrialism and Residencing ‘New Immigration’ in Singapore - Leo van Grunsven <br />
5. Integrative Rhetoric and Exclusionary Realities in Bangladesh-Malaysia Migration Policies: Discourse on Networks and Development - Akm Ahsan Ullah <br />
6. Labouring for the Child: Transnational Experiences of Chinese Migrant Mothers and Children in Singapore - Dennis Kwek Beng-Kiat and Christine Tan Sze-Yin <br />
7. Ethnic Enclaves in Korean Cities: Formation, Residential Patterns and Communal Features - Dong-Hoon Seol <br />
8. Circular Migration and its Socioeconomic Consequences: The Economic Marginality among Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan - Hirohisa Takenoshita <br />
9. Migrant Labour, Residential Conflict and the City: The Case of Foreign Workers’ Invasion of Residential Neighbourhoods in Penang, Malaysia - Morshidi Sirat and Suriati Ghazali <br />
Part II: The Domestic Migration Dimension in Asian Cities <br />
10. Migrant Labour in the Factory Zone: Contested Spaces in the Extended Bangkok Region - Jonathan Rigg, Suriya Veeravongs, Lalida Veeravongs and Piyawadee Rohitarachoon <br />
11. Migrant Labour under the Shadow of the Hukou System: The Case of Guangdong - Jianfa Shen <br />
12. Marginalization of Rural Migrants in China’s Transitional Cities - Li Zhang <br />
13. Living at the Margins: Migration and the Contested Arena of Waste Re-use Aquaculture Systems in Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Albert M. Salamanca and Jonathan Rigg</div>
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<b>Tai-Chee Wong</b> is Associate Professor at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.<b><br />
Jonathan Rigg</b> is Head of Department and Professor in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK.</div>
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NC
Routledge
August 2010
312
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Noir urbanisms : Dystopic images of the modern city
dystopie, film, culture urbaine, représentations, histoire urbaine, conflit urbain, crise, crisis, dystopia, imaginaire, Prakash Gyan
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Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the history of the modern city through its critical representations in art, cinema, print journalism, literature, sociology, and architecture. It focuses on visual forms of dystopic representation--because the history of the modern city is inseparable from the production and circulation of images--and examines their strengths and limits as urban criticism.<br />
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Contributors explore dystopic images of the modern city in Germany, Mexico, Japan, India, South Africa, China, and the United States. Their topics include Weimar representations of urban dystopia in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis; 1960s modernist architecture in Mexico City; Hollywood film noir of the 1940s and 1950s; the recurring fictional destruction of Tokyo in postwar Japan's sci-fi doom culture; the urban fringe in Bombay cinema; fictional explorations of urban dystopia in postapartheid Johannesburg; and Delhi's out-of-control and media-saturated urbanism in the 1980s and 1990s. What emerges in Noir Urbanisms is the unsettling and disorienting alchemy between dark representations and the modern urban experience.</div>
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<b>Contents : </b></div>
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Introduction : Imaging the Modern City, Darkly - Gyan Prakash<br />
MODERNISM AND URBAN DYSTOPIA<br />
The Phantasm of the Apocalypse : Metropolis and Weimar Modernity - Anton Kaes <br />
Sounds Like Hell : Beyond Dystopian Noise - James Donald<br />
Tlatelolco : Mexico City's Urban Dystopia - Rubén Gallo <br />
THE AESTHETICS OF THE DARK CITY<br />
A Regional Geography of Film Noir : Urban Dystopias On- and Offscreen - Mark Shiel <br />
Oh No, There Goes Tokyo : Recreational Apocalypse and the City in Postwar Japanese Popular Culture - William M. Tsutsui<br />
Postsocialist Urban Dystopia? - Li Zhang<br />
Friction, Collision, and the Grotesque : The Dystopic Fragments of Bombay Cinema - Ranjani Mazumdar <br />
IMAGING URBAN CRISIS<br />
Topographies of Distress : Tokyo, c. 1930 - David R. Ambaras <br />
Living in Dystopia : Past, Present, and Future in Contemporary African Cities - Jennifer Robinson <br />
Imaging Urban Breakdown : Delhi in the 1990s - Ravi Sundaram</div>
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<b>Gyan Prakash</b> is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University.</div>
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NC
Princeton University Press
September 2010
288
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Arrival city : How the largest migration in history is reshaping our world
, migrant, migration urbaine, urbanisation, bidonville, conflit urbain, mutation urbaine, pauvreté, Saunders Doug
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A third of the world’s people are in the midst of the largest population move in human history, as the last of the word’s rural populations abandons agriculture and moves to the urban areas of the developing world and of the wealthy West.<br />
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This shift is at the heart of the most dangerous and violent conflicts today in North America, Europe and Asia. It also has enormous potential to renew the world’s economies and bring a final end to mass poverty - if conflict and clashes can be avoided.<br />
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* It is taking place not in the cities we know but in a new type of space, on the margins of our great cities, that we rarely notice: the 'arrival city'. These spaces are becoming the power centres of the new era. It is from these, the new home of an enormous floating population of 2 billion people, that most of the world’s most serious crises and explosions of violence are emerging<br />
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* In Arrival City - both a groundbreaking work of reportage and an exciting, vivid travelogue - award-winning journalist Doug Saunders offers a detailed tour of the key points in the Great Migration, and considers the actions that have turned this enormous population shift into either a success or a violent failure.</div>
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<b>Doug Saunders </b>is an award-winning journalist who writes on international affairs and covers Europe for Canada's <i>The Globe and Mail</i>.</div>
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Doug Sanders
William Heinemann (Random House imprint)
September 2010
368
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