"Downtown" is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. It tells the fascinating story of how downtown--and the way Americans thought about downtown--changed over time. By showing…
City as Stage, City as Process brings together speakers from art and (counter) culture, architecture, urbanism, and media technology to discuss such questions as: In what way is the city not a fixed entity, but a process?…
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Urban Dynamics est un projet vidéo international qui tente d'appréhender les dynamiques urbaines par le biais d'un collage d'environnements urbains du monde entier en assemblant des extraits de vidéos faits…
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La Friche la Belle de Mai fait peau neuve, et au cours de sa métamorphose propose Entrez, c’est le chantier, une série de rendez-vous publics pour rendre visibles et lisibles ces…
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In this talk, 2011-2012 GCI Faculty Scholar De Jong will discuss the research and writing she is undertaking during her fellowship year at the Institute. Her project investigates how American cultural attitudes about…
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Placing the arts at the heart of the civic realm is essential to a rich and vibrant city. With rapid urbanization, the arts and humanities serve as indicators of the health and vigor of urban communities and civic…
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The 21st century city is inevitably global and local, dislodging boundaries between nation states as well as public and private realms. This panel investigates the impact of these transformations on cities at both the…
A lecture by Gyan Prakash, author of Mumbai Fables (Princeton University Press, 2010).
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A place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of…
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This talk proposes to explore the complex origins of a unique cosmopolitan culture in 1980s Hong Kong, which among other things represented the historical intersection of a changing colonialism, divisive nationalist…
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‘No urbanism without urbanists’ might be a slogan that captures the European and North American urban experience over the past two centuries. Indeed, it is arguable that urbanism is not only an empirical…
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The presentations and discussion explored recent developments in urban studies ranging across topics such as emerging conceptions of urban politics, new approaches to the interpretation of urban culture, and conceptual…
This lecture was part of the Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009, on the theme 'cities'.
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The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and…
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I used to live in Washington DC, not far from a place I learned to call the “U Street Corridor.” I really had no idea why it was a “corridor” (most places in DC are just “streets”)…
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Iain Sinclair, writer, poet and film-maker, will discuss – in conversation with Iain Boal, (social historian and Fellow of the Institute for the Humanities) his four decades of chronicling the life of the…
Full title : The city as a site of power in the Islamic West: The Alhambra (Madīnatal-Ḥamrā’) of the Nasrids and New Fes (Madīnat al-Bayḍā’)
NB : This lecture was part of the conference 'Sites of power :…
In this panel discussion, speakers present case studies of individual cities before offering an overview of different types of cities and the issues of city culture. Speakers pose the question of the nature of cities and whether or not it can be…
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This wide-ranging, synthetical paper offers a cross-cuang view of a range of emerging research on the politics of verticality which appertain to contemporary urban spaces. Arguing that critical urban social science has…
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La ville : terrain de jeu réservé aux urbanistes et aux politiques ? Sûrement pas ! Artistes, chercheurs et habitants sont parfaitement fondés à produire une réflexion…
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Le cycle “Cultures urbaines” se poursuit avec une table ronde consacrée au temps : Qu'est-ce que le temps de la ville ?
Les rythmes de la ville changent et se désynchronisent : avec le…