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Les nouvelles esthétiques urbaines
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Sous l’impulsion d’associations militantes ou de politiques publiques, la ville se modifie. Le vert gagne du terrain. Plus profondément, plus durablement peut-être,…
Cities and design
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Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society. Competitive spending among affluent households has intensified the importance of style and design at…
Urban Dynamics
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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…
Visions of Eden: Environmentalism, urban planning, and city building in St. Petersburg, Florida
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This book examines the efforts of planners and their advocates to harmonize city building and environmental protection. Despite its geriatric image, St. Petersburg is a young city, the product of America's amazing…
Twentieth-century Pittsburgh, Volume One: Government, business, and environmental change
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First published in 1969, Roy Lubove's Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh is a pioneering analysis of elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal in a city once disdained as "hell with the lid off." The book…
Biodiversité urbaine
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À côté du minéral, du bâti, la biodiversité représente le "tissu vivant" de la ville. Dans un monde de plus en plus urbanisé, la…
Women's health and the world's cities
Abstract from the publisher: Growing urbanization affects women and men in fundamentally different ways, but the relationship between gender and city environments has been ignored or misunderstood. Women and men play different roles, frequent…
African metropolitan architecture
Abstract from the publisher: The architecture and built environment of African cities are documented in groundbreaking photographs by acclaimed architect David Adjaye. David Adjaye is renowned for his highly acclaimed buildings in Europe and the…
Transnationalism and the German City
All too often, urban studies scholars have approached transnationalism as a zero-sum game in which localities, regionalities, and nationalities are suppressed in favor of a globalized set of identities. At least in the German case, however,…
Making the San Fernando Valley : Rural landscapes, urban development, and white privilege
Abstract from the publisher : Environment and race at the intersection of city, suburb, and country. In the first book-length scholarly study of the San Fernando Valley— home to one-third of the population of Los Angeles—Laura R.…
Urban tomographies
Abstract from the publisher : Tomography is a method of exploring a phenomenon through a large number of examples or perspectives. In medical tomography, such as a CAT scan, two-dimensional slices or images of a three-dimensional organ are used to…
Garbage in the cities: Refuse, reform, and the environment
Abstract from the publisher: As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a thousand tons a day in New York City alone-that clogged streets and…
Urban development : A new perspective
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Although it has often been taken as a general definition of the city and urban culture (whence the commonsense notion that cities must fulfill commercial functions), Pirenne's fomulation was deficient because only the…