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The urban code of China
NB : As of November 2010, the publisher's site is under construction. Details of the book are available from Amazon. Abstract from the publisher : In reading Chinese cities, as this volume attempts to do, the focus is not primarily on well-known…
The sociology of city life
Contents :
I. The beginnings of city life :
1. The origin of city life
2. The emergence of urbanism
II. The location of the city :
1. The urban site
2. General geographic location
III. The physical setting of city life :
1. The developmental history…
The remaking of Istanbul : Portrait of an Ottoman city in the nineteenth century
From the introduction : During the nineteenth century, a concerted effort was made to transform the Ottoman capital of Istanbul into a Western-style capital, paralleling the general struggle to salvage the Ottoman Empire by reforming its…
The new Asian city: Three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form
Abstract from the publisher: Under Jini Kim Watson’s scrutiny, the Asian Tiger metropolises of Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore reveal a surprising residue of the colonial environment. Drawing on a wide array of literary, filmic, and political…
The making of Hong Kong : From vertical to volumetric
Abstract from the publisher : This book investigates what the history of Hong Kong’s urban development has to teach other cities as they face environmental challenges, social and demographic change and the need for new models of dense…
The historian and the city
Extract from the Preface:
...[T]he Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the Harvard University Summer Session [decided] to convene a conference, in August, 1961, that would consider the…
The futures of the city region
Abstract from the publisher : Does the ‘city region’ constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and…
The evolving spatial form of cities in a globalizing world economy : Johannesburg and São Paulo
Abstract from the publisher :
Using the concept of 'global cities' as a key context to the discussion, Murray draws our attention to the large metropolises that dominate as economic power bases – cities such as New York and Tokyo – and…
Territoires d'action : aménagement, urbanisme, espace
Dans le domaine de l'urbanisme, le zonage fonctionnaliste est aujourd'hui mis en cause par la rhétorique du projet. Or, dans le même temps, la délimitation de périmètres d'intervention et de prescription apparaît comme une solution généralisée, non…
Table Rase
Présentation par le diffuseur :
Marseille prétend aujourd'hui au titre de métropole méditerranéenne. On assiste à un ensemble de mutations économiques et sociales qui ont pour but un changement…
Sociologie de Lyon
Présentation par l'éditeur : Lyon, ville bourgeoise et froide, jalouse de Paris ; Lyon, ville de la soie, des Canuts et de Guignol ; Lyon, capitale de la gastronomie... Nombreux sont les stéréotypes associés…
Shaping suburbia : How political institutions organize urban development
Abstract from the publisher :
The American metropolis has been transformed over the past quarter century. Cities have turned inside out, with rapidly growing suburbs evolving into edge cities and technoburbs. But not all suburbs are alike. In…
Rome: Continuing encounters between past and present
Abstract from the publisher: Few other cities can compare with Rome's history of continuous habitation, nor with the survival of so many different epochs in its present. This volume explores how the city's past has shaped the way in which Rome has…
Requiem : For the city at the end of the millenium
Abstract from the publisher :
In this small, but sharply-pointed book, renowned theorist Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn of…
Remaking Chinese urban form : Modernity, scarcity and space, 1949-2005
Abstract from the publisher :
In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment. Drawing on archival…