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- Mots-clés: géographie urbaine
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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…
Seeking spatial justice
Abstract from the publisher : An innovative new way of understanding and changing the unjust geographies in which we live In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the…
Women and the everyday city : Public space in San Francisco, 1890 - 1915
Abstract from the publisher : Women in the city in turn-of-the-century San Francisco In Women and the Everyday City, Jessica Ellen Sewell explores the lives of women in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A period of transformation of both gender…
Music and urban society in colonial Latin America
Abstract from the publisher : The Spanish colonial project in Latin America from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries was distinctly urban in focus. The impact of the written word on this process was explored in Ángel Rama's seminal…
Patrick Geddes and town planning : A critical view
Abstract from the publisher : Patrick Geddes is considered a forefather of the modern urban planning movement. This boook studies the various, and even opposing ways, in which Geddes has been interpreted up to this day, providing a new reading of…
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…
Mobile urbanism : Cities and policymaking in the global age
Abstract from the publisher : How knowledge and power flow between places and impact cities worldwide Mobile Urbanism provides a unique set of perspectives on the current global-urban condition. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, leading…
Canadian urban regions : Trajectories of growth and change
Abstract from the publisher : Urban geography in Canada is constantly undergoing changes and, as such, the study of the discipline must reflect these changes. Approaching the subject from a unique vantage point, Canadian Urban Regions: Trajectories…
Knowledge economy and the city : Spaces of knowledge
Abstract from the publisher : This book explores the relationship between space and economy, the spatial expressions of the knowledge economy. The capitalist industrial economy produced its own space, which differed radically from its predecessor…
Géographie urbaine de l'exclusion dans les grandes métropoles régionales françaises
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Quelle méthode pour appréhender la géographie urbaine de l'exclusion ? Quelle répartition spatiale de la pauvreté dans les villes ? Alors que la vision habituelle de la…
Urban reflections : Narratives of place, planning and change
Abstract from the publisher : Urban Reflections looks at how places change, the role of planners in bringing about urban change, and the public's attitudes to that change. Drawing on geographical, cinematic and photographic readings, the book…
Les cités du désert. Des villes sahariennes aux saharatowns
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A rebours de tous les clichés, le Sahara est un monde de villes. Cependant, les cités anciennes héritées des échanges transsahariens, carrefours cosmopolites qui ont…
Cities and sexualities
Abstract from the publisher: From the hotspots of commercial sex through to the suburbia of twitching curtains, urban life and sexualities appear inseparable. Cities are the source of our most familiar images of sexual practice, and are the spaces…
Mots-clés: espace urbain, géographie urbaine, Hubbard Phil, sexualité, sexuality, sociologie urbaine
Urban political geographies: A global perspective
Abstract from the publisher: How can we think about the urban within a political and geographical framework? This compelling new textbook scrutinizes urban politics through a theoretical and empirical lens to provide readers with a clear…
Paris de parcelles en pixels. Analyse géomatique de l’espace parisien médiéval et moderne
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Ce travail collectif regroupant historiens, géographes et informaticiens, témoigne des profonds renouvellements de l'histoire médiévale et moderne de Paris grâce à…
Are organic cities better than geometric ones?
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Cities seem to come in two kinds: the organic, with their irregular patterns of space; and the geometric, with their regular grids. The former we take to be the bottom-up products of everyday life, the latter the…
The city in the 20th century
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the artistic, cultural and innovative developments of the city in the 20th century and is joined by two practitioners of the geographer’s art; Professor Doreen Massey, who was…
Beirut normal
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Is there anything to say about Beirut beyond the obvious, and by now exhausted, lessons of post-war reconstruction and identity politics? What is a "Beirut normal"? Is it worth examining? The lecture puts…
La mégapolisation : le défi de la ville monde
La mégapolisation peut être définie comme le processus qui donne une importance accrue aux villes géantes dans l'organisation de l'espace humain contemporain. Cette importance se reflète dans l'augmentation du nombre…
Mots-clés: géographie urbaine, mégapole, mégapolisation, Monnet Jérôme