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Moscou
Editorial de Gwenaël Querrien :
Depuis vingt ans - la fin du régime soviétique datant de 1991 -, le développement économique et urbain de Moscou est spectaculaire, dans la logique néolibérale de la…
Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule
Abstract from the publisher :
During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence, Algiers was the site of recurrent conflicts between colonizer and colonized. Through architecture and urban forms confrontations were crystallized,…
The New York approach : Robert Moses, urban liberals, and the redevelopment of the inner city
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Joel Schwartz's major reinterpretation of urban development in New York City examines Robert Moses's role in shaping the city and demonstrates for the first time that Moses's personal and ruthless crusade to redevelop…
Leningrad : Shaping a Soviet city
Extract from the foreword by Stanley Scott and Victor Jones :
The Lane series of books — of which this Leningrad volume is the eighth and most recent — is sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies and the Institute of…
Plans, pragmatism and people : The legacy of Soviet planning for today's cities
Extract from the preface :
In broad terms, the thesis of this book is that a socialist city did indeed develop, but that its characteristics and thus its distinctiveness are an amalgam, on the one hand of socialist features deriving from Marxist…
Brasília, plan and reality : A study of planned and spontaneous urban development
Extract from the preface :
This book is a considerably revised version of my doctoral dissertation. I wanted it to deal with ongoing social trends instead of the merely exotic or the archaic, so often pursued by anthropologists... Brasília…
The San Francisco Bay Area : A metropolis in perspective
NB : The full text of this book is also available via Google Books.
The lost dream : Businessmen and city planning on the Pacific coast, 1890 - 1920
Abstract from the publisher :
Mansel Blackford’s The Lost Dream explores the history of city planning in five Pacific Coast cities—Seattle, Portland, Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles—during the Progressive Era. Although…
Changing plans for America's inner cities
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Cincinnati’s historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood began in the nineteenth century as a nonelite suburb and became in the twentieth century an inner-city slum, burdened with a broad range of problems characteristic…
The mysteries of the great city: The politics of urban design, 1877-1937
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The Mysteries of the Great City examines the physical, cultural, and political transformations of the American city between the Gilded Age and the New Deal. Focusing on New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati, John Fairfield…
Visions of Eden: Environmentalism, urban planning, and city building in St. Petersburg, Florida
Extract from the Introduction:
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…
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City visions 1910 / 2010 : Urban planning in Berlin, London, Paris and Chicago 1910 and 2010
Extract from the catalogue :
The exhibition City Visions 1910 | 2010 is a celebration of the anniversary of the General Town Planning Exhibition. It compares two key moments in time: The years around 1910 and 2010.
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The planning exhibition…
The urban machine: Recent literature on European cities in the 20th century
Contents: Mercedes Arroyo - Technical networks and urban territory: A survey of the literature in Spain Bengt Berglund - Urban history in Sweden: An overview Mikael Hård and Marcus Stippak - Discourses on the modern city and urban technology,…
America becomes urban : The development of U.S. cities and towns 1780-1980
From the preface :
The American city: we think of the Manhattan skyline, of Chicago curving along the shore of Lake Michigan, or of the Golden Gate Bridge arcing into San Francisco. Or, if we think historically, we might envision steerage…
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…
American city planning since 1890
Abstract from the publisher :
City planning is an ancient activity but a modern profession. The city planning profession in the United States arose from the urban reform movements of the 1890s and early years of this century. Here, in a volume…
Garden cities of to-morrow
Abstract from the publisher :
Among the many 'utopian' proposals of the 19th century, this particular short text stands out. Howard was a 19th century British reformer and city planner. He was influenced by Bellamy's Looking Backwards. He saw new,…
New ideals in the planning of cities, towns and villages
Extract from a review of 'New ideals in the planning of cities, towns and villages' from the Discovering Urbanism blog : "Probably more than anyone else, John Nolen was the voice of the early American city planning establishment... New ideals…