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Hôtels meublés à Paris : enquête sur une mémoire de l'immigration
Présentation par l'éditeur : « Ce livre résulte d’un pari ambitieux : saisir les hôtels meublés parisiens comme des lieux de mémoire. (…) À interroger habitants et hôteliers,…
The Heroic City : Paris, 1945-1958
Présentation par l'éditeur : The Heroic City is a sparkling account of the fate of Paris’s public spaces in the years following Nazi occupation and joyful liberation. Countering the traditional narrative that Paris’s public…
Paris et les banlieues, naissance d'un espace urbain, XIXe-XXe siècles
Présentation par le diffuseur : Cet essentiel d’histoire, composé d'une introduction et de 8 leçons, est proposé par Annie Fourcaut, professeur d'histoire contemporaine et spécialiste de la question. Il…
Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy
New York is a city of highs and lows, where wealthy elites share the streets with desperate immigrants and destitute locals. Bridging this economic divide is New York’s underground economy, the invisible network of illicit transactions between rich…
Par-delà les silences. Non-dits et ruptures dans les parcours d'immigration
Issu d'une enquête de terrain de deux ans en Seine-Saint-Denis, cet ouvrage donne la parole à des migrants récemment arrivés et à des familles immigrées de longue date. En se racontant, hommes et femmes, jeunes et parents sortent collectivement du…
Urban diversity : Space, culture, and inclusive pluralism in cities worldwide
Abstract from the publisher :
As the world's urban populations grow, cities become spaces where increasingly diverse peoples negotiate such differences as language, citizenship, ethnicity and race, class and wealth, and gender. Using a comparative…
Urban pollution : Cultural meanings, social practices
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Re-examining Mary Douglas’ work on pollution and concepts of purity, this volume explores modern expressions of these themes in urban areas, examining the intersections of material and cultural pollution. It…
Cities and citizenship at the U.S.-Mexican border : The Paso del Norte metropolitan region
Abstract from the publisher : At the center of the 2,000 mile U.S.-Mexico border, a sprawling transnational urban space has mushroomed into a metropolitan region with over two million people whose livelihoods depend on global manufacturing,…
Asian cities, migrant labor and contested spaces
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This volume explores how migration is playing a central role in the renewing and reworking of urban spaces in the fast growing and rapidly changing cities of Asia. Migration trends in Asia entered a new phase in the…
Cultural diversity in Russian cities : The urban landscape in the Post-Soviet era
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Cultural diversity — the multitude of different lifestyles that are not necessarily based on ethnic culture — is a catchphrase increasingly used in place of multiculturalism and in conjunction with…
The urban community
Extract from the preface by Ernest W. Burgess :
Nine years ago the central topic at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Society was "Rural Sociology." So great was the demand for the volume, especially for use in classes in universities…
Le logement social en région parisienne au 20ème siècle
Extrait de la présentation par les rédacteurs :
Le dossier des Cahiers, introduit par Jacques Girault, guide historien de la plupart des travaux rassemblés ici, croise des points de vue sur cette gigantesque dimension du social,…
Ethnic Amsterdam : Immigrants and urban change in the twentieth century
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Over the centuries, people from all parts of the world have been drawn to the city of Amsterdam. While immigrants adapted to local customs, opportunities and constraints, their practices and habits have left indelible…
Integration and the city : German journal of urban studies (No. 1, 2001)
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The "German Journal of Urban Studies", like its predecessor of many years standing, the "Archiv für Kommunalwissenschaften", is a forum for all disciplines related to urban studies. The…
Bridging diversity in a globalizing world : Journal of urban and regional analysis (Vol. 2, No. 2)
From the introduction by Izhak Schnell :
Special Issue: “Bridging Diversity in a Globalizing World” Selected Papers given at the IGU - Urban Commission Meeting Regional Conference, July 2010, Tel Aviv, Israel
This volume is a result of…
City in sight : Dutch dealings with urban change
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Huge social transformations and turbulent political events - 9/11 and the political murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh - have put urban issues high on the political agenda of the Netherlands. Against this…