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Faith in the antebellum urban order : Religion and the making of early 19th-century New York City

Kyle Roberts is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Dissenting Academy Libraries Project at Queen Mary, University of London.

Mots-clés: analyse spatiale, dix-neuvième siècle, environnement urbain, espace urbain, histoire urbaine, New York, nineteenth century, religion, Roberts Kyle, société urbaine

Ottoman Izmir: The rise of a cosmopolitan port, 1840-1880

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Abstract from the publisher: Between 1840 and 1880, the Eastern Mediterranean port of Izmir (Smyrna) underwent unprecedented change. A modern harbor that welcomed international steamships and new railway lines that transported a cornucopia of…

Mots-clés: cosmopolitisme, dix-neuvième siècle, Empire Ottoman, espace urbain, histoire urbaine, Izmir, modernisation, nineteenth century, Ottoman Empire, Smyrna, Smyrne, urbanité, ville portuaire, Zandi-Sayek Sibel

A joint enterprise : Indian elites and the making of British Bombay

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Abstract from the publisher : An in-depth look at the urban history of British Bombay It was the era of the Raj, and yet A Joint Enterprise reveals the unexpected role of native communities in the transformation of the urban fabric of British…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, Bombay, Chopra Preeti, développement urbain, dix-neuvième siècle, histoire de l'urbanisme, Mumbai, nineteenth century, ville coloniale

Expositions : Literature and architecture in nineteenth-century France

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Abstract from the publisher : In Expositions, Philippe Hamon leads us on an engaging intellectual stroll through the spaces and representations of the nineteenth-century French metropolis. Inspired by the cultural histories of Walter Benjamin and…

Mots-clés: culture urbaine, dix-neuvième siècle, espace public, exposition universelle, France, great exhibition, Hamon Philippe, histoire de l'architecture, histoire urbaine, littérature, nineteenth century, Paris

In the watches of the night: Life in the nocturnal city, 1820-1930

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Abstract from the publisher: Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to…

Mots-clés: Baldwin Peter C., délinquance, dix-neuvième siècle, emploi, États-Unis, gender, genre, histoire urbaine, leisure, loisirs, night, nineteenth century, nuit, transport, twentieth century, United States, urbanité, vingtième siècle

The city in the Ottoman Empire : Migration and the making of urban modernity

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Abstract from the publisher : The nexus of urban governance and human migration was a crucial feature in the modernisation of cities in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century. This book connects these two concepts to examine the Ottoman city…

Mots-clés: dix-neuvième siècle, Empire Ottoman, Freitag Ulrike, Fuhrmann Malte, gouvernance, Lafi Nora, migration urbaine, modernisation, nineteenth century, Ottoman Empire, Riedler Florian

Keeping the lid on : Urban eruptions and social control since the 19th century

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Abstract from the publisher : The contributors to this book have explored various aspects of urban imagination, so intimately related to a peculiar social environment. They are historians and geographers, linguists and cultural students. Their…

Mots-clés: Barrow Logie, dix-neuvième siècle, émeute, epidemic, épidémie, Finding Susan, gouvernance, histoire urbaine, mémoire, mouvement social, nineteenth century, Poirier François, société urbaine, twentieth century, vingtième siècle

Manifestoes and transformations in the early modernist city

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Abstract from the publisher : The industrialization of the nineteenth-century European city facilitated developing conceptions of the model city, and allowed for large scale urban transformations. The urban discourse in the latter half of the…

Mots-clés: aménagement, aménagement urbain, Cordua Christian Hermansen, dix-neuvième siècle, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, mutation urbaine, nineteenth century, utopie, ville modèle

City sites : Multimedia essays on New York and Chicago, 1870s-1930s

Abstract from the publishers : City Sites is an inter- and multi-disciplinary study of the iconography, spatial forms and visual and literary cultures of New York and Chicago in the period 1870s to 1930s. City Sites is the result of collaborative…

Mots-clés: analyse spatiale, Balshaw Maria, Chicago, culture urbaine, dix-neuvième siècle, forme urbaine, histoire urbaine, iconographie, iconography, Kennedy Liam, littérature, New York, nineteenth century, Notaro Anna, Tallack Douglas, twentieth century, vingtième siècle

Eden on the Charles : The making of Boston

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Abstract from the publisher : Drinking a glass of tap water, strolling in a park, hopping a train for the suburbs: some aspects of city life are so familiar that we don’t think twice about them. But such simple actions are structured by…

Mots-clés: Boston, dix-neuvième siècle, environnement, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, nineteenth century, Rawson Michael

Nineteenth-Century cities

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Today, I want to do the impossible and talk about urbanization and urban growth in fifty minutes. I'll give the classic example, which is the greatest project of human intervention or rebuilding, that is the…

Mots-clés: banlieue, centre-ville, croissance urbaine, dix-neuvième siècle, histoire urbaine, nineteenth century, ségrégation sociale, ségrégation urbaine, société urbaine, urbanisation

Women and the everyday city : Public space in San Francisco, 1890 - 1915

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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…

Mots-clés: dix-neuvième siècle, espace public, femmes, genre, géographie urbaine, histoire de l'architecture, histoire urbaine, nineteenth century, San Francisco, Sewell Jessica Ellen, twentieth century, vingtième siècle, women

London labour and the London poor (Vol. 2)

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Extract from the Preface to Volume One : The present volume is the first of an intended series, which it is hoped will form, when complete, a cyclopaedia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great Metropolis. Henry Mayhew (1812 - 1887)…

Mots-clés: dix-neuvième siècle, London, Londres, Mayhew Henry, nineteenth century, pauvreté, rue, sans-domicile, société urbaine, travail

London labour and the London poor (Vol. 3)

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The present volume is the first of an intended series, which it is hoped will form, when complete, a cyclopaedia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great Metropolis. Henry Mayhew (1812 - 1887) was an English social researcher, journalist…

Mots-clés: dix-neuvième siècle, London, Londres, Mayhew Henry, nineteenth century, pauvreté, rue, sans-domicile, société urbaine, travail

London labour and the London poor (Vol. 1)

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Full title : London labour and the London poor; a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. Extract from the Preface : The present volume is the first of an intended…

Mots-clés: dix-neuvième siècle, London, Londres, Mayhew Henry, nineteenth century, pauvreté, société urbaine, travail

The imagination of class: Masculinity and the Victorian urban poor

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Extract from the Introduction: The poor were always with the English. Poverty had been of broad social concern since the Elizabethan period at least: the topic of ongoing debate, periodic legislation, sporadic philanthropy. But the London poor of…

Mots-clés: Bivona Daniel, classe, dix-neuvième siècle, Hinkle Roger B., histoire urbaine, hommes, litérature, littérature, London, Londres, masculinité, masculinity, men, nineteenth century, pauvreté, représentations, Royaume-Uni, United Kingdom, Victorian

The remaking of Istanbul : Portrait of an Ottoman city in the nineteenth century

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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…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, Çelik Zeynep, dix-neuvième siècle, forme urbaine, histoire de l'architecture, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, Istanbul, modernisation, nineteenth century, renouvellement urbain, tissu urbain, transport

Imagining low life before the East End's invention, c. 1780s to 1840s

This paper was part of the Anglo-American Conference of historians 2009, on the theme 'cities'. Conference description by the organisers : The conference will deal with cities throughout the world, with papers examining the networks of cities and…

Mots-clés: dix-huitième siècle, dix-neuvième siècle, East End, eighteenth century, Gatrell Vic, histoire urbaine, imaginaire, London, Londres, nineteenth century, pauvreté, quartier défavorisé

Mapping modernity in Shanghai : Space, gender, and visual culture in the sojourners' city, 1853-98

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Abstract from the publisher : This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration. This city’s colonial capitalist development ruptured the traditional configuration of…

Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, analyse spatiale, China, Chine, colonisation, culture urbaine, dix-neuvième siècle, espace public, forme urbaine, géographie urbaine, histoire de l'architecture, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, Liang Samuel Y., morphologie urbaine, nineteenth century, Shanghai

The progressives and the slums: Tenement house reform in New York City, 1890-1917

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Abstract from the publisher: Contents: 1. The origins of tenement reform, 1830-1865 2. The tenement comes of age, 1866-1890 3. Jacob A. Riis: Portrait of a reformer 4. The Tenement House Committee of 1894 5. Lawrence Veiller and the New York…

Mots-clés: bidonville, dix-neuvième siècle, histoire urbaine, insalubrité, logement, Lubove Roy, mouvement social, New York, nineteenth century, pauvreté, quartier dégradé, relogement, renouvellement urbain, Riis Jacob A., tenement, twentieth century, Veiller Lawrence, vingtième siècle

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