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The ghetto : Contemporary global issues and controversies
Abstract from the publisher : Too often the term “ghetto” is simply applied to any African American community, to the inner city as a whole, or recently to anything that is degraded or unrefined. But what is a ghetto? Does it arise…
Neighborhood and life chances : How place matters in modern America
Abstract from the publisher :
Does the place where you lived as a child affect your health as an adult? To what degree does your neighbor's success influence your own potential? The importance of place is increasingly recognized in urban research…
Roppongi crossing : The demise of a Tokyo nightclub district and the reshaping of a global city
Abstract from the publisher : For most of the latter half of the twentieth century, Roppongi was an enormously popular nightclub district that stood out from the other pleasure quarters of Tokyo for its mix of international entertainment and…
Pour des approches intégrées de développement urbain durable
Présentation par l'éditeur :
De plus en plus, nous vivons en milieu urbain. Les villes occupent désormais une place centrale dans l'organisation et la transformation des pays. Toutefois, loin d'être un tissu tendant…
The sociology of a New York city block
Alternative link to the book via the Making of America digital library at the University of Michigan.
The battle with the slum
Extract from the Introduction, 'What the fight is about' :
The slum is as old as civilization... The battle with the slum began the day civilization recognized in it her enemy. It was a losing fight until conscience joined forces with fear and…
How the other half lives
See also the Collections Portal of the Museum of the City of New York, where more than 1400 photographs taken by Riis are available to view online.
See also a LibriVox audio recording of the book.
Alternative link to a different full-text version…
La situation de la classe laborieuse en Angleterre
L'ouvrage de Friedrich Engels est disponible en texte intégral sur Les classiques des sciences sociales
Il s'agit d'une édition électronique réalisée à partir du livre de Friedrich Engels (1845), La…
Les quartiers en mouvement : pour un acte 2 de la rénovation urbaine
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Rapport 2011 du CES de l'ANRU, qui prend position sur l'avenir du programme national de rénovation urbaine.
Un rapport de 150 pages qui fait le bilan des succès - transformation du cadre de…
The progressives and the slums: Tenement house reform in New York City, 1890-1917
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…
Changing plans for America's inner cities
Abstract from the publisher :
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…
"Dear, dirty Dublin" : A city in distress, 1899 - 1916
Extract from the preface :
Only a few cities evoke those clear images that feed the mind and imagination of successive generations or represent for posterity the spirit of an age : Johnson's London, Louis Napoleon's Paris, Brecht's Berlin. And so…
The rise of the Paris red belt
Abstract from the publisher :
From 1920 until the present, the working-class suburbs of Paris, known as the Red Belt, have constituted the heart of French Communism, providing the Party not only with its most solid electoral base but with much of…