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The right to the city
David Harvey discusses the concept of the right of the city, with a particular focus on political philosophy. Theorists and topics discussed include Marxism, the work of Henri Lefebvre and Haussmann's transformation of Paris.
David Harvey is a…
David Harvey is a…
Urban utopias
Readings on Urban Utopias in Theory and Practice
David Harvey is a leading theorist in the field of urban studies, currently working in the Anthropology department at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Centre.
David Harvey is a leading theorist in the field of urban studies, currently working in the Anthropology department at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Centre.
The city as a social, legal, and political concept
Gerald Frug is a Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a specialist on legal problems of local government and legal theory.
Vertigo : For a vertical turn in critical urban social science
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This wide-ranging, synthetical paper offers a cross-cuang view of a range of emerging research on the politics of verticality which appertain to contemporary urban spaces. Arguing that critical urban social science has…
Upper middle classes in European cities : Exit from the social fabric?
Patrick Le Gales discusses his research on the upper middle classes in European cities, questioning to what extent they are isolated from the social and economic fabric of the city, and how this destabilises and reconfigures modern society.
Patrick…
Public participation and urban transformation in Istanbul
In this lecture, 'Public participation and urban transformation in Istanbul : Europe and Turkey from a sociological perspective', part of the City Institute at York University's City Seminar series, Clémence Petit looks at themes of…
From urban social polarization to civic secession?
Alan Walks is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto
L’architecture du monde
Présentation par l'éditeur : L’architecture du monde soutient que l’architecture a depuis toujours servi à interpréter l’expérience humaine, à connaître le cosmos, l’ordre, la…
Mots-clés: architecture, espace urbain, Schabert Tilo, sciences politiques
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…
Politics of urbanism: Seeing like a city
Organisers' description: To see like a city, rather than seeing like a state, is the key to understanding modern politics. In this book, Magnusson draws from theorists such as Weber, Wirth, Hayek, Jacobs, Sennett, and Foucault to articulate some of…
Mots-clés: gouvernance, Magnusson Warren, politique de la ville, sciences politiques
Beyond privatopia : Rethinking residential private government
Abstract from the publisher : The rise of residential private governance may be the most extensive and dramatic privatization of public life in U.S. history. Private communities, often called common interest developments, are now home to almost…
Contention and trust in cities and states
Abstract from the publisher : Cities and nation-states have co-existed uneasily throughout human history. At times fused, at other times opposed, at still other times hierarchically linked, they have been crucibles of identity and social and…
The urban racial state : Managing race relations in American cities
Abstract from the publisher : The Urban Racial State introduces a new multi-disciplinary analytical approach to urban racial politics that provides a bridging concept for urban theory, racism theory, and state theory. This perspective, dubbed by…
Global ideologies and urban landscapes
Abstract from the publisher : How do political ideologies and urban landscapes intersect in the context of globalization? This volume illuminates the production of ideologies as both discursive and spatial phenomena in distinct contributions that…
Ville et proximité
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Quels sont les contours du concept de proximité ? Comment différentes disciplines le définissent-ils ? En quoi peut-il être un instrument pour la compréhension de…
The fate of cities : Urban America and the Federal Government, 1945-2000
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By the end of the twentieth century, decaying inner cities in America continued to lose ground despite the best efforts of local and federal officials. By then the investment in urban revitalization begun during the…
Critical urban studies : New directions
Abstract from the publisher : Essays reevaluating and challenging the critiques of the urban studies field. This volume revisits the tradition of critical scholarship characteristic of the urban studies field. Urban scholarship has had detractors…
The time of the city : Politics, philosophy and genre
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The Time of the City is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban life in diverse cities. Shifting the territorial emphasis of political studies…
Colonial metropolis : The urban grounds of anti-imperialism and feminism in interwar Paris
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World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected to return without protest to their homes–either overseas or…
Raqqa : territoires et pratiques sociales d'une ville syrienne
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Étoile du Croissant fertile située sur l’Euphrate à deux cents kilomètres à l’Est d’Alep, Raqqa est une ville de contact entre le monde des pasteurs…