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Cities and citizenship : Surviving the 21st century
- Matthew Taylor is the Chief Executive of the RSA.
- Lord Mawson is founder and President of the renowned Bromley by Bow Centre in east London and Co-founder and President of Community Action Network (CAN), a national charity supporting 850…
- Lord Mawson is founder and President of the renowned Bromley by Bow Centre in east London and Co-founder and President of Community Action Network (CAN), a national charity supporting 850…
Cities, politics and power
Abstract from the publisher : Traditionally, the study of ‘power in the city’ was confined to the institutions of urban government and the actors involved in contesting and making political decisions in and for metropolitan societies.…
Cities, real and ideal : Categories for an urban ontology
Abstract from the publisher : Cities are conspicuous among settlements because of their bulk and pace: Venice, Paris, or New York. Each is distinctive, but all share a social structure that mixes systems (families, businesses, and schools), their…
Cities, sin, and social reform in imperial Germany
Extract from the Introduction: Focusing on Germany during the period when that country experienced its great age of industrial urbanization, this book treats ideas about cities, views of deviant behavior, and the socially reformist implications of…
Cities, texts and social networks, 400–1500
Abstract from the publisher :
Cities, Texts and Social Networks examines the experiences of urban life from late antiquity through the close of the fifteenth century, in regions ranging from late Imperial Rome to Muslim Syria, Iraq and al-Andalus,…
Cities: Novel readings of the city and the lives of ordinary people. Great cities - ordinary lives
The fourth panel of this symposium in celebration of Anthony Orum’s retirement: Great Cities/Ordinary Lives Conference - A look at the city and its residents from the bottom up
Panel 4 : Cities : Novel readings of the city and the lives of…
City : Rediscovering the center
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For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior,…
City and soul in divided societies
Abstract from the publisher: In this unique book Scott A. Bollens combines personal narrative with academic analysis in telling the story of inflammatory nationalistic and ethnic conflict in nine cities – Jerusalem, Beirut, Belfast,…
City at the center of the world: Space, history, and modernity in Quito
Abstract from the publisher: In the seventeenth century, local Jesuits and Franciscans imagined Quito, the Andean capital of Ecuador, as the “new Rome.” It was the site of miracles and home of saintly inhabitants, the origin of crusades…
City at the point : Essays on the social history of Pittsburgh
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An overview of scholarly research, both published and previously unpublished, on the history of a city that has often served as a case study for measuring social change. It synthesizes the literature and assesses how…
Mots-clés: Hays Samuel P., histoire urbaine, Pittsburgh, société urbaine, urbanisation, urbanité
City life
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Cities are more important as cultural entities than their mere function as dormitories and industrial sites. Yet, the understanding of what makes a city 'alive' and appealing in cultural terms is still hotly contested -…
City, culture and society (Vol. 1, No. 1)
Extract from the editorial by Masayuki Sasaki : Global society is experiencing a transition away from the existing socio-economic system, and there is a need to question and rethink existing theories in the domains of the humanities and social…
Clés pour Johannesbourg : portrait de ma ville
Présentation par l'éditeur :
Après l'apartheid, Johannesbourg est autant divisée par la pauvreté, la violence que par la race. L'auteur observe des scènes aussi cocasses que tragiques où les uns…
Mots-clés: Afrique du sud, Johannesbourg, pauvreté, représentations, société urbaine, violence, Vladislavic Ivan
Collective identities, governance and empowerment in megacities
Organisers' description :
The Eighth Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality on “Collective Identities, Governance and Empowerment in Megacities” took place from 11 – 16 June 2008.
An international essay competition was organized…
Company towns in the Americas : Landscape, power, and working-class communities
Abstract from the publisher : Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding…
Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, Anaconda, capitalisme, cité ouvrière, company town, Dinius Oliver J., El Salvador, Firmat, Fordlândia, histoire de l'urbanisme, histoire urbaine, Kellogg, Río Blanco, Santa Rosa, Santos, société urbaine, Sudbury, Sunflower City, Vergara Angela, ville ouvrière, Volta Redonda
Condition humaine… condition urbaine ?
Présentation par le diffuseur :
Autrefois, il y avait... "la ville" : un lieu né en Grèce et qui a porté de siècle en siècle l’histoire européenne ; un lieu pensé pour le corps,…
Mots-clés: espace public, flux, société urbaine, territoire
Connected in Cairo : Growing up cosmopolitan in the modern Middle East
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For members of Cairo’s upper classes, cosmopolitanism is a form of social capital, deployed whenever they acquire or consume transnational commodities, or goods that are linked in the popular imagination to…
Mots-clés: bourgeoisie, Cairo, class, classe, cosmopolitisme, ethnologie, identité, Le Caire, Peterson Mark Allen, société urbaine
Corps urbains, corps humains 1
Présentation par le diffuseur :
Comment se transforment les rapports entre le corps et la forme urbaine dans le monde contemporain ?
Quel corps l’urbain fabrique-t-il, et réciproquement, comment le corps humain le…