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The lives of urban residents in a global world. Great cities - ordinary lives conference panel 3
The third 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 3 : The lives of urban residents in a global world : Berlin,…
Cities: Place, space and everyday infrastructure. Great cities - ordinary lives conference panel 2
The second 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 2 : Cities : Place, space and everyday infrastructure…
Blair Ruble, "Washington's U Street : A biography" : New books in history
Abstract from the distributor :
I used to live in Washington DC, not far from a place I learned to call the “U Street Corridor.” I really had no idea why it was a “corridor” (most places in DC are just “streets”)…
Gender and sociability in early modern London
Seminar description from the IHR Digital blog :
Tim Reinke-Williams from the University of Northampton presented to the Metropolitan History Seminar group, a paper entitled ‘Gender and sociability in early modern London’. This paper…
The third city : Chicago and American urbanism
Organisers' description :
In the first seminar of the Spring 2011 GCI Comparative Urbanisms Series, Professor Bennett will discuss his new book The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism, which examines a variety of Chicago literature,…
Urban age : Mexico City
Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'Mexico City : Growth at the limit?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 recordings of the entire conference are available on the Urban Age…
Mots-clés: emploi, espace urbain, gouvernance, logement, Mexico, Mexico City, Mexique, mobilité, planification, transport, voisinage
Urban age : New York
Part of the Urban Age six-year conference series, this conference takes as its theme 'New York : Almost alright?'. As well as a wealth of related data and analysis, mp3 recordings of the entire conference are available on the Urban Age website. Many…
Mots-clés: aménagement urbain, banlieue, emploi, espace public, espace urbain, gouvernance, logement, London, Londres, mobilité, New York, planification, sécurité, transport, voisinage
Urban age : Johannesburg
Organisers' description :
The principal aim of Urban Age is to shape the thinking and practice of urban leaders and sustainable urban development. This six-year conference series – travelling from New York City, Shanghai, London, Mexico City,…
Les Gens de Bastille
Présentation par le diffuseur :
Bastille est un des quartiers de Fontaine. Nous y sommes depuis juillet 2007 pour enregistrer des émissions avec les habitant(e)s et les ami(e)s du quartier, en lien avec un ambitieux projet de…
Pension de famille
"Y'a toujours des gens qui passent"
C'est l'une des dernières pensions de famille de Paris. Un univers hors du temps, délicieux, où l'on vit chacun dans sa chambre et où l'on se croise à l'heure des…
Mots-clés: Paris, pension, société urbaine, voisinage
Le bruit des autres
Y'a du bruit chez les voisins.
Un immeuble dans le quartier populaire de la Goutte d'or, Paris XVIIIe. Dans la rue, il y a des Africains qui palabrent, des drogués qui errent, des embouteillages. Dans l'escalier filtrent les sons de la vie :…
Mots-clés: ambiances, Goutte d'Or, quartier populaire, voisinage
Seeing cities change: Local culture and class
Abstract from the publisher: Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them. In contemporary urban areas, all sorts of diversity are simultaneously…
Great American city: Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect
Abstract from the publisher: For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our…
Mots-clés: Chicago, communauté, community, délinquance, health, Sampson Robert J., santé, société urbaine, sociologie urbaine, urbanité, voisinage
Reconsidering Jane Jacobs
Abstract from the publisher : Fifty years after the publication of her most influential book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs is perhaps the most widely read urbanist ever. Her ideas contributed to the wholesale…
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…
Remembering, forgetting and city builders
Abstract from the publisher : Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to the politics of collective and personal memory construction. Bringing together case…
Can neighbourhoods save the city? Community development and social innovation
Abstract from the publisher :
For decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases…
The Architecture and memory of the minority quarter in the Muslim Mediterranean city
Abstract from the publisher :
A collaborative work among historians, literary specialists, and architects, this collection is directed at filling the gap in our knowledge about minority neighborhoods in the southern Mediterranean.
A series of…
Streets of memory : Landscape, tolerance, and national identity in Istanbul
Abstract from the publisher :
In this study of Kuzguncuk, known as one of Istanbul’s historically most tolerant, multiethnic neighborhoods, Amy Mills is animated by a single question: what does it mean to live in a place that once…