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Cet ouvrage propose une autre lecture de l'histoire mondiale que celle, habituelle, qui prend pour objet les États, les empires, les rois, les guerres et les révolutions. Combinant la perspective de l'économie spatiale et une connaissance historique encyclopédique, il raconte en une vaste saga l'histoire des six mille dernières années et en fait apparaître les grandes(...)
Redécouvrir l'histoire mondiale sa dynamique économique, ses villes et sa géographie
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Cet ouvrage propose une autre lecture de l'histoire mondiale que celle, habituelle, qui prend pour objet les États, les empires, les rois, les guerres et les révolutions. Combinant la perspective de l'économie spatiale et une connaissance historique encyclopédique, il raconte en une vaste saga l'histoire des six mille dernières années et en fait apparaître les grandes régularités géographiques, la profonde cohérence économique et le dynamisme moteur de ses systèmes urbains.
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April 2005, Montréal
Urban Theory
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How do cities plan for the unplanned? Do cities plan for recovery from every possible sudden shock? How does one prepare a plan for the recovery after a tragedy, like the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York? The book discovers the systematic features that contribute to the success of planning institutions. In cities filled with uncertainty and complexity,(...)
Planning for the unplanned : recovering from crises in megacities
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How do cities plan for the unplanned? Do cities plan for recovery from every possible sudden shock? How does one prepare a plan for the recovery after a tragedy, like the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York? The book discovers the systematic features that contribute to the success of planning institutions. In cities filled with uncertainty and complexity, planning institutions effectively tackle unexpected and sudden change by relying on the old and the familiar, rather than the new and the innovative. The author argues that planning programs institutions were successful because they were bureaucratic, and relied on standardized routines, rigorous sets of established regimes, familiar programs, and institutionalized hierarchies. Also contrary to popular perception, neither the leaders at the top of the institutions nor those workers at the grassroots level were the most important in the implementation of such routines. The key actors were middle managers, because they knew the institutional structures inside out, what the routines were and how to use them, and were successful go-betweens between national governments and grassroots community groups. Case studies from Mexico City, Los Angeles and New York provide a deeper understanding of urban planning processes. The case studies reveal that systematic institutional analysis helps us understand what works in planning, and why. They also demonstrate the manner in which institutional routines serve as powerful and effective tools for addressing novel situations.
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Are there significant variations in the ways planners in different nations have influenced urban, regional, and national development? Do such variations arise from differences in planning cultures, meaning the collective ethos and dominant attitude of planners in different nations towards the appropriate roles of the state, market forces, and civil society? How are such(...)
Comparative planning cultures
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Are there significant variations in the ways planners in different nations have influenced urban, regional, and national development? Do such variations arise from differences in planning cultures, meaning the collective ethos and dominant attitude of planners in different nations towards the appropriate roles of the state, market forces, and civil society? How are such professional cultures formed? Are they indigenous and immutable, or do they evolve with social, political, and economic changes both within and outside the national territories? Specifically, what has been the impact of the intensification of global interconnectedness in trade, capital flows, labor migration, and technological connectivity on national planning cultures? "Comparative planning cultures" addresses these questions, drawing on the planning experience in ten nations and at different territorial levels. The result is an understanding of planning culture that is complex and dynamic-in contrast to traditional notions of culture that evoke a sense of immutability and inheritance of unchanging social attributes of planners. The volume concludes that there is no cultural nucleus or core planning culture, no social gene that can be decoded to reveal the cultural DNA of planning practice of any nation.
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This publication brings together ideas about memory which bear upon the architectural and urban experience. It presents a critical and creative approach to the theorisation of memory, and focuses this burgeoning area of studies on the actual forms of the built environment in the modernist and post-industrial city.
Urban memory : history and amnesia in the modern city
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This publication brings together ideas about memory which bear upon the architectural and urban experience. It presents a critical and creative approach to the theorisation of memory, and focuses this burgeoning area of studies on the actual forms of the built environment in the modernist and post-industrial city.
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Politics of public space
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Public spaces, once democratic sites of dissent and cultural transformation, have become centres of private commerce and consumption. Increasingly, municipalities and local businesses collaborate to police urban public spaces, transforming them into highly regulated sites of cultural and economic activity. "The politics of public space" highlights the historical,(...)
Politics of public space
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Public spaces, once democratic sites of dissent and cultural transformation, have become centres of private commerce and consumption. Increasingly, municipalities and local businesses collaborate to police urban public spaces, transforming them into highly regulated sites of cultural and economic activity. "The politics of public space" highlights the historical, cultural, and geographical specificity of privatized and repoliticized public space in order to raise the possibility of a different politics of public space and a reimagined public sphere.
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Les sens du mouvement
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Mouvement , mobilité... qu'entendre exactement par ces mots apparemment ordinaires, mais carctéritistiques de la modernité ? Selon qu'on les approche comme sociologue, économiste, géographe, urbaniste, artiste ou élu, le mouvement et la mobilité recèlent des interrogations et des problématiques différentes. Les actes présentés ici entendent témoigner du large spectre(...)
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February 2005, Paris
Les sens du mouvement
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Mouvement , mobilité... qu'entendre exactement par ces mots apparemment ordinaires, mais carctéritistiques de la modernité ? Selon qu'on les approche comme sociologue, économiste, géographe, urbaniste, artiste ou élu, le mouvement et la mobilité recèlent des interrogations et des problématiques différentes. Les actes présentés ici entendent témoigner du large spectre des questionnements et enjeux de société concernés par la question du mouvement dans les sociétés contemporaines, accordant une place particulière aux mobilités urbaines, en les analysant dans leurs dimensions sociales, économiques, politiques, urbanistiques et environnementales.
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February 2005, Paris
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La société hypermoderne ou ces événements nous dépassent, feignons d'en être les organisateurs
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Contrairement à une analyse largement partagée qui verrait les liens sociaux se déchirer et les valeurs se dissoudre, François Ascher défend ici l'idée que l'individualisation, la rationalisation et la différence sociale, qui caractérisent la modernité, engendrent des liens sociaux beaucoup plus nombreux et choisis, et font émerger de nouveaux enjeux politiques. Il nous(...)
La société hypermoderne ou ces événements nous dépassent, feignons d'en être les organisateurs
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Contrairement à une analyse largement partagée qui verrait les liens sociaux se déchirer et les valeurs se dissoudre, François Ascher défend ici l'idée que l'individualisation, la rationalisation et la différence sociale, qui caractérisent la modernité, engendrent des liens sociaux beaucoup plus nombreux et choisis, et font émerger de nouveaux enjeux politiques. Il nous montre que le capitalisme cognitif, tel qu'il s'impose aujourd'hui, résulte de ces transformations : cette société est moderne parce que les individus comme les organisations qui la composent prétendent maîtriser leurs actions et leur vie. Mais est-ce réellement possible dans un monde toujours plus complexe et par conséquent, toujours plus incertain?
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Devant l'inflation des images de la ville, il importe de mettre en oeuvre un questionnement scientifique, susceptible d'éclairer leur rôle dans le développement des savoirs et des pratiques de l'intervention spatiale. Trois disciplines sont ici principalement interrogées pour traiter de la construction des figurations urbaines, de leurs effets, de leurs modes de(...)
Figures de la ville et construction des savoirs : architecture, urbanisme, géographie
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Devant l'inflation des images de la ville, il importe de mettre en oeuvre un questionnement scientifique, susceptible d'éclairer leur rôle dans le développement des savoirs et des pratiques de l'intervention spatiale. Trois disciplines sont ici principalement interrogées pour traiter de la construction des figurations urbaines, de leurs effets, de leurs modes de circulation : l'architecture, l'urbanisme et la géographie.
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In 1949, Beijing still retained nearly all of its time-honoured character and magnificence. But when Chairman Mao rejected the proposal to build a new capital for the People's Republic of China and decided to stay in the ancient city, he initiated a long struggle to transform Beijing into a shining beacon of socialism. So began the remaking of the city into a modern(...)
Remaking Beijing : Tiananmen Square and the creation of a political space
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In 1949, Beijing still retained nearly all of its time-honoured character and magnificence. But when Chairman Mao rejected the proposal to build a new capital for the People's Republic of China and decided to stay in the ancient city, he initiated a long struggle to transform Beijing into a shining beacon of socialism. So began the remaking of the city into a modern metropolis rife with monuments, public squares, exhibition halls, and government offices. Wu Hung grew up in Beijing and experienced much of the city's makeover firsthand. In this lavishly illustrated work, he offers a vivid, often personal account of the struggle over Beijing's reinvention, drawing particular attention to Tiananmen Square - the most sacred space in the People's Republic of China. "Remaking Beijing" considers the square's transformation from a restricted imperial domain into a public arena for political expression, from an epic symbol of socialism into a holy relic of the Maoist regime, and from an official and monumental complex into a site for unofficial and antigovernment demonstrations. Wu Hung also explores how Tiananmen Square has become a touchstone for official art in modern China - as the site for Mao's monumental portrait, as the location of museums narrating revolutionary history, and as the grounds for extravagant National Day parades celebrating the revolutionary masses. He then shows how in recent years the square has inspired artists working without state sponsorship to create paintings, photographs, and even performances that reflect the spirit of the 1989 uprisings and pose a forceful challenge to official artworks and the socio-political system that supports them.
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'OverHolland - architectural studies for Dutch cities' is a series published by the Department of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. The field of architectural research covered by the series includes both typological and morphological urban studies and the question of architectural intervention in Dutch cities.
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March 2005, Amsterdam
OverHolland 1 -Architectonische studies voor de Hollandse stad
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'OverHolland - architectural studies for Dutch cities' is a series published by the Department of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. The field of architectural research covered by the series includes both typological and morphological urban studies and the question of architectural intervention in Dutch cities.
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