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The city that never sleeps also never stops changing. And while New Yorkers are renowned for their trendsetting, this thought-provoking book argues that New York City itself has become a follower rather than a leader. Once-distinctive streets and neighborhoods have become awash in generic stores, apartment boxes, and garish signs and billboards. Legendary neighborhoods(...)
The suburbanization of New York : is the world's greatest city becoming just another town?
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The city that never sleeps also never stops changing. And while New Yorkers are renowned for their trendsetting, this thought-provoking book argues that New York City itself has become a follower rather than a leader. Once-distinctive streets and neighborhoods have become awash in generic stores, apartment boxes, and garish signs and billboards. Legendary neighborhoods (Little Italy, Hell's Kitchen, Harlem, the Lower East Side) have been smoothed over with cute monikers, remade for real-estate investment and for sale to the highest bidder. What does the future hold for the legendary metropolis, gateway to immigrants and strivers, magnet for builders and dealers, muse for artists and dreamers? Will the current political, economic, and social influences dull its once-famous creative edge and culture of opposition? What will become of the special allure of New York? "The suburbanization of New York" presents fourteen timely, provocative articles that explore the radical transformation unfolding in New York City and raise serious questions about the future of any metropolis struggling to maintain its unique identity.
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mars 2007, New York
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In "Don't call it sprawl", the current policy debate over urban sprawl is put into a broader analytical and historical context. The book informs people about the causes and implications of the changing metropolitan structure rather than trying to persuade them to adopt a panacea to all perceived problems. Bogart explains modern economic ideas about the structure of(...)
Don't call it sprawl : metropolitan structure in the twenty-first century
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In "Don't call it sprawl", the current policy debate over urban sprawl is put into a broader analytical and historical context. The book informs people about the causes and implications of the changing metropolitan structure rather than trying to persuade them to adopt a panacea to all perceived problems. Bogart explains modern economic ideas about the structure of metropolitan areas to people interested in understanding and influencing the pattern of growth in their city. Much of the debate about sprawl has been driven by a fundamental lack of understanding of the structure, functioning, and evolution of modern metropolitan areas. The book analyzes ways in which suburbs and cities (trading places) trade goods and services with each other. This approach helps us better understand commuting decisions, housing location, business location, and the impact of public policy in such areas as downtown redevelopment and public school reform.
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When America became suburban
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In the decades after World War II, the United States became the most prosperous nation in the world and a superpower whose dominance was symbolized by the American suburbs. Spurred by the decline of its industrial cities and by mass suburbanization, people imagined a new national identity—one that emphasized consumerism, social mobility, and a suburban lifestyle. The(...)
When America became suburban
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In the decades after World War II, the United States became the most prosperous nation in the world and a superpower whose dominance was symbolized by the American suburbs. Spurred by the decline of its industrial cities and by mass suburbanization, people imagined a new national identity—one that emphasized consumerism, social mobility, and a suburban lifestyle. The urbanity of the city was lost. In "When America became suburban", Robert A. Beauregard examines this historic intersection of urban decline, mass suburbanization, domestic prosperity, and U.S. global aspirations as it unfolded from 1945 to the mid-1970s. Suburban expansion and the subsequent emergence of sprawling Sunbelt cities transformed every aspect of American society. Assessing the global implications of America’s suburban way of life as evidence of the superiority of capitalist democracy, Beauregard traces how the suburban ideology enabled America to distinguish itself from both the Communist bloc and Western Europe, thereby deepening its claim of exceptionalism on the world-historical stage. Placing the decline of America’s industrial cities and the rise of vast suburban housing and retail spaces into a cultural, political, and global context, Beauregard illuminates how these phenomena contributed to a changing notion of America’s identity at home and abroad. "When America became suburban" brings to light the profound implications of de-urbanization: from the siphoning of investments from the cities and the effect on the quality of life for those left behind to a profound shift in national identity.
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septembre 2006, Minneapolis, London
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The new suburban history
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America has become a nation of suburbs. Confronting the popular image of suburbia as simply a refuge for affluent whites, "The new suburban history" rejects the stereotypes of a conformist and conflict-free suburbia. The seemingly calm streets of suburbia were, in fact, battlegrounds over race, class, and politics. With this collection, Kevin Kruse and Thomas Sugrue argue(...)
The new suburban history
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America has become a nation of suburbs. Confronting the popular image of suburbia as simply a refuge for affluent whites, "The new suburban history" rejects the stereotypes of a conformist and conflict-free suburbia. The seemingly calm streets of suburbia were, in fact, battlegrounds over race, class, and politics. With this collection, Kevin Kruse and Thomas Sugrue argue that suburbia must be understood as a central factor in the modern American experience. Kruse and Sugrue here collect ten essays—augmented by their provocative introduction—that challenge our understanding of suburbia. Drawing from original research on suburbs across the country, the contributors recast important political and social issues in the context of suburbanization. Their essays reveal the role suburbs have played in the transformation of American liberalism and conservatism; the contentious politics of race, class, and ethnicity; and debates about the environment, land use, and taxation. The contributors move the history of African Americans, Latinos, Asians, and blue-collar workers from the margins to the mainstream of suburban history. From this broad perspective, these historians explore the way suburbs affect—and are affected by—central cities, competing suburbs, and entire regions. The results, they show, are far-reaching: the emergence of a suburban America has reshaped national politics, fostered new social movements, and remade the American landscape. "The new suburban history" offers nothing less than a new American history—one that claims the nation cannot be fully understood without a history of American suburbs at its very center.
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Sprawl, a compact history
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The author demonstrates that urban sprawl is a natural process as old as the world's oldest cities, wherein large metropolises reach a point of maturity and those with financial means escape the congestion and high prices of city life. What has changed over the past century, the author says, is that an increasing number of citizens have achieved the financial means to(...)
Sprawl, a compact history
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The author demonstrates that urban sprawl is a natural process as old as the world's oldest cities, wherein large metropolises reach a point of maturity and those with financial means escape the congestion and high prices of city life. What has changed over the past century, the author says, is that an increasing number of citizens have achieved the financial means to participate in what was once an exclusive luxury of the wealthy. Bruegmann acknowledges that the effects on cities are not always positive, but he also demonstrates that many of the criticisms of suburban sprawl—e.g., that it is culturally deficient and environmentally noxious—are greatly exaggerated and ignore the very real benefits sprawl offers in terms of privacy, mobility and choice.
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octobre 2006
Banlieues
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Ce livre raconte un programme unique au monde : la conception, la construction et l’usage de 10 refuges périurbains – 10 oeuvres d’art, qui dialoguent avec un territoire et accompagnent de nouvelles pratiques sociales. Situées dans des enclaves de verdure au sein d’un environnement urbain dense, ou offrant une vue spectaculaire sur l’industrie, le port, l’aménagement, les(...)
Les refuges périurbains : un art à habiter
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Ce livre raconte un programme unique au monde : la conception, la construction et l’usage de 10 refuges périurbains – 10 oeuvres d’art, qui dialoguent avec un territoire et accompagnent de nouvelles pratiques sociales. Situées dans des enclaves de verdure au sein d’un environnement urbain dense, ou offrant une vue spectaculaire sur l’industrie, le port, l’aménagement, les refuges mettent en scène la relation du bâti et du site… Adossées à un Sentier Métropolitain de randonnée pédestre de 200 km, ces refuges sont des oeuvres performées par les marcheurs qui y passent, y dorment, y rêvent.
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Territoire de prédilection de développement axé sur le transport en commun (Transit-oriented development), la banlieue est toutefois moins formellement remise en question que revisitée. Le défi n’est pas pour autant facile à relever. C’est à l’examen de cet enjeu qu’est consacré le présent ouvrage.
Le transport collectif à l'épreuve de la banlieue du Grand Montréal
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Territoire de prédilection de développement axé sur le transport en commun (Transit-oriented development), la banlieue est toutefois moins formellement remise en question que revisitée. Le défi n’est pas pour autant facile à relever. C’est à l’examen de cet enjeu qu’est consacré le présent ouvrage.
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Carolyn Whitzman tracks Parkdale's story across three eras: its early decades as a politically independent suburb of the industrial city; its half-century of ostensible decline toward becoming a slum; and a post-industrial period of transformation into a revitalized urban village.
Suburb, slum, urban village: the transformations in Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood
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Carolyn Whitzman tracks Parkdale's story across three eras: its early decades as a politically independent suburb of the industrial city; its half-century of ostensible decline toward becoming a slum; and a post-industrial period of transformation into a revitalized urban village.
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For a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century’s automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. This book presents a lively lament about the failures of postwar planning.
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septembre 2010
Suburban nation: The rise of sprawl and the decline of the American dream
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For a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century’s automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. This book presents a lively lament about the failures of postwar planning.
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La crise des banlieues
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Depuis un quart de siècle, le discours sur la ville se focalise majoritairement sur les grands ensembles de logements sociaux situés à la périphérie des villes. Ce type d'habitat, longtemps convoité par les classes moyennes, incarne aujourd'hui tout à la fois la misère et la relégation, la violence et la ségrégation, l'insécurité et le ghetto, l'échec urbanistique et la(...)
La crise des banlieues
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Depuis un quart de siècle, le discours sur la ville se focalise majoritairement sur les grands ensembles de logements sociaux situés à la périphérie des villes. Ce type d'habitat, longtemps convoité par les classes moyennes, incarne aujourd'hui tout à la fois la misère et la relégation, la violence et la ségrégation, l'insécurité et le ghetto, l'échec urbanistique et la segmentation sociale des territoires urbains. Cet ouvrage montre qu'il n'existe pois une banlieue unique, mais plutôt des territoires périurbains qui agglomèrent une grande diversité de lieux, d'activités et de populations. Il analyse les processus de fragmentation sociale et spatiale, ainsi que la spirale de l'exclusion caractéristique des banlieues sensibles.