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Step by Step is based on in-depth interviews Augoyard conducted with the inhabitants of l’Arlequin, a new town on the outskirts of Grenoble. A resident of l’Arlequin himself, Augoyard sought to understand how his neighbors used its passages, streets, and parks. He begins with a detailed investigation of the inhabitants’ daily walks before going on to consider how the(...)
Théorie de l’urbanisme
novembre 2007, Minneapolis
Step by step
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Step by Step is based on in-depth interviews Augoyard conducted with the inhabitants of l’Arlequin, a new town on the outskirts of Grenoble. A resident of l’Arlequin himself, Augoyard sought to understand how his neighbors used its passages, streets, and parks. He begins with a detailed investigation of the inhabitants’ daily walks before going on to consider how the built environment is personalized through place-names and shared memories, the ways in which sensory impressions define the atmosphere of a place and how, through individual and collective imagination, residents transformed l’Arlequin from a concept into a lived space.
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Le quartier de Firminy-Vert est un quartier singulier, ceint de quatre œuvres attribuées à Le Corbusier, dont un centre culturel (seule œuvre terminée du vivant de Le Corbusier), un stade, la dernière unité d'habitation et l'église Saint-Pierre, qui fut inaugurée en novembre 2006. L'œuvre de l'architecte, célébrée en vue de la faire accéder au rang du patrimoine mondial,(...)
Dans l'ombre du Corbusier: ethnologie d'un habitat collectif ordinaire
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Le quartier de Firminy-Vert est un quartier singulier, ceint de quatre œuvres attribuées à Le Corbusier, dont un centre culturel (seule œuvre terminée du vivant de Le Corbusier), un stade, la dernière unité d'habitation et l'église Saint-Pierre, qui fut inaugurée en novembre 2006. L'œuvre de l'architecte, célébrée en vue de la faire accéder au rang du patrimoine mondial, laisse planer une ombre qui masque la perception des vies ordinaires du quartier. L'immeuble collectif dont il est question ici ressemble à l'unité d'habitation Le Corbusier. Toutefois, il n'en a que l'apparence. L'enquête ethnologique qui débuta au Corbusier, dernière unité d'habitation, s'est déplacée afin d'observer et d'écouter les locataires d'un habitat collectif ordinaire dont la vie s'estompe derrière le feu sacré du patrimoine Le Corbusier. Un regard porté sur la vie ordinaire des habitants du « grand H » amorce un questionnement sur les enjeux liés à notre mémoire, à son statut et à la nécessité d'une collecte sans concession.
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Nearly one in six Americans lives in "Megalopolis," an area of the northeastern United States along the I-95 corridor that includes the cities of Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. Liquid City is the first book to examine the major changes that have taken place in this "Main Street of the Nation" over the last half century. In 1957, geographer(...)
Liquid city : Megalopolos and the contemporary northeast
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Nearly one in six Americans lives in "Megalopolis," an area of the northeastern United States along the I-95 corridor that includes the cities of Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. Liquid City is the first book to examine the major changes that have taken place in this "Main Street of the Nation" over the last half century. In 1957, geographer Jean Gottman used the term "Megalopolis" to denote the Boston-to-Washington corridor. His seminal book, Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States, described the social, economic, and demographic characteristics of one of the largest city regions in the world. John Rennie Short juxtaposes Gottman's work with his own examination, providing a comprehensive assessment of the region's evolution. Particularly important is Short's use of the 2000 census data and his discussion of Megalopolis as a source of identity for the area's forty-nine million inhabitants. This clear and accessible book focuses on five main aspects of change in the region: population redistribution from cities to suburbs; economic restructuring as exemplified by the suburbanization of employment; the role of immigration; patterns of racial/ethnic segregation; and the processes of globalization that have made Megalopolis one of the world's most influential economies.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
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This sociological classic is updated with a new preface by the authors looking at developments in the study of urban planning during the twenty-year life of this influential work.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
août 2007, Berkley Los Angeles London
Urban Fortunes : The political economy of place
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This sociological classic is updated with a new preface by the authors looking at developments in the study of urban planning during the twenty-year life of this influential work.
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When urban planning activist Jane Jacobs died in April 2006, Canada mourned the passing of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The ideas and insights of her richly packed life of social action - including her groundbraking book 'The death and life of great American cities', written over 40 years ago - still resonate. Alice Sparberg Alexiou(...)
Jane Jacobs : urban visionary
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When urban planning activist Jane Jacobs died in April 2006, Canada mourned the passing of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. The ideas and insights of her richly packed life of social action - including her groundbraking book 'The death and life of great American cities', written over 40 years ago - still resonate. Alice Sparberg Alexiou explores this incisive, passionately engaged mind and celebrates Jacobs' contributions to the debates that have directly informed how we live today. From the controversy that erupted when Jacobs dared to take on conventional urban planning wisdom in the 1960s to Jacobs'immigration to Canada, Alexiou examines the work of this inspirational thinker, writer, and activist.
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Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel BertrandrnMonk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternaternrealities being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era unfetteredrnby unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts,rnand in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption andrninequality surpass our worst nightmares.
Théorie de l’urbanisme
juin 2007, New York
Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism : Evil Paradises
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Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel BertrandrnMonk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternaternrealities being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era unfetteredrnby unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts,rnand in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption andrninequality surpass our worst nightmares.
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The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullman — these remarkable events in what many considered the quintessential American city forced people across the country to confront the disorder that seemed inevitably to accompany urban growth and social change. In this book, Carl Smith explores the(...)
Urban disorder and the shape of belief : the Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket bomb, and the model town of Pullman, second edition
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The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullman — these remarkable events in what many considered the quintessential American city forced people across the country to confront the disorder that seemed inevitably to accompany urban growth and social change. In this book, Carl Smith explores the imaginative dimensions of these events as he traces the evolution of beliefs that increasingly linked city, disorder, and social reality in the minds of Americans. Studying a remarkable range of writings and illustrations, as well as protests, public gatherings, trials, hearings, and urban reform and construction efforts, Smith argues that these three events — and the public awareness of them — not only informed one another, but collectively shaped how Americans saw, and continue to see, the city.
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Mucking around in the messy terrain of American trash, Jani Scandura tells the story of the United States during the Great Depression through evocative and photo-rich portraits of four different locales: Reno, Harlem, Key West, and Hollywood. In investigating these depression-era �dumps,� places that she claims contained and reclaimed the cultural, ideological, and(...)
Down in the dumps: place, modernity, american depression
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Mucking around in the messy terrain of American trash, Jani Scandura tells the story of the United States during the Great Depression through evocative and photo-rich portraits of four different locales: Reno, Harlem, Key West, and Hollywood. In investigating these depression-era �dumps,� places that she claims contained and reclaimed the cultural, ideological, and material refuse of modern America, Scandura introduces the concept of �depressive modernity,� an enduring affective component of American culture that exposes itself at those moments when the foundational myths of America and progressive modernity�capitalism, democracy, individualism, secularism, utopian aspiration�are thrown into question. Depressive modernity is modernity at a standstill. Such a modernity is not stagnant or fixed, nor immobile, but is constituted by an instantaneous unstaging of desire, territory, language, and memory that reveals itself in the shimmering of place. An interpretive bricolage that draws on an unlikely archive of 1930s detritus�office memos, scribbled manuscripts, scrapbooks, ruined photographs, newspaper clippings, glass eyes, incinerated stage sets, pulp novels, and junk washed ashore�Down in the Dumps escorts its readers through Reno�s 1930s divorce factory, where couples from across the United States came to quickly dissolve matrimonial bonds; Key West�s multilingual salvage economy and the island that became the center of an ideological tug-of-war between the American New Deal government and a politically fraught Caribbean; post-Renaissance Harlem, in the process of memorializing, remembering, grieving and rewriting a modernity that had already passed; and Studio-era Hollywood, Nathanael West�s �dump of dreams,� in which the introduction of sound film and shifts in art direction began to transform how Americans understood place-making and even being itself. A coda on Alcatraz and the Pentagon brings the book into the present, exploring how American Depression comes to bear on post-9/11 America.
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Alabaster Cities : Urban
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Traces the evolution of urban America since 1950, uncovering the forces behind the full emergence of a metropolitan nation, a suburban society, and a series of fragmented civic communities. With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation.(...)
Alabaster Cities : Urban
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Traces the evolution of urban America since 1950, uncovering the forces behind the full emergence of a metropolitan nation, a suburban society, and a series of fragmented civic communities. With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation. Short chronicles the steady rise of urbanization, the increasing suburbanization, and the sweeping metropolitanization of the U.S., uncovering the forces behind these shifts and their consequences for American communities. Drawing on numerous studies, first-hand anecdotes, census figures, and other statistical data, Short’s work addresses the globalization of U.S. cities, the increased polarization of urban life in the U.S., the role of civic engagement, and the huge role played by the public sector in shaping the character of cities. With deft analysis the author weaves together the themes of urban renewal, suburbanization and metropolitan fragmentation, race and ethnicity, and immigration, presenting a fascinating and highly readable account of the U.S. in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Cities from zero
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The contributors in this book, architects, critics and documenters, have responded to the invitation to prise the fact from the fiction, with particular focus on both the gulf emirate of Dubai and the rapid urbanisation of China. Are cities from zero universal blueprints of a better world for all of us, or doomed, out-dated models of already extinct ideologies?
Cities from zero
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The contributors in this book, architects, critics and documenters, have responded to the invitation to prise the fact from the fiction, with particular focus on both the gulf emirate of Dubai and the rapid urbanisation of China. Are cities from zero universal blueprints of a better world for all of us, or doomed, out-dated models of already extinct ideologies?
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