Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738195016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Author: Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738195016
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The production of Urban Space, Temporality, and Spatiality
Author: Bernard GauthiezPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110619725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The production of urban space in scarcely studied by scholars in historical and urban studies, the city being still predominantly seen as a frame in which activities and social relationship develop, not a produce in itself. The scope of the book is the comprehension of this production. This implies an adequate conceptualisation of the way urban space can be measured and broken down in units which can be put in relation with social processes and agents. A first part examines the concepts and their implications. The second part deals with the anthropology and typology of architectural production considered in relation to demography. The third part develops on the rhythms of the space production at Lyon from the late 15th century to the 19th. The temporalities and spatialities of the production are determined and examined. The agents of the production are studied all along the period, in parallel to the market aimed at: investors in real estate, tenants, activities. Each phenomenon identified can be described and understood as in the meantime a temporal, spatial and social unit.
Beyond the Networked City
Author: Olivier CoutardPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317633695
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Cities around the world are undergoing profound changes. In this global era, we live in a world of rising knowledge economies, digital technologies, and awareness of environmental issues. The so-called "modern infrastructural ideal" of spatially and socially ubiquitous centrally-governed infrastructures providing exclusive, homogeneous services over extensive areas, has been the standard of reference for the provision of basic essential services, such as water and energy supply. This book argues that, after decades of undisputed domination, this ideal is being increasingly questioned and that the network ideology that supports it may be waning. In order to begin exploring the highly diverse, fluid and unstable landscapes emerging beyond the networked city, this book identifies dynamics through which a ‘break’ with previous configurations has been operated, and new brittle zones of socio-technical controversy through which urban infrastructure (and its wider meaning) are being negotiated and fought over. It uncovers, across a diverse set of urban contexts, new ways in which processes of urbanization and infrastructure production are being combined with crucial sociopolitical implications: through shifting political economies of infrastructure which rework resource distribution and value creation; through new infrastructural spaces and territorialities which rebundle socio-technical systems for particular interests and claims; and through changing offsets between individual and collective appropriation, experience and mobilization of infrastructure. With contributions from leading authorities in the field and drawing on theoretical advances and original empirical material, this book is a major contribution to an ongoing infrastructural turn in urban studies, and will be of interest to all those concerned by the diverse forms and contested outcomes of contemporary urban change across North and South.
Realisations Students' Book
Author: Ted NeatherPublisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9780748737024
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : fr
Pages : 164
Book Description
Realisations consolidates and develops these skills, exploring further topic areas as students work towards the final A-level examination. Each stage comprises: Livre de l'etudiant organised by topic and containing authentic reading and listening materials with particular emphasis placed on the teaching and practice of grammar. The graded sequence of tasks within each unit allows flexible pathways through the book according to ability/interest. Teacher's Resource Book contains linked listening and reading material for reproduction of consolidation/extension exercises together with further grammar practice. Assessment opportunities are also provided. Cassette Pack provides a wide range of recording - interviews, personal accounts and songs.
Habitat
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Order and Conflict in Public Space
Author: Mattias De BackerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317395522
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Which public and whose space? The understanding of public space as an arena where individuals can claim full use and access hides a reality of constant negotiation, conflict and surveillance. This collection uses case studies concerning the management, use, and transgression of public space to invite reflection on the way in which everyday social interaction is framed and shaped by the physical environment and vice versa. International experts from fields including geography, criminology, sociology and urban studies come together to debate the concepts of order and conflict in public space. This book is divided into two parts: spaces of control, and spaces of transgression. Section I focuses on formal and informal surveillance and the politics of control, using case studies to compare strategies in spaces including Olympic cities, luxury skyscrapers, residential neighbourhoods and shopping malls. Section II focuses on transgressive or deviant behaviour in public spaces, with case studies examining behaviour in nightlife districts, governance of homelessness, boy-racer culture and abortion protests. The epilogue concludes the book with an exploration of possible future avenues for research on public space, and a critical appraisal of the concept of public space itself. This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to students, researchers and professionals in the areas of criminology, sociology, surveillance studies, human and social geography, and urban studies and planning.
Les cinq sens de la ville du Moyen Âge à nos jours
Author: Robert BeckPublisher: Presses universitaire François Rabelais
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : fr
Pages : 404
Book Description
L'expérience urbaine est abordée à travers la perception sensorielle, rompant avec des idées telles que le passage d'un monde sans bruit et porteur de sens au monde bruyant de la modernité industrielle.
Revue Française D'études Américaines
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : fr
Pages : 472
Book Description
Minor Universality / Universalité Mineure
Author: Markus MesslingPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110798492
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The circulation and entanglements of human beings, data, and goods have not necessarily and by themselves generated a universalising consciousness. The "global" and the "universal", in other words, are not the same. The idea of a world-society remains highly contested. Our times are marked by the fragmentation of a double relativistic character: the inevitable critique of Western universalism on the one hand, and resurgent identitarian and neo-nationalistic claims to identity on the other. Sources of an argumentation for a strong universalism brought forward by Western traditions such as Christianity, Marxism, and Liberalism have largely lost their legitimation. All the while, manifold and situated narratives of a common world that re-address the universal are under way of being produced and gain significance. This volume tracks the development and relevance of such cultural and social practices that posit forms of what we call minor universality. It asks: Where and how do contemporary practices open up concrete settings so as to create experiences, reflections and agencies of a shared humanity? With contributions by Isaac Bazié, Anil Bhatti, Jean-Luc Chappey, Elsie Cohen, Leyla Dakhli, Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Nicole Fischer, Albert Gouaffo, Stefan Helgesson, Fatma Hotait, Tammy Lai-Ming Ho, Christopher M. Hutton, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Mario Laarmann, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Olivier Remaud, Gisèle Sapiro, Bénédicte Savoy, Maria-Anna Schiffers, Laurens Schlicht, Sergio Ugalde, Hélène Thierard, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll.
French-Speaking Protestants in Canada
Author: Jason ZuidemaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004211764
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Although French-speaking Canadians have largely been Roman Catholic, there has been a small, but significant Protestant minority among them. This collection of essays brings together the work of leading scholars in the field to bring historical perspective on this often misunderstood or forgotten religious minority.
