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Nineteenth-Century cities
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Today, I want to do the impossible and talk about urbanization and urban growth in fifty minutes. I'll give the classic example, which is the greatest project of human intervention or rebuilding, that is the…
Today, I want to do the impossible and talk about urbanization and urban growth in fifty minutes. I'll give the classic example, which is the greatest project of human intervention or rebuilding, that is the…
Traplines in Vancouver
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A Vancouver, sur la côte pacifique du Canada. Peter and Doe vont relever leur piège, leur trapline. Ils fouillent les poubelles pour ramasser canettes et bouteilles à 5 ou 20 cents. Le produit est ramené au dépôt de…
A Vancouver, sur la côte pacifique du Canada. Peter and Doe vont relever leur piège, leur trapline. Ils fouillent les poubelles pour ramasser canettes et bouteilles à 5 ou 20 cents. Le produit est ramené au dépôt de…
Les villes du futur : rêves ou cauchemars ?
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L’avenir des villes est trop peu présent dans les débats politiques. Pourtant, c’est sans doute dans les villes que se jouera une partie du destin de l’humanité, car déjà plus de la moitié de la population de…
L’avenir des villes est trop peu présent dans les débats politiques. Pourtant, c’est sans doute dans les villes que se jouera une partie du destin de l’humanité, car déjà plus de la moitié de la population de…
Cities and citizenship : Surviving the 21st century
- Matthew Taylor is the Chief Executive of the RSA.
- Lord Mawson is founder and President of the renowned Bromley by Bow Centre in east London and Co-founder and President of Community Action Network (CAN), a national charity supporting 850…
- Lord Mawson is founder and President of the renowned Bromley by Bow Centre in east London and Co-founder and President of Community Action Network (CAN), a national charity supporting 850…
Urban colossus: Why is New York America's largest city?
Edward Glaeser looks at the history of New York and its contemporary character in order to answer the question of why New York became the largest city in America. He focuses especially on the economic aspects behind the city's growth.
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Edward…
Cities and time
Cities are the human organizations with the greatest longevity but also the fastest rate of change. Just now the world is going massively and unstoppably urban (governments everywhere are trying to stop it, with zero success). In a globalized world,…
Tipping points in urban change: Modern perspectives on agents of urbanization
This symposium considered the similarities and differences in the histories of urban modernization in cities during the late 19th through the early 21st century—with a look at global cities now under construction or in the planning stages. The…
Turning points : Modern Seoul
In this lecture, part of the Case Western Reserve University symposium 'Tipping Points in Urban Change: Modern Perspectives on Agents of Urbanization', Peter G. Rowe discusses shifting mindsets in the recent history Seoul. Much of his lecture focuses…
Motor City : The rise and fall of Detroit
Robert Fishman teaches in the urban design, architecture, and urban planning programs at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. and A.M. in history from Harvard and his A.B. in history from Stanford University. He is a nationally…
The 21st Century medieval city
For his talk “The 21st-century Medieval City,” Robert Neuwirth took an overflow audience to “the cities of tomorrow,” the developing-world shanty-towns where a billion people live now, and three billion (a third of humanity) are expected to be living…
Lost landscapes of Detroit
LOST LANDSCAPES OF DETROIT; an eclectic montage of rediscovered and rarely-seen archival film clips exhibiting life; cityscapes, labor and leisure from ‘vanishing Detroit’, as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers from…
The right to the city
David Harvey discusses the concept of the right of the city, with a particular focus on political philosophy. Theorists and topics discussed include Marxism, the work of Henri Lefebvre and Haussmann's transformation of Paris.
David Harvey is a…
David Harvey is a…
Cleveland and sprawl : A global perspective
Bruegmann's fields of research and teaching are architectural, urban, landscape, and planning history and historic preservation. He has received scholarships and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Graham Foundation, the…
Quartiers et mémoires de migrations
L’équipe Diasporas (FRAMESPA - UMR 5136) et la Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration ont organisé du 13 au 15 octobre 2009 des journées d’étude autour de trois axes : - une…
Le ghetto urbain, entre cocon et prison
Dans une enquête qui se dévore comme un roman sur une cité d’une ville de l’Ouest, le sociologue Didier Lapeyronnie, professeur à la Sorbonne-Paris IV, dresse le constat oppressant d’une population en souffrance que tous préfèrent ignorer... jusqu’à…
Cities, design and climate change
With cities contributing upwards of 75 per cent of global carbon emissions, urban design is increasingly important when planning for climate change. This discussion examines the creative urban design solutions coming out of the world's cities. …
Scales of agency in a global world: Individuals, cities, nations, and beyond
Speaker: Jonathan Glover, Kings College, London
Readings on the Various Scales and Locations of Identity and Power in a Globalizing world
Readings on the Various Scales and Locations of Identity and Power in a Globalizing world
Urban utopias
Readings on Urban Utopias in Theory and Practice
David Harvey is a leading theorist in the field of urban studies, currently working in the Anthropology department at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Centre.
David Harvey is a leading theorist in the field of urban studies, currently working in the Anthropology department at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Centre.
The city as a social, legal, and political concept
Gerald Frug is a Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a specialist on legal problems of local government and legal theory.
Art Security Service
Au printemps 2005, le promoteur immobilier Robelco frappe les trois coups médiatiques d’un projet de "revitalisation" des galeries Ravenstein à Bruxelles en y accueillant des galeries d’art.
Véritable épure des méthodes de gentrification, le film…
Véritable épure des méthodes de gentrification, le film…