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Category : Microcards
Languages : en
Pages : 1896
Book Description
Guide to Microforms in Print
Author: Bibliographie Géographique Internationale
Author: Francis bibliographie geógraphique internationale
Author: The Sociology of the State
Author: Bertrand BadiePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226035492
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Too often we think of the modern political state as a universal institution, the inevitable product of History rather than a specific creation of a very particular history. Bertrand Badie and Pierre Birnbaum here persuasively argue that the origin of the state is a social fact, arising out of the peculiar sociohistorical context of Western Europe. Drawing on historical materials and bringing sociological insights to bear on a field long abandoned to jurists and political scientists, the authors lay the foundations for a strikingly original theory of the birth and subsequent diffusion of the state. The book opens with a review of the principal evolutionary theories concerning the origin of the institution proposed by such thinkers as Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. Rejecting these views, the authors set forward and defend their thesis that the state was an "invention" rather than a necessary consequence of any other process. Once invented, the state was disseminated outside its Western European birthplace either through imposition or imitation. The study concludes with concrete analyses of the differences in actual state institutions in France, Prussia, Great Britain, the United States, and Switzerland.
The Social Project
Author: Kenny CupersPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452941068
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Winner of the 2015 Abbott Lowell Cummings prize from the Vernacular Architecture Forum Winner of the 2015 Sprio Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians Winner of the 2016 International Planning History Society Book Prize for European Planning History Honorable Mention: 2016 Wylie Prize in French Studies In the three decades following World War II, the French government engaged in one of the twentieth century’s greatest social and architectural experiments: transforming a mostly rural country into a modernized urban nation. Through the state-sanctioned construction of mass housing and development of towns on the outskirts of existing cities, a new world materialized where sixty years ago little more than cabbage and cottages existed. Known as the banlieue, the suburban landscapes that make up much of contemporary France are near-opposites of the historic cities they surround. Although these postwar environments of towers, slabs, and megastructures are often seen as a single utopian blueprint gone awry, Kenny Cupers demonstrates that their construction was instead driven by the intense aspirations and anxieties of a broad range of people. Narrating the complex interactions between architects, planners, policy makers, inhabitants, and social scientists, he shows how postwar dwelling was caught between the purview of the welfare state and the rise of mass consumerism. The Social Project unearths three decades of architectural and social experiments centered on the dwelling environment as it became an object of modernization, an everyday site of citizen participation, and a domain of social scientific expertise. Beyond state intervention, it was this new regime of knowledge production that made postwar modernism mainstream. The first comprehensive history of these wide-ranging urban projects, this book reveals how housing in postwar France shaped both contemporary urbanity and modern architecture.
Branding New York
Author: Miriam GreenbergPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135919119
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Winner of the 2009 Robert Park Book Award for best Community and Urban Sociology book! Branding New York traces the rise of New York City as a brand and the resultant transformation of urban politics and public life. Greenberg addresses the role of "image" in urban history, showing who produces brands and how, and demonstrates the enormous consequences of branding. She shows that the branding of New York was not simply a marketing tool; rather it was a political strategy meant to legitimatize market-based solutions over social objectives.
Root Shock
Author: Mindy Thompson FullilovePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1613320205
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, a clinical psychiatrist, exposes the devastating outcome of decades of urban renewal projects to our nation’s marginalized communities. Examining the traumatic stress of “root shock” in three African American communities and similar widespread damage in other cities, she makes an impassioned and powerful argument against the continued invasive and unjust development practices of displacing poor neighborhoods.
Post-communist Nostalgia
Author: Maria TodorovaPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857456431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people's lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of sociability. Even some of those who opposed communism express a desire to invest their new lives with renewed meaning and dignity. Among the younger generation, it surfaces as a tentative yet growing curiosity about the recent past. In this volume scholars from multiple disciplines explore the various fascinating aspects of this nostalgic turn by analyzing the impact of generational clusters, the rural-urban divide, gender differences, and political orientation. They argue persuasively that this nostalgia should not be seen as a wish to restore the past, as it has otherwise been understood, but instead it should be recognized as part of a more complex healing process and an attempt to come to terms both with the communist era as well as the new inequalities of the post-communist era.
Harlem, the Making of a Ghetto
Author: Gilbert OsofskyPublisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN: 9781566631044
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A great many books have been written about Harlem, but for social history none has surpassed Gilbert Osofsky's account of how a pleasant, pastoral upper-middle-class suburb of Manhattan turned into an appalling black slum within forty years. Mr. Osofsky sets his chronicle against the background of pre-Harlem black life in New York City and in the context of the radical changes in race relations in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He traces Harlem's change to the largest segregated neighborhood in the nation and then its fall to a slum. Throughout he neatly balances statistics and humanly revealing details. "A careful and important study.... Osofsky at once takes his place alongside James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, and others who have looked at Harlem at close range." John Hope Franklin. "A pioneering scholarly achievement.... Although the subject engages his compassion, his presentation is rigorously straightforward and unsentimental and therefore all the more valuable as social analysis." New York Times Book Review"
Politiques de peuplement et logement social
Author: Agence nationale pour la rénovation urbaine (France). Comité d'évaluation et de suiviPublisher:
ISBN: 9782110093073
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 213
Book Description
La mixité sociale est au coeur des objectifs du programme national de rénovation urbaine qui se déploie depuis 2003 .dans plus de 400 quartiers en France. Le CES de l'ANRU a déjà mis en évidence l'apport avéré mais limité de la diversification de l'habitat sur le peuplement des quartiers (La rénovation urbaine pour qui ?, La Documentation française, 2013). Au terme des projets de rénovation urbaine, les logements sociaux resteront majoritaires dans les quartiers et l'évolution de leur peuplement sera déterminante. A partir de l'analyse détaillée d'une vingtaine de quartiers en rénovation urbaine, Fanny Lainé-Daniel (Ville et Habitat), Christophe Noyé (Cf Géo) et Francis Rathier (Bers) dressent le constat d'une baisse inédite du niveau de ségrégation des quartiers étudiés, conséquence directe de la politique de démolitions-reconstructions. Cette révolution fragile et temporaire doit nécessairement, sous peine d'anéantir l'effet positif de la rénovation urbaine, être accompagnée d'une mise en oeuvre de politiques de peuplement volontaristes mêlant actions sur l'offre, attributions de logements sociaux et accompagnement des ménages. L'étude ici menée dégage une trentaine de propositions concrètes conçues pour généraliser ces stratégies globales de peuplement.