Les utopies de la ville

Les utopies de la ville
Author: Yvette Marin
Publisher: Presses Univ. Franche-Comté
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2001
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN: 9782846270311

La ville est ici saisie par des théoriciens en sciences sociales, en arts plastiques, en littérature ainsi que par des praticiens de la ville, paysagistes, architectes ou urbanistes. A travers les différents éclairages apportés, c'est une nouvelle lecture de la ville que nous cherchons à dégager. Doit-elle continuer à osciller entre affranchissement et désenchantement, ou peut-on raisonnablement espérer la situer dans un nouvel espace - utopique? - qui impliquerait la révision des cultures?

Cycling to Asylum

Cycling to Asylum
Author: Su J Sokol
Publisher:
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2015-12-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781928049227

Ina near-future New York subject to an increasingly hostile government, Laek and Janie flee across the border by bicycle into Quebec with their two young children.Cycling to Asylum, longlisted for the Sunburst Award, is a unique work of interstitial fiction from an exciting new Montreal author."

Housing and Human Settlements in a World of Change

Housing and Human Settlements in a World of Change
Author: Astrid Ley
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2020-10-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3839449421

The challenge of housing is increasingly recognised in international policy discussions in connection to the processes of migration, climate change, and economic globalisation. This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neo-liberalism. It explores the outcomes of neo-liberal »enabling« ideas, responses to extreme climate events with different housing approaches, and how the dynamics of migration reshape the urban housing provision in a changing world. The aim is to contextualise the theoretical discourses by reflecting on the case study context of the eleven papers published in this book. With forewords by Raquel Rolnik (University Sao Paulo) and Mohammed El Sioufi (UN-Habitat).

Zoopolis

Zoopolis
Author: Sue Donaldson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2011-11-24
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0199599661

To all of these animals we owe respect for their basic inviolable rights.

Fritz Lang's Metropolis

Fritz Lang's Metropolis
Author: Michael Minden
Publisher: Camden House
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2002
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781571131461

Providing a broad range of materials and resources for the study of Fritz Lang's classic film Metropolist (1972), this volume includes both standard critical essays and contributions appearing for the first time.

The Glassworkers of Carmaux

The Glassworkers of Carmaux
Author: Joan Wallach Scott
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1974
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780674354401

This study analyzes in close detail the experiences of glassworkers as mechanization transformed their trade from a highly skilled art to a semiskilled occupation. Ms. Scott argues that changes in the organization of work altered the life style and political outlook of glassworkers. These changes also created a new identity for them as residents of Carmaux, a city in the Department of the tarn in southwestern France. Once an isolated group of itinerant workers within the city, glassworkers became active trade unionists and militant socialists in the 1890s.

Writers and Revolution

Writers and Revolution
Author: Jonathan Beecher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2021-04-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108905234

Focusing on the efforts of nine European intellectuals, including Tocqueville, Flaubert and Marx, to make sense of 1848, Jonathan Beecher casts a fresh and engaging perspective on the experience and impact of the Revolution, and on why, within two generations, a democratic revolution had twice culminated in the dictatorship of a Napoleon.