Villes utopiques, villes rêvées
Villes utopiques, villes rêvées

Author: Patrice de Moncan

Publisher: Editions du Mécène

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13:

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Depuis Platon, l'homme a toujours rêvé de la ville idéale. L'utopie urbaine a-t-elle encore un sens ? Peut-on encore dessiner la ville à la manière des utopistes ? Les architectes Ricardo Bofill, Roland Castro, Léon Krier, Jean Nouvel, Dominique Perrault et Christian de Portzampac répondent. Patrice de Moncan publie ici une anthologie des principaux textes consacrés aux villes utopiques.

Les utopies de la ville
Les utopies de la ville

Author: Yvette Marin

Publisher: Presses Univ. Franche-Comté

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9782846270311

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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?

Fritz Lang's Metropolis
Fritz Lang's Metropolis

Author: Michael Minden

Publisher: Camden House

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9781571131461

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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.

Housing and Human Settlements in a World of Change
Housing and Human Settlements in a World of Change

Author: Astrid Ley

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2020-10-31

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 3839449421

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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).

The Glassworkers of Carmaux
The Glassworkers of Carmaux

Author: Joan Wallach Scott

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780674354401

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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

Published: 2021-04-01

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 1108905234

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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.

W, Or, The Memory of Childhood
W, Or, The Memory of Childhood

Author: Georges Perec

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781567921588

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Combining fiction and autobiography in a quite unprecedented way, Georges Perec leads the reader inexorably towards the horror that lies at the origin of the post-World War Two world and at the crux of his own identity.