Connects the changing fortunes of tradesmen in early New York to the emergence of a conception of subjective rights that accompanied the transition to a republican and liberal order in eighteenth-century America.
The hard state, soft city of Singapore
by Douglass, Mike, Chung, Simone Shu-Yeng
fromAsian cities
With Singapore serving as the subject of exploration, the volume explores the purview of imaginative representations of the city. Alongside the physical structures and associated practices that make up our lived environment, and the conceptualised space engineered into material …
With Singapore serving as the subject of exploration, the volume explores the purview of imaginative representations of the city. Alongside the physical structures and associated practices that make up our lived environment, and the conceptualised space engineered into material …
Genève demeure jusqu'aux années troublées qui précédent l'adoption de la Réforme une ville aux équilibres politiques complexes, où plusieurs pouvoirs se côtoient et administrent le territoire urbain : l'évêque et son chapitre, la Communauté d'habitants et les remuants princes de…
"Outside of Shiraz in the Fars Province of southwestern Iran lies "Aliabad." Mary Hegland arrived in this then-small agricultural village of several thousand people in the summer of 1978, unaware of the momentous changes that would sweep this town and this country in the months …
The book brings together a strong field of anthropologists offering in-depth ethnographic studies of urban settings in the mediterranean region, ranging from Portugal, to Albania and to Israel. Their aim is to initiate a comparative discussion of the relationship between establi…
The book brings together a strong field of anthropologists offering in-depth ethnographic studies of urban settings in the mediterranean region, ranging from Portugal, to Albania and to Israel. Their aim is to initiate a comparative discussion of the relationship between establi…
The city in urban poverty
by Lemanski, Charlotte, Marx, Colin
fromEADI global development series
Participatory Democracy innovations bringing citizens back into local governance processes are now at the core of the democratic development agenda. Municipalities around the world have adopted local participatory mechanisms in the last two decades, including participatory budge…