New narratives of urban space in republican Chinese cities: emerging social, legal and governance orders ; [d…
by Zelin, Madeleine, Su, Jilang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of History, Conference on Urban Cultural Change in Republican China, Hong Kong, International Conference on Urban Cultural Change in Republican China, Hong Kong
fromBrill's series on modern East Asia in a global historical p…
This volume critically challenges the current creative city debate from a historical perspective. In the last two decades, urban studies has been engulfed by a creative city narrative in which concepts like the creative economy, the creative class or creative industries proclaim…
Modern popular culture came to the world from the stage. Even before film and radio had established themselves, popular theater had developed into a commercial and boundary-crossing entertainment industry that reached a mass audience. Tobias Becker compares the theater landscape…
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…
The city reader
by LeGates, Richard T., Stout, Frederic
fromRoutledge urban reader series
The fifth edition of the highly successful the City Reader juxtaposes the best classic and contemporary writings on the city. It contains fifty-seven selections including seventeen new selections by Elijah Anderson, Robert Bruegmann, Michael Dear, Jan Gehl, Harvey Molotch, Clare…