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The Cold War left indelible traces on the city, where polarities on the global stage crystallized and intersected with political and social dynamics predating and bypassing the Blocs. This collection taps into the rich fabric of memories, histories and cultural interactions of thirteen cities worldwide and the lived experience of urban communities during the long Cold War: activated and mobilized by atomic technologies, taking tourist photographs, attending commercial fairs, enjoying the cinema and the ballet, singing in choirs, paying respect in local cemeteries, visiting museums, and responding to town councils, unions and the local press. Literature, film, photography, the press, the monument, the cemetery, the factory, the ruin, the archive and the natural ecosystem are some of the key frameworks of cultural production elucidated here with a view to countering and exploding received myths about the Cold War.

Cold War --- City and town life --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Historiography. --- Social aspects. --- Sociology, Urban --- World politics --- Historiography --- Social aspects

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Defining the lives of a majority of the world's population, the question of 'the city' has risen to the fore as one the most urgent issues of our time †" uniting concerns across the terrain of climate policies, global financing, localised struggles and multi-disciplinary research. Deleuze and the City rests on a conviction that philosophy is crucially important for advancing knowledge on cities, and for allowing us to envisage new forms of urban life toward a more sustainable future. It gathers some of the most original thinkers and accomplished scholars in contemporary urban studies, showing how Deleuze and Guattari's philosophical project is essential for our thinking through the multi-scalar, uneven and contested landscapes that constitute 'the city' today. Case studies range from the 'laboratory urbanism' of an Austrian ski resort and a 'sustainable' Swedish shopping mall to the 'urbicidal' refurbishments of Haifa.

Architecture --- Cities and towns --- City and town life --- City planning --- PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics. --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements

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"Since cities emerged ten thousand years ago, they have become one of the most impressive artifacts of humanity. But their evolution has been anything but linearcities have gone through moments of radical change, turning points that redefine their very essence. In this book, a renowned architect and urban planner who studies the intersection of cities and technology argues that we are in such a moment. The authors explain some of the forces behind urban change and offer new visions of the many possibilities for tomorrows city. Pervasive digital systems that layer our cities are transforming urban life. The authors provide a front-row seat to this change. Their work at the MIT Senseable City Laboratory allows experimentation and implementation of a variety of urban initiatives and concepts, from assistive condition-monitoring bicycles to trash with embedded tracking sensors, from mobility to energy, from participation to production. They call for a new approach to envisioning cities: futurecraft, a symbiotic development of urban ideas by designers and the public. With such participation, we can collectively imagine, examine, choose, and shape the most desirable future of our cities." -- Provided by publisher.

City and town life. --- Cities and towns --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Technological innovations. --- City and town life --- Technological innovations&delete& --- Forecasting --- Technological innovations

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Cet ouvrage offre une micro-analyse du quotidien des habitants de Libreville, en s'attachant à une dimension incontournable des échanges et des pratiques qui s'y donnent à voir : leur violence. Les articles examinent cette violence ordinaire et latente de la vie quotidienne à Libreville, démontrant comment violence des rapports sociaux, violence des institutions et violence de l'invisible s'entrecroisent.

Violence --- Libreville (Gabon) --- Social conditions --- Social aspects --- Gabon --- Urban violence --- Family violence --- City and town life --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- History --- Libreville, Gabon --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:316.334.5U20 --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Sociologie van stad (buurt, wijk, community, stadsvernieuwing) --- Violence - Gabon - Libreville - Congresses --- Libreville (Gabon) - Social conditions - 21st century - Congresses

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In Native to the Republic, Minayo Nasiali traces the process through which expectations about living standards and decent housing came to be understood as social rights in late twentieth-century France. These ideas evolved through everyday negotiations between ordinary people, municipal authorities, central state bureaucrats, elected officials, and social scientists in postwar Marseille. Nasiali shows how these local-level interactions fundamentally informed evolving ideas about French citizenship and the built environment, namely that the institutionalization of social citizenship also created new spaces for exclusion. Although everyone deserved social rights, some were supposedly more deserving than others.From the 1940s through the early 1990s, metropolitan discussions about the potential for town planning to transform everyday life were shaped by colonial and, later, postcolonial migration within the changing empire. As a port and the historical gateway to and from the colonies, Marseille's interrelated projects to develop welfare institutions and manage urban space make it a particularly significant site for exploring this uneven process. Neighborhood debates about the meaning and goals of modernization contributed to normative understandings about which residents deserved access to expanding social rights. Nasiali argues that assumptions about racial, social, and spatial differences profoundly structured a differential system of housing in postwar France. Native to the Republic highlights the value of new approaches to studying empire, membership in the nation, and the welfare state by showing how social citizenship was not simply constituted within "imagined communities" but also through practices involving the contestation of spaces and the enjoyment of rights.

Urban policy --- City and town life --- Cities and state --- Urban problems --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- Sociology, Urban --- City planning --- Urban renewal --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- History --- Marseille (France) --- Marseilles (France) --- Marsel' (France) --- Marsiglia (France) --- Marsiho (France) --- Marsella (France) --- Emigration and immigration --- Social life and customs --- Social conditions