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European cities are on the rise. The author of this text shows the impact of the transformation of the nation states on cities and the change of local societies and local governments. He argues that new modes of urban governance are emerging.

Communities - Urban Groups --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences

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The emergence of cities in the different regions of the ancient world presents two problems. First, in areas of common culture or at least of cultural contact, did the cities evolve independently, as phenomena of social, political, and economic growth, or did they emanate from a common center of origin? Second, how did the Greco-Roman city-state originate? In considering these questions, Mason Hammond has limited the ancient world to the Middle and Near East, the Indus Valley, and the Mediterranean region. He takes geographical and economic factors into account as he treats the cities historically by areas, from their first development in Sumeraround 3200 B.C, to the end of the ancient world in the middle of the sixth century A.D. Mr. Hammond concludes that the city's evolution was a phenomenon of local social development but was also influenced by older cultures. The city-state, he shows, was a creation of the Greek genius. It was diffused throughout the Greco-Ronan world, and withered with the decline of ancient culture in the early Middle Ages. The author provides brief geographical descriptions of the areas he covers. Thirteen maps give the locations of places referred to in the text. Where ancient and modern names differ markedly, both are given, in the text and in an index of the places shown on the maps. An extensive chronological survey and a general index document the text.

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Space can be understood as an interactive mediation between the forms of the built environment, resulting from the transformation of nature, and the social life that animates them, whose production dynamics dialectically articulate the dimensions of the perceived, the conceived and the lived. Thus, the production process and modes of appropriation of the metropolitan space of Brasília are the focus of this analysis. How does the spatial configuration of Brasília, marked by the discontinuities of the metropolitan fabric and the great distances resulting from them, influence the use of daily space-time by the inhabitants of its periphery in Goiás and offer possibilities and / or limits to the realization of the right to the city? To answer this question, the reality of the metropolis is discussed in two main aspects: a first, concerning the understanding of the metropolitan space as a socio-historical product, the result of the conception of the creators of the project for the construction of a new capital for Brazil and of the spatial practice - of them and of those who appropriate this space, also acting in its production - which resulted in what we now know as Brasília and its metropolitan space; and a second, concerning the passage from the analysis of the discursive plan to the fully lived one, that is, from the demonstration, through ideas, concepts, information and findings, of which metropolitan space it is concerned, one seeks to enter this space at scale of everyday life in order to try to show the lived space: that which the inhabitants of a distant and supposedly less integrated periphery take over who are, in fact, a constituent part of the metropolis.

Communities - Urban Groups --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- SOCIAL SCIENCE

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This book is really an invitation to the imaginary journey that begins in Palmas (TO), but it can take us much further, towards a city in search of its time, conceived by the author as an imaginary construction, which transforms the urban space instead of construction of meaning, creating a sensitist city. Time-space relations, temporal compression, absent time, subjectivity of time, polysemy of the urban image, similarities and differences between Palmas and Brasília, relations (and possibilities) between postmodernist and modernist cities, proposed relationship between science and art, between Geography and Literature, transdisciplinarity are some of the elements that make up the book, an expression of the great theoretical and methodological challenge faced by the author.

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« Éden de l'Ouest », « l'une des villes les plus agréables d'Europe » et « capitale verte de l'Europe en 2013 ». Les qualificatifs pour donner de la ville de Nantes une image positive, qui fait ainsi disparaître son passé de ville ouvrière et industrielle, ne manquent pas. Certes, cette image, entretenue par la politique de communication de la municipalité, correspond bien à la résonance médiatique de quelques événements culturels (Les Folles journées, les spectacles de la compagnie Royal de Luxe). Mais une ville se réduit-elle à l'image que ses élites politiques ou médiatiques souhaitent promouvoir ? Pour comprendre et connaître une ville, il faut recenser ce dont on est sûr, inventorier ce que l'on voit assurément, partir des faits. Regarder une ville avec un œil sociologique, c'est souligner le legs du passé, s'interroger sur les manières dont se construisent les mémoires de Nantes, montrer la permanence des inégalités et de la fracture civique et sociale, tout en examinant les conséquences de la croissance du poids des classes moyennes et supérieures.

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