Post-industrial cities: towards a new approach

Max Rousseau & translated by Oliver Waine — 2013-09-25T04:55:00Z

While anglophone urban studies have sought to critique the way capitalism has developed, the French social sciences have instead chosen to produce detailed monographs of urban spaces. However, both traditions can be combined to good advantage, as Max Rousseau shows here through a historical analysis of urban policies in (post-)industrial cities.
Translated with the support of the Institut Français Series: Urban Studies in France The Louvre-Lens, Pompidou-Metz, The Cité du Design in

- From the Field / France, governance, urban policy, deindustrialization, United Kingdom, territorial development, Marxism, crisis, Roubaix, Sheffield, monograph, postindustrialism, Nord–Pas-de-Calais, England, Lille, Northern France, Hauts-de-France

Haussmann: from modernity to revolution

Jean-Marie Huriot & translated by Oliver Waine — 2013-05-15T08:32:12Z

Jean-Marie Huriot shows how the latest work by geographer David Harvey to be translated into French sheds new light on the major changes that affected Paris from 1848 to 1871. Through a process of creative destruction, “Haussmannisation” brought with it modernity, but also set the stage for the rise of the Paris Commune.
In the tumultuous period of Paris's history that extends from the barricades of 1848 to the bloody repression of the Commune in 1871, profound transformations occurred that

- Reviews / capitalism, urban history, social movement, Paris, Haussmann, Marxism

Metropolitics

Post-industrial cities: towards a new approach

Haussmann: from modernity to revolution