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The representation of place : urban planning and protest in France and Great Britain, 1950-1980 / Michael James Miller ; with a foreword by José-Maria Ballester.
LIBRA HT178.F7 R685 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Michael, 1967-
- Series:
- Historical urban studies
- Historical urban studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban renewal--France--Roubaix--Citizen participation--Case studies.
- Urban renewal.
- Spatial behavior--France--Roubaix--Case studies.
- Spatial behavior.
- Protest movements--France--Roubaix--History--20th century.
- Protest movements.
- Urban renewal--Scotland--Glasgow--Citizen participation--Case studies.
- Spatial behavior--Scotland--Glasgow--Case studies.
- Protest movements--Scotland--Glasgow--History--20th century.
- History.
- Political participation.
- Scotland--Glasgow.
- France--Roubaix.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 347 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot ; Burlington, USA : Ashgate, [2003]
- Contents:
- The opacity of place 8
- Places past and future 13
- Place-based conflicts 21
- Methodology and sources 24
- 2 Changing attitudes to the built environment: urban planning in France and Great Britain 39
- French and British urban organization and structure 41
- Targeting the 'slums' 44
- Discovering the social dimension 63
- 3 The courees of Roubaix: constructing a consensus 75
- Roubaix: the social, political and economic contexts 77
- The courees: these doors that led to despair 101
- Alma-Gare: 'Ce que doit disparaitre!' 119
- 4 Alma-Gare: 'Maintenant je reste ici!' 131
- Alma-Gare: the breakdown of consensus 131
- Constructing the quartier: 'Notre force est d'etre ensemble' 147
- 'On reste': APU actions and strategies 159
- 'Cela fera du bien pour les autres qui viendront apres' 168
- A key event: the production of the carte-affiche 174
- Responses to the APU challenge 177
- A postscript to Alma-Gare 186
- 5 The Gorbals: from No Mean City to Glasgow's miracle 189
- Glasgow: the social, political and economic contexts 189
- The myth of the 'old Gorbals' 206
- The miracle of the 'new Gorbals' 225
- 6 From hell and back again: (re)constructing the Gorbals 242
- The miracle: seeds of doubt 242
- 'Heavy breathing' and the breakdown of consensus 246
- (Re)constructing the Gorbals 258
- Two key events 274
- A postscript to the 'Dampies' 280
- Remembering community: the 'good people of the Gorbals' 286
- Comparative conclusions 299
- Local initiatives and global forces 314
- The city as history; history as the city 317.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-338) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0754606538
- OCLC:
- 48858387
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