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Résumé : Partir à Édimbourg ou à Vienne en train le temps d’un week-end, c’est possible ! Ce livre propose une vraie alternative à l’avion et une façon plus écologique de voyager en vous faisant découvrir 30 grandes villes d’Europe toutes accessibles en train ou en train de nuit. Nous avons sélectionné des destinations incontournables (Amsterdam, Berlin, Barcelone, Bruxelles, Londres, Milan, Rome…) mais aussi des destinations alternatives et plus inattendues qui méritent largement d’être découvertes (Glasgow, Leipzig, Hambourg, Salzburg, Zurich…).

Résumé : Partez à la découverte du «vrai» New York! Que vous soyez un habitué de la Grosse Pomme ou que vous prévoyiez y mettre les pieds pour la première fois, ce guide ne vous quittera plus. Marie-Joëlle Parent vous y fait découvrir «son» New York et les trésors aussi uniques qu'hétéroclites que recèle chacun de ses quartiers. Où peut-on siroter un manhattan dans un cadre somptueux? mordre dans la meilleure pizza? passer une soirée mémorable dans le plus typique des bars new-yorkais? prendre le cliché parfait du pont de Brooklyn? Où sont les pâtisseries qu'on s'arrache? les restos qui font courir les foules? les oeuvres d'art en plein air? les terrasses hallucinantes qui surplombent la ville? les boutiques aux plus belles trouvailles? Que vous ayez l'âme aventureuse de celui qui pratique ses talents d'acrobate sur le toit d'un gratte-ciel, l'oeil avisé du passionné de design qui connaît tout du logo «I Love NY» ou la fine bouche de celui qui rêve de Momofuku la nuit, vous serez comblé. Loin des circuits touristiques, vous vivrez enfin New York... à la new-yorkaise.

Résumé : Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privatization, finance, and market processes are emphasized. State interventions in the economy are minimized, while the obligations of the state to provide for the welfare of its citizens are diminished. David Harvey, author of 'The New Imperialism' and 'The Condition of Postmodernity', here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. While Thatcher and Reagan are often cited as primary authors of this neoliberal turn, Harvey shows how a complex of forces, from Chile to China and from New York City to Mexico City, have also played their part. In addition he explores the continuities and contrasts between neoliberalism of the Clinton sort and the recent turn towards neoconservative imperialism of George W. Bush. Finally, through critical engagement with this history, Harvey constructs a framework not only for analyzing the political and economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the prospects for the more socially just alternatives being advocated by many oppositional movements. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : In A Century of Violence in a Red City Lesley Gill provides insights into broad trends of global capitalist development, class disenfranchisement and dispossession, and the decline of progressive politics. Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions, neighborhood organizations, and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, from their origins in the 1920s to their effective activism for agrarian reforms, labor rights, and social programs in the 1960s and 1970s. Like much of Colombia, Barrancabermeja came to be dominated by alliances of right-wing politicians, drug traffickers, foreign corporations, and paramilitary groups. These alliances reshaped the geography of power and gave rise to a pernicious form of armed neoliberalism. Their violent incursion into Barrancabermeja's civil society beginning in the 1980s decimated the city's social networks, destabilized life for its residents, and destroyed its working-class organizations. As a result, community leaders are now left clinging to the toothless discourse of human rights, which cannot effectively challenge the status quo. In this stark book, Gill captures the grim reality and precarious future of Barrancabermeja and other places ravaged by neoliberalism and violence. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : This book is important for urban designers and city managers. Referencing architect Christopher Alexander's seminal essay "A City Is Not a Tree" (1965), Mattern (anthropology, New School for Social Research) dismantles the computational tree-like logic of "smart cities," contending that it limits people's engagement with and understanding of cities and argues for a more critical approach to urbanism to reveal the "prismatic complexity" of cities. Smart cities often reduce inhabitants to merely "consumers" or "users," deploying information gleaned from automated computer systems that quantify, aggregate, and display a constrictive "operational logic, aesthetic, and politics" for specialist managers who need access to the granularity of human and civic interactions. The visionary changes that Mattern advocates for in urban planning and management include deeper interaction with a broader swath of people in cities; reformed and extensively enlarged libraries as actual places that affect citizens’ lives; maintenance of physical things large and small, data, and constantly outmoded "smart" things; and greater use of familiar knowledge to generate a multitude of small-scale solutions. This readable, compact volume includes extensive endnotes and images, though they are often too small.

Résumé : Matthew Vitz outlines the environmental history and politics of Mexico City as it transformed its original forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity, showing how the scientific and political disputes over water policy, housing, forestry, and sanitary engineering led to the city's unequal urbanization and environmental decline. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : Detroit is a city of stories. In this, we are rich. We begin with abundance. But while much is written about our city these hard days, it is typically meant to explain Detroit to those who live elsewhere. Much of this writing is brilliant, but our anthology, this anthology, is different: it is a collection of Detroit stories for Detroiters. Through essays, photographs, poetry, and art, this anthology collects the stories we tell each other over late nights at the pub and long afternoons on the porch. We share them in coffee shops, at church social hours, in living rooms, and while waiting for the bus. These are stories addressed to the rhetorical you with the ratcheted up language that comes with it and these are stories that took real legwork to investigate. We may be lifelong residents, newcomers, or former Detroiters; we may be activists, workers, teachers, artists, healers, or students. But a common undercurrent alights our work that is collected here: we are a city moving through the fire of transformation. We are afire. Featuring essays, photographs, poetry, and art by Terry Blackhawk, Grace Lee Boggs, John Carlisle, Desiree Cooper, dream hampton, francine j. harris, Steve Hughes, Jamaal May, Tracie McMillan, Ken Mikolowski, Marsha Music, Shaka Senghor, Thomas J. Sugrue, and many others.

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