| Description |
1 online resource (291 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Advances in Urban History Ser |
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Routledge Advances in Urban History Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Urban knowledge and the politics of governing cities -- Urban knowledge and its politics -- Governing and administering the city -- Contesting the city -- Imagining the 'good' city -- Circulating knowledgeable politics -- Overview of the volume -- Ways of urban knowing -- Trajectories of urban knowing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Ways of Urban Knowing |
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2. The emergence of cartographic reasoning in a long-term perspective: Urban knowledge, craft corporations and body politics -- Introduction -- The city as a body -- The body as an instrument of work: The city and the body of appearance -- The body as an instrument of knowledge: The city and the body of knowledge -- The body as a state: Body politics and the making of the artificial body (construct) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3. Epistemological fields of urban intervention: Urban reform, surveys and historic centres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century -- Introduction |
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The progressive recognition of the urban environment as problematic -- A new paradigm and its legitimation -- The Musée Social: The city as a space of reform -- The Urbaneum: Surveys of the city as an interactive environment -- Altstadt (Old Town): The city as a system of values, identity and heritage -- Conclusion -- References -- 4. From the 'scientised' to the 'sociocratic' city: The politics of knowledge and norm change in post-war urban planning in the Netherlands -- Introduction -- Conceptual framework: Urban knowledge regimes and norm entrepreneurs |
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Urban expansion and redevelopment as a scientised practice (1950-1965) -- Norm entrepreneurs challenging the 'scientised city' (1965-1975) -- The emergence of a new 'sociocratic' knowledge regime (1975-1990) -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Trajectories of Urban Knowing -- 5. Urban populations and urban problems in Quetelet's population statistics of the mid-nineteenth century -- Introduction -- The population census of Brussels: Purpose, organisation and methodology -- The city as a (co)producer of social data -- The city as a socio-geographical observation unit |
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Urban problems in (urban) population statistics -- Public health -- Poor families or households -- Children receiving instruction -- The useful and vital population -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6. Knowledge appropriation in Belo Horizonte: Intertwining the urban, the suburban and the rural -- Introduction -- Knowledge circulation as a transfer of models? -- The urban suburbs as a form of knowledge appropriation -- The plan -- Subverting the grid, housing the poor -- The remaking of (sub)urban knowledge -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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7. Decoding zoning: Categorisation and commonality in land-use planning knowledge |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lachmund, Jens
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| ISBN |
9781000852455 |
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1000852458 |
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