The women artists’ life trajectories of the Spanish urban nightlife were the main target of the antifeminism’s discursive attacks during the transitional period from 19th to 20th century. In this paper, we propose a reading of the modern city as the transformation space that enabled the emergence of a mass society, an event that would redefine cult...
Cet ouvrage, richement illustré, replace les théories de l’urbanisme dans le contexte culturel, social, économique et politique de leur émergence. Il met en perspective les différentes théories de l’urbanisme pour comprendre ce qui les unit ou les oppose. Les trois premières parties du livre montrent comment la diversité des expériences d’urbanisme...
In Le Corbusier’s urban plans, the conventional public space of the city is gradually dismembered until it coalesces with the natural surroundings, giving rise to the concept of tapis-vert. Its ultimate expression is found in the Athens Charter. By investigating Le Corbusier’s formative years, this article aims to clarify issues of form and meaning...
El proceso de urbanización de la ciudad, dividido tradicionalmente en tres etapas (ciudad preindustrial, industrial y postindustrial o actual), lo hemos sintetizado en dos grandes momentos: la ciudad moderna (fase industrial) y la ciudad en la actual posmodernidad (fase postindustrial). La novedad de este trabajo consiste en analizar el proceso de ...
The sights of cities, an important genre of Baroque painting, almost disappeared with industrialization. The painters preferred to look back and to represent other topics. However, the modern city was breaking through in the painting of 19th and 20th centuries. The new image of the city is antithetical to the old veduta and acquired traits of repre...
Retour sur la genèse, l'évolution et les missions actuelles de l'Observatoire urbain de l'Ifpo, fondé en 1991. Constitué au sortir de la guerre civile pour réfléchir à la reconstruction de Beyrouth, cet observatoire a peu à peu élargi ses recherches à la ville et l'aménagement du territoire au Proche-Orient en général. Il interroge également les mé...
The celebration that took place in Buenos Aires to mark the Bicentenary of the May revolution (1810) has become undoubtedly an excellent opportunity to reflect on our cities, both in its past and present dimension. Throughout this article we explore this particular event comparing it with the Centennial celebration occurred in 1910. We consider bot...
Résumé In a historical perspective of the field of everyday studies, this article assesses the relationship between Michel de Certeau and humour. On the one hand, it points out the many occasions in which, in key moments of his work on the everyday, the French historian made reference to humour, even while without ever developing these signs of int...
This thesis discusses how the modern city can be understood as an experiential environment of critical subjective practice. Fictive textual representations of subjective spatial cultures and practices within the modern Athenian public realm are examined in reference to Walter Benjamin’s critical theory and aesthetics. Benjamin, inspired largely by ...
This article tries to give a critical point of view, studying and experiencing Eduardo Ramirez Villamizar�s public pieces of work, in order to think over their space view in Bogotá, the modern city. Ramirez Villamizar�s pieces of work located along 26th street, or El Dorado Avenue, let the observer realize about the agreement between what is calm a...
