Urban France

Author : Ian Scargill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351053000
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban France written by Ian Scargill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1983, Urban France examines the rapid growth in French cities between 1950-1980, and the serious consequences that have followed this rapid growth. This volume examines the nature of this urban explosion and the efforts of planners and others to find solutions to the resultant problems of the post-war period. The book addresses the debates surrounding the urban system, urban planning, housing and land use, retailing, and the inception of new towns.

Author : David Hornsby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351560948
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and Social Structure in Urban France written by David Hornsby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The coming together of linguistics and sociology in the 1960's, most notably via the work of William Labov, marked a revolution in the study of language and provided a paradigm for the understanding of variation and change. Labovian quantitative methods have been employed successfully in North America, the UK, Scandinavia and New Zealand, but have had surprisingly little resonance in France, a country which poses many challenges to orthodox sociolinguistic thinking. Why, for example, does a nation with unexceptional scores on income distribution and social mobility show an exceptionally high degree of linguistic levelling, that is, the elimination of marked regional or local speech forms? And why does French appear to abound in 'hyperstyle' variables, which show greater variation on the stylistic than on the social dimension, in defiance of a well-established theory than such variables should not occur? This volume brings together leading variationist sociolinguists and sociologists from both sides of the Channel to ask: what makes France'exceptional'? In addressing this question, variationists have been forced to reassess the accepted interdisciplinary consensus, and to ask, as sociolinguistics has come of age, whether concepts and definitions have been transposed in a way which meaningfully preserves their original sense and, crucially, takes account of recent developments in sociology. Sociologists, for their part, have focused on the largely neglected area of language variation and its implications for social theory. Their findings therefore transcend the case study of a particularly enigmatic country to raise important theoretical questions for both disciplines.

Author : R. D. Grillo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521301794
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideologies and Institutions in Urban France written by R. D. Grillo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-06-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a detailed account of relations between the indigenous French population and immigrant workers and their families of non-French origin.

Author : Larry Busbea
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Topologies written by Larry Busbea and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 2007 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The utopian vision of spatial urbanism--an avant-garde architectural phenomenon that blended technology, leisure, and culture--examined as a reaction to modernism and official government building and planning in the embattled cultural context of 1960s France.

Author : Kathryn Louise Reyerson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004108509
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban and Rural Communities in Medieval France written by Kathryn Louise Reyerson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides case studies of the growth of urban and rural communities and their institutions in Languedoc and Provence in the Middle Ages. The importance of a Roman law tradition and the new institutions of the notary and his records are observed in both urban and rural contexts, and interactions between town and country are featured.

Author : Jacqueline Lindenfeld
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027250170
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speech and Sociability at French Urban Marketplaces written by Jacqueline Lindenfeld and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is both particularistic and generalizing. At one level it can be seen as an investigation of French urban marketplaces as systems of communication, with a microscopic examination of verbal interaction and sociability patterns in a specific cultural setting. At another level it constitutes an attempt to show some relationships between the ethnography of communication, urban anthropology and symbolic interactionism: all three lines of inquiry converge here to highlight the social and symbolic dimensions of traditional street markets in modern urban France, with primary focus on the role of speech in sociability. A major source of inspiration is interactional sociolinguistics which considers language as an activity performed by social actors for specific purposes.

Author : Denise Z. Davidson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674024595
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book France After Revolution written by Denise Z. Davidson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davidson provides a reevaluation of prevailing views on the effects of the French Revolution, and particularly on the role of women. Arguing against the idea that women were forced from the public realm of political discussion, Davidson demonstrates how women remained highly visible and active.

Author : David Beriss
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0786729953
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Skins, French Voices written by David Beriss and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About 337,000 people of French Antillean Origin live in metropolitan France today. Unlike immigrants from North Africa, Turkey or sub-Saharan Africa, Antilleans are French citizens with deep roots in French history. Indeed, the Caribbean Islands they come from have been a part of France for over three centuries. Antilleans were for many years an invisible population, dispersed throughout the Paris region, with few community organizations and little political activism. Beginning in the early 1980s, however, activists in the Antillean community began to recognize that their status as citizens would not protect them from the growth of racism in France. From neighborhood groups interested in promoting traditional Martinican and Guadeloupan dance and music to politically charged associations, these new cultural militants denounced French colonialism, challenged racism, and demanded political representation. Black Skins, French Voices is situated at the intersection of changing French ideas and policies regarding ethnic diversity and Antillean demands for recognition. It shows the creative and exciting struggles of Antilleans to remake French culture on their own terms.

Author : Herbert Benjamin Dorau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Land Economics written by Herbert Benjamin Dorau and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Augustus Tilley
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern France written by Arthur Augustus Tilley and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1922 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: