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On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife (Religion and Postmodernism)
by David Grazian  Publisher Comments It’s nighttime in the city and everybody’s working a hustle. Winking bartenders and smiling waitresses flirt their way to bigger tips. Hostesses and bouncers hit up the crowd of would-be customers for bribes. And on the other side of the...
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Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China (Woodrow Wilson Center Series)
by Deborah S. Davis Publisher Comments The post-Mao urban reforms of the past decade have physically and psychologically transformed China's cities. Urban Spaces in Contemporary China explores how the character of city life changed after political-economic restructuring intensified in 1984...
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Alternate Route: Toward Efficient Urban Transportation
by Clifford Winston Publisher Comments This book develops an alternative solution to urban transportation problems based on economic analysis of public and private sector capabilities, concluding that public officials should take the next step and allow the private sector to play a leading...
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China's Urban Transition
by John Friedmann Publisher Comments Though China's urban history reaches back over five thousand years, it is only in the last quarter century that urbanization has emerged as a force of widespread social transformation while a massive population shift from country to city has brought...
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Morality Politics in American Cities (Studies in Government and Public Policy)
by Elaine Sharp Publisher Comments Topless bars, casino gambling needle exchange programs for drug addicts-"there's no question, morality issues remain front and center in urban politics. Presenting a systematic analysis of culture-war issues at the local level, Elaine Sharp shows how...
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Understanding Urban Tourism: Image, Culture and Experience
by Martin Selby Publisher Comments This is the first book to take the major debates and ideas current in the social sciences and apply them to urban tourism.<BR>...
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Sprawl Kills: How Blandburbs Steal Your Time, Health and Money
by Joel Hirschhorn Publisher Comments "Sprawl Kills" is a hard-hitting book with a new market approach for replacing sprawl with Healthy Places. It explains why America is balanced precariously on the edge of a cliff, teetering as it looks at two distinct futures. One where citizens are...
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The Experience of Place
by Tony Hiss Publisher Comments 'The Experience of Place' offers an innovative and delightfully readable proposal for new ways of planning, building, and managing our most immediate and overlooked surroundings....
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The Last Landscape
by William H Whyte Publisher Comments "For years we wasted land with impunity," William H. Whyte writes in this classic work at last returned to print, "now we no longer can."...
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Livable City Revitalizing Urban Communit
by Partners For Livable Publisher Comments Includes 50+ best-practice case studies Put urban design policies and programs into action The Livable City Revitalizing Urban Communities Livability. It's open space, free-flowing traffic, historic preservation, attractive cultural and civic...
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American Dream Towns 2004: One Town at a Time
by Ingrid H. Lemme Publisher Comments Anyone can choose their favorite towns and write about them! Americans and people from all over the world voted for their favorite #1 American Dream Towns on the website www.AmericanDreamTown.com 'Cause taste is relative, and America&...
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Step by Step: Everyday Walks in a French Urban Housing Project
by Jean-francois Augoyard Publisher Comments The street riots that swept through France in the fall of 2005 focused worldwide attention on the plight of the country’s immigrants and their living conditions in the suburbs many of them call home. These high-density neighborhoods were...
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How Green Is Your City?: The Sustainlane U.S. City Rankings
by Warren Karlenzig Publisher Comments In our peak oil, post-Katrina world, how do America's largest cities stack up in terms of sustainability? Which cities are more self-sufficient and better-prepared for our uncertain future, and which cities are operating business-as-usual? How Green...
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City of Flows (04 Edition)
by Kaika Publisher Comments Typically, cities and nature are perceived as geographic opposites, cities being manufactured social creations, and nature being outside of human construction. Through a historical geography of water in the modern city, Kaika shows that this is not the...
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The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry
by Robert Cervero Publisher Comments Around the world, mass transit is struggling to compete with the private automobile, and in many places, its market share is rapidly eroding. Yet a number of metropolitan areas have in recent decades managed to mount cost-effective and resource...
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Cities and Economies
by Yeong-hyun Kim Publisher Comments Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the creation of the service-dominated urban economy are explored, along with economic...
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Experiencing Cities (07 Edition)
by Mark Hutter Publisher Comments Experiencing Cities is an introduction to urban sociology based heavily on microsociology and symbolic interaction theory--emphasizing the way people experience the urban world in their everyday lives, interact with one another, and create meaning from...
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Worst-Case Scenarios
by Cass R. Sunstein Publisher Comments Sunstein explores the worst-case scenarios surrounding terrorism and climate change and how America might best prevent them in this vivid, illuminating, and highly original analysis....
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Slipping Into the Shadows: Junkies, Prostitutes, Con Artists
by Eugene Barron Publisher Comments In every large city, there are marginal, criminal types who live on the fringes of the society. They are faceless, ignored or feared. The author had worked and lived in their East Harlem, New York neighborhood. Through a series of in-depth interviews he...
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Civilizing Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930
by Teresa A. Meade Publisher Comments A massive urban renewal and public-health campaign in the first decades of the nineteenth century transformed Brazil's capital into a showcase of European architecture and public works. The renovation of Rio, or civilization campaign, as the government...
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