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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
by Mike Davis  
Publisher Comments To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere." No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work...
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Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories about the "Great Good Places" at the Heart of Our Communities
by Ray Oldenburg Publisher Comments Nationwide, more and more entrepreneurs are committing themselves to creating and running "third places," also known as "great good places." In his landmark work, The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg identified, portrayed, and promoted those third places....
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Readings in Planning Theory (2ND 03 Edition)
by Scott Campbell Publisher Comments The second edition of this very successful volume examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years. Examines the current state of planning theory and the new directions it has taken in recent years...
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The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home
by Melissa Holbrook Pierson Publisher Comments Every day brings evidence of dramatic change upon the landscape. It's called progress. Melissa Holbrook Pierson, with unalloyed insight, elucidates how it feels to lose that landscape of home....
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The Taxi-Dance Hall: A Sociological Study in Commercialized Recreation and City Life (University of Chicago Sociological)
by Paul G. Cressey Publisher Comments First published in 1932, The Taxi-Dance Hall is Paul Goalby Cressey’s fascinating study of Chicago’s urban nightlife—as seen through the eyes of the patrons, owners, and dancers-for-hire who frequented the city’s notoriously seedy...
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How the Other Half Lives
by Jacob August Riis Publisher Comments This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and a monument of early American photography. Captured on film by photographer, journalist, and reformer Jacob Riis,...
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Sprawl: A Compact History
by Robert Bruegmann Publisher Comments As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with their...
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The Power of Place
by Winifred Gallagher Publisher Comments THE SCIENCE OF PLACE Last spring, I spent several days sealed off from the sweet palmy swelter of New Orleans in a series of frigid polyester conference rooms, listening to men in white coats discuss the latest developments in brain science....
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Planet of Slums (06 Edition)
by Mike Davis Publisher Comments Celebrated urban historian's bestselling account of the global explosion of slums, with a major new introduction. According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and...
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Urban Enclaves: Identity and Place in America (Contemporary Social Issues)
by Mark Abrahamson Publisher Comments This brief, readable supplement asks the question, "How do communities which are as distinct as Boston's Beacon Hill and Chicago's South Side form in diverse urban areas and why?"...
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
by Kenneth Jackson Publisher Comments This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social...
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Shanghai Modern: The Flowering of a New Urban Culture in China, 1930-1945
by Leo Ou-fan Lee Publisher Comments In the midst of China's wild rush to modernize, a surprising note of reality arises: Shanghai, it seems, was once modern indeed, a pulsing center of commerce and art in the heart of the twentieth century. This book immerses us in the golden age of...
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The City in History
by Lewis Mumford Publisher Comments The city's development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. "One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century" (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations.<BR>...
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American Project : Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto (00 Edition)
by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh Publisher Comments High-rise public housing developments were signature features of the post-World War II city. A hopeful experiment in providing temporary, inexpensive housing for all Americans, the "projects" soon became synonymous with the black urban poor, with...
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Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
by Andres Duany
Publisher Comments A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design. There is a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement...
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New York and Los Angeles : Politics, Society, and Culture, a Comparative View (03 Edition)
by David (ed.) Halle Publisher Comments No two cities are more symbolic of the modern American metropolis than New York and Los Angeles. But while New York boasts a recently revitalized urban center, Los Angeles is the classic example of sprawl and decentralization, with multiple clusters of...
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America (Vintage)
by William Julius Wilson Publisher Comments From one of America's most admired sociologists and urban policy advisers, "There Goes the Neighborhood" is a long-awaited look at how race, class, and ethnicity influence one of Americans' most personal choices--where we choose to live. The result of a...
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Tearing the Streets : Adventures in Urban Anarchy (01 Edition)
by Jeff Ferrell Publisher Comments From New York to San Francisco, Times Square to the Tenderloin, graffiti artists, young people, radical environmentalists, and the homeless clash with police on city streets in an attempt take back urban spaces from the developers and "disneyfiers...
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Next American Metropolis PB
by Peter Calthorpe Publisher Comments Regarding issues of urban sprawl Visit Sprawl Net, at Rice University. It's under construction, but it should be an interesting resource. Check out the traffic in the land of commuting. And, finally, enjoy Los Angeles: Revisiting the Four Ecologies....
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Inner-city Kids : Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community (01 Edition)
by Alice Mcintyre Publisher Comments Urban teens of color are often portrayed as welfare mothers, drop outs, drug addicts, and both victims and perpetrators of the many kinds of violence which can characterize life in urban areas. Although urban youth often live in contexts which include...
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