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Last Harvest: From Cornfield to New Town
by Witold Rybczynski  Publisher Comments When Witold Rybczynski first heard about New Daleville, it was only a developer's idea, attached to ninety acres of cornfield an hour and a half west of Philadelphia. Over the course of five years, Rybczynski met and talked to everyone involved in the...
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Cop in the Hood
by Peter Moskos Publisher Comments Cop in the Hood is an explosive insider's story of what it is really like to be a police officer on the front lines of the war on drugs. Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos became a cop in Baltimore's roughest neighborhood--the Eastern District...
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Housing Policy in the United States: An Introduction
by Alex F. Schwartz Publisher Comments "Housing Policy in the United States "is an essential guidebook to and textbook for housing policy, and is written for students, practitioners, government officials, real estate developers, and policy analysts. It discusses the most important issues in...
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Negotiating Demands: The Politics of Skid Row Policing in Edinburgh, San Francisco, and Vancouver
by Laura Huey Book News Annotation Huey (sociology, Concordia U.) investigates the extent to which political, social, and economic supports or constraints lead to the willingness of public police to initiate or engage in inclusionary or exclusionary policing practice within poor urban...
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Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories: Second Edition
by Rebecca Hardi Davis Publisher Comments You must read this book and let your heart be broken-"New York Times Book Review" "One of the earliest recognitions in American literature of the existence of the very poor."-Michele Murray, "National Observer" Suggested for course use in: 19th...
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New Geography : How the Digital Revolution Is Reshaping the American Landscape (01 Edition)
by Joel Kotkin Publisher Comments In the blink of an eye, vast economic forces have created new types of communities and reinvented old ones. In The New Geography, acclaimed forecaster Joel Kotkin decodes the changes, and provides the first clear road map for where Americans will live...
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From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture's Encounter with the American City
by Nathan Glazer Publisher Comments Modernism in architecture and urban design has failed the American city. This is the decisive conclusion that renowned public intellectual Nathan Glazer has drawn from two decades of writing and thinking about what this architectural movement will...
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Zoned Out: Regulation, Markets, and Choices in Transportation and Metropolitan Land-Use
by Jonathan Levine Publisher Comments Researchers have responded to urban sprawl, congestion, and pollution by assessing alternatives such as smart growth, new urbanism, and transit-oriented development. Underlying this has been the presumption that, for these options to be given serious...
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Going Out : the Rise and Fall of Public Amusements (93 Edition)
by David Nasaw Publisher Comments David Nasaw has written a sparkling social history of twentieth-century show business and of the new American public that assembled in the city's pleasure palaces, parks, theaters, nickelodeons, world's fair midways, and dance halls. The new amusement...
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American Politics)
by Thomas J Sugrue Publisher Comments Once America's arsenal of democracy, Detroit over the last fifty years has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of racial and economic inequality in modern America, Thomas Sugrue explains how Detroit and many other once...
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21st Century Kinkycrafts
by Janet W. Hardy Publisher Comments The brand-new "21st Century kinkyCrafts includes: - 15 new KinkyCrafts projects from craftspeople around the world- updated instructions- updated illustrations for greater ease of construction- special Lay-Flat binding for easy...
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Chicago's South Side, 1946-1948 (George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies)
by Wayne Miller Publisher Comments Wayne Miller's photographs chronicle a black Chicago of fifty years ago: the South Side community that burgeoned as thousands of African Americans, almost exclusively from the South, settled in the city during the Great Migration of the World War II...
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Que Onda?: Urban Youth Culture and Border Identity
by Cynthia L Bejarano Publisher Comments Angel was born in Arizona and is part of the in-crowd. She likes clubbing, dancing, and going to car shows. Betzayra is from Mexico City and, despite polio-related disabilities, is the confident group leader of the Mexican girls. Arturo is also from...
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The Activist's Handbook
by Randy Shaw Publisher Comments In showing how people can and must make a difference at both local and national levels, this is an indispensable guide not only for activists, but for everyone interested in the future of progressive politics in America....
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Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City
by Mike Davis Publisher Comments 'An absorbing journey into the Latino struggle to gain social power, by the acclaimed urban historian. A fascinating account of the Latinization of the US urban landscape, Magical Urbanism forcefully shows that this is a demographic and cultural...
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The Economy of Cities
by Jane Jacobs About the Author Jane Jacobs was the legendary author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, a work that has never gone out of print and that has transformed the disciplines of urban planning and city architecture. Her other major works include The Economy of...
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Shading Our Cities: A Resource Guide for Urban and Community Forests
by Gary Moll Publisher Comments This handbook helps neighborhood groups, local officials, and city planners develop urban forestry projects, not only to beautify their cities, but also to help reduce energy demand, improve air quality, protect water supplies, and contribute to...
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A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture (Globalization and Community)
by John M Hagedorn Publisher Comments “Street gangs mirror the inhuman ambitions and greed of society’s trendsetters and deities even as they fight to the death over scraps from the table of the international drug trade. But John Hagedorn, characteristically, also finds...
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Systems of Survival : a Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics (94 Edition)
by Jean Jacobs Publisher Comments The author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities looks at business fraud and criminal enterprise, overextended government farm subsidies and zealous transit police, to show what happens when the moral systems of commerce collide with those of...
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The Postmodern Urban Condition
by M J Dear Publisher Comments This book will change the way we understand cities. It provides readers with not only an introduction to cities and urbanism in the postmodern world but also overturns many common assumptions about urban structure....
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