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The Cambridge Urban History of Britain: Volume 2, 1540-1840
by Peter Clark  Publisher Comments This volume examines when, why, and how Britain became the first modern urban nation....
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Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America
by Jennifer Lee Publisher Comments Hollywood and the news media have repeatedly depicted the inner-city retail store as a scene of racial conflict and acrimony. Civility in the Cityuncovers a quite different story. Jennifer Lee examines the relationships between African American, Jewish...
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Making Lahore Modern: Constructing and Imagining a Colonial City
by William J. Glover Publisher Comments Fifty years after the British annexed the Punjab and made Lahore its provincial capital, the city—once a prosperous Mughal center that had long since fallen into ruin—was transformed. British and Indian officials had designed a modern...
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Cities of Europe (Studies in Urban and Social Change)
by Yuri Kazepov Publisher Comments "Cities of Europe" is a unique combination of book and CD-ROM examining the effects of recent socio-economic transformations on western European cities. A unique combination of book and CD-ROM examining the effects of recent socio-economic...
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Informal Politics: Street Vendors and the State in Mexico City
by John C. Cross Publisher Comments As economic crises struck the Third World in the 1970s and 1980s, large segments of the population turned to the informal economy to survive. This book looks at street vending as a political process in the largest city in the world....
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Race and Place in Birmingham
by Bobby M Wilson Publisher Comments This pioneering book explores the implications of postmodernism for the black community through an analysis of the civil rights and neighborhood movements in Birmingham, Alabama. Grounded not only in class struggle, the Civil Rights Movement was tied to...
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Urban America
by Publications Rand Publisher Comments Examines issues related to crime, drug use, families, poverty, the income gap, education, health care, immigration, and homelessness in today's urban areas. RAND's perennial top seller....
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Urban Affairs Annual Reviews #45: Regional Politics: America in a Post-City Age
by H. V. Savitch Publisher Comments This collection presents a comparative study on the emerging regional nature of local and urban politics in the United States. Recent studies have tended to focus on the politics and power of inner cities or on suburban areas which have gained incredible...
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A Place in History: Modernism, Tel Aviv, and the Creation of Jewish Urban Space
by Barbara E. Mann Publisher Comments “While her love for Tel Aviv is palpable, Mann maintains a critical distance from her subject, which assures A Place in History its own place as an authoritative guide to the complex textualities of Israel’s largest urban area.”—...
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Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar
by John P. Heinz Publisher Comments Over the past several decades, the number of lawyers in large cities has doubled, women have entered the bar at an unprecedented rate, and the scale of firms has greatly expanded. This immense growth has transformed the nature and social structure of the...
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Innovative Cities
by James Simmie Publisher Comments "Innovative Cities"presents a unique international comparison of innovation in Amsterdam, London, Milan, Paris and Stuttgart. Based on research funded by the ESRC program on "Cities: Competitiveness and Cohesion," it compares and contrasts the reasons...
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Informal Politics: Street Vendors and the State in Mexico City
by John C. Cross Publisher Comments A look at the practice of street-vending in Mexico City, from the political perspective....
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Making Sense of Cities
by Blair Badcock Publisher Comments Making Sense of Cities provides an up-to-date, vibrant and accessible introduction to urban geography. It gives students a sense of the patterns and processes of urbanization and cities, recognizing the significance of globalization, economics, politics...
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A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda
by Rachel Bratt Publisher Comments In the 1949 Housing Act, Congress declared "a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family" our national housing goal. Today, little more than half a century later, upwards of 100 million people in the United States live in...
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Inner City Kids: Adolescents Confront Life and Violence in an Urban Community (Qualitative Studies in Psychology)
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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Reason in the City of Difference: Pragmatism, Communicative Action, and Contemporary Urbanism
by Gary Bridge Publisher Comments Contemporary discourse emphasizes the irrational, unconscious, discursive and displace experiences of city life. Discussion of conscious agency is minimal and is often confined to small acts of resistance. <BR>"Reason in the City of Difference" re...
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The City Reader (Routledge Urban Readers)
by Richard T. Legates Publisher Comments The fourth edition of the highly successful The City Reader brings together the very best of publications on the city. Classic writings by such authors as Lewis Mumford, Ernest W. Burgess, LeCorbusier, Lewis Wirth, Jane Jacobs and Kevin Lynch meet the...
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World Cities Beyond the West: Globalization, Development and Inequality
by Josef Gugler Publisher Comments utside the industrialized West....
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The "Place" of Justice
by Law Commission Of Canada Publisher Comments This eclectic collection examines the way laws regulate geographical space and include detailed case studies of the impact of law on animal resources, children of divorce and where they live, aboriginal rights and street protest. The ...
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Unruly Cities Order Disorder
by Steve Pile Publisher Comments Cities are places of mixing and meeting - places where different worlds encounter one another on the streets. Yet cities are all too often seen as unruly places in need of government and control. "Unruly Cities?" asks questions about the ways in...
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