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81 produkter
"Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind"
Contemporary Planning in New York City
Av Scott Larson
Häftad, 2013
344 kr
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How New York's mayor
For Both Cross and Flag
Catholic Action, Anti-Catholicism, and National Security Politics in World War II San Francisco
Inbunden, 2009
539 kr
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Against a backdrop of war and anti-Catholic sentiment, one man loses his rights due to false accusations against him
Public and Its Possibilities
Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City
Inbunden, 2010
886 kr
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Throughout U.S. history, our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests of Technology.
Public and Its Possibilities
Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City
Häftad, 2012
324 kr
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Throughout U.S. history, our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests of Technology.
Beyond Preservation
Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities
Häftad, 2010
382 kr
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A framework for stabilizing and strengthening inner-city neighbourhoods through the public interpretation of historic landscapes
Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis
Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago
Inbunden, 2014
748 kr
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Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's older, industrial cities during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Robert Gioielli offers incisive case studies of Baltimore, St. Louis, and Chicago to show …
Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis
Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago
Häftad, 2015
343 kr
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Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's older, industrial cities during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Robert Gioielli offers incisive case studies of Baltimore, St. Louis, and Chicago to show …
Fire on the Prairie
Harold Washington, Chicago Politics, and the Roots of the Obama Presidency
Av Gary Rivlin
Häftad, 2012
497 kr
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A revised edition of the classic story of race and power, set in Chicago during the 1980s, when this most political of cities elected its first black mayor
Atlanta Unbound
Enabling Sprawl Through Policy and Planning
Inbunden, 2013
860 kr
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Looking at Atlanta, Georgia, one might conclude that the city’s notorious sprawl, degraded air quality, and tenuous water supply is a result of a lack of planning-particularly an absence of coordination at the regional level. In Atlanta Unbound, Carlton Wade Basmajian shows that Atlanta’s …
"Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind"
Contemporary Planning in New York City
Av Scott Larson
Inbunden, 2013
972 kr
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How New York's mayor
Church and State in the City
Catholics and Politics in Twentieth-Century San Francisco
Inbunden, 2012
731 kr
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How Catholic religious activism shaped the language and outcome of San Francisco's debates about over the common good and the public interest
Church and State in the City
Catholics and Politics in Twentieth-Century San Francisco
Häftad, 2012
344 kr
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How Catholic religious activism shaped the language and outcome of San Francisco's debates about over the common good and the public interest
Architectures of Revolt
The Cinematic City Circa 1968
Av Mark Shiel
Inbunden, 2018
1160 kr
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Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the worldwide mass protest movements of 1968-against war, imperialism, racism, poverty, misogyny, and homophobia-the exciting anthology Architectures of Revolt explores the degree to which the real events of political revolt in the urban landscape in 1968 …
Architectures of Revolt
The Cinematic City Circa 1968
Av Mark Shiel
Häftad, 2018
410 kr
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Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the worldwide mass protest movements of 1968-against war, imperialism, racism, poverty, misogyny, and homophobia-the exciting anthology Architectures of Revolt explores the degree to which the real events of political revolt in the urban landscape in 1968 …
War on Slums in the Southwest
Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935-1965
Inbunden, 2014
1014 kr
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In The War on Slums in the Southwest, Robert Fairbanks provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plights in Albuquerque, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and San Antonio. He provides brief histories of each city--all of which expanded dynamically between 1935 and …
War on Slums in the Southwest
Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935-1965
Häftad, 2016
344 kr
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In The War on Slums in the Southwest, Robert Fairbanks provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plights in Albuquerque, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and San Antonio. He provides brief histories of each city--all of which expanded dynamically between 1935 and …
Vanishing Eden
White Construction of Memory, Meaning, and Identity in a Racially Changing City
Av Michael Maly, Heather Dalmage
Häftad, 2015
330 kr
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For many whites, desegregation initially felt like an attack on their community. But how has the process of racial change affected whites’ understanding of community and race? In Vanishing Eden, Michael Maly and Heather Dalmage provide an intriguing analysis of the experiences and memories of …
Mutual Housing Experiment
New Deal Communities for the Urban Middle Class
Inbunden, 2015
929 kr
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In 1940, the U.S. Federal Works Agency created an experimental housing program for industrial workers. Eight model communities were leased and later sold to the residents, who formed a non-profit corporation called a mutual housing association. Further development of housing under the mutual …
Mutual Housing Experiment
New Deal Communities for the Urban Middle Class
Häftad, 2016
338 kr
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In 1940, the U.S. Federal Works Agency created an experimental housing program for industrial workers. Eight model communities were leased and later sold to the residents, who formed a non-profit corporation called a mutual housing association. Further development of housing under the mutual …
Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown
Space, Place, and Struggle
Inbunden, 2015
1001 kr
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Philadelphia's Chinatown, like many urban chinatowns, began in the late nineteenth century as a refuge for immigrant laborers and merchants in which to form a community to raise families and conduct business. But this enclave for expression, identity, and community is also the embodiment of …
Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown
Space, Place, and Struggle
Häftad, 2015
354 kr
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Philadelphia's Chinatown, like many urban chinatowns, began in the late nineteenth century as a refuge for immigrant laborers and merchants in which to form a community to raise families and conduct business. But this enclave for expression, identity, and community is also the embodiment of …
Walking in Cities
Quotidian Mobility As Urban Theory, Method, and Practice
Av Evrick Brown, Timothy Shortell
Inbunden, 2015
1059 kr
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Walking connects the rhythms of urban life to the configuration of urban spaces. As the contributors and editors show in Walking in Cities, walking also reflects the systematic inequalities that order contemporary urban life. Walking has different meanings because it can be a way of temporarily …
Walking in Cities
Quotidian Mobility As Urban Theory, Method, and Practice
Av Evrick Brown, Timothy Shortell
Häftad, 2015
397 kr
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Walking connects the rhythms of urban life to the configuration of urban spaces. As the contributors and editors show in Walking in Cities, walking also reflects the systematic inequalities that order contemporary urban life. Walking has different meanings because it can be a way of temporarily …
Building the Urban Environment
Visions of the Organic City in the United States, Europe, and Latin America
Inbunden, 2015
1059 kr
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Building the Urban Environment is a comparative study of the contestation among planners, policymakers, and the grassroots over the production and meaning of urban space. Award-winning historian Harold Platt presents case studies of seven cities, including Rotterdam, Chicago, and Sao Paulo, to show …
Building the Urban Environment
Visions of the Organic City in the United States, Europe, and Latin America
Häftad, 2015
354 kr
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Building the Urban Environment is a comparative study of the contestation among planners, policymakers, and the grassroots over the production and meaning of urban space. Award-winning historian Harold Platt presents case studies of seven cities, including Rotterdam, Chicago, and Sao Paulo, to show …
Politics of Staying Put
Condo Conversion and Tenant Right-to-Buy in Washington, DC
Inbunden, 2016
987 kr
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When cities gentrify, it can be hard for working-class and low-income residents to stay put. Rising rents and property taxes make buildings unaffordable, or landlords may sell buildings to investors interested in redeveloping them into luxury condos. In her engaging study The Politics of Staying …
Politics of Staying Put
Condo Conversion and Tenant Right-to-Buy in Washington, DC
Häftad, 2016
506 kr
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When cities gentrify, it can be hard for working-class and low-income residents to stay put. Rising rents and property taxes make buildings unaffordable, or landlords may sell buildings to investors interested in redeveloping them into luxury condos. In her engaging study The Politics of Staying …
Nice Place to Visit
Tourism and Urban Revitalization in the Postwar Rustbelt
Av Aaron Cowan
Inbunden, 2016
1044 kr
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How did tourism gain a central role in the postwar American Rustbelt city? And how did tourism development reshape the meaning and function of these cities? These are the questions at the heart of Aaron Cowan’s groundbreaking book, A Nice Place to Visit. Cowan provides an insightful, comparative …
Nice Place to Visit
Tourism and Urban Revitalization in the Postwar Rustbelt
Av Aaron Cowan
Häftad, 2016
338 kr
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How did tourism gain a central role in the postwar American Rustbelt city? And how did tourism development reshape the meaning and function of these cities? These are the questions at the heart of Aaron Cowan’s groundbreaking book, A Nice Place to Visit. Cowan provides an insightful, comparative …
Believing in Cleveland
Managing Decline in "the Best Location in the Nation"
Inbunden, 2017
1073 kr
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Detractors have called it "The Mistake on the Lake." It was once America’s "Comeback City." According to author J. Mark Souther, Cleveland has long sought to defeat its perceived civic malaise. Believing in Cleveland chronicles how city leaders used imagery and rhetoric to combat and, at times, …
