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Fragments of cities: The new American downtowns and neighborhoods
Abstract from the publisher: Larry Bennett's Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods examines the social consequences of both the new approaches to downtown design and the physical upgrading of residential neighborhoods. …
Downtown : Its rise and fall, 1880-1950
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"Downtown" is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. It tells the fascinating story of how downtown--and the way Americans thought about downtown--changed over time. By showing…
"Downtown" is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. It tells the fascinating story of how downtown--and the way Americans thought about downtown--changed over time. By showing…
Colin Gordon, "Mapping decline : St. Louis and the fate of the American city" : New books in history
City : Rediscovering the center
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For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior,…
Changing plans for America's inner cities
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Cincinnati’s historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood began in the nineteenth century as a nonelite suburb and became in the twentieth century an inner-city slum, burdened with a broad range of problems characteristic…
Centres de villes durables en Amérique latine - Exorciser les précarités ?
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Si l’histoire du développement en Amérique latine – dont la rapide croissance urbaine constitua l’un des aspects – n’est pas au cœur de cet ouvrage, les…
Afrique du Sud : partage du logement et droit de cité. Migrants, réfugiés, indigents à Durban
Afrique du Sud : partage du logement et droit de cité. Migrants, réfugiés, indigents à Durban (1999-2001).
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Migrants et réfugiés étrangers, affluant par milliers dans la…
'Race', culture and the right to the city: Centres, peripheries, margins
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Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the periphery and considers the role that 'race' continues to play in structuring the metropolis,…