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Abstract from the publisher : Women in the city in turn-of-the-century San Francisco In Women and the Everyday City, Jessica Ellen Sewell explores the lives of women in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. A period of transformation of both gender…

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Extract from the Introduction: This book examines the efforts of planners and their advocates to harmonize city building and environmental protection. Despite its geriatric image, St. Petersburg is a young city, the product of America's amazing…

Toby Lincoln discusses the themes of his forthcoming book, which focuses on urbanization in China, with an emphasis on the city of Wuxi in the first half of the twentieth century. Toby Lincoln is a Lecturer in Chinese Urban History in the School of…

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Abstract from the publisher : Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an…

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Abstract from the publisher : With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand…

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Abstract from the publisher: This volume traces the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the city of Pittsburgh during its urban renewal project, which began in 1977. Roy Lubove demonstrates how the city showed…

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Abstract from the publisher: First published in 1969, Roy Lubove's Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh is a pioneering analysis of elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal in a city once disdained as "hell with the lid off." The book…

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Abstract from the publisher : In the 1930s and 1940s, as the United States moved from a rural to an urban nation, the pull of the city was irrepressible. It was so strong that even a photographic mission designed to record the essence of rural…

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Contents: Mercedes Arroyo - Technical networks and urban territory: A survey of the literature in Spain Bengt Berglund - Urban history in Sweden: An overview Mikael Hård and Marcus Stippak - Discourses on the modern city and urban technology,…

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Abstract from the publisher : The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically changed by the political and physical realities of sprawl, urban decay,…

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Abstract from the publisher: Contents: 1. The origins of tenement reform, 1830-1865 2. The tenement comes of age, 1866-1890 3. Jacob A. Riis: Portrait of a reformer 4. The Tenement House Committee of 1894 5. Lawrence Veiller and the New York…

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Abstract from the publisher : This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and…

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Abstract from the publisher: The Mysteries of the Great City examines the physical, cultural, and political transformations of the American city between the Gilded Age and the New Deal. Focusing on New York, Chicago, and Cincinnati, John Fairfield…

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Abstract from the publisher : Mansel Blackford’s The Lost Dream explores the history of city planning in five Pacific Coast cities—Seattle, Portland, Oakland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles—during the Progressive Era. Although…

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Abstract from the publisher : The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the…

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Abstract from the publisher : By the end of the twentieth century, decaying inner cities in America continued to lose ground despite the best efforts of local and federal officials. By then the investment in urban revitalization begun during the…

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Abstract from the publisher: The Ever-Changing American City seeks to help readers understand the marked changes since 1945 in what constitutes a city in the United States and who lives and works in them. The story of the postwar American city is…

The proceedings of a 2002 conference held at the Centre of comparative European history, Berlin, on the topic 'The European metropolis 1920 - 2000'. Contents : Linking scales and urban network development - R. Wall and G.A. van der Knapp New Forms…

Abstract from the distributor : Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the artistic, cultural and innovative developments of the city in the 20th century and is joined by two practitioners of the geographer’s art; Professor Doreen Massey, who was…
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