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Abstract from the publisher : Paul Stronski tells the fascinating story of Tashkent, an ethnically diverse, primarily Muslim city that became the prototype for the Soviet-era reimagining of urban centers in Central Asia. Based on extensive research…

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Abstract from the publisher : The rapid growth of suburban communities has been a prominent feature of social change in Japan since the 1920s. In western Tokyo alone the suburban population, which at that time numbered fewer than three hundred…

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Abstract from the publisher : The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in factories, homes, nightclubs, and…

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Abstract from the publisher: This book explores the politics of place marketing and the process of ‘urban reinvention’ in Berlin between 1989 and 2011. In the context of the dramatic socio-economic restructuring processes, changes in…

Abstract from the distributor: This paper considers the work of one of Indonesia’s most prominent contemporary writers, Seno Gumira Ajidarma. In this paper, I look at how Seno’s writing over the last 30 years traces and documents changes…

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Abstract from the publisher : David Foster brings an intense curiosity and lifelong familiarity to this unique examination of the cultural tapestry of São Paulo, the largest city in South America and the second largest in Latin America. …

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Abstract from the publisher : In this small, but sharply-pointed book, renowned theorist Sanford Kwinter addresses the sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal transformations that characterized the modernization processes set into motion at the turn of…

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Abstract from the publisher : Remaking Madrid is the first full-length study of Madrid’s transformation from the dreary home of the Franco dictatorship into a modern and vibrant city. It argues that this remarkable transformation in the…

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Abstract from the publisher : In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment. Drawing on archival…

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Extract from Part I - Introductory: The modern city: The most striking characteristics of present-day civilization are industrialization and urbanization. They present the environment, both natural and human, to which an increasing majority of people…

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Extract from the preface : In broad terms, the thesis of this book is that a socialist city did indeed develop, but that its characteristics and thus its distinctiveness are an amalgam, on the one hand of socialist features deriving from Marxist…

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Abstract from the publisher: The final decade of the old order in imperial Russia was a time of both crisis and possibility, an uncertain time that inspired an often desperate search for meaning. This book explores how journalists and other writers…

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Abstract from the publisher : Since its founding three hundred years ago, the city of Saint Petersburg has captured the imaginations of the most celebrated Russian writers, whose characters map the city by navigating its streets from the…

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Abstract from the publisher : Between the Victory parade along the Champs-Elysées in 1919 and the Germans' march through the Arc de Triomphe in 1940, Paris enjoyed a twenty-year period of cultural and intellectual expansion, receptive to the…

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Extract from a review of 'New ideals in the planning of cities, towns and villages' from the Discovering Urbanism blog : "Probably more than anyone else, John Nolen was the voice of the early American city planning establishment... New ideals…

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Extract from the introduction by Cristiana Facchini : First of all, our journey is meant to be a snapshot of Jewish culture through cities, but it also aims to depict a much more complicated picture of the interplay between modernity and Jewish…

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Abstract from the publisher : The contributors to this book have explored various aspects of urban imagination, so intimately related to a peculiar social environment. They are historians and geographers, linguists and cultural students. Their…

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Abstract from the publisher: Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth century, new technologies began to…

Abstract from the distributor : We are in the middle of one of Gotham's greatest immigration waves, triggered by the 1965 immigration law. Our distinguished panelists will analyze how the newcomers have experienced, and transformed, the…
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