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The Boston renaissance: Race, space, and economic change in an American metropolis
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This volume documents metropolitan Boston's metamorphosis from a casualty of manufacturing decline in the 1970s to a paragon of the high-tech and service industries in the 1990s. The city's rebound has been part of a…
Detroit divided
Abstract from the publisher: Unskilled workers once flocked to Detroit, attracted by manufacturing jobs paying union wages, but the passing of Detroit's manufacturing heyday has left many of those workers stranded. Manufacturing continues to employ…
The progressives and the slums: Tenement house reform in New York City, 1890-1917
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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…
Twentieth-century Pittsburgh, Volume One: Government, business, and environmental change
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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…
Twentieth-century Pittsburgh, Volume Two. The post-steel era
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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…
Garbage in the cities: Refuse, reform, and the environment
Abstract from the publisher: As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a thousand tons a day in New York City alone-that clogged streets and…
Beyrouth, une ville d’Orient marquée par l’Occident
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L’ouvrage Beyrouth, une ville d’Orient marquée par l’Occident, de Helmut Ruppert, est singulier à plus d’un titre. Il s’agit de la thèse de doctorat de l’auteur, soutenue…