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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…
The Atlanta paradox
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Despite the rapid creation of jobs in the greater Atlanta region, poverty in the city itself remains surprisingly high, and Atlanta's economic boom has yet to play a significant role in narrowing the gap between the…
The London journal (Vol. 34, No. 1)
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The scope of The London Journal is broad, embracing all aspects of metropolitan society past and present, including comparative studies. The Journal is multi-disciplinary and is intended to interest all concerned with…
Plague of strangers: Social groups and the origins of city services in Cincinnati
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Alan Marcus's Plague of Strangers examines the origins and development of municipal services in mid-nineteenth century cities from a political, social, and public health point of view. Using Cincinnati as an example of a…
Ethnic Amsterdam : Immigrants and urban change in the twentieth century
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Over the centuries, people from all parts of the world have been drawn to the city of Amsterdam. While immigrants adapted to local customs, opportunities and constraints, their practices and habits have left indelible…
What policies for globalising cities? Rethinking the urban policy agenda
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At a time of increasing globalisation processes, the search for competitiveness in urban regions has become a major political target for both local and central governments. The importance of the cities and their…
Urban history (Vol. 38, No. 1)
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Urban History occupies a central place in historical scholarship, with an outstanding record of interdisciplinary contributions, and a broad-based and distinguished panel of referees and international advisors. Each…
Muzhik and Muscovite : Urbanization in late imperial Russia
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Cincinnati : Queen City of the West, 1819 - 1838
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Daniel Aaron, one of today’s foremost scholars of American history and American studies, began his career in 1942 with this classic study of Cincinnati in frontier days. Aaron argues that the Queen City quickly…
Hanoverian London 1714 - 1808
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Hanoverian London, 1714 - 1808, the first of eight volumes to be published in The University of California Press History of London series, surveys the life of the town throughout the eighteenth century. Professor…
City at the point : Essays on the social history of Pittsburgh
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An overview of scholarly research, both published and previously unpublished, on the history of a city that has often served as a case study for measuring social change. It synthesizes the literature and assesses how…
"Dear, dirty Dublin" : A city in distress, 1899 - 1916
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Only a few cities evoke those clear images that feed the mind and imagination of successive generations or represent for posterity the spirit of an age : Johnson's London, Louis Napoleon's Paris, Brecht's Berlin. And so…
Leningrad : Shaping a Soviet city
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The Lane series of books — of which this Leningrad volume is the eighth and most recent — is sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies and the Institute of…
Imagining the city : Memories and cultures in Cape Town
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Cities are not only made of buildings and roads, they are also constructed through popular imagination and spaces of representation. Imagining the City: Memories and Cultures in Cape Town presents an array of oral and…
A shout in the street : An excursion into the modern city
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A remarkable meditation on the topography of the modern city, A Shout in the Street offers a close and sensitive examination of four urban landscapes -- London, Paris, Leningrad, and New York. Peter Jukes pursues the…
The rise of the Paris red belt
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From 1920 until the present, the working-class suburbs of Paris, known as the Red Belt, have constituted the heart of French Communism, providing the Party not only with its most solid electoral base but with much of…
London 800 - 1216 : The shaping of a city
Abstract from the publisher : London 800-1216 : The shaping of a city takes its place in the eight-volume History of London series, but is designed also to be a self-contained enquiry into the place of ninth- to twelfth-century London in the…
The revitalization of urban space
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Smagacz uses a comparative approach to look at two very different but related processes: what she calls the “revitalization” of two formerly peripheral and now prosper-
ous, innovative and trendy urban…
Paris as revolution: writing the nineteenth-century city
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In nineteenth-century Paris, passionate involvement with revolution turned the city into an engrossing object of cultural speculation. For writers caught between an explosive past and a bewildering future, revolution…
La transition urbaine en Afrique subsaharienne
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L’Afrique s’urbanise vite. Dans cet essai synthétique, Christine Kessides analyse les principaux aspects des défis particuliers que doit affronter l’Afrique subsaharienne face à sa…