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The mysteries of the great city: The politics of urban design, 1877-1937
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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…
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…
Muzhik and Muscovite : Urbanization in late imperial Russia
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Suburban Tokyo : A comparative study in politics and social change
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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…
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…
The lost dream : Businessmen and city planning on the Pacific coast, 1890 - 1920
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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…
Plans, pragmatism and people : The legacy of Soviet planning for today's cities
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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…
"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…
Grands ensembles, intentions et pratiques (1850-1970)
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Grands ensembles urbains tenu, les 16-17 novembre 2010, au pôle universitaire Mazier de Saint-Brieuc. Ce cycle de Rencontres est organisé conjointement par l'Université Rennes 2 et la…
Les enseignes lumineuses - Des écritures urbaines au XXe siècle
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Ce petit essai sur l'enseigne lumineuse au XXe siècle s'inscrit dans un vaste programme d'études cherchant à mettre en lumière une anthropologie de l'écriture du monde…