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Urban revolt: Ethnic politics in the nineteenth-century Chicago labor movement
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I became interested in nineteenth-century Chicago labor history in an indirect way. I had begun a study of political mobilization in Chicago community organizing and felt that I could not understand the political process…
The promise of the city : Space, identity and politics in contemporary social thought
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The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh…
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…
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…
City in sight : Dutch dealings with urban change
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Huge social transformations and turbulent political events - 9/11 and the political murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh - have put urban issues high on the political agenda of the Netherlands. Against this…
Urban politics
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City politics is an ancient, enduring and vibrant enterprise that can be traced back over two millennia. Its key concerns include the nature of power, institutions, governance, community, scale and economic processes,…