Urban History – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 4

Lynn Ellsworth
Wonder City

"In her groundbreaking book Wonder City, Lynn Ellsworth delves deep into the heart of modern urban life, casting a critical eye on the transformative changes sweeping through cities like New York. Th…

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Jake P Smith
The Ruin Dwellers

Traces the shifting dynamics within leftist activism in 1970s and '80s Europe and its experiments in art, life, and politics.The Ruin Dwellers takes readers into the urban spaces of youth revolts during t…

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Reconstruction as Violence in Assad's Syria

A sustained critique of postwar reconstruction in Syria as a politically neutral processIn 2011, emboldened by the Arab Spring, the Syrians rose up against their government. The Syrian regime used violenc…

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Jay Cephas
Fordism and the City

In the early twentieth century, the Ford Motor Company built an industrial empire with massive factory complexes and associated infrastructures. Henry Ford's 1915 plan to decentralize industrial manufactu…

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Christian Frost
Architecture and Cultural Continuity

Architecture and Cultural Continuityexplores a dynamic way of viewing architecture - arguing that all architecture is best evaluated through active experiences in relation to cultural traditions of commun…

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Anand Giridharadas
Man in the Mirror

From acclaimed journalist Anand Giridharadas, a groundbreaking feat of reporting on a tragic encounter in a New York subway car that held up a mirror to a troubled and divided nationIn 2023, New York was …

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Simon Rattle - Musik im 20.Jahrhundert

Felicity Palmer, Anne Sofie von Otter, Amanda Roocroft, Peter Donohoe, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Wayne Marshall, Jeanne Loriod, Rex Lawson, Willard White, Lydia Ariken, Gidon Kremer, London Sinfonietta Voic…

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Edward M Epstein
Race, Real Estate and Education

Philadelphia's urban renewal efforts in the 1950s, which re-envisioned the city as a residential enclave, were an early example of gentrification. In West Philadelphia in the 1960s, a coalition of univers…

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Thom Mayne
Combinatory Urbanism 2

Cutting-edge urban proposals from Thom Mayne, one of architecture's most celebrated and controversial practitioners.For the past five decades Thom Mayne and his firm, Morphosis, have been engaged with pro…

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Katrin B Anacker
Housing in New York City

Exploring all five boroughs, this volume shows how New York has been a national pioneer in developing affordable, equitable, and comprehensive housing policyIn Housing in New York City, Katrin B. Anacker …

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Peter S Soppelsa
Paris After Haussmann

Modern Paris is often hailed as a capital of urban infrastructure. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's rebuilding of Paris in 1853-1870, branded "Haussmannization," helped define urban modernity fo…

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Lauren E M Everett
Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land

Rent control and other tenant protections have profound and positive impacts on individuals' and communities' lives. Lauren Everett's Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land shows how rent control impacts th…

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David Alff
The Northeast Corridor

All aboard for the first comprehensive history of the hard-working and wildly influential Northeast Corridor.Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be Americ…

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Lauren E M Everett
Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land

Rent control and other tenant protections have profound and positive impacts on individuals' and communities' lives. Lauren Everett's Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land shows how rent control impacts th…

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Dominic A Pacyga
Clout City

Unearths the religious and cultural roots of a powerful political machine that empowered some everyday Chicagoans but ruled all of the city for decades.In politics, clout is essential. Too often, it deter…

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Miriam Chaiken
Creative Ozone

A captivating portrait of Westbeth, the legendary artists' residence that shaped contemporary art, activism, and New York's cultural landscape for over fifty yearsIn 1970, the former Bell Telephone Labora…

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Shiben Banerji
Lineages of the Global City

The forgotten history of the occult foundations of the early twentieth-century global city.

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Junji Ito
Mimi's Tales of Terror

Von urbanen Legenden & persönlichen Albträumen - Unheimliches vom Kultautor Junji Ito"Mimis Tales of Terror" entführt in eine Welt, in der das Alltägliche plötzlich von unheimlichen Schatten…

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Anastasia Dukova
A History of Policing Cities

Elements in Global Urban History

Current policing practices directly continue from historical methods. City policing in the Global North emerged as a response to unrest and subsistence crises during the late stage of the Little Ice Age, …

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Suzanne Mettler, Trevor E Brown
Rural Versus Urban

How the urban-rural divide drives partisan polarizationWhy have Americans living in different places come to experience politics as a battle between "us" and "them"? In Rural Versus Ur…

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