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Africa's Urban Pastby Richard Rathbone, David AndersonISBN 0325002207 (0-325-00220-7)
Softcover, Heinemann
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America Becomes Urban: The Development of U.S. Cities and Towns, 1780-1980by Eric H. MonkkonenISBN 0520069722 (0-520-06972-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Ancient Roman Cityby John E. StambaughISBN 0801836921 (0-8018-3692-1)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ancient Roman City'Book summary:To walk through Rome today is to find the past made present at nearly every corner. For John Stambaugh, this continuity of fabric, form, and function affords an extraordinary view of the ancient city, the experience of its inhabitants, and the Roman way of life. Exploring ancient Rome as both a physical and social environment, he has written the first extended survey of its development in English - and a vivid "guidebook into the living past of one of the most emphatically urban cities the world has ever known." [via]
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Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000by Dolores HaydenISBN 0375727213 (0-375-72721-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000'Book summary:For almost two centuries Americans have been moving to the suburbs in search of affordable
family housing, unspoiled nature, and small-town sociabilityonly to find that their leafy
new neighborhoods are part of the growing metropolitan sprawl. It is to this contested cultural landscape, where most Americans now live, that Dolores Hayden draws our attention.
From nineteenth-century utopian communities and elite picturesque enclaves to early twentieth-century streetcar subdivisions and owner-built tracts to the vast postwar sitcom suburbs and the subsidized malls and office parks that followed (on a scale that earlier builders could never have imagined), Hayden reveals the cultural and economic patterns that have brought us to the present. She explores the interplay of natural and built environments, the complex antagonisms between real-estate developers and suburban residents, the hidden role of federal government, and the religious and ideological overtones of the American dream embedded in the suburbs. Hayden asks hard questions about who has benefited from the suburban building process and about smart growth and green building. And she makes a strong case for the revitalization of existing neighborhoods in place of unchecked new growth on rural fringes.
Few readers will see our ubiquitous suburbs in the same way again. [via]More editions of Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000:
Challenging Chicago: Coping With Everyday Life, 1837-1920by Perry DuisISBN 0252074157 (0-252-07415-7)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Cities in Civilizationby Peter HallISBN 0753808153 (0-7538-0815-3)
Softcover, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities in Civilization'Book summary:Ranging over 2,500 years, Cities in Civilization is a tribute to the city as the birthplace of Western civilization. Drawing on the contributions of economists and geographers, of cultural, technological, and social historians, Sir Peter Hall examines twenty-one cities at their greatest moments. Hall describes the achievements of these golden ages and outlines the precise combinations of forces -- both universal and local -- that led to each city's belle epoque.
Hall identifies four distinct expressions of civic innovation: artistic growth, technological progress, the marriage of culture and technology, and solutions to evolving problems. Descriptions of Periclean Athens, Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan London, and nineteenth-century Vienna bring to life those seedbeds of artistic and intellectual creativity. Explorations of Manchester during the Industrial Revolution, of Henry Ford's Detroit, and of Palo Alto at the dawn of the computer age highlight centers of technological advances. Tales of the creation of Los Angeles' movie industry and the birth of the blues and rock 'n' roll in Memphis depict the marriage of culture and technology.
Finally, Hall celebrates cities that have been forced to solve problems created by their very size. With Imperial Rome came the apartment block and aqueduct; nineteenth-century London introduced policing, prisons, and sewers; twentieth-century New York developed the skyscraper; and Los Angeles became the first city without a center, a city ruled instead by the car. And in a fascinating conclusion, Hall speculates on urban creativity in the twenty-first century.
This penetrating study reveals not only the lives of cities but also the lives of the people who built them and created the civilizations within them. A decade in the making, Cities in Civilization is the definitive account of the culture of cities. [via] 
Cities in Civilizationby Peter Geoffrey HallISBN 0880642505 (0-88064-250-5)
Softcover, Fromm Intl
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Cities in Civilization: Culture, Innovation, and Urban Orderby Peter HallISBN 0297842196 (0-297-84219-6)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cities in Civilization: Culture, Innovation, and Urban Order'Book summary:Every golden age has been an urban age; throughout history, cities have provided a crucible for creativity. How do such belles époquescome about? Why should the creative flame burn so uniquely in cities and not in the countryside, and why does the creative and innovative spirit of one city inevitably yield to another? Cities in Civilization explores these issues and others related to the central role of cities, past and present, in the fostering of artistic, philosophical, scientific, and technological genius.
Peter Hall devoted 15 years of his life conceptualizing, researching, and writing Cities in Civilization. His extraordinary efforts are apparent in the analytical scope, historical depth, and sheer length of the book, which, including photographs and a bibliography, is well over 1,000 pages. Supporting his argument with ample reference to dates, historical figures, and citations of leading urban scholars, the book does not lend itself to casual, cover-to-cover reading. Despite the book's length, though, it remains easy to navigate through the case studies of individual cities. Hall systematically divides the text into five thematic chapters, further subdividing each chapter chronologically by city. The chapters explore themes of cultural creativity, technological and economic innovation, the urban fusion of art and technology, urban innovation, and the partnership of the private and public sector to promote urban development and regeneration.
Breaking from other leading scholars in the field, Hall does not consider the great city doomed. Instead, Cities in Civilization testifies to his confidence that cities of the 21st century, like the great cities of the past, will successfully work to solve their own problems and ameliorate their own ills. --Bertina Loeffler [via]
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The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospectsby Lewis MumfordISBN 156731211X (1-56731-211-X)
Hardcover, Fine Communications
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects'Book summary:Lewis Mumford's massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence--from the earliest group habitats to medieval towns to the modern centers of commerce (as well as dozens of black-and-white illustrations)--to show how the urban form has changed throughout human civilization. His tone is ultimately somewhat pessimistic: Mumford was deeply concerned with what he viewed as the dehumanizing aspects of the metropolitan trend, which he deemed "a world of professional illusionists and their credulous victims." (In another typically unrestrained criticism, he dubbed the Pentagon a Bronze Age monument to humanity's basest impulses, as well as an "effete and worthless baroque conceit.") Mumford hoped for a rediscovery of urban principles that emphasized humanity's organic relationship to its environment. The City in History remains a powerfully influential work, one that has shaped the agendas of urban planners, sociologists, and social critics since its publication in the 1960s. [via]
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City Lifeby Witold RybczynskiISBN 0684825295 (0-684-82529-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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City Life: Urban Expectations in a New Worldby Witold RybczynskiISBN 0684813025 (0-684-81302-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City Life : Urban Expectations in a New World'Book summary:In City Life, Witold Rybczynski looks at what we want from cities, how they have evolved, and what accounts for their unique identities. In this vivid description of everything from the early colonial settlements to the advent of the skyscraper to the changes wrought by the automobile, the telephone, the airplane, and telecommuting, Rybczynski reveals how our urban spaces have been shaped by the landscapes and lifestyles of the New World. [via]
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City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian Londonby Judith R. Walkowitz, Catherine R. StimpsonISBN 0226871460 (0-226-87146-0)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of Dreadful Delight : Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London'Book summary:From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuality that were being played out in late nineteenth-century Britain, and how they influenced the language of politics, journalism, and fiction.[via]
Victorian London was a world where long-standing traditions of class and gender were challenged by a range of public spectacles, mass media scandals, new commercial spaces, and a proliferation of new sexual categories and identities. In the midst of this changing culture, women of many classes challenged the traditional privileges of elite males and
asserted their presence in the public domain.
An important catalyst in this conflict, argues Walkowitz, was W. T. Stead's widely read 1885 article about child prostitution. Capitalizing on the uproar caused by the piece and the volatile political climate of the time, women spoke of sexual danger, articulating their own grievances against men, inserting themselves into the public discussion of sex to an unprecedented extent, and gaining new entree to public spaces and journalistic practices. The ultimate manifestation of class anxiety and gender antagonism came in 1888 with the tabloid tales of Jack the Ripper. In between, there were quotidien stories of sexual possibility and urban adventure, and Walkowitz examines them all, showing how women were not simply figures in the imaginary landscape of male spectators, but also central actors in the stories of metropolotin life that reverberated in courtrooms, learned journals, drawing rooms, street corners, and in the letters columns of the daily press.
A model of cultural history, this ambitious book will stimulate and enlighten readers across a broad range of interests.More editions of City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London:
City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920by Timothy J. GilfoyleISBN 0393311082 (0-393-31108-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angelesby Mike Davis, Robert MorrowISBN 1844675688 (1-84467-568-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles'Book summary:Mike Davis peers into a looking glass to divine the future of Los Angeles, and what he sees is not encouraging: a city--or better, a concatenation of competing city states--torn by racial enmity, economic disparity, and social anomie. Looking backward, Davis suggests that Los Angeles has always been contested ground. In the 1840s, he writes, a combination of drought and industrial stock raising led to the destruction of small-scale Spanish farming in the region. In the 1910s, Los Angeles was the scene of a bitter conflict between management and industrial workers, so bitter that the publisher of the Los Angeles Times retreated to a heavily fortified home he called "The Bivouac." And in 1992, much of the city fell before flames and riot in a scenario Davis describes as thus: "Gangs are multiplying at a terrifying rate, cops are becoming more arrogant and trigger-happy, and a whole generation is being shunted toward some impossible Armageddon." Davis's voice-in-a-whirlwind approach to the past, present, and future of Los Angeles is alarming and arresting, and his book is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary affairs. --Gregory MacNamee [via]
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City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of Americaby Donald L. MillerISBN 0684831384 (0-684-83138-4)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America'Book summary:It's hard to believe that as late as 1830, Chicago was a desolate fur-trading outpost. Within half a century, it become a manufacturing, agriculture and industrial center and the railroad capital of the country. Donald L. Miller, a history professor at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, chronicles the evolution of the "Windy City" and the people who made their mark in it. From railroad entrepreneur George Pullman, to retailers Richard Sears and Alvah Roebuck, to reaper inventor Cyrus McCormick and architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago was built by innovators. With its system of mass transit, regimented work force, diverse immigrant groups and historic battles between private and public good, Chicago symbolizes the emergence of modern American life. [via]
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City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860by Christine StansellISBN 0252014812 (0-252-01481-2)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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City People: The Rise of Modern City Culture in Nineteenth Century Americaby Gunther BarthISBN 0195031946 (0-19-503194-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New Yorkby David M. HenkinISBN 0231107455 (0-231-10745-5)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York'Book summary:Cultural historian David Henkin explores the influential but little-noticed role played by reading in New York City's public life between 1825 and 1865. From the opening of the Erie Canal to the end of the Civil War, New York became a metropolis, and demographic, economic, and physical changes erased the old markers of continuity and order. As New York became a crowded city of strangers, everyday encounters with impersonal signs, papers, and bank notes altered people's perceptions of connectedness to the new world they lived in. The 'ubiquitous urban texts'--from newspapers to paper money, from street signs to handbills--became both indispensable urban guides and apt symbols for a new kind of public life that emerged first in New York. City Reading focuses on four principal categories of public reading: street signs and store signs; handbills and trade cards; newspapers; and paper money. Drawing on a wealth of visual sources and written texts that document the changing cityscape--including novels, diaries, newspapers, municipal guides, and government records--Henkin shows that public acts of reading (to a much greater extent than private, solitary reading) determined how New Yorkers of all backgrounds came to define themselves and their urban community.
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The City Shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through Historyby Spiro KostofISBN 0821220160 (0-8212-2016-0)
Softcover, Bulfinch Pr
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Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City During the Nineteenth Centuryby Mary P. RyanISBN 0520216601 (0-520-21660-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United Statesby Kenneth T. JacksonISBN 0195132874 (0-19-513287-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Death and Life of Great American Citiesby Jane JacobsISBN 067974195X (0-679-74195-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death and Life of Great American Cities'Book summary:Jane Jacobs sets out to produce an attack on current city-planning and rebuilding in America and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on the urban environment. Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusier's Radiant City, they have dreamt up ambitious projects based on self-contained neighbourhoods, super-blocks, rigid "scientific" plans and endless acres of grass. Yet they seldom stop to look at what actually works on the ground. The real vitality of cities, argues Jacobs, lies in their diversity, architectural variety, teeming street life and human scale. It is only when we appreciate such fundamental realities that we can hope to create cities that are safe, interesting and economically viable, as well as places that people want to live in. [via]
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Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950by Robert M. FogelsonISBN 0300098278 (0-300-09827-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950'Book summary:Written by one of this country's foremost urban historians, Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. It tells the fascinating story of how downtown, and the way Americans thought about it, changed over time. By showing how businessmen and property owners worked to promote the well-being of downtown, even at the expense of other parts of the city, it also gives a riveting account of spatial politics in urban America. Drawing on a wide array of contemporary sources, Robert M. Fogelson brings downtown to life, first as the business district, then as the central business district, and finally as just another business district. His book vividly recreates the long-forgotten battles over subways and skyscrapers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. And it provides a fresh, often startling perspective on elevated highways, parking bans, urban redevelopment, and other controversial issues. This groundbreaking book will be a revelation to scholars, city planners, policymakers, and general readers interested in American cities and American history. [via]
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Ecology of Fearby Mike DavisISBN 0375706070 (0-375-70607-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Ecology of Fear : Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disasterby Mike DavisISBN 0805051066 (0-8050-5106-6)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ecology of Fear : Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster'Book summary:The 1990s have not been kind to Los Angeles. As Mike Davis writes, "The destructive February 1992, January 1993, and January 1995 floods ($500 million in damage) were mere brackets around the April 1992 insurrection ($1 billion), the October-November 1993 firestorms ($1 billion) and the January 1994 earthquake ($42 billion)." But, he argues, the increasing fear about nature's reign of terror in Southern California reflected in Hollywood's preoccupation with apocalypse--L.A. has been destroyed on screen by everything from lava (Volcano) to nukes (Miracle Mile) to alien death rays (Independence Day)--is in reality a strong case of denial. Again, Davis himself says it best: "For generations, market-driven urbanization has transgressed environmental common sense. Historic wildfire corridors have been turned into view-lot suburbs, wetland liquefaction zones into marinas, and floodplains into industrial districts and housing tracts. Monolithic public works have been substituted for regional planning and a responsible land ethic. As a result, Southern California has reaped flood, fire, and earthquake tragedies that were as avoidable, as unnatural, as the beating of Rodney King and the ensuing explosion in the streets."
As in City of Quartz, his earlier book about Los Angeles, Davis reveals the deeper ideological narratives behind historical events. Whether he's explaining the motivations behind the persistent refusal of civic leaders to admit that a tornado alley runs down the middle of the region, from Long Beach to Pasadena, or discussing, as one chapter refers to it, "the case for letting Malibu burn," he outlines his arguments with a fascinating amount of detail and a subtle sense of irony. There are wonderful chapters here, such as "Maneaters of the Sierra Madre," a zoology of the wild beasts Angelenos fear, including mountain lions that descend from the hills to eat joggers and small children, swarms of Africanized killer bees making their way across the deserts, and El Chupacabra, the "goat-sucking vampire" that joined L.A.'s roster of faddish icons in 1996.
Although this book is specifically about Los Angeles, its lessons about the relationship between urban developments and natural ecosystems and about the dangerous influence of class politics on environmental safety policy are applicable to any city. Anyone with a serious interest in natural history or urban policy should make a point of reading this book. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Foley's Luck: Storiesby Tom ChiarellaISBN 0679409653 (0-679-40965-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940by George ChaunceyISBN 0465026214 (0-465-02621-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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A History of Londonby Roy Porter, Stephen InwoodISBN 0786706139 (0-7867-0613-9)
Hardcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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A History of Londonby Stephen Inwood, Roy PorterISBN 0786707631 (0-7867-0763-1)
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The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memoryby Klein, Norman, M.ISBN 1859848206 (1-85984-820-6)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the Us Cityby Mike DavisISBN 185984328X (1-85984-328-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the Us City'Book summary:Hispanics are quickly transforming the United States both through sheer numbers and their culture, according to Mike Davis. "Salsa is becoming the predominant ethnic flavor--and rhythm--in major metropolitan areas," he writes, and Spanish surnames are growing at five times the rate of the general population (José is now the most popular name for baby boys in California and Texas). Davis, the author of City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear, says the United States is undergoing what he calls "Latin Americanization." In Magical Urbanism, which is short by comparison, he doesn't traffic in tired rhetoric about the magic of multiculturalism or the wonders of ethnic diversity--but he does come down hard against those who resist Latin Americanization. He writes of "an INS police state with sweeping powers away from the border," blasts the opponents of bilingual education, and hopes that Latino immigrants will rejuvenate the American labor movement. The book lacks a strong central thesis; it's more a collection of 15 essays, rich with anecdotes, on topics such as U.S. demographic trends, transnational neighborhoods, and "the Dickensian underworld of day labor." Old fans of Davis will definitely want to check out this latest offering, as will readers interested in a quick look at the face of America's future. --John J. Miller [via]
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Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939by Lizabeth CohenISBN 0521428386 (0-521-42838-6)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making a New Deal : Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939'Book summary:This book examines how it was possible and what it meant for ordinary factory workers to become effective unionists and national political participants by the mid-1930s. We follow Chicago workers as they make choices about whether to attend ethnic benefit society meetings or to go to the movies, whether to shop in local neighborhood stores or patronize the new A & P. Although workers may not have been political in traditional terms during the '20s, as they made daily decisions like these, they declared their loyalty in ways that would ultimately have political significance. As the depression worsened in the 1930s, not only did workers find their pay and working hours cut or eliminated, but the survival strategies they had developed during the 1920s were undermined. Looking elsewhere for help, workers adopted new ideological perspectives and overcame longstanding divisions among themselves to mount new kinds of collective action. Chicago workers' experiences as citizens, ethnics and blacks, wage earners and consumers all converged to make them into New Deal Democrats and CIO unionists. [via]
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Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850by Elizabeth BlackmarISBN 0801499739 (0-8014-9973-9)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850'Book summary:In this interesting and wide-ranging book, Elizabeth Blackmar investigates the development of New York City's housing market from colonial times to 1850. She discusses public officials, landowners, builders, renters and tenants, and the interplay among and between these groups as the value of land in the city skyrocketed in the early nineteenth century and made renting the only possibility for most New Yorkers.-American Studies International [via]
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Manila, My Manilaby Nick JoaquinISBN 971569313X (971-569-313-X)
Hardcover, Bookmark
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Metropolis: Ten Cities and Ten Centuriesby Albert Lorenz, Joy SchlehISBN 0810942844 (0-8109-4284-4)
Hardcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great Westby William CrononISBN 0393308731 (0-393-30873-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West'Book summary:Cronon's history of 19th-century Chicago is in fact the history of the widespread effects of a single city on millions of square miles of ecological, cultural, and economic frontier. Cronon combines archival accuracy, ecological evaluation, and a sweeping understanding of the impact of railroads, stockyards, catalog companies, and patterns of property on the design of development of the entire inland United States to this date. Although focused on Chicago and the U.S., the general lessons it teaches are of global significance, and a rich source of metaphors for the ways in which colonization of physical space operates differently from, and similarly to, colonization of cyberspace. This is a compelling, wise, thorough--and thoroughly accessible--masterpiece of history writ large. Very Highest Recommendation. [via]
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New York, New York: How the Apartment House Transformed the Life of the Cityby Elizabeth HawesISBN 0805032584 (0-8050-3258-4)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroitby Thomas J. SugrueISBN 0691121869 (0-691-12186-9)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Paris: Biography of a Cityby Colin JonesISBN 0143036718 (0-14-303671-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Paris: The Biography of a City'Book summary:Paris has been the center of French culture and politics, the great stage of kings, poets, and revolutionaries, the inspiration of artists, and the prize of armies since the Middle Ages. More distinguished than London, more central to world events than Rome, Paris has long been the worlds capital of art, beauty, and ideas. British historian Colin Jones unfolds the entire history of Paris in a single splendid volume that is simultaneously exuberant and erudite.
Fluent in cultural as well as political history and keenly attuned to the ongoing drama of the citys evolution, Jones brings to life the people, ideas, social movements, and architectural upheavals that have made and remade Paris. Beginning with the late-Stone Age settlement on the banks of a muddy river, Joness brisk, authoritative narrative moves through every epochfrom the Roman town loved by the Emperor Julian to the early Christian capital of Clovis and Clotilda, from the plague-infested alleys of the Middle Ages to the brilliant salons of the Enlightenment, and from the bloody epicenter of the revolution to the brilliant backdrop of Impressionism.
Caesar and Colette, Saint Louis and Gertrude Stein, Napoleon and Jacques Chirac take their places, along with hundreds of others, in this dazzling history of the worlds most glorious city. [via]
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Pasig: River of Lifeby Alfred A. Yuson, Reynaldo G. AlejandroISBN 9719227206 (971-92272-0-6)
Hardcover, Unilever Philippines
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Pig and the Skyscraper : Chicago a History of Our Futureby Marco D'EramoISBN 1859844987 (1-85984-498-7)
Softcover, Verso Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pig and the Skyscraper : Chicago a History of Our Future'Book summary:D'Eramo presents an invigorating history that transforms the way we think about the city and the development of American capitalism.
Like a cross between Philip Marlowe and Walter Benjamin, Marco dEramo stalks the streets of Chicago, leaving no myth unturned. Maintaining a Europeans detached gaze, he slowly comes to recognize the familiar stink of modernity that blows across the Windy City, the origins of whose greatness (the slaughterhouses, the railroads, the lumber and cereal-crop trades) are by now ancient history, and where what rears its head today is already scheduled for tomorrows chopping block.
Chicago has been the stage for some of modernitys key episodes: the birth of the skyscraper, the rise of urban sociology, the worlds first atomic reactor, the hard-nosed monetarism of the Chicago School. Here in this postmodern Babel, where the contradictions of American society are writ large, dEramo bears witness to the revolutionary, subversive power of capitalism at its purest.
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New Yorkby Robert A. CaroISBN 0394720245 (0-394-72024-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York'Book summary:For the sheer magnitude, depth and authority of its revelations, The Power Broker stands alone---a huge and galvanizing biography revealing not only the virtually unknown saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power, but the hidden story of the shaping (and mis-shaping) of New York through the past half-century.
Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders have known: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of our time in the City and in the State of New York. And in telling the Moses story, Caro both opens up to an unprecedented degree the way in which politics really happens--the way things really get done in America's City Halls and Statehouses--and brings to light a bonanza of vital new information about such national figures as Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt (and the genesis of their blood feud), about Fiorello La Guardia, John V. Lindsay and Nelson Rockefeller.
But The Power Broker is first and foremost a brilliant multidimensional portrait of a man--an extraordinary man who, denied power within the normal framework of the democratic process, stepped outside that framework to grasp power sufficient to shape a great city and to hold sway over the very texture of millions of lives. We see how Moses began: the handsome, intellectual young heir to the world of Our Crowd, an idealist. How, rebuffed by the entrenched political establishment, he fought for the power to accomplish his ideals. How he first created a miraculous flowering of parks and parkways, playlands and beaches--and then ultimately brought down on the city the smog-choked aridity of our urban landscape, the endless miles of (never sufficient) highway, the hopeless sprawl of Long Island, the massive failures of public housing, and countless other barriers to humane living. How, inevitably, the accumulation of power became an end in itself.
Moses built an empire and lived like an emperor. He was held in fear--his dossiers could disgorge the dark secret of anyone who opposed him. He was, he claimed, above politics, above deals; and through decade after decade, the newspapers and the public believed. Meanwhile, he was developing his public authorities into a fourth branch of government known as "Triborough"--a government whose records were closed to the public, whose policies and plans were decided not by voters or elected officials but solely by Moses--an immense economic force directing pressure on labor unions, on banks, on all the city's political and economic institutions, and on the press, and on the Church. He doled out millions of dollars' worth of legal fees, insurance commissions, lucrative contracts on the basis of who could best pay him back in the only coin he coveted: power. He dominated the politics and politicians of his time--without ever having been elected to any office. He was, in essence, above our democratic system.
Robert Moses held power in the state for 44 years, through the governorships of Smith, Roosevelt, Lehman, Dewey, Harriman and Rockefeller, and in the city for 34 years, through the mayoralties of La Guardia, O'Dwyer, Impellitteri, Wagner and Lindsay, He personally conceived and carried through public works costing 27 billion dollars--he was undoubtedly America's greatest builder.
This is how he built and dominated New York--before, finally, he was stripped of his reputation (by the press) and his power (by Nelson Rockefeller). But his work, and his will, had been done. [via]More editions of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York:
Salonica, City Of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims And Jews, 1430-1950by Mark MazowerISBN 0375727388 (0-375-72738-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Shame of the Citiesby Lincoln Steffens, Thomas BenderISBN 0374523738 (0-374-52373-8)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Shame of the Cities'Book summary:This muckraking classic attacked corrupt election practices and shady dealings in businesses and city governments across the nation. Taking a hard look at the unprincipled lives of political bosses, police corruption, graft payments, and other notorious political abuses of the time, the book set the style for future investigative reporting.[via]More editions of The Shame of the Cities:
Sunset Boulevard: Cruising the Heart of Los Angelesby Amy DawesISBN 1883792622 (1-883792-62-2)
Softcover, Los Angeles Times
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Toward an Urban Vision: Ideas and Institutions in Nineteenth Century Americaby Thomas BenderISBN 0801829259 (0-8018-2925-9)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Transforming Parisby David P. JordanISBN 0029165318 (0-02-916531-8)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Transforming Paris'Book summary:The Paris we know today, with its grand boulevards, its bridges and parks, its monumental beauty, was essentially built in only seventeen years, in the middle of the nineteenth century. In this brief period, whole neighborhoods of medieval and revolutionary Paris -- over-crowded, dangerous, and filthy -- were razed, and from the rubble a modern city of light and air emerged. This triumphant rebuilding was chiefly the work of one man, Baron Georges Haussmann, Napoleon III's Prefect of the Seine.
It was Haussmann's task to assert, in stone, the power and permanence of Paris, to show the world that it was the seat of an empire of mythic proportions. To this end, he imposed grand visual perspectives, as when he transformed Napoleon I's Arc de Triomphe into a magnificent twelve-armed star from which radiated the broadest boulevards of Europe. Below ground, his modern sewer system became one of the wonders of the civilized world, eagerly toured by royalty and commoners alike.
Haussmann's mandate was not only to create an impression of grandeur but to secure the city for better control by government. By creating formal spaces where there had previously been a maze of chaotic streets, Haussmann opened Paris to effective police control and thwarted the recurrent demonstration of its well-known revolutionary fervor. The determined and autocratic Haussmann imprinted rational order and bourgeois civility on the unruly city which had for so long simmered with riot and insurrection.
Though he planted chestnut trees, installed gas lights, rebuilt the water supply, and improved transportation and housing, Haussmann's labors were (and remain) controversial. He forced tens of thousands ofthe poor from the center of the city, and destroyed significant parts of old Paris. But in this important new biography David Jordan reminds us that Haussmann was not immune to the charms of the old city. By leaving some areas intact, the Baron achieved the grand effect of implanting a modern city boldly within an ancient one. Here, at last, Haussmann's labors are given the aesthetic as well as the historical appreciation they deserve. [via]More editions of Transforming Paris:
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Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmannby David P. JordanISBN 0226410382 (0-226-41038-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann'Book summary:Today's Paris is largely the legacy of Baron Haussmann, who created the 'City of Lights' during the last half of the nineteenth century. Although neither architect nor engineer, Haussmann reshaped France's capital during his seventeen years as Prefect of the Seine under Napoleon III. Haussmann demolished much of the crowded medieval Paris and replaced it with grand boulevards, majestic spaces, and triumphant monuments. Set against the political intrigue and social upheavals of the era of the Commune and the revolutions of 1848, Transforming Paris reveals how Haussmann came to have the power to remake the city.[via]
At once an elegantly written biography of Haussmann and an accessible history of Paris's transition into a modern city, this book will appeal to historians and delight anyone intrigued by Paris.More editions of Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann:
The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban Americaby John BodnarISBN 025320416X (0-253-20416-X)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolutionby Gary B. NashISBN 0674930568 (0-674-93056-8)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolutionby Gary B. NashISBN 0674930592 (0-674-93059-2)
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Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, the Haymarket Bomb, and the Model Town of Pullmanby Carl S. SmithISBN 0226764176 (0-226-76417-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Victorian Citiesby Asa BriggsISBN 0520079221 (0-520-07922-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr on Demand
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De Jericho a Mexico: Villes Et economie Dans L'histoireby Paul BairochISBN 2070703630 (2-07-070363-0)
Hardcover, Gallimard
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Entre Allemagne Et Pologne: Nations Et Identites Frontalieres, 1848-1914by Thomas SerrierISBN 2701130220 (2-7011-3022-0)
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Venezia E Il Rinascimento: Religione, Scienza, Architetturaby Manfredo TafuriISBN 8806588915 (88-06-58891-5)
Hardcover, Giulio Einaudi editore
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Berlin Prenzlauer Berg: Strassen Und Platze Mit Der Geschichte Lebenby Thomas Schneider, Daniela Guhr, Gunter WehnerISBN 3894680008 (3-89468-000-8)
Hardcover, Edition Hentrich
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El Hombre Que Fue Jueves / the Man Who Was Thursdayby Gilbert K. ChestertonISBN 8489163987 (84-89163-98-7)
Softcover, Jorge a Mestas Ediciones
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