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Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City
Carla L. Peterson
Yale University Press
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9780300181746
2012
$20.00
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Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City
Carla L. Peterson
Yale University Press
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9780300162554
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Colin Ward
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David Harvey
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American Urban Architecture: Catalysts in the Design of Cities
Wayne Attoe and Donn Logan
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The Spatial Economy: Cities, Regions, and International Trade
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Blockbusting in Baltimore: The Edmondson Village Story
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis : Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit (Princeton Studies in American Politics)
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
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Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001
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Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism
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Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (Inside Technology)
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Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape
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Camps: A Guide to 21st-Century Space
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Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future
Matt Hern
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Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space
Neil Smith and David Harvey (foreword)
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Social Justice and the City (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation)
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Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City
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Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space
Mark Shepard
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Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
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Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978
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Urban Flow: Bike Messengers and the City
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Housing Reclaimed: Sustainable Homes for Next to Nothing
Jessica Kellner
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Ivy, Homeless in San Francisco
Summer Brenner and Brian Bowes
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Breaking Through Concrete: Building an Urban Farm Revival
David Hanson, Edwin Marty, Michael Hanson, and Mark Winne
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Time and the Suburbs: The Politics of Built Environments and the Future of Dissent (Semaphore Series)
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American Urban Form: A Representative History (Urban and Industrial Environments)
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities (50th Anniversary Edition) (Modern Library)
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Toward a Minor Architecture
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Nurturing Dreams: Collected Essays on Architecture and the City
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The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream
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Neighborhood As Refuge: Community Reconstruction, Place Remaking, and Environmental Justice in the City
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Design After Decline: How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities
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When Public Housing was Paradise: Building Community in Chicago
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Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century
Nicholas Dagen Bloom
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Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities
Lawrence J. Vale
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Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality
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Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960
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The Hero’s Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State
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Beale Street Dynasty: Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis
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Sustainable Communities: Creating a Durable Local Economy
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Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America
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Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America
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Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel
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Revolution Detroit: Strategies for Urban Reinvention
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Building Playgrounds, Engaging Communities: Creating Safe and Happy Places for Children
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The City as Interface: How Digital Media are Changing the City
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Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation
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Civic Ecology: Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up
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Public Produce: Cultivating Our Parks, Plazas, and Streets for Healthier Cities
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Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy
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Curtis Allen Stone
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Deep Mapping the Media City
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Landscape Urbanism and its Discontents: Dissimulating the Sustainable City
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Building Together: Case Studies in Participatory Planning and Community Building
Roger Katan and Ronald Shiffman
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Conservation for Cities: How to Plan and Build Natural Infrastructure
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Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis
Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Mitchelson, and Andrew Burridge
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St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street
Ada Calhoun
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The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology: Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities
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Informal Market Worlds: Reader: The Architecture of Economic Pressure
Helge Mooshammer, Teddy Cruz, Fonna Forman, and Peter Mörtenböeck
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Informal Market Worlds: Atlas: The Architecture of Economic Pressure
Helge Mooshammer
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Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago
Rashad Shabazz
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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
Jill Leovy
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Dream Cities: Seven Urban Ideas That Shape the World
Wade Graham
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My Baltimore Book
Becky Slogeris
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Spaces of the Poor: Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants
Hans-Christian Petersen
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Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness
Nathanael Johnson
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Critical Urban Studies: New Directions
Jonathan S. Davies and David L. Imbroscio
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A Burglar's Guide to the City
Geoff Manaugh
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Formerly Urban: Projecting Rustbelt Futures
Julia Czerniak
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From the Ground Up: Innovative Green Homes
Peggy Tully
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Dealing with Dysfunction: Innovative Problem Solving in the Public Sector
Jorrit De Jong
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Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities
Peter Harnik
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Saving Our Cities: A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America
William W. Goldsmith
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From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region
Diane Sicotte
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The City, Revisited: Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York
Dennis R. Judd
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L'architecture Sauvage: Asger Jorn's Critique and Concept of Architecture
Asger Jorn and Ruth Baumeister
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Global Gentrifications: Uneven Development and Displacement
Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin, and Ernesto Lopez-Morales
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Neighborhood Technologies: Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks
Tobias Harks and Sebastian Vehlken
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Transforming Cities: Urban Interventions in Public Space
Kristin Feireiss and Oliver Hamm
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Ethics for Architects: 50 Dilemmas of Professional Practice
Thomas Fisher
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Localism and Neighbourhood Planning: Power to the People?
Sue Brownhill and Quintin Bradley
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Living on the Margins: Undocumented Migrants in a Global City
Alice Bloch and Sonia McKay
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Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City
Derek S. Hyra
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Why Detroit Matters: Decline, Renewal and Hope in a Divided City
Brian Doucet
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Braving the Street: The Anthropology of Homelessness
Irene Glasser and Rae Bridgman
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Slums: The History of a Global Injustice
Alan Mayne
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From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing: Interaction of Communities, Residents and Activists
Graham Cairns
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The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide
Lawrence Lanahan
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Psychogeography
Merlin Coverley
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Faith on the Avenue: Religion on a City Street
Katie Day
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A New History of Modern Architecture
Colin Davies
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Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence
Jörn Ahrens and Arno Meteling
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Design for Ecological Democracy
Randolph T. Hester
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Move: How to Rebuild and Reinvent America's Infrastructure
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove
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Henry Ford's Plan for the American Suburb: Dearborn and Detroit
Heather B. Barrow
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
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The End of San Francisco
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
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Bike Lanes Are White Lanes: Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planning
Melody L. Hoffman
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How to Kill a City: The Real Story of Gentrification
P. E. Moskowitz
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Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US Big City
Mike Davis
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
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The Situationists and the City: A Reader (40 Black & White)
Tom McDonough
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Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory
Edward W. Soja
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Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism
Stephen Graham
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All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities
Michael Sorkin
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Vertical: Looking at the City from Above and Below
Stephen Graham
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In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis
David Madden
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Planet of Slums
Mike Davis
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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
David Harvey
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Cities of Power: The Urban, the National, the Popular, the Global
Göran Therborn
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