Urban Studies
Urban Studies
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reac...Read more
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America
A stunning, long-awaited book that looks at the (still) shocking truths of race, ethnicity, and clas...Read more
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Planet of Slums
Mike Davis charts the expected global urbanization explosion over the next 30 years and points out t...Read more
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Dead Cities: And Other Tales
In his most provocative writing yet, the radical urban theorist Mike Davis explores the combat zone ...Read more
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Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US City
Winner of the 2001 Carey McWilliams AwardIs the capital of Latin America a small island at the mouth...Read more
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City Of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
In this taut and compulsive exploration, Mike Davis recounts the story of Los Angeles with passion, ...Read more
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Streetcar Suburbs: The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900
In the last third of the 19th century Boston grew from a crowded merchant town, in which nearly ever...Read more
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Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe: A Travel Guide & Resource Book to Prague, Warsaw, Crakow & Budapest
The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe: A Travel Guide and Resource Book to Prague, W...Read more
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The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
Once America's "arsenal of democracy, " Detroit has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. ...Read more
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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence i...Read more
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This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and the Future of America
Despite a modest revival in city living, Americans are spreading out more than ever�into "exurbs" ...Read more
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Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio
For decades now, scholars and politicians alike have argued that the concentration of poverty in cit...Read more