The cities of Lowell and New Bedford in Massachusetts, Jamestown in New York, and McKeesport in Pennsylvania have all undergone years of adversity and decline, their economic bases having been badly damaged by structural changes in the national economy, particularly in the manufacturing sector.
Focusing on urban development and the influence of urbanization on industrialization, this volume reflects a radical rethinking of the traditional approaches to the development of cities.
The Center of Mass: How Cities Create Power Beyond Office is a structural study of political influence, urban identity, and non-positional power, using Mumbai and Balasaheb Thackeray as its central historical case.
By examining environmental change through the lens of conflicting social agendas, Andrew Hurley uncovers the historical roots of environmental inequality in contemporary urban America.
Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the periods most volatile labor strikes.
The North Carolina Gazetteer first appeared to wide acclaim in 1968 and has remained an essential reference for anyone with a serious interest in the Tar Heel State, from historians to journalists, from creative writers to urban planners, from backpackers to armchair travelers.
This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern cities individually and examining the various issues that shape patterns of urbanization from a broad regional perspective.
Suburban sprawl transformed the political culture of the American South as much as the civil rights movement did during the second half of the twentieth century.
It's closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globebut it's definitely not the last danceIn this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution revitalizing urban nightlife.
It's closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globebut it's definitely not the last danceIn this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unexpected revolution revitalizing urban nightlife.
Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation.
Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation.
Over the past hundred years, the global motto has been ';more, more, more' in terms of growth of population, of the built environment, of human and financial capital, and of all manner of worldly goods.
Over the past hundred years, the global motto has been ';more, more, more' in terms of growth of population, of the built environment, of human and financial capital, and of all manner of worldly goods.
'Feverish, devouring and provocative' LUCY ROSE, author of The Lamb'Dark, sexy, addictive and beautifully written' KATE DAVIES, author of In at the Deep End'Hot, hungry and aching with desire, this book will bite down into you and it won't let go' TOBI COVENTRY, author of He's the DevilLove can really eat you upAvni is done with the meaningless carousel of tame sex.
A witty and humane account of one man, multiple jobs and what it means to liveA Book of the Year in the Guardian, Sunday Times, Economist and the Financial TimesShortlisted for the Baifang Schell Book Prize: Award for Outstanding Non-FictionHu AnYan has held nineteen different jobs since he graduated.
Sustainable Visions: An Architect's Critique of Modern MauritiusBy Rambassun (Sandeep) SewpalIn this compelling and timely collection, acclaimed Mauritian architect Rambassun Sewpal offers a bold, critical examination of an island nation at a crossroads.
';[A] penetrating analysis of urban infrastructure' NatureClean water, paved roads, public transit, electricity and gas, sewers, waste processing, telecommunication, even the Internet all this infrastructure is what makes cities work and powers our lives, often seamlessly and silently.
';[A] penetrating analysis of urban infrastructure' NatureClean water, paved roads, public transit, electricity and gas, sewers, waste processing, telecommunication, even the Internet all this infrastructure is what makes cities work and powers our lives, often seamlessly and silently.
The first-ever biography of the most pivotal Justice on the Supreme Court whose decisions, like the overturning of Roe, will drive the reshaping of America, by prize-winning journalist Peter Canellos.
The Ultimate AMB-BC® Exam Prep Guide: Your All-In-One Resource for Certification SuccessPassing the Ambulatory Care Nurse is a significant milestone that validates your expertise and enhance AMB-BCs your professional credibility.
**As seen on ITV This Morning**A compassionate, science-backed roadmap to appetite, metabolism and life in the age of GLP-1s, from the Head Nutritionist at ZOE and Sunday Times bestselling authorIncludes a foreword from Professor Tim SpectorAppetite is not a test of willpower, but a biological system shaped by the brain, gut, hormones and the world around us.
The darkly comic, addictive new novel about friendship and envy from the bestselling author of JUST GOT REAL and GETTING RID OF MATTHEW'A brilliantly twisty drama to curl up with HEAT'Propulsive, with twists and turns I didn t see coming, yet warm and good-hearted.
A big history of little spaces, of nature in urban life, and of gardeners and their gardens through time'Galvanising and hugely readable' Financial Times 'A wonder!
'Glorious' Guardian'Vigorous, rigorous and eminently readable' SPECTATORIn his soaring new book, Niall Kishtainy draws us into the imaginative worlds of Thomas More, the Diggers, William Morris and Extinction Rebellion protestors.
While many of its traditional elements, such as roads and utilities, do not change, urban infrastructure is undergoing a fascinating and necessary transformation in the wake of new information and communication technologies.
Sabemos que las ciudades son un elemento caracteristico y central del mundo contemporaneo, pero desconocemos cuanto han influido en las principales corrientes intelectuales de nuestra era.
