Remaking Metropolis : Global Challenges of the Urban Landscape 9781136214042, 9780415670814

Remaking the urban 9781526140289

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Urban Development in India: Global Indians in the Remaking of Kolkata [1 ed.] 1138319031, 9781138319035

Indian diaspora has had a complex and multifaceted role in catalyzing, justifying and promoting a transformed urban land

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Metropolis, Money and Markets: Brazilian Urban Financialization in Times of Re-emerging Global Finance 0367180782, 9780367180782

This book explores the impact of finance on urban spaces as well as cities' role in the social constitution and dis

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Perfect City: An Urban Fixer's Global Search for Magic in the Modern Metropolis 1999439511, 9781999439514

There is no such thing as a perfect city, but all great cities have moments of perfection--perfect streets or buildings,

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Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North 9780812290677

Stemming from his anthropological field work among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huf

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Barry Goldwater and the Remaking of the American Political Landscape 9780816521098, 2012029636

Nearly four million Americans worked on Barry Goldwater’s behalf in the presidential election of 1964. These citizens we

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Beyond the metropolis: The changing image of urban Britain, 1780–1880 9781784997236

Draws on previously unexplored visual and ephemeral sources to re-evaluate the British city, its changing form, represen

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Communication and the Global Landscape of Faith 9781498515825, 9781498515818

In light of more recent conversations about religion and its import as a factor in the global geopolitical and cultural

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Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form [Reprint 2020 ed.] 9780520314085

Here is an extensive and highly original inquiry into the origins, dynamics, and internal order of the modern metropolis

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Political Ecologies of Landscape: Governing Urban Transformations in Penang 9781529214161

Connolly uses ongoing urban redevelopment in Penang in Malaysia to provide stimulating new perspectives on urbanisation,

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