The Rentier City: Manchester and the Making of the Neoliberal Metropolis 191567218X, 9781915672186

Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans 9780226341477

At the close of the nineteenth century, new printing and paper technologies fueled an expansion of the newspaper busines

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Making the Unequal Metropolis 9780226025391, 9780226025254, 2015029148

In a radically unequal United States, schools are often key sites in which injustice grows. Ansley T. Erickson's Ma

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Metropolis in the Making: Los Angeles in the 1920s 9780520935525

Los Angeles came of age in the 1920s. The great boom of that decade gave shape to the L.A. of today: its vast suburban s

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Socially Engaged Art and the Neoliberal City 9781138343399, 9780429439162, 9780429799150

What are the social functions of art in the age of neoliberal urbanism? This book discusses the potential of artistic pr

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Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits 9780226025391

In a radically unequal United States, schools are often key sites in which injustice grows. Ansley T. Erickson’s Making

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A Connected Metropolis: Los Angeles Elites and the Making of a Modern City, 1890–1965 1496224329, 9781496224323

In A Connected Metropolis Maxwell Johnson describes Los Angeles’s rise in the early twentieth century as catalyzed by a

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Heritage, Gentrification and Resistance in the Neoliberal City 9781800735736

What happens when versions of the past become silenced, suppressed, or privileged due to urban restructuring? In what wa

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The Emergence of Stability in the Industrial City: Manchester, 1832–67 9781351890748

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Making Social Knowledge in the Victorian City: The Visiting Mode in Manchester, 1832-1914 [1 ed.] 036713568X, 9780367135683

This study explores the ‘ecology of knowledge’ of urban Britain in the Victorian period and seeks to examine the way in

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Cryptographic City : Decoding the Smart Metropolis 9780262374828, 9780262545679, 9780262374811

Cryptography’s essential role in the functioning of the city, viewed against the backdrop of modern digital life. Crypto

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