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Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"'Neoliberal cities' is a critical exploration of the process of remaking of postwar urban America"--
The American city has long been a laboratory for austerity, governmental decentralization, and market-based solutions to urgent public problems such as affordable housing, criminal justice, and education. Through richly told case studies from Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New York, Neoliberal Cities provides the necessary...
1283) The stolen one
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages : geneological table ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After the death of her foster mother, sixteen-year-old Kat goes to London to seek the answers to her parentage, and surprisingly finds herself invited into Queen Elizabeth's court.
1284) Together =: Tillsammans
Series
Publisher
Memfis Film
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Tillsammans, ('Together' in English), is a commune in the heart of Stockholm, still going strong in 1975, long after most members of youth culture have abandoned their notions of free love, harmoniously integrated extended families, and naive political idealism in favor of jobs, discos, and TV sitcoms. The commune's 'leader' is sweet, conflict-avoiding Goran. The arrival of his conventional, middle-class sister Elisabeth, (towing 10-year-old Stefan...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xiv, 265 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
America's founding involved the melding of disparate cultures and communities, a blurring of boundaries, some physical and others imagined. One of the most significant divisions in early America was that between the country's vast and sparsely populated interior and its crowded coastal cities. To many white colonials, the urban and rural divide represented the borderline between civilization and savagery. Embodying the latter were the nation's Native...
1288) Cedar Rapids
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A small-town, naive Midwestern insurance agent must represent his company at a regional insurance convention in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where his mind is blown by the big city experience.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
201 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a boy, Robert Kaplan recalls his father driving trucks across the country to earn a living for his family, a man who witnessed and understood America from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age. Along the way, he witnesses both prosperity and decline--increasingly cosmopolitan cities...
1291) Our New York
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1989]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
x, 323 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York City's streets, parks, museums, architecture and its people appear in an array of literary works published from New York's earliest settlement to the present day. The exploration of the city as both a symbol and as a reality has formed the basis of New York's literature. Using the themes of adaptation, innovation, identity and hope, this history explores novels, poetry, periodicals and newspapers to examine how New York's literature can...
1293) The curious garden
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Liam discovers a hidden garden and with careful tending spreads color throughout the gray city.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Detroit : An American Autopsy and Maximum City comes a deeply reported and beautifully written biography of the seductive and chaotic city of Rio de Janeiro from prizewinning journalist and Brazilian native Juliana Barbassa. Juliana Barbassa moved a great deal throughout her life, but Rio was always home. After twenty-one years abroad, she returned to find the city that once ravaged by inflation, drug wars, corrupt leaders, and...
1298) The other Paris
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A vivid investigation into the seamy underside of nineteenth and twentieth century Paris"--
"A trip through Paris as it will never be again--dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemian Paris, the City of Light. The city of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, of soft cheese and fresh baguettes. Or so tourist brochures would have you believe. In The Other Paris, Luc Sante reveals the city's hidden past, its seamy underside--one populated by...
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