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The City in the Shadow of the Shantytown

…this book.| Sheila Crane| Culture, Politics, and the Built Environment| Architecture / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) History / Africa / North History / Europe / France…

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Staging Buenos Aires

…industrialization resulted in the visible decline of patriarchal social structures, made most visible in the urban sphere.| Kristen L. McCleary| Pitt Latin American Series| History / Latin America / General…

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Dont Call Me Boss

…editors of Fortune magazine name Pittsburgh as one of the eight best administered cities in America.DonÆt Call Me Boss examines the lengthy career of this remarkable politician. Using over one…

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A Mighty Capital under Threat

…shaping of the environmental sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. | Bill Luckin Peter Thorsheim| History of the Urban Environment| Architecture / Urban & Land Use Planning…

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London

|9780822944270|Water and the Making of the Modern City| As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed them. Britons died…

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