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Desert Cities

…the public’s perception of each city. Phoenix continues to sprawl as one of America’s largest and fastest-growing cities. Tucson has witnessed a slower rate of growth, and has only one…

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Garbage In The Cities

|9780822958574|Refuse Reform and the Environment| As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a thousand…

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Black Urban History at the Crossroads

|9780822948162|Race and Place in the American City|Drawing on significant recent scholarship on African American urban life over three centuries, Black Urban History at the Crossroads bridges disparate chronological, regional, topical,…

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Making an Urban Public

and contributing members of the urban public. Making an Urban Public tells the story of how Morelia’s residents—particular those from popular groups and poor circumstances—claimed (and often gained) basic rights…

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Three Cities After Hitler

|9780822946977|Redemptive Reconstruction Across Cold War Borders| Winner, 2023 SAH Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award Three Cities after Hitler compares how three prewar German cities shared decades of postwar development under…

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