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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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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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Urban Infrastructure

|9780822946380|Historical and Social Dimensions of an Interconnected World|Urban Infrastructures creates space for an encounter between historians, humanists, and social scientists who seek new methodological approaches to the history of urban

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For a Proper Home

…of Latin America and the Global South. | Edward Murphy| Pitt Latin American Series| History / General History / Latin America / South America Social Science / Sociology / Urban

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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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