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Coastal Metropolis

…residents in a concentrated area, to dealing with climate change in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, and everything in between. Any consideration of sustainable urbanism requires understanding how cities have…

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Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs

…rural parishes and the effect urban pollution has had on the city’s water supply and aquatic life. | Craig Colten| History of the Urban Environment| History / General History /…

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Race and Renaissance

…and significance of the second Great Migration, the persistence of Jim Crow into the postwar years, the second ghetto, the contemporary urban crisis, the civil rights and Black Power movements,…

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Literacy as Conversation

|9780822966982|Learning Networks in Urban and Rural Communities|In Literacy as Conversation, the authors tell stories of successful literacy learning outside of schools and inside communities, both within urban neighborhoods of Philadelphia…

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Representing the Barrios

|9780822947653|Culture, Politics, and Urban Poverty in Twentieth-Century Caracas|Against a backdrop of rapid urbanization and the growth of a global economy powered by carbon, Rebecca Jarman argues that in Venezuela, urban…

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