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Improvised Cities

|9780822945369|Architecture, Urbanization, and Innovation in Peru| Beginning in the 1950s, an explosion in rural-urban migration dramatically increased the population of cities throughout Peru, leading to an acute housing shortage and

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Metropolitan Natures

…island, from the 1918-1920 Spanish flu epidemic and its ensuing human environmental modifications to the urban sprawl characteristic of North America during the postwar period. Situations that politicize the environment…

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Destined for the Stars

…of the science of space exploration in America between 1944 and 1955, arguing that the success of the US space program was due not to technological or economic superiority, but…

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Defiant Geographies

…Brazil’s urban development and understands urban reform as a monumental act of forgetting the country’s racial past.| Lorraine Leu| Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas| History / Latin America /…

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Street Matters

…spaces. | Fernando Luiz Lara Ana Paula Koury| Pitt Latin American Series| History / Latin America / South America Political Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development…

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