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Epidemics, Empire, and Environments

…Quebec aimed to emulate British precedent and develop similar institutions that allowed authorities to prevent cholera by imposing quarantines and controlling the disease through comprehensive change to the urban environment…

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Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh, Volume Two

|9780822955665|The Post-Steel Era|This volume traces the major decisions, events, programs, and personalities that transformed the city of Pittsburgh during its urban renewal project, which began in 1977. Roy Lubove demonstrates…

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A Negotiated Landscape

…a new concluding chapter that updates the progress of planning on San Francisco’s waterfront and examines debates over the newest visions for its development.| Jasper Rubin| History of the Urban

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Neoliberalism on the Ground

…the United States, Britain, Sweden, and Czechoslovakia. Analyzing how buildings and urban projects in different regions since the 1960s have served in the implementation of concrete policies such as privatization,…

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Samuel Rosenberg

…populations with intersecting poverties, he created emotional urban landscapes that ensured Pittsburgh’s place in the American regionalist art movement.Rosenberg’s focus was the Hill District, where he lived as a young…

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