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  • A Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs

    Housing Chicago's Great Migration

    by Amani C. Morrison ...
    Uncovers how Chicago's kitchenette apartments shaped housing, race, and urban life in the twentieth centuryDuring the twentieth century’s Great Migration, kitchenette apartments served as the primary homes for Black migrants to Chicago. These small one- and two-room units were often illegally converted from larger apartments and were concentrated on the city’s densely populated, segregated South ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Building Suburbia

    Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000

    by Dolores Hayden ...
    A lively and provocative history of the contested landscapes where the majority of Americans now live.From rustic cottages reached by steamboat to big box stores at the exit ramps of eight-lane highways, Dolores Hayden defines seven eras of suburban development since 1820. An urban historian and architect, she portrays housewives and politicians as well as designers and builders making the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Unsettling the Great White North

    Black Canadian History

    Edited by Michele A. Johnson, Funké Aladejebi ...
    An exhaustive volume of leading scholarship in the field of Black Canadian history, Unsettling the Great White North highlights the diverse experiences of persons of African descent within the chronicles of Canada’s past. The book considers histories and theoretical framings within the disciplines of history, sociology, law, and cultural and gender studies to chart the mechanisms of exclusion and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Edge City

    Life on the New Frontier

    by Joel Garreau ...
    First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Radical Suburbs

    Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City

    by Amanda Kolson Hurley ...
    "A revelation . . . will open your eyes to the wide diversity and rich history of our ongoing suburban experiment." —Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative ClassAmerica's suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. Today's suburbs are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse, with as many Democratic as Republican voters, a growing population of renters, and ... Read more

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  • Do Museums Still Need Objects?

    by Steven Conn ...
    Series series The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
    "We live in a museum age," writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are visiting museums than ever before. There are now over 17,500 accredited museums in the United States, averaging approximately 865 million visits a year, more than two million visits a day. New museums have proliferated across the cultural landscape ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Mapping The Democratic Forest: The Postsouthern Spaces of William Eggleston

    An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue

    by Ben Child ...
    Eggleston, the iconoclastic and colorful groundbreaker, imbues the mundane with vibrancy.This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures:The Photography Issue. “When the color photographs of William Eggleston first appeared at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976, the boldness of Eggleston’s palette and his disregard for the conventions of black-and-white photography were shocking; ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Dead End

    Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism

    by Benjamin Ross ...
    More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason. As an activist and a scholar, Benjamin Ross is uniquely placed to diagnose why this is so. Dead End traces ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Public Art

    Theory, Practice and Populism

    by Cher Krause Knight ...
    This book takes a bold look at public art and its populist appeal, offering a more inclusive guide to America's creative tastes and shared culture. It examines the history of American public art – from FDR's New Deal to Christo's The Gates – and challenges preconceived notions of public art, expanding its definition to include a broader scope of works and concepts.Expands the definition of public ... Read more

    $39.00 USD

  • USA

    Modern Architectures in History

    by Gwendolyn Wright ...
    Series series RB-Modern Architectures in History
    From the Reliance Building and Coney Island to the Kimbell Museum and Disney Hall, the United States has been at the forefront of modern architecture. American life has generated many of the quintessential images of modern life, both generic types and particular buildings. Gwendolyn Wright’s USA is an engaging account of this evolution from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Upending ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • One Less Car

    Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility

    by Zack Furness ...
    Series series Sporting
    Although millions of people in the United States love to ride bicycles for exercise or leisure, statistics show that only 1% of the total U.S. population ride bicycles for transportation—and barely half as many use bikes to commute to work. In his original and exciting book, One Less Car, Zack Furness examines what it means historically, culturally, socioeconomically, and politically to be a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Americans Against the City

    Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century

    by Steven Conn ...
    It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where "big government" first took root in America fostered what historian Steven Conn terms the "anti-urban impulse." In response, anti-urbanists called for ... Read more

    $29.69 USD