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  • Recording History

    Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa

    by Christopher Silver ...
    A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization.If twentieth-century stories of Jews and Muslims in North Africa are usually told separately, Recording History demonstrates that we have not been listening to what brought these ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Separate City

    Black Communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968

    by Christopher Silver, John V. Moeser ...
    A ground-breaking collaborative study merging perspectives from history, political science, and urban planning, The Separate City is a trenchant analysis of the development of the African-American community in the urban South. While similar in some respects to the racially defined ghettos of the North, the districts in which southern blacks lived from the pre-World War II era to the mid-1960s ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Urban Flood Risk Management

    Looking at Jakarta

    by Christopher Silver ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sustainable Planning and Development in Asia
    Like so many of the coastal cities in Southeast Asia (and other regions) established during European colonialism, there has been an ongoing challenge for decades dealing with the growing frequency and intensity of flooding. Jakarta’s flood problems since the 1990s have been nothing less than monumental and the inability of the local and national governments to mitigate flooding in Jakarta is the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Transformative Planning

    Smarter, Greener and More Inclusive Practices

    Edited by Christopher Silver, Andrea Frank ...
    Series series Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning
    The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world with internationally recognized authors taking up urgent and salient issues from theory, to education for and practice of planning.This 7th volume features contributions on the theme of Transformative Planning: Smarter, Greener and More ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 6

    The Right to the City

    Edited by Christopher Silver, Robert Freestone, Christophe Demaziere ...
    Series series Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning
    The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world. The internationally recognized authors of these award-winning papers take up a range of salient issues from the theory and practice of planning.This 6th volume incorporates essays that explore the salient issue commonly referred to as "The ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Urban Planning Education

    Beginnings, Global Movement and Future Prospects

    Edited by Andrea I. Frank, Christopher Silver ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book examines planning education provision and approaches globally, through a comparative and longitudinal perspective. It explores the emergence of planning education in the 20th century, with its rich variation and yet a remarkable degree of cross-fertilization. Each of the sections of the book is framed by an overview essay which has been prepared by the editors to provide the reader with ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Arte-Polis

    Imagining Experience: Creative Tourism and the Making of Place

    Edited by Indah Widiastuti, Lénia Marques, Himasari Hanan, Christopher Silver ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book includes papers presented at the 6th Arte-Polis International Conference. The theme of the conference was “Imagining Experiences: Creative Tourism and the Making of Place”, and the book brings together studies based on lessons-learned, research and critical reviews related to creative tourism and reflections on placemaking. Covering a broad range of topics, including cultural and ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Planning the Megacity

    Jakarta in the Twentieth Century

    by Christopher Silver ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    In this book, the first on the planning history of Jarkarta, able expert Christopher Silver describes how planning has shaped urban development in Southeast Asia, and in particular how its largest city, Jakarta, Indonesia, was transformed from a colonial capital of approximately 150,000 in 1900 to a megacity of 12–13 million inhabitants in 2000.Placing the city's planning history within local, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Planning and Decentralization

    Contested Spaces for Public Action in the Global South

    Edited by Victoria A. Beard, Faranak Miraftab, Christopher Silver ...
    The first in-depth study of the impact of economic and political decentralization on planning practice in developing economies, this innovative volume, using original case study research by leading experts drawn from diverse fields of inquiry, from planning to urban studies, geography and economics, explores the dramatic transformation that decentralization implies in responsibilities of the local ... Read more

    $96.99 USD

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  • The Struggle for Black Equality

    by Harvard Sitkoff ...
    The Struggle for Black Equality is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of civil rights organizations and a compelling analysis of the continuing problems plaguing many African Americans. With a new foreword and afterword, and an up-to-date bibliography, this anniversary edition ... Read more

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  • Scheherazade Goes West

    Different Cultures, Different Harems

    by Fatema Mernissi ...
    Throughout my childhood, my grandmother Yasmina, who was illiterate and grew up in a harem, repeated that to travel is the best way to learn and to empower yourself. "When a woman decides to use her wings, she takes big risks," she would tell me, but she was convinced that if you didn't use them, it hurt....So recalls Fatema Mernissi at the outset of her mesmerizing new book. Of all the lessons ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Protest at Selma

    Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965

    by David J. Garrow ...
    A thorough and insightful account of the historic 1965 civil rights protest at Selma, Alabama, from the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Bearing the CrossVivid descriptions of violence and courageous acts fill David Garrow's account of the momentous 1965 protest at Selma, Alabama, in which the author illuminates the role of Martin Luther King Jr. in organizing the demonstrations that ... Read more

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