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  • Archaeology of Southern Urban Landscapes

    by Shannon Lee Dawdy, Bonnie L. Gums, Joseph W. Joseph, Linda Derry, Patrick Garrow, Terry Kline, Robert A. Genheimer, Audrey Horning, George W. Shorter Jr, Christopher N. Matthews, Martha A. Zierden ...
    Groundbreaking essays in urban archaeology highlight the impact of towns and cities on the southern landscape.The rapid growth and development of urban areas in the South have resulted in an increase in the number of urban archaeology projects required by federal and state agencies. These projects provide opportunities not only to investigate marginal areas between the town and countryside but ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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    A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago

    by Eric Klinenberg ...
    The "compelling" story behind the 1995 Chicago weather disaster that killed hundreds—and what it revealed about our broken society ( Boston Globe).On July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index—how the temperature actually feels on the body—would hit 126. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; ... Read more

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  • The Bottom of the Harbor

    by Joseph Mitchell ...
    On the centennial of Joseph Mitchell's birth, here is a new edition of the classic collection containing his most celebrated pieces about New York City. Fifty years after its original publication, The Bottom of the Harbor is still considered a fundamental New York book. Every story Mitchell tells, every person he introduces, every scene he describes is illuminated by his passion for the eccentrics ... Read more

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  • Beijing Welcomes You

    Unveiling the Capital City of the Future

    by Tom Scocca ...
    A definitive, and highly entertaining, account of contemporary Beijing, the undisputed capital of the twenty-first century.Within the past decade, Beijing has debuted as the defining city of the now and foreseeable future, and China as the ascendant global power. Beijing is the ultimate representation of China's political and cultural capital, of its might-and threat. For so long, the city was ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Ghosts of 42nd Street

    A History of America's Most Infamous Block

    by Anthony Bianco ...
    Imagine shuffling down Broadway through the hustle and bustle right into the nonstop, neon heart of New York City: 42nd Street.Once a quiet neighborhood of brownstones and churches, the area wastransformed in the early 1900s into an entertainment hub unlike any in theworld. No place has ever evoked the glamour and romantic possibility of bigcity nightlife as vividly as did 42nd Street. It was the ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • New York Night

    The Mystique and Its History

    by Mark Caldwell ...
    Who among us cannot testify to the possibilities of the night? To the mysterious, shadowed intersections of music, smoke, money, alcohol, desire, and dream? The hours between dusk and dawn are when we are most urgently free, when high meets low, when tongues wag, when wallets loosen, when uptown, downtown, rich, poor, black, white, gay, straight, male, and female so often chance upon one another. ... Read more

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  • Let It Burn

    MOVE, the Philadelphia Police Department, and the Confrontation that Changed a City

    by Michael Boyette, Randi Boyette ...
    On a narrow street in a working-class neighborhood, the police are held at bay by a small band of armed radicals. Two assaults have already failed. After a morning-long battle involving machine guns, explosives, and tear gas, the radicals remain defiant. In a command post across the street from the boarded-up row house that serves as the militants’ headquarters, the beleaguered police commissioner ... Read more

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  • The Taxi-Dance Hall

    A Sociological Study in Commercialized Recreation and City Life

    by Paul Goalby Cressey ...
    Series series University of Chicago Sociological Series
    First published in 1932, The Taxi-Dance Hall is Paul Goalby Cressey’s fascinating study of Chicago’s urban nightlife—as seen through the eyes of the patrons, owners, and dancers-for-hire who frequented the city’s notoriously seedy “taxi-dance” halls.Taxi-dance halls, as the introduction notes, were social centers where men could come and pay to dance with “a bevy of pretty, vivacious, and often ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Our Better Nature

    Environment and the Making of San Francisco

    by Philip J. Dreyfus ...
    Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. In Our Better Nature, Philip J. Dreyfus recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to ... Read more

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  • The Streets Were Paved with Gold

    by Ken Auletta ...
    How - and why - did one of the world's greatest cities come to be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy? Ken Auletta, writer for THE NEW YORKER and columnist for THE DAILY NEWS, shows how the decline of New York City was partly inevitable --- the result of shifting migration patterns and rapidl technological innovations --- and partly caused by anarchic political and economic factions, each angling ... Read more

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  • The Death and Life of Main Street

    Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community

    by Miles Orvell ...
    For more than a century, the term “Main Street” has conjured up nostalgic images of American small-town life. Representations exist all around us, from fiction and film to the architecture of shopping malls and Disneyland. All the while, the nation has become increasingly diverse, exposing tensions within this ideal. In The Death and Life of Main Street, Miles Orvell wrestles with the mythic ... Read more

    $18.99 USD