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Comprehensive | |
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Brief Table of Contents | |
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Introduction to Experiencing Cities | |
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The Emergence of Cities | |
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The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Urban Sociology | |
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Chicago School: Urbanism and Urban Ecology | |
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Urban Planning | |
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Urban Political Economy, the New Urban Sociology, and the Power of Place | |
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The City as a Work of Art | |
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The Skyscraper as Icon | |
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Experiencing Strangers and the Quest for Public Order | |
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"Seeing" Disorder and the Ecology of Fear | |
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Urban Enclaves and Ghettos: Social Policies | |
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Gender in the City | |
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City Families and Kinship Patterns | |
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Downtown Stores: Shopping as Community Activity | |
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Baseball and Basketball as Urban Drama | |
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The Suburbanization of America | |
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Social Capital and Healthy Places | |
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Experiencing World Cities | |
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Comprehensive Table of Contents | |
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Preface | |
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Historical Developments | |
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Introduction to Experiencing Cities | |
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The Urban World | |
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Civilization and Cities | |
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Microlevel Sociology and Macrolevel Sociology and Experiencing Cities | |
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Symbolic Interactionism and the Study of City Life | |
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W. I. Thomas: the Definition of the Situation | |
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Robert E. Park: the City as a State of Mind | |
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Anselm L. Strauss: Images of the City | |
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Lyn Lofland: the World of Strangers and the Public Realm | |
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Experiencing Cities through Symbolic Interactionism | |
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Growing Up in the City: A Personal Odyssey | |
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The Emergence of Cities | |
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The Origin of Cities | |
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The Agricultural Revolution | |
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The Urban Revolution | |
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Sumerian Cities | |
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Trade Theory and the Origin of Cities | |
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Social and Cultural Factors and the Emergence, Development, and Decline of Early Cities | |
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Religion in Early Cities | |
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The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Urban Sociology | |
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The Industrial Revolution and Nineteenth-Century European Cities | |
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Manchester: the Shock City of the Mid-Nineteenth Century | |
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The Ideal Type: Community and Interpersonal Relationships | |
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The Ideal Type: Rural and City Life | |
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Henry Sumner Maine and Ferdinand Tönnies | |
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Emile Durkheim | |
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Max Weber | |
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Simmel: Metropolis and Mental Life | |
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Disciplinary Perspectives | |
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Chicago School: Urbanism and Urban Ecology | |
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Chicago: the Shock City of the Early Twentieth Century | |
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The Chicago School and Social Disorganization | |
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Robert E. Park: Urbanism | |
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The Chicago School and Urbanism | |
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Louis Wirth: Urbanism as a Way of Life | |
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Gans: Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life | |
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Claude Fischer's Subcultural Theory | |
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The Chicago School and Urban Ecology | |
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Ernest Burgess and the Concentric Zone Hypothesis | |
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Modifications of the Concentric Zone Hypothesis: Hoyt's Sector Model, Harris and Ullman's Multiple Nuclei Model, and | |
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Shevky and Bell's Social Area Analysis | |
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Walter Firey: Sentiment and Symbolism as Ecological Variables | |
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Symbolic Interactionism and City Life: Summary Statement | |
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Urban Planning | |
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Burnham and the City Beautiful | |
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Ebenezer Howard: the Garden City Movement | |
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Radburn, New Jersey, and the Greenbelt Town of the 1930s | |
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The Three Magnets Revisited | |
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Wright's Broadacre City | |
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Le Corbusier: Cities Without Streets | |
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Futurama: General Motors and the 1939���40 New York World's Fair | |
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Robert Moses: the Power Broker New York City and Portland, Oregon | |
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Edmund N. Bacon: the Redevelopment of Philadelphia | |
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Jane Jacobs: the Death and Life of Great American Cities | |
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Conclusion | |
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Urban Political Economy, the New Urban Sociology, and the Power of Place | |
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Urban Political Economy | |
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David Harvey's Baltimore | |
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From Chicago to LA: the LA School | |
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Edge Cities | |
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Privatopia | |
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Culture of Heteropolis | |
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City as Theme Park | |
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Fortified City | |
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Interdictory Spaces | |
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Historical Geographies of Restructuring | |
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Fordist versus Post-Fordist Regimes of Accumulation and Regulation | |
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Globalization | |
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Politics of Nature | |
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The New Urban Sociology: the Growth Machine and the Sociospatial Perspective | |
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Sharon Zukin: "Whose Culture? Whose City?" | |
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Urban Imagery, Power, and the Symbolic Meaning of Place | |
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The Politics of Place and Collective Memory | |
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The Power of Place Project: Los Angeles | |
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Independence Hall, the National Park Service, and the Reinterpretation of History | |
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City Imagery and the Social Psychology of City Life | |
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The City as a Work of Art | |
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Paris and the Impressionists | |
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New York City and the Ashcan School | |
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Mural Art as Street and Community Art | |
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Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program | |
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The Murals of Los Angeles | |
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The Art Museum as a Community Resource: Detroit Institute of Arts | |
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The Skyscraper as Icon | |
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New York City | |
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The Singer Building | |
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The Metropolitan Life Insurance Building | |
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The Municipal Office Building | |
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The Woolworth Building | |
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Moscow | |
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Hong Kong | |
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The Attack on the World Trade Center and the Media Response | |
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From Civic Criticism to Sentimental Icon: A Brief History | |
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"World Trade Center" by David Lehman | |
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The Future: How Do You Reconstruct an Icon? | |
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The "Ground Zero" Mosque | |
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The Social Psychology of City Life | |
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Experiencing Strangers and the Quest for Public Order | |
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The Private Realm, the Parochial Realm, and the Public Realm | |
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Strangers and the "Goodness" of the Public Realm | |
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Cheers: "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" | |
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Elijah Anderson: the Cosmopolitan Canopy | |
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Anonymity and the Quest for Social Order | |
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William H. Whyte: Public Spaces Rediscovering the Center | |
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Sharon Zukin: the Battle for Bryant Park | |
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Elijah Anderson: On Being "Streetwise" | |
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Flash Mobs | |
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"Seeing" Disorder and the Ecology of Fear | |
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The Decline of Civility in the Public Realm | |
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African Americans and the Exclusion from the Public Realm | |
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Wilson and Kelling: Broken Windows | |
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Mitchell Duneier: Street People and Broken Windows | |
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The Criminalization of Poverty | |
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Mike Davis: the Ecology of Fear and the Fortressing of America | |
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Surveillance of the Street | |
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Sampson and Raudenbush: "Seeing" Disorder and the Social Construction of "Broken Windows" | |
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City People | |
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Urban Enclaves and Ghettos: Social Policies | |
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Ghetto and Enclave | |
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White Ethnic Enclaves | |
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African American Ghettos | |
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Assimilation versus Hypersegregation | |
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Urban Renewal and Urban Removal | |
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Project Living in Public Housing | |
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Stuyvesant Town | |
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Gentrification and the Quest for Authenticity | |
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Hollow City: the Gentrification of San Francisco | |
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Homelessness | |
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Gender in the City | |
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Gender and Public Space | |
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Etiquette: Governing Gender in the Public Sphere | |
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Gender Harassment in the Public Sphere | |
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Gays and Lesbians in the City | |
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Urban Tribes, Gays, and the Creative Class | |
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Nightlife as Frontier | |
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Jobs Move to Where People Are: Meet Me in St. Louis | |
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City Families and Kinship Patterns | |
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The Public World of the Preindustrial Family | |
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The Industrial City and the Rise of the Private Family | |
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The Rise of the Suburbs, the Cult of Domesticity, and the Private Family | |
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The City and the Rediscovery of the Family and Urban Kinship Patterns | |
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Urban Kinship Networks and the African American Family | |
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Mexican Americans in Urban Barrios | |
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The Suburban Working-Class and Middle-Class Family | |
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The Dispersal of Kin and Kin-Work | |
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City Places | |
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Downtown Stores: Shopping as Community Activity | |
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The Downtown DePartment Store | |
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Neighborhood Stores and Community Identification | |
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Suburbia, the Mall, and the Decline of Downtown Shopping | |
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Whose Stores? Whose Neighborhood? | |
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New Immigrants, the Revitalization of Inner-City Stores, and the Rise of the Consumer City | |
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Money Has No Smell: African Street Vendors and International Trade | |
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The Gentrification of the U Street Corridor | |
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Baseball and Basketball as Urban Drama | |
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An Urban Game | |
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Boosterism and Civic Pride | |
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Spectators and Fan(atic)s | |
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Image Building Through Technology and Newspapers | |
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The National Pastime | |
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A Spectacular Public Drama: Place and Collective Memory | |
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Basketball: the New City Game | |
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The Urban World | |
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The Suburbanization of America | |
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Nineteenth-Century Garden-Cemeteries and Parks: Precursors of Suburbia | |
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Suburbs: the Bourgeois Utopia | |
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Race, Suburbs, and City | |
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Gated Communities | |
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Suburbs and Morality | |
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Edge Cities and Urban Sprawl | |
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New Urbanism | |
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From Front Porch to Backyard to Front Porch: An Assessment | |
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Social Capital and Healthy Places | |
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Robert Putnam: Bowling Alone | |
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The Internet and Virtual Communities | |
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Chicago's 1995 Heat Wave | |
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The Paris Heat Wave | |
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Low Ground, High Ground: New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina 2005 | |
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Postscript: Disaster Tourism, Politics and the Reshaping of New Orleans | |
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Experiencing World Cities | |
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World Urbanization | |
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Modernization Theory and Global Urbanization | |
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Development Theory: An Alternative Perspective | |
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Cities, the Global Economy, and Inequality | |
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World Cities, World Systems Theory, and the Informational Revolution | |
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Squatter Settlements | |
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Paris: Riots in Suburban Housing Projects | |
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References | |
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Index | |
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Credits | |