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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Bodies of work	Edward Steven Slavishak	By the end of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh emerged as a major manufacturing center in the United States. Its rise as a leading producer of steel, glass, and coal was fueled by machine technolog…	OL11904027W
I live in a town	S. Ward	An eight-year-old child who lives in a small town in New Hampshire describes life in that rural community including its homes, schools, town meetings, orchards, and special days.	OL14868203W
Cities ranked & rated	Bert Sperling	Cities Ranked & Rated: Your Guide to the Best Places to Live in the U.S. & Canada provides timely facts and unbiased information on over 400 U.S. and 30 Canadian cities in an easy-to-access format. W…	OL15829840W
The who, what, and where of America	Deirdre Gaquin	Covers each U.S. state, county, metropolitan area, and city with a population of 20,000 or more. It is designed to provide communities with a fresh look at how they are changing.	OL16114475W
Precious commodity	Martin V. Melosi	xiv, 288 p. : 24 cm	OL16162955W
Detroit City is the place to be	Mark Binelli	"The fall and maybe rise of Detroit, America's most epic urban failure, from local native and Rolling Stone reporter Mark BinelliOnce America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greates…	OL16627040W
SynergiCity	Paul J. Armstrong,Paul Hardin Kapp	"SynergiCity: Reinventing the Postindustrial City proposes a new and invigorating vision of urbanism, architectural design, and urban revitalization in twenty-first-century America. Culling transform…	OL16688801W
Profiles of America	Laura Mars	Profiles of America is the only source that pulls together, in one place, statistical, historical and descriptive information about almost every place in the United States in an easy-to-use format --…	OL17095432W
The modern American metropolis	David M. P. Freund	Contains primary source material.	OL19669536W
City by city	Keith Gessen	"A collection of essays--historical and personal--about the present and future of American cities Edited by Keith Gessen and Stephen Squibb, City by City is a collection of essays--historical, person…	OL20001143W
Ways to the West	Tim Sullivan	"In Ways to the West, Tim Sullivan embarks on a car-less road trip through the Intermountain West, exploring how the region is taking on what may be its greatest challenge: sustainable transportation…	OL20028565W
Historic Prince George's County	George D. Denny	192 p. : 31 cm	OL22634866W
Don't Call It Sprawl	William T. Bogart	In Don't Call It Sprawl, the current policy debate over urban sprawl is put into a broader analytical and historical context. The book informs people about the causes and implications of the changing…	OL2641961W
Cities Under Siege	Stephen Graham,Stephen Graham	CITY & TOWN PLANNING - ARCHITECTURAL ASPECTS. Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities …	OL2929946W
Metropolitan lovers	Julie Abraham	"From the destruction of Sodom to the selling of Gay Street and from Tales of the City to The L Word, urban life and homosexuality have been made inseparable in Western culture. In this book, Julie A…	OL2942255W
Yo, Sacramento!	Will Cleveland	Presents facts about each state with cartoon-style illustrations to serve as memory aids for the state capitals and quizzes to reinforce information.	OL3341207W
Moment of Grace	Michael Johns	"Moment of Grace tells the story of the American city in its remarkable heyday. Urban culture was at its peak in the 1950s: it was vital, urbane, conformist, and generating rebellion all at once. Cap…	OL3344733W
Winter's Orphans	Robert C. Farentinos	The author, a wildlife biologist, describes how he helped find the orphaned cubs of a mountain lion shot near his home in Colorado and how the cubs were cared for until they could be released back in…	OL4323857W
No Miracles Here	Theodore J. Gilman	"This probing comparison of two struggling company towns, one in Japan and one in the United States, offers valuable urban revitalization lessons. The author compares urban revitalization efforts in …	OL8358482W
Cities and the wealth of nations	Jane Jacobs	Analyzes the economic functions, powers and limitations of cities and the uneasy relationship of cities with the national governments that preside over them.	OL93638W