Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Dubai. Stadt aus dem Nichts Dubai. Stadt aus dem Nichts Elisabeth Blum Das neue Dubai: eine Stadt ohne Stadtgesellschaft. 75 Kilometer Investment-Urbanismus auf Wüstengrund. Ein Stadtmodell, das auf funktionsoptimierte Infrastrukturen und unterkomplexe Lebensstile setzt… OL15378702W
Imperial San Francisco Imperial San Francisco Gray A. Brechin This book has lots of great stories and background about how the San Francisco power brokers of the late 19th century interrelated with the city, the state, and the rest of the country, including som… OL1995185W
From the war on poverty to the war on crime From the war on poverty to the war on crime Elizabeth Kai Hinton "In the United States today, one in every 31 adults is under some form of penal control, including one in eleven African American men. How did the "land of the free" become the home of the world's la… OL20030124W
Land use planning Land use planning Peter Nijkamp,Hugo Priemus,Kenneth Button "This is an authoritative collection of papers that are generally regarded as landmarks in the history of land use planning in the western world. A wide variety of leading articles have been selected… OL24688505W
No Miracles Here 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
Chicago Metropolis 2020 Chicago Metropolis 2020 Elmer W. Johnson "In the late nineteenth century, Chicago was a commercial colossus, a city growing more quickly than New York, flooded with industrial money and brassy confidence but ravaged by great income disparit… OL8554003W