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A history of US ; bk. 7Summary: "Third Coast Atlas: Prelude to a Plan describes the conditions for urbanization across the Great Lakes region. It assembles a multi-layered, empirical description of urbanization processes within the drainage basins of the five Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence River. This thick description encompasses a range of representational forms including maps, plans, diagrams, timelines, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Actar 2017
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 912 THIInskeep, Steve.
Summary: Analyzes the growing metropolis of Karachi, Pakistan, including the importance of regional stability to American security interests, the terrorist bombing of a Shia religious procession, and the challenging religious, ethnic, and political divides.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.91 INSJackson, John N.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Toronto Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.47 JACHollis, Leo.
Summary: At the beginning of the century, we became 50% urban as a global population, and by 2050 we're going to be up to 70% urban. Cities could either be our coffin or our ark. Hollis presents evidence that cities can deliver a better life, and investigates how cities all over the world are tackling climate change, population growth, poverty, shifting work patterns and the maintenance of the fragile...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 HOLLeinberger, Christopher B.
Contents: Introduction -- Futurama and the 20th-century American dream -- The rise of drivable sub-urbia -- The standard real estate product types : why every place looks like every place else -- Consequences of drivable sub-urban growth -- The market rediscovers walkable urbanism -- Defining walkable urbanism : why more is better -- Unintended consequences of walkable urbanism -- Achieving the next...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.76 LEISummary: When their land is sold to developers, the magicians, acrobats, and puppeteers of Kathputli, a hand-built artist colony hidden away in the alleyways of Delhi since the 1970s, must find a way to unite or splinter apart forever. Filmed from 2011 to 2014, this documentray chronicles the last days of of Kathputli, focusing on Puran the Puppeteer, Rahman the Magician, and Maya the Acrobat as they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOMHakim, Joy.
Summary: A history of the Reconstruction period and the movements of reform, immigration, industrialization, and urbanization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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Summary: "How do we talk about Black history and racism in the United States on college campuses? In a series of essays, Professor Leonard Moore outlines how he has taught courses on African American history at colleges with a largely white student body. As an African American professor, he has had to find ways to teach to a diverse classroom, but one that is often dominated by white students with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 MOOSonnie, Amy
Summary: "Some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s were poor and working-class radicals. Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, and progressive populism, they started to organize significant political struggles against racism and inequality during the 1960s and into the 1970s. Historians of the period have traditionally emphasized the work of white college...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2021