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Seeking Spatial Justice
In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent …
Turkish Berlin
The integration of immigrants into a larger society begins at the local level. Turkish Berlin reveals how integration has been experienced by second-generation Turkish immigrant …
The Servant Class City
San Diego, California, is frequently viewed as a model for American urban revitalization. It looks like a success story, with blight and poverty replaced by high-rises and jobs. …
Shanghai Rising
Analyzing a Chinese city’s dazzling rise to global megacity statusUntil around 1990, Shanghai was China’s premier but sluggish industrial center. Now at the beginning of the …
Struggling Giants
Throughout the past thirty years a small number of city-regions have achieved unprecedented global status in the world economy while undergoing radical changes. Struggling Giants …
Second Tier Cities
Analyzes and compares the rapid growth of medium-sized cities.Over the past thirty years, transnational investment, trade, and government policies have encouraged the …
The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation
While urban preservation is almost as old as cities themselves, it has become increasingly controversial in modern cities. In this book, Yue Zhang presents a cross-national …
Chasing World-Class Urbanism
Questions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve everyday city dwellers What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation …
Urban Policy in the Time of Obama
With his background as a community organizer and as a state legislator representing Chicago’s South Side, Barack Obama became America’s most “urban” president since Teddy …
Work Of Cities
Examines the new role of cities in a global economy.Are cities obsolete relics of an earlier era? In this pathbreaking book, Susan E. Clarke and Gary L. Gaile contend that contrary …
City Requiem, Calcutta
Uses Calcutta as a site for the exploration of persistent structures of deprivation and want.Housing developments emerge amid the paddy fields on the fringes of Calcutta; …
Reconstructing Chinatown
An exploration of this fascinating community as a window on globalization.In the American popular imagination, Chinatown is a mysterious and dangerous place, clannish and …