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  • East LA Interchange

    • ASIN: B07SVYNFQT

  • Urban America in the Modern Age: 1920 to the Present

    • ASIN: 0882952471
    • ISBN: 0882952471
    • Brand: Brand: Wiley-Blackwell
    • Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell

    Since the appearance of Urban America in the Modern Age in 1987, the study of American cities has flourished. In this long-awaited second edition, Carl Abbott draws on the recent works of historians who have explored issues of urban growth, municipal politics, immigration and ethnicity, “suburbanization,” and environmental change. The fascinati... [Read More]

  • The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

    • ASIN: B01M8IWJT2
    • Manufacturer: Liveright

    One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2017Longlisted for the National Book AwardThis “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review).Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) his... [Read More]

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    • ASIN: B06Y45BWGJ
    • Brand: wall26
    • Size: 24" x 16" x 3 Panels
    • Manufacturer: wall26

    We use high quality canvases which are designed specifically for canvas printing. Our canvas is a white semi-gloss artists canvas. We use latest HP Latex inks during printing process allowing our products to be fade resistant for up to 100 years. Canvas pictures are stretched on wooden stretcher frames. All frames are of the highest quality. ... [Read More]

  • The Slum and the Ghetto: Housing Reform and Neighborhood Work in Chicago, 1880-1930 (Urban Life in America)

    • ASIN: 0195022769
    • ISBN: 0195022769
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    xxiv 428p hardback, clipped dustjacket with clear protective film, from a Cambridge College library, labels and stamps to spine and endpapers, clean pages, firm binding, a useful copy

  • Old Retro Map Unisex Sunmmer Travel Bucket Cap Hat Fisherman Bucket Sun Hat for Hiking Beach Sports Black

    • UPC: 617256433140
    • ASIN: B07VX72WZF
    • Brand: LAIUE
    • Size: One Size
    • Manufacturer: LAIUE

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  • Imprisoning Communities: How Mass Incarceration Makes Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Worse (Studies in Crime and Public Policy)

    • ASIN: 0195387201
    • ISBN: 0195387201
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    At no time in history, and certainly in no other democratic society, have prisons been filled so quickly and to such capacity than in the United States. And nowhere has this growth been more concentrated than in the disadvantaged--and primarily minority--neighborhoods of America's largest urban cities. In the most impoverished places, as much as 20... [Read More]

  • American Street

    • ASIN: B01G1GDAEY
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Balzer + Bray

    A National Book Award Finalist with five starred reviews!A New York Times Notable Book * Publishers Weekly Flying Start * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * ALA Booklist Editors' Choice of 2017 (Top of the List winner) * School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * BookPage Best YA Book of the YearAmerican ... [Read More]

  • House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods

    • ASIN: 0195176146
    • ISBN: 0195176146
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    Not long ago, neighborhoods such as the South Bronx, South Central Los Angeles, and Boston's Roxbury were crime-ridden wastelands of vacant lots and burned-out buildings, notorious symbols of urban decay. In House by House, Block by Block, Alexander von Hoffman tells the remarkable stories of how local activists and community groups helped turn the... [Read More]

  • There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America

    • ASIN: 0679724184
    • ISBN: 9780679724186
    • Brand: Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    From one of America’s most admired sociologists and urban policy advisers, There Goes the Neighborhood is a long-awaited look at how race, class, and ethnicity influence one of Americans’ most personal choices—where we choose to live. The result of a three-year study of four working- and lower-middle class neighborhoods in Chicago, these rive... [Read More]

  • Preserving Cultural Landscapes in America (Center Books on Contemporary Landscape Design)

    • ASIN: 0801862647
    • ISBN: 0801862647
    • Brand: Brand: The Johns Hopkins University Press
    • Manufacturer: Johns Hopkins University Press

    Winner of the Society for Architectural Historians Antoinette Forrester Downing AwardWinner of the Merit Award for Communications from the American Society of Landscape ArchitectsWinner of the Allen Noble Award from the Pioneer America SocietyHistoric preservation efforts began with an emphasis on buildings, especially those associated with signifi... [Read More]

  • Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

    • ASIN: B01M1JHFJA
    • Brand: Unknown
    • Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

    In recent years, America’s criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that began in the 1970s was supported by many African American lea... [Read More]

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    • ASIN: B074DVTN23
    • Brand: wall26
    • Size: 36" x 24" x 3 Panels
    • Manufacturer: wall26

    We use high quality canvases which are designed specifically for canvas printing. Our canvas is a white semi-gloss artists canvas. We use latest HP Latex inks during printing process allowing our products to be fade resistant for up to 100 years. Canvas pictures are stretched on wooden stretcher frames. All frames are of the highest quality. ... [Read More]

  • Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods (Studies in Government and Public Policy)

    • ASIN: 0700607900
    • ISBN: 0700607900
    • Brand: Brand: University Press of Kansas
    • Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas

    Since the 1950s and the advance of urban renewal, local governments and urban policy have focused heavily on the central business district. Today, promoters of downtown development still emphasize office and retail expansion, convention centers, sports arenas, festival market places, and tourist attractions. But, as the authors of this volume demon... [Read More]

  • The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood

    • ASIN: B00BH0VT48
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

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    • ASIN: B07VQ26SY7
    • Brand: BONLOR
    • Size: Small
    • Manufacturer: BONLOR

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  • Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City

    • ASIN: 1566638437
    • ISBN: 1566638437
    • Brand: Ivan R Dee Publisher
    • Manufacturer: Ivan R. Dee

    Baltimore is the setting for (and typifies) one of the most penetrating examinations of bigotry and residential segregation ever published in the United States. Antero Pietila shows how continued discrimination practices toward African Americans and Jews have shaped the cities in which we now live. Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist a... [Read More]

  • Streets of Hope : The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood

    • ASIN: 0896084825
    • ISBN: 0896084825
    • Manufacturer: South End Press

    Using the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative in Boston's most impoverished neighborhood as a case stuudy, the authors show how effective organizing reinforces neighborhood leadership, encourages grassroots power and leads to successful public-private partnerships and comprehensive community development.--Prof. Norman Krumholz

  • Rows of Beautiful Brownstones in New York City Photo Photograph Cool Wall Decor Art Print Poster 36x24

    • ASIN: B078LT42QV
    • Brand: Poster Foundry
    • Size: 36x24 inches
    • Manufacturer: Poster Foundry

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  • Stairway Walks in San Francisco: The Joy of Urban Exploring

    • ASIN: 0899977499
    • ISBN: 0899977499
    • Manufacturer: Wilderness Press

    Hundreds of public stairways traverse San Francisco's 42 hills, exposing incredible vistas while connecting colorful, unique neighborhoods -- Mary Burk and Adah Bakalinsky love them all. The updated Stairway Walks in San Francisco explores well-known and clandestine corridors from Lands End to Bernal Heights while sharing captivating architectural,... [Read More]

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