The Urbanization of Modern America
Author | : Zane L. Miller |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Zane L. Miller |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Zane L. Miller |
Publisher | : Harcourt College Pub |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1987-06-01 |
Genre | : Cities and towns |
ISBN | : 9780155042759 |
Author | : Carl Abbott |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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 fascination with growth and change in the nation’s metropolitan areas spans a wide range of scholarly fields, and the new edition also benefits from scholarship in disciplines closely related to urban history, including geography, political science, sociology, and urban planning. Featuring an entirely new chapter covering the years since 1980 and a bank of interesting photographs, the second edition of Urban America in the Modern Age further explores and fine-tunes the themes and topics central to its predecessor—the physical form of metropolitan areas, their sources of growth and mix of ethnic and racial groups, the shaping of and responses to public policy, and ideas of community planning. Regionally balanced—with examples from New York, Boston, and Chicago, as well as Los Angeles, Atlanta, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, San Antonio, Miami, Charlotte, Washington, Detroit, and Cleveland—the second edition of Urban America in the Modern Age makes ideal supplementary reading for courses in Urban History, twentieth-century America, as well as the second half of the U.S. survey.
Author | : Carl Abbott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Honolulu to Houston and from Fargo to Fairbanks to show how Western cities organize the region's vast spaces and connect them to the even larger sphere of the world economy. His survey moves from economic change to social and political response, examining the initial boom of the 1940s, the process of change in the following decades, and the ultimate impact of Western cities on their environments, on the Western regional character, and on national identity. Today, a.
Author | : Gunther Barth |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195031942 |
This study explains the parallel development of urbanization and modernization in late nineteenth-century American society, demonstrating how the successful features of big-city life spread across the country and transformed towns all over America.
Author | : David M. P. Freund |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2015-02-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1444339001 |
The Modern American Metropolis: A Documentary Reader introduces the history of American cities and suburbs through a collection of original source materials that historians have long used to make sense of the urban experience. Carefully integrates and juxtaposes the primary sources that are at the heart of the collection Revisits and compares issues and themes over time Reveals how the history of cities and suburbs is not limited to buildings, innovation, and politics, and not confined to municipal boundaries Explores a wide variety of topics, including infrastructure development, electoral politics, consumer culture, battles over rights, environmental change, and the meaning of citizenship
Author | : Zane L. Miller |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Felipe Correa |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2016-06-07 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1477309411 |
During the last decade, the South American continent has seen a strong push for transnational integration, initiated by the former Brazilian president Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who (with the endorsement of eleven other nations) spearheaded the Initiative for the Integration of Regional Infrastructure in South America (IIRSA), a comprehensive energy, transport, and communications network. The most aggressive transcontinental integration project ever planned for South America, the initiative systematically deploys ten east-west infrastructural corridors, enhancing economic development but raising important questions about the polarizing effect of pitting regional needs against the colossal processes of resource extraction. Providing much-needed historical contextualization to IIRSA’s agenda, Beyond the City ties together a series of spatial models and offers a survey of regional strategies in five case studies of often overlooked sites built outside the traditional South American urban constructs. Implementing the term “resource extraction urbanism,” the architect and urbanist Felipe Correa takes us from Brazil’s nineteenth-century regional capital city of Belo Horizonte to the experimental, circular, “temporary” city of Vila Piloto in Três Lagoas. In Chile, he surveys the mining town of María Elena. In Venezuela, he explores petrochemical encampments at Judibana and El Tablazo, as well as new industrial frontiers at Ciudad Guayana. The result is both a cautionary tale, bringing to light a history of societies that were “inscribed” and administered, and a perceptive examination of the agency of architecture and urban planning in shaping South American lives.
Author | : D. Rodgers |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2012-10-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1137035137 |
By the dawn of the 21st century, more than half of the world's population was living in urban areas. This volume explores the implications of this unprecedented expansion in the world's most urbanized region, Latin America, exploring the new urban reality, and the consequences for both Latin America and the rest of the developing world.
Author | : Eli Friedman |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2022-06-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0231555830 |
Amid a vast influx of rural migrants into urban areas, China has allowed cities wide latitude in providing education and other social services. While millions of people have been welcomed into the megacities as a source of cheap labor, local governments have used various tools to limit their access to full citizenship. The Urbanization of People reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-class migrants to insecurity, constant mobility, and degraded educational opportunities. Using the school as a lens on urban life, Eli Friedman investigates how the state manages flows of people into the city. He demonstrates that urban governments are providing quality public education to those who need it least: school admissions for nonlocals heavily favor families with high levels of economic and cultural capital. Those deemed not useful are left to enroll their children in precarious resource-starved private schools that sometimes are subjected to forced demolition. Over time, these populations are shunted away to smaller locales with inferior public services. Based on extensive ethnographic research and hundreds of in-depth interviews, this interdisciplinary book details the policy framework that produces unequal outcomes as well as providing a fine-grained account of the life experiences of people drawn into the cities as workers but excluded as full citizens.