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In communities across the country and around the world, people are coming together to rebuild and restore local... Read More >>
In Blockbusting in Baltimore W. Edward Orser examines Edmondson Village, a west Baltimore rowhouse community where... Read More >>
From the 1780s, when Louisville and Lexington were tiny clusters of houses in the wilderness, to the 1980s, when... Read More >>
The Highlands of Scotland, like the southern Appalachians of the United States, have long been a problem area in... Read More >>
In 2001 the northern Ontario town of Cobalt won a competition to be named the province's Most Historic Town. This... Read More >>
The 1835 Municipal Reform Act is both a consequence and a continuation of the 1832 Reform Act. By dealing with those... Read More >>
In 1893, the year that marked the four hundredth anniversary of the landing of Columbus in the New World, Chicago... Read More >>
This study affords an entirely new view of the nature of modern popular entertainment. American vaudeville is here... Read More >>
Since the nineteenth century, the Ohio River has represented a great divide for African Americans. It marked the... Read More >>
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly work of literary journalism about a senseless murder, a relentless detective,... Read More >>
During the late nineteenth century rapid social and economic changes negated the prevailing conception of the city... Read More >>
Since 1950 more than three million people have left their homes in Appalachia in search of better jobs and a better... Read More >>
They will melt like snowflakes in the sun, said one observer of nineteenth-century Irish emigrants to America.... Read More >>
For Irish Americans as well as for Chicago's other ethnic groups, the local parish once formed the nucleus of daily... Read More >>
In this panoramic survey of urbanization in the American South from its beginnings in the colonial period through... Read More >>
A ground-breaking collaborative study merging perspectives from history, political science, and urban planning,... Read More >>
The American essays of renowned writer Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) artistically chronicle the robust urban life of... Read More >>
Japan is one of the most crowded countries on earth, with three-fourths of its population now living in cities.... Read More >>
This book assesses the role of urban ethnic groups, particularly in terms of the rise of the Democratic Party to... Read More >>
This timely book provides a wealth of useful information for following through on today's renewed concern for sustainability... Read More >>
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A paradoxical situation emerged at the turn of the twenty-first century: the dramatic upscaling of the suburban... Read More >>
Rethinking Disaster Recovery focuses attention on the social inequalities that existed on the Gulf Coast before... Read More >>
