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Bench Ansfield
Born in Flames

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!" Supposedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, the phrase encapsulated a chaotic era in US histo…

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David Brown Morris
Ten Thousand Central Parks

A visionary look at Central Park's creation as an urban success story inspiring bold climate actionClimate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, and …

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Suzanne Mettler, Trevor E Brown
Rural Versus Urban

How the urban-rural divide drives partisan polarizationWhy have Americans living in different places come to experience politics as a battle between "us" and "them"? In Rural Versus Ur…

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David W Bates
An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence

A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.We imagine that we are both in control of and controlled by our bodies--autonomous and yet automatic. …

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Junji Ito
Mimi's Tales of Terror

Von urbanen Legenden & persönlichen Albträumen - Unheimliches vom Kultautor Junji Ito"Mimis Tales of Terror" entführt in eine Welt, in der das Alltägliche plötzlich von unheimlichen Schatten…

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Emily Hauser
Penelope's Bones

Weaving together literary and archaeological evidence, Emily Hauser illuminates the rich, intriguing lives of the real women behind Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.Achilles. Agamemnon. Odysseus. Hector. The liv…

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Anastasia Dukova
A History of Policing Cities

Elements in Global Urban History

Current policing practices directly continue from historical methods. City policing in the Global North emerged as a response to unrest and subsistence crises during the late stage of the Little Ice Age, …

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Richard Cimino, Hans Tokke
Micro-City

An on-the-ground study of how faith communities create belonging and build bridges across one of the most diverse urban landscapes in the worldMicro-City follows congregations, clergy, and everyday New Yo…

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Don Gillis
The Battle for Boston

How Mayor Ray Flynn's leadership and a coalition of activists transformed Boston, challenging established powers and setting new precedents for urban governance The Battle for Boston captures the remarkab…

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Anastasia Dukova
A History of Policing Cities

Elements in Global Urban History

Current policing practices directly continue from historical methods. City policing in the Global North emerged as a response to unrest and subsistence crises during the late stage of the Little Ice Age, …

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Davida Siwisa James
Hamilton Heights and Sugar Hill

Explores four centuries of colonization, land divisions, and urban development around this historic landmark neighborhood in West Harlem It was the neighborhood where Alexander Hamilton built his country …

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Andrew Alden,
Deep Oakland

Now in paperback: This San Francisco Chronicle bestseller and California Book Award finalist drills down into Oakland's geological history and its impacts on the city's urban present."This book has t…

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Joseph Mitchell,
The Bottom of the Harbor

A classic of literary reporting from one of The New Yorker's most iconic writers reveals the vibrant world of old New York and the ordinary people who made it great, now with illustrations by renowned art…

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Richard E Ocejo
Sixty Miles Upriver

An unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small cityNewburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New Y…

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Aa Vv
The Passenger: Thailand

"These books are so rich and engrossing that it is rewarding to read them even when one is stuck at home."-The TLSThe Passenger makes its first stop in Southeast Asia. A journey to one of the wo…

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Briem
Beyond Steel

Learning from one Rust Belt city's postindustrial transitionWhile Pittsburgh is sometimes held up as a successful example of urban reinvention in the era after heavy industry (think "eds and meds&quo…

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Deborah N Archer
Dividing Lines

Our nation's transportation system is crumbling: highways are collapsing, roads are pockmarked, and commuter trains are unreliable. But as acclaimed scholar and ACLU president Deborah Archer warns in Divi…

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Jonathan Butler
Join the Conspiracy

Dive into the electrifying tale of a Brooklyn-born patriot turned radical activist, in an era when America was torn by its ideological extremesIn the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy transpor…

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Robert T Gannett Jr
In the Spirit of Alinsky

Community-based organizing stands at a crossroads at a time when anti-democratic headwinds and authoritarian impulses threaten American society as never before. Robert T. Gannett Jr. draws on a forty-year…

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Thomas J Campanella
Designing the American Century

"Gilmore D. Clarke and Michael Rapuano were the foremost spatial designers of the American century. Their vast portfolio of public landscapes propelled the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert…

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