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Middletown: a study in American culture

by Lynd, Robert Staughton, Lynd, Helen Merrell

fromHarvest book

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"The pioneer study in depth, now classic, of the day-by-day life of a typical, mid-continent American urban community at the quarter-century mark. In his Foreword, Clark Wissler calls it "a pioneer attempt to deal with a sample American community after the manner of social anthr…

City stages: theatre and urban space in a global city

by McKinnie, Michael

fromCultural spaces

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Cartographies of youth resistance: hip-hop, punk, and urban autonomy in Mexico

by Magana, Maurice Rafael

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Introduction : rethinking social movement temporality and spatiality through counter-space and urban youth culture -- Building youth counter-spaces, horizontal political cultures and emergent identities in the Oaxacan social movement of 2006 -- Urban autonomy, indigenous anarchi…

Cities in translation: intersections of language and memory

by Simon, Sherry

fromNew perspectives in translation studies

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All cities are multilingual, but there are some where language relations have a special importance. These are cities where more than one historically rooted language community lays claim to the territory of the city. This book focuses on four such linguistically divided cities: …

Cities in translation: intersections of language and memory

by Simon, Sherry

fromNew perspectives in translation studies

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All cities are multilingual, but there are some where language relations have a special importance. These are cities where more than one historically rooted language community lays claim to the territory of the city. This book focuses on four such linguistically divided cities: …

Key thinkers on cities

by Koch, Regan, Latham, Alan

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Profiles the work of 40 innovative thinkers who represent the broad reach of contemporary urban scholarship and whose ideas have shaped the way cities around the world are understood, researched, debated and acted upon. Providing a synoptic overview that spans a wide range of ac…

Street archives and city life: popular intellectuals in postcolonial Tanzania

by Callaci, Emily

fromRadical perspectives

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In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian urban landscapes. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party (TANU) adopted a policy of rural socialism known as Ujamaa between 1…

Street archives and city life: popular intellectuals in postcolonial Tanzania

by Callaci, Emily

fromRadical perspectives

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In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian urban landscapes. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party (TANU) adopted a policy of rural socialism known as Ujamaa between 1…

Street archives and city life: popular intellectuals in postcolonial Tanzania

by Callaci, Emily

fromRadical perspectives

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Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid-twentieth-century Tanzanian cities. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party adopted a policy of rural socialism--Ujamaa--an influx of youth migrants to the city of Dar es Salaam generated innovati…

Reclaiming American cities: the struggle for people, place, and nature since …

by Platt, Rutherford H.

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For most of the past century, urban America was dominated by top-down policies serving the white business and cultural elite, the suburbs, and the automobile. At times these approaches were fiercely challenged by reformers such as Jane Addams and Jane Jacobs. Yet by the 1980s, m…