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• Transnationalism and Urban Networks: An Introduction
  ...ding within these municipalities. Nor is such polarization confined to the city limits. Rather, suburban and metropolitan areas illustrate a similar dynami ...Urban Hierarchy” (1981) and John Friedmann and Goetz Wolff’s “World City Formation: Agenda for Research and Action” (1982) serve as two examples o
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• The Emergence of Urban Planning in the South, 1880-1930
  ...scholars from fully understanding the complexity of planning the southern city. ...cholars had tackled the subject of southern cities directly or of American planning in general.
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• Thirty Years of "Smart Growth" in Oregon
  ...ch is a line around each city in the state that clearly marks what land is city and country. Most of the writing about this stuff is deadly, deadly boring ...possible. This sense of possessiveness, of involvement in the process of planning, appears throughout works on Oregon land-use policy, alongside some substan
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• Deconstructing Dumbo: The Disneyland Discourse on Suburban America
  ...ruct Los Angeles as suburban “white spot” immune to the dangers of the city, protected by homogenous suburbanization. According to Avila, popular cultu ...and alien Los Angeles.” Here Avila juxtaposes the portrayal of the inner city in Los Angeles film noir with the rise of Disneyland, each representing an
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• The Best Poor Man's Country
  ...ps and other goods, so they supported the development of Philadelphia; the city's founding also coincided with the opening of markets in the West Indies, t ...e 1730s and the 60s and imports increased even more so. Lemon credits the planning acumen of the Penns in strategically placing country towns and the skill of
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• The Long Twentieth Century
  ...lism’s development since it emerged as an economic system in the Italian city-states of the Renaissance and gradually moved its center of power to the Ne ...could take out a number of Libyan rebels, who might have been crucial for planning and executing an assault on Tripoli, which gives Muammar Gaddafi enough bre
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• Transnationalism - Reft
  * Sassen, Saskia. The Global City: New York, London, and Tokyo. New York: Princeton University Press, 1991. * Roy, Ananya. City Requiem, Calcutta : Gender and the Politics of Poverty. Minneapolis : Unive
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• Suburban Warriors
  Traditionally, urban histories limit their focus to all that unfolds within city limits. Though valuable, studies such as Thomas Sugrue’s groundbreaking ' ...pproach employed structures reminiscent of Eastern machines. Even at large city council membership led to entire populations lacking representation. Still,
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• Cities of Knowledge
  ...ledge is a welcome addition to the study of the so-called “informational city,” to which scholars such as Manuel Castells and AnnaLee Saxenian have con ...ed to hire. Perceptions of traffic, crime, and other unpleasantries in the city combined to make the move of research facilities to the suburbs of the Sout
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• The Politics of Urban Renewal
  ...question of this study is what did citizens contribute to an urban renewal planning operation in Hyde Park-Kenwood.” (2) With this in mind, Rossi and Dentler ...CC’s role assuaged resident fears while encouraging dialogue between the city and Hyde Park – Kenwood’s civil society. This greatly lessened politica
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• The Silent Majority
  Traditionally, urban histories limit their focus to all that unfolds within city limits. Though valuable, studies such as Thomas Sugrue’s groundbreaking ' ...pproach employed structures reminiscent of Eastern machines. Even at large city council membership led to entire populations lacking representation. Still,
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• City of Quartz
  | name = City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles | image = [[File:City of Quartz.jpg|200px|alt=Cover]]
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• The Postmodern Urban Condition
  ...ess.” (3) With this in mind, Dear focuses on issues of city and land use planning especially “intentionality” meaning “how and why certain key players ...the city.” (14) Still as others, like Jason Hackworth in The Neoliberal City, have pointed out, globalization has amplified the intense localization tha
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• Globalizing L.A.
  ...economic growth remains transportation infrastructure and the proprietary city agencies that control them. Offending Objectivists everywhere, Erie credits ...elections in which the government knew turnout would be awful then ramp up city workers who represented a large portion of the electorate to vote thus secu
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• Challenging the Growth Machine
  ...notes that frequently studies ignore a comparative approach, examining one city in isolation. ''Challenging the Growth Machine'' juxtaposes the experiences ...otest and division. The civic arena recognized the economic decline of the city and through institutions like ACCD established a pattern that removed neigh
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• Magic Lands
  What do Disneyland, Sun City, Arizona, Stanford Industrial Park and Seattle’s Space Needle have in com ...etween the growing tourist industry and city locals helped reconstruct the city’s social and economic mores as liquor laws changed, new entertainment and
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• The Neoliberal City
  | name = The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism | image = [[File:The Neoliberal City.jpg|200px|alt=Cover]]
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• Yerba Buena
  ...of the YBC are labeled difficult or unreasonable, holding back the entire city for their own selfish interests, “What YBC supporters and planners meant ...ts to resist. Another facet of urban renewal uncovered by Hartman involves planning and negotiations themselves, “what is finally constructed on removal site
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• Non-Plan
  ...uch facilitators as designers. Social engineering through architecture and planning emerged as anathema to Non-Planners who refuted such efforts arguing “arc ...he relationship between architecture and event became in turn reified. Non-planning’s ambition to create ‘event spaces’ and new types of living was since
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• The Sunbelt Sprawl: Metropolitan Approaches to Sunbelt History
  Traditionally, urban histories limit their focus to all that unfolds within city limits. Though valuable, studies such as Thomas Sugrue’s groundbreaking ' ...pproach employed structures reminiscent of Eastern machines. Even at large city council membership led to entire populations lacking representation. Still,
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