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| 1. |  | Title: In/different spaces: place and memory in visual culture Author: Burgin, Victor Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Art | Art Criticism | Social Science Publisher's Description: Recent discussions about the culture of images have focused on issues of identity - sexual, racial, national - and the boundaries that define subjectivity. In this context Victor Burgin adopts an original critical strategy. He understands images less in traditional terms of the specific institutions . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Urban design downtown: poetics and politics of form Author: Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia 1958- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Urban Studies | Economics and Business | Social Science | Architecture | Sociology Publisher's Description: The corporate downtown, with its multitude of social dilemmas and contradictions, is the focus of this well-illustrated volume. How are downtown projects conceived, scripted, produced, packaged, and used, and how has all this changed during the twentieth century? The authors of Urban Design Downtown . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Spacefaring: the human dimension Author: Harrison, Albert A Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Science | Technology and Society | Psychology Publisher's Description: The stars have always called us, but only for the past forty years or so have we been able to respond by traveling in space. This book explores the human side of spaceflight: why people are willing to brave danger and hardship to go into space; how human culture has shaped past and present missions; . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Livable cities?: urban struggles for livelihood and sustainability Author: Evans, Peter B 1944- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Environmental Studies | Social Problems | Public Policy | Political Theory | Pacific Rim Studies | Urban Studies | Latin American Studies | Urban Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: The sprawling cities of the developing world are vibrant hubs of economic growth, but they are also increasingly ecologically unsustainable and, for ordinary citizens, increasingly unlivable. Pollution is rising, affordable housing is decreasing, and green space is shrinking. Since three-quarters of . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Making Muslim space in North America and Europe  Author: Metcalf, Barbara Daly 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | History | Islam | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political is . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: American urban architecture: catalysts in the design of cities Author: Attoe, Wayne Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Architecture | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Conceiving of urban design in terms of architectural actions and reactions, Attoe and Logan propose a theory of "catalytic architecture" better suited to specifically American circumstances than the largely European models developed in the last thirty years for the remaking of cities.After exploring . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Space in the tropics: from convicts to rockets in French Guiana Author: Redfield, Peter 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Geography | French Studies | European Studies | Technology Publisher's Description: Rockets roar into space - bearing roughly half the world's commercial satellites - from the same South American coastal rainforest where convicts once did time on infamous Devil's Island. What makes Space in the Tropics enthralling is anthropologist Peter Redfield's ability to draw from these two di . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: American literary realism and the failed promise of contract Author: Thomas, Brook Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | American Studies | Law | United States History Publisher's Description: In law, the late nineteenth century is often called the Age of Contract; in literature, the Age of Realism. Brook Thomas's new book brings contract and realism together to offer groundbreaking insights into both while exploring the social and cultural crises that accompanied America's transition fro . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Even in Sweden: racisms, racialized spaces, and the popular geographical imagination Author: Pred, Allan Richard 1936- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Geography | Ecology | Consumerism | Urban Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Allan Pred writes compellingly about the reawakening of racism throughout Europe at the end of the twentieth century - even in Sweden, a country widely regarded as the very model of social justice and equality. Many thousands of non-European and Muslim immigrants and refugees who took advantage of S . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: New York by gas-light and other urban sketches Author: Foster, George G d. 1856 Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | United States History | Print Media | Urban Studies | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: First published in 1850, New York by Gas-Light explores the seamy side of the newly emerging metropolis: "the festivities of prostitution, the orgies of pauperism, the haunts of theft and murder, the scenes of drunkenness and beastly debauch, and all the sad realities that go to make up the lower st . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: Migration, mujercitas, and medicine men: living in urban Mexico Author: Napolitano, Valentina Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Urban Studies | Sociology | Medical Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Medical Anthropology Publisher's Description: Valentina Napolitano explores issues of migration, medicine, religion, and gender in this incisive analysis of everyday practices of urban living in Guadalajara, Mexico. Drawing on fieldwork over a ten-year period, Napolitano paints a rich and vibrant picture of daily life in a low-income neighborho . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Mapping early modern Japan: space, place, and culture in the Tokugawa period, 1603-1868 Author: Yonemoto, Marcia 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Asian Studies | Geography | Japan Publisher's Description: This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes - including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias - to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: Hazardous metropolis: flooding and urban ecology in Los Angeles Author: Orsi, Jared 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | California and the West | Urban Studies | Water | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history - the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth century. Despite the city's 114 debris dams, 5 floo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: America becomes urban: the development of U.S. cities & towns, 1780-1980 Author: Monkkonen, Eric H 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1988 Subjects: History | United States History | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: America's cities: celebrated by poets, courted by politicians, castigated by social reformers. In their numbers and complexity they challenge comprehension. Why is urban America the way it is? Eric Monkkonen offers a fresh approach to the myths and the history of US urban development, giving us an u . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: The city: Los Angeles and urban theory at the end of the twentieth century Author: Scott, Allen John Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Urban Studies | Geography | Sociology | California and the West | American Studies Publisher's Description: Los Angeles has grown from a scattered collection of towns and villages to one of the largest megacities in the world. In the process, it has inspired controversy among critics and scholars, as well as among its residents. Seeking original perspectives rather than consensus, the editors of The City . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Urban revolt: ethnic politics in the nineteenth-century Chicago labor movement Author: Hirsch, Eric L 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | United States History | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Urban Revolt is a careful, incisive reexamination of the most highly mobilized urban revolutionary force in American history - the late nineteenth-century Chicago labor movement. By documenting the importance of ethnic origins in accounting for political choice, Eric L. Hirsch completely reconceptua . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: The fate of place: a philosophical history Author: Casey, Edward S 1939- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Philosophy | Classical Philosophy | Architecture | Intellectual History | Geography Publisher's Description: In this imaginative and comprehensive study, Edward Casey, one of the most incisive interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition, offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. Not merely a presentation of the ideas of other philos . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: Exits from the labyrinth: culture and ideology in the Mexican national space Author: Lomnitz Adler, Claudio Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Latin American History Publisher's Description: Can we address the issue of nationalism without polemics and restore it to the domain of social science? Claudio Lomnitz-Adler takes a major step in that direction by applying anthropological tools to the study of national culture. His sweeping and innovative interpretation of Mexican national ideol . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: October cities: the redevelopment of urban literature Author: Rotella, Carlo 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Literature | American Studies | Urban Studies | United States History | American Literature | Sociology Publisher's Description: Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. The flourishing industry, culture, and literature that had placed prewar Chicago at center stage in American life were entering a time of crisis. The middle class and economic opportunity were leaving the inn . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Remaking the modern: space, relocation, and the politics of identity in a global Cairo Author: Ghannam, Farha 1963- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve President Anwar Sadat's goal to modernize the housing conditions of the urban poor, the Egyptian government relocated residents from what was deemed valuable real estate in downto . . . [more] Similar Items |