21. | | Title: Disaster hits home: new policy for urban housing recoveryAuthor: Comerio, Mary C Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Architecture | Urban Studies | Public Policy | Economics and Business | California and the WestPublisher's Description: Whenever a major earthquake strikes or a hurricane unleashes its fury, the devastating results fill our television screens and newspapers. Mary C. Comerio is interested in what happens in the weeks and months after such disasters, particularly in the recovery of damaged housing.Through case studies . . . [more]Similar Items |
22. | | Title: Down on their luck: a study of homeless street peopleAuthor: Snow, David A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Sociology | Urban Studies | Politics | Ethnic Studies | AnthropologySimilar Items |
23. | | Title: Draw the lightning down: Benjamin Franklin and electrical technology in the Age of EnlightenmentAuthor: Schiffer, Michael B Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Urban Studies | History of Science | Anthropology | American Studies | European HistoryPublisher's Description: Most of us know - at least we've heard - that Benjamin Franklin conducted some kind of electrical experiment with a kite. What few of us realize - and what this book makes powerfully clear - is that Franklin played a major role in laying the foundations of modern electrical science and technology. T . . . [more]Similar Items |
24. | | Title: Even in Sweden: racisms, racialized spaces, and the popular geographical imaginationAuthor: Pred, Allan Richard 1936- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Geography | Ecology | Consumerism | Urban Studies | AnthropologyPublisher'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 |
25. | | Title: Everyday America: cultural landscape studies after J.B. JacksonAuthor: Wilson, Chris 1951 Dec. 23- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Architecture | Landscape Architecture | Geography | American Studies | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: As old as a roadway that was once a Native trail, as new as the suburban subdivisions spreading across the American countryside, the cultural landscape is endlessly changing. The study of cultural landscapes - a far more recent development - has also undergone great changes, ever broadening, deepeni . . . [more]Similar Items |
26. | | Title: The fragmented metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930Author: Fogelson, Robert M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Urban Studies | California and the West | Geography | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emergence as a metropolis of more than 2 million in 1930 - a city whose distinctive structure, character, and . . . [more]Similar Items |
27. | | Title: From colonia to community: the history of Puerto Ricans in New York CityAuthor: Sánchez Korrol, Virginia Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Latino Studies | United States History | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: First published in 1983, this book remains the only full-length study documenting the historical development of the Puerto Rican community in the United States. Expanded to bring it up to the present, Virginia Sánchez Korrol's work traces the growth of the early Puerto Rican settlements - "colonias" . . . [more]Similar Items |
28. | | Title: Good with their hands: boxers, bluesmen, and other characters from the Rust BeltAuthor: Rotella, Carlo 1964- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | American Studies | Sociology | Literature | Labor Studies | Urban Studies | Ethnic Studies | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: This eloquent, streetwise book is a paean to America's Rust Belt and a compelling exploration of four milieus caught up in a great transformation of city life. With loving attention to detail and a fine sense of historical context, Carlo Rotella explores women's boxing in Erie, Pennsylvania; Buddy G . . . [more]Similar Items |
29. | | Title: The grit beneath the glitter: tales from the real Las VegasAuthor: Rothman, Hal 1958- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Sociology | Politics | California and the West | Urban Studies | Geography | Environmental Studies | Californian and Western HistoryPublisher's Description: The Grit Beneath the Glitter is the first real look at the new Las Vegas from the inside. In it, long-time residents as well as professionals reflect on the transformation of one of the fastest-growing and most famous cities on earth, yet one about which relatively little is known. They offer a live . . . [more]Similar Items |
30. | | Title: Hazardous metropolis: flooding and urban ecology in Los AngelesAuthor: Orsi, Jared 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | California and the West | Urban Studies | Water | Urban StudiesPublisher'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 |
31. | | Title: HonkyAuthor: Conley, Dalton 1969- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Sociology | Urban Studies | American Studies | AutobiographyPublisher's Description: This intensely personal and engaging memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York's Lower East Side. Vividly evoking the details of city life from a child's point of view - the streets, buses, . . . [more]Similar Items |
32. | | Title: How the other half works: immigration and the social organization of laborAuthor: Waldinger, Roger David Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology | Urban Studies | Ethnic Studies | Labor Studies | Immigration | Chicano Studies | Social Problems | Urban Studies | California and the West | California and the WestPublisher's Description: How the Other Half Works solves the riddle of America's contemporary immigration puzzle: why an increasingly high-tech society has use for so many immigrants who lack the basic skills that today's economy seems to demand. In clear and engaging style, Waldinger and Lichter isolate the key factors tha . . . [more]Similar Items |
33. | | Title: The Jews of modern FranceAuthor: Hyman, Paula 1946- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies | French Studies | European Studies | History | European History | Judaism | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: The Jews of Modern France explores the endlessly complex encounter of France and its Jews from just before the Revolution to the eve of the twenty-first century. In the late eighteenth century, some forty thousand Jews lived in scattered communities on the peripheries of the French state, not consid . . . [more]Similar Items |
34. | | Title: L.A. city limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the presentAuthor: Sides, Josh 1972- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: History | African American Studies | Urban Studies | Californian and Western History | California and the WestPublisher's Description: In 1964 an Urban League survey ranked Los Angeles as the most desirable city for African Americans to live in. In 1965 the city burst into flames during one of the worst race riots in the nation's history. How the city came to such a pass - embodying both the best and worst of what urban America off . . . [more]Similar Items |
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36. | | Title: Latinos: remaking AmericaAuthor: Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Latino Studies | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Sociology | Urban Studies | ImmigrationPublisher's Description: Latinos are the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States and will comprise a quarter of the country's population by mid-century. The process of Latinization, the result of globalization and the biggest migration flow in the history of the Americas, is indeed reshaping the character of the U . . . [more]Similar Items |
37. | | Title: Laughter out of place: race, class, violence, and sexuality in a Rio shantytownAuthor: Goldstein, Donna M Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | Gender Studies | Latin American Studies | Sociology | Urban Studies | Urban StudiesPublisher's Description: Donna M. Goldstein challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty." Drawing on more than a decade of experience in Brazil, Goldstein provides an intimate portrait of everyday life among the women of the favelas, or urban shantytowns. These women have created absurdist and bla . . . [more]Similar Items |
38. | | Title: Livable cities?: urban struggles for livelihood and sustainabilityAuthor: 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 StudiesPublisher'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 |
39. | | Title: Living downtown: the history of residential hotels in the United States Author: Groth, Paul Erling Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Architecture | Urban Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: From the palace hotels of the elite to cheap lodging houses, residential hotels have been an element of American urban life for nearly two hundred years. Since 1870, however, they have been the target of an official war led by people whose concept of home does not include the hotel. Do these residen . . . [more]Similar Items |
40. | | Title: Los Angeles and the automobile: the making of the modern cityAuthor: Bottles, Scott L Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: American Studies | Californian and Western History | Urban Studies | United States History | American StudiesPublisher's Description: More comprehensive than any other book on this topic, Los Angeles and the Automobile places the evolution of Los Angeles within the context of American political and urban history. Similar Items |