Screen LibraryWhy don't american cities burn? /
Urban historian Michael B. Katz traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2012] ©2012 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The city in the twenty-first century
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http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812205206 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812205206.jpg |
| Summary: |
Urban historian Michael B. Katz traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 15 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812205206 |
| Index Number: | HT123 |
| CLC: | C912.81 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue: The Death of Shorty -- Chapter 1. What Is an American City? -- Chapter 2. The New African American Inequality -- Chapter 3. Why Don t American Cities Burn Very Often? -- Chapter 4. From Underclass to Entrepreneur: New Technologies of Poverty Work in Urban America -- Epilogue: The Existential Problem of Urban Studies -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |