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The great urban transformation politics of land and property in China /
Published 2010Subjects: “…Urban policy China.…”
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The urban voter group conflict and mayoral voting behavior in American cities /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Constructing a theory of local voting behavior -- Group interest theory and local elections -- From rioting to Watergate: Los Angeles, 1969 and 1973 -- Tough enough to turn L.A. around :Los Angeles, 1973 to 1993 -- Vote your hopes, not your fears : New York, 1965 to 1993 -- Racial conflict and retrospective voting -- Down but not out : A liberal revival in 2001 -- Changing urban politics in the new millennium.…”
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Forging urban solidarities Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700 /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Extraordinary taxes ('avariz) and local administration -- The 'avariz tax regime and the conduct of tax surveys -- The mechanics of local tax administration : land use, personal liability, and apportionment -- The responsibilities and compensation of quarter tax officials -- A fiscal demography of Aleppo -- Urban responses to the Imposition of extraordinary taxes -- The frequency and level of extraordinary tax levies -- Popular strategies for tax relief : tax exemption -- Other individual strategies for tax relief -- Collective action and mutual assistance -- Residential quarters and the question of "positive loyalties" -- pt. 2. …”
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Politics of urban runoff nature, technology, and the sustainable city /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…The dilemma of water in the city -- Urban runoff and the city of relations -- Saving the springs : urban expansion and water quality in Austin -- After the flood : retrofitting Austin's urban core to accommodate growth -- Metronatural : inventing and taming nature in Seattle -- Reasserting the place of nature in Seattle's urban creeks -- Politics of urban runoff : building relations through active citizenship -- Towards the relational city : imaginaries, expertise, experiments.…”
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The urban racial state managing race relations in American cities /
Published 2011Subjects: “…Urban policy United States Case studies.…”
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The politics of urban water : changing waterscapes in Amsterdam /
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The Roots of Latino Urban Agency
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Latino urban agency / Sharon A. Navarro and Rodolfo Rosales -- Latino political agency in Los Angeles past & present: diverse conflicts, diverse coalitions, and fates that intertwine / Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval -- The rebirth of Latino urban agency in San Francisco: from the MCO to the MAC, 1967/2006 / Richard Edward DeLeon -- The fight for school equity in Chicago's Latino neighborhoods / Melissa R. …”
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Critical urban theory, common property, and "the Political" : desire and drive in the city /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Validating the city in political theory -- Post-politics and the ethical turn in political theory -- Ethics as a symptom of late capitalism -- The open city, or the ethical turn in critical urban studies -- Gentrification and the dromocratic city -- Common property and the politicization of urban space -- Immanent critique and disavowing the urban political -- Conclusion.…”
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The Roots of Latino Urban Agency /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Latino urban agency / Sharon A. Navarro and Rodolfo Rosales -- Latino political agency in Los Angeles past & present : diverse conflicts, diverse coalitions, and fates that intertwine / Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval -- The rebirth of Latino urban agency in San Francisco : from the MCO to the MAC, 1967-2006 / Richard Edward DeLeon -- The fight for school equity in Chicago's Latino neighborhoods / Melissa R. …”
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Urban planning and the British New Right
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Urban meltdown cities, climate change and politics as usual /
Published 2007Subjects: “…Urban ecology (Sociology)…”
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The Roots of Latino Urban Agency /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Latino urban agency / Sharon A. Navarro and Rodolfo Rosales -- Latino political agency in Los Angeles past & present : diverse conflicts, diverse coalitions, and fates that intertwine / Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval -- The rebirth of Latino urban agency in San Francisco : from the MCO to the MAC, 1967-2006 / Richard Edward DeLeon -- The fight for school equity in Chicago's Latino neighborhoods / Melissa R. …”
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Perspectives in politics and discourse
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Privatizing water governance failure and the world's urban water crisis /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Governance failure : reframing the urban water supply "crisis" -- Material emblems of citizenship : creating "public" water -- Watering the thirsty poor : the water privatization debate -- Citizens without a city : the techno-politics of urban water governance -- Protesting privatization : transnational struggles over the human right to water -- Commons versus commodities : the ambiguous merits of community water-supply management -- Politics and biopolitics : debating ecological governance.…”
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The liberal monument urban design and the late modern project /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…The liberal monument -- Group -- Protagonists -- Urban design -- Centers of resistance -- Liberalism as formalism -- Not program but flow between programs -- Sprawl -- The core -- Sert's core -- Polynuclearity -- Organizing distances -- A formal template for the core -- Empty space -- Platform -- Shattering and regrouping -- Maki's "master form" -- Moving beyond the totalizing ambitions of urban planning design --The "not yet" form -- Liberalism -- A romantic conception of the public -- Romantic pluralism -- Empathy -- Acropolis -- Aesthetic theory of the monument -- Symbolic form in architecture -- Giedion's symbolic forms -- Sert's symbolic forms -- Louis Kahn's symbolic forms -- A liberal monument for the new American century? …”
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Being nuclear Africans and the global uranium trade /
Published 2012Subjects: “…Uranium industry Africa.…”
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The condemnation of blackness race, crime, and the making of modern urban America /
Published 2011“…Race, crime, and the making of modern urban America…”
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