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Book New York  Chicago  Los Angeles

Download or read book New York Chicago Los Angeles written by Janet L. Abu-Lughod and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles -- for all their differences, they are quintessentially American cities. They are also among the handful of cities on the earth that can be called "global". Janet L. Abu-Lughod's book is the first to compare them in an ambitious in-depth study that takes into account each city's unique history, following their development from their earliest days to their current status as players on the global stage.

Book From Chicago to L A

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Dear
  • Publisher : SAGE
  • Release : 2001-08-09
  • ISBN : 9780761920953
  • Pages : 460 pages

Download or read book From Chicago to L A written by Michael Dear and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-08-09 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Chicago to L.A. begins the task of defining an alternative agenda for urban studies and examines the case for shifting the focus of urban studies from Chicago to Los Angeles. The authors, experienced scholars from a variety of disciplines, examine: The concepts that have blocked our understanding of Southern California cities The imaginative structures that people have been using to understand and explain Los Angeles The utility of the "Los Angeles School" of urbanism

Book From Chicago to L A

Download or read book From Chicago to L A written by Michael Dear and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of the twentieth century, the principles of the "Chicago School" have guided urban analysts throughout the world. Los Angeles has been regarded as an exception to the rules governing the growth of American cities. But just as the Chicago School emerged at a time when that city was reaching new national prominence, Los Angeles is now making its impression on the minds of urbanists across the world. From Chicago to L.A. begins the task of defining an alternative agenda for urban studies and examines the case for shifting the focus of urban studies from Chicago to Los Angeles. The authors, experienced scholars from a variety of disciplines, examine: The concepts that have blocked our understanding of Southern California cities The imaginative structures that people have been using to understand and explain Los Angeles The utility of the "Los Angeles School" of urbanism

Book The City  Revisited

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dennis R. Judd
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0816665753
  • Pages : 389 pages

Download or read book The City Revisited written by Dennis R. Judd and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reexamining urban scholarship for the twenty-first century.

Book The Book of Chicago

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Shackleton
  • Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN : 3849684822
  • Pages : 173 pages

Download or read book The Book of Chicago written by Robert Shackleton and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1920 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his facile, chatty way the author tells of the city's marvelous growth, taking us from the Loop through that Olympus of Chicago, the Lake Shore Drive to Oak Park and South Chicago. The landmarks of the early settlers and the “beauty spots” of the modern city are all described in such a manner that they cannot fail to appeal to even the most conservative of Easterners. Mr. Shackleton in all his books of the cities, shows each one distinctly; its characteristics, institutions, literary traditions, landmarks, and its people. Nothing is too small for him to chronicle—their habits of speech, their eating, ancestor worship. In each city he manages to discover many odd corners not found by the usual sightseer. His is a sympathetic, clear-eyed, often humorous interpretation of the city in each case.

Book Outside the Rails  A Rail Route Guide from Chicago to La Plata  MO

Download or read book Outside the Rails A Rail Route Guide from Chicago to La Plata MO written by Robert Tabern and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Outside the Rails

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Tabern
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-03-17
  • ISBN : 9781312863491
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Outside the Rails written by Robert Tabern and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the abbreviated 38-page version of the Expanded Third Edition of "Outside the Rails: A Rail Route Guide from Chicago to La Plata, MO." If you or someone you know is planning to take a trip on Amtrak's Southwest Chief between Chicago, Illinois and La Plata, Missouri, then this is the book for you. It includes interesting facts and information about the train route through Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. It might look like just corn fields - but there is a lot to learn about our nation's breadbasket in this route guide. Where can you see the site of a deadly coal mine fire from the train? How did the Sears Tower get its design? Where and when can you spot bald eagles when traveling near the Mississippi River? "Outside the Rails" answers all your questions about the history, geology, people, and places along the route of the Southwest Chief. Communities described include Naperville, Plano, Mendota, Princeton, Kewanee, Galesburg, Fort Madison, La Plata, and many more!

Book Field Study

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chet'la Sebree
  • Publisher : FSG Originals
  • Release : 2021-06-01
  • ISBN : 0374722641
  • Pages : 109 pages

Download or read book Field Study written by Chet'la Sebree and published by FSG Originals. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets "Layered, complex, and infinitely compelling, Chet’la Sebree’s Field Study is a daring exploration of the self and our interactions with others—a meditation on desire, race, loss and survival." --Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Memorial Drive Chet’la Sebree’s Field Study is a genre-bending exploration of black womanhood and desire, written as a lyrical, surprisingly humorous, and startlingly vulnerable prose poem I am society’s eraser shards—bits used to fix other people’s sh*t, then discarded. Somehow still a wet nurse, from actual babes to Alabama special elections. Seeking to understand the fallout of her relationship with a white man, the poet Chet’la Sebree attempts a field study of herself. Scientifically, field studies are objective collections of raw data, devoid of emotion. But during the course of a stunning lyric poem, Sebree’s control over her own field study unravels as she attempts to understand the depth of her feelings in response to the data of her life. The result is a singular and provocative piece of writing, one that is formally inventive, playfully candid, and soul-piercingly sharp. Interspersing her reflections with Tweets, quips from TV characters, and excerpts from the Black thinkers—Audre Lorde, Maya Angelou, Tressie McMillan Cottom—that inspire her, Sebree analyzes herself through the lens of a society that seems uneasy, at best, with her very presence. She grapples with her attraction to, and rejection of, whiteness and white men; probes the malicious manifestation of colorism and misogynoir throughout American history and media; and struggles with, judges, and forgives herself when she has more questions than answers. “Even as I accrue these notes,” Sebree writes, “I’m still not sure I’ve found the pulse.” A poem of love, heartbreak, womanhood, art, sex, Blackness, and America—sometimes all at once—Field Study throbs with feeling, searing and tender. With uncommon sensitivity and precise storytelling, Sebree makes meaning out of messiness and malaise, breathing life into a scientific study like no other.

Book The Official Railway Guide

Download or read book The Official Railway Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Operation Fly Trap

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan A. Phillips
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2012-07-12
  • ISBN : 0226667650
  • Pages : 187 pages

Download or read book Operation Fly Trap written by Susan A. Phillips and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The operation would soon be considered an enormous success, noted for the precision with which the task force targeted and removed gang members otherwise entrenched in larger communities. In Operation Fly Trap, Susan A. Phillips questions both the success of this operation and the methods used to conduct it. Balancing her roles as even-handed reporter and public scholar, she brings together personal narratives, crime statistics, gang cultural histories, and extensive public policy analysis to reveal multiple flaws within the U.S. criminal justice system, building a powerful argument that many law enforcement policies in fact nurture, rather than prevent, violence in American society."--Back cover.

Book Market Day in Provence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michèle de La Pradelle
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2006-04
  • ISBN : 0226141845
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Market Day in Provence written by Michèle de La Pradelle and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence, Inequality, and Human Freedom is a sociological introduction to the study of violence that looks at violence on three different levels-structural, institutional, and interpersonal. The third edition is updated throughout, including a new chapter on educational violence and revised sections on economic and international violence.

Book Outside the Rails

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Tabern
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-04-20
  • ISBN : 9781312589322
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Outside the Rails written by Robert Tabern and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you or someone you know is planning to take a trip on Amtrak's Southwest Chief between Chicago, Illinois and La Plata, Missouri, then this is the book for you. "Outside the Rails: A Rail Route Guide from Chicago to La Plata, MO" includes 350 pages of interesting facts and information about the train route through Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri. It might look like just corn fields - but there is a lot to learn about our nation's breadbasket in this route guide. Where can you see the site of a deadly coal mine fire from the train? How did the Sears Tower get its design? Where and when can you spot bald eagles when traveling near the Mississippi River? "Outside the Rails" answers all your questions about the history, geology, people, and places along the route of the Southwest Chief. Communities described include Naperville, Plano, Mendota, Princeton, Kewanee, Galesburg, Fort Madison, La Plata, and many more! This is the only in-depth route guide available for the train route between Chicago and Missouri.

Book The Official Railway Equipment Register

Download or read book The Official Railway Equipment Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commerce

Download or read book Commerce written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bulletin of the Commercial Law League of America

Download or read book The Bulletin of the Commercial Law League of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Traveling Route 66

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nick Freeth
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780806133263
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Traveling Route 66 written by Nick Freeth and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining travelogue follows the legendary highway over more than two thousand miles of road leading from Chicago to Los Angeles, describes the many landmarks along the way, and discusses the significance of Route 66 in terms of American history and culture. Original.