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1	Edge City: Life on the New Frontier more books like this by Joel Garreau add to wishlist First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping changes in 100 years by moving their jobs out to where they live and shop. In this groundbreaking and highly readable book, the author chronicles this dramatic trend and sheds revealing light on who we are, how we got that way, and ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £10.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Political Change in the Metropolis more books like this by John J. Harrigan add to wishlist This popular text has been thoroughly updated and revised to sharpen the focus on its "bias and change" theme while bringing the text into the 21st, post-September 11th world. Political Change in the Metropolis, Seventh Edition, continues to focus on the political changes that have taken place in American cities and the reactions of urban scholars ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £22.28! \| first editions
3	Cities in a World Economy more books like this by Dr. Saskia Sassen add to wishlist The Third Edition of the international bestselling Cities in a World Economy presents sociologists with a new perspective on the study of urban sociology. The decentralization and privatization of the world's economies has radically altered such things as the organization of labour, the structure of consumption and the distribution of earnings in ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £14.15! \| first editions
4	The New Urban Sociology more books like this by Prof. Mark Gottdiener add to wishlist Representing a major contribution to the field, authors Mark Gottdiener and Ray Hutchison present their breakthrough text in a new third edition, now completely revised and streamlined to provide students with a solid grounding on the topic. The book is organized around an integrated paradigm--the sociospatial perspective--which considers the ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £21.28! \| first editions
5	The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South more books like this by Matthew D Lassiter add to wishlist Suburban sprawl transformed the political culture of the American South as much as the civil rights movement did during the second half of the twentieth century. "The Silent Majority" provides the first regionwide account of the suburbanization of the South from the perspective of corporate leaders, political activists, and especially of the ... see all copies from £18.48! new only from £18.48!
6	Site Planning more books like this by Kevin Lynch add to wishlist see all copies from £6.04! first editions
7	Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000 more books like this by Professor Dolores Hayden add to wishlist From the author of "The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History" comes a comprehensive exploration of the contested cultural landscape where most Americans now live. Illustrations. see all copies from £7.42! new only from £7.69! \| first editions
8	The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream more books like this by Peter Calthorpe add to wishlist Regarding issues of urban sprawl Visit Sprawl Net, at Rice University. It's under construction, but it should be an interesting resource. Check out the traffic in the land of commuting. And, finally, enjoy Los Angeles: Revisiting the Four Ecologies. see all copies from £7.79! new only from £7.79!
9	Don't Call It Sprawl: Metropolitan Structure in the Twenty-First Century more books like this by William T Bogart add to wishlist In Don't Call It Sprawl, the current policy debate over urban sprawl is put into a broader analytical and historical context. The book informs people about the causes and implications of the changing metropolitan structure rather than trying to persuade them to adopt a panacea to all perceived problems. Bogart explains modern economic ideas about ... see all copies from £7.07! new only from £7.43!
10	Sprawl: A Compact History more books like this by Robert Bruegmann add to wishlist As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to capture the complexity of these vast regions with their superhighways, subdivisions, industrial areas, office parks, and resort areas pushing far out ... see all copies from £8.51! new only from £10.06! \| first editions
11	Urban Policy Reconsidered: Dialogues on the Problems and Prospects of American Cities more books like this by Charles Euchner, Stephen J McGovern add to wishlist This comprehensive overview of the issues and problems facing American cities today covers every important issue in urban affairs: poverty, inequality, race, planning, education and crime. see all copies from £27.10! new only from £30.14!
12 view cover	Inside Game/Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America more books like this by Mr. David Rusk add to wishlist According to the author of this book, focusing on programmes aimed at improving inner-city neighbourhoods - playing the "inside game" - is a losing strategy. Rusk argues that achieving real improvement requires matching the inside game with a strong "outside game" of regional strategies. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £9.57! \| first editions
13 view cover	Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century more books like this by Peter Dreier, Mr. John H Mollenkopf, Todd Swanstrom add to wishlist The central thesis of "Place Matters" is that economic segregation between rich and poor and the growing sprawl of American cities and suburbs are not solely the result of individual choices in free markets. Rather, these problems have been powerfully shaped by short-sighted government policies. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £11.76!
14 view cover	New Visions for Metropolitan America more books like this by Anthony Downs add to wishlist Here, Anthony Downs discusses the largely unrecognized symbiosis of central cities and suburbs. As suburbs develop, he argues, their residents come to believe - wrongly - that their welfare no longer depends on the economic and social health of central cities' fiscal and social problems, even though they have helped to create those problems by ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.42! \| first editions
15 view cover	Urban-Suburban Interdependencies more books like this by Rosalind Greenstein (Editor), Wim Wiewel (Editor) add to wishlist Experts in urban and regional planning, political science, economics, and related fields look at issues such as economic interdependencies, global competitiveness, and intergovernmental relationships to address how cities and their suburbs are dependent on each other. The chapters consider possible avenues for effective regional policies. They are ... see all copies from £6.10! new only from £6.10!
16 view cover	Redefining Urban and Suburban America: Evidence from Census 2000; Volume One more books like this by Bruce Katz (Editor), Robert E Lang (Editor), Franklin D Raines (Foreword by) add to wishlist The early returns from Census 2000 data have made certain facts plain: cities and suburbs are growing more diverse, the population is ageing and the make-up of households is shifting. There are fewer families with children, and more singles and empty-nesters. Yet regional trends muddy the picture. Communities in the Northeast and Midwest are ... see all copies from £8.63! new only from £14.99!
17 view cover	Urban America: Processes and Problems more books like this by John M Levy add to wishlist For introductory courses in Urban Politics in Departments of Political Science, Urban Studies, Sociology, Geography, Urbanization, Urban Affairs, and Urban Problems. Balanced and non-judgmental in tone, this comprehensive study on urban America provides an historic overview of the field, highlights key economic and political factors, and exposes ... see all copies from £7.12! new only from £39.33!
18 view cover	This Could Be the Start of Something Big: How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America more books like this by Manuel Pastor, Jr., Chris Benner, Martha Matsuoka add to wishlist see all copies from £12.55! new only from £12.55!
19 view cover	The New Downtown Library: Designing with Communities more books like this by Shannon Christine Mattern add to wishlist The past twenty years have seen a building boom for downtown public libraries. From Brooklyn to Seattle, architects, civic leaders, and citizens in major U.S. cities have worked to reassert the relevance of the central library. While the libraries' primary functions--as public spaces where information is gathered, organized, preserved, and made ... see all copies from £17.85! new only from £23.50! \| first editions
20 view cover	Metropolis: Center and Symbol of Our Times more books like this by Philip Kasinitz, Robert Jackall (Editor), Arthur J Vidich (Editor) add to wishlist The modern city is the nexus of culture, politics, and art. Despite the manifold problems cities face, more and more Americans are abandoning rural areas and relocating to urban centers. By the year 2000, 4 out of 5 Americans will live within one hour of a major city. What has prompted this emphasis on the city? Chronicling the rise of the modern ... see all copies from £6.35! new only from £21.29!
21 view cover	The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America more books like this by Professor Jon C Teaford add to wishlist In this absorbing history, Jon C. Teaford traces the dramatic evolution of American metropolitan life. At the end of World War II, the cities of the Northeast and the Midwest were bustling, racially and economically integrated areas frequented by suburban and urban dwellers alike. Yet since 1945, these cities have become peripheral to the lives of ... see all copies from £22.87! new only from £22.87!
22	Cities of the Prairie: The Metropolitan Frontier and American Politics more books like this by Daniel Judah Elazar add to wishlist 42.50 see all copies from £2.93! first editions
23 view cover	Cities Without Suburbs more books like this by Mr. David Rusk add to wishlist First published in 1993, this analysis of America's cities should be of interest to city planners, scholars, and citizens alike. It argues that America must end the isolation of the central city from its suburbs in order to attack its urban problems. Based on a detailed study of census data on 522 central cities in 320 metro areas of the USA from ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £7.43! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	The last landscape more books like this by William Hollingsworth Whyte add to wishlist The remaining corner of an old farm, unclaimed by developers. The brook squeezed between housing plans. Abandoned railroad lines. The stand of woods along an expanded highway. These are the outposts of what was once a larger pattern of forests and farms, the "last landscape." According to William H. Whyte, the place to work out the problems of our ... see all copies from £4.95! new only from £14.18! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California more books like this by Charlotte Brooks add to wishlist Between the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors evolved from outright hostility to relative acceptance. Charlotte Brooks examines this transformation through the lens of California's urban housing markets, arguing that the perceived foreignness of Asian Americans, which ... see all copies from £23.52! new only from £23.52!

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