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Urban Transformations in the U.S.A.

Spaces, Communities, Representations
  • Edited by: Julia Sattler
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2016
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Urban Studies
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This volume investigates urban transformations in the USA, integrating research from literary and cultural studies, urban studies and history. Its focus is on 20th century cultural and literary representations of US urbanities.

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»Die verschiedenen Essays blicken auf und analysieren eine große Anzahl städtischer Transformationsprozesse und deren kulturelle Repräsentationen. Sie stellen sowohl thematisch als auch methodologisch einen wertvollen und äußerst lesenswerten Beitrag zur aktuellen Stadtforschung dar.«

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Reading the Rust Belt in the Ruhr Valley
Julia Sattler
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Models of Urban Transformation

Washington, D.C., and the Transformation of a National Capital
Michael Wala
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Crossroads Podunks and the Rise of a New Urban Strategy
Nick Bacon
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How the Space of Political Struggle for Black Freedom Moves from the Private to the Public Realm
Tazalika M. Te Reh
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Florida, and the Urban ‘Creative Class’
Walter Grünzweig
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Mapping EthniCity

Transformations of German Culture in Postwar New York City
Insa Neumann
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Manhattan Music by Meena Alexander
Kornelia Freitag
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Luis J. Rodriguez’s Always Running and The Republic of East L.A.
Josef Raab
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Selma Siew Li Bidlingmaier
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Erika Mikó
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Liminality and the American City

New York, Crime Fiction, and the Politics of Urban Inscrutability
Thomas Heise
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Shipping Containers and Narrative Agency in the Posthuman City
Jon Hegglund
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The Gas Station in Urban America
Gary Scales
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Utku Mogultay
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Contested Spaces

Urban Transformations in the L. A. Times’ Reporting on the 1992 Los Angeles ‘Riots’
Kathrin Muschalik
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Blackness, Community and Urban Geography in Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle
Eva Boesenberg
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San Francisco’s Mission District in the Documentary Boom: The Sound of Eviction
Astrid Kaemmerling
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The Queer Spaces of the Hudson River Piers in Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz
Faye Chisholm Guenther
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Perspectives in Urban American Studies

Urban American Studies and the Conjunction of Textual Strategies and Spatial Processes
Barbara Buchenau and Jens Martin Gurr
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