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Urban Transformations in the U.S.A.
Spaces, Communities, Representations
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Edited by:
Julia Sattler
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English
Published/Copyright:
2016
About this book
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Models of Urban Transformation
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Washington, D.C., and the Transformation of a National Capital Michael Wala Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Crossroads Podunks and the Rise of a New Urban Strategy Nick Bacon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Florida, and the Urban ‘Creative Class’ Walter Grünzweig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Mapping EthniCity
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Transformations of German Culture in Postwar New York City Insa Neumann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Manhattan Music by Meena Alexander Kornelia Freitag Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Luis J. Rodriguez’s Always Running and The Republic of East L.A. Josef Raab Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Liminality and the American City
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New York, Crime Fiction, and the Politics of Urban Inscrutability Thomas Heise Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Shipping Containers and Narrative Agency in the Posthuman City Jon Hegglund Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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The Gas Station in Urban America Gary Scales Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Urban Transformations in the L. A. Times’ Reporting on the 1992 Los Angeles ‘Riots’ Kathrin Muschalik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Blackness, Community and Urban Geography in Paul Beatty’s The White Boy Shuffle Eva Boesenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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San Francisco’s Mission District in the Documentary Boom: The Sound of Eviction Astrid Kaemmerling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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Urban American Studies and the Conjunction of Textual Strategies and Spatial Processes Barbara Buchenau and Jens Martin Gurr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
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eBook published on:
January 15, 2016
eBook ISBN:
9783839431115
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
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426
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4
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4 schw.-w. Abb.
eBook ISBN:
9783839431115
Keywords for this book
Cities; Cities; USA; USA; Urban Studies; Urban Studies; American Literature; American Literature; American Culture; American Culture; City; City; America; America; Social Geography; Social Geography; Cultural Geography; Cultural Geography; Sociology; Sociology
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Professional and scholarly;