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Our country has been built on numerous cultural ideas that no longer exist today. Twilight of the Idols: An American Story explains how the foundational principles of our society have been and are being eroded by a single root cause. A cause that has grown in a completely bi-partisan way under both parties since the 1980s.
While our wealth has tripled since the 1980s, 99 percent of families have experienced a net decline in their income, spending...
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En cinquante ans, le centre-ville de Montréal a vu s'implanter un réseau piétonnier protégé de près de 30 kilomètres, donnant accès à ce qu'on appelle maintenant la ville intérieure. Le « RÉSO », entièrement accessible au public, comprend des stations de métro et des gares, des halls d'immeubles, de bureaux et d'habitation, des galeries marchandes, des pavillons universitaires et bien d'autres structures. Toronto a connu avec le «...
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The story of how the richest city in the world became one of the poorest in North America, with a new introduction by Peter Kwong How did New York City come to be a network of steel towers, banks, and nail salons, with chain drugstores on every block-a place where, increasingly, no one can afford to live except the lords of Wall Street and foreign billionaires, and where more and more of the Big Apple's best-loved businesses have closed their doors?...
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Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and subsequently the way we design, plan, and govern them. Taking action 'for the environment' is not only a moral imperative; instead, it is activated by our everyday experience in the city.
Based on the author's site visits and interviews in Darwin (Australia), Tulsa (Oklahoma), Cleveland (Ohio), and...
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"Winner of the John Friedmann Book Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning" "Winner of the Lewis Mumford Prize, Society of City and Regional Planning History" Brian D. Goldstein is associate professor of architectural history in the Department of Art and Art History at Swarthmore College.
An acclaimed history of Harlem's journey from urban crisis to urban renaissance
With its gleaming shopping centers and refurbished row houses, today's...