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This informative anthology provides convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current, carefully selected articles from some of the most respected newspapers, magazines, and journals published today. Additional support can be found at our student Web site, Dushkin Online, (www.dushkin.com/online/) for this Annual Editions title.
Table of Contents
UNIT 1. The Urban Frame
1. Fear of the City, 1783 to 1983
2. The Man Who Loved Cities
3. The Death and Life of America’s Cities
UNIT 2. Sprawl: Challenges to the Metropolitan Landscape
4. What Will it Take to Halt Sprawl?
5. Are Europe’s Cities Better?
6. Is Regional Government the Answer?
7. Sprawl-Weary Los Angeles Builds Up and In,
8. The Rise of the Creative Class
9. A Bit of a Chill for Hot Times in the Big City
11. Feisty Mom-and-Pops of Gotham Strike Back at Drugstore Chains
UNIT 4. Urban Revival Part A. Financing and Costs
12. Financing Urban Revitalization
13. Ground Zero in Urban Decline
14. Return to Center 15. New Village on Campus
16. Museum Growth Pays Off for Galleries
17. Culture Club
18. Midwestern Momentum
19. A Skid Row Turned SoHo in Downtown New Orleans, Part C. Immigration
20. Saving Buffalo From Extinction,
21. Chinatown Returns to Center Stage
22. Movers & Shakers
UNIT 5. Urban Policies and Politics
23. Mayors and Morality: Daley and Lindsay Then and Now
24. Complicating the Race
25. Beyond Safe and Clean
26. Sticking With the Seattle Way
UNIT 6. Urban Neighborhoods
27. The Gentry, Misjudged as Neighbors
28. The Essence of Uptown
29. On Avenue C, Renewal and Regret
30. The Geography of Cool
31. Rocking-Chair Revival
UNIT 7. Urban Problems: Crime, Education, and Poverty
32. Broken Windows
33. How an Idea Drew People Back to Urban Life
34. Murder Mystery
35. Crossing the Line
36. Segregation in New York Under a Different Name
37. Geography of Welfare Is Changing
38. Where Is Everyone Going?
UNIT 8. Urban Futures: Cities After September 11, 2001
39. Remember Life With Life: The New World Trade Center as Living Memorial
40. A View From the South
41. Rebuilding: The Idea of the City: The Present Crisis in Perspective
42. Time to Think Small?
43. Cities in the Next Century -->Copyright © 2004 Everything Linux Pty. Limited
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