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Contemporary Urban Sociology

By: William G. Flanagan

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Contemporary Urban Sociology

By: William G. Flanagan

This book provides an up-to-date overview of issues and debates in contemporary urban sociology. It is both a guide to, and a critical analysis of, the major theoretical approaches to the field.

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CUP Archive

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0521367433

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Urban Insects and Arachnids

A Handbook of Urban Entomology

By: William H. Robinson

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Urban Insects and Arachnids

A Handbook of Urban Entomology

By: William H. Robinson

This account provides the first comprehensive coverage of the insect and other arthropod pests in the urban environment worldwide. Presented is a brief description, biology, and detailed information on the development, habits, and distribution of urban and public health pests. There are 570 illustrations to accompany some of the major pest species. The format is designed to serve as a ready-reference and to provide basic information on orders, families, and species. The species coverage is international and based on distribution in domestic and peridomestic habitats. The references are extensive and international, and cover key papers on species and groups. The introductory chapters overview the urban ecosystem and its key ecological components, and a review of the pests status and modern control strategies. The book will serve as a professional training manual, and handbook for the pest control professionals, regulatory officials, and urban entomologists. It is organized alphabetically throughout.

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Cambridge University Press

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113944347X

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The Urban Household Energy Transition

Social and Environmental Impacts in the Developing World

By: Douglas F. Barnes,Kerry Krutilla,William F. Hyde

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The Urban Household Energy Transition

Social and Environmental Impacts in the Developing World

By: Douglas F. Barnes,Kerry Krutilla,William F. Hyde

As cities in developing countries grow and become more prosperous, energy use shifts from fuelwood to fuels like charcoal, kerosene, and coal, and, ultimately, to fuels such as liquid petroleum gas, and electricity. Energy use is not usually considered as a social issue. Yet, as this book demonstrates, the movement away from traditional fuels has a strong socio-economic dimension, as poor people are the last to attain the benefits of using modern energy. The result is that health risks from the continued use of wood fuel fall most heavily on the poor, and indoor pollution from wood stoves has its greatest effect on women and children who cook and spend much more of their time indoors. Barnes, Krutilla, and Hyde provide the first worldwide assessment of the energy transition as it occurs in urban households, drawing upon data collected by the World Bank Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP). From 1984-2000, the program conducted over 25,000 household energy surveys in 45 cities spanning 12 countries and 3 continents. Additionally, GIS mapping software was used to compile a biomass database of vegetation patterns surrounding 34 cities. Using this rich set of geographic, biological, and socioeconomic data, the authors describe problems and policy options associated with each stage in the energy transition. The authors show how the poorest are most vulnerable to changes in energy markets and demonstrate how the collection of biomass fuel contributes to deforestation. Their book serves as an important contribution to development studies, and as a guide for policymakers hoping to encourage sustainable energy markets and an improved quality of life for growing urban populations.

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Routledge

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1136528156

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Urban Dynamics in Black Africa

An Interdisciplinary Approach

By: William John Hanna,Judith Hanna,Judith Lynne Hanna

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Urban Dynamics in Black Africa

An Interdisciplinary Approach

By: William John Hanna,Judith Hanna,Judith Lynne Hanna

Urban Dynamics in Black Africa presents a succession of worlds where we can study the development and the crystallization of major social change. The authors trace the development of former villages, towns, and colonial outposts into major cities within the international community. Open-air markets continue their trading beside modern department stores as individual Africans create contemporary lives from old and new. William J. and Judith L. Hanna, in this unique work, introduce new data and the methods of dependency theory, class and gender analysis; they offer connections between Africa's internal dynamics, its legacy of imperialism, and the international political and economic arena. At the same time, the book provides a model for studying the evolution of political institutions. Urban Dynamics in Black Africa illustrates how social classes modify and are modified by existing cultural forms. The book examines Africa in its independence by contrasting development and dependency, role adaptability and conflict, in a powerful conceptual matrix. Detailing the urban conditions that exist throughout Africa as well as their costs and benefits, this work shows how contemporary political conflict in urban Africa is based upon both ethnic and non-ethnic ties; and how these ethnic and non-ethnic ties serve as the bases of a system of political integration unique to poly-ethnic communities. As a synthesis of the relevant available knowledge on African towns and town-dwellers, this book is concerned primarily with the effects of external intervention and socioeconomic modernization upon the birth and development of Africa's new towns and the rapid expansion of its old ones. It considers the impact of migration and town life upon Africans. William J. Hanna is professor of urban studies and planning at the University of Maryland. His research interests include international development, social planning and community planning. He is the author of numerous journal articles. Judith L. Hanna is senior research scholar in the departments of dance and anthropology at the University of Maryland. She is the author of numerous journal articles and books on the subject of dance.

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1412840805

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Urban Dynamics in Black Africa

An Interdisciplinary Approach

By: William J. Hanna

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Urban Dynamics in Black Africa

An Interdisciplinary Approach

By: William J. Hanna

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1351300598

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Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar

By: William Cunningham Bissell

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Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar

By: William Cunningham Bissell

At once an engaging portrait of a cosmopolitan African city and an exploration of colonial irrationality, Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar opens up new perspectives on the making of modernity and the metropolis.

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Indiana University Press

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0253222559

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Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France

The Culture of Retribution

By: William Beik

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Urban Protest in Seventeenth-Century France

The Culture of Retribution

By: William Beik

This lucid and wide-ranging survey is the first study in English to identify a distinctive urban phase in the history of the early modern crowd. Through close analysis of the behaviour of protesters and authorities in more than fifteen seventeenth-century French cities, William Beik explores a full spectrum of urban revolt from spontaneous individual actions to factional conflicts, culminating in the dramatic Ormee movement in Bordeaux. The 'culture of retribution' was a form of popular politics with roots in the religious wars and implications for future democratic movements. Vengeful crowds stoned and pillaged not only intrusive tax collectors but even their own magistrates, whom they viewed as civic traitors. By examining in depth this interaction of crowds and authorities, Professor Beik has provided a central contribution to the study of urban power structures and popular culture.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521575850

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From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking

Online Scrutiny in America, 1990-2015

By: William Aspray,James W. Cortada

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From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking

Online Scrutiny in America, 1990-2015

By: William Aspray,James W. Cortada

This text presents an historical examination of political fact-checking, highlighting how this is part of a larger phenomenon of online scrutiny that manifests itself in multiple forms. Reflecting the long history of “fake facts” in America, the book discusses important developments in this area from the emergence of the public Internet in the 1990s to the start of the Trump-Clinton presidential election campaigns. Topics and features: describes how some of the major players in political fact-checking began with the purpose of scrutinizing and debunking of urban legends; considers how this was part of a wider culture, encompassing B-grade horror movies, truth-or-fiction television shows, and groups warning about computer viruses; explains how such developments are connected, revealing political fact-checking as one of many forms of scrutiny applied in the face of a complex, dangerous world; provides a range of detailed case studies, covering such topics as the rumors surrounding the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and academic interest in contemporary legends; discusses how pre-Internet technologies such as bulletin boards, Usenet, and proprietary online service providers such as CompuServe and AOL were used to both disseminate and debunk urban legends; examines the rise of political fact-checking, reviewing all of the major initiatives in this area undertaken in the United States. This timely study touches on issues of popular culture and major events, and offers profiles of colorful individuals and organizations, and as such will appeal to a broad audience interested in the history of fact-checking and efforts to protect the political process from falsehoods.

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Springer

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3030229521

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Chinese Urban Life Under Reform

The Changing Social Contract

By: Wenfang Tang,William L. Parish

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Chinese Urban Life Under Reform

The Changing Social Contract

By: Wenfang Tang,William L. Parish

This book examines how urban China is experiencing the shift from a planned to a market economy.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521778654

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Urban Life in Contemporary China

By: Martin King Whyte,William L. Parish

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Urban Life in Contemporary China

By: Martin King Whyte,William L. Parish

Through interviews with city residents, Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish provide a unique survey of urban life in the last decade of Mao Zedong's rule. They conclude that changes in society produced under communism were truly revolutionary and that, in the decade under scrutiny, the Chinese avoided ostensibly universal evils of urbanism with considerable success. At the same time, however, they find that this successful effort spawned new and equally serious urban problems—bureaucratic rigidity, low production, and more.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226895491

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9780226895499

Decentralization and Its Implications for Urban Service Delivery

By: William Dillinger

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Decentralization and Its Implications for Urban Service Delivery

By: William Dillinger

This paper reviews efforts to improve the efficiency and responsiveness of urban services delivery in developing countries. It argues that failures in urban service delivery are not merely the result of a lack of technical knowledge on the part of local government staff, but also reflect constraints and perverse incentives confronting local personnel and their political leadership, and these, in turn, are often the inadverten result of problems in the relationship between central and local government. The report views the spread of decentralization as a potentially fortuitous phenomenon. The decentralization now occurring is not a carefully designed sequence of reforms aimed at improving the efficiency of public service delivery ; it appears to be a reluctant and disorderly series of concessions by central governments attempting to maintain political stability. (Adapté du résumé de l'auteur).

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World Bank Publications

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0821327925

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9780821327920

Strategic Options for Urban Infrastructure Management

By: William F. Fox

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Strategic Options for Urban Infrastructure Management

By: William F. Fox

Experience of the past decade confirms that the solution to infrastructure problems is not merely to expand capacity by making new investments. Much more systematic changes must be undertaken if service delivery is to attain the standards necessary to improve quality of life and allow economic output to expand more rapidly. This paper identifies several broad areas for reform and recommends a series of actions to attain effective service delivery. (Adapté du résumé de l'auteur).

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World Bank Publications

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0821328263

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9780821328262

Views and Viewmakers of Urban America

Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of Their Work, 1825-1925

By: John William Reps

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Views and Viewmakers of Urban America

Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of Their Work, 1825-1925

By: John William Reps

Union list catalog of the lithographic views of cities and towns made during the 19th century.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826204163

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The Making of Urban America

A History of City Planning in the United States

By: John William Reps

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The Making of Urban America

A History of City Planning in the United States

By: John William Reps

This comprehensive survey of urban growth in America has become a standard work in the field. From the early colonial period to the First World War, John Reps explores to what extent city planning has been rooted in the nation's tradition, showing the extent of European influence on early communities. Illustrated by over three hundred reproductions of maps, plans, and panoramic views, this book presents hundreds of American cities and the unique factors affecting their development.

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Princeton University Press

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0691006180

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9780691006185

Early Urban Life in the Land of Anshan

Excavations at Tal-e Malyan in the Highlands of Iran

By: William M. Sumner

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Early Urban Life in the Land of Anshan

Excavations at Tal-e Malyan in the Highlands of Iran

By: William M. Sumner

This book provides summary data on the archaeological excavations of Banesh Period (ca. 3400-2600 B.C.) levels in Operation ABC at Tal-e Malyan, site of the Elamite royal city of Anshan. These levels cover the critical centuries when complex urban life evolved in Mesopotamia and Iran. Sumner describes and illustrates a wide variety of finds—pottery vessels, stone and metal artifacts, shell and mineral ornaments, proto-Elamite clay tablets, cylinder seals and clay sealings, raw materials, and production by-products. He discusses these finds in terms of production, usage, and stylistic variation, and he includes either technical analyses contributed by specialists in flint technology, metallurgy, sea shells, and glyptic or summaries of analyses published by specialists in zooarchaeology, archaeobotany, materials science, and epigraphy. Contributors: John Alden, P. Nicholas Kardulias, Annette Ericksen, Samuel K. Nash, Vincent Pigott, Holly Pittman, David Reese, Harry C. Rogers, Massimo Vidale. Malyan Excavation Reports, Volume III University Museum Monograph, 117

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UPenn Museum of Archaeology

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1931707456

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9781931707459

Daniel Urban Kiley

The Early Gardens

By: William S. Saunders,Anita Berrizbeitia,Dan Kiley

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Daniel Urban Kiley

The Early Gardens

By: William S. Saunders,Anita Berrizbeitia,Dan Kiley

Generally considered to be America's foremost postwar landscape architect, Daniel Urban Kiley's earlier work is not well known. This book focuses on several of his more creative projects from the 1940s and 1950s, including more elaborate alternate plans.

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Princeton Architectural Press

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1568981481

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Urbanization and Social Change in West Africa

By: Josef Gugler,William Flanagan

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Urbanization and Social Change in West Africa

By: Josef Gugler,William Flanagan

Originally published in 1978 as part of the Urbanization in Developing Countries series, this is an interdisciplinary study of rapid urban growth in West Africa. Gugler and Flanagan first explore the history of the cities of the early West African empires and they draw on the work of social anthropologists and sociologists, as well as demographers, economists, geographers, historians, political scientists and social psychologists. They then describe the urban explosion that the region experienced after World War II. They explore the implications of widespread urban unemployment and underemployment, the housing crisis and the emergence of metropolitan areas such as Lagos. The literature on urbanization and social change in Black Africa in general, and West Africa in particular, expanded at a fast pace in the years preceding publication. This critical review of the disparate findings filled a gap in African Studies and threw light on the understanding of Third World urbanization.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521213487

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9780521213486

Urban Sociology

Images and Structure

By: William George Flanagan

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Urban Sociology

Images and Structure

By: William George Flanagan

The fifth edition of this text presents a balanced review of the ecological arguments that the urban arena produces unique experiential and urban-based cultural effects while exploring the broader political and economic contexts that produce and modify the urban environment. In addition to examining the urban dimensions of such topics as community formation and continuity, minority and majority dynamics, ethnic experience, poverty, power, and crime, it provides an analysis of the spatial distribution of population and resources with regard to the metropolitanization of the urban form, and the interaction between urban concentration and development and underdevelopment. From a first chapter that begins with a discussion of some of the more micrological features of the urban experience, the text focuses on the significance of the more macrological cultural, social organizational, and political dimensions of urban change, in an historical span that includes the first cities and concludes with an exploration of the implications of cyberspace, transnationalism, and global terrorism for the future of urban sociology. While the work focuses primarily on the North American case, its analytical and integrated discussion makes it applicable to urban societies in general.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742561763

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9780742561762

Being Urban

A Sociology of City Life

By: David A. Karp,Gregory P. Stone,William C. Yoels,Nicholas P. Dempsey

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Being Urban

A Sociology of City Life

By: David A. Karp,Gregory P. Stone,William C. Yoels,Nicholas P. Dempsey

This third edition of a classic urban sociology text examines critical but often-neglected aspects of urban life from a social-psychological theoretical perspective. Symbolic interaction is among the most central theoretical paradigms in sociology and the theory that most thoroughly attends to how individuals give meaning to their world—in this case, how city dwellers interpret and respond to their daily experiences as urbanites. This thoroughly updated edition of Being Urban: A Sociology of City Life remains true to this particular theoretical angle of vision—the symbolic interactionist approach—focusing on specific topics that are relatively neglected in other urban sociology texts, and that lend themselves to the kind of social-psychological analyses that define the distinctive conceptual core of the authors' efforts. After the first two chapters supply readers with theoretical foundations of urban sociology, the next four chapters describe the various ways that individuals experience and make sense of key aspects of urban life. The final section—also composed of four chapters—addresses strategically chosen urban institutions and related processes of social change. Specific subject areas covered include sports, everyday public life, tolerance for diversity, women in cities, urban politics, and the arts. Readers will learn about how order is maintained in public urban places, understand why cities naturally breed a tolerance for diversity that may not be so easily achieved in less urban settings, and appreciate the delicate political and economic tensions between cities and their surrounding suburbs.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440828563

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