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“daniel cooper”

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  • Travel Narratives, Travel Fictions

    by Daniel Cooper Alarcón ...
    In Travel Narratives, Travel Fictions, Daniel Cooper Alarcón argues that travel literature performs important social and cultural criticism often overlooked in studies of the genre. By examining non-fiction and fiction novels and short stories that purposefully examine different types of travel in relationship to each other, Cooper Alarcón documents and highlights the sophisticated ways that both ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The War on Neighborhoods

    Policing, Prison, and Punishment in a Divided City

    by Daniel Cooper, Ryan Lugalia-Hollon ...
    A narrative-driven exploration of policing and the punishment of disadvantage in Chicago, and a new vision for repairing urban neighborhoodsFor people of color who live in segregated urban neighborhoods, surviving crime and violence is a generational reality. As violence in cities like New York and Los Angeles has fallen in recent years, in many Chicago communities, it has continued at alarming ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    My Haunted Expression

    A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

    by Helen Clohessy ...
    Narrated by Daniel Cooper, Deeivya Meir, John Dougall, Jude Akuwudike, Sally Orrock, Tony Bell ...

    Unabridged

    43 min

    An offbeat 21st Century urban love story starring Rosie Cavaliero and John Dougall, originally broadcast as BBC Radio 4's 'Afternoon Play' on 12 January 2011. It's a difficult time for Sue, her mother has just died and the kids have moved out. She has a vision of leaving their tough housing estate behind and starting a new life by the sea but husband Finn earns little and won't borrow... Finn is a ... Read more

    $5.46 USD

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  • The City

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    by Joel Kotkin ...
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    If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species’s ingenuity, beliefs, and ideals: the city. In this authoritative and engagingly written account, the acclaimed urbanist and bestselling author examines the evolution of urban life over the millennia and, in doing so, attempts to answer the age-old ... Read more

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  • Urbanization And Growth

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  • The Intercultural City

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    by Charles Landry, Phil Wood ...
    In a world of increasing mobility, how people of different cultures live together is a key issue of our age, especially for those responsible for planning and running cities. New thinking is needed on how diverse communities can cooperate in productive harmony instead of leading parallel or antagonistic lives. Policy is often dominated by mitigating the perceived negative effects of diversity, and ... Read more

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  • Planning the Megacity

    Jakarta in the Twentieth Century

    by Christopher Silver ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    In this book, the first on the planning history of Jarkarta, able expert Christopher Silver describes how planning has shaped urban development in Southeast Asia, and in particular how its largest city, Jakarta, Indonesia, was transformed from a colonial capital of approximately 150,000 in 1900 to a megacity of 12–13 million inhabitants in 2000.Placing the city's planning history within local, ... Read more

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  • Writing the Modern City

    Literature, Architecture, Modernity

    Edited by Sarah Edwards, Jonathan Charley ...
    Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. Writing the Modern City explores the diverse and fascinating relationships between literature, ... Read more

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  • The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn

    Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York

    by Suleiman Osman ...
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  • Planning Latin America's Capital Cities 1850-1950

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