Renewal: Liberal Protestants and the American City after World War II (Historical Studies of Urban America)
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In the decades following World War II, a movement of clergy and laity sought to restore liberal Protestantism to the center of American urban life. Chastened by their failure to avert war an ...
The Greening of the City: Urban Parks and Public Leisure, 1840
By:Carole A. O’Reilly
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:1032092440
Urban parks are a much-loved feature of the city environment. However, our knowledge of the true scale of their impact remains uneven. Much work ...
Small Business and the City: The Transformative Potential of Small Scale Entrepreneurship (Rotman
By:Rafael Gomez
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:1442612096
In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform local neighbo ...
Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China’s Forbidden City .
By:Adam Brookes
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:1982149299
The gripping true story of the bold and determined museum curators who saved the priceless treasures of Chinas Forbidden City in the years leading up to Wor ...
Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization .
By:Carol Bailey
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:1978829671
Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, semicircular social space, where the changes of globalizati ...
Miracle Moments in Kansas City Royals History: The Turning Points, the Memorable Games, the Incredible Records .
By:Jeff Deters
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:1613219954
Since their founding in 1969, the Kansas City Royals have provided memorable moments to generations of fans in Americas heartland and beyond.
Miracle M ...
The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction .
By:William O. Gardner
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:1517906245
Japans postwar urban imagination through the Metabolism architecture movement and visionary science fiction authors
The devastation of the Secon ...
Free Culture and the City: Hackers, Commoners, and Neighbors in Madrid, 1997 2017 (Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge) .
By:Alberto Corsin Jimenez
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:1501767178
Free Culture and the City examines how and why free software spread beyond the world of hackers and software engineers and became the basis for an ...
Road to Nowhere: The Early 1990s Collapse and Rebuild of New York City Baseball .
By:Chris Donnelly
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:1496221427
Road to Nowhere is the story of New York City baseball from 1990 to 1996, describing in intimate detail the collapse of both the Mets and the Yankees in t ...
Sin City Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Las Vegas .
By:Jeffrey Sussman
Update:2021
ISBN/ASIN:1538161230
Sin City Gangsters: The Rise and Decline of the Mob in Las Vegas is a fast-paced account of how the mob created and controlled Las Vegas. It contains acc ...