Business of Private Medical Practice : Doctors, Specialization, and Urban Change in Philadelphia, 1900-1940. by Schafer, James A.

Table of Contents: “…The primacy of private practice -- The doctor as business owner -- Downtown specialists and neighborhood GPS -- New career paths, new business methods -- From center city to suburb.…”
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Business of Private Medical Practice : Doctors, Specialization, and Urban Change in Philadelphia, 1900-1940. by Schafer, James A.

Table of Contents: “…The primacy of private practice -- The doctor as business owner -- Downtown specialists and neighborhood GPS -- New career paths, new business methods -- From center city to suburb.…”
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Eden on the Charles : the making of Boston by Rawson, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: To build a city -- Enclosing the Common -- Constructing water -- Inventing the suburbs -- Making the harbor -- Recreating the wilderness -- Epilogue: The city complete -- Note on Boston Common petitions.…”
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Nothing Gained by Overcrowding. by Unwin, Raymond

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Suburban Beijing : housing and consumption in contemporary China by Fleischer, Friederike

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Remaking the heartland : Middle America since the 1950s by Wuthnow, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Here in the middle -- Recovering from the Great Depression -- Reinventing the rustic life -- Education in Middle America -- The decline of small communities -- The changing face of agribusiness -- From towns to sprawling suburbs.…”
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Kuwait transformed : a history of oil and urban life by Al-Nakib, Farah, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Pre-oil urbanism -- Port city life -- A cosmopolitan community -- Oil-era modernization -- The move to the suburbs -- The privatization of urban life -- The de-urbanization of society -- The right to the city.…”
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The black skyscraper : architecture and the perception of race by Brown, Adrienne R., 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction- race in three dimensions -- Architecture and the visual fate of whiteness -- The miscegenated skyscraper and passing metropolitans -- The black skyscraper -- Feeling white in the darkening city -- Epilogue: from skyscrapers to suburbs.…”
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Picturing Illinois : twentieth-century postcard art from Chicago to Cairo by Jakle, John A., Sculle, Keith A.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One Chicago and Its Suburbs: The Metropolis -- Part Two Illinois beyond the Metropolis -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Credits -- Index…”
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The Great Society subway : a history of the Washington Metro by Schrag, Zachary M.

Table of Contents: “…. -- The district. -- The suburbs. -- The riders.…”
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The Great Society subway : a history of the Washington Metro by Schrag, Zachary M.

Table of Contents: “…. -- The district. -- The suburbs. -- The riders.…”
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Lesson starters. Persuasive writing : our neighbourhood : positives.

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Paris by Lefèvre, Christian

Table of Contents: “…3 Political history of Île-de-France, 1789-2001 -- The domination of the state, 1789-1871 -- Political and administrative organization of Île-de-France under the Revolution -- Establishment of a centralized system: from the First to the Second Empire -- Towards a conflicting political system, 1871-1977 -- State laissez-faire and the emergence of the red suburbs, 1871-1945 -- Relations between Paris and its suburbs: conflicts and cooperation -- Birth of the red suburbs -- Strong state intervention and the building of political bastions, 1945-77…”
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Paris by Christian, Lefevre

Table of Contents: “…Economic development: the ambivalent policies of the state -- 3 Political history of Île-de-France, 1789-2001 -- The domination of the state, 1789-1871 -- Political and administrative organization of Île-de-France under the Revolution -- Establishment of a centralized system: from the First to the Second Empire -- Towards a conflicting political system, 1871-1977 -- State laissezfaire and the emergence of the red suburbs, 1871-1945 -- Relations between Paris and its suburbs: conflicts and cooperation -- Birth of the red suburbs…”
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Natalie Wood. by Sullivan, Rebecca

Table of Contents: “…Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE CHILD-WOMAN; 2 THE SEXUAL HYSTERIC; 3 RACIAL AND SEXUAL AMBIGUITY; 4 A SEXUAL LIBERTINE IN THE SUBURBS; CONCLUSION: THE ETERNAL INGÉNUE; BIBLIOGRAPHY; FILMOGRAPHY; INDEX.…”
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Theatre, community, and civic engagement in Jacobean London by Bayer, Mark, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Theatre and social capital -- Rethinking city and suburb -- The public theatres and their communities -- Religious communities at London's northern playhouses -- The spectacle of history at the Red Bull -- The Clerkenwell riot and its aftermath -- Epilogue: After 1642.…”
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The Garden District of New Orleans by Fraiser, Jim, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Prologue : the Creole/American gumbo boils over -- The first American suburbs -- The 1850s Garden District -- The 1860s Garden District -- The Garden District in a gilded age -- A Garden District in the modern age.…”
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Making the San Fernando Valley : rural landscapes, urban development, and White privilege by Barraclough, Laura R.

Table of Contents: “…Creating the foundations of rural Whiteness, 1900-1960 -- Creating Whiteness through gentleman farming -- Narrating conquest in local history -- Producing Western heritage in the postwar suburb -- pt. 2. Consolidating rural Whiteness, 1960-2000 -- Protecting rurality through horse-keeping in the northeast valley -- Linking Western heritage and environmental justice in the west San Fernando Valley -- pt. 3. …”
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Mapping Eastleigh for Christian-Muslim relations

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Making the San Fernando Valley : rural landscapes, urban development, and White privilege by Barraclough, Laura R.

Table of Contents: “…Creating the foundations of rural Whiteness, 1900-1960 -- Creating Whiteness through gentleman farming -- Narrating conquest in local history -- Producing Western heritage in the postwar suburb -- pt. 2. Consolidating rural Whiteness, 1960-2000 -- Protecting rurality through horse-keeping in the northeast valley -- Linking Western heritage and environmental justice in the west San Fernando Valley -- pt. 3. …”
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Lesson starters. 3, Persuasive writing : our neighbourhood : negatives.

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Abandoned in the heartland : work, family, and living in East St. Louis by Hamer, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Louisans and their wheels -- Work and meaning in a jobless city suburb -- Hustling, clean and dirty -- "Around here, women never get done workin" -- "Gotta protect my own" -- The cost of abandonment.…”
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The speculative city : art, real estate, and the making of global Los Angeles by Newbury, Susanna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: art on FIRE -- Thirtyfour parking lots in the fragmented metropolis -- Art in the suburbs: master plans and industrial images -- Performing lifestyle in townhome California -- The artist's studio exposed -- Risk architecture: museums in crisis -- Epilogue: asset art.…”
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Terminal diagrams : poems by Davis, Garrick

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Cities of knowledge : Cold War science and the search for the next Silicon Valley by O'Mara, Margaret Pugh, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Cold War politics -- "Multiversities," cities, and suburbs -- From the farm to the valley : Stanford University and the San Francisco peninsula -- Building "Brainsville" : the University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia -- Selling the new South : Georgia Tech and Atlanta -- Conclusion : the next Silicon Valley.…”
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From Main Street to mall : the rise and fall of the American department store by Howard, Vicki, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The palace of consumption -- Creating an industry -- Modernizing Main Street -- A new deal for department stores -- An essential industry in wartime -- The race for the suburbs -- The postwar discount revolution -- The death of the department store -- Epilogue. …”
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From Main Street to mall : the rise and fall of the American department store by Howard, Vicki, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The palace of consumption -- Creating an industry -- Modernizing Main Street -- A new deal for department stores -- An essential industry in wartime -- The race for the suburbs -- The postwar discount revolution -- The death of the department store -- Epilogue. …”
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Home spaces, street styles : contesting power and identity in a South African city by Bank, Leslie John

Table of Contents: “…Towards and anthropology of urbanism -- The Xhosa in town revisited -- Modernism, space and identity -- Rebellion, fractured urbanism and the fear of fire -- The style of the comrades -- Changing migrant cultures -- Re-modelling the house -- The rhythms of the yards -- Post-apartheid suburb or hyper-ghetto.…”
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Making mountains : New York City and the Catskills by Stradling, David

Table of Contents: “…Preface: The Haynes family of Haynes Hollow -- Introduction: Types of the permanent and unchanging -- A natural resource -- Envisioning mountains -- The mountain hotels -- Making wilderness -- Mountain water -- Moving mountains -- A suburb of New York -- Epilogue: Whose woods these are.…”
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I'll be your mirror.

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60 minutes. The Sudbury way

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Humanism and the Urban World Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance City. by Pearson, Caspar

Table of Contents: “…Beyond the City -- 5. The Suburbs and Other Places -- 6. The Beautiful City -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover…”
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Stupendous, miserable city : Pasolini's Rome by Rhodes, John David, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…This cinema, This city -- A short history of the Roman periphery -- "Rome, ringed by its hell of suburbs" -- "Scandalous desecration": Accattone against the Neorealist City -- Pasolini, the peripheral sublime, and public housing -- Mamma Roma and Pasolini's Oedipal (housing) complex -- The allegorical autostrada.…”
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The Sopranos by Edgerton, Gary R. (Gary Richard), 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : backstory : breaking Omerta -- Game changer : the role of The Sopranos in the resurgence of HBO -- Cinematic television : the education of David Chase -- Disorganized crime : living large in the suburbs -- Situation tragedy : a midlife crisis for the gangster genre -- Conclusion : strategic ambiguity : The Sopranos' aftereffect.…”
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Suburban Sahibs : three immigrant families and their passage from India to America by Kalita, S. Mitra, 1976-

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The mission home

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Waterloo

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The Blanco River by Ferguson, Wes

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- The White River -- The suburbs -- The battles of the Blanco -- The headwaters -- The upper Blanco -- The town, not the river -- River intruders -- The river rises -- Into Wimberley -- Li'l ark -- Halifax Ranch -- An ancient sea -- The end of the river -- Where buffalo roamed -- The deluge begins -- The Wimberley flood -- Recovery.…”
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Civitas by design : building better communities, from the garden city to the new urbanism by Gillette, Howard, Jr., 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Progressive reform through environmental intervention -- The garden city in America -- The city : film as artifact -- The evolution of neighborhood planning -- The planned shopping center in suburb and city -- James Rouse and American city planning -- The new urbanism: "organizing things that matter" -- Civitas in the design of low-income housing.…”
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Governance and Opportunity in Metropolitan America. by Staff, National Research Council

Table of Contents: “…Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- GOVERNANCE and OPPORTUNITY in METROPOLITAN AMERICA PART I -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Central Cities, Suburbs, and Metropolitan-Area Problems -- 3 Disparities in Outcomes -- 4 Strategies for Reducing Disparities -- 5 Recommendations for Research and Policy Choices -- References -- Index…”
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