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" New World cities : "
edited by John Tutino and Martin V. Melosi.
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BL
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850236
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New World cities : : challenges of urbanization and globalization in the Americas /\ edited by John Tutino and Martin V. Melosi.
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, [2019]
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1 online resource
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1469648768
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: 1469648776
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: 9781469648767
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: 9781469648774
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1469648741
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146964875X
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9781469648743
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9781469648750
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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The Americas in the twentieth-century world: challenges of urbanization and globalization / John Tutino -- Power, marginality, and participation in Mexico City, 1870-2000 / John Tutino -- The arc of formality in twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro / Bryan McCann -- Boom, echo, and splinter: citizenship and growth in Greater Buenos Aires / Mark Healey -- Montreal in the twentieth century: trajectories of a city under strains / Michèle Dagenais -- Generations of segregation: immigrant dreams and segregated lives in metropolitan Los Angeles / George J. Sanchez -- Energy capital and opportunity city: Houston in the twentieth century / Joseph a. Pratt and Martin V. Melosi -- Spatial, temporal, and institutional influences in New World cities / Martin V. Melosi.
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"For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities. After 1950, explosive urbanization led to unprecedented urban majorities. That transformation--inextricably tied to rising globalization--changed almost everything for nearly everybody. New World Cities looks at six metropolises during the twentieth century--Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Los Angeles, and Houston--exploring the challenges of explosive urbanization and the gains and limits of popular politics"--
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Globalization-- Political aspects-- America.
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Globalization-- Social aspects-- America.
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Urbanization-- Political aspects-- America.
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Civilization.
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Globalization-- Political aspects.
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Globalization-- Social aspects.
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HISTORY-- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
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Politics and government.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Sociology-- Urban.
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Urbanization-- Political aspects.
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America, Civilization.
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America, Politics and government.
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America.
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| Dewey Classification
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307.76097
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HT153.N49 2019eb
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Melosi, Martin V.,1947-
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Tutino, John,1947-
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