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Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruined missile silos, atomic storage bunkers, and secret test sites, a lost battleground emerges amid the architecture of the 1950s, accompanied by Walter(...)
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Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruined missile silos, atomic storage bunkers, and secret test sites, a lost battleground emerges amid the architecture of the 1950s, accompanied by Walter(...)
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Survival city: adventures among the ruins of atomic America
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Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruined missile silos, atomic storage bunkers, and secret test sites, a lost battleground emerges amid the architecture of the 1950s, accompanied by Walter Cotten’s stunning photographs. Survival City looks deep into the national soul, unearthing the dreams and fears that drove us during the latter half of the twentieth century.
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Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruined missile silos, atomic storage bunkers, and secret test sites, a lost battleground emerges amid the architecture of the 1950s, accompanied by Walter Cotten’s stunning photographs. Survival City looks deep into the national soul, unearthing the dreams and fears that drove us during the latter half of the twentieth century.
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Nye looks at America's development of its electrical grid, which made large-scale power failures possible; military blackouts before and during World War II ("The silence was the big surprise of the blackout, the darkness discounted," wrote Harold Ross in The New Yorker in 1942); New York City's contrasting 1965 and 1977 blackout experiences (the first characterized by(...)
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Nye looks at America's development of its electrical grid, which made large-scale power failures possible; military blackouts before and during World War II ("The silence was the big surprise of the blackout, the darkness discounted," wrote Harold Ross in The New Yorker in 1942); New York City's contrasting 1965 and 1977 blackout experiences (the first characterized by(...)
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When the lights went out, a history of blackouts in America
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Nye looks at America's development of its electrical grid, which made large-scale power failures possible; military blackouts before and during World War II ("The silence was the big surprise of the blackout, the darkness discounted," wrote Harold Ross in The New Yorker in 1942); New York City's contrasting 1965 and 1977 blackout experiences (the first characterized by cooperation, the second by looting and disorder); the growth in consumer demand that led to rolling blackouts made worse by energy traders' market manipulations; blackouts caused by terrorist attacks and sabotage; and, finally, the "greenout" (exemplified by the new tradition of "Earth Hour"), a voluntary reduction organized by environmental organizations. Blackouts, writes Nye, are breaks in the flow of social time that reveal much about the trajectory of American history. Each time one occurs, Americans confront their essential condition—not as isolated individuals, but as a community that increasingly binds itself together with electrical wires and signals.
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Nye looks at America's development of its electrical grid, which made large-scale power failures possible; military blackouts before and during World War II ("The silence was the big surprise of the blackout, the darkness discounted," wrote Harold Ross in The New Yorker in 1942); New York City's contrasting 1965 and 1977 blackout experiences (the first characterized by cooperation, the second by looting and disorder); the growth in consumer demand that led to rolling blackouts made worse by energy traders' market manipulations; blackouts caused by terrorist attacks and sabotage; and, finally, the "greenout" (exemplified by the new tradition of "Earth Hour"), a voluntary reduction organized by environmental organizations. Blackouts, writes Nye, are breaks in the flow of social time that reveal much about the trajectory of American history. Each time one occurs, Americans confront their essential condition—not as isolated individuals, but as a community that increasingly binds itself together with electrical wires and signals.
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Dubai: gilded cage
Dubai: gilded cage
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In this book, Syed Ali delves beneath the dazzling surface to analyze how—and at what cost—Dubai has achieved such success. Ali brings alive a society rigidly divided between expatriate Westerners living self-indulgent lifestyles on short-term work visas, native Emiratis who are largely passive observers and beneficiaries of what Dubai has become, and workers from the(...)
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In this book, Syed Ali delves beneath the dazzling surface to analyze how—and at what cost—Dubai has achieved such success. Ali brings alive a society rigidly divided between expatriate Westerners living self-indulgent lifestyles on short-term work visas, native Emiratis who are largely passive observers and beneficiaries of what Dubai has become, and workers from the(...)
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Dubai: gilded cage
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In this book, Syed Ali delves beneath the dazzling surface to analyze how—and at what cost—Dubai has achieved such success. Ali brings alive a society rigidly divided between expatriate Westerners living self-indulgent lifestyles on short-term work visas, native Emiratis who are largely passive observers and beneficiaries of what Dubai has become, and workers from the developing world who provide the manual labor and domestic service needed to keep the emirate running, often at great personal cost.
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In this book, Syed Ali delves beneath the dazzling surface to analyze how—and at what cost—Dubai has achieved such success. Ali brings alive a society rigidly divided between expatriate Westerners living self-indulgent lifestyles on short-term work visas, native Emiratis who are largely passive observers and beneficiaries of what Dubai has become, and workers from the developing world who provide the manual labor and domestic service needed to keep the emirate running, often at great personal cost.
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Lhasa: Streets with memories
Lhasa: Streets with memories
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Robert Barnett offers an exploration of a city long idealized, disregarded, or misunderstood by outsiders. Looking to its streets and stone, Barnett presents a searching portrait of Lhasa, its history, and its illegibility. It only offers itself as a manual for thinking about contemporary Tibet but also questions our ways of thinking about foreign places.
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Robert Barnett offers an exploration of a city long idealized, disregarded, or misunderstood by outsiders. Looking to its streets and stone, Barnett presents a searching portrait of Lhasa, its history, and its illegibility. It only offers itself as a manual for thinking about contemporary Tibet but also questions our ways of thinking about foreign places.
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Lhasa: Streets with memories
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Robert Barnett offers an exploration of a city long idealized, disregarded, or misunderstood by outsiders. Looking to its streets and stone, Barnett presents a searching portrait of Lhasa, its history, and its illegibility. It only offers itself as a manual for thinking about contemporary Tibet but also questions our ways of thinking about foreign places.
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Robert Barnett offers an exploration of a city long idealized, disregarded, or misunderstood by outsiders. Looking to its streets and stone, Barnett presents a searching portrait of Lhasa, its history, and its illegibility. It only offers itself as a manual for thinking about contemporary Tibet but also questions our ways of thinking about foreign places.
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The Urban Spectator is a lively and utterly fascinating exploration of the ways in which technologies have influenced our collective conception of the American city, as well as our relationship with urban space and architecture. Eric Gordon argues that the city, developing late and in conjunction with a range of modern media, produced a particular way of seeing--what he(...)
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The Urban Spectator is a lively and utterly fascinating exploration of the ways in which technologies have influenced our collective conception of the American city, as well as our relationship with urban space and architecture. Eric Gordon argues that the city, developing late and in conjunction with a range of modern media, produced a particular way of seeing--what he(...)
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The urban spectator: American concept-cities from Kodak to Google
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The Urban Spectator is a lively and utterly fascinating exploration of the ways in which technologies have influenced our collective conception of the American city, as well as our relationship with urban space and architecture. Eric Gordon argues that the city, developing late and in conjunction with a range of modern media, produced a particular way of seeing--what he labels "possessive spectatorship." Lacking the historical rootedness of European cities, the American city was open to individual interpretation, definition, and ownership. Beginning with the White City of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the efforts to commodify the concept city through photography, Gordon shows how the American city has always been a product of the collision between the dominant conceptualization, shaped by contemporary media, and the spectator. From the viewfinder of the Kodak camera, to the public display of early cinema, to the speculative desire of network radio, all the way to machine-age utopianism, nostalgia, and America's "rerun" culture, the city is an amalgam of practice and concept. All of this comes to a head in the "database city" where urban spectatorship takes on the characteristics of a Google search. In new urban developments, the spectator searches, retrieves, and combines urban references to construct each experience of the city.
The urban spectator: American concept-cities from Kodak to Google
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The Urban Spectator is a lively and utterly fascinating exploration of the ways in which technologies have influenced our collective conception of the American city, as well as our relationship with urban space and architecture. Eric Gordon argues that the city, developing late and in conjunction with a range of modern media, produced a particular way of seeing--what he labels "possessive spectatorship." Lacking the historical rootedness of European cities, the American city was open to individual interpretation, definition, and ownership. Beginning with the White City of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the efforts to commodify the concept city through photography, Gordon shows how the American city has always been a product of the collision between the dominant conceptualization, shaped by contemporary media, and the spectator. From the viewfinder of the Kodak camera, to the public display of early cinema, to the speculative desire of network radio, all the way to machine-age utopianism, nostalgia, and America's "rerun" culture, the city is an amalgam of practice and concept. All of this comes to a head in the "database city" where urban spectatorship takes on the characteristics of a Google search. In new urban developments, the spectator searches, retrieves, and combines urban references to construct each experience of the city.
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Au moment où les marchés immobiliers se retournent, où nous vivons une crise financière mondiale sans précédent, ce livre fait le point sur les mutations profondes d'un secteur incontournable de notre société et de notre économie.Comment les différents acteurs immobiliers produisent-ils nos villes, nos quartiers et nos immeubles, nos logements, nos bureaux et nos(...)
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Au moment où les marchés immobiliers se retournent, où nous vivons une crise financière mondiale sans précédent, ce livre fait le point sur les mutations profondes d'un secteur incontournable de notre société et de notre économie.Comment les différents acteurs immobiliers produisent-ils nos villes, nos quartiers et nos immeubles, nos logements, nos bureaux et nos(...)
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Les mutations de l'immobilier, de la finance au développement durable
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Au moment où les marchés immobiliers se retournent, où nous vivons une crise financière mondiale sans précédent, ce livre fait le point sur les mutations profondes d'un secteur incontournable de notre société et de notre économie.Comment les différents acteurs immobiliers produisent-ils nos villes, nos quartiers et nos immeubles, nos logements, nos bureaux et nos commerces? Dans le contexte de financiarisation des marchés immobiliers, l'immeuble est désormais un actif financier semblable aux actions et obligations. De nouvelles institutions et de nouveaux métiers sont nés pour s'adapter à cette évolution du bien immobilier. Le bâtiment est par ailleurs un secteur clé dans le cadre des défis environnementaux. L'entrée en vigueur du protocole de Kyoto sur la réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre depuis 2005, puis la mise en place du Grenelle de l'environnement marquent le début d'une révolution verte à laquelle le secteur immobilier est stratégiquement associé. De la finance au développement durable, cet ouvrage aide à comprendre les nouveaux enjeux de l'immobilier.
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Au moment où les marchés immobiliers se retournent, où nous vivons une crise financière mondiale sans précédent, ce livre fait le point sur les mutations profondes d'un secteur incontournable de notre société et de notre économie.Comment les différents acteurs immobiliers produisent-ils nos villes, nos quartiers et nos immeubles, nos logements, nos bureaux et nos commerces? Dans le contexte de financiarisation des marchés immobiliers, l'immeuble est désormais un actif financier semblable aux actions et obligations. De nouvelles institutions et de nouveaux métiers sont nés pour s'adapter à cette évolution du bien immobilier. Le bâtiment est par ailleurs un secteur clé dans le cadre des défis environnementaux. L'entrée en vigueur du protocole de Kyoto sur la réduction des émissions de gaz à effet de serre depuis 2005, puis la mise en place du Grenelle de l'environnement marquent le début d'une révolution verte à laquelle le secteur immobilier est stratégiquement associé. De la finance au développement durable, cet ouvrage aide à comprendre les nouveaux enjeux de l'immobilier.
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L'espace public
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Au singulier, l'espace public désigne la sphère du débat politique, la publicité des opinions privées, qui participent à la vie commune en devenant publiques. Au pluriel, les espaces publics, depuis une trentaine d'années en France, correspondent au réseau viaire, rues et boulevards, places et parvis, parcs et jardins, bref à toutes les voies de circulation qui sont(...)
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Au singulier, l'espace public désigne la sphère du débat politique, la publicité des opinions privées, qui participent à la vie commune en devenant publiques. Au pluriel, les espaces publics, depuis une trentaine d'années en France, correspondent au réseau viaire, rues et boulevards, places et parvis, parcs et jardins, bref à toutes les voies de circulation qui sont(...)
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Au singulier, l'espace public désigne la sphère du débat politique, la publicité des opinions privées, qui participent à la vie commune en devenant publiques. Au pluriel, les espaces publics, depuis une trentaine d'années en France, correspondent au réseau viaire, rues et boulevards, places et parvis, parcs et jardins, bref à toutes les voies de circulation qui sont ouvertes au public. Les deux ont, par conséquent, à voir avec la communication. La mondialisation de l'économie capitaliste, la révolution communicationnelle, la mutation des supports médiatiques, le déploiement de la vidéosurveillance, la construction de murs, la privatisation de nombreux territoires urbains " effacent " les espaces publics, entravant ainsi l'émergence d'expériences alternatives. L'urbanisation planétaire, avec les centres commerciaux, le tourisme de masse, le mobilier urbain, les enclaves sécurisées, etc., transforme les usages des espaces publics et les uniformise. Pourtant, des résistances se manifestent et associent aux espaces publics, gratuits et accessibles, l'esprit de la ville.
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Au singulier, l'espace public désigne la sphère du débat politique, la publicité des opinions privées, qui participent à la vie commune en devenant publiques. Au pluriel, les espaces publics, depuis une trentaine d'années en France, correspondent au réseau viaire, rues et boulevards, places et parvis, parcs et jardins, bref à toutes les voies de circulation qui sont ouvertes au public. Les deux ont, par conséquent, à voir avec la communication. La mondialisation de l'économie capitaliste, la révolution communicationnelle, la mutation des supports médiatiques, le déploiement de la vidéosurveillance, la construction de murs, la privatisation de nombreux territoires urbains " effacent " les espaces publics, entravant ainsi l'émergence d'expériences alternatives. L'urbanisation planétaire, avec les centres commerciaux, le tourisme de masse, le mobilier urbain, les enclaves sécurisées, etc., transforme les usages des espaces publics et les uniformise. Pourtant, des résistances se manifestent et associent aux espaces publics, gratuits et accessibles, l'esprit de la ville.
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Partie de rien en 1830, Chicago a longtemps figuré comme l'une des villes les plus dynamiques des Etats-Unis. De la Columbian World's Fair de 1893, quand Chicago se rêve une ville blanche et revendique son rang de grande métropole à l'exposition A Century of Progress de 1934 qui vise à asseoir sa modernité, prennent place une série de transformations que traque Jean Castex.
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Partie de rien en 1830, Chicago a longtemps figuré comme l'une des villes les plus dynamiques des Etats-Unis. De la Columbian World's Fair de 1893, quand Chicago se rêve une ville blanche et revendique son rang de grande métropole à l'exposition A Century of Progress de 1934 qui vise à asseoir sa modernité, prennent place une série de transformations que traque Jean Castex.
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Chicago 1910-1993: le chantier de la ville moderne
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Partie de rien en 1830, Chicago a longtemps figuré comme l'une des villes les plus dynamiques des Etats-Unis. De la Columbian World's Fair de 1893, quand Chicago se rêve une ville blanche et revendique son rang de grande métropole à l'exposition A Century of Progress de 1934 qui vise à asseoir sa modernité, prennent place une série de transformations que traque Jean Castex.
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Partie de rien en 1830, Chicago a longtemps figuré comme l'une des villes les plus dynamiques des Etats-Unis. De la Columbian World's Fair de 1893, quand Chicago se rêve une ville blanche et revendique son rang de grande métropole à l'exposition A Century of Progress de 1934 qui vise à asseoir sa modernité, prennent place une série de transformations que traque Jean Castex.
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Visionary cities
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Recognizing that our civic responsibilities towards our environments have drastically increased, Visionary Cities ambitiously sets the agenda for the city of the future. Amid crippling bureaucracies and economic crises, present-day thinking on city design remains woefully inadequate, and this first publication in NAi's Future Cities Series announces 12 civic issues that(...)
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Recognizing that our civic responsibilities towards our environments have drastically increased, Visionary Cities ambitiously sets the agenda for the city of the future. Amid crippling bureaucracies and economic crises, present-day thinking on city design remains woefully inadequate, and this first publication in NAi's Future Cities Series announces 12 civic issues that(...)
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Recognizing that our civic responsibilities towards our environments have drastically increased, Visionary Cities ambitiously sets the agenda for the city of the future. Amid crippling bureaucracies and economic crises, present-day thinking on city design remains woefully inadequate, and this first publication in NAi's Future Cities Series announces 12 civic issues that are in need of transformation through the researches of The Why Factory, a global urban-studies thinktank operated in part by the Delft University of Technology. These issues include: “The Solitary (Our Dreams are Undermining the City)”; “The Iconic (Our Idols Have Been Compromised)”; “The Fun (We Are Having Too Much Fun)”; “The Cautious (Being Careful Is Killing Us)”; “The Poor (Slums Are Growing Bigger Than The Cities They Are Part Of”; and “The Future (Our Future Is Being Imagined Without Us).” A howl against civic impotence and the apathy of citizens in the face of incompetence and decay, Visionary Cities makes a manifesto of these and other topics to loudly demand large-scale change on a collective rather than individual level. In an afterword, Winy Maas, of the innovative Dutch architecture firm MVRDV, argues that architecture possesses a visionary dimension waiting to be applied to the cities of the future.
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Recognizing that our civic responsibilities towards our environments have drastically increased, Visionary Cities ambitiously sets the agenda for the city of the future. Amid crippling bureaucracies and economic crises, present-day thinking on city design remains woefully inadequate, and this first publication in NAi's Future Cities Series announces 12 civic issues that are in need of transformation through the researches of The Why Factory, a global urban-studies thinktank operated in part by the Delft University of Technology. These issues include: “The Solitary (Our Dreams are Undermining the City)”; “The Iconic (Our Idols Have Been Compromised)”; “The Fun (We Are Having Too Much Fun)”; “The Cautious (Being Careful Is Killing Us)”; “The Poor (Slums Are Growing Bigger Than The Cities They Are Part Of”; and “The Future (Our Future Is Being Imagined Without Us).” A howl against civic impotence and the apathy of citizens in the face of incompetence and decay, Visionary Cities makes a manifesto of these and other topics to loudly demand large-scale change on a collective rather than individual level. In an afterword, Winy Maas, of the innovative Dutch architecture firm MVRDV, argues that architecture possesses a visionary dimension waiting to be applied to the cities of the future.
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This book presents the results of a unique study of the period following the demise of the textile industry across cities in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, England, Finland, France, Italy and Poland. The research focuses on the solutions these cities have conceived to recover from today's outsource economy. In a variety of case studies, this book stimulates discussion(...)
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This book presents the results of a unique study of the period following the demise of the textile industry across cities in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, England, Finland, France, Italy and Poland. The research focuses on the solutions these cities have conceived to recover from today's outsource economy. In a variety of case studies, this book stimulates discussion(...)
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Comeback cities: transformation strategies for former industrial cities
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This book presents the results of a unique study of the period following the demise of the textile industry across cities in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, England, Finland, France, Italy and Poland. The research focuses on the solutions these cities have conceived to recover from today's outsource economy. In a variety of case studies, this book stimulates discussion on urban revitalization and international cooperation. Alongside this research, the book surveys the worldwide debate on this topic, and is richly illustrated with photographs.
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This book presents the results of a unique study of the period following the demise of the textile industry across cities in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, England, Finland, France, Italy and Poland. The research focuses on the solutions these cities have conceived to recover from today's outsource economy. In a variety of case studies, this book stimulates discussion on urban revitalization and international cooperation. Alongside this research, the book surveys the worldwide debate on this topic, and is richly illustrated with photographs.
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