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  • Where the River Burned

    Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland

    In the 1960s, Cleveland suffered through racial violence, spiking crime rates, and a shrinking tax base, as the city lost jobs and population. Rats infested an expanding and decaying ghetto, Lake Erie appeared to be dying, and dangerous air pollution hung over the city. Such was the urban crisis in the "Mistake on the Lake." When the Cuyahoga River caught fire in the summer of 1969, the city was ... Leer más

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  • Detroit

    A Biography

    At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub—and then the bottom fell out. Detroit : A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to explain how the city ... Leer más

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  • Whose Detroit?

    Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City

    **"Thompson's engrossing book is essential for any collection on the history, politics, or society of post–World War II America."**â• Library JournalIn Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that shaped the Motor City during the 1960s and 1970s. Even after Great Society liberals committed themselves ... Leer más

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  • Floods in a Megacity

    Geospatial Techniques in Assessing Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability

    de Ashraf Dewan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Flooding is one of the most devastating natural hazards in the world. Available records suggest that both flood frequency and severity are on the rise and this is likely to worsen in the context of climate change. As population, infrastructure and poverty grow rapidly in developing countries, particularly in urban agglomerations of 10 million people or more, floods could cause widespread ... Leer más

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  • The History of Wisconsin, Volume III

    Urbanization & Industrialization 1873-1893

    Series Libro 3 - History of Wisconsin
    Although the years from 1873-1893 lacked the well known, dramatic events of the periods before and after, this period presented a major transformation in Wisconsin's economy. The third volume in the History of Wisconsin series presents a balanced, comprehensive, and witty account of these two decades of dynamic growth and change in Wisconsin society, business, and industry. Concentrating on three ... Leer más

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  • A City and Its Universities

    Public Policy in Chicago, 1892-1919

    By focusing on Chicago’s first generation of activist professors, Diner shows how modern public policy evolved. Chicago’s early academic professionals, believing that they alone could solve the problems of a complex urban society, united to press for reforms in education, criminal justice, social welfare, and municipal administration. By claiming professional autonomy, they established the ... Leer más

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  • The Poisoned City

    Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy

    de Anna Clark ...
    **Winner of The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism - 2019When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins.**Through a series of disastrous decisions, the state government had switched the city’s water supply to a source that corroded Flint’s aging lead pipes. Complaints about the foul-smelling water were ... Leer más

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  • Event Policy

    From Theory to Strategy

    As the event management field expands, there has been an emergence of a distinctive ‘events’ policy field of study and a need for more advanced texts that look at this subject with a multidisciplinary research and theoretical orientation.Events Policy: From Theory to Strategy is the first text to embrace this new direction in the field of events management. Its main aim is to locate the phenomena ... Leer más

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  • Activists in City Hall

    The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era in Boston and Chicago

    de Pierre Clavel ...
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  • The University of Illinois

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    The founding of the university in 1867 created a unique community in what had been a prairie. Within a few years, this creative mix of teachers and scholars produced innovations in agriculture, engineering and the arts that challenged old ideas and stimulated dynamic new industries. Projects ranging from the Mosaic web browser to the discovery of Archaea and pioneering triumphs in women's ... Leer más

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  • Waiting For The Morning Train

    An American Boyhood

    de Bruce Catton ...
    Bruce Catton, whose name is identified with Civil War history, grew up in Benzonia, Michigan, probably the only town within two hundred miles, he says, not founded to cash in on the lumber boom. In this memoir, Catton remembers his youth, his family, his home town, and his coming of age.With nostalgia, warmth, and humor, Catton recalls it all with a wealth of detail: the logging industry and its ... Leer más

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  • Euclid Creek

    de Roy Larick ...
    Series series Images of America
    Over the centuries, Euclid Creek's torrents have drilled through bluestone and shale, carving deep gorges in a gentle landscape. Early Native Americans trekked the gorge rims here, forming an extensive trail network. When Moses Cleaveland came to survey the area in 1796, he and his men became involved in a labor dispute, which Cleaveland settled by granting the men a township straddling "the big ... Leer más

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