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    The Students and Mass Movement of 1989

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  • Makeshift Metropolis

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    In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an ... Leer más

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  • Public Opinion

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  • Living the Drama

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  • The New Urban Agenda

    The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area

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  • The Restless City

    A Short History of New York from Colonial Times to the Present

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  • There Goes the Neighborhood

    Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America

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    This book explores the human right to housing, presenting the findings of a global discourse analysis to analyse the right to housing from the perspective of theories on land policy and social citizenship. The book concludes that planners and policy makers will not be able to completely fulfil the human right to housing. For that reason, the book presents a theory of de-commodification of land use ... Leer más

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  • International Express

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