| Description |
1 online resource (425 pages) : some illustrations |
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Urban studies |
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Urban studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
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| Contents |
Cover. Urban Transformations in the U.S.A. ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Narratives of Urban Transformation. Reading the Rust Belt in the Ruhr Valley; MODELS OF URBAN TRANSFORMATION ; "Federal City," "Federal Town," "Washingtonople." Washington, D.C., and the Transformation of a National Capital |
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Parasitic Simulacrum. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Florida, and the Urban 'Creative Class' MAPPING ETHNICITY ; Negotiating Germanness after World War II. Transformations of German Culture in Postwar New York City ; Transnational U.S. Literature. Manhattan Music by Meena Alexander |
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Barrio Spaces as Alter-Narratives. Luis J. Rodriguez's Always Running and The Republic of East L.A Chinatown's Lived and Mystified Foodscapes, 1880s-1990s ; The Transformation of Manhattan's Chinatown in Hungarian Travel Writing ; LIMINALITY AND THE AMERICAN CITY |
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Detecting Chinatown. New York, Crime Fiction, and the Politics of Urban Inscrutability Lost in the Stacks. Shipping Containers and Narrative Agency in the Posthuman City ; Fueling Change. The Gas Station in Urban America ; The Urban Frontier in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day |
| Summary |
How did American cities change throughout the 20th and early 21st century? This timely publication integrates research from American Literary and Cultural Studies, Urban Studies and History. The essays range from negotiations of the "ethnic city" in US literature and media, to studies of recent urban phenomena and their representations: gentrification, re-appropriation and conversion of urban spaces in the USA. These interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives on American cities provide unique points of access for studying the complex narratives of urban transformation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- United States
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Cities and towns in literature.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
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American literature
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Cities and towns
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Cities and towns in literature
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Stadt Motiv
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Stadtentwicklung
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Literatur
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Amerikabild
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Urbanisering -- historia.
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Stadssociologi.
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Gentrifiering.
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Städer.
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United States
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Förenta staterna.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sattler, Julia, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783839431115 |
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3839431115 |
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