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Title The geography, politics, and architecture of cities : studies in the creation and complexification of culture / edited by Michael A. McAdams, Jesus Treviño Cantú, Ivani Vassoler-Froelich ; with a foreword by Karol Edward Soltan
Published Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 314 pages) : illustrations, maps
Summary This is an unusually international and interdisciplinarycollection of essays on the modern city. Authors and subject mattercome from Mexico, Brazil, Turkey, United States, Bulgaria, Spain, Germany, and China among others. Among the disciplinesrepresented are Geography, Political Science, Architecture, Literary Studies, Economics, History, Cultural Studies, andLinguistics. We have in this volume the full spectrum ofhumanities and social sciences, with the topics ranging from indepthstudies of some telling details of urban life, to generaltheoretical approaches to urbanism and urban planning
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Cities and towns -- Social aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Cities and towns -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
Author McAdams, Michael A.
Cantu, Jesus Trevino, 1958-
Vassoler-Froelich, Ivani, 1954-
ISBN 9780773420366
0773420363