wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Working-Class Utopias: A History of Cooperative Housing in New York City
ISBN: 9780691234748 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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191,47 zł |
Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870-1930
ISBN: 9780300124170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The quintessential American suburbs, with their gracious single-family homes, large green lawns, and leaf-shaded streets, reflected not only residents' dreams but nightmares, not only hopes but fears: fear of others, of racial minorities and lowincome groups, fear of themselves, fear of the market, and, above all, fear of change. These fears, and the restrictive covenants that embodied them, are the subject of Robert M. Fogelson's fascinating new book. As Fogelson reveals, suburban subdividers attempted to cope with the deep-seated fears of unwanted change, especially the... The quintessential American suburbs, with their gracious single-family homes, large green lawns, and leaf-shaded streets, reflected not only reside... |
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225,92 zł |
Great Rent Wars: New York, 1917-1929
ISBN: 9780300191721 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written by one of the country's foremost urban historians, The Great Rent Wars tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles between landlords and tenants in the nation's largest city from 1917 through 1929. These conflicts were triggered by the post-war housing shortage, which prompted landlords to raise rents, drove tenants to go on rent strikes, and spurred the state legislature, a conservative body dominated by upstate Republicans, to impose rent control in New York, a radical and unprecedented step that transformed landlord-tenant relations.
The Great Rent... Written by one of the country's foremost urban historians, The Great Rent Wars tells the fascinating but little-known story of the battles betw...
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543,14 zł |
Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1880-1950 (Revised)
ISBN: 9780300098273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written by one of this country's foremost urban historians, Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. It tells the fascinating story of how downtown--and the way Americans thought about downtown--changed over time. By showing how businessmen and property owners worked to promote the well-being of downtown, even at the expense of other parts of the city, it also gives a riveting account of spatial politics in urban America.
Drawing on a wide array of contemporary sources, Robert M. Fogelson brings downtown to life, first as the business... Written by one of this country's foremost urban historians, Downtown is the first history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American ...
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402,83 zł |
The Fragmented Metropolis: Los Angeles, 1850-1930volume 3
ISBN: 9780520082304 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural village of fewer than 2,000 people to its emergence as a metropolis of more than 2 million in 1930--a city whose distinctive structure, character, and culture foreshadowed much of the development of urban America after World War II.
Here with a new preface, a new foreword, and an updated bibliography is the definitive history of Los Angeles from its beginnings as an agricultural v...
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201,21 zł |