Urban Studies

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Writing Beijing

History and Knowledge of the Capital

By Naixi Feng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, History, Intellectual History, Chinese History, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

The textual transformation of Beijing from a frontier outpost to the capital of China

Brutal Ephemerality

Migrant Temporalities on China's Urban Fringe

By Yang Zhan
Subjects: Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Asian Studies, China, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

A temporal perspective to understanding urban governance and social marginalization in urban Beijing

Home Team Away

Watching European Football in Urban China

By Yuan Gong
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Sports, Sociology, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

European football fandom as a cultural process in urban middle-class China

Out for Glamour in Africa

A History of Black Urban Femininities in Drum Magazine

By Wanjiru G. Mbure
Subjects: African Studies, Media Studies, Journalism, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, African American Studies, Urban Studies, Caribbean Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Renegotiating Black femininities through Drum magazine

Global Urban Policy

A Framework for Analyzing State and Society

Edited by David Kaufmann & Mara Sidney
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy and Governance, Spatial Politics, Urban Studies

How to see like a city

The Post-Global City

Theorizing Technology Cultures in Urban Africa

Edited by Katrien Pype, Omolade Adunbi, and Michael M.J. Fischer
Subjects: African Studies, Urban Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Natural Resources
Series: African Perspectives

Reimagining technological developments in urban Africa

Curating the Commons

Socially Engaged Public Art

By Katia Arfara
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Art, Art History, Urban Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

In-depth explorations of socially engaged public artworks from the perspective of a curator and scholar

Seeking a Future for the Past

Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City

By Philipp Demgenski
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Asian History, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

An ethnography that illuminates the political economy of urbanization in contemporary China

Congo Style

From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence

By Ruth Sacks
Subjects: African Studies, Art, Art History, Urban Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Examines the impact of colonial Belgium’s influence on the Congo’s visual culture

Mobilizing the Metropolis

How the Port Authority Built New York

By Philip Mark Plotch & Jen Nelles
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy and Governance, Urban Studies, Spatial Politics

Durable lessons from New York on collaboration, leadership, and overcoming complex political challenges

Entrepreneurial Seoulite

Culture and Subjectivity in Hongdae, Seoul

By Mihye Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

A lucid narration of post-financial crisis urbanism in Seoul and the vivid experiences of living through the city in transition

Cultures of Yusin

South Korea in the 1970s

By Youngju Ryu
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Cultural Studies, History, Asian History, Literary Studies, Urban Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

A broad range of scholars explores the many avenues of cultural production during the Yusin period, casting new light on how it challenged and conformed to the ambitions of the state power

Broadway Rhythm

Imaging the City in Song

By Dominic Symonds
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Music, American Studies, Urban Studies

Imaginative walking tours that retrace the map of Manhattan as it resonates with the music of Broadway

 

A Setting For Excellence, Part II

The Story of the Planning and Development of the Ann Arbor Campus of the University of Michigan

By Frederick W. Mayer
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, American History, Education, Higher Education, Urban Studies

An important contribution to understanding the evolution of the American university
 

A Setting For Excellence, Part II

The Story of the Planning and Development of the Ann Arbor Campus of the University of Michigan

By Frederick W. Mayer
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, American History, Education, Higher Education, Urban Studies

An important contribution to understanding the evolution of the American university
 

Detroit Is No Dry Bones

The Eternal City of the Industrial Age

By Camilo Jose Vergara
Subjects: Urban Studies, Race and Ethnicity, American Studies

A photographic record of almost three decades of Detroit’s changing urban fabric

Beyond the Bauhaus

Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-33

By Deborah Ascher Barnstone
Subjects: German Studies, History, German History, Art, Art History, Urban Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reclaims the essential role that the city of Breslau played in the origins of aesthetic modernism in the Weimar era

The Black Musician and the White City

Race and Music in Chicago, 1900-1967

By Amy Absher
Subjects: African American Studies, Music, American Studies, History, American History, Urban Studies, Sociology, African American History, Michigan and the Great Lakes

An exploration of the history of African American musicians in Chicago during the mid-20th century

The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit

By Andrew Herscher
Subjects: American Studies, Art, Architecture, Cultural Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, Art and Culture, Urban Studies

A guide to the emergence of alternative urban cultures in the wake of Detroit's economic decline

The Wire

Race, Class, and Genre

Edited by Liam Kennedy & Stephen Shapiro
Subjects: American Studies, African American Studies, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Urban Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Wide-ranging perspectives on "the best dramatic series ever created"

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