Gebundenes Buch

Confronting Urban Legacy

Rediscovering Hartford and New England's Forgotten Cities

Herausgeber: Chen, Xiangming; Bacon, Nick

Beschreibung

In a field over-saturated with research on global cities and megacities, this is the first academic book to analyze specifically small cities and regions in New England. The book contains contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, historians, political scientists, politicians, grassroots leaders, and urban/regional planners.

Autor

Xiangming Chen is founding dean and director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies and Paul Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, as well as visiting professor in the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. He is author of As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim. Nick Bacon is research associate in urban studies at the Center for Urban and Global Studies and a PhD candidate in cultural anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9780739149423
• ISBN-10: 0739149423
• Artikelnr.: 38435547