Michael B. Katz

Why Don't American Cities Burn?

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Produktbeschreibung

Urban historian Michael B. Katz traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America.

Produktdetails

• The City in the Twenty-First Century
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9780812222807
• ISBN-10: 0812222806
• Artikelnr.: 38144196

Autorenporträt

By Michael B. Katz

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: The Death of Shorty
Chapter 1. What Is an American City?
Chapter 2. The New African American Inequality
Chapter 3. Why Don't American Cities Burn Very Often?
Chapter 4. From Underclass to Entrepreneur: New Technologies of Poverty
Work in Urban America
Epilogue: The Existential Problem of Urban Studies
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments