Metropolis

Shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London's rich social and cultural history, masterfully weaving together the sto...

Reducere. The essential record of America's most American design movement, in a form that perfectly matches its content. -- Michael BeirutEarthquakes, Mudsli...

Reducere. The Jewish Metropolis: New York from the 17th to the 21st Century covers the entire sweep of the history of the largest Jewish community of all tim...

From the founding of ancient capitals to buzzing modern megacities, this history of ten cities explores how urban centres have led civilisation for...

The Virginal Mother in German Culture presents an innovative and thorough analysis of the contradictory obsession with female virginity and idealiz...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, The Gay Metropolis is a landmark saga of struggle and triumph that...

Reducere. This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and inve...

City Witchery is an accessible and intuitive guide to making and finding magic as a city dweller, traveler, or someone living in a small apartment....

Reducere. The third and final volume of our Kaiki series returns us to the Capital City: Tokyo. While Japan has modernized, renaming old Edo as new-born Toky...

Reducere. Winner, T. R. Fehrenbach Award, Texas Historical Commission, 2007From the nineteenth century until today, the power brokers of Dallas have always p...

DescriptionIn August 1934, young Cyril L. wrote to his friend Billy about all the exciting men he had met, the swinging nightclubs he had visited, ...

Reducere. In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small t...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. As New Y...

World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected...

Reducere. Detroit City Is the Place to Be is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country...

DescriptionDreamers and Schemers chronicles how Los Angeles's pursuit and staging of the 1932 Olympic Games during the depths of the Great Depressi...

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print EditionsAuthor(s): W EffordIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 20Publication date: 2018Dime...