... art Radical Presence exhibition aftercrimes art law criminality Los Angeles County Museum LACMA risk work Hollywood Jones Amelia Magnificent Seven The No Movies Noriega Chon racism Spray Paint LACMA Asco xenophobia Mexico urbanization ACLU American Civil Liberties Union apartheid...

... temporal system. Using the variable-hour system, Tokugawa society had already instituted synchronized public timekeeping and the assignation of the whole country to one time zone. In the seventeenth century, Japan witnessed rapid urbanization, with the city of Edo growing from about twenty thousand to more...

... that combines sociology with history and places the university into the long history of the rise of nation states and the competitive dynamics spurred by urbanization and globalization. The introduction further argues that the German-American interchanges from 1810 to 1933 contribute to the history...

...Through a critical history of modern Jews’ longstanding identification with urbanism, the introduction sets out the challenges and opportunities presented by postwar American suburbanization in the context of Detroit. Jews felt a particular and historically-shaped affinity for twentieth-century...

...Forest resurgence or forest transition—the widespread recovery of forests in the tropics and more generally—is explained in several bodies of bio-social and economic theory, including urbanization, economic efficiency, environmental politics, and globalization of labor and commodity markets, many...

...One of the remarkable sides of the fast and intense transformation of the Amazon in recent decades has been the coupled process of urbanization and forest resurgence taking place in the Amazon estuary. This chapter provides an analysis of the region's forest-based economy of relevance to rural...

...The city of Shenzhen as a case study complicates how urban changes can be theorized for China specifically and elsewhere in the world. This chapter suggests that the ongoing reconfiguration of the urban subject must be understood through its coevolution with the configuration of the city...

...Examining the relationship between national economic growth and urbanization allows for a better understanding of why the relationship between cities and the origins of wealth is not straightforward, but also why the experience of today's urbanizing nations is different from that of industrialized...

..., which drive economic activity and people towards particular places. The lessons for developing and emerging economies are unambiguous. Economic growth will inevitably produce urbanization and urban concentration. Attempting to halt either is futile. Regional differences in wealth will emerge, most...

...Chapter four addresses the growing importance of appearances and first impressions in an increasingly urbanized and anonymous society. The necessity for urban dwellers and employers to make quick appraisals of strangers made them increasingly alert and sensitive to physical appearance and unusual...

...Americans need a place to construct their dreams, and since their dreams usually involve material wealth, it helps if the place has plentiful resources. The land and its wealth have served this purpose well through most of American history, at least until the decisive urbanization of the twentieth...

...This essay offers some broad empirical and interpretive observations that speak to this volume's central questions. The first section explores the pace and pattern of urban development in the decades leading up to the Civil War, with a consideration of various quantitative variables, some...

...By the late antebellum period the future Confederacy was urbanizing faster than its cities were growing. The scholarly focus on modernization and urban places, rather than on urban processes, networks, and functions, has obscured this development. In addition to the people who lived in urban...

...This essay examines the impact of the Civil War in one Deep South city, paying particular attention to the ways that slave emancipation and black political mobilization transformed urban life. Focusing on the city of Natchez in southwest Mississippi, the essay notes that too much attention has been...

... the commercial culture of the Auction Mart over the course of its existence up until World War I. This institution gave greater coherence to a market shaped by growing urbanization, but was ultimately eclipsed due to the growth of suburbanization and the transformation that this entailed for real estate sales...

...The mission of the US National Parks includes the preservation of natural and historical beauty and the enjoyment of that beauty by visitors. Over the past century in the United States, however, urbanization has increased and most children grow up apart from nature. Visitation of national parks has...

... upward mobility urbanization Arab Gulf countries Gaza Strip Golan Heights inequality public sector jobs refugees Samha Musa United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees UNRWA Layne Linda Jordan Ministry of Education private sector jobs Programme for International Student...

... estate speculation telephones Back Bay department stores Sassoons ballrooms motion pictures New Woman tourism Dinshaw Petit family steamers Tata Wittet George Bombay cosmopolitanism urbanization Bombay is more cosmopolitan than any other city in the world. harry james greenwall...

...The alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia are widely known as the “cradle of civilization”; owing to the scale of the processes of urbanization that took place in the area by the second half of the fourth millennium bc. This book draws on the work...

...As our world becomes increasingly urbanized, an understanding of the context, mechanisms, and consequences of city and suburban environments becomes more critical. Without a sense of what open spaces such as parks and gardens contribute, it is difficult to argue for their creation and maintenance...