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UNINA9910450577003321 |
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Autore |
Koval John |
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Titolo |
The New Chicago [[electronic resource] ] : A Social and Cultural Analysis |
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Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (382 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BennettLarry <1950-> |
BennettMichael |
DemissieFassil |
GarnerRoberta |
KimKiljoong |
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307.1/4160977311 |
307.14160977311 |
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Chicago (Ill.) - Social conditions |
City planning |
Immigrants |
City planning - Illinois - Chicago |
Immigrants - Chicago - Illinois |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Contents; Preface; Part I: Introduction; 1. An Overview and Point of View; Part II: Converging Forces; 2. Globalization and the Remaking of Chicago; 3. Economic Restructuring: Chicago's Precarious Balance; 4. Chicago's New Politics of Growth; 5. The Physical Transformation of Metropolitan Chicago; Chicago's Central Area; The Emergent Suburban Landscape; 6. Race Relations Chicago Style: Past, Present, and Future; Part III: The Immigrant Presence; 7. Chicago: The Immigrant Capital of the Heartland; 8. Latinos of the New Chicago; 9. New Chicago Polonia: Urban and Suburban |
10. Asian Indians in Chicago 11. Re-Visioning Filipino American Communities: Evolving Identities, Issues, and Organizations; 12. The Korean Presence in Chicago; 13. Chicago's Chinese Americans: From Chinatown and Beyond; 14. Immigrants from the Arab World; 15. |
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Immigrants at Work; Part IV: Contested Reinvention and Civic Agency: Ten Case Studies; 16. The Rebirth of Bronzeville: Contested Space and Contrasting Visions; 17. Devon Avenue: A World Market; 18. The Affordable Housing Crisis in the Chicago Region |
19. Back to Its Roots: The Industrial Areas Foundation and United Power for Action and Justice 20. Chicago School Reform: Advancing the Global City Agenda; 21. Police and the Globalizing City: Innovation and Contested Reinvention; 22. Transforming Public Housing; 23. Regionalism in a Historically Divided Metropolis; 24. Coalition Politics at America's Premier Transportation Hub; 25. Urban Beautification: The Construction of a New Identity in Chicago; Part V: Conclusion; 26. Learning from Chicago; References; About the Contributors; Index |
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For generations, visitors, journalists, and social scientists alike have asserted that Chicago is the quintessentially American city. Indeed, the introduction to The New Chicago reminds us that ""to know America, you must know Chicago."" The contributors boldly announce the demise of the city of broad shoulders and the transformation of its physical, social, cultural, and economic institutions into a new Chicago. In this wide-ranging book, twenty scholars, journalists, and activists, relying on data from the 2000 census and many years of direct experience with the city, identify |
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UNINA9910466330103321 |
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HIMS 2015 : proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Health Informatics and Medical Systems / / editors, Hamid R. Arabnia, Leonidas Deligiannidis ; associate editors, George Jandieri, Ashu M.G. Solo, Fernando G. Tinetti |
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[Athens] : , : CSREA Press, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (276 pages) : illustrations |
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The 2015 WorldComp International Conference Proceedings Ser |
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Medicine - Data processing |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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"WORLDCOMP'15 July 27-30, 2015, Las Vegas Nevada, USA." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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