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The future once happened here : New York, D.C., L.A., and the fate of America's big cities
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The future once happened here : New York, D.C., L.A., and the fate of America's big cities

Author: Frederick F Siegel
Publisher: San Francisco : Encounter Books, 2000, ©1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st pbk. edView all editions and formats
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Each of the author's three urban portraits - New York, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, - shows the desperate remedies undertaken by cities searching for a lifeline back to the future whose promise  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Frederick F Siegel
ISBN: 1893554104 9781893554108
OCLC Number: 44407277
Notes: Includes index.
Originally published in 1997 by the Free Press.
Description: xiii, 314 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: The riot ideology --
New York. The New Deal city. The Ocean Hill-Brownsville Kulturkampf, or the immigrant option rejected. The welfare explosion: a case of malign intentions --
The District of Columbia. SNCC in power. The Great Society city. Marion builds his machine. D.C. denouement --
Los Angeles. The capitalist dynamo. Police politics. The centrifugal city. Reconquista? Secession? --
Back to the future. The moral dereuglation of public space. The politics of public order. Mining for fool's gold: New York's make-work economy. The rudy deal. After the revolution. By way of conclusion (to an ongoing story).
Responsibility: Fred Siegel.

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