The Urban Moment
Subtitle: Cosmopolitan Essays on the Late 20th Century City (Urban Affairs Annual Reviews)
Contributors: Robert A. Beauregard (Editor); Sophie Body-Gendrot (Editor); Line Beauregard (Editor)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: October 11, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780761914846
Subjects: Political science & theory; Urban communities; Public Policy - Regional Planning; Environmental Science; History Of Civilization And Culture (General); Urban Planning; Sociology - Urban; Political Science; Sociology; Postmodernism; Politics/International Relations; Science / Environmental Science; Science-Environmental Science; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; 1950-; Cities and towns; City and town life; Civilization, Modern
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