Urbanization And Economic Development
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Early American Industry: The Triumph of America (1933) $9.99 “The Triumph of America” takes an energetic approach to the idea that America’s industry is limitless. Equipped with scenes of factories producing mass quantities of necessary tools and machinery, it details the industrial age. With the amazing 200,000 pound Fender Press and the six-cylinder motor, anything is possible. The Triumph of America glorifies technology with its advanced knowledge of the… |
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier $6.67 A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity’s greatest invention and our best hope for the future. America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the 3 percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap: they’re dirty, poor, unhealthy, crime ridden, expensive, environmentally unfriendly… Or are they? As Edward G… |
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Planet of Slums $9.00 A celebrated urban historian’s bestselling account of the global explosion of slums.According to the united nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, ur… |
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Economic Development (10th Edition) $39.00 Economic Development , 10/e is the leading textbook in this field, providing a complete and balanced introduction to the requisite theory, the driving policy issues, and the latest research. Principles and Concepts: Economics, Institutions, and Development: A Global Perspective; Comparative Economic Development; Classic Theories of Economic Growth and Development; Contemporary Models of Developm… |