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Category - Non Fiction / Political Science
Format - Paperback
Condition - Excellent
Listed - A month ago
Ships From - Florida
Est. Publication Date - Apr 1996
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Not since Sherman has anyone targeted Atlanta to such savage effect. Rutheiser's unsparing portrait of "the capital of the New South" shows that the carpetbaggers never left-they just became City Fathers, along with an unsavory collection of klansmen, hucksters, moneylenders, and politicians. Imagineering Atlanta maps the dystopian landscape of American civic life at the end of the twentieth century. RICHARD A. WALKER, PROFESSOR AND CHAIR OF GEOGRAPHY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
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Imagineering Atlanta: The Politics of Place in the City of Dreams
ISBN: 9781859841457
Publisher Description
In the age of decentralization, instant communications, and the subordination of locality to the demands of a globalizing market, contemporary cities have taken on place-less or a-geographic character...
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