Cities in a World Economy, Fifth Edition examines the emergence of global cities as a new social formation. As sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance …
Winner of the EDRA book prize for 2012. In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places …
ALA Szary - Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
This detour through art aims at demonstrating the performative function of contemporary walls and barriers, designed to impose a geopolitical vision through landscape changes …
The Spanish Craze is the compelling story of the centuries-long US fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and architecture of Spain. Richard L. Kagan offers a stunningly …
In recent years the travel industry has promoted trips to cultural landscapes that contain great historical and symbolic landmarks, and Latin American towns and cities are anything …
Global Suburbs: Urban Sprawl from the Rio Grande to Rio de Janeiro offers a critical new perspective on the emerging phenomenon of the global suburb in the western hemisphere …
Latin Americans make up the largest new immigrant population in the United States, and Latino Catholics are the fastest-growing sector of the Catholic Church in America. In this …
In the American Southwest, no two events shaped modern Spanish heritage more profoundly than the San Diego Expositions of 1915-16 and 1935-36. Both San Diego fairs …
Globalization on the Line Page 2 Globalization on the Line~ Page 3 Globalization on the Line~ Culture, Capital, and Citizenship at US Borders Edited by Claudia Sadowski-Smith palgrave Page …