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<title><![CDATA[Carjacked]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780230618138</link>
<description><![CDATA[Carjacked   is an in-depth look at our obsession with cars. While the automobile’s contribution to global warming and the effects of volatile gas prices is widely known, the problems we face every day because of our cars are much more widespread and yet much less known -- from the surprising $14,000 that the average family pays each year for the vehicles it owns, to the increase in rates of obesity and asthma to which cars contribute, to the 40,000 deaths and 2.5 million crash injuries each and every year.Carjacked details the complex impact of the automobile on modern society and shows us how to develop a healthier, cheaper, and greener relationship with cars.                                                            http://www.carjacked.org/]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[Carjacked]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Lutz; Anne Lutz Fernandez]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Palgrave Macmillan]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780230618138]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[Carjacked   is an in-depth look at our obsession with cars. While the automobile’s contribution to global warming and the effects of volatile gas prices is widely known, the problems we face every day because of our cars are much more widespread and yet much less known -- from the surprising $14,000 that the average family pays each year for the vehicles it owns, to the increase in rates of obesity and asthma to which cars contribute, to the 40,000 deaths and 2.5 million crash injuries each and every year.Carjacked details the complex impact of the automobile on modern society and shows us how to develop a healthier, cheaper, and greener relationship with cars.                                                            http://www.carjacked.org/]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2010-01-05T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Naked City]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780195382853</link>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Naked City]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon Zukin]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Oxford University Press, USA]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9780195382853]]></dc:identifier>
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<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2009-12-01T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[The Battle for Gotham]]></title>
<link>http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781568584386</link>
<description><![CDATA[In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York’s ?master builder” Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways.Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses. His decline in the late 1960s and the drying up of big government funding for urban renewal projects allowed New York to organically regenerate according to the precepts defined by Jane Jacobs in her classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and in contradiction to Moses’s urban philosophy.As American cities face a devastating economic crisis, Jacobs’s philosophy is again vital for the redevelopment of metropolitan life. Gratz who was named as one of Planetizen’s Top 100 Urban Thinkers gives an on-the-ground account of urban renewal and community success.]]></description>
<dc:title><![CDATA[The Battle for Gotham]]></dc:title>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roberta Brandes Gratz]]></dc:creator>
<dc:publisher><![CDATA[Nation Books]]></dc:publisher>
<dc:identifier><![CDATA[9781568584386]]></dc:identifier>
<dc:description><![CDATA[In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many people credit New York’s ?master builder” Robert Moses with turning Gotham around, despite his brutal, undemocratic. and demolition-heavy ways.Urban critic and journalist Roberta Brandes Gratz contradicts this conventional view. New York City, Gratz argues, recovered precisely because of the waning power of Moses. His decline in the late 1960s and the drying up of big government funding for urban renewal projects allowed New York to organically regenerate according to the precepts defined by Jane Jacobs in her classic, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and in contradiction to Moses’s urban philosophy.As American cities face a devastating economic crisis, Jacobs’s philosophy is again vital for the redevelopment of metropolitan life. Gratz who was named as one of Planetizen’s Top 100 Urban Thinkers gives an on-the-ground account of urban renewal and community success.]]></dc:description>
<dc:format><![CDATA[Hardcover]]></dc:format>
<dc:date>2010-03-09T00:00:00-05:00</dc:date>
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