Book Review: Datta, A. and Shaban, A., editors. 2017: Mega-Urbanization in the Global South: Fast Cities and New Urban Utopias of the Postcolonial State

Progress in Development Studies ◽

10.1177/1464993418800095 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 86-89

Author(s):

Sumetee Pahwa Gajjar

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Global South ◽

Postcolonial State ◽

Datta, A. and Shaban, A., editors. 2017: Mega-Urbanization in the Global South: Fast Cities and New Urban Utopias of the Postcolonial State. New York, NY: Routledge. Series: Routledge studies in urbanism and the city. xii + 224 pp. £ 92. ISBN: 9780415745512 (hardback).

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Skyscrapers: The City and the Megacity

Theory Culture & Society ◽

10.1177/0263276414547776 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 31 (7-8) ◽

pp. 267-271 ◽

Author(s):

Martin Parker

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Global South ◽

Global Power ◽

This short note considers the migration of the skyscraper from New York and Chicago to Asia and its absence in the emerging megacities of the Global South. Following 9/11, many commentators assumed that the skyscraper was finished, but this was clearly not the case, with super-tall construction now accelerating. However, the distributions of contemporary skyscrapers show us that there are shifts in global power and also in urban form.

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Book Review Medical and Surgical Report of the Presbyterian Hospital in the City of New York . Volume IX. July, 1912. Edited by John S. Thacher, M.D., and George Woolsey, M.D., New York: Corlies Macy and Company. 1913.

Boston Medical and Surgical Journal ◽

10.1056/nejm191308211690811 ◽

1913 ◽

Vol 169 (8) ◽

pp. 286-286

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Presbyterian Hospital ◽

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Book Review: Philosophy and the City: Classic to Contemporary Writings Sharon M. Meagher (Ed.), 2007 Albany, NY: State University of New York Press 309 pp. US$75.50 hardback; US$24.95 paperback ISBN 978 0 7914 7308 5 paperback; 978 0 7914 7307 8 hardback

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/00420980090460031106 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 46 (3) ◽

pp. 713-714

Author(s):

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

State University ◽

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Book Review: The City Revisited: Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York

Urban Affairs Review ◽

10.1177/1078087412463535 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 49 (2) ◽

pp. 312-314

Author(s):

David Wilson

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Los Angeles ◽

Urban Theory ◽

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Fainstein, Susan, "The City Builders: Property, Politics and Planning in London and New York" (Book Review)

Town Planning Review ◽

10.3828/tpr.67.1.t8h4878018g62nv6 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 67 (1) ◽

pp. 111

Author(s):

Bob Colenutt

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

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Book Review District Health Development: Building program as related to the master plan for the City of New York . Department of Health, City of New York. 53 pp. New York: Neighborhood Health Development, Inc., 1939. $1.00.

New England Journal of Medicine ◽

10.1056/nejm193912072212321 ◽

1939 ◽

Vol 221 (23) ◽

pp. 920-920

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Master Plan ◽

District Health ◽

Health Development ◽

Department Of Health ◽

Building Program ◽

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Book Review Tuberculosis a Preventable and Curable Disease . By S. Adolphus Knopf, M.D., Professor of Phthisiotherapy at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital; Associate Director of the Clinic for Pulmonary Diseases of the Health Department; Attending Physician to the Riverside Sanatorium for Consumptives of the City of New York, etc. New York: Moffat, Yard & Co. 1909.

Boston Medical and Surgical Journal ◽

10.1056/nejm191005121621916 ◽

1910 ◽

Vol 162 (19) ◽

pp. 647-647

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Medical School ◽

Health Department ◽

Pulmonary Diseases ◽

Post Graduate ◽

Graduate Medical ◽

Attending Physician ◽

The City ◽

Associate Director

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Book Review: New York Unbound: The City and Politics of the Future

Urban Studies ◽

10.1080/00420989120080311 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 296-297

Author(s):

Robert H. Aten

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

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Book review: Locating Right to the City in the Global South

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098014532145 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 51 (10) ◽

pp. 2235-2237

Author(s):

Fulong Wu

Keyword(s):

Global South ◽

Right To The City ◽

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BOOK REVIEW: Simone, AbdouMaliq, and Abdelghani Abouhani, editors. URBAN AFRICA: CHANGING CONTOURS OF SURVIVAL IN THE CITY. Dakar: CODESRIA Books, in association with Zed Books, London and New York, and University of South Africa Press, Pretoria. 2005.

Africa Today ◽

10.2979/aft.2006.53.2.133 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 133-135

Author(s):

Karen Tranberg Hansen

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

New York ◽

Urban Africa ◽

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