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Paul, Hogan. Population, private housing, and social mix in Dublin's inner city: Without private housing and the attraction of certain economic groups, the socially balanced residential renewal of Dublin's inner city will remain unachievable. Dublin: University College Dublin, 1992.

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Law, Christopher M. Urban tourism: Attracting visitors to large cities. London: Mansell, 1994.

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Urban tourism: Attracting visitors to large cities. New York, NY, USA: Mansell, 1993.

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A, Raffel Jeffrey, ed. Selling cities: Attracting homebuyers through schools and housing programs. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.

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Scotland. Building strong, safe and attractive communities: A consultation document on wardens and other community based inititatives to tackle anti-social behaviour. [Edinburgh]: Scottish Executive, 2003.

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Gosselin, Heather M. The urban outback : wetlands for wildlife: A guide to wetland restoration and frog-friendly backyards. Toronto: Metro Toronto Zoo, Adopt-A-Pond Wetland Conservation Programme, 1995.

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Monitoring our nation's pulse: A look at existing federal, state, and local economic development tools and whether they are adequate in attracting and keeping businesses in America's heartland cities : hearing before the Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, second session, March 21, 2006. Washington: U.S. G.P.O., 2006.

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Solomon, William. The Politics and Poetics of Attraction II. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040245.003.0004.

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This chapter continues the conceptual thread of “attraction” while exploring the film oeuvre of the “third genius” of silent screen comedy: Harold Lloyd. This time it is the manifesto-like claims of Eisenstein's theatrical collaborator, Sergei Tretyakov, that provide the theoretical point of departure. The chapter argues that Lloyd, together with his producer Hal Roach, grasped the virtues of athletic performances on screen as a means of helping to train the masses somatically, in order to handle the demands of life in threatening urban settings. The status of the image here is not that of a copy of a preexisting reality. Rather, it was designed to play a formative role in the life of the spectator.

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Harris, LaShawn. Black Women, Urban Labor, and New York’s Informal Economy. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040207.003.0002.

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This chapter offers an overview of black women informal workers both as wage earners and entrepreneurs, positioning their experiences at the center of New York's informal labor market. It highlights working-class black women's socioeconomic conditions and the ways in which economic distress coupled with varying perceptions of urban public space and racial uplift motivated some women's attraction to nontraditional modes of labor. New York black women viewed the economic and social opportunities offered by off-the-books labor as a path toward altering the recipe of possibilities for themselves. But securing extralegal and unlicensed labor that disrupted normative gender roles and racial hierarchies and ideas about public decorum came at a price. Collateral consequences were certainly part of some black women's trajectory as underground workers and entrepreneurs. This chapter also considers the dangers and obstacles associated with self-employment and laboring for employers willing to pay them under the table.

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Sharing your space: A homeowner's guide to attracting backyard wildlife. Pierre, SD: Dept. of Game, Fish and Parks, Wildlife Division, 1995.

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Law, Christopher M. Urban Tourism: Attracting Visitors to Large Cities (Tourism, Leisure, and Recreation). Mansell, 1994.

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Moodie, Deonnie. Sacred Space Becomes Public Space. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190885267.003.0004.

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At the turn of the twenty-first century, middle-class men and women formed non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and filed public interest litigation suits (PILs) in order to expand temple space, knock down buildings that block views of Kālīghāṭ’s façade, and remove undesirable materials and populations from its environs. Employing the language of cleanliness and order, they worked (and continue to work) to make Kālīghāṭ a “must-see” tourist attraction. Scholarship has shown that India’s new middle classes—those produced through India’s economic liberalization policies in the 1990s—desire highly visible forms demonstrating their modernity as well as their uniqueness on the international stage of urban space. The example of Kālīghāṭ indicates how India’s new middle classes build on the work of the old middle classes to deploy the temple as emblematic of both their modernity and their Indian-ness. In so doing, they read the idioms of public space onto sacred space.

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Cortese, Maria Elena. Between the City and the Countryside. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777601.003.0013.

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The subject of this chapter is the relationship between the Tuscan cities and the families belonging to the middle ranks of the lay aristocracy, from the late tenth until the early twelfth century. Taking the case-study of Florence as a starting point, a comparison with other cities of the Tuscan March in the same period (Lucca, Pisa, Arezzo, Pistoia, and Siena) will be sketched, to see that during the eleventh century we can find a similar situation in different contexts. In fact almost everywhere the ‘mid-level’ aristocracy held extensive and dispersed landholdings, many castles and private churches in the countryside, but important urban and suburban holdings as well. They established political, social, and economic connections with the primary wielders of regional power (the marquis, the counts, the bishops and other important ecclesiastical institutions) and gravitated on the cities, taking part to urban politics and probably living there some periods during the year. The situation in Florence, however, rapidly changed during the protracted crisis of the Tuscan March at the end of the eleventh and in the early twelfth centuries, when the rural aristocracy confronted a major crisis: many lineages rapidly fragmented, the splintered branches concentrated on building compact rural lordships, and they turned their backs on Florence, without playing a role in the emerging comune. But, in the same context of the decline of the March, in other Tuscan cities the separation between rural and urban aristocracies did not take place, or at least seems to have been not so stark and dramatic. Paying attention to the strength of several factors (power of the bishops, economic attraction, connections with powerful counts families etc.), different situations will be compared to reflect about the political behaviour of rural aristocracies and their degree of integration in the urban elites during the so-called ‘consular period’.

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Building strong, safe and attractive communities: Consultation on wardens and other community based initiatives to tackle anti-social behaviour : summary report on the consultation. Edinburgh: Scottish Executive, 2003.

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Maurer, George J. The importance of shrub and clumped vegetation in supporting desirable songbirds in managed urban parks and open spaces. 1985.

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There's a Bobcat in My Backyard: Living With and Enjoying Urban Wildlife (Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Guides). University of Arizona Press, 2004.

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Rahimi, Babak, and Peyman Eshaghi, eds. Muslim Pilgrimage in the Modern World. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469651460.001.0001.

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Pilgrimage is one of the most significant ritual duties for Muslims, entailing the visitation and veneration of sites associated with the Prophet Muhammad or saintly figures. As demonstrated in this multidisciplinary volume, the lived religion of pilgrimage, defined by embodied devotional practices, is changing in an age characterized by commerce, technology, and new sociocultural and political frameworks. Traveling to and far beyond the Hajj, the most well-known Muslim pilgrimage, the volume’s contributors reveal and analyze emerging contemporary Islamic pilgrimage practices around the world, in minority- and majority-Muslim countries as well as in urban and rural settings. What was once a tiny religious attraction in a remote village, for example, may begin to draw increasing numbers of pilgrims to shrines and tombs as the result of new means of travel, thus triggering significant changes in the traditional rituals, and livelihoods, of the local people. Organized around three key themes—history and politics; embodiment, memory, and material religion; and communications—the book reveals how rituals, practices, and institutions are experienced in the context of an inexorable global capitalism. The volume contributors are Sophia Rose Arjana, Rose Aslan, Robert R. Bianchi, Omar Kasmani, Azim Malikov, Lewis Mayo, Julian Millie, Reza Masoudi Nejad, Paulo G. Pinto, Babak Rahimi, Emilio Spadola, Edith Szanto, and Brannon Wheeler.

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Executive, Scotland Scottish, ed. Building strong, safe and attractive communities: Guidance for submissions : guidance to local authorities and their community planning partners on preparing submissions for wardens and other community based initiative to tackle anti-social behaviour. Edinburgh: Scottish Executive, 2003.

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The importance of shrub and clumped vegetation in supporting desirable songbirds in managed urban parks and open spaces. 1985.

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The importance of shrub and clumped vegetation in supporting desirable songbirds in managed urban parks and open spaces. 1985.

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Wayside Attractions: The Negotiation of Aspirations and Careers Among African-American Adolescentmales in an Urban Alternative School (Understanding Education and Policy). Hampton Press, 2003.

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Gross, Robert N. Competing Schools. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190644574.003.0003.

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Chapter 2 details how the rapid expansion of private, Catholic schooling in the 1870s and 1880s introduced unforeseen competition that transformed urban education. Newly constructed Catholic parochial schools in cities like Pittsburgh siphoned tens of thousands of Catholic students away from urban public schools. As a result, conflicts over growing parochial school attendance seemed ensured. Public officials initially responded by attempting to adapt to their new competitors. In hopes of attracting Catholic immigrants, for example, school boards in cities such as Cleveland and Chicago adopted foreign-language instruction, or attempted to work out various schemes to fund Catholic schools out of the public treasury. These measures met with varying degrees of success but failed to halt what was becoming a clear, national trend: sharp lines demarcating public and private schools, in often fierce competition with one another in American cities.

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Martin, Bruce. Wayside Attractions: The Negotiation of Aspirations and Careers Among African-American Adolescent Males in an Urban Alternative School (Understanding Education and Policy). Hampton Press, 2003.

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West 16th Street Map Company. Philadelphia, the Red Map: The essential guide to neighborhoods, museums, universities, historic sites, hotels, shopping, restaurants, business districts, attractions & more for urban explorers. 2nd ed. West 16th Street Map Co. Inc, 2001.

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West 16th Street Map Company. San Francisco, California, the Red Map: The essential guide to neighborhoods, museums, architecture, parks, hotels, restaurants, attractions and more for the urban explorer. West 16th Street Map Co, 2000.

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West 16th Street Map Company. Washington, District of Columbia, the Red Map: The essential guide to neighborhoods, museums, monuments, hotels, shopping, restaurants, attractions, and more for urban explorers. 2nd ed. West 16th Street Map Co. Inc, 2000.

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Epstein, William M. Year Up. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190467067.003.0006.

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Chapter 5 describes, evaluates, and reinterprets the private sector social service program Year Up as a ceremony of social values rather than as a successful response to a social problem. The program is intended to provide poor minority urban youths access to the job market by offering short-term academic and skills training. Its claims to success are based on contracted evaluations that are not credible. In the end, Year Up embodies a mythic obligation to affirm heroic individualism as the essence of civic virtue and personal value. Year Up mandates that participants embark on the quest for authenticity through mentoring and training en route to employment. Yet the myth of Year Up defines one of its most enduring attractions. It is inexpensive and highly selective, in the end a very efficient way to certify the nation’s chosenness without disrupting customary social arrangements, without redefining the relationship among people, and notably without transferring great amounts of assets and income to those in need.

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West 16th Street Map Company. Boston, the Red Map: Back Bay, theater district, financial district, Beacon Hill, gov't centers & Freedom Trail : The essential guide to neighborhoods, ... attractions, and more for urban explorers. West 16th Street Map Co, 2001.

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Great Britain. Department of the Environment., Joint Study on Stock Options., KPMG, and Joseph Rowntree Foundation, eds. Investing in urban housing: Options for attracting private investment into urban public housing through voluntary stock transfer : a summary of the results of the Joint Study on Stock Options and a commentary on related policy issues. [U.K.]: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1996.

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Lewis, Robert. Chicago's Industrial Decline. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501752629.001.0001.

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This book charts the city's decline since the 1920s and describes the early development of Chicago's famed (and reviled) growth machine. Beginning in the 1940s and led by local politicians, downtown business interest, financial institutions, and real estate groups, place-dependent organizations in Chicago implemented several industrial renewal initiatives with the dual purpose of stopping factory closings and attracting new firms in order to turn blighted property into modern industrial sites. At the same time, a more powerful coalition sought to adapt the urban fabric to appeal to middle-class consumption and residential living. As the book shows, the two aims were never well integrated, and the result was on-going disinvestment and the inexorable decline of Chicago's industrial space. By the 1950s, the book argues, it was evident that the early incarnation of the growth machine had failed to maintain Chicago's economic center in industry. Although larger economic and social forces — specifically, competition for business and for residential development from the suburbs in the Chicagoland region and across the whole United States — played a role in the city's industrial decline, the book stresses the deep incoherence of post-World War II economic policy and urban planning that hoped to square the circle by supporting both heavy industry and middle- to upper-class amenities in downtown Chicago.

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Valladares, Licia do Prado. The Invention of the Favela. Translated by Robert N. Anderson. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469649986.001.0001.

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For the first time available in English, Licia do Prado Valladares’s classic anthropological study of Brazil’s vast, densely populated urban living environments reveals how the idea of the favela became an internationally established—and even attractive and exotic—representation of poverty. The study traces how the term “favela” emerged as an analytic category beginning in the mid-1960s, showing how it became the object of immense popular debate and sustained social science research. But the concept of the favela so favored by social scientists is not, Valladares argues, a straightforward reflection of its social reality, and it often obscures more than it reveals. The established representation of favelas undercuts more complex, accurate, and historicized explanations of Brazilian development. It marks and perpetuates favelas as zones of exception rather than as integral to Brazil’s modernization over the past century. And it has had important repercussions for the direction of research and policy affecting the lives of millions of Brazilians. Valladares’s foundational book will be welcomed by all who seek to understand Brazil’s evolution into the twenty-first century.

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Trollope, Anthony. The Small House at Allington. Edited by Dinah Birch. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199662777.001.0001.

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‘She had resolved to trust in everything, and, having so trusted, she would not provide for herself any possibility of retreat.’ Lively and attractive, Lily Dale lives with her mother and sister at the Small House at Allington. She falls passionately in love with the urbane Adolphus Crosbie, and is devastated when he abandons her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina de Courcy. But Lily has another suitor, Johnny Eames, who has been devoted to her since boyhood. Perhaps she can find renewed happiness in Johnny's courtship? The Small House at Allington was among the most successful of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and has retained its popularity among modern readers. Lily Dale's stubborn constancy is a troubling reflection of Trollope's divided feelings about the need for progress and reform in the context of liberal thought and politics. Her story is a subtle exploration of loyalty and ambition, and the pressure for change in a rapidly evolving world.

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Tilburg, Patricia. Working Girls. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841173.001.0001.

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This book takes the mythos of the Parisian midinette as its primary field of investigation, analyzing the plethora of fanciful commentary about female garment workers in the capital during the belle époque, but demonstrating that this whimsical Parisian imaginary was a fantasy with political intention. This narrative of Parisian working-class femininity defined significant aspects of French popular culture, philanthropy, and labor reform from the fin de siècle through World War I, and became an essential means of representing and coping with the early twentieth-century encounter between labor and modern capitalism. From the 1880s through the Great War, nostalgia about a certain kind of France was written onto the bodies of these women across French popular culture. The attractive, single young garment worker with a ready smile and inimitable Parisian taste was featured in countless novels, films, songs, social commentary, and even reform campaigns from the era as an inescapable urban type. She stood in for, at once, the superiority of French taste and craft, and the political and sexual subordination of French women and labor. The midinette was written onto the geography of Paris, by way of festivals, monuments, historic preservation, and guide books. She was also the public face of tens of thousands of real workingwomen whose demands for better labor conditions were modulated, distorted, and, in some cases, amplified by this ubiquitous Romantic type. This book reveals the way that the figure of the midinette inflected labor policy, reform efforts, and the daily lives of Paris’s workingwomen.

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