New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's Global Cities First edition Edition

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New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles -- for all their differences, they are quintessentially American cities. They are also among the handful of cities on the earth that can be called "global". Janet L. Abu-Lughod's book is the first to compare them in an ambitious in-depth study that takes into account each city's unique history, following their development from their earliest days to their current status as players on the global stage.

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This fine book provides necessary examples of how the city may be intelligently loved. -- The New Republic

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Janet L. Abu-Lughod, professor emerita of sociology of Northwestern University and the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, has been writing about and studying cities for more than fifty years. Her books include From Urban Village to East Village: The Battle for New York's Lower East Side; Changing Cities: Urban Sociology; Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250-1350; Rabat: Urban Apartheid in Morocco; and Cairo: 1001 Years of the City Victorious, among many other publications. In 1999 she received the Robert and Helen Lynd Award (American Sociological Association, Section on Community and Urban Sociology) for distinguished lifetime contributions to the study of cities.

Paperback: 592 pages
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press; First edition edition (2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0816633363
ISBN-13: 978-0816633364
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V. Murthy

Excellent

July 18, 2014

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Excellent, in-depth historical look at our three largest cities. Great, engaging reading for any urbanist or planning nerd.

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SB_Ironman

Solid summary of the development of these cities.

April 3, 2016

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Read this book while researching planning development history for my Masters. Loved the historic context and thorough research. I recommend this book to my friends all the time still.

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saliero

Review for the generalist reader

November 8, 2002

Format: Hardcover

As mentioned in another review, this book has been set as a college textbook. I am sure it fulfils that roile admirably. However, from the point of view of the generalist reader looking for something `meaty' on the subject of American cities, I can't really recommend it.
It is full of rather dry statistics and facts. I was particularly interested in Los Angeles, and the book did provide some very useful background information, but it left me unsatisfied - I didn't come away with a `feel' for the city in any human sense.
For a more passionate account of Los Angeles, still in a scholarly work, I can recommend `The History of Forgetting' by Norman Klein.
Please don't feel I don't think this book isn't useful within its context, but if you are looking for something scholarly yet with some passion, you may well be disappointed in this book.

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October 12, 2002

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I assigned this book for a graduate seminar last year (2002) and it went down very well with a range of social sciences and humanities students. They loved Abu-Lughod's geographically- and historically-specific approach to understanding globalization and urban change. In contrast to some of the universalizing bombast out there in, Janet Abu-Lughod's book helps us to make sense of urban change in these three cities via the astute integration of social, economic and political dynamics at a range of scales. Abu-Lughod was able to take them down into the streets at some points, and then back up to the national and global scales at other points. To be sure there is a mass of detail in the text, but it is knitted together as well as can be given the research questions. My students also appreciated the lack of jargon in the book; a rarity these days in the urban studies field. In short, this is a fine book for students, academics, and laypersons with interests in global urbanization, the history of American cities, the role of cities in the historical development of America, and historically-oriented research methodologies.

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Justin A. Durivage

A Highly Detailed Account

June 4, 2004

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I enjoyed America's Global Cities and found it relatively readable and engaging. However, I have to second those reviewers who described it as extremely detailed and occasionally dry. This is a scholarly and historically cogent account of New York, Chicago, and LA and their place in the context of globalization; it is not at all summer beach reading, even for those people who enjoy serious non-fiction. That said, if you have any interest in urban history and social policy, your patience will be rewarded in reading this book.

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Biggie Man - Last man standing

this is what i hate about so called "scholars"

September 13, 2005

Format: Paperback

I am reading this for a college course called "History of the American City". This book is a typical 'college textbook' in that it is FILLED with numbers, dates, percentages, figures, numbers, oh did I say numbers, dates, figures, and years, oh and plenty of numbers...
The brilliant, diligent, honored, and esteemed scholar of a woman that wrote it sure knows her numbers, facts, years, etc... I, on the other hand, am absolutely hating it and foolishly I have allowed the drop date to pass, so I have to read the book or fail the class.

I am getting nothing from the book regarding any kind of understanding of any of these cities, unless I am willing to spend years interpreting the multitude of data the book heaps upon me. Needless to say, from (attempting to) reading it I am getting a headache and don't really even have the time to write this review.

I say that if even one person is deterred from reading this expose' of numbers, names, dates, figures, facts, percentages, orders, years, dates and more numbers, dates, facts, figures (are you getting my drift yet?), it will be time well served though.--- AVOID--- THIS--- BOOK.

Puuulllease -- Find another book.
Maybe if people told the truth about THIS BRAND OF WRITING, more professors might have to teach and people like Ms. Abu-Lughod wouldn't continue to make money off of writing books such as this -- and folks like her might have to write to COMMUNICATE!!!!, like the rest of us.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

OK, I have to say it: This sucks.

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February 3, 2005

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I find it annoying that the author includes Chicago in the same tier as NY and LA. How can the buckle of the midwest rustbelt be in the same league as the premier coastal cities? It's absurd I tell you.

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