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...Fredric Jameson Duke University Press 2007 Fredric Jameson Introduction to Isozaki Arata’s “City Demolition Industry, Inc.” and “Rumor City” ​Isozaki Arata, one of the most distinguished architects in the world today...

...Clair Wills Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Clair Wills Joyce, Prostitution, and the Colonial City If the prostitute, as stroller and streetwalker, is the flaneur par excellence, that emblematic figure of modernity, then there is a certain irony in the fact that the term itself...

...Claude Lefort; David Ames Curtis Copyright © 1996 by Duke University Press 1996 Claude Lefort Sade: The Boudoir and the City Jouissance, cruelty, knowledge of nature through jouissance and cruelty, all these themes are inter­ laced with that of corruption in La Philosophie dans le boudoir...

...Robert F. Durden The Secret City: A History of Race Relations in the Nation’s Capital . By Green Constance McLaughlin . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1967 . Pp. xv , 389 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 Book Reviews 625 The Secret City...

...Joseph J. Spengler Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Drift to the City: Way Out? Joseph J. Spengler The period of Civilization is that of the victory of city over country, whereby it frees itself from the grip of the ground, but to its own ultimate ruin. Oswald Spengler...

...John Hammond Moore Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 Communists and Fascists in a Southern City: Atlanta, 1930 John Hammond Moore The emergence of Communist and Fascist groups in Georgia s capital city represents a weird mixture of both national and inter­ national tensions...

...Anne Firor Scott The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth . By Warner Sam Bass Jr. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1968 . P. xii , 231 . $5.95 . Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 442 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Carolyn Conley Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 "Make Full ProofofThy Ministry*: Lamarr Mooneyham, the Tri-City Baptist Temple, and the Moral Majority Carolyn Conley Tri-City Baptist Temple was founded in September, 1976, by Lamarr Mooneyham. Mooneyham had graduated from Jerry...

...James L. Machor Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Urbanization and the Western Garden: Synthesizing City and Country in Antebellum America James L. Machor Although the belief in American distinctiveness had been developing since the age of settlement in the seventeenth century...

...Charles E. Wynes Strangers Within the Gate City: The Jews of Atlanta, 1845–1915 . By Hertzberg Steven . Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society of America , 1978 . Pp. xiii , 325 . $12.00 . Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Book Reviews 529 Yet much...

...Bayrd Still The Shaping of Urban Society: A History of City Forms and Functions . By Roebuck Janet . New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons , 1974 . Pp. 256 . $8.95 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 140 The South Atlantic Quarterly poems of Frost. The afterword...

...Bayrd Still Conscripted City: Norfolk in World War II . By Schlegel Marvin W. . Norfolk : Norfolk War History Commission , 1951 . Pp. xii , 396 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 322 The South Atlantic Quarterly tremendous strategic importance. Near Cairo all...

...Joel G. Colton The College of the City of New York: A History, 1847-1947 . By Rudy S. Willis . New York : The City College Press , 1949 . Pp. x , 492 . $6.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews 421 Less than a year later there appeared the two...

...Edgar T. Thompson Negro Leadership in a Southern City . By Burgess M. Elaine . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1962 . Pp. viii , 231 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Book Reviews 131 reforms, is held to be the greatest culprit...

...Zane L. Miller Franklin D. Roosevelt and the City Bosses . By Dorsett Lyle W. . Port Washington, New York : National University Publications, Kennikat Press Corp. , 1977 . Pp. x , 134 . Notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $8.95 cloth, $4.95 paper. Copyright © 1978...

...Edward Engelberg Dionysus and the City: Modernism in Twentieth-Century Poetry . By Spears Monroe K. . New York : Oxford University Press , 1970 . Pp. ix , 278 . $7.50 Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 Book Reviews 609 Dionysus and the City: Modernism...

..., to the logic of the city. As documented on YouTube, Jump London , and Casino Royale or seen in the flesh, parkour is the most spectacular of a set of unruly practices in the specular city, from skateboarding to flash mobbing. The traceur can be situated in the history of urban wanderers in the midst of capital...

...Isozaki Arata 2007 Isozaki Arata City Demolition Industry, Inc. You must not laugh at this strange business. The company is real! In the very center of Tokyo, yes, floating in the air, it is trying to sneak...

...Isozaki Arata 2007 Isozaki Arata Rumor City S. appeared. Has it been forty years? I doubt that I still have one of his business cards buried in a drawer somewhere. I have moved...

...Gerald M. Capers Richmond: The Story of a City . By Dabney Virginius . Garden City : Doubleday & Company, Inc. , 1976 . Pp. xii , 412 . 51 illustrations. $12.95 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 BO-OKS Richmond: The Story of a City. By Virginius Dabney...