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Lineages of the Global City

Occult Modernism and the Spiritualization of Democracy

University of Texas Press
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The Earth That Modernism Built

Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design

University of Texas Press

Rewrites the history of architectural modernism for an age of environmental crisis and enduring colonialism.

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Taking the Land to Make the City

A Bicoastal History of North America

University of Texas Press

The award-winning historian Mary P. Ryan offers a new vision of early American history that focuses on the contributions of cities and of West Coast Hispanic culture to the forging of an American system of democracy and capitalism.

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Modernism’s Magic Hat

Architecture and the Illusion of Development without Capital

University of Texas Press

Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization.

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Building Little Saigon

Refugee Urbanism in American Cities and Suburbs

University of Texas Press

An in-depth look at the diverging paths of Vietnamese American communities, or “Little Saigons,” in America’s built environment.

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Building Antebellum New Orleans

Free People of Color and Their Influence

University of Texas Press

A significant and deeply researched examination of the free nineteenth-century Black developers who transformed the cultural and architectural legacy of New Orleans.

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In the Land of the Patriarchs

Design and Contestation in West Bank Settlements

University of Texas Press

An on-the-ground account of the design and evolution of West Bank settlements, showing how one of the world’s most contested landscapes was produced by unexpected conflicts and collaborations among widely divergent actors.

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Shifting Sands

Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands

University of Texas Press

How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Modernity for the Masses

Antonio Bonet's Dreams for Buenos Aires

University of Texas Press

A provocative examination of how the discourse and practice of modern architecture was transformed by its encounter with large populations and the volatile politics of twentieth-century Argentina.

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Landed Internationals

Planning Cultures, the Academy, and the Making of the Modern Middle East

University of Texas Press

Landed Internationals explores how postwar encounters in housing and planning helped transform the dynamics of international development and challenged American modernity.

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