This book provides the first full overview of the changing relationship between cities and the Olympic events since 1896. With specially commissioned, original essays ...
In this fully revised and updated edition of Roman Pompeii, Dr. Laurence looks at the latest archaeological and literary evidence relating to the city ...
Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham's 1909 "Plan of Chicago," coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in ...
First published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families - the ...
While most historians, journalists, and filmmakers have focused on Los Angeles as a bastion of corporate greed, business boosterism, political corruption, cheap labor, exploited ...
