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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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Unwifeable: A Memoir
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Plunkitt of Tammany Hall
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No Vacancy
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Beyond Nostalgia
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Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
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Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
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Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto: Negro New York, 1890-1930
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
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The Cultures of Cities
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Wrestling with Moses: How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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The City Reader (Routledge Urban Reader Series)
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Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City
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Pacelle Empire
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Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean up Sin-loving New York
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Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance in New York City
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Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy
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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
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