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Building the Population Bomb' carefully examines how the rise of the world's human population came to be understood as problematic by scientists and governments across the globe. It challenges our assumption of population growth as inherently problematic by demonstrating how it is our anxieties over population growth-and not population growth itself-that have detracted from the pursuit of economic, environmental, and reproductive justice.
Population. --- 1900-1999 --- Population
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Socialism. --- 1900-1999
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All countries have distinctive urban regions, but Canadian cities especially differ from one another in culture, structure, and history. Anthony Perl, Matt Hern, and Jeffrey Kenworthy reveal that despite the peculiarities and singular traits that each city embodies, a common logic has guided the development of transportation infrastructure across the country. Big Moves analyzes how Canada's three largest urban regions - Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver - have been shaped by the interplay of globalized imperatives, aspirations, activism, investment, and local development initiatives, both historically and in a contemporary context. Canadian urban development follows a distinct pattern that involves compromise between local viewpoints and values and the pursuit of global capital at particular historical junctures. As the authors show, the success or failure of each city to construct major mobility infrastructure has always depended on the timing of investments and the specific ways that cities have gained access to necessary capital. Drawing on urban mobility history and global city theory, this book delves into the details of the big moves that have affected transport infrastructure in major Canadian cities. Knowing where urban development will head in the twenty-first century requires understanding how cities' major mobility infrastructures were built. Big Moves explains the shape of Canada's three biggest cities and how their mix of expressways and rapid transit emerged.
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Socialism --- History --- Posadas, J. --- 1900-1999 --- Argentina.
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Demonstrating how the UK's consumer credit market has been a distinctive one since the 1930s, this text outlines the history of various forms of consumer credit and the related rise of the property owning democracy. The authors then examine the impact this model had on social issues such as class, gender, race and social equity.
Consumer credit --- 1900-1999 --- Great Britain.
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Mit der Gründung des Deutschlandradios verbanden sich drei bestehende Sender aus Ost (DS Kultur) und West (Deutschlandfunk und RIAS). Diese »Wiedervereinigung im Kleinen« hatte aufgrund der komplexen rechtlichen Ausgangslage und der vielen involvierten Interessengruppen ganze vier Jahre gedauert. Bei der Untersuchung ihres Gründungsprozesses stellt Pia Deutsch jedoch nicht die politischen und strukturellen Entwicklungen ins Zentrum, sondern die Erfahrungen der beteiligten Menschen, die den radikalen gesellschaftlichen Umbruch in ihrem Arbeitsalltag verarbeiten und sinnhaft einordnen mussten. Das Deutschlandradio und seine Vorläuferinstitutionen werden dabei als Plattformen verstanden, die deutsch-deutsche Realitäten und Identitäten vor, während und nach der Wiedervereinigung verhandelt haben.
Radio stations --- History --- DeutschlandRadio --- 1900-1999 --- Germany.
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Textile industry --- History --- 1900-1999 --- Germany
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The hinge of this book is 15 August 1947, the day India became independent. The new leaders of the nation formulated many goals for India's speedy development. Among these was the promise to provide all urban citizens with decent housing, and thus to clear all slums. This promise structures this book. It is divided into two sets of questions. The first one refers to the past. It was apparently necessary to express concern about the poor housing and sanitary provisions for many citizens before 1947. What was hence the situation of urban living during the approximately 150 years of colonial rule? What measures were taken (or not taken) for improvement? The promise to provide decent housing in independent India structures the second part of this book through a second set of questions. What were the public actions to bring the promise nearer by? What has been realized, what faded away finally? The analysis ends in the mid-1960s when the role of public actors with regard to housing and the living environment diminished and the idea of self-help' and just marginal improvements of hut areas gained ground. Finally, some answers to the question why Indian society has as yet not been able to find adequate answers to the lack of decent housing for a majority of its citizens, are formulated.The book brings detailed in-depth knowledge on urban housing and sanitation on several Indian cities together in a comparative manner and places this local knowledge in a broader context, crossing urban borders.Please note: This title is co-published with Manohar Publishers, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Low-income housing --- 1800-1999 --- India
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This resource explores the rise of popular holidaymaking in late-19th-century Britain, generally considered to be the birthplace of mass tourism. It unravels the role emotions played in British spa and seaside holiday cultures.
Holidays --- History --- 1800-1999 --- Great Britain.
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