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Title:

Book Review: The Politics of Urban Beauty: New York and Its Art Commission, by Michele H. Bogart. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. 368 pp. 55.00 (cloth)

Contributors:

Strom, Elizabeth (author)

Published in:

Urban affairs review ; 43

Publication date:

2008

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Type of media:

Article (Journal)

Type of material:

Print

Language:

English

Keywords:

Welt , Stadtsoziologie , Stadtentwicklung , Zeitschrift , USA , Urbanistik , Stadtgeografie , Wirtschaftsförderung

Classification:

BKL: 88.13 Kommunalverwaltung / 74.72 Stadtplanung, kommunale Planung / 71.14 Städtische Gesellschaft / 74.12 Stadtgeographie, Siedlungsgeographie

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