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Roman Portable Sundials : The Empire in Your Hand
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Toxic Cocktail : how chemical pollution is poisoning our brains
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Marijuana legalization : what everyone needs to know
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The inevitable party : why attempts to kill the party system fail and how they weaken democracy
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The principles of the law of restitution
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Diversity in Sinitic languages
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Alamein
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Leveling the playing field : transnational regulatory integration and development
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Is decentralization good for development? : perspectives from academics and policy makers
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New York and Los Angeles : the uncertain future
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List of Figures . . xi
List of Tables . . xvii
List of Contributors . . xxiii
1. New York and Los Angeles: The Uncertain Future . . 1
PART ONE: Overview
2. The Big Picture: Demographic and Other Changes . . 33
3. The New York and Los Angeles Economies from Boom to Crisis . . 79
4. America's Leading International Trade Centers and their Entrepreneurial Agencies: Challenges and Strategies in the New York and Los Angeles Regions . . 103
PART TWO: Politics and Economics
5. New York City and Los Angeles: Government and Political Influence . . 137
6. Financial, Economic, and Political Crises: From Subprime Loans to Dodd-Frank, Occupy Wall Street, and Beyond . . 154
7. New York City and Los Angeles: Taxes, Budgets, and Managing the Financial Crisis . . 193
PART THREE: Social and Urban Problems
8. Policing, Crime, and Legitimacy in New York and Los Angeles: The Social and Political Contexts of Two Historic Crime Declines . . 219
9. Los Angeles and New York City Schools . . 263
10. How New York and Los Angeles Housing Policies Are Different — and Maybe Why . . 286
11. Residential Diversity and Division: Separation and Segregation among Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Affluent, and Poor . . 310
PART FOUR: Immigration and Ethnic Communities
12. New York and Los Angeles as Immigrant Destinations: Contrasts and Convergence . . 343
13. The Transformation of Chinese American Communities: New York vs. Los Angeles . . 358
PART FIVE: Planning and Environmentalism
14. Planning Los Angeles: The Changing Politics of Neighborhood and Downtown Development . . 385
15. A Land Ethic for the City of Water . . 413
16. Environmental and Social Justice Movements and Policy Change in Los Angeles: Is an Inside-Outside Game Possible? . . 445
PART SIX: Culture
17. Los Angeles, Where Architecture Is At . . 469
18. New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago as Depicted in Hit Movies . . 484
19. The Nonprofit Sector in New York City and Los Angeles . . 513
Bibliography . . 533
Index . . 573