Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "cities"

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    • Cities of Amber: Antigrowth Politics and the Making of Modern Liberalism 

      Anbinder, Jacob Pomeroy (2023-11-21)
      The skyrocketing cost of living in cities from New York to San Francisco is an issue of enormous consequence in American life today. Yet its historical causes, until now, were not well understood. This dissertation is the ...

    • Early Mesopotamian Urbanism: A New View from the North 

      Ur, Jason Alik; Oates, Joan; McMahon, Augusta; Karsgaard, Phillip; Al Quntar, Salam (Antiquity Publications, 2007)
      For many years, the southern Mesopotamia of Ur and Uruk, ancient Sumer, has been seen as the origin centre of civilisation and cities: ‘The urban implosion of late-fourth- and early-third-millennium Mesopotamia resulted ...

    • Methane emissions from natural gas infrastructure and use in the urban region of Boston, Massachusetts 

      McKain, Kathryn; Down, Adrian; Raciti, Steve M.; Budney, John Walter; Hutyra, Lucy R.; Floerchinger, Cody; Herndon, Scott C.; Nehrkorn, Thomas; Zahniser, Mark S.; Jackson, Robert B.; Phillips, Nathan; Wofsy, Steven Charles (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015)
      Methane emissions from natural gas delivery and end use must be quantified to evaluate the environmental impacts of natural gas and to develop and assess the efficacy of emission reduction strategies. We report natural gas ...

    • Segregation and the Spatial Externalities of Inequality: A Theory of Interdependence and Public Goods in Cities 

      Xu, Alice Zhijun (2023-05-16)
      Many cities across the developing world have running sewers, public patrolling, and streetlights evenly distributed throughout the city. Others consistently neglect parts of the city when it comes to the coverage of these ...