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The Stranger is Me is a travelogue about the experience of travel with a narrative thread of self-discovery. James Clapp began foreign travel nearly three decades ago at the urging of his wife, Patricia, who accompanied him on his early journeys, sometimes with their daughters, until her tragic death a few years later. He continued to travel widely, guiding and escorting student groups and package tours, then traveling with a colleague or comp...

Half the world's population now lives in cities. Most of them know no other life than an "urban life." James Clapp is one of them, but with a difference, he is an urbanite, but also an urbanist who writes about cities for multiple media. Cities are his place of residence, but also his life's work, and in over forty years of studying cities, teaching and consulting about them, traveling to hundreds of them all over the world, he regards them as...

A Center for Urban Policy Research book.

The American city and the American movie industry grew up together in the early decades of the twentieth century, making film an ideal medium through which to better understand urban life. Exploiting the increasing popularity of large metropolitan cities and urban lifestyle, movies chronicled the city and the stories it generated. In this volume, urbanist James A. Clapp explores the reciprocal relationship between the city and the cinema withi...

In the second of a three-volume work, Seta B. Dadoyan explores the Armenian condition from the 970s to the end of the fourteenth century. This period marked the gradual loss of semi-autonomy on the traditional mainland and the rise of Armenian power of diverging patterns in southeastern Asia Minor, north Syria, Cilicia, and Egypt. Dadoyan's premise is that if Armenians and Armenia have always been located in the Middle East and the Islamic wor...

Originally published in 1984 by the Center for Urban Policy Research.

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