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LoflandLyn H.A World of Strangers: Order and Action in Urban Public Space.New York: Basic Books, 1973. Outlines the practices and conventions historically used to create social and psychological order in cities.
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National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty.Out of Sight–Out of Mind? A Report on Anti-Homeless Laws, Litigation and Alternatives in 50 United States Cities.Washington, D.C.: National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, 1999. An overview of anti-homeless initiatives across major U.S. cities.
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SnowDavid A.AndersonLeon. Down on Their Luck: A Study of Homeless Street People.Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. A case study of street life and the survival strategies of homeless people in Austin, Texas in the mid-1980s.
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WrightTalmadge. Out of Place: Homeless Mobilizations, Subcities, and Contested Landscapes.Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1997. Homeless movements fight against redevelopment in Chicago and San Jose.
