Urban and municipal planning and policy Books
University of Pennsylvania Press Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics
Book SynopsisIn many rapidly urbanizing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, local politics undermines the effectiveness of urban planning. Politicians have incentives to ignore formal urban plans and sideline planners, and instead provide urban land and services through informal channels in order to cultivate political constituencies (a form of what political scientists refer to as “clientelism”). This results in inequitable and environmentally damaging patterns of urban growth in some of the largest and most rapidly urbanizing countries in the world. The technocratic planning solutions often advocated by governments and international development organizations are not enough. To overcome this problem, urban planners must understand and adapt to the complex politics of urban informality. In this book, Chandan Deuskar explores how politicians in developing democracies provide urban land and services to the urban poor in exchange for their political support, demonstrates how this impacts urban growth, and suggests innovative and practical ways in which urban planners can try to be more effective in this challenging political context. He draws on literature from multiple disciplines (urban planning, political science, sociology, anthropology, and others), statistical analysis of global data on urbanization, and an in-depth case study of urban Ghana. Urban planners and international development experts working in the Global South, as well as researchers, educators, and students of global urbanization will find Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics informative and thought-provoking.Trade Review"Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics provides a valuable perspective to understandand solve challenges to urban planning practices in the Global South...Deuskar has helped demonstrate [that] great opportunitiesremain for better managing informal urbanization toaccommodate population increase in these areas. The book is highly recommended for Ghanaian and Southern planning professionals, considering the hidden successes that practitioners could help uncover. It also serves as an excellent introductory book for academic and public policy–interested audiences engaging in a world of informal politics beyond the Global South." * Journal of the American Planning Association *"Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics offers valuable insights, effectively bridging worlds of policymaking and academic pursuits. Anybody interested in the present and future of cities in the Global South should read it." * Journal of Urban Affairs *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Challenge of Planning the Informal City Part I. Global Patterns 1. The Conflict Between Informal Politics and Urban Planning Around the World 2. The Global Relationship Between Clientelism and Urban Growth 3. Transitioning Away from Clientelism: Global Cases Part II. Politics and Planning in Urban Ghana 4. Urban Informality and Planning Failure in Ghana 5. How Clientelism Undermines Planning in Ghana 6. Chiefs, Thugs, and Boundaries: Other Political Constraints to Planning in Ghana 7. How Sodom and Gomorrah Survive: The Case of “Ghana's Biggest Slum” Part III. Politically Adaptive Planning 8. Seeking a Way Forward for Planning 9. A Politically Adaptive Approach to Planning Conclusion. Recognizing the Play Being Staged Appendix Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Community Benefits: Developers, Negotiations, and
Book SynopsisIn Community Benefits, Jovanna P. Rosen explores a new pattern in urban development: local residents and community representatives leveraging large-scale development projects for agreements that promise dedicated local benefits, such as parks and jobs. In general, such development projects have not produced impactful benefits for local residents, and often have contributed to significant community harm, including gentrification and displacement. In response, community activists have launched a fight to control development, using benefits-sharing agreements to ensure that projects produced better outcomes for local residents. While such agreements now exist across the nation, the process of negotiating and enforcing them remains challenging. This book dives deep into four case studies—in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Seattle, and Milwaukee—to answer the following questions: Who ultimately benefits from both the agreements and the projects in question? How do benefits get delivered, and who controls this process? What works for these agreements to successfully produce community outcomes? Rosen shows that, without agreements that promote accountability, developers and other project proponents can walk away from the negotiating table once the agreement is signed and the development moves forward. This disregard for community benefits and priorities can leave community residents solely responsible for benefits delivery during implementation, but with few viable avenues to ensure that outcomes materialize. The cases reveal specific elements that agreements require to achieve success during implementation: community participation, managerial connections, effective partnerships, responsiveness, and vigorous oversight with accountability mechanisms. Although creating these conditions is difficult, sometimes impossible, and contingent on fragile processes, Rosen concludes the book with recommendations for both the agreement negotiation and implementation phases to ensure success.Trade Review"Community Benefits uses four qualitative case studies in the United States to investigate the challenges and opportunities associated with benefits-sharing agreements...The book adeptly leverages the similar-ities and differences between the cases to illustrate common themes and broaden the book’s scope [and] provides a wide-ranging, accessible, and clear accounting of benefits sharing in the United States...[A] worthwhile read for anyone interested in learning about the practical challenges and limits of benefits-sharing agreements." * Journal of the American Planning Association *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture
Book SynopsisAmong urban designers and municipal officials, the term encroachment is defined as a deviation from the official master plan. But in cities today, such informal modifications to the urban fabric are deeply enmeshed with formal planning procedures. Master Plans and Encroachments examines informality in the high-modernist city of Islamabad as a strategic conformity to official schemes and regulations rather than as a deviation from them. For the new administrative capital of Pakistan designed in 1959 by Greek architect and planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Islamabad’s master plan offers a clear template of formal urban design within which informal spaces and processes have been articulated. Drawing on deep archival research, wide-ranging interviews, and an array of visual material, including photographs, maps, and architectural drawings, Faiza Moatasim shows how Islamabad’s master plan is not simply a blueprint that guides future urban development or makes its violations apparent; it is used by both city officials and citizens to develop informal spaces that accommodate unfulfilled needs and desires of those living and working in the city. Master Plans and Encroachments is the first book that examines the informal practices of both the privileged and the underprivileged. The book highlights how low-, middle-, and upper-income people do not randomly build informal spaces; they strategically use architectural techniques to support their informal claims to space, which are often met with the government’s tacit approval. By focusing on those spaces in Islamabad’s urban fabric that are not part of its official master plan, the book demonstrates how planning actually works in complex ways.Trade Review"Master Plans and Encroachments offers a rich account of the history of development of a planned modernist city, which unlike its counterparts—Brasilia and Chandigarh—is relatively unknown to Western audiences. Faiza Moatasim details a fascinating story about Islamabad’s design and its transformations through informal urbanism that will appeal to architects, planners, urban designers, historians, and others interested in the development of cities." * Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, University of California, Los Angeles *"Faiza Moatasim’s insightful mapping of Islamabad establishes that the modern city and its architecture are not synonymous and cannot contain a single meaning. In her analysis, the usual binaries dissolve and form fluid protocols employed both by the elite and marginalized in unintended and often unanticipated ways. Master Plans and Encroachments constructs a robust foundation for establishing a theoretical framework for understanding the on-the-ground realities of emerging urbanism in multiple geographies." * Rahul Mehrotra, Harvard University *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations Along
Book SynopsisEconomic corridors—ambitious infrastructural development projects that newly liberalizing countries in Asia and Africa are undertaking—are dramatically redefining the shape of urbanization. Spanning multiple cities and croplands, these corridors connect metropolises via high-speed superhighways in an effort to make certain strategic regions attractive destinations for private investment. As policy makers search for decentralized and market-oriented means for the transfer of land from agrarian constituencies to infrastructural promoters and urban developers, the reallocation of property control is erupting into volatile land-based social conflicts. In Shareholder Cities, Sai Balakrishnan argues that some of India's most decisive conflicts over its urban future will unfold in the regions along the new economic corridors where electorally strong agrarian propertied classes directly encounter financially powerful incoming urban firms. Balakrishnan focuses on the first economic corridor, the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, and the construction of three new cities along it. The book derives its title from a current mode of resolving agrarian-urban conflicts in which agrarian landowners are being transformed into shareholders in the corridor cities, and the distributional implications of these new land transformations. Shifting the focus of the study of India's contemporary urbanization away from megacities to these in-between corridor regions, Balakrishnan explores the production of uneven urban development that unsettles older histories of agrarian capitalism and the emergence of agrarian propertied classes as protagonists in the making of urban real estate markets. Shareholder Cities highlights the possibilities for a democratic politics of inclusion in which agrarian-urban encounters can create opportunities for previously excluded groups to stake new claims for themselves in the corridor regions.Trade Review"This book exemplifies scholarship that goes beyond simplistic generalizations. It challenges the Western conceptualizations of India’s urbanization and development processes." * Journal of Planning Education and Research *"Balakrishnan has produced a definitive report on the effects of market liberalization and decentralization of governance in the Western Indian region of the Mumbai-Pune economic corridor." * Eurasian Geography and Economics *"The book is an empirically rich and highly informative narrative of 'agrarian-urban uneven development' along India’s new economic corridors." * South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal *"This book is well-written and easy to read. It takes on a difficult, complex set of processes and makes them accessible. It is ambitious in its scope, trying to bring together diverse theoretical frameworks that don’t often speak to each other." * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"In Shareholder Cities, compendious scholarship from agrarian, development and urban studies, law, planning, and history is woven together into a rich analytical fabric. Sai Balakrishnan has achieved such a tour de force in the new, necessary and transgressive field of agrarian urbanization that it is impossible not to be selective in these reflections." * Regional Studies *"[A]n original contribution to scholarship on urbanization in India’s post-liberalization era, and it fills a major gap in the literature on the political economy of Maharashtra and the role therein of Maratha-caste agrarian elites…Balakrishnan offers a fascinating and empirically rich account of the political and economic transformations along the new economic corridors." * Pacific Affairs *"Shareholder Cities brings nearly every big development question and debate in India into sharp focus. Through deep and rich case studies of cities along one of India's largest infrastructure corridors (Mumbai-Pune), Balakrishnan shows how large-scale land use changes are being driven, negotiated, and contested. Weaving together central themes in the most influential paradigms of developmental transformation, Sai Balakrishnan shows how capital, farmers, castes, state logics, and local democratic institutions all intersect in producing a range of outcomes. Shareholder Cities is that rare book that does not merely theorize but actually makes us understand how big structural forces of development work themselves out through the local." * Patrick Heller, Brown University *"Original, thoughtful, and timely, Shareholder Cities offers a fresh perspective on the political economy of land use change in one of the most dynamic regions of India." * Sanjoy Chakravorty, Temple University *"Shareholder Cities is a pathbreaking study of peripheral development along India's transportation corridors. Breaking with the urban-rural binary, Sai Balakrishnan compares different treatments of liminal space to identify those most benefiting poor people. Her attention to cooperatives is a particularly important investigation of the redevelopment of formerly agricultural lands into urban real estate." * Susan S. Fainstein, author of The Just City *
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University of Minnesota Press Nuclear Suburbs: Cold War Technoscience and the
Book SynopsisFrom submarines to the suburbs—the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold WarDuring the early Cold War, research facilities became ubiquitous features of suburbs across the United States. Pittsburgh’s eastern and southern suburbs hosted a constellation of such facilities that became the world’s leading center for the development of nuclear reactors for naval vessels and power plants. The segregated communities that surrounded these laboratories housed one of the largest concentrations of nuclear engineers and scientists on earth. In Nuclear Suburbs, Patrick Vitale uncovers how the suburbs shaped the everyday lives of these technology workers. Using oral histories, Vitale follows nuclear engineers and scientists throughout and beyond the Pittsburgh region to understand how the politics of technoscience and the Cold War were embedded in daily life. At the same time that research facilities moved to Pittsburgh’s suburbs, a coalition of business and political elites began an aggressive effort, called the Pittsburgh Renaissance, to renew the region. For Pittsburgh’s elite, laboratories and researchers became important symbols of the new Pittsburgh and its postindustrial economy. Nuclear Suburbs exposes how this coalition enrolled technology workers as allies in their remaking of the city.Offering lessons for the present day, Nuclear Suburbs shows how race, class, gender, and the production of urban and suburban space are fundamental to technoscientific networks, and explains how the “renewal” of industrial regions into centers of the tech economy is rooted in violence and injustice. Trade Review"Forget Silicon Valley, Google buses, and loft living in San Francisco. As Patrick Vitale shows in his deeply researched and compellingly written book, post-war American high-tech begins in gritty Steel City, Pittsburgh. Its workers are not today’s multi-ethnic, collarless class making social media but white men wearing pressed white shirts, living in suburban tract housing, making the Bomb. High-tech becomes something quite different, politically conservative, socially exclusive, rather sinister."—Trevor J. Barnes, University of British Columbia"Nuclear Suburbs offers a new and important insight into the complex relationship between the Cold War, suburbanization, and post-industrial capitalism. Patrick Vitale expertly reveals how deeply enmeshed scientists’ lives and work were in the economic and spatial restructuring of cities like Pittsburgh. It provides a powerful, important retort to anyone suggesting that science and knowledge workers are the solution to urban problems."—Lily Geismer, author of Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party"Even readers who don’t share Vitale’s political conclusions might be intrigued to learn about Pittsburgh’s place in nuclear history, which is little recalled today."—Pittsburgh Post-GazetteTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Engineering the BubblePart I. Remaking Postwar Pittsburgh1. Going Critical: Technoscience, the Cold War, and the Pittsburgh Renaissance2. Research and Renaissance: Renewing the City for ScientistsPart II. Making Science Suburban3. The Invention of Research Man4. The Monroeville Doctrine: How the Suburbs Shaped Cold War Science Part III. Cold War Community5. Finding a Home in the Nuclear Suburbs6. Invisibilities of Nuclear Engineering7. Warplace/Workplace: Technoscientific Jobs during the Cold WarEpilogue: Did Science Save Pittsburgh?AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£86.40
University of Minnesota Press Nuclear Suburbs: Cold War Technoscience and the
Book SynopsisFrom submarines to the suburbs—the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold WarDuring the early Cold War, research facilities became ubiquitous features of suburbs across the United States. Pittsburgh’s eastern and southern suburbs hosted a constellation of such facilities that became the world’s leading center for the development of nuclear reactors for naval vessels and power plants. The segregated communities that surrounded these laboratories housed one of the largest concentrations of nuclear engineers and scientists on earth. In Nuclear Suburbs, Patrick Vitale uncovers how the suburbs shaped the everyday lives of these technology workers. Using oral histories, Vitale follows nuclear engineers and scientists throughout and beyond the Pittsburgh region to understand how the politics of technoscience and the Cold War were embedded in daily life. At the same time that research facilities moved to Pittsburgh’s suburbs, a coalition of business and political elites began an aggressive effort, called the Pittsburgh Renaissance, to renew the region. For Pittsburgh’s elite, laboratories and researchers became important symbols of the new Pittsburgh and its postindustrial economy. Nuclear Suburbs exposes how this coalition enrolled technology workers as allies in their remaking of the city.Offering lessons for the present day, Nuclear Suburbs shows how race, class, gender, and the production of urban and suburban space are fundamental to technoscientific networks, and explains how the “renewal” of industrial regions into centers of the tech economy is rooted in violence and injustice. Trade Review"Forget Silicon Valley, Google buses, and loft living in San Francisco. As Patrick Vitale shows in his deeply researched and compellingly written book, post-war American high-tech begins in gritty Steel City, Pittsburgh. Its workers are not today’s multi-ethnic, collarless class making social media but white men wearing pressed white shirts, living in suburban tract housing, making the Bomb. High-tech becomes something quite different, politically conservative, socially exclusive, rather sinister."—Trevor J. Barnes, University of British Columbia"Nuclear Suburbs offers a new and important insight into the complex relationship between the Cold War, suburbanization, and post-industrial capitalism. Patrick Vitale expertly reveals how deeply enmeshed scientists’ lives and work were in the economic and spatial restructuring of cities like Pittsburgh. It provides a powerful, important retort to anyone suggesting that science and knowledge workers are the solution to urban problems."—Lily Geismer, author of Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party"Even readers who don’t share Vitale’s political conclusions might be intrigued to learn about Pittsburgh’s place in nuclear history, which is little recalled today."—Pittsburgh Post-GazetteTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Engineering the BubblePart I. Remaking Postwar Pittsburgh1. Going Critical: Technoscience, the Cold War, and the Pittsburgh Renaissance2. Research and Renaissance: Renewing the City for ScientistsPart II. Making Science Suburban3. The Invention of Research Man4. The Monroeville Doctrine: How the Suburbs Shaped Cold War Science Part III. Cold War Community5. Finding a Home in the Nuclear Suburbs6. Invisibilities of Nuclear Engineering7. Warplace/Workplace: Technoscientific Jobs during the Cold WarEpilogue: Did Science Save Pittsburgh?AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Renew Orleans?: Globalized Development and Worker
Book SynopsisUrban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification Like no other American city, New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina offers powerful insight into issues of political economy in urban development and, in particular, how a city’s character changes after a disaster that spurs economic and political transition. In New Orleans, the hurricane upset an existing stalemate among rival factions of economic and political elites, and its aftermath facilitated the rise of a globally oriented faction of local capital. In Renew Orleans? Aaron Schneider shows how some city leaders were able to access fragmented local institutions and capture areas of public policy vital to their development agenda. Through interviews and surveys with workers and advocates in construction, restaurants, shipyards, and hotel and casino cleaning, Schneider contrasts sectors prioritized during post-Katrina recovery with neglected sectors. The result is a fine-grained view of the way labor markets are structured to the advantage of elites, emphasizing how dual development produces wealth for the few while distributing poverty and exclusion to the many on the basis of race, gender, and ethnicity. Schneider shows the way exploitation operates both in the workplace and the community, tracing working-class resistance that joins struggles for dignity at home and work. In the process, working classes and popular sectors put forth their own alternative forms of development.Trade Review"Aaron Schneider provides a compelling—and heretofore untold—story of how power and poverty in New Orleans were restructured after Hurricane Katrina. A must-read, Renew Orleans? is an epic account of how a globally-oriented elite secured political power amidst the chaos, attempted to rebuild the city in their image, and met fierce resistance by working people."—Steve Striffler, coeditor of Working in the Big Easy: The History and Politics of Labor in New Orleans"Aaron Schneider makes a unique contribution in situating New Orleans's political development, both pre- and post-Katrina, in relation to the city's evolving political economy. One of the book's distinctive contributions is that it connects the racial and cultural discourses through which local politics has been articulated to that evolving political economy and competition among governing elites. His analysis is deep, rich, and concrete; it makes an important intervention in the urban politics and political economy field and should be a touchstone for all subsequent scholarship on New Orleans."—Adolph Reed, Jr., University of Pennsylvania"Aaron Schneider’s Renew Orleans? gives us an unprecedented account of labor conditions in post-Katrina New Orleans and a critical examination of elite power in the city. Drawing on a wealth of quantitative and historical material, Schneider captures the experiences of the Crescent City’s laboring classes, whose plight has too often been neglected in popular celebrations of recovery. Renew Orleans? tells the story of those who are fighting for a more just New Orleans through unionization, community struggles, and sector-wide models of worker organizing."—Cedric Johnson, author of The Neoliberal Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, Late Capitalism, and the Remaking of New OrleansTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Dual Development, Segmented Labor Markets, and Urban Regimes2. The Rise of a Globally Oriented Elite in a Fragmented City3. Satellite Governance, Public Finance, and Networks of Power4. The Post-Katrina Political Transition5. Globalized Construction and Ethnic Segmentation6. Racial and Gender Segmentation in Tourism and Services7. Deindustrialization versus Joined-up Workplace and Community StruggleConclusionAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Satellite EntitiesNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.
Book SynopsisAn investigation of the practice of “commoning” in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities Provoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, tenants in Washington, D.C., began forming cooperative organizations to collectively purchase and manage their apartment buildings. These tenants were creating a commons, taking a resource—housing—that had been used to extract profit from them and reshaping it as a resource that was collectively owned by them. In Carving Out the Commons, Amanda Huron theorizes the practice of urban “commoning” through a close investigation of the city’s limited-equity housing cooperatives. Drawing on feminist and anticapitalist perspectives, Huron asks whether a commons can work in a city where land and other resources are scarce and how strangers who may not share a past or future come together to create and maintain commonly held spaces in the midst of capitalism. Arguing against the romanticization of the commons, she instead positions the urban commons as a pragmatic practice. Through the practice of commoning, she contends, we can learn to build communities to challenge capitalism’s totalizing claims over life. Trade Review"Through interviews and historical research, Amanda Huron gives us an in-depth description of the formation of a housing cooperative in Washington, D.C. in the ’70s and develops a theoretical structure enabling us to generalize this experience to other cities. It is a incisive book that speaks to a vital issue in contemporary politics and social theory."—Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation"Amanda Huron illuminates new ways of thinking what social justice in the City can look like. Her writing is rigorous yet upholds the dignity of the people she studies and their attempts to stake out a right to their city. Carving Out the Commons will be a go-to both for academics and organizers in the coming years."—James Tracy, author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco's Housing Wars"Carving Out the Commons offers deep and carefully researched insight into alternative ways to imagine, organize, and enact the urban commons that, if more broadly realized, could improve life for many. This important book should be read by students of the city as well as those trying to make it more socially just."—Nik Heynen, University of Georgia"Investigating urban commons in the context of rapid and increasing urbanization is a critical endeavour. Ultimately, the book argues that the commons, as exemplified by the housing cooperatives, is “a pragmatic practice to be pursued, within and between and against capitalist practices” (page 155). The commons, and particularly urban commons, is a potential pathway to building a post-capitalist world." —Environment & UrbanizationTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. What Is the Commons? Merging Two Perspectives2. The Urban Commons: Contradictions of Community, Capital, and the State3. Forged in Crisis: Claiming a Home in the City4. A Decent Grounds for Life: The Benefits of Limited-Equity Cooperatives5. Survival and Collapse: Keeping and Losing Housing Over Time6. Commoning in the Capitalist CityConclusionAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and
Book SynopsisAn investigation of the practice of “commoning” in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities Provoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, tenants in Washington, D.C., began forming cooperative organizations to collectively purchase and manage their apartment buildings. These tenants were creating a commons, taking a resource—housing—that had been used to extract profit from them and reshaping it as a resource that was collectively owned by them. In Carving Out the Commons, Amanda Huron theorizes the practice of urban “commoning” through a close investigation of the city’s limited-equity housing cooperatives. Drawing on feminist and anticapitalist perspectives, Huron asks whether a commons can work in a city where land and other resources are scarce and how strangers who may not share a past or future come together to create and maintain commonly held spaces in the midst of capitalism. Arguing against the romanticization of the commons, she instead positions the urban commons as a pragmatic practice. Through the practice of commoning, she contends, we can learn to build communities to challenge capitalism’s totalizing claims over life. Trade Review"Through interviews and historical research, Amanda Huron gives us an in-depth description of the formation of a housing cooperative in Washington, D.C. in the ’70s and develops a theoretical structure enabling us to generalize this experience to other cities. It is a incisive book that speaks to a vital issue in contemporary politics and social theory."—Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation"Amanda Huron illuminates new ways of thinking what social justice in the City can look like. Her writing is rigorous yet upholds the dignity of the people she studies and their attempts to stake out a right to their city. Carving Out the Commons will be a go-to both for academics and organizers in the coming years."—James Tracy, author of Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco's Housing Wars"Carving Out the Commons offers deep and carefully researched insight into alternative ways to imagine, organize, and enact the urban commons that, if more broadly realized, could improve life for many. This important book should be read by students of the city as well as those trying to make it more socially just."—Nik Heynen, University of Georgia"Investigating urban commons in the context of rapid and increasing urbanization is a critical endeavour. Ultimately, the book argues that the commons, as exemplified by the housing cooperatives, is “a pragmatic practice to be pursued, within and between and against capitalist practices” (page 155). The commons, and particularly urban commons, is a potential pathway to building a post-capitalist world." —Environment & UrbanizationTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. What Is the Commons? Merging Two Perspectives2. The Urban Commons: Contradictions of Community, Capital, and the State3. Forged in Crisis: Claiming a Home in the City4. A Decent Grounds for Life: The Benefits of Limited-Equity Cooperatives5. Survival and Collapse: Keeping and Losing Housing Over Time6. Commoning in the Capitalist CityConclusionAcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Cyclescapes of the Unequal City: Bicycle
Book SynopsisA critical look at the political economy of urban bicycle infrastructure in the United StatesNot long ago, bicycling in the city was considered a radical statement or a last resort, and few cyclists braved the inhospitable streets of most American cities. Today, however, the urban cyclist represents progress and the urban “renaissance.” City leaders now undertake ambitious new bicycle infrastructure plans and bike share schemes to promote the environmental, social, and economic health of the city and its residents. Cyclescapes of the Unequal City contextualizes and critically examines this new wave of bicycling in American cities, exploring how bicycle infrastructure planning has become a key symbol of—and site of conflict over—uneven urban development. John G. Stehlin traces bicycling’s rise in popularity as a key policy solution for American cities facing the environmental, economic, and social contradictions of the previous century of sprawl. Using in-depth case studies from San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Detroit, he argues that the mission of bicycle advocacy has converged with, and reshaped, the urban growth machine around a model of livable, environmentally friendly, and innovation-based urban capitalism. While advocates envision a more sustainable city for all, the deployment of bicycle infrastructure within the framework of the neoliberal city in many ways intensifies divisions along lines of race, class, and space.Cyclescapes of the Unequal City speaks to a growing interest in bicycling as an urban economic and environmental strategy, its role in the politics of gentrification, and efforts to build more diverse coalitions of bicycle advocates. Grounding its analysis in both regional political economy and neighborhood-based ethnography, this book ultimately uses the bicycle as a lens to view major shifts in today’s American city.Trade Review"In a strong wake-up call to current cycling policy in North American cities, John G. Stehlin gives us the best study yet of why the bicycle is failing to meet its emancipatory potential. Focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area, Detroit, and Philadelphia, he shows how business-friendly bike advocacy leads to an inequitable ‘cyclescape’ grounded in racialized disinvestment and green gentrification. Tracing developments from Critical Mass to wheelie crews, and from mobility-as-a-service to Vision Zero, this comparative study underlines how race, class, and gender are formed in relation to mobility practices in urban space. For anyone interested in mobility justice, this book is a necessary read."—Mimi Sheller, author of Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes"Through rigorous empirical research and thoughtful analysis, John G. Stehlin illuminates the emergence of a complex politics of mobility that stems from the intersection of cycling and urban change."—Kathe Newman, Rutgers University"This is an excellent investigation of the role of cycling in remaking of the street. With a close eye on the relationship between cycling and urban transformation in North America, John G. Stehlin offers a lucid and important analysis of how cycling becomes caught up in exclusionary relations between race, gentrification, and the city. Cycling becomes an infrastructure of both sustainability and economic exclusion. Yet, as Stehlin shows, it can also become part of a more hopeful and progressive politics for the city."—Colin McFarlane, Durham University"Cyclescapes, in its documentary of the knotty history of bike advocacy, and its rigorous examination of the intersecting phenomena of racialized gentrification and urban planning, tracks precisely this shift. Stehlin’s critique of prominent bike advocacy groups like Critical Mass—an early champion of cyclists’ rights, but one largely committed to White middle-class notions of “sharing the road”—is a case in point. Such putatively radical organizations have, according to Stehlin, actually advanced the agenda of gentrification by historically ignoring questions of race and class. In this way, the book also creates space for consideration of alternative visions of cycling in America’s cities. Such alternatives include cycling groups in San Francisco, Detroit, and Philadelphia—comprised of riders of color, voicing the concerns of their communities—as well as specific examples of policy and design, which could allow cycling, bikeshare programs, and just development to coexist and support one another."—Public Books"Stehlin offers a lot about San Francisco’s biking history, from Critical Mass to the present. He deserves credit for examining a still overlooked issue, which is how urban America misuses its streets."—Beyond Chron"This thoroughly researched book examines the current state of the developing bicycle infrastructure in the modern American city. Highly recommended."—CHOICE"This book will be most interesting to students who want to gain an introduction to urban studies through a critical mobilities perspective, learning to identify layers of meaning through scholarship and personal observation."—Journal of Urban Affairs"From the in-depth analysis of and critical reflection on the many case studies considered in this work, it emerges that in future both the planning of the city and the activation of popular struggle must be renewed."—Regional Studies"Cyclescapes is a solid critical geography of early twenty-first-century bicycle politics in the United States."—AAG Review of BooksTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Vehicle for a New City1. The City and the Cyclescape2. The Bicycle and the Region in Post-Crisis America3. Everyday Practices and the Social Infrastructure of Urban Cycling4. Gentrification and the Changing Publics of Bicycle Infrastructure5. Institutional Power, Intra-Class Conflict, and Complete Streets6. Bicycle Sharing Systems as Already-Splintered InfrastructureConclusion: Notes on a Passive Revolution in MobilityAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Cyclescapes of the Unequal City: Bicycle
Book SynopsisA critical look at the political economy of urban bicycle infrastructure in the United StatesNot long ago, bicycling in the city was considered a radical statement or a last resort, and few cyclists braved the inhospitable streets of most American cities. Today, however, the urban cyclist represents progress and the urban “renaissance.” City leaders now undertake ambitious new bicycle infrastructure plans and bike share schemes to promote the environmental, social, and economic health of the city and its residents. Cyclescapes of the Unequal City contextualizes and critically examines this new wave of bicycling in American cities, exploring how bicycle infrastructure planning has become a key symbol of—and site of conflict over—uneven urban development. John G. Stehlin traces bicycling’s rise in popularity as a key policy solution for American cities facing the environmental, economic, and social contradictions of the previous century of sprawl. Using in-depth case studies from San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Detroit, he argues that the mission of bicycle advocacy has converged with, and reshaped, the urban growth machine around a model of livable, environmentally friendly, and innovation-based urban capitalism. While advocates envision a more sustainable city for all, the deployment of bicycle infrastructure within the framework of the neoliberal city in many ways intensifies divisions along lines of race, class, and space.Cyclescapes of the Unequal City speaks to a growing interest in bicycling as an urban economic and environmental strategy, its role in the politics of gentrification, and efforts to build more diverse coalitions of bicycle advocates. Grounding its analysis in both regional political economy and neighborhood-based ethnography, this book ultimately uses the bicycle as a lens to view major shifts in today’s American city.Trade Review"In a strong wake-up call to current cycling policy in North American cities, John G. Stehlin gives us the best study yet of why the bicycle is failing to meet its emancipatory potential. Focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area, Detroit, and Philadelphia, he shows how business-friendly bike advocacy leads to an inequitable ‘cyclescape’ grounded in racialized disinvestment and green gentrification. Tracing developments from Critical Mass to wheelie crews, and from mobility-as-a-service to Vision Zero, this comparative study underlines how race, class, and gender are formed in relation to mobility practices in urban space. For anyone interested in mobility justice, this book is a necessary read."—Mimi Sheller, author of Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes"Through rigorous empirical research and thoughtful analysis, John G. Stehlin illuminates the emergence of a complex politics of mobility that stems from the intersection of cycling and urban change."—Kathe Newman, Rutgers University"This is an excellent investigation of the role of cycling in remaking of the street. With a close eye on the relationship between cycling and urban transformation in North America, John G. Stehlin offers a lucid and important analysis of how cycling becomes caught up in exclusionary relations between race, gentrification, and the city. Cycling becomes an infrastructure of both sustainability and economic exclusion. Yet, as Stehlin shows, it can also become part of a more hopeful and progressive politics for the city."—Colin McFarlane, Durham University"Cyclescapes, in its documentary of the knotty history of bike advocacy, and its rigorous examination of the intersecting phenomena of racialized gentrification and urban planning, tracks precisely this shift. Stehlin’s critique of prominent bike advocacy groups like Critical Mass—an early champion of cyclists’ rights, but one largely committed to White middle-class notions of “sharing the road”—is a case in point. Such putatively radical organizations have, according to Stehlin, actually advanced the agenda of gentrification by historically ignoring questions of race and class. In this way, the book also creates space for consideration of alternative visions of cycling in America’s cities. Such alternatives include cycling groups in San Francisco, Detroit, and Philadelphia—comprised of riders of color, voicing the concerns of their communities—as well as specific examples of policy and design, which could allow cycling, bikeshare programs, and just development to coexist and support one another."—Public Books"Stehlin offers a lot about San Francisco’s biking history, from Critical Mass to the present. He deserves credit for examining a still overlooked issue, which is how urban America misuses its streets."—Beyond Chron"This thoroughly researched book examines the current state of the developing bicycle infrastructure in the modern American city. Highly recommended."—CHOICE"This book will be most interesting to students who want to gain an introduction to urban studies through a critical mobilities perspective, learning to identify layers of meaning through scholarship and personal observation."—Journal of Urban Affairs"From the in-depth analysis of and critical reflection on the many case studies considered in this work, it emerges that in future both the planning of the city and the activation of popular struggle must be renewed."—Regional Studies"Cyclescapes is a solid critical geography of early twenty-first-century bicycle politics in the United States."—AAG Review of BooksTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Vehicle for a New City1. The City and the Cyclescape2. The Bicycle and the Region in Post-Crisis America3. Everyday Practices and the Social Infrastructure of Urban Cycling4. Gentrification and the Changing Publics of Bicycle Infrastructure5. Institutional Power, Intra-Class Conflict, and Complete Streets6. Bicycle Sharing Systems as Already-Splintered InfrastructureConclusion: Notes on a Passive Revolution in MobilityAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Urbanism without Guarantees: The Everyday Life of
Book SynopsisA unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urbanism without Guarantees, Christian M. Anderson offers a new perspective on urban dynamics and urban structural inequality based on an intimate ethnography of on-the-ground gentrification.The book is centered on ethnographic work undertaken on a single street in Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen in New York City—once a site of disinvestment, but now rapidly gentrifying. Anderson examines the everyday strategies of residents to preserve the quality of life of their neighborhood and to define and maintain their values of urban living—from picking up litter and reporting minor concerns on the 311 hotline to hiring a private security firm to monitor the local public park. Anderson demonstrates how processes such as investment and gentrification are constructed out of the collective actions of ordinary people, and challenges prevalent understandings of how place-based civic actions connect with dominant forms of political economy and repressive governance in urban space. Examining how residents are pulled into these systems of gentrification, Anderson proposes new ways to think and act critically and organize for transformation of a place—in actions that local residents can start to do wherever they are.Trade Review"From a long-term immersion on an (extra)ordinary block on the Westside of NYC, Christian M. Anderson demonstrates how the blunt powers of urban restructuring are intricately nestled in the jostling of everyday compositions of things through which collectives are made—collectives stitched and woven by the everyday efforts to keep social violence at bay, which can both support and undermine new forms of living, and which then demand a new politics of those spaces in-between."—AbdouMaliq Simone, The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield"Conceptually rich, artfully crafted, and with a striking immediacy, Urbanism without Guarantees offers a compelling analysis of the meanings of urban change from the perspective of ordinary residents."—Christine Hentschel, Hamburg University "A fascinating new book."—Viewing NYC"Christian Anderson’s Urbanism without Guarantees takes its name from Stuart Hall’s ‘Marxism without Guarantees’ (1983) and lives up to its name by delivering a critical Marxist analysis of everyday life."—Myung In Ji, ANTIPODETable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Situating a StruggleI. Renovating and Making the Urban Question Critical: Toward a Parallax Urbanism1. Fateful Leaps: Flipping the Script on Rent Gaps and Revanchism 2. Unsettling the Urban Question3. The Contingencies of Civic Action, Revisited4. The Hitch, or, Performative InfrastructureII. Place-Embedded Stories and Other Incitements to Parallax Urbanism5. A Brief (Infrastructural?) History of West Forty-Sixth Street6. Specters, Traditions, and the Dominance of Common Sense7. Battles, Contradictions, and Good SenseConclusion: This Hegemony Is a DragAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£80.00
University of Minnesota Press Urbanism without Guarantees: The Everyday Life of
Book SynopsisA unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urbanism without Guarantees, Christian M. Anderson offers a new perspective on urban dynamics and urban structural inequality based on an intimate ethnography of on-the-ground gentrification.The book is centered on ethnographic work undertaken on a single street in Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen in New York City—once a site of disinvestment, but now rapidly gentrifying. Anderson examines the everyday strategies of residents to preserve the quality of life of their neighborhood and to define and maintain their values of urban living—from picking up litter and reporting minor concerns on the 311 hotline to hiring a private security firm to monitor the local public park. Anderson demonstrates how processes such as investment and gentrification are constructed out of the collective actions of ordinary people, and challenges prevalent understandings of how place-based civic actions connect with dominant forms of political economy and repressive governance in urban space. Examining how residents are pulled into these systems of gentrification, Anderson proposes new ways to think and act critically and organize for transformation of a place—in actions that local residents can start to do wherever they are.Trade Review"From a long-term immersion on an (extra)ordinary block on the Westside of NYC, Christian M. Anderson demonstrates how the blunt powers of urban restructuring are intricately nestled in the jostling of everyday compositions of things through which collectives are made—collectives stitched and woven by the everyday efforts to keep social violence at bay, which can both support and undermine new forms of living, and which then demand a new politics of those spaces in-between."—AbdouMaliq Simone, The Urban Institute, University of Sheffield"Conceptually rich, artfully crafted, and with a striking immediacy, Urbanism without Guarantees offers a compelling analysis of the meanings of urban change from the perspective of ordinary residents."—Christine Hentschel, Hamburg University "A fascinating new book."—Viewing NYC"Christian Anderson’s Urbanism without Guarantees takes its name from Stuart Hall’s ‘Marxism without Guarantees’ (1983) and lives up to its name by delivering a critical Marxist analysis of everyday life."—Myung In Ji, ANTIPODETable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Situating a StruggleI. Renovating and Making the Urban Question Critical: Toward a Parallax Urbanism1. Fateful Leaps: Flipping the Script on Rent Gaps and Revanchism 2. Unsettling the Urban Question3. The Contingencies of Civic Action, Revisited4. The Hitch, or, Performative InfrastructureII. Place-Embedded Stories and Other Incitements to Parallax Urbanism5. A Brief (Infrastructural?) History of West Forty-Sixth Street6. Specters, Traditions, and the Dominance of Common Sense7. Battles, Contradictions, and Good SenseConclusion: This Hegemony Is a DragAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Chasing World-Class Urbanism: Global Policy
Book SynopsisQuestions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve everyday city dwellers What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that circulates around the globe. These strategies—establishing creative districts dedicated to technology and design, “greening” the streets, reinventing historic districts as tourist draws—were deployed to build a globally competitive Buenos Aires after its devastating 2001 economic crisis. In this richly drawn account, Jacob Lederman explores what those efforts teach us about fast-evolving changes in city planning practices and why so many local officials chase a nearly identical vision of world-class urbanism. Lederman explores the influence of Northern nongovernmental organizations and multilateral agencies on a prominent city of the global South. Using empirical data, keen observations, and interviews with people ranging from urban planners to street vendors he explores how transnational best practices actually affect the lives of city dwellers. His research also documents the forms of resistance enacted by everyday residents and the tendency of local institutions and social relations to undermine the top-down plans of officials. Most important, Lederman highlights the paradoxes of world-class urbanism: for instance, while the priorities identified by international agencies are expressed through nonmarket values such as sustainability, inclusion, and livability, local officials often use market-centric solutions to pursue them. Further, despite the progressive rhetoric used to describe urban planning goals, in most cases their result has been greater social, economic, and geographic stratification.Chasing World-Class Urbanism is a much-needed guide to the intersections of culture, ideology, and the realities of twenty-first-century life in a major Latin American city, one that illuminates the tension between technocratic aspirations and lived experience. Trade Review"Jacob Lederman shows how politicians’ ambitions to make Buenos Aires a ‘world-class’ city appeal to global audiences while inflaming local tensions and reinforcing inequality. This nuanced study of a ‘creative’ city in the global South is a provocative, elegantly written contribution to comparative urban studies."—Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City and The Innovation Complex "This clearly written and persuasively argued book will be of invaluable use to urban sociologists and geographers interested in understanding in more detail and depth the varied ideological debates and pragmatic ramifications of urban policy making, city planning, and class relations in the Global South."—American Journal of Sociology"Chasing World-Class Urbanism is a book that ties conceptual innovation with empirical richness, and aims to put in conversation theories from different toolkits. "—Sociological Forum"A significant contribution to our provisional and still incomplete understanding of architecture’s relation to capitalism. "—Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians"[Chasing World-Class Urbanism] stands out in its nuanced analysis of the dynamics of global and local cultural politics."—City & CommunityTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: A City in Transition1. Turning to Culture in Times of Crisis 2. New Objects of Government Innovation: Heritage, Culture, and Tourism3. Becoming a Historic Center: The Invention of San Telmo4. Best Practice in a Transnational Discourse Community5. Recentering the South: The Creative, Livable City6. The Production of Value in a Tourist Market7. Contested Urban FuturesAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£80.00
University of Minnesota Press Chasing World-Class Urbanism: Global Policy
Book SynopsisQuestions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve everyday city dwellers What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that circulates around the globe. These strategies—establishing creative districts dedicated to technology and design, “greening” the streets, reinventing historic districts as tourist draws—were deployed to build a globally competitive Buenos Aires after its devastating 2001 economic crisis. In this richly drawn account, Jacob Lederman explores what those efforts teach us about fast-evolving changes in city planning practices and why so many local officials chase a nearly identical vision of world-class urbanism. Lederman explores the influence of Northern nongovernmental organizations and multilateral agencies on a prominent city of the global South. Using empirical data, keen observations, and interviews with people ranging from urban planners to street vendors he explores how transnational best practices actually affect the lives of city dwellers. His research also documents the forms of resistance enacted by everyday residents and the tendency of local institutions and social relations to undermine the top-down plans of officials. Most important, Lederman highlights the paradoxes of world-class urbanism: for instance, while the priorities identified by international agencies are expressed through nonmarket values such as sustainability, inclusion, and livability, local officials often use market-centric solutions to pursue them. Further, despite the progressive rhetoric used to describe urban planning goals, in most cases their result has been greater social, economic, and geographic stratification.Chasing World-Class Urbanism is a much-needed guide to the intersections of culture, ideology, and the realities of twenty-first-century life in a major Latin American city, one that illuminates the tension between technocratic aspirations and lived experience. Trade Review"Jacob Lederman shows how politicians’ ambitions to make Buenos Aires a ‘world-class’ city appeal to global audiences while inflaming local tensions and reinforcing inequality. This nuanced study of a ‘creative’ city in the global South is a provocative, elegantly written contribution to comparative urban studies."—Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City and The Innovation Complex "This clearly written and persuasively argued book will be of invaluable use to urban sociologists and geographers interested in understanding in more detail and depth the varied ideological debates and pragmatic ramifications of urban policy making, city planning, and class relations in the Global South."—American Journal of Sociology"Chasing World-Class Urbanism is a book that ties conceptual innovation with empirical richness, and aims to put in conversation theories from different toolkits. "—Sociological Forum"A significant contribution to our provisional and still incomplete understanding of architecture’s relation to capitalism. "—Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians"[Chasing World-Class Urbanism] stands out in its nuanced analysis of the dynamics of global and local cultural politics."—City & CommunityTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: A City in Transition1. Turning to Culture in Times of Crisis 2. New Objects of Government Innovation: Heritage, Culture, and Tourism3. Becoming a Historic Center: The Invention of San Telmo4. Best Practice in a Transnational Discourse Community5. Recentering the South: The Creative, Livable City6. The Production of Value in a Tourist Market7. Contested Urban FuturesAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
£21.59
University of Minnesota Press Fearing the Immigrant: Racialization and Urban
Book SynopsisA fascinating deep dive into one city’s urban policy—and the anxiety over immigrants that informs it The city of Toronto is often held up as a leader in diversity and inclusion. In Fearing the Immigrant, however, Parastou Saberi argues that Toronto’s urban policies are influenced by a territorialized and racialized security agenda—one that parallels the “War on Terror.” Focusing on the figure of the immigrant and so-called immigrant neighborhoods as the targets of urban policy, Saberi offers an innovative, multidisciplinary approach to the politics of racialization and the governing of alterity through space in contemporary cities.A comprehensive study of urban policymaking in Canada’s largest city from the 1990s to the late 2010s, Fearing the Immigrant uses Toronto as a jumping-off point to understand how the nexus of development, racialization, and security works at the urban and international levels. Saberi situates urban policymaking in Toronto in relation to the dominant policies of international development and public health, counterinsurgency, and humanitarian intervention. Engaging with the genealogies and contemporary developments of major policy techniques involving mapping and policy concepts such as poverty, security, policing, development, empowerment, as well as social determinants of health, equity, and prevention, she scrutinizes the parallel ways these techniques and concepts operate in urban policy and international relations. Fearing the Immigrant ultimately asserts that the geopolitical fear of the immigrant is central to the formation of urban policy in Toronto. Rather than addressing the root causes of poverty, urban policy as it has been practiced aims to pacify the specter of urban unrest and to secure the production of a neocolonial urban order. As such, this book is an urgent call to reimagine urban policy in the name of equality and social justice.Trade Review"Fearing the Immigrant is a searing analysis of the colonial management of contemporary global suburban spaces. This dazzling work eschews disciplinary and geopolitical borders to offer a cutting critique of the securitization of the city as domestic warfare and leaves us with bold new ways to think race, struggle, and the future of urban life."—Deborah Cowen, author of The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade"Innovative and detailed, Fearing the Immigrant opens up Toronto’s urban policy, both conceptually and geographically. Connecting urban policy to debates around space, state, racialization, and geopolitics, Parastou Saberi makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the governing of alterity through space in contemporary cities."—Mustafa Dikeç, author of Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded
£83.20
University of Minnesota Press Fearing the Immigrant: Racialization and Urban
Book SynopsisA fascinating deep dive into one city’s urban policy—and the anxiety over immigrants that informs it The city of Toronto is often held up as a leader in diversity and inclusion. In Fearing the Immigrant, however, Parastou Saberi argues that Toronto’s urban policies are influenced by a territorialized and racialized security agenda—one that parallels the “War on Terror.” Focusing on the figure of the immigrant and so-called immigrant neighborhoods as the targets of urban policy, Saberi offers an innovative, multidisciplinary approach to the politics of racialization and the governing of alterity through space in contemporary cities.A comprehensive study of urban policymaking in Canada’s largest city from the 1990s to the late 2010s, Fearing the Immigrant uses Toronto as a jumping-off point to understand how the nexus of development, racialization, and security works at the urban and international levels. Saberi situates urban policymaking in Toronto in relation to the dominant policies of international development and public health, counterinsurgency, and humanitarian intervention. Engaging with the genealogies and contemporary developments of major policy techniques involving mapping and policy concepts such as poverty, security, policing, development, empowerment, as well as social determinants of health, equity, and prevention, she scrutinizes the parallel ways these techniques and concepts operate in urban policy and international relations. Fearing the Immigrant ultimately asserts that the geopolitical fear of the immigrant is central to the formation of urban policy in Toronto. Rather than addressing the root causes of poverty, urban policy as it has been practiced aims to pacify the specter of urban unrest and to secure the production of a neocolonial urban order. As such, this book is an urgent call to reimagine urban policy in the name of equality and social justice.Trade Review"Fearing the Immigrant is a searing analysis of the colonial management of contemporary global suburban spaces. This dazzling work eschews disciplinary and geopolitical borders to offer a cutting critique of the securitization of the city as domestic warfare and leaves us with bold new ways to think race, struggle, and the future of urban life."—Deborah Cowen, author of The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade"Innovative and detailed, Fearing the Immigrant opens up Toronto’s urban policy, both conceptually and geographically. Connecting urban policy to debates around space, state, racialization, and geopolitics, Parastou Saberi makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the governing of alterity through space in contemporary cities."—Mustafa Dikeç, author of Urban Rage: The Revolt of the Excluded
£22.49
University of Minnesota Press The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization
Book SynopsisHow China’s expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has vastly expanded its urbanization processes in an effort to reduce the inequalities between urban and rural areas. Centered on the mountainous region of Chongqing, which serves as an experimental site for the country’s new urban development policies, The End of the Village analyzes the radical expansion of urbanization and its consequences for China’s villagers. It reveals a fundamental rewriting of the nation’s social contract, as villages that once organized rural life and guaranteed rural livelihoods are replaced by an increasingly urbanized landscape dominated by state institutions. Throughout this comprehensive study of China’s “urban–rural coordination” policy, Nick R. Smith traces the diminishing autonomy of the country’s rural populations and their subordination to larger urban networks and shared administrative structures. Outside Chongqing’s urban centers, competing forces are at work in reshaping the social, political, and spatial organization of its villages. While municipal planners and policy makers seek to extend state power structures beyond the boundaries of the city, village leaders and inhabitants try to maintain control over their communities’ uncertain futures through strategies such as collectivization, shareholding, real estate development, and migration.As China seeks to rectify the development crises of previous decades through rapid urban growth, such drastic transformations threaten to displace existing ways of life for more than 600 million residents. Offering an unprecedented look at the country’s contentious shift in urban planning and policy, The End of the Village exposes the precarious future of rural life in China and suggests a critical reappraisal of how we think about urbanization.Trade Review "This excellent book provides important insights into the complexities of Chinese urbanization. Through a thorough and grounded investigation of a peri-urban village, Nick R. Smith produces a lively and remarkably informative account of how the village has been transformed by both state-led planning and reactions from its inhabitants against these external forces. Highly recommended to anyone interested in China and urban studies."—Fulong Wu, author of Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China "The End of the Village is a grounded and masterfully executed project on the ever-evolving relationship between two moving targets: the city and the village. It is a go-to text for all students concerned about the spatial question in the political economy of China’s transformation today."—You-tien Hsing, University of California, Berkeley "An essential authoritative text on urban-rural coordination and the contingencies of China’s urbanization processes. It should be read by scholars not only of urban planning, but also those interested in China’s party-state, development, and rural society."—China Quarterly "Overall, this book is very well written and has a nice narrative arc—starting from the perspectives of different stakeholders in Hailong, then moving to different key planning and development themes. Smith also skillfully articulates the contradictions generated from China’s coordinative planning and presents these contradictions through episodes of conflicts between various stakeholders, making the book highly readable. "—Journal of Urban Affairs "Overall, this book presents a detailed and comprehensive case study of local actions in the rural development crisis and urban-rural coordination program in China. "—H-Net Reviews "This is an exceptional book that provides compelling insights on the complex processes of urbanization in China."—Buildings & Landscapes "The book documents a living history of China’s urban transition and leaves the reader pondering the nation’s urban–rural relations and integration."—China Information "The book provides a vivid and meticulous account of the tension, fragmentation, conflict, and contingency surrounding the Chinese state."—Contemporary Sociology "This book is a delightful read and undoubtedly an essential contribution to Chinese Urban Studies. It is recommended to professionals as well as those wishing to gain a deeper understanding of multi-scalar negotiation processes accompanying urban planning and rural development in China."—European Journal of East Asian Studies "The lucid argumentation and enjoyable writing style make the book a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate teaching in area studies, urban studies, and in interdisciplinary contexts."—Pacific Affairs "The book provides a comprehensive account of planning for the urbanisation of rural China from socio-economic, political, spatial and individual perspectives."—Urban Research & Practice "It is impossible to do justice to the depth of exploration and breadth of research that has gone into Smith’s highly engaging and thoughtfully penned exploration of rural China under rapid urbanisation."—Thesis Eleven Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: China’s New Era of Urbanization 1. Urbanization by Other Means: Planning under Urban–Rural Coordination 2. Village Growth Machine: Charismatic Authority and the Urbanization of the Party 3. Living on the Edge: Residents’ Urban–Rural Strategies of Survival 4. Coordinative Planning: Property, Politics, and Uncertainty at the Urban–Rural Edge 5. Village-as-the-City: Land Commodification, Shareholding, and Self-Urbanization 6. The End of the Village: Experiences of Displacement Conclusion: Disjunctural Urbanization AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliography Index
£77.60
University of Minnesota Press The End of the Village: Planning the Urbanization
Book SynopsisHow China’s expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China has vastly expanded its urbanization processes in an effort to reduce the inequalities between urban and rural areas. Centered on the mountainous region of Chongqing, which serves as an experimental site for the country’s new urban development policies, The End of the Village analyzes the radical expansion of urbanization and its consequences for China’s villagers. It reveals a fundamental rewriting of the nation’s social contract, as villages that once organized rural life and guaranteed rural livelihoods are replaced by an increasingly urbanized landscape dominated by state institutions. Throughout this comprehensive study of China’s “urban–rural coordination” policy, Nick R. Smith traces the diminishing autonomy of the country’s rural populations and their subordination to larger urban networks and shared administrative structures. Outside Chongqing’s urban centers, competing forces are at work in reshaping the social, political, and spatial organization of its villages. While municipal planners and policy makers seek to extend state power structures beyond the boundaries of the city, village leaders and inhabitants try to maintain control over their communities’ uncertain futures through strategies such as collectivization, shareholding, real estate development, and migration.As China seeks to rectify the development crises of previous decades through rapid urban growth, such drastic transformations threaten to displace existing ways of life for more than 600 million residents. Offering an unprecedented look at the country’s contentious shift in urban planning and policy, The End of the Village exposes the precarious future of rural life in China and suggests a critical reappraisal of how we think about urbanization.Trade Review "This excellent book provides important insights into the complexities of Chinese urbanization. Through a thorough and grounded investigation of a peri-urban village, Nick R. Smith produces a lively and remarkably informative account of how the village has been transformed by both state-led planning and reactions from its inhabitants against these external forces. Highly recommended to anyone interested in China and urban studies."—Fulong Wu, author of Planning for Growth: Urban and Regional Planning in China "The End of the Village is a grounded and masterfully executed project on the ever-evolving relationship between two moving targets: the city and the village. It is a go-to text for all students concerned about the spatial question in the political economy of China’s transformation today."—You-tien Hsing, University of California, Berkeley "An essential authoritative text on urban-rural coordination and the contingencies of China’s urbanization processes. It should be read by scholars not only of urban planning, but also those interested in China’s party-state, development, and rural society."—China Quarterly "Overall, this book is very well written and has a nice narrative arc—starting from the perspectives of different stakeholders in Hailong, then moving to different key planning and development themes. Smith also skillfully articulates the contradictions generated from China’s coordinative planning and presents these contradictions through episodes of conflicts between various stakeholders, making the book highly readable. "—Journal of Urban Affairs "Overall, this book presents a detailed and comprehensive case study of local actions in the rural development crisis and urban-rural coordination program in China. "—H-Net Reviews "This is an exceptional book that provides compelling insights on the complex processes of urbanization in China."—Buildings & Landscapes "The book documents a living history of China’s urban transition and leaves the reader pondering the nation’s urban–rural relations and integration."—China Information "The book provides a vivid and meticulous account of the tension, fragmentation, conflict, and contingency surrounding the Chinese state."—Contemporary Sociology "This book is a delightful read and undoubtedly an essential contribution to Chinese Urban Studies. It is recommended to professionals as well as those wishing to gain a deeper understanding of multi-scalar negotiation processes accompanying urban planning and rural development in China."—European Journal of East Asian Studies "The lucid argumentation and enjoyable writing style make the book a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate teaching in area studies, urban studies, and in interdisciplinary contexts."—Pacific Affairs "The book provides a comprehensive account of planning for the urbanisation of rural China from socio-economic, political, spatial and individual perspectives."—Urban Research & Practice "It is impossible to do justice to the depth of exploration and breadth of research that has gone into Smith’s highly engaging and thoughtfully penned exploration of rural China under rapid urbanisation."—Thesis Eleven Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: China’s New Era of Urbanization 1. Urbanization by Other Means: Planning under Urban–Rural Coordination 2. Village Growth Machine: Charismatic Authority and the Urbanization of the Party 3. Living on the Edge: Residents’ Urban–Rural Strategies of Survival 4. Coordinative Planning: Property, Politics, and Uncertainty at the Urban–Rural Edge 5. Village-as-the-City: Land Commodification, Shareholding, and Self-Urbanization 6. The End of the Village: Experiences of Displacement Conclusion: Disjunctural Urbanization AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliography Index
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University of Minnesota Press Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban
Book SynopsisAn alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commons Characterized by shared, self-managed access to food, housing, and the basic conditions for a creative life, the commons are essential for communities to flourish and protect spaces of collective autonomy from capitalist encroachment. In a narrative spanning more than three centuries, Against the Commons provides a radical counterhistory of urban planning that explores how capitalism and spatial politics have evolved to address this challenge.Highlighting episodes from preindustrial England, New York City and Chicago between the 1850s and the early 1900s, Weimar-era Berlin, and neoliberal Milan, Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago shows how capitalist urbanization has eroded the egalitarian, convivial life-worlds around the commons. The book combines detailed archival research with provocative critical theory to illuminate past and ongoing struggles over land, shared resources, public space, neighborhoods, creativity, and spatial imaginaries.Against the Commons underscores the ways urbanization shapes the social fabric of places and territories, lending particular awareness to the impact of planning and design initiatives on working-class communities and popular strata. Projecting history into the future, it outlines an alternative vision for a postcapitalist urban planning, one in which the structure of collective spaces is ultimately defined by the people who inhabit them.Trade Review "Against the Commons rewrites the history of capitalist urbanization since the eighteenth century by focusing on the role of planning in struggles around social reproduction. This fresh and exciting book is an invitation to scholars, students, and practitioners in planning, architecture, and urban studies to rethink the past and the future of urbanization."—Łukasz Stanek, University of Manchester "Against the Commons is one of the most important, original, and radical contributions to planning theory and history in the past fifty years. While Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago offers a sharply critical perspective on the project of planning under capitalism, he also provides an inspiring call for new forms of collective self-management that protect, extend, and empower the commons."—Neil Brenner, University of Chicago "Against the Commons draws attention to the sparsely studied negative agency of urban planning and capitalist urbanization in the demise of achieving improvements associated with the commons, such as collectivization of society and creation of communal space." —Environment & Urbanization "Against the Commons is a truly ground-breaking work, which both deepens our understanding of the genealogies of urban planning and opens up several avenues for discussion and critique." —Housing Studies
£83.20
University of Minnesota Press Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital
Book SynopsisThe role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheidHealth Colonialism considers how U.S. urban development policies contribute to the uneven and unjust distribution of health care in this country. Here, Shiloh Krupar investigates the racially inequitable effects of elite U.S. hospitals on their surrounding neighborhoods and their role in consolidating frontiers of land primed for redevelopment. Naming this frontier “medical brownfields,” Krupar shows how hospitals leverage their domestic real estate empires to underwrite international prospecting for patients and overseas services and specialty clinics. Her pointed analysis reveals that decolonizing health care efforts must scrutinize the land practices of nonprofit medical institutions and the liberal foundations of medical apartheid perpetuated by globalizing American health care.
£9.00
Bristol University Press Managing Cities at Night: A Practitioner Guide to
Book SynopsisThis accessible guide provides a stimulating analysis of the governance of the night-time economy in cities for practitioners and newcomers alike. Drawing on a wide range of case studies of after dark activity in cities around the world, it reviews labour, environmental services, healthcare, the role of leaders including night mayors, managers and commissioners, and the influence of both public and private sectors. Offering invaluable insights for the future of night-time governance during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, this book deepens our understanding of the benefits, challenges and impacts of a neglected aspect of the economy.Table of Contents1. Into the Night 2. Who Governs the Night in Cities? 3. Placing Night-Time Governance: In or Out? 4. Night Time Governance Trajectories: A Public–Private Affair? 5. Night Time Governance Trajectories: The Importance of Scales and Politics 6. What Night-Time Agendas? 7. Whose Night Is It? 8. The Night-Time and the Pandemic 9. Urban Governance after Dark: Eight Propositions
£76.50
Bristol University Press Managing Cities at Night: A Practitioner Guide to
Book SynopsisThis accessible guide provides a stimulating analysis of the governance of the night-time economy in cities for practitioners and newcomers alike. Drawing on a wide range of case studies of after dark activity in cities around the world, it reviews labour, environmental services, healthcare, the role of leaders including night mayors, managers and commissioners, and the influence of both public and private sectors. Offering invaluable insights for the future of night-time governance during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, this book deepens our understanding of the benefits, challenges and impacts of a neglected aspect of the economy.Table of Contents1. Into the Night 2. Who Governs the Night in Cities? 3. Placing Night-Time Governance: In or Out? 4. Night Time Governance Trajectories: A Public–Private Affair? 5. Night Time Governance Trajectories: The Importance of Scales and Politics 6. What Night-Time Agendas? 7. Whose Night Is It? 8. The Night-Time and the Pandemic 9. Urban Governance after Dark: Eight Propositions
£22.79
Bristol University Press Disrupted Urbanism: Situated Smart Initiatives in
Book SynopsisThe ‘smart city’ is often promoted as a technology-driven solution to complex urban issues. While commentators are increasingly critical of techno-optimistic narratives, the political imagination is dominated by claims that technical solutions can be uniformly applied to intractable problems. This book provides a much-needed alternative view, exploring how ‘home-grown’ digital disruption, driven and initiated by local actors, upends the mainstream corporate narrative. Drawing on original research conducted in a range of urban African settings, Odendaal shows how these initiatives can lead to meaningful change. This is a valuable resource for scholars working in the intersection of science and technology studies, urban and economic geography and sociology.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Fantasies, Hope and Compelling Narratives The Expansive Nature of Platforms Hacking Mobility Digital Food Dialogues Cyborg Activism Platform Practices and the Public Imagination Conclusion: On Understanding Situated Platform Urbanism
£76.50
Bristol University Press End of the Road: Reimagining the Street as the
Book SynopsisSince the earliest days of civilization, streets have played an important role in shaping society – but what is a street? Is it a living ecosystem, a public space, a social space, an economic space or a combination of these? The focus on automotive travel over the past century has changed the role of streets in cities. This has degraded the quality of urban life and contributed to public health issues. This book offers a unique look at streets as locations that can evolve to support the economic, social, cultural and natural aspects of cities. Using modern urban design examples, it challenges readers to focus not only on the livability and travel benefits of roads, but on how the power of streets can be harnessed. In so doing, it shapes more dynamic spaces for walking, biking and living, and aims to stimulate urban vitality and community regeneration, encouraging policymakers and individuals to make changes in their own communities.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. A Recent History of the Street 3. The Street for Transport 4. The Street as Economic Space 5. The Street as Social Space 6. The Street as Cultural Space 7. The Street as a Natural Space 8. The Challenges to Ending the Road 9. Beyond Streets: Integrating Behavior 10. A Window into the Future: New Vehicles, New Streets 11. A Call to Action: Streets as the Heart of the City
£76.50
Fordham University Press Topothesia: Planning, Colonialism, and Places in
Book SynopsisTopothesia reads urban planning as a mode of speculative fiction, one inextricably linked to histories of British colonialism and liberalism through a particular understanding of place. The book focuses on town planning from the late nineteenth century to the present day, showing how the contemporary geography of Britain—sharply unequal and marked by racial division—continues ideologies of place established in colonial contexts. Specifically, planning allows for the speculative construction of future places that are both utopian in their ability to resolve political disagreement and at the same tantalizingly realizable, able to be produced in concrete reality. This speculative imaginary, I argue, is only possible within the ideological framework of colonialism and the history of empire within which it developed. Topothesia refers to a rhetorical device employing the vivid depiction of an often-imaginary place. This device, Vijay shows, helps us understand urban planning as a narrative genre, one that, even in its most mundane documents, is compelled to produce elaborate fantasies of future places. The book examines specific planning movements over time to understand the form and the stakes of their speculative worlds. In building these worlds, the book shows, planners continually coopted literary critiques of the present and reveries of the future, retaining literature's aesthetics while eschewing its politics. At the same time, Vijay shows, writers and artists have dwelled within and against these colonial imaginaries to seek other means of representing place.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 Part I: Improving Places: Liberal Colonialism and the Speculative Imaginary of Early Planning 1. Garden Cities: The Art and Craft of Making Place in Edwardian Britain | 31 2. Planning as Imperial Cultivation in the Work of Patrick Geddes | 60 Part II: Diminishing Horizons: The Ambivalent Temporalities of Development 3. Capturing the City: Regeneration, Policing, and the Ghosts of Postcolonial Britain | 95 4. The End of London: Temporalities of the Gentrified City | 126 5. Level Up: Zadie Smith’s NW and the Promise of Progression | 158 6. Geographies of Discontent: Brexit and the Politics of Abandonment | 185 Coda | 215 Acknowledgments | 221 Notes | 225 Bibliography | 285 Index | 308
£95.20
Fordham University Press Topothesia: Planning, Colonialism, and Places in
Book SynopsisTopothesia reads urban planning as a mode of speculative fiction, one inextricably linked to histories of British colonialism and liberalism through a particular understanding of place. The book focuses on town planning from the late nineteenth century to the present day, showing how the contemporary geography of Britain—sharply unequal and marked by racial division—continues ideologies of place established in colonial contexts. Specifically, planning allows for the speculative construction of future places that are both utopian in their ability to resolve political disagreement and at the same tantalizingly realizable, able to be produced in concrete reality. This speculative imaginary, I argue, is only possible within the ideological framework of colonialism and the history of empire within which it developed. Topothesia refers to a rhetorical device employing the vivid depiction of an often-imaginary place. This device, Vijay shows, helps us understand urban planning as a narrative genre, one that, even in its most mundane documents, is compelled to produce elaborate fantasies of future places. The book examines specific planning movements over time to understand the form and the stakes of their speculative worlds. In building these worlds, the book shows, planners continually coopted literary critiques of the present and reveries of the future, retaining literature's aesthetics while eschewing its politics. At the same time, Vijay shows, writers and artists have dwelled within and against these colonial imaginaries to seek other means of representing place.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 Part I: Improving Places: Liberal Colonialism and the Speculative Imaginary of Early Planning 1. Garden Cities: The Art and Craft of Making Place in Edwardian Britain | 31 2. Planning as Imperial Cultivation in the Work of Patrick Geddes | 60 Part II: Diminishing Horizons: The Ambivalent Temporalities of Development 3. Capturing the City: Regeneration, Policing, and the Ghosts of Postcolonial Britain | 95 4. The End of London: Temporalities of the Gentrified City | 126 5. Level Up: Zadie Smith’s NW and the Promise of Progression | 158 6. Geographies of Discontent: Brexit and the Politics of Abandonment | 185 Coda | 215 Acknowledgments | 221 Notes | 225 Bibliography | 285 Index | 308
£26.99
Fordham University Press Sojourners in the Capital of the World: Garifuna
Book SynopsisA comprehensive history and insider’s account of the Garifuna in New York City from 1943 to the present day. In recent years, Latinos—primarily Central American migrants—crossing the southern border of the United States have dominated the national media, as the legitimacy of their detention and of U.S. immigration policy in general is debated by partisan politicians and pundits. Among these migrants seeking economic opportunities and fleeing violence from gangs and drug traffickers are many Central American Garifuna. This fascinating book is the long-overdue account—written by a Garifuna New Yorker—of the ways that Garifuna immigrants from Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras have organized themselves and become a vibrant presence in New York City, from the time of their first arrivals in the 1940s to the present. The author documents four generations of Garifuna people in New York City who were active in the organizations at the heart of their community. Garifuna organizations have expanded and diversified over time from being primarily concerned with simply providing a space to gather for social events and some self-help groups for seamen (who were the first migrants) to a wide variety of organizations today that range from those focused on culture—music, dance, religion, language, sports, media—to those concentrating on economic development, political engagement and representation, immigration issues, health concerns, and transnational projects related to the situation of Garifuna in their Central American communities. As the Garifuna population grew, their organized entities simultaneously increased. The legacy of the Garifuna ethnic group is one of heroic resilience: They challenged colonial European suppression and grew from an estimated population of 2,000 to a growing 600,000 in the present day. After wars defending their original settlement on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, the remaining Garifuna were rounded up and expelled from the territory to Central America, and from there they eventually immigrated to the United States. In New York City, an estimated 200,000 Garifuna live in the five boroughs, with their largest population in the Bronx. Having overcome numerous challenges, this Black/ Indigenous ethnic group is now known for its significant involvement in both Central American as well as U.S. societies. The Garifuna are integrated into the fabric of New York City as a distinctive Afro-Latinx/African Diaspora ethnic group known for its cultural and political impact. Garifuna organizations are at once concerned with creating alliances with a diversity of many other groups and also focused on dealing with issues specific to the unique culture, history, and situation of the Garifuna. They provide an interesting case study on whether and how Black ethnic groups assimilate with African Americans. And awareness of this group, its culture, and its contribution to American society is essential to understanding a growing segment of the expanding diverse Latino presence in the United States.Table of ContentsPreface | vii Introduction | 1 1. Origins, Surviving, Ensuring Subsistence, and Culture | 27 2. Livelihood on the Caribbean Coast | 41 3. Early U.S. Garifuna Communities | 51 4. Identity and Cultural Growth: Garifunadao | 74 5. Music, Dance, and Sports from the 1990s to the Present | 101 6. Social Issues in New York City from the 1990s to the Present | 118 7. Central America and St. Vincent from the 1990s to the Present | 155 Conclusion | 179 Appendix A: U.S. Garifuna Merchant Marine Seamen Crew Ship List, 1920s–50s | 193 Appendix B: Honduran Garifuna Organizations Participating at the Garifuna Nation Pocono Retreat, 2005 | 211 Appendix C: U.S. Immigration Data from Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, 1930–2017 | 213 Appendix D: Bronx Community Board Appointees, 2019–20 | 215 Appendix E: Founding Members of the Garifuna Coalition USA | 217 Acknowledgments | 219 Notes | 221 References | 237 Index | 259
£79.90
Fordham University Press Sojourners in the Capital of the World: Garifuna
Book SynopsisA comprehensive history and insider’s account of the Garifuna in New York City from 1943 to the present day. In recent years, Latinos—primarily Central American migrants—crossing the southern border of the United States have dominated the national media, as the legitimacy of their detention and of U.S. immigration policy in general is debated by partisan politicians and pundits. Among these migrants seeking economic opportunities and fleeing violence from gangs and drug traffickers are many Central American Garifuna. This fascinating book is the long-overdue account—written by a Garifuna New Yorker—of the ways that Garifuna immigrants from Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras have organized themselves and become a vibrant presence in New York City, from the time of their first arrivals in the 1940s to the present. The author documents four generations of Garifuna people in New York City who were active in the organizations at the heart of their community. Garifuna organizations have expanded and diversified over time from being primarily concerned with simply providing a space to gather for social events and some self-help groups for seamen (who were the first migrants) to a wide variety of organizations today that range from those focused on culture—music, dance, religion, language, sports, media—to those concentrating on economic development, political engagement and representation, immigration issues, health concerns, and transnational projects related to the situation of Garifuna in their Central American communities. As the Garifuna population grew, their organized entities simultaneously increased. The legacy of the Garifuna ethnic group is one of heroic resilience: They challenged colonial European suppression and grew from an estimated population of 2,000 to a growing 600,000 in the present day. After wars defending their original settlement on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, the remaining Garifuna were rounded up and expelled from the territory to Central America, and from there they eventually immigrated to the United States. In New York City, an estimated 200,000 Garifuna live in the five boroughs, with their largest population in the Bronx. Having overcome numerous challenges, this Black/ Indigenous ethnic group is now known for its significant involvement in both Central American as well as U.S. societies. The Garifuna are integrated into the fabric of New York City as a distinctive Afro-Latinx/African Diaspora ethnic group known for its cultural and political impact. Garifuna organizations are at once concerned with creating alliances with a diversity of many other groups and also focused on dealing with issues specific to the unique culture, history, and situation of the Garifuna. They provide an interesting case study on whether and how Black ethnic groups assimilate with African Americans. And awareness of this group, its culture, and its contribution to American society is essential to understanding a growing segment of the expanding diverse Latino presence in the United States.Table of ContentsPreface | vii Introduction | 1 1. Origins, Surviving, Ensuring Subsistence, and Culture | 27 2. Livelihood on the Caribbean Coast | 41 3. Early U.S. Garifuna Communities | 51 4. Identity and Cultural Growth: Garifunadao | 74 5. Music, Dance, and Sports from the 1990s to the Present | 101 6. Social Issues in New York City from the 1990s to the Present | 118 7. Central America and St. Vincent from the 1990s to the Present | 155 Conclusion | 179 Appendix A: U.S. Garifuna Merchant Marine Seamen Crew Ship List, 1920s–50s | 193 Appendix B: Honduran Garifuna Organizations Participating at the Garifuna Nation Pocono Retreat, 2005 | 211 Appendix C: U.S. Immigration Data from Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, 1930–2017 | 213 Appendix D: Bronx Community Board Appointees, 2019–20 | 215 Appendix E: Founding Members of the Garifuna Coalition USA | 217 Acknowledgments | 219 Notes | 221 References | 237 Index | 259
£23.39
University of Calgary Press No Straight Lines: Local Leadership and the Path
Book SynopsisSmall cities face intricate challenges. No Straight Lines provides the basis for a refined model of community engaged leadership and research designed to realize equality of quality of life.With particular attention to the small city of Kamloops, British Columbia, this collection explores the impact of extended, short term, and unique leadership collaborations. It addresses local responses to homelessness, sustainability, food security, and more. It offers insight into the role of the university in the small city as a place of learning, and a contributor to positive change.Based on active engagement, this book reveals the barriers present in addressing local needs, and the transformations that can be achieved through effective collaboration. It offers valuable insights into flexible practices that respond to the needs of community organizations and recognizes the challenges associated with resource constraints and capacity limitations. This unique collection provides new insights into the twists and turns of leadership and learning in the small city.Trade ReviewThis book provides really interesting and valuable insights into the realities of life in small cities-the challenges they face, and the need for community-based solutions. - Mark Seasons, The Canadian Journal of Urban ResearchTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Leadership, Learning, and Equality of Quality of Life in the Small City Terry Kading Chapter 1. Promoting "Community Leadership and Learining" on Social Challengies: Government of Canada Homelessness Initiatives and the Small City of Kamloops, British Columbia Terry Kading Chapter 2. "What a Difference a Shower Can Make" Lisa Cooke Chapter 3. No Straight LInes: Using Creativity as a Method to Fight Homelessness Dawn Farough Chapter 4. The Kamloops Publi Produce Project - A Story of Place, Partnerships and Proximitiy in an Edible Garden Robin Reid and Kendra Besanger Chapter 5. The Kamloops Adult Learners Society: Leadership through Organic Partnerships and KNowledge Support in the Small City Ginny Ratsoy Chapter 6. The Tranquille Oral History Project: Refelctions on a Community-Engaged Research INsitiative in Kamloops, British Columbia Tina Block Chapter 7. Conclusion Leadership Initiatives and Comunity-Engaged Research: Explorations and Critical Insights on "Leadership and Learning"in the Small City of Kamloops Terry Kading, Lisa Cooke, Dawn Farough, Robin Reid, Kendra Besanger, Ginny Ratsoy, and Tina Block Contributros Index
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Leasing Public Land – Policy Debates and
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Emerging Land and Housing Markets in China
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Recycling the City – The Use and Reuse of Urban
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Reinventing Conservation Easements – A Critical
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Analyzing Land Readjustment – Economics, Law, and
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Territorial Cohesion and the European Model of
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Engaging the Future – Forecasts, Scenarios,
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Visualizing Density
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy European Spatial Research and Planning
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Visioning and Visualization – People, Pixels, and
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Planning Support Systems for Cities and Regions
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy The Impact of Large Landowners on Land Markets
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£22.50
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Evaluating Smart Growth – State and Local Policy
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Urban Planning Tools for Climate Change
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Inclusionary Housing in International Perspectiv
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy China`s Housing Reform and Outcomes
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Regional Planning in America – Practice and
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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Climate Change and Land Policies
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