Urban communities / city life Books
University of Toronto Press Governing the PostCommunist City
Book SynopsisOriginal, engaging, and authoritative, this study has much to say about the political climate in Prague after the downfall of communism, and makes insightful conclusions about the factors that contributed to present political circumstances in the region.
£46.75
University of Toronto Press Home in the City
Book SynopsisAlan B. Anderson and the volume's contributors provide an important resource for understanding contemporary Aboriginal life in Canada.Table of ContentsTables Acronyms CHAP. 1: INTRODUCTION CHAP. 2: DEMOGRAPHICS The Complexity and Reliability of Urban Aboriginal Data Growth and Distribution of the Aboriginal Population of Saskatoon Socio-demographic Profile of the Aboriginal Population of Saskatoon CHAP. 3: FIRST NATIONS IN THE CITY Reserve Conditions and Migration to Cities Migration and Mobility Between Reserve and City: Whitecap Dakota/Sioux First Nation Residents in Saskatoon (A.B. Anderson, University of Saskatchewan) Urban Housing Needs of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation (A.B. Anderson) CHAP. 4: NEIGHBOURHOOD LIVING Aboriginal Living Conditions and Health Meeting the People: Aboriginal Residents Speak Out (A.B. Anderson) Community Voices: Assessing Capacity and Needs Within Inner-city Neighbourhoods (A.B. Anderson) Patterns and Influences of Home Ownership and Renting in Pleasant Hill (D. Lanceley, University of Saskatchewan) CHAP. 5: FAMILY, WOMEN AND YOUTH The Role of Family, Women and Youth in Urban Aboriginal Life Aboriginal Women Fleeing Violence (S.T. Prokop, First Nations University of Canada, and J. Sanderson, First Nations University of Canada) HIV/AIDS and Urban Aboriginal Women (C. Romanow, University of Saskatchewan) The City as Home: The Sense of Belonging Among Aboriginal Youth (G. MacKay, University of Saskatchewan) CHAP. 6: AFFORDABLE HOUSING Affordability and the Housing Crisis Affordable Home Ownership for Aboriginal People: Financial and Funding Options (V. Sutton) Aboriginal Homelessness (A.B. Anderson) HOME IN THE CITY: PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY (K. Anderson) CHAP. 7: HOUSING PROVIDERS Who Provides Housing for Urban Aboriginal People? Aboriginal Housing Needs: A Survey of SaskNative Rentals Clients (A.B. Anderson) First Nations Housing in Saskatoon: A Survey of Cress Housing Clients (A.B. Anderson) CHAP. 8: SPECIAL NEEDS AND HOUSING DESIGN IN URBAN ABORIGINAL HOUSING Urban Aboriginal Populations in Special Need and Implications for Housing Design Aboriginal Post-secondary Student Housing (B. Wallace, Saskatoon Housing Initiatives Partnership, B. Maire, Alberta Justice, A. Lachance, Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations) The Metis Elders Circle Housing Research Project: A Study to Determine Respectful Sustainable Housing Options for Metis Elders (J. Durocher, SaskNative Rentals, J. Hammersmith, C. Littlejohn, SaskNative Rentals, W. McCaslin, University of Saskatchewan) CHAP. 9: ABORIGINAL PARTICIPATION IN ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND HOMEBUILDING Involving Aboriginal People in Economic and Community Development and the Homebuilding Industry More Than Four Walls and a Roof (Quint Development Corporation) Urban Aboriginal Homebuilding Apprenticeships (A. Thomarat, Canadian Home Builders Association) CHAP. 10: URBAN RESERVES The Development of Urban Reserves Residential Urban Reserves: Issues and Options for Providing Adequate and Affordable Housing (J. Garcea, University of Saskatchewan) CHAP. 11: RACE RELATIONS AND CRIME Being Aboriginal in Saskatoon Race Relations and Housing (C.J.A. Spence, University of Saskatchewan) Life in the Inner-City: Crime and Policing (A.B. Anderson) CHAP. 12: CONCLUSION Bibliography Contributors
£30.60
University of Toronto Press Home in the City Urban Aboriginal Housing and
Book SynopsisAlan B. Anderson and the volume's contributors provide an important resource for understanding contemporary Aboriginal life in Canada.Table of ContentsTables Acronyms CHAP. 1: INTRODUCTION CHAP. 2: DEMOGRAPHICS The Complexity and Reliability of Urban Aboriginal Data Growth and Distribution of the Aboriginal Population of Saskatoon Socio-demographic Profile of the Aboriginal Population of Saskatoon CHAP. 3: FIRST NATIONS IN THE CITY Reserve Conditions and Migration to Cities Migration and Mobility Between Reserve and City: Whitecap Dakota/Sioux First Nation Residents in Saskatoon (A.B. Anderson, University of Saskatchewan) Urban Housing Needs of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation (A.B. Anderson) CHAP. 4: NEIGHBOURHOOD LIVING Aboriginal Living Conditions and Health Meeting the People: Aboriginal Residents Speak Out (A.B. Anderson) Community Voices: Assessing Capacity and Needs Within Inner-city Neighbourhoods (A.B. Anderson) Patterns and Influences of Home Ownership and Renting in Pleasant Hill (D. Lanceley, University of Saskatchewan) CHAP. 5: FAMILY, WOMEN AND YOUTH The Role of Family, Women and Youth in Urban Aboriginal Life Aboriginal Women Fleeing Violence (S.T. Prokop, First Nations University of Canada, and J. Sanderson, First Nations University of Canada) HIV/AIDS and Urban Aboriginal Women (C. Romanow, University of Saskatchewan) The City as Home: The Sense of Belonging Among Aboriginal Youth (G. MacKay, University of Saskatchewan) CHAP. 6: AFFORDABLE HOUSING Affordability and the Housing Crisis Affordable Home Ownership for Aboriginal People: Financial and Funding Options (V. Sutton) Aboriginal Homelessness (A.B. Anderson) HOME IN THE CITY: PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY (K. Anderson) CHAP. 7: HOUSING PROVIDERS Who Provides Housing for Urban Aboriginal People? Aboriginal Housing Needs: A Survey of SaskNative Rentals Clients (A.B. Anderson) First Nations Housing in Saskatoon: A Survey of Cress Housing Clients (A.B. Anderson) CHAP. 8: SPECIAL NEEDS AND HOUSING DESIGN IN URBAN ABORIGINAL HOUSING Urban Aboriginal Populations in Special Need and Implications for Housing Design Aboriginal Post-secondary Student Housing (B. Wallace, Saskatoon Housing Initiatives Partnership, B. Maire, Alberta Justice, A. Lachance, Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations) The Metis Elders Circle Housing Research Project: A Study to Determine Respectful Sustainable Housing Options for Metis Elders (J. Durocher, SaskNative Rentals, J. Hammersmith, C. Littlejohn, SaskNative Rentals, W. McCaslin, University of Saskatchewan) CHAP. 9: ABORIGINAL PARTICIPATION IN ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND HOMEBUILDING Involving Aboriginal People in Economic and Community Development and the Homebuilding Industry More Than Four Walls and a Roof (Quint Development Corporation) Urban Aboriginal Homebuilding Apprenticeships (A. Thomarat, Canadian Home Builders Association) CHAP. 10: URBAN RESERVES The Development of Urban Reserves Residential Urban Reserves: Issues and Options for Providing Adequate and Affordable Housing (J. Garcea, University of Saskatchewan) CHAP. 11: RACE RELATIONS AND CRIME Being Aboriginal in Saskatoon Race Relations and Housing (C.J.A. Spence, University of Saskatchewan) Life in the Inner-City: Crime and Policing (A.B. Anderson) CHAP. 12: CONCLUSION Bibliography Contributors
£60.35
University of Nebraska Press Bike Lanes Are White Lanes Bicycle Advocacy and
Book SynopsisThis study of three prominent U.S. cities—Milwaukee, Portland, and Minneapolis—examines how the burgeoning popularity of urban bicycling is trailed by systemic issues of racism, classism, and displacement. Trade Review"Environmental historians interested in urban issues will profit from Hoffmann's look at social justice issues associated with "green" development. For urban planning students, as well as anyone involved in city planning, this book could be considered required reading. Bicycle advocates will find the work provocative and a stimulus toward more inclusive efforts in creating better transportation options for all city residents. Hoffmann has written an important and significant contribution to scholarship and to public discussions about bicycles, urban living, and development."—James A. Pritchard, Environmental History"Powerfully relevant."—Cat Ariail, Sport in American History“For anyone interested in the urban role of cycling, this is an important book. Informed by an overdue concern with race, class, and gender, it critically redresses imbalances in our current understandings of cycling. [Hoffmann] usefully punctures a general liberal, middle-class complacency over the implicitly assumed superiority of the bicycle. . . . Indispensable reading if our goal is to broaden cycling’s appeal and to make inclusive and just cities, as well as genuinely ecologically sustainable ones.”—Dave Horton, author of Promoting Walking and Cycling: New Perspectives on Sustainable Travel“Important to many fields: transportation, race, city planning, housing and migration, sustainability, community organizing, planning and policy processes, and equity. . . . In the emerging scholarship concerning ‘bike equity,’ Melody Hoffmann is an early and influential entrant.”—Julian Agyeman, author of Incomplete Streets: Processes, Practices and PossibilitiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. One Less Car, One More Critique: U.S. Urban Bicycle Culture and Advocacy2. More Races, Less Racing: The Role of a Bicycle Race in Community Building3. Bike Lanes Are White Lanes: Gentrification and Historical Racism in Portland's Bicycle Infrastructure Planning4. Recruiting People Like You: Class-Based Recruitment and Bicycle Advocacy in Minneapolis5. The Beginning of the Equity Era: Possibilities and Solutions NotesBibliography Index
£28.80
Ohio University Press Photographs from Detroit 19752019
Book SynopsisWith these intimate social documentary photographs and oral histories, Bruce Harkness and John J. Bukowczyk have sensitively collaborated with and amplified the stories of Detroit’s often overlooked people and lost neighborhoods. The result is an unforgettable portrait of Detroit’s hard-won resiliency.Trade Review“Bruce Harkness is a masterful hunter, communicator, and seer in the visual language of photography. His photographs are charged with an emotional level that transfixes the viewer into wanting to know more.” -- Adger Cowans“In the 1950s, the avant-garde group known as the Situationist International developed the concept of dérive (French: drift) to describe a method of serendipitously navigating the urban environment to reveal its objective and subjective conditions, to disclose not only how things look but how they feel. Over a lifetime of circumambulating Detroit’s environs, photographer Bruce Harkness has observed the often-neglected people and places of the city to expose, as it were, the essence of its otherwise marginalized physical, social, and emotional spaces. In these much-vaunted times of Detroit as a ‘Comeback City,’ the photography of Bruce Harkness calls upon us to pause and take note of what too often gets left behind in the march of ‘progress.’” -- Vince Carducci, dean emeritus, College for Creative Studies”An incredibly beautiful and elegantly constructed body of work…[with] masterful editing. The captions are unpretentious and straightforward, like the images, which navigate the years with honesty and sensitivity. Love it, man. Bravo.“ -- Brian Day, award-winning Detroit street photographer“Harkness’s photography portrays the undulating moods of shadow and light refracted in a community’s afterlife and rebirth, like the image of jazz great Marcus Belgrave reconfiguring loss into belief flowing from his trumpet.” -- Melba Joyce Boyd, distinguished professor in African American studies, Wayne State University, and author of Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825–1911“In this collection of intimate portraits, ragged streetscapes, and lively clubs and coffeehouses, Bruce Harkness depicts the stark beauty of Detroit and its people. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes uplifting, and always beautiful, Harkness captures both the city’s struggles and its profound resilience.” -- Thomas J. Sugrue, author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit“Unsentimental but deeply human, Bruce Harkness’s photographs draw you in to every detail—into the tales told by every crack in the plaster, every poster on the wall, every storefront and front stoop. They compel you to look in every eye and, in these moving images of brick and mortar and flesh and blood, to read the stories of the communities we create and those we leave behind.” -- Karen Majewski, author of Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939 and former mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan“Bruce Harkness spent decades walking the streets of Detroit and photographing the people he met along the way. His images capture not just a street-level view of Detroit’s human tapestry, but the very soul of this city.” -- Peter O'Keefe, filmmaker and editor of A Brief Peculiar History of Detroit“We tend to think of history as a written record established by others. Photographs from Detroit, 1975–2019 takes you on a rare journey back in time, showing how history is written by the people who live it.” -- Nadja Rottner, professor of art history, University of Michigan-Dearborn and editor of Cardiovista: Detroit Street Photography
£21.59
Stanford University Press Invention and Reinvention
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Invention & Reinvention: The Evolution of San Diego's Innovation Economy is a fascinating story of regeneration. Using a social history perspective over different periods, it offers a wonderful case study of urban reinvention and hence is a must-read for any economic geographer who studies regions, technology development, innovation, entrepreneurship, and evolutionary geography."—Shiri M. Breznitz, Economic Geography"Throughout my career in public office, I was conscious of the need for a good history about the dynamic south west corner of our state. Mary Walshok and Abe Shragge have captured a century and a half of San Diego history in a book that will ring true for anyone who has been engaged in its political and economic evolution over the last fifty years."—Pete Wilson, Former California State Assemblyman, Mayor of San Diego, U.S. Senator, and Governor of California"Sociologist Mary Walshok and historian Abraham Shragge show their readers that San Diego truly is a city of invention and innovation . . . It is a very worthwhile read for an economic historian, for it provides a thorough introduction to the city's economic history . . . [Invention and Reinvention] forces the reader to think about why San Diego's experience has been so different from U.S. cities that have not done well over the past half century."—Fred Smith, EH.Net: The Economic History Network"This is an important, pioneering book that contributes to our unique understanding of how one place, San Diego, has achieved what most places want: the capacity to evolve and meet the challenges of a constantly changing global economic environment. Walshok and Shragge help us understand why some places thrive while others wither."—David B. Audretsch, Indiana University and Author of The Entrepreneurial Society"The San Diego region has long deserved a really comprehensive history of how its economy emerged from a primarily military and defense contracting town into one of the leading innovation regions in America. This book describes that journey and contains a number of insights that will be extremely useful to other regions that are trying to reinvent themselves."—Richard Florida, Author of The Rise of the Creative Class, Director, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto and the Creative Class Group"San Diego has a unique history in terms of its long relationship with the federal government, and especially the military, which this book captures superbly. Especially relevant is the discussion of the role that the research institutions on the Torrey Pines Mesa played in the transformation of the region's economy. A wonderfully engaging book for anyone interested in trying to realize the social and economic benefits of basic research."—Richard C. Atkinson, President Emeritus, University of California and Director, National Science Foundation 1977–1980"Having been an early faculty member at the UCSD School of Medicine, a founder of Hybritech, and an investor in many of San Diego's biotech companies, I am impressed with how well this book captures the dynamics shaping San Diego's emergence as a world class science hub."—Ivor Royston, Founding Managing Partner, Forward Ventures and Founder, Hybritech"As a third generation Californian, with deep roots in the San Diego region, I am delighted to see a book that focuses on the distinctive character of the San Diego economy and its evolution. Walshok and Shragge have made a significant contribution to San Diego and California history."—Malin Burnham, Vice Chairman, Cushman & Wakefield, Board Member, Sanford/Burnham Medical Research Institute, and Co-Chair, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine"In this economic history, Walshok and Shragge give this a different spin by emphasizing San Diego's civic culture, its spirit of collaboration, and civic values. Focusing on civic leaders, scientists, and business entrepreneurs, they tell a story of almost unimpeded achievement . . . Recommended."—R. A. Beauregard, CHOICE
£91.80
Stanford University Press Invention and Reinvention
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Invention & Reinvention: The Evolution of San Diego's Innovation Economy is a fascinating story of regeneration. Using a social history perspective over different periods, it offers a wonderful case study of urban reinvention and hence is a must-read for any economic geographer who studies regions, technology development, innovation, entrepreneurship, and evolutionary geography."—Shiri M. Breznitz, Economic Geography"Throughout my career in public office, I was conscious of the need for a good history about the dynamic south west corner of our state. Mary Walshok and Abe Shragge have captured a century and a half of San Diego history in a book that will ring true for anyone who has been engaged in its political and economic evolution over the last fifty years."—Pete Wilson, Former California State Assemblyman, Mayor of San Diego, U.S. Senator, and Governor of California"Sociologist Mary Walshok and historian Abraham Shragge show their readers that San Diego truly is a city of invention and innovation . . . It is a very worthwhile read for an economic historian, for it provides a thorough introduction to the city's economic history . . . [Invention and Reinvention] forces the reader to think about why San Diego's experience has been so different from U.S. cities that have not done well over the past half century."—Fred Smith, EH.Net: The Economic History Network"This is an important, pioneering book that contributes to our unique understanding of how one place, San Diego, has achieved what most places want: the capacity to evolve and meet the challenges of a constantly changing global economic environment. Walshok and Shragge help us understand why some places thrive while others wither."—David B. Audretsch, Indiana University and Author of The Entrepreneurial Society"The San Diego region has long deserved a really comprehensive history of how its economy emerged from a primarily military and defense contracting town into one of the leading innovation regions in America. This book describes that journey and contains a number of insights that will be extremely useful to other regions that are trying to reinvent themselves."—Richard Florida, Author of The Rise of the Creative Class, Director, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto and the Creative Class Group"San Diego has a unique history in terms of its long relationship with the federal government, and especially the military, which this book captures superbly. Especially relevant is the discussion of the role that the research institutions on the Torrey Pines Mesa played in the transformation of the region's economy. A wonderfully engaging book for anyone interested in trying to realize the social and economic benefits of basic research."—Richard C. Atkinson, President Emeritus, University of California and Director, National Science Foundation 1977–1980"Having been an early faculty member at the UCSD School of Medicine, a founder of Hybritech, and an investor in many of San Diego's biotech companies, I am impressed with how well this book captures the dynamics shaping San Diego's emergence as a world class science hub."—Ivor Royston, Founding Managing Partner, Forward Ventures and Founder, Hybritech"As a third generation Californian, with deep roots in the San Diego region, I am delighted to see a book that focuses on the distinctive character of the San Diego economy and its evolution. Walshok and Shragge have made a significant contribution to San Diego and California history."—Malin Burnham, Vice Chairman, Cushman & Wakefield, Board Member, Sanford/Burnham Medical Research Institute, and Co-Chair, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine"In this economic history, Walshok and Shragge give this a different spin by emphasizing San Diego's civic culture, its spirit of collaboration, and civic values. Focusing on civic leaders, scientists, and business entrepreneurs, they tell a story of almost unimpeded achievement . . . Recommended."—R. A. Beauregard, CHOICE
£22.49
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Stigma Cities
Book SynopsisThe first work to investigate the important effects of stigmatized identities on urban places, Jonathan Foster’s innovative study suggests that reputation, no less than physical and economic forces, explains how cities develop and why.
£22.46
Louisiana State University Press Cityscapes of New Orleans
Book SynopsisExploring the Crescent City from the ground up, Richard Campanella takes us on a winding journey toward explaining the city's distinct urbanism and eccentricities. Campanella - a historical geographer - reveals the why behind the where, delving into the historical and cultural forces that have shaped the spaces of New Orleans for three centuries.
£24.65
John Wiley & Sons Ghetto Schooling A Political Economy of Urban
Book SynopsisProviding evidence that inner city schools have failed in their capacity to implement current strategies of educational reform, this work offers a historical analysis of a century of government and business policies that have drained the economic, political and human resources of urban populations.
£23.76
John Wiley & Sons Its Not About Grit
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Foreword Michelle Fine - xi Acknowledgments - xv Introduction - 1 1. “Unlivable Conditions”: Health and Housing - 13 “Where the Rats Come Out”: Slumlord Neglect - 15 “Silent Killers”: Mold and Asthma in Public Housing - 17 “Where Are We Going to Wind Up?”: The Trauma of Foreclosure - 23 “As If They’re Passing Away”: Gentrification - 26 “We Have a Petition”: Speaking Out and Taking Action - 31 2. “They Put Us Down When We Already Down”: Police and Juvenile Justice - 34 “He Starts Grabbing Me”: Student Perspectives on Policing in and out of Schools - 35 “It’s a Memorable Moment”: Stop-and-Frisk Policing of Students in the Community - 38 “All My Youth Was Locked Up in Prison”: Juvenile Incarceration and the War on Drugs - 40 “He Never Got to Meet Me”: Growing Up with Incarcerated Parents - 42 “Their Wrists Are Too Small, So You Have to Handcuff Them up by Their Biceps”: Zero-Tolerance Policing In School - 46 “I Was 15. Came Home at 25”: Juvenile Detention in Rikers - 50 “On the Side of the Kids”: Restorative Justice and Student Action - 52 3. “The Legal Right to Be Somebody”: Immigration - 56 “Fearful of Any Institution”: Challenges Facing Emergent Bilinguals - 57 “In the Desert, the Mountains, the Cold— With Only Water”: Border Crossing Stories - 59 “I Was Doing Really Bad”: A Downward Educational Spiral - 63 “She’s Barely Home”: Labor Exploitation and Parent–School Engagement - 67 “Not Having a Dad”: Deportation and Forced Single-Parent Homes - 70 “He Never Went to School”: A Climate of Fear - 74 “I Was Empowering My People”: Student Immigrant Rights - 76 4. “People Are Strong When They Stand Together”: Gender and Identity - 81 “I Never Went Back”: Bullying and Anti-LGBTQ Violence - 83 “Get the Hell Out!”: Family Rejection and LGBTQ Homelessness - 87 “The Place for Me!”: Inclusive School Cultures and Legal Silencing - 89 “I Never Talked with Anybody About This”: Sexual Harassment - 93 “Being the Sexy Girl”: Body Image and Self-Objectification - 97 “I Look Fat”: Body Image and Eating Disorders - 101 “Save a Kid’s Education”: Girls Support Groups and Genders & Sexualities Alliances - 104 5. “Some Place to Call Home”: Foster Care and Child Welfare - 108 “They Stole 10 Years from Me”: The Trauma of Family Separation - 109 “The System Failed Me”: The Disproportionate Academic Impact of Foster Care 111 “Welfare Queens”: The Criminalization of Poor Black Mothers - 117 “She Could Not Take Care of Herself”: Parental Substance Abuse - 121 “Not Me, Not Mine”: Aging Out and Youth Advocacy - 124 Conclusion “I’ve Got Your Back”: Moving from Trauma and Resilience Toward Student Activism - 129 “Sites of Possibility” - 131 “A Knock on the Door”: A Sign of the Times - 132 “Where We Want to Be”: Youth Participatory Action Research - 134 At the Screening: Parting Thoughts - 140 Guide for Using Videos - 143 Notes - 159 References - 163 Index 179 About the Author - 190
£26.96
University of Pennsylvania Press The Private City
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With a skillful use of carefully researched detail, Warner relates the transformation from a handicraft to a factory system of production to the pervasive quest for private gain, and shows how that basic objective restricted the city's response to such community needs as education, health, and welfare. . . . His book is packed with suggestive historical detail." * American Historical Review *"[This book] serves, in a way which no other city biography can claim to, as the historical analogy of urban America." * Urban Studies *"Written with intelligent elegance and candor. . . . A fascinating book." * Times Literary Supplement *"A splendidly economical and enlightening piece of urban history. . . . Contributes more than an important remedial lesson in the cultural foundation of the urban crisis." * American Institute of Planners Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Intorduction to the Second Edition PART ONE: THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY TOWN 1- The Environment of Private Opportunity 2- War and the Limits of the Tradition PART TWO: THE BIG CITY 1830-1860 3- Spatial Patterns of Rapid Growth 4- Industrialization 5- The Specialization of Leadership 6- Municipal Institutions 7- Riots and the Restoration of Public Order PART THREE: THE INDUSTRIAL METROPOLIS 8- The Structure of the Metropolis 9- Some Metropolitan Districts 10- The Industrial Metropolis as an Inheritance Bibliography of Recent Philadelphia Books Notes to Tables in Text
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press City Rediscovering the Center
Book SynopsisIn a challenging and provocative book, William Whyte, author of the classic The Organization Man, observes the influence public spaces have on the people who use them. In this exploration of pedestrian behavior and urban dynamics, he calls on city planners to provide functional, pleasant places to live and work.Trade Review"City punctures commonplace assumptions about urban life in virtually every chapter. . . . There is genuine brilliance here." * New York Times *"We who hug the city to us by instinct are grateful to Whyte for providing us with a hundred-a thousand-arguments for doing so." * New Yorker *"City is written in clear, straightforward, and vivid prose. . . . Whyte bubbles over with data. . . . He is an authentic visionary." * Los Angeles Times *"Whyte's Street Life Project studied the use of urban spaces for 16 years. This follow-up to The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces is an engaging look at the variety of human interactions which make 'downtown' vibrant. Whyte looks at such diverse topics as pedestrian movement, concourses and skyways, sunlight and its effects-all from the perspective of a confirmed city-lover. His observations and recommendations can be read with profit and pleasure by professional planners and readers interested in what makes a city tick." * Library Journal *Table of ContentsForeword, by Paco Underhill 1. Introduction 2. The Social Life of the Street 3. Street People 4. The Skilled Pedestrian 5. The Physical Street 6. The Sensory Street 7. The Design of Spaces 8. Water, Wind, Trees, and Light 9. The Management of Spaces 10. The Undesirables 11. Carrying Capacity 12. Steps and Entrances 13. Concourses and Skyways 14. Megastructures 15. Blank Walls 16. The Rise and Fall of Incentive Zoning 17. Sun and Shadow 18. Bounce Light 19. Sun Easements 20. The Corporate Exodus 21. The Semi-Cities 22. How to Dullify Downtown 23. Tightening Up 24. The Case for Gentrification 25. Return to the Agora Appendices A. Digest of Open-Space Zoning Provisions in New York City B. Mandating of Retailing at Street Level Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£27.90
University of Pennsylvania Press Police Power and Race Riots
Book SynopsisCathy Lisa Schneider looks at the relationship between racialized police violence and urban upheaval in impoverished neighborhoods of New York and greater Paris, and considers some of the changes that have made American cities less riot-prone today.Trade Review"[A] devastating study of police officers failing to enforce law in a manner that expresses appropriate respect for the communities that they purport to serves . . . the arguments raise much broader issues about the function of the police within the institutional fabric of the modern state." * Perspectives on Politics *"Readers will be rewarded with subtle remarks, a vast knowledge of historical trends helping to better grasp the current situations, and a stimulating ethnographic work." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Incredibly thorough and provocative. . . . Schneider skillfully brings individual perspectives to this complicated social phenomenon. In so doing, she demonstrates that violent revolt holds value for all those involved." * Humanity & Society *"[Police Power and Race Riots] generates a depth of ethnographic material that provides the reader with a rare insight as to the plight of specific ethnic minority groups and their relationship with the police." * Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy *"In past decades, most urban unrest in Western countries has been provoked by deadly confrontations between law enforcement officers and inhabitants of disadvantaged neighborhoods belonging to minorities. Offering a transatlantic comparison and a temporal depth to events which for the most part have been studied in national contexts from an ahistorical perspective, Police Power and Race Riots proposes a novel and crucial addition to the literature on the subject, allowing for a greater understanding of the often overlooked colonial and racial dimension of iterative disturbances in France as well as the little analyzed political and social aspects of the relative calm in New York-a remarkable achievement." * Didier Fassin, author of Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing *"Cathy Lisa Schneider's comparative analysis of policing in New York and Paris examines the relationships between the state and urban minorities, and asks under what conditions do fractious relationships turn into riots. Schneider compares police tactics in enforcing racial boundaries, and argues that access to the judicial system and municipal authorities are the key variables in dampening social unrest. The book is an exciting addition to the literature on policing and urban violence, and will find an appreciative audience with those interested in urban studies, sociology, and public policy." * Eric Schneider, University of Pennsylvania *"A superb work of comparative and historical scholarship that makes a major contribution to our understanding of policing, violence, and urban riots, in the United States as well as France." * Jacqueline E. Ross, University of Illinois College of Law *
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press Miami Transformed
Book SynopsisSix-year-old Manuel Diaz and his mother first arrived at Miami''s airport in 1961 with little more than a dime for a phone call to their relatives in the Little Havana neighborhood. Forty years after his flight from Castro''s Cuba, attorney Manny Diaz became mayor of the City of Miami. Toward the end of the twentieth century, the one-time citrus and tourism hub was more closely associated with vice than sunshine. When Diaz took office in 2001, the city was paralyzed by a notoriously corrupt police department, unresponsive government, a dying business district, and heated ethnic and racial divisions. During Diaz''s two terms as mayor, Miami was transformed into a vibrant, progressive, and economically resurgent world-class metropolis.In Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time, award-winning former mayor Manny Diaz shares lessons learned from governing one of the most diverse and dynamic urban communities in the United States. This firstTrade Review"Miami Transformed is the story of a doer, a big thinker with a passion for improving the lives of people. Manny Diaz is undaunted by the challenges that inevitably arise in government and business but always squarely focused on the agenda he has carefully set to reach his goals. That's the definition of a good leader, and that, based on my experience, is Manny Diaz." * Richard M. Daley, former Mayor of Chicago *"Manny Diaz became the mayor of Miami during a critical time, when professional leadership was needed. He took the city to new heights and also represented Miami nationally and internationally as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Manny is a visionary leader who has never lost his footing or his roots. He epitomizes the immigrant success story and the fruition of the American Dream." * Eduardo J. Padrón, President of Miami Dade College *"Under Mayor Manny Diaz's leadership and direction, Miami has undergone a great and sustaining transformation into a cultural hotspot and a hub for the 'creative class,' with a thriving business climate that is open, multicultural, and inclusive. Miami Transformed offers politicians and policymakers a blueprint for transforming their cities block-by-block into destinations for innovative businesses and entrepreneurs, building livable and safe communities for all." * Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited *"Manny Diaz was a great mayor, and he will go down in history as one of our country's most innovative urban leaders because he put progress before partisanship-and because he never stopped asking 'Why not?' His legacy will be defined not only by a soaring skyline but also by cutting-edge policies that made Miami a national leader on urban issues." * From the Foreword, by Mayor Michael Bloomberg *Table of ContentsForeword —by Michael Bloomberg Introduction Chapter 1. July 21, 1961 Chapter 2. The Lost Generation Finds Its Way Chapter 3. Creating My Own Politics Chapter 4. Two Six-Year-Olds Chapter 5. The Choice for Change Chapter 6. Now What? Chapter 7. Grand Ideas Chapter 8. Expanding Economic Opportunity Chapter 9. Education Chapter 10. Making Neighborhoods Safe Chapter 11. Investing in Our Future Chapter 12. Designing a Sustainable City Chapter 13. Fostering Arts and Culture Conclusion Index Acknowledgments
£70.55
University of Pennsylvania Press Displacing Democracy
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, economically disadvantaged Americans have become more residentially segregated from other communities: they are increasingly likely to live in high-poverty neighborhoods that are spatially isolated with few civic resources. Low-income citizens are also less likely to be politically engaged, a trend that is most glaring in terms of voter turnout. Examining neighborhoods in Atlanta, Kansas City, Milwaukee, and Rochester, Amy Widestrom challenges the assumption that the class gap in political participation is largely the result of individual choices and dispositions. Displacing Democracy demonstrates that neighborhoods segregated along economic lines create conditions that encourage high levels of political activity, including political and civic mobilization and voting, among wealthier citizens while discouraging and impeding the poor from similar forms of civic engagement.Drawing on quantitative research, case studies, and interviews, Widestrom shows tTrade Review"Displacing Democracy sets out to challenge and complicate a story that is often understood as an easy equation between individual resources and individual political behavior: most rich people vote, most poor people don't. Amy Widestrom's fine book recasts this as a challenge of political engagement under conditions of stark economic segregation. What matters, in the end, is where you live-and the ways in which civic infrastructure and civic resources can sustain (or sap) democratic participation." * Colin Gordon, University of Iowa *Table of ContentsIntroduction. A Theory of Economic Segregation and Civic Engagement Chapter 1. Understanding Civic Engagement in Context: Methodology and the Logic of Case Study Selection Chapter 2. Public Policy and Civic Environments in Urban America Chapter 3. Economic Segregation and the Mobilizing Capacity of Voluntary Associations Chapter 4. Economic Segregation, Political Parties, and Political Mobilization Conclusion. The Dynamics and Implications of Economic Segregation, Civic Engagement, and Public Policy Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Metropolitan Airport
Book SynopsisJohn F. Kennedy International Airport is one of New York City''s most successful and influential redevelopment projects. Built and defined by outsize personalities—Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, famed urban planner Robert Moses, and Port Authority Executive Director Austin Tobin among them—JFK was fantastically expensive and unprecedented in its scale. By the late 1940s, once-polluted marshlands had become home to one of the world''s busiest and most advanced airfields. Almost from the start, however, environmental activists in surrounding neighborhoods and suburbs clashed with the Port Authority. These fierce battles in the long term restricted growth and, compounded by lackluster management and planning, diminished JFK''s status and reputation. Yet the airport remained a key contributor to metropolitan vitality: New Yorkers bound for adventure and business still boarded planes headed to distant corners of the globe, billions of tourists and immigrants came and went, and maTrade Review"The Metropolitan Airport is a valuable study of the complex history of John F. Kennedy International Airport. Filled with fascinating information on the airport and the Port Authority that built and operates it, Bloom's analysis is insightful and balanced." * Jameson W. Doig, Princeton University *"Nicholas Dagen Bloom has written the first good book on JFK International. Writing in a fluent, accessible style, he is attuned to the multiple areas of the airport's significance, from its impact on the New York regional economy to its design, environmental impact, and political status under the Port Authority of New York." * Elizabeth Blackmar, Columbia University *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Shared Prosperity in Americas Communities
Book SynopsisWhile the nation''s GDP has doubled in the last thirty years, significant increases in family income have been restricted to a small subset of the American population. This disjunct between national economic growth and stagnating incomes in all but the very top tier of the population corresponds with increasing economic inequality and a lack of social and economic mobility. As a consequence, neighborhoods and metropolitan areas have become more polarized. Stark geographic differences in levels of poverty, income, health outcomes, job opportunities, lifetime earning potential, and educational attainment highlight the degree to which place matters in terms of social and economic opportunity.Shared Prosperity in America''s Communities examines this place-based disparity of opportunity and suggests what can be done to ensure that the benefits of economic growth are widely shared. Contributors'' essays explore social and economic mobility throughout the country to illuminateTrade Review"While income inequality has received much attention from scholars and the media, the profound impact of geography on inequality has not been explored deeply. This volume brings together an impressive collection of essays that create a nuanced map of inequality in America and point toward solutions." * Raphael Bostic, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California *"Missing in the national dialogue about income equality is the role that cities have traditionally fulfilled as building blocks for opportunity and indeed must fulfill going forward. Susan Wachter and Lei Ding have assembled a group of respected scholars who advance important ideas about how schools, cities, and metropolitan areas can strengthen our national quest for social and economic progress." * Henry Cisneros, City View *"An important contribution to the conversation about urban inequality. The essays collected by Susan M. Wachter and Lei Ding tackle issues such as intergenerational mobility, racial and socioeconomic segregation, active labor market policy, and strategic urban renewal efforts with balance and rigor." * Steven Raphael, University of California, Berkeley *"Wachter and Ding have assembled a dazzling collection of contributors to explore the intersection of inequality and place. This volume makes clear that policy cannot ignore geography-the future of opportunity in America begins at the neighborhood level. I encourage scholars, policymakers, and the interested public worried about increasing inequality to take advantage of the many insights this collection offers." * Sarah Rosen Wartell, The Urban Institute *"The country is riven by social and economic inequality. This book explains why mending this rift must take place community by community and provides the research and analysis to make this happen." * Marc Morial, National Urban League *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC MOBILITY IN AMERICA'S COMMUNITIES Chapter 1. Socioeconomic Mobility in the United States: New Evidence and Policy Lessons —Raj Chetty Chapter 2. Neighborhoods and Segregation —Paul A. Jargowsky Chapter 3. The Changing Geography of Disadvantage —Elizabeth Kneebone Chapter 4. U.S. Workers' Diverging Locations: Causes and Inequality Consequences —Rebecca Diamond PART II. HOW TO ENCOURAGE GROWTH AND EXPAND OPPORTUNITY Chapter 5. Building Shared Prosperity Through Place-Conscious Strategies That Reweave the Goals of Fair Housing and Community Development —Margery Austin Turner Chapter 6. Confronting the Legacy of American Apartheid —Douglas S. Massey Chapter 7. Expanding Educational Opportunity in Urban School Districts —Paul A. Jargowsky, Zachary D. Wood, J. Cameron Anglum, and David N. Karp Chapter 8. Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's Jobs —Anthony P. Carnevale and Nicole Smith Chapter 9. Labor-Demand-Side Economic Development Incentives and Urban Opportunity —Timothy J. Bartik PART III. SHARED PROSPERITY: PERSPECTIVES ON EQUITABLE AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH Chapter 10. Equitable and Inclusive Growth Strategies for American Cities —Victor Rubin, Angela Glover Blackwell, and Chris Schildt Chapter 11. The Fragility of Growth in a Post-Industrial City —Jeremy Nowak Chapter 12. Fostering an Inclusive Metropolis: Equity, Growth, and Community —Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor Notes References List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Slums
Book SynopsisLarge numbers of people in urbanizing regions in the developing world live and work in unplanned settlements that grow through incremental processes of squatting and self-building. Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work shows that unauthorized settlements in rapidly growing cities are not divorced from market forces; rather, they must be understood as complex environments where state policies and market actors still do play a role. In this volume, contributors examine how the form and function of informal real estate markets are shaped by legal systems governing property rights, by national and local policy, and by historical and geographic particularities of specific neighborhoods. Their essays provide detailed portraits of individuals and community organizations, revealing in granular detail the working of informal real estate markets, and they review programs that have been implemented in unconventional settlements to provide lessons about the effectiveness and impleTrade Review"Likely to be a frequently used and often cited book, Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work provides an extraordinary array of information on a complex and highly idiosyncratic subject that existing studies treat only in a limited way." * Robert Buckley, The New School *Table of ContentsPreface PART I. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Chapter 1. Urban Governance and Development of Informality in China and India —Arthur Acolin, Shahana Chattaraj, and Susan M. Wachter Chapter 2. Comparative Evidence on Urban Land-Use Regulation Bureaucracy in Developing Countries —Paavo Monkkonen and Lucas Ronconi Chapter 3. Urban Land Titling: Lessons from a Natural Experiment —Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky PART II. ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Chapter 4. The Formalization of Informal Real Estate Transactions in Rio's Favelas —Janice E. Perlman Chapter 5. Tenure Regularization Programs in Favelas in Brazil —Patricia Cezario Silva and Yvonne Mautner Chapter 6. Property Markets Without Property Rights: Dharavi's Informal Real Estate Market —Shahana Chattaraj Chapter 7. Periurban Land Markets in the Bangalore Region —Sai Balakrishnan PART III. PUBLIC POLICY PERSPECTIVES Chapter 8. Rehousing Mumbai: Formulizing Slum Land Markets Through Redevelopment —Vinit Mukhija Chapter 9. Tenure Regularization: Process and Experiences in Latin America —José Brakarz Chapter 10. Making a Difference in the Predominantly Informal City —David Gouverneur Chapter 11. Informal Land Markets: Perspectives for Policy —Bish Sanyal Notes References List of Contributors Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press Roaring Metropolis
Book SynopsisDebates about poverty and inequality in the United States frequently invoke the early twentieth century as a time when new social legislation helped moderate corporate power. But as historian Daniel Amsterdam shows, the relationship between business interests and the development of American government was hardly so simple.Roaring Metropolis reconstructs the ideas and activism of urban capitalists roughly a century ago. Far from antigovernment stalwarts, business leaders in cities across the country often advocated extensive government spending on an array of social programs. They championed public schooling, public health, the construction of libraries, museums, parks, and playgrounds, and decentralized cities filled with freestanding homes—a set of initiatives that they believed would foster political stability and economic growth during an era of explosive, often chaotic, urban expansion.The efforts of businessmen on this front had deep historical roots buTrade Review"Roaring Metropolis is a great success . . . a terrific read." * EH.net *"[In] deeply researched and tightly drawn chapters . . . Amsterdam traces, with greater detail and acuity than any previous scholar, what kinds of social programs businessmen supported, and why, and with what consequences." * Business History Review *"Meticulously researched and elegantly written . . . [A] rich political history." * Planning Perspectives *"In Roaring Metropolis, Amsterdam joins a burgeoning community of scholars . . . combining compelling historical research with a sophisticated understanding of the complex nature of 'businessmen' as historical actors." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Amsterdam's highly engaging political and business history . . . convincingly demonstrates that business elites played decisive roles in shaping the substance, size, and scope of civic welfare projects, as well as limiting who benefited from them." * Enterprise & Society *"We tend to think of 1920s cities as cockpits of cultural conflict. In this exemplary study Daniel Amsterdam gives us a new perspective, showing with subtlety and precision the modern metropolis as businessmen wanted it to be. Anyone interested in the construction of urban America needs to read this enlightening book." * Kevin Boyle, Northwestern University *"Richly researched and elegantly written, Roaring Metropolis uncovers the forgotten explosion in municipal spending and businessmen's political activism during the supposedly conservative 1920s. With three smartly chosen case studies in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, Daniel Amsterdam illuminates distinct and unique urban political trajectories. This topic is important and the contributions original." * Sarah Phillips, Boston University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. At Cross Purposes: Businessmen's Political Activism Before the Armistice Chapter 2. Detroit: Businessmen at Large Chapter 3. Philadelphia: Money and the Machine Chapter 4. Atlanta: City Building in Black and White Chapter 5. Businessmen's Social Politics Beyond the Civic Welfare State Epilogue. The 1930s and After Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Creative Urbanity
Book SynopsisBased on more than a decade of ethnographic research in Genoa, Italy, Creative Urbanity argues for an understanding of contemporary urban life that refuses scholarly condemnation of urban lifestyles and consumption and casts a fresh light on an oft-neglected social group-the middle class.Trade Review"Creative Urbanity is an artful rendering of ethnography's versatility and nuance, its multi-sited and multi-vocal possibilities. Guano uncovers dramatic transformations of urban space, class-culture, gender politics and aesthetics as they are refracted through the political-economic history of Genoa. Her subjects-newly fashioned tour-guides, entrepreneurs, and cultural brokers-embody resilience, creativity and precarious insecurity. An evocative narrative and sophisticated analysis, Creative Urbanity will be a must-read by all students of contemporary neoliberalism." * Carla Freeman, Emory University *"Creative Urbanity is an extremely thoughtful and elegant work that connects to important dialogues of both anthropological analysis and urban theory in its identification of creative middle classes as agents in urban change. Moreover, it speaks eloquently to current literatures on European and Mediterranean cities but amplifies them in both scale and location, revealing an important and interesting case study that interrogates received wisdom." * Gary McDonogh, Bryn Mawr College *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Chronotopes of Hope Chapter 2. Genoa's Magic Circle Chapter 3. Gentrification Without Teleologies Chapter 4. Cultural Bricoleuses Chapter 5. Touring the Hidden City Chapter 6. Utopia with No Guarantees Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Precarious Lives
Book SynopsisIn Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians'' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of precarity give rise to a sense of hopelessness, shared visions of a futureless tomorrow, widespread home(land)lessness, intense individualism, and a growth of incivilities. On the other, daydreaming and hope, as well as civility and solidarity in political protests, street carnivals, and social movements, continue to persist. Young Iranians describe themselves as being stuck in purposelessness and forced to endure endless waiting, and they are also aware that they are perceived as unproductive and a burden on their society. Despite the aspirations and inspiration they possess, they find themselves forced into petrifying social and spatial immobility. Uncertainty in the present, a seemingly futureless tomorrow: these are the circumstances that Khosravi explores in Precarious LivesTrade Review"A theoretically well-informed, engaging account... Its comparative approach and theoretical richness will make it a worthwhile read not only for anthropologists of Iran, the Middle East, and Central Asia, but also for those in other disciplines working on such themes as youth culture, under- or unemployment, neoliberalism, inequality, gender and the family, crime and criminalization, and class." * Anthropological Quarterly *"Professor Khosravi has provided detailed, well written accounts of the lives of ordinary Iranians, as well as analysis of some contemporary film and artistic endeavors. His narrative gives welcome prominence to the Iranian middle and lower economic classes, with some additional material from areas outside of Tehran, including his native Bakhtiari region, where members of his family still reside. This book thus departs from other recent works that have focused on more elite populations, with heavy attention to the wealthier residents of northern Tehran." * The Middle East Journal *"Shahram Khosravi's elegant new book weaves together his two substantive areas-urban Iranian youth culture and migration and border studies-to narrate stories of social lives carved out of multiple precarities, ever-present waitings, but also, the need to hope. Dispensing with facile dichotomies that caricature contemporary Iran, Khosravi's rich and granular storytelling breathes life, in all of its complexity and contradiction, into depictions of Iran's most vulnerable populations." * Arzoo Osanloo, University of Washington *"In his second important anthropological accounting of social tensions in contemporary Iran, Shahram Khosravi deftly brings Iran into the conversation about the transformations affecting countries across the globe: precarity and the criminalization of youth; neoliberal practices of 'blaming the victims' of increased poverty; and street-level performances of resistance and demands for rights. Engaging with film, photography, painting, and street performativity, Khosravi shows Iran is not as 'other' as either Western or Iranian media portray it, and calls to mind comparative phenomena such as Japanese shut ins, American incarceration culture, and European migrant detention camps." * Michael M.J. Fischer, author of Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry *"Shahram Khosravi writes brilliantly about the unintended consequences of the Iranian Revolution on the traditional family, on the social lives of young people, on the 'street' as a space of free expression and protest, and on public walls as places of political expression. Precarious Lives is a thoroughly researched analysis of the 'precarious' society that is contemporary Iran, a country at war with its own youth." * Paul Stoller, author of The Sorcerer's Burden and 2013 Anders Retzius Gold Medal Laureate in Anthropology *"There is so much social theory incisively deployed by Shahram Khosravi, and so many pertinent anthropological works about other places used for comparative purposes, that Precarious Lives will appeal to more readers than those interested in Iran, or those interested in the anthropology of time and space." * Ghassan Hage, University of Melbourne *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in
Book SynopsisIn less than a generation, the dominant image of American cities has transformed from one of crisis to revitalization. Poverty, violence, and distressed schools still make headlines, but central cities and older suburbs are attracting new residents and substantial capital investment. In most accounts, native-born empty nesters, their twentysomething children, and other educated professionals are credited as the agents of change. Yet in the past decade, policy makers and scholars across the United States have come to understand that immigrants are driving metropolitan revitalization at least as much and belong at the center of the story. Immigrants have repopulated central city neighborhoods and older suburbs, reopening shuttered storefronts and boosting housing and labor markets, in every region of the United States.Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States is the first book to document immigrant-led revitalization, with contributions by leading sTrade Review"This volume brings together cutting-edge research on revitalization from leading social scientists across a range of fields, from demography and economics to geography, history, sociology, and urban planning. . . . An important book with implications for today's cities and municipalities-both those experienced with immigration and those facing fresh change." * Audrey Singer, Urban Institute *
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Sociable City
Book SynopsisThe Sociable City chronicles how, as the city's physical and social landscapes evolved over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, urban intellectuals developed new vocabularies, narratives, and representational forms to explore and advocate for the social configurations made possible by urban living.Trade Review"The Sociable City is an act of recovery, a taut intellectual history dense with insights on the surfaces and depths of urban life." * HIstorical Geography *"The Sociable City is an excellent and sophisticated contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of urbanism. It brings a novel and enriched vocabulary to the history of urban thought through reconsideration of classic writers and the introduction of new ones as well." * Samuel Zipp, Brown University *"Jamin Creed Rowan has provided a much needed book for all of us working to understand the complexity of cities. His clear, nuanced discussion of the ecology of cities advances our collective efforts to build and rebuild relationships with our neighborhoods and each other. The Sociable City boldly reminds us how to hold fast to the intricate web of diversity that comprise the places we call home." * Stephen Goldsmith, Center for the Living City *"With persuasive arguments and highly inventive juxtapositions of sources, Rowan compellingly urges us to consider how Americans have understood and contested the meanings of human interactions in the city. The Sociable City surveys the urban ideas emerging from a strikingly wide-ranging variety of genres, while offering close readings that glisten with creative and surprising insights." * Benjamin Looker, author of A Nation of Neighborhoods *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Making Cities Global
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, hundreds of millions of people across the world have moved from rural areas to metropolitan regions, some of them crossing national borders on the way. While urbanization and globalization are proceeding with an intensity that seems unprecedented, these are only the most recent iterations of long-term transformations-cities have for centuries served as vital points of contact between different peoples, economies, and cultures. Making Cities Global explores the intertwined development of urbanization and globalization using a historical approach that demonstrates the many forms transnationalism has taken, each shaped by the circumstances of a particular time and place. It also emphasizes that globalization has not been persistent or automatic-many people have been as likely to resist or reject outside connections as to establish or embrace them. The essays in the collection revolve around three foundational themes. The first is an emphasis on connections among the UTrade Review"With this collection, Sandoval-Strausz and Kwak have gathered transnational perspectives necessary for any truly global urban history, namely, a world beyond the well-established North Atlantic conversation. This is a much-needed volume." * Christopher Klemek, George Washington University *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Metropolitan Denver
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is book is a classic geography, presented topically, that addresses the physical environment and human geography of Denver, Colorado, from its founding to the present…[It] contains a wealth of knowledge about city planning processes and how these relate to Denver…[and] is valuable for its careful survey of the growth and planning of an important city of the US Mountain West and for what policy makers in and outside the academy might learn from it." * Historical Geography *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction. From "Queen City of the Plains" to the "Mile High City" Chapter 1. Physical Landscape and Natural Surroundings Chapter 2. Historical Development Chapter 3. Demographics and Culture Chapter 4. Image and Place Making Chapter 5. Political Landscapes Chapter 6. Sustainable Futures Conclusion. The Next Frontier Notes Index Acknowledgments
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Rutgers University Press Contesting Community The Limits and Potential of
Book SynopsisWhat do community organizations and organizers do, and what should they do? For the past thirty years politicians, academics, advocates, and activists have heralded community as a site and strategy for social change. In contrast, Contesting Community paints a more critical picture of community work which, according to the authors--in both theory and practice--has amounted to less than the sum of its parts. Their comparative study of efforts in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada describes and analyzes the limits and potential of this work. Covering dozens of groups, including ACORN, Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue Committee, and the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal, and discussing alternative models, this book is at once historical and contemporary, global and local. Contesting Community addresses one of the vital issues of our day--the role and meaning of community in people's lives and in the larger political economy.Trade Review"This book offers the most incisive, compelling treatment of community organizing that I have seen. As a study of the strategic challenges of community-based action, it is not only authoritative but also highly original in its combination of sure-handed historical grasp, careful intellectual critique, and practical engagement with important community efforts taking place on the ground." -- William Sites * School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago *"This book could not be more timely. DeFilippis, Fisher, and Shragge give us a seriously analytical yet readable discussion of the possibilities and limits of locally based organizing. A major contribution to the ongoing debates about community and social movement organizing." -- Frances Fox Piven * author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America *"Contesting Community is a valuable asset for political radicals interested in examining the possibilities and pitfalls of local organizing. The authors manage an effective critique of actually existing community organizing, while also plotting out a path to build an alternative practice." * Counterpunch *"Contesting Community is an excellent historical analysis of the evolution of community practice. This book is valuable reading for scholars, graduate students and practitioners in sociology, social work, public administration, public health or political science." * Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare *"an engaging and provocative critique of the evolution of neoliberalism and its impact on communities and community organizing." * New Labor Forum *"Contesting Community is a refreshing and important book which looks at the current state of community organizing in America, Canada, and the United Kingdom from a critical perspective. It should be required reading for scholars and students interested in community work, community sociology and social change, and communitarianism as a theory." * Contemporary Sociology *"Contesting Community calls for a 'wider, larger-scale, and longer-term movement for social change'. Community organizing as a process of movement-building is a process of learning in struggle. This book is a contribution to that learning." * Shelterforce Magazine *"This is a timely and potentially significant book that goes a long way toward bringing up to date the literature on community organizing and community development." * Journal of Planning Education and Research *"This book offers the most incisive, compelling treatment of community organizing that I have seen. As a study of the strategic challenges of community-based action, it is not only authoritative but also highly original in its combination of sure-handed historical grasp, careful intellectual critique, and practical engagement with important community efforts taking place on the ground." -- William Sites * School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago *"This book could not be more timely. DeFilippis, Fisher, and Shragge give us a seriously analytical yet readable discussion of the possibilities and limits of locally based organizing. A major contribution to the ongoing debates about community and social movement organizing." -- Frances Fox Piven * author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America *"Contesting Community is a valuable asset for political radicals interested in examining the possibilities and pitfalls of local organizing. The authors manage an effective critique of actually existing community organizing, while also plotting out a path to build an alternative practice." * Counterpunch *"Contesting Community is an excellent historical analysis of the evolution of community practice. This book is valuable reading for scholars, graduate students and practitioners in sociology, social work, public administration, public health or political science." * Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare *"an engaging and provocative critique of the evolution of neoliberalism and its impact on communities and community organizing." * New Labor Forum *"Contesting Community is a refreshing and important book which looks at the current state of community organizing in America, Canada, and the United Kingdom from a critical perspective. It should be required reading for scholars and students interested in community work, community sociology and social change, and communitarianism as a theory." * Contemporary Sociology *"Contesting Community calls for a 'wider, larger-scale, and longer-term movement for social change'. Community organizing as a process of movement-building is a process of learning in struggle. This book is a contribution to that learning." * Shelterforce Magazine *"This is a timely and potentially significant book that goes a long way toward bringing up to date the literature on community organizing and community development." * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Community and Its Discontents 2. History Matters: Canons, Anti-canons, and Critical Lessons from the Past 3. The Market, the State, and Community in the Contemporary Political Economy 4. "It Takes a Village": Community as Contemporary Social Reform 5. What's Left in the Community? 6. Radicalizing Community Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Regional Planning for a Sustainable America How
Book SynopsisRegional Planning for a Sustainable America is the first book to represent the great variety of today's effective regional planning programs, analyzing dozens of regional initiatives across North America. The American landscape is being transformed by poorly designed, sprawling development. This sprawland its wasteful resource use, traffic, and pollutiondoes not respect arbitrary political boundaries like city limits and state borders. Yet for most of the nation, the patterns of development and conservation are shaped by fragmented, parochial local governments and property developers focused on short-term economic gain. Regional planning provides a solution, a means to manage human impacts on a large geographic scale that better matches the natural and economic forces at work. By bringing together the expertise of forty-two practitioners and academics, this book provides a practical guide to the key strategies that regional planners are using to achieve truly sustainable growth.Trade Review"The combination of thorough analysis and the contributors' specificity make this an extremely valuable resource for planners seeking ways to promote regionalism." * Planning *"an emporium of regional planning initiatives and concepts, well organized for people who suspect a regional initiative would facilitate sustainable human communities or adaptive natural environments in their region. Regional Planning for a Sustainable America offers a broad look at a phenomenon that has many contexts and variations, and it delivers a valuable chronicle and assessment of an experiment that is half-finished and still ongoing." * Journal of Regional Science *Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART I: Mandatory Plans1. Regional Growth Management in the Portland Metropolitan Area2. Regional Planning for the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area3. Restoring the Tahoe Region with Comprehensive Regional Planning4. Ontario’s Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe5. Adirondack Park: The Great Conservation Experiment6. Pinelands National Reserve: Saving a Unique Ecosystem in the Nation’s Most Densely Developed State7. Planning for Tomorrow in the Highlands of New Jersey8. Restoration, Conservation, and Economy in the New Jersey Meadowlands9. Changing the Land Use Paradigm to Save New York’s Central Pine Barrens10. Cape Cod: Protecting a Land of Sand and WaterPART II: Collaborative and Voluntary Planning Initiatives11. Integrated Planning for a Sustainable Future in Puget Sound12. Integrated Land Use, Transportation, and Air Quality Planning in Sacramento13. Envision Utah: Building Communities on Values14. Regional Planning in Florida15. Regional Planning for Livable Communities in Atlanta16. From the Mountains to the Sea: Maryland’s Smart Growth Program17. Raising the Bar at the Chesapeake Bay Program18. The Political Dead Zone in Chesapeake Bay19. Regional Planning at a County Scale in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania20. Land Use and Infrastructure Planning in the Greater Philadelphia Region21. Regional Planning for the Delaware River22. Planning for Sustainable Agriculture, Forestry, and Biodiversity in MainePART III: Society, Economics, and Regional Planning23. Regions for Climate Resiliency24. Megaregion Planning and High-Speed Rail25. The Economic Benefits of Regional Planning26. Serving the Environment and Economy through Regional Planning27. Promoting Fiscal Equity and Efficient Development Practices at the Metropolitan Scale28. But Where Will People Live? Regional Planning and Affordable HousingPART IV : Land Acquisition and Regional Planning29. Ecoregional Conservation: A Comprehensive Approach to Conserving Biodiversity30. Saving the Chesapeake Bay through Regional Land Conservation31. Creating Synergy with Regional Planning and Conservation EasementsPART V: Envisioning the Region32. Creating a Regional Vision for Regional Planning33. Visioning SacramentoConclusion: Fulfilling the Promise of Regional PlanningReferencesOnline ResourcesIndex
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John Wiley & Sons Small Cities USA Growth Diversity and Inequality
Trade Review"Norman presents a thought-provoking and important analysis of an urban world often overlooked by most social science researchers. Those seeking to understand the future of metropolitan America would be wise to read this book." -- Robert Adelman * University at Buffalo, SUNY *"Norman attempts to fill a gap in the study of US urban regions by focusing exclusively on what he labels 'small cities,' those with a population of between 100,000 and 200,000. The changes in smaller cities are the results of a myriad of social forces, including globalization, immigration and internal migration, educational attainment, ethnic diversity, and economic opportunity, inequality, and diversification, among other factors. Though many of these variables have no doubt contributed to changes in large US cities, Normanargues that the way in which they have influenced the development of small cities is more nuanced. As a result, scholars must develop new conceptualizations and theories that better reflect those subtleties. This book is one contribution toward that end. Recommended." * Choice *"In Small Cities USA, Norman surveys a largely overlooked segment of U.S. urban areas: cities that contain 100,000 to 200,000 people and that are not part of a larger metro area. Norman sees these places as an important—and neglected—piece of the urban puzzle." * Planning *"Norman’s Small Cities USA takes an important step toward reminding urban scholars of the importance of smaller cities. It is a welcome alternative to the deluge of global cities research and offers a clear and concise point of entry for those wanting to explore this neglected side of urban studies." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsMaps, Figures, and TablesAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Small Cities in a Big Nation2. The Divergent Fates of Small Cities3. Putting Out the Welcome Mat: How People Affect Small Cities4. Diversity, Don't Specialize5. Balance It All: Paths of Success or Failure for Small Metro Areas6. Small Cities Matter!7. Epilogue: Small Cities after 2000Appendix: Technical Information on Data Sources and Statistical AnalysesNotesBibliographyIndex
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Rutgers University Press Loft Living Culture and Capital in Urban Change
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An outstanding example of the new interdisciplinary direction in the study of urban communities, combining political economy, sociology, and history. Loft Living is literate, evocative, [and] ambitious." * Contemporary Sociology *1. "An impressive book. Zukin entered the tangled world of zoning law, development politics, and real estate markets, analyzed documents and conducted interviews until she understood that world and was able to make us understand it, and emerged with a persuasive analysis of what may be the fundamental model for urban change." * American Journal of Sociology *"An important, substantive study in urban sociology and political economy...readable...style, free of academic cant." * Choice *"One of the most insightful analyses yet to be published on the recent processes of transformation of American cities...a most interesting exploration of the social roots of urban vitality as well as the new forms of spatial inequality." -- Manuel Castells * author of The City and the Grassroots *"A formidable book." * New Statesman *"An engrossing, enlightening, and elegantly written book." * Theory and Society *"The Last of the SoHo Pioneers," by Kim Velsey https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/realestate/soho-artist-loft-sale.html?action=clickmodule=Editors%20Pickspgtype=Homepage * New York Times *"Zukin outlines the economic and political changes that influenced the abandonment of manufacturing in Manhattan and impacted the culture surrounding residential loft conversion." * Soho Broadway *Table of ContentsUpdated IntroductionLoft Living Grows Up: From Artists’ Studio to Global BrandForeword by David HarveyPreface: Reader, Beware!1 Living Lofts as Terrain and Market2 Investment and Politics3 The Creation of a “Loft Lifestyle”4 Art in the Arms of Power5 From Arts Production to Housing Market6 Demand and Development in the Loft Market7 Speculation and the State8 Capital Shifts and the Cultural Avant-Garde in Urban AmericaPostscript to the Paperback Edition: More Market Forces
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Rutgers University Press New Brunswick New Jersey The Decline and
Book Synopsis While many older American cities struggle to remain vibrant, New Brunswick has transformed itself, adapting to new forms of commerce and a changing population, and enjoying a renaissance that has led many experts to cite this New Jersey city as a model for urban redevelopment. Featuring more than 100 remarkable photographs and many maps, New Brunswick, New Jersey explores the history of the city since the seventeenth century, with an emphasis on the dramatic changes of the past few decades. Using oral histories, archival materials, census data, and surveys, authors David Listokin, Dorothea Berkhout, and James W. Hughes illuminate the decision-making and planning process that led to New Brunswick’s dramatic revitalization, describing the major redevelopment projects that demonstrate the city’s success in capitalizing on funding opportunities. These projects include the momentous decision of Johnson & Johnson to build its world headquarteTrade Review“A fascinating look at the City of New Brunswick and its urban decline and rebirth. A book on this subject could not have been better written.” * New Jersey Studies *"Overall, the book does a good job at bringing together multiple perspectives on redevelopment processes and specific projects and is a valuable contribution to many disciplines and fields, including planning, public policy, urban studies, community development, sociology, political science, architecture, historical preservation, history, and geography." * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. The Economy of New Brunswick: A City Reinventing Itself from Inian’s Ferry to the Information Age Photo Essay: The Corner of Albany and George Streets2. The People of New Brunswick: Population and Resident Profile over Time3. The National Context of Urban Revitalization4. New Brunswick Transformation: Challenge and Strategic Response Photo Essay: The Transformation of Seminary Hill5. New Brunswick Transformation: Critical Projects in a Multi-Decade Revitalization6. Looking to the Past and Future of New Brunswick and National Urban RevitalizationAppendix A. New Brunswick Oral History Interviews, 2009–2015: Biographical InformationAppendix B. New Brunswick Redevelopment and Economic History: A TimelineAppendix C. MapsNotesReferencesIndex
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Univ of Chicago Behalf of Rutgers Univ Press When Good Jobs Go Bad Globalization Deunionization and Declining Job Quality in the North American Auto Industry
Trade Review"[When Good Jobs Go Bad] presents an automobile industry in decline. It begins with the North American Free Trade Agreement and recounts dramatic changes in employment and in the work environments at GM, Ford, and Chrysler … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." * Choice *"Ultimately, U.S., Mexican, and for that matter Chinese workers will write the next chapters in the evolution of the global auto industry. But for right now, Rothstein’s book offers a powerful analysis of how those good jobs went so bad." * Perspectives on Work *"When Good Jobs Go Bad is an excellent study: strategically designed, executed well, historically grounded, theoretically fruitful, gracefully written, and blessedly free from jargon... Best of all, it furnishes students with a vibrant and contemporary examples of C. Wright Mills' 'sociological imagination' revealing the complex and unhappy intersections of biography and history in the lives of automobile workers." * Contemporary Sociology *"An important and insightful intervention in the discussions of industrial upgrading and the auto industry, Rothstein provides a striking critique of lean production and the decline of good jobs." -- Nancy Plankey-Videla * author of We Are in This Dance Together *"It’s not just McDonald’s and Walmart. Rothstein brilliantly illuminates how even auto assembly jobs—still among the best blue collar jobs—have been steadily degraded by global corporations. An essential contribution to understanding work in the global economy." -- Chris Tilly * director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UCLA *"When Good Jobs Go Bad questions whether the tide is rising at all....This is a sobering read, but the final chapter explores some more hopeful possibilities....Perhaps the main lesson from this book is that there is no trade-off between workplace control and influence. When unions sacrifice the first, they risk losing both." * Work, Employment and Society *"Rothstein’s book provides us with much of what we need to understand why wages and the quality of work life in the US and Mexican auto industries has deteriorated since the late 1970s." * Journal of World-Systems Research *"[Rothstein's] important point is that there is nothing natural or inevitable about the form that globalization takes; the global economy is a product of political choices." * American Journal of Sociology *"[When Good Jobs Go Bad] presents an automobile industry in decline. It begins with the North American Free Trade Agreement and recounts dramatic changes in employment and in the work environments at GM, Ford, and Chrysler … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." * Choice *"Ultimately, U.S., Mexican, and for that matter Chinese workers will write the next chapters in the evolution of the global auto industry. But for right now, Rothstein’s book offers a powerful analysis of how those good jobs went so bad." * Perspectives on Work *"When Good Jobs Go Bad is an excellent study: strategically designed, executed well, historically grounded, theoretically fruitful, gracefully written, and blessedly free from jargon... Best of all, it furnishes students with a vibrant and contemporary examples of C. Wright Mills' 'sociological imagination' revealing the complex and unhappy intersections of biography and history in the lives of automobile workers." * Contemporary Sociology *"An important and insightful intervention in the discussions of industrial upgrading and the auto industry, Rothstein provides a striking critique of lean production and the decline of good jobs." -- Nancy Plankey-Videla * author of We Are in This Dance Together *"It’s not just McDonald’s and Walmart. Rothstein brilliantly illuminates how even auto assembly jobs—still among the best blue collar jobs—have been steadily degraded by global corporations. An essential contribution to understanding work in the global economy." -- Chris Tilly * director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UCLA *"When Good Jobs Go Bad questions whether the tide is rising at all....This is a sobering read, but the final chapter explores some more hopeful possibilities....Perhaps the main lesson from this book is that there is no trade-off between workplace control and influence. When unions sacrifice the first, they risk losing both." * Work, Employment and Society *"Rothstein’s book provides us with much of what we need to understand why wages and the quality of work life in the US and Mexican auto industries has deteriorated since the late 1970s." * Journal of World-Systems Research *"[Rothstein's] important point is that there is nothing natural or inevitable about the form that globalization takes; the global economy is a product of political choices." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Introduction: Three Auto Plants in the Global Economy2 The Intensification of Work under Lean Production3 Whipsawed! Local Unions Fight for Jobs in the United States4 Greenfield Opportunity: Orchestrated Labor Relations in Silao5 Globalization and Union Decline6 Conclusion: Toward a Better-Regulated Global EconomyNotesReferencesIndex
£26.99
John Wiley & Sons When Good Jobs Go Bad Globalization Deunionization and Declining Job Quality in the North American Auto Industry
Trade Review"[When Good Jobs Go Bad] presents an automobile industry in decline. It begins with the North American Free Trade Agreement and recounts dramatic changes in employment and in the work environments at GM, Ford, and Chrysler … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." * Choice *"Ultimately, U.S., Mexican, and for that matter Chinese workers will write the next chapters in the evolution of the global auto industry. But for right now, Rothstein’s book offers a powerful analysis of how those good jobs went so bad." * Perspectives on Work *"When Good Jobs Go Bad is an excellent study: strategically designed, executed well, historically grounded, theoretically fruitful, gracefully written, and blessedly free from jargon... Best of all, it furnishes students with a vibrant and contemporary examples of C. Wright Mills' 'sociological imagination' revealing the complex and unhappy intersections of biography and history in the lives of automobile workers." * Contemporary Sociology *"An important and insightful intervention in the discussions of industrial upgrading and the auto industry, Rothstein provides a striking critique of lean production and the decline of good jobs." -- Nancy Plankey-Videla * author of We Are in This Dance Together *"It’s not just McDonald’s and Walmart. Rothstein brilliantly illuminates how even auto assembly jobs—still among the best blue collar jobs—have been steadily degraded by global corporations. An essential contribution to understanding work in the global economy." -- Chris Tilly * director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UCLA *"When Good Jobs Go Bad questions whether the tide is rising at all....This is a sobering read, but the final chapter explores some more hopeful possibilities....Perhaps the main lesson from this book is that there is no trade-off between workplace control and influence. When unions sacrifice the first, they risk losing both." * Work, Employment and Society *"Rothstein’s book provides us with much of what we need to understand why wages and the quality of work life in the US and Mexican auto industries has deteriorated since the late 1970s." * Journal of World-Systems Research *"[Rothstein's] important point is that there is nothing natural or inevitable about the form that globalization takes; the global economy is a product of political choices." * American Journal of Sociology *"[When Good Jobs Go Bad] presents an automobile industry in decline. It begins with the North American Free Trade Agreement and recounts dramatic changes in employment and in the work environments at GM, Ford, and Chrysler … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." * Choice *"Ultimately, U.S., Mexican, and for that matter Chinese workers will write the next chapters in the evolution of the global auto industry. But for right now, Rothstein’s book offers a powerful analysis of how those good jobs went so bad." * Perspectives on Work *"When Good Jobs Go Bad is an excellent study: strategically designed, executed well, historically grounded, theoretically fruitful, gracefully written, and blessedly free from jargon... Best of all, it furnishes students with a vibrant and contemporary examples of C. Wright Mills' 'sociological imagination' revealing the complex and unhappy intersections of biography and history in the lives of automobile workers." * Contemporary Sociology *"An important and insightful intervention in the discussions of industrial upgrading and the auto industry, Rothstein provides a striking critique of lean production and the decline of good jobs." -- Nancy Plankey-Videla * author of We Are in This Dance Together *"It’s not just McDonald’s and Walmart. Rothstein brilliantly illuminates how even auto assembly jobs—still among the best blue collar jobs—have been steadily degraded by global corporations. An essential contribution to understanding work in the global economy." -- Chris Tilly * director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UCLA *"When Good Jobs Go Bad questions whether the tide is rising at all....This is a sobering read, but the final chapter explores some more hopeful possibilities....Perhaps the main lesson from this book is that there is no trade-off between workplace control and influence. When unions sacrifice the first, they risk losing both." * Work, Employment and Society *"Rothstein’s book provides us with much of what we need to understand why wages and the quality of work life in the US and Mexican auto industries has deteriorated since the late 1970s." * Journal of World-Systems Research *"[Rothstein's] important point is that there is nothing natural or inevitable about the form that globalization takes; the global economy is a product of political choices." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Introduction: Three Auto Plants in the Global Economy2 The Intensification of Work under Lean Production3 Whipsawed! Local Unions Fight for Jobs in the United States4 Greenfield Opportunity: Orchestrated Labor Relations in Silao5 Globalization and Union Decline6 Conclusion: Toward a Better-Regulated Global EconomyNotesReferencesIndex
£105.40
John Wiley & Sons City Kids Transforming Racial Baggage
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Rutgers University Press City Kids Transforming Racial Baggage Rutgers
Book SynopsisCosmopolitanism - the genuine appreciation of cultural and racial diversity - is often associated with adult worldliness and sophistication. Yet, as this innovative new book suggests, children growing up in multicultural environments might be the most cosmopolitan group of all.Trade Review"I highly recommend this unique interdisciplinary work, which contributes to childhood studies and race studies with vivid ethnography." -- Lauren Silver * Rutgers University, Camden *"City Kids: Transforming Racial Baggage is an inspirational read highly recommended to a wide range of social scientists across disciplines and educators at both the PK-12 and post-secondary levels" -- Maryann Krikorian * Teachers College Record *"I highly recommend this unique interdisciplinary work, which contributes to childhood studies and race studies with vivid ethnography." -- Lauren Silver * Rutgers University, Camden *"City Kids: Transforming Racial Baggage is an inspirational read highly recommended to a wide range of social scientists across disciplines and educators at both the PK-12 and post-secondary levels" -- Maryann Krikorian * Teachers College Record *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Transcription Conventions Introduction: The Transformative Politics of Learning Race 1. Sensing Urban Space 2. Loving Friends and Things 3. The Collective Labors of Conviviality 4. Racist or Fair? 5. Enacting Sex Ed Conclusion: Out of the Heart of Whiteness Notes References Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Istanbul Living with Difference in a Global City
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Istanbul focus on the city’s connection to massive migration and globalization over the last two centuries, exploring the rise, collapse, and rebirth of cosmopolitan thinking and behaviors, and trying to sort out what functions as cosmopolitanism and what fails to live up to that term. Trade Review"Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City presents a theoretically-guided framing of the city as a site of cosmopolitan intersections from the nineteenth century to the present and is a significant contribution to the field." -- Erdag Göknar * author of Nomadologies *"Are ‘global cities’ an antidote to populism and nationalism? Istanbul offers some hope" by Nora Fisher Onar * Washington Post *"An interesting and thoroughly researched edited volume about Istanbul." * Middle East Journal *"This book offers an interesting and somewhat offbeat look at Istanbul with the desire to combine diverse approaches to history and anthropology....The book also shifts the gaze to the urban and architectural transformation of Istanbul on which there has been a plethora of academic research. Instead, it emphasizes the perception and use of space by different people and communities, and this may be one of the great strengths of this book." * Émulations –Revue de sciences sociales *
£28.80
New York University Press The Latinoa Condition A Critical Reader Second
Book SynopsisOffers a broad portrait of Latino/a life in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first centuryTrade Review"The authors of these essays explore the theme of Latino/a identity by presenting popular media images of Latino/as and by examining the issues of representation that these images raise...instructive and useful." * Choice *"A valuable and highly informative discussion of the theoretical questions that underlie the production of popular culture in the twenty-first century." * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionPart I The Shape of the Latino Group: Who Are We and What Are We Talking about Anyway? Part II Conquest and Immigration: How We Got (Get) Here Part III Nativism, Racism, and Our Social Construction as a "Problem" Group: How Once We Were Here, We Were Racialized by the Dominant Culture Part IV Racial Construction and Demonization in Mass Culture: Media Treatment and StereotypesPart V Counterstories: We Begin to Talk Back and "Name Our Own Reality" Part VI Rebellious Lawyering and Resistance Strategies: We Fight Back Part VII Revisionist Law: Does the Legal System Work for Us? Part VIII Assimilation: Maybe Our Best Strategy Is Just to Duck? Part IX Splits and Tensions within the Civil Rights Community Part X Sex, Gender, and Class: Sure I'm a Latino, but I'm Still Different from You - How about It? Part XI English-Only, Bilingualism, Interpreters: You Mean I Can't Speak Spanish? Contributors Index
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New York University Press Authentic New Orleans Tourism Culture and Race
Book SynopsisExplains how New Orleans became a tourist town, a locale known as much for its excesses as for its quirky Southern charm. This title examines various image-building campaigns and promotional strategies to disseminate a palatable image of New Orleans on a national scale.Trade Review"In this remarkable book, Kevin Fox Gotham combines careful historical research, vivid ethnographic observation and sophisticated theoretical insight to produce an indispensable account of New Orleans tourist economy, from its earliest origins to the eve of Hurricane Katrina. A major achievement." -- Richard Douglas Lloyd,author of Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City"“Gotham succeeds most clearly in offering a fresh interpretation of the 1884 World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition and in capturing the complexity of New Orleanians’ attitudes about “authenticity” at different moments in the city’s history. He also offers a compelling analysis enlivened with colorful details, especially for the mid- to late nineteenth century and the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His work deserves historians’ attention for emphatically rejecting one-dimensional, theory-driven analyses that fail to capture the diversity of human agency." * The Journal of Southern History *"A testament to the ways our social and legal system failed these women beginning in their childhoods and ended up causing them to fail their own children by being responsible for their deaths." * PsycCRITIQUES *"Gotham traces a fascinating yet critical history of racial exclusion, corporate tourism, and urban branding that students of all cities should read." -- Sharon Zukin,author of The Cultures of Cities"Gotham shows how over time power relations, conflict, and 'tourism practices' have constructed and reshaped the authentic and explains the ways that reisdents through the years have defined authenticity. In doing so, he succeeds in demonstrating that racial inequalities, up which the Katrina disaster focused the nation's attention, helped toshape the images of New Orleans that promoters of the city projected to the rest of the nation and the world." -- John Gruesser,African American Review"Authentic New Orleans is a convincing and productive work, which will be fruitful for further research on gentrification within urban studies." -- Thomas Doerfler,University of Bayreuth"Authentic New Orleans provides a unique interpretation of the city, one that goes beyond its material elements (and devastation) and moves into the rich cultural roots of this special American landmark. I recommend it not only to students of cities, but to all those with a passion for and interest in American culture." -- Anthony Orum,author of City-Building in America"A seminal social and economic history of tourism and travel promotion in New Orleans, covering nearly two centuries from the early 1800s to the present. Authentic New Orleans should instantly become a standard case history in the sociology of tourism." -- John Hannigan,author of Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis"Gothams bold critique of the heritage industry in New Orleans as exemplified by its famous French Quarter, Mardi Gras parades, and Creole cuisine exposes a city steeped in the ugly legacy of racial segregation and class exclusion. In rich narrative prose Gotham persuasively explains how commercial development and tourism's overarching footprint may have devastated the heart of the city even before Katrina washed it all away. This is an important book." -- David Grazian,author of Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs"Most of us probably do not think of sociologists as historians, but Kevin Fox Gotham, associate professor of sociology at Tulane University, shows us what is to be gained by bringing those two disciplines and their diverse methods of analyses together in productive counterpoint. Gotham’s use of a post-hurricane Katrina frame for considering tourism and New Orleans provides an accessible lead-in for most readers, but the historical depth of his study enables him to offer significant theoretical contributions to our ways of thinking about the relationships among “race,” tourism, and place, over time" * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Tracking the Tear 1 Moments More Concentrated than Hours: Grief and the Textures of Time 2 Evocations: The Romance of Indian Lament 3 Securing Time: Maternal Melancholia and Sentimental Domesticity 4 Slavery's Ruins and the Countermonumental Impulse 5 Representative Mournfulness: Nation and Race in the Time of Lincoln Coda: Everyday Grief Notes Selected Bibliography Index About the Author
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New York University Press Relocations
Book SynopsisWhat queer lives, loves and possibilities teem within suburbia's little boxes? Moving beyond the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocations offers the first major queer cultural study of sexuality, race and representation in the suburbs. Focusing on the region humorists have referred to as Lesser Los Angelesa global prototype for sprawlKaren Tongson weaves through suburbia's nowherespaces to survey our spatial imaginaries: the aesthetic, creative and popular materials of the new suburbia.Across southern California's freeways, beneath its overpasses and just beyond its winding cloverleaf interchanges, Tongson explores the improvisational archives of queer suburban sociability, from multimedia artist Lynne Chan's JJ Chinois projects and the amusement park night-clubs of 1980s Orange County to the imperial legacies of the region known as the Inland Empire. By taking a hard look at the cosmopolitanism historically considered de rigeur for queer subjects, while engaging with the so-cTrade ReviewRelocations makes powerful contributions across queer, Asian American, Latin, American, and suburban studies, cultural geography, and scholarship on affect and sound, and should be a must-read for scholars interested in Los Angeles, empire, suburbia, gentri?cation, music, sexuality and space, or queer of color critique. It is also a simply exhilarating read, at once rich in its theoretical considerations and refreshingly lucid. -- David Seitz * The Journal of Emotion, Space and Society *Karen Tongson takes us on a wild ride to the hinterlands, the inner empires and the disturbing yet vital & burbs. She skillfully re-routes well-trodden tales of white flight and gay migration and deftly navigates the theoretical freeways to trace the emergence, lives and furtive affective and creative aspirations of queer of color cultures and communities in what have been long been considered the spatial edge of American social life. Relocations is fierce, eloquent and compelling. -- Martin F. Manalansan IV,author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the DiasporaReading Relocations is akin to listening to a soundtrack of a favored movie from your teenage years, one whose details are perhaps forgotten, but the sound memory of which can take you, affectively, to another time, another worldto a different mode of being. With considerable style and expansive insight, Karen Tongson makes palpable the proliferation of queerness in such putatively normative sites as suburban Los Angeles. Thoroughly multi-disciplinary, theoretically savvy, archivally and methodologically innovative, this book is a lesson in how to cruise critically through the aesthetic, historic, personal, and political routes that connect places to persons and performances to identities, and present times to as yet unrealized elsewheres. -- Kandice Chuh,author of Imagine Otherwise: on Asian Americanist CritiqueRelocations is luminous, hilarious, rigorous, and profoundly moving. Tongson turns the tables on the critical commonplace that the U.S. suburbs have been and will always be spaces of stultifying sameness. -- Scott Herring * International Journal of Communication *Tongson forwards novel and powerfully interwoven interventions into queer studies metronormativity, the suburbs white heteronormative ethos, and the neoliberal and imperialist complicities that undergird not only suburban queers subordination but also their agency. * GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies *This is provocative and works well, in particular Tongsons risk-taking with regard to formal structure and narrative voice [...] Tongsons style is adamantly interrogative and personal. * Oxford Journal *Relocationsoffers many elegant and playful challenges to [the] logic [of] queer spatial imaginaries [which are] thought through an urban/rural binary. * Society and Space *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface and Acknowledgments 1 Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries 2 Relocating Queer Critique: Lynne Chan's JJ Chinois 3 Behind the Orange Curtain 4 Empire of My Familiar 5 The Light That Never Goes Out: Butchlalis de Panochtitlan Reclaim "Lesser Los Angeles" 6 Coda: Love among the Ruins: Contact, Creativity, and Klub FantasyNotes IndexAbout the Author
£23.74
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Migrants to the Metropolis The Rise of Immigrant
Book SynopsisA collection of essays examining contemporary global immigration trends and their profound effect on specific host cities. It provides a global portrait of accelerating, worldwide immigration driven by income differentials, social networks, and various state policies that recruit skilled and unskilled laborers.Trade ReviewThis book has great value, both for its scholarly contributions to research on the migratory dimensions of globalization and for its utility as a teaching tool. The essays of this book paint a picture of a shifting global landscape shaped by global capital, by ever growing social networks, the reaffirmation of the nation-state, and through contestation. In every essay, migrants have in some way transformed the host society, regardless of whether they settled long-term or moved on. This book’s scope is global, underscoring the interconnections among global cities and the flows among them as perhaps more primarily definitive of contemporary human mobilities than the jigsaw model of juxtaposed nation-states.
£19.76
University of Arizona Press The Mexican Border Cities Landscape Anatomy and Place Personality
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University of Arizona Press Urban Indigeneities
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University of Minnesota Press Metropolitan Lovers The Homosexuality of Cities
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University of Minnesota Press Catching Hell In The City Of Angels
Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which economic and social changes in the twentieth century have affected the black community, and conveys the experiences that bind and divide its people. This book tells the story of urban America through the lives of individuals from diverse, overlapping, and vibrant communities.
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University of Minnesota Press Up Against The Sprawl
Book SynopsisContributors: Carolyn B. Aldana, California State U, San Bernadino; Carol S. Armstrong; Michael Dear, U of Southern California; Gary Dymski, U of California Riverside; Steven P. Erie, USC; Gregory Freeman; William Fulton; Elizabeth Gearin, USC; Genevieve Giuliano, USC; Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, U of Massachusetts, Boston; Enrico A.
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University of Minnesota Press Postcolonial Dublin
Book SynopsisAn examination of how history and politics can change the face of a city, this work shows how perpetrators of colonialism have made use of urban planning and architecture to underscore and legitimate ideologies. It highlights Ireland's colonial history and the significance of architecture in the evolution of national identity.
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University of Minnesota Press Shanghai and the Edges of Empires
Book SynopsisAn investigation into Shanghai's rise from peripheral port to urban center. The author examines such cultural practices as the work of the commercial press, street theater, and literary arts, and shows that what appear to be minor cultural changes often signal the presence of larger political and economic developments.
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University of Minnesota Press A World of Gangs Armed Young Men and Gangsta
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword: Reading John Hagedorn, Mike Davis Acknowledgments Introduction: Why Are Gangs Everywhere? I. Globalizing Gangs 1. Ghetto, Favela, and Township: The Worlds Gangs Live In 2. Street Institutions: Why Some Gangs Won't Go Away 3. The Problem with Definitions: The Questionable Uniqueness of Gangs 4. From Chicago to Mumbai: Touring the World of Gangs II. Race, Space, and the Power of Identity 5. No Way Out: Demoralization, Racism, and Resistance Identity 6. A Tale of Two Gangs: The Hamburgs and the Conservative Vice Lords 7. Reconsidering Culture: Race, Rap, and Resistance 8. Street Wars: Hip Hop and the Rise of Gangsta Culture 9. Contested Cities: Gentrification and the Ghetto Conclusion: A Rose in the Cracks of Concrete Notes Index
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