Urban communities / city life Books

Book SynopsisNearly half the 2.3 million residents of Queens, New York are foreign-born. Immigrants in Queens hail from more than 120 countries and speak more than 135 languages. As an epicenter of immigrant diversity, Queens is an urban gateway that exemplifies opportunities and challenges in shaping a multi-racial democracy.The editors and contributors to Immigrant Crossroads examine the social, spatial, economic, and political dynamics that stem from this fast-growing urbanization. The interdisciplinary chapters examine residential patterns and neighborhood identities, immigrantincorporation and mobilizations, and community building and activism. Essays combine qualitative and quantitative research methods to address globalization and the unprecedented racial and ethnic diversity as a result of international migration. Chapters on incorporation focus on immigrant participation and representation in electoral politics, and advocacy for immigrant inclusion in urban governance and service provisi

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Book SynopsisCommunity Courts are designed to handle a city's low-level offenses and quality-of-life crimes, such as littering, loitering, or public drunkenness. Court advocates maintain that these largely victimless crimes jeopardize the well-being of residents, businesses, and visitors. Whereas traditional courts might dismiss such cases or administer a small fine, community courts aim to meaningfully punish offenders to avoid disorder escalating to apocalyptic decline. Courting the Community is a fascinating ethnography that goes behind the scenes to explore how quality-of-life discourses are translated into court practices that marry therapeutic and rehabilitative ideas. Christine Zozula shows how residents and businesses participate in meting out justicesuch as through community service, treatment, or other sanctionsmaking it more emotional, less detached, and more legitimate in the eyes of stakeholders. She also examines both impact panels, in which offenders, residents, and business owners m

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Book SynopsisCommunity Courts are designed to handle a city's low-level offenses and quality-of-life crimes, such as littering, loitering, or public drunkenness. Court advocates maintain that these largely victimless crimes jeopardize the well-being of residents, businesses, and visitors. Whereas traditional courts might dismiss such cases or administer a small fine, community courts aim to meaningfully punish offenders to avoid disorder escalating to apocalyptic decline. Courting the Community is a fascinating ethnography that goes behind the scenes to explore how quality-of-life discourses are translated into court practices that marry therapeutic and rehabilitative ideas. Christine Zozula shows how residents and businesses participate in meting out justicesuch as through community service, treatment, or other sanctionsmaking it more emotional, less detached, and more legitimate in the eyes of stakeholders. She also examines both impact panels, in which offenders, residents, and business owners m

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Book SynopsisOn street corners throughout the country, men stand or sit together patiently while they wait for someone looking to hire un buen trabajador (a good worker). These day laborers are visible symbols of the changing nature of workand the demographics of workersin the United States.Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky spent nearly three years visiting with African American men and Latino immigrant men who looked for work as day laborers at a Brooklyn street intersection. Her fascinating ethnography, Daily Labors, considers these immigrants and citizens as active participants in their social and economic life. They not only work for wages but also labor daily to institute change, create knowledge, and contribute new meanings to shape their social world.Daily Labors reveals how ideologies about race, gender, nation, and legal status operate on the corner and the vulnerabilities, discrimination, and exploitation workers face in this labor market. Pinedo-Turnovsky shows how workers market themselves to coTrade Review"This ethnographic study of a community of day laborers who sought work at an intersection in Brooklyn, New York, deepens our understanding of not only how the labor market for this important, precarious form of employment functions but also how—despite the constraints produced by hierarchies created on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, immigration, and legality—workers maintain a sense of dignity and agency. By so doing, Pinedo-Turnovsky’s study enhances our knowledge of how structural conditions affect individuals’ interactions."—Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies“A formidable account of the lives of day laborers in early twenty-first-century New York City, Daily Labors makes an important contribution to the literature on migration and urban studies. Pinedo-Turnovsky’s book is a uniquely valuable resource for scholars and students of the ethnography of contemporary work and labor.”—Immanuel Ness, Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and author of Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class

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Book SynopsisOn street corners throughout the country, men stand or sit together patiently while they wait for someone looking to hire un buen trabajador (a good worker). These day laborers are visible symbols of the changing nature of workand the demographics of workersin the United States.Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky spent nearly three years visiting with African American men and Latino immigrant men who looked for work as day laborers at a Brooklyn street intersection. Her fascinating ethnography, Daily Labors, considers these immigrants and citizens as active participants in their social and economic life. They not only work for wages but also labor daily to institute change, create knowledge, and contribute new meanings to shape their social world.Daily Labors reveals how ideologies about race, gender, nation, and legal status operate on the corner and the vulnerabilities, discrimination, and exploitation workers face in this labor market. Pinedo-Turnovsky shows how workers market themselves to coTrade Review"This ethnographic study of a community of day laborers who sought work at an intersection in Brooklyn, New York, deepens our understanding of not only how the labor market for this important, precarious form of employment functions but also how—despite the constraints produced by hierarchies created on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, immigration, and legality—workers maintain a sense of dignity and agency. By so doing, Pinedo-Turnovsky’s study enhances our knowledge of how structural conditions affect individuals’ interactions."—Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies“A formidable account of the lives of day laborers in early twenty-first-century New York City, Daily Labors makes an important contribution to the literature on migration and urban studies. Pinedo-Turnovsky’s book is a uniquely valuable resource for scholars and students of the ethnography of contemporary work and labor.”—Immanuel Ness, Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and author of Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class

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Book SynopsisLewis Mumford, one of the most respected public intellectuals of the twentieth century, speaking at a conference on the future environments of North America, said, In order to secure human survival we must transition from a technological culture to an ecological culture. In Ecohumanism and the Ecological Culture, William Cohen shows how Mumford's conception of an educational philosophy was enacted by Mumford's mentee, Ian McHarg, the renowned landscape architect and regional planner at the University of Pennsylvania. McHarg advanced a new way to achieve an ecological culture-through an educational curriculum based on fusing ecohumanism to the planning and design disciplines.Cohen explores Mumford's important vision of ecohumanisma synthesis of natural systems ecology with the myriad dimensions of human systems, or human ecology-and how McHarg actually formulated and made that vision happen. He considers the emergence of alternative energy systems and new approaches to planning and comm

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Book SynopsisIn the first half of the twentieth century, urban elevated highways were much more than utilitarian infrastructure, lifting traffic above the streets; they were statements of civic pride, asserting boldly modern visions for a city’s architecture, economy, and transportation network. Yet three of the most ambitious projects, launched in Chicago, New York, and Boston in the spirit of utopian models by architects such as Le Corbusier and Hugh Ferriss, ultimately fell short of their ideals.Modern Mobility Aloft is the first study to focus on pre-Interstate urban elevated highways within American architectural and urban history. Amy Finstein traces the idealistic roots of these superstructures, their contrasting realities once built, their impacts on successive development patterns, and the recent challenges they have posed to contemporary urban designers.Filled with more than 100 historic photographs and illustrations of beaux arts and art deco architecture, <Trade Review“Like the elevated railroads before them, elevated highways have generally been viewed in negative terms by urban dwellers. Yet the elevated highway represents an important, if not altogether welcome, phase in the daunting challenges to reconcile the demands of accommodating motor vehicles to city fabric on a large scale. Amy Finstein’s beautifully researched and written book examines the seminal early stages of implementing this complex and costly infrastructure in Chicago, New York, and Boston during the first half of the twentieth century. Modern Mobility Aloft is an important analysis of the visionary schemes first devised to address the issue and the myriad factors involved in conceiving and implementing actual projects. Economic considerations, local politics, architectural design values, and changes in building and transportation technology are all addressed in a seamless, engaging narrative.”—Richard Longstreth, Professor of American Studies Emeritus, George Washington University“In Modern Mobility Aloft, Finstein looks deeply at the historical intersection of civil engineering, technology, and urbanism and comes up with a major topic that no one has seen before. She is exactly right in her assertion that the elevated highway as a specific mode of technological response to the problem of automobile congestion has not been treated systematically. More importantly, she sees the connection between the elevated highway and elements of modernist urbanism and culture. Her extensive, original archival work and case studies of downtown congestion and early highway design point to a new integration of the history of technology and urban history.”—Robert Fishman, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Taubman College, University of Michigan"This handsomely produced, well-written book is about how three cities—New York, Chicago, and Boston—used elevated roadways well into the 20th century to alleviate the growing crush of traffic on surface roadways. Finstein chronicles the reconciliation of competing interests of political, engineering, and architectural remedies in the solutions offered and in what was either not built, built and later rebuilt, or demolished. Notable is Finstein's attention to issues of architectural style in projects thought of as mere engineering.... Well-illustrated with charts, plans, and photos, and supported by lots of endnotes and bibliographic information, this is an important scholarly resource. Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"Modern Mobility Aloft focuses on the aesthetics of the structures, the design decisions that went into these highways, and their legacies.... [It is a] strong design-oriented history of elevated highways."—Technology and Culture"Finstein develops a clear and detailed narrative of the history and design of the three elevated highway projects, and presents an impressive amount of information, including numerous images, collected through extensive archival research. This makes the book an enjoyable read…. [T]he book offers important and relevant insights for urban planning and design professionals."—Journal of Planning History"[A] timely book.... Finstein offers an important addition to our understanding of the roots of America’s current transportation systems and of modern American cities.... One of the greatest strengths of Finstein’s work is the effective job she does of showing how a diffuse group of proponents viewed the elevated highways as the perfect solution to a range of issues faced in inter-war cities.... This book firmly and convincingly asserts that the period, the projects and the people who made them a reality influenced a great deal of the post-war world." —Urban History"A welcome addition to the growing body of literature on the impact of automobiles on the American built environment that includes suburbanization and large-scale highway systems.... Modern Mobility Aloft effectively broadens and deepens our understanding of highways as built form."—Buildings & Landscapes

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Book SynopsisUntil recently, Austin, the progressive, politically liberal capital of Texas, elected its city council using a not-so-progressive system. Candidates competed citywide for seats, and voters could cast ballots for as many candidates as there were seats up for election. However, this approach disadvantages the representation of geographically-concentrated minority groups, thereby—among other things—preventing the benefits of growth from reaching all of the city’s communities.Reinventing the Austin City Council explores the puzzle that was Austin’s reluctance to alter its at-large system and establish a geographically-based, single-member district system. Ann Bowman chronicles the repeated attempts to change the system, the eventual decision to do so, and the consequences of that change. In the process, she explores the many twists and turns that occurred in Austin as it struggled to design a fair system of representation. Reinventing the AustinTrade Review“This is a deeply researched yet readable analysis of Austin’s shift in city council composition. Austinites will recognize the players and positions, but the interested reader will find much to ponder as well. The impact of Austin’s new governance structure is still evolving—and this book is essential for understanding it.”—Annise Parker, former Mayor of HoustonTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Best Place to Live in America? 1. How Austin Became the City It Is Today . . . and What the City Council Had to Do with It 2 .Austin and the Long Road to City Council Districts 3. The Impact of Council Electoral Change Conclusion: Looking below the Surface . . . and Forward Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisUntil recently, Austin, the progressive, politically liberal capital of Texas, elected its city council using a not-so-progressive system. Candidates competed citywide for seats, and voters could cast ballots for as many candidates as there were seats up for election. However, this approach disadvantages the representation of geographically-concentrated minority groups, thereby—among other things—preventing the benefits of growth from reaching all of the city’s communities.Reinventing the Austin City Council explores the puzzle that was Austin’s reluctance to alter its at-large system and establish a geographically-based, single-member district system. Ann Bowman chronicles the repeated attempts to change the system, the eventual decision to do so, and the consequences of that change. In the process, she explores the many twists and turns that occurred in Austin as it struggled to design a fair system of representation. Reinventing the AustinTrade Review“This is a deeply researched yet readable analysis of Austin’s shift in city council composition. Austinites will recognize the players and positions, but the interested reader will find much to ponder as well. The impact of Austin’s new governance structure is still evolving—and this book is essential for understanding it.”—Annise Parker, former Mayor of HoustonTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Best Place to Live in America? 1. How Austin Became the City It Is Today . . . and What the City Council Had to Do with It 2 .Austin and the Long Road to City Council Districts 3. The Impact of Council Electoral Change Conclusion: Looking below the Surface . . . and Forward Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA hands-on introduction to the fundamental techniques and methods used for understanding geography of crimeTrade Review“Understanding Crime and Place is an impressive collection of methods in spatial criminology. It sets itself apart through its breadth, depth, and practical orientation. The editors and contributors cover just about everything one needs to conduct an empirical research study on place-based crime, starting with theory and moving on to data collection, spatial units, and all the way to evaluation methods. The scope and accessibility of Understanding Crime and Place will appeal to a wide range of expertise levels. This book deserves to be on the bookshelf of any criminologist interested in the influences of place and space on crime.”—Michael Townsley, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University, and editor of Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis (Second Edition)“An understanding of place is as important to the study of crime as an appreciation of victims, offenders, and police. The consistency of geography allows for reliable measurements and objective analyses, enabling the development of practical crime prevention and control techniques. This methods handbook establishes a solid theoretical and methodological foundation, and the broad range of conceptual, measurement, and analytic topics discussed by the contributors will be appreciated by scholars and practitioners alike.”—D. Kim Rossmo, Professor, School of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Texas State University, and author of Criminal Investigative Failures"Overall, the handbook serves as an excellent primer for anyone interested in crime and place research. It supplies readers with the cutting-edge analytic techniques being used in the field. The book still pays homage to communities and crime research by including sections on larger spatial units such as neighborhoods.... In the years ahead, people should come to see the book as foundational given the book can serve researchers, practitioners, instructors, and students."—Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books

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Book SynopsisA hands-on introduction to the fundamental techniques and methods used for understanding geography of crimeTrade Review“Understanding Crime and Place is an impressive collection of methods in spatial criminology. It sets itself apart through its breadth, depth, and practical orientation. The editors and contributors cover just about everything one needs to conduct an empirical research study on place-based crime, starting with theory and moving on to data collection, spatial units, and all the way to evaluation methods. The scope and accessibility of Understanding Crime and Place will appeal to a wide range of expertise levels. This book deserves to be on the bookshelf of any criminologist interested in the influences of place and space on crime.”—Michael Townsley, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University, and editor of Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis (Second Edition)“An understanding of place is as important to the study of crime as an appreciation of victims, offenders, and police. The consistency of geography allows for reliable measurements and objective analyses, enabling the development of practical crime prevention and control techniques. This methods handbook establishes a solid theoretical and methodological foundation, and the broad range of conceptual, measurement, and analytic topics discussed by the contributors will be appreciated by scholars and practitioners alike.”—D. Kim Rossmo, Professor, School of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Texas State University, and author of Criminal Investigative Failures"Overall, the handbook serves as an excellent primer for anyone interested in crime and place research. It supplies readers with the cutting-edge analytic techniques being used in the field. The book still pays homage to communities and crime research by including sections on larger spatial units such as neighborhoods.... In the years ahead, people should come to see the book as foundational given the book can serve researchers, practitioners, instructors, and students."—Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books

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Book SynopsisThe “Pittsburgh Renaissance,” an urban renewal effort launched in the late 1940s, transformed the smoky rust belt city’s downtown. Working-class residents and people of color saw their neighborhoods cleared and replaced with upscale, white residents and with large corporations housed in massive skyscrapers. Pittsburgh’s Renaissance’s apparent success quickly became a model for several struggling industrial cities, including St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia.In A Good Place to Do Business, Roger Biles and Mark Rosechronicle these urban “makeovers” which promised increased tourism and fashionable shopping as well as the development of sports stadiums, convention centers, downtown parks, and more. They examine the politics of these government-funded redevelopment programs and show how city politics (and policymakers) often dictated the level of success.As city officials and business elites deteTrade Review“A Good Place to Do Business brilliantly exposes municipal and business leaders’ decades-long preoccupation with insulating their cities’ downtowns from seismic postwar metropolitan change. They spared no expense, but cities’ most vulnerable citizens paid steeper costs. Through a fresh interpretation of racialized downtown renewal and the people who championed or fought it in five cities, Biles and Rose narrate with precision and clarity an essential but troubling national tale of how myopic, downtown-centered visions for urban revitalization blurred as boosters peered at the city from their gleaming towers.” —J. Mark Souther, Professor of History at Cleveland State University, and author of Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in “The Best Location in the Nation”“A Good Place to Do Business is a powerful yet nuanced story told by two of the most important urban historians writing today. Biles and Rose take us on a fascinating tour of the commercial, investment, and political cultures of big city downtowns in the decades following World War II. Along the way, we meet a plethora of actors, from mayors and ward heelers to corporate executives, planners, consultants, union bosses, and neighborhood residents. And we see a wide range of programs, plans, and schemes, some of which take shape in glass and steel, others that remain on the drawing board. At the core of this compelling drama are the racial and class politics of urban America, and the sacrifice of working-class and poor neighborhoods in pursuit of the elusive dream of a downtown renaissance. But the story is not straightforward, and the comparative framework shows different paths and divergent outcomes among Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Cleveland, and Philadelphia. It is this comparative approach, and the deft hand of two great scholars, that makes this book an outstanding addition to the literature.”—Joseph Heathcott, Chair of Urban and Environmental Studies at The New School"Bringing new detail to the familiar subject of downtown revitalization, veteran historians Roger Biles and Mark Rose offer a compelling critique of urban policy over time as it privileges physical over human capital and produces a troubling view for the future.... [T]hey offer a deeply researched account demonstrating that no matter how many ways policymakers have privileged downtown revitalization, they have fallen short, even as they have done so primarily at the expense of poor and largely minority residents." —Journal of Urban Affairs "This coauthored volume by two well-published, distinguished professors of urban history exquisitely explores how US urban renewal policy since 1945 historically privileged the 'downtown' invariably to the detriment of minority-occupied city neighborhoods. Focusing on urban renewal programs in five large cities—Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, and Cleveland—the book employs delectable vignettes of pro-growth, neoliberal politicians, business leaders, and planners and unveils how the leadership within these cities followed—almost religiously—the model of postwar Pittsburgh’s 'renaissance'.... Lucidly explained and well written, this volume has much to offer to urban history scholars and students alike.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"After reading A Good Place to Do Business, I concur with the judgment of urban scholars J. Mark Southern and Joseph Heathcott that the book is 'brilliant' and 'a powerful yet nuanced story.'”—Journal of Planning History

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Book SynopsisThe “Pittsburgh Renaissance,” an urban renewal effort launched in the late 1940s, transformed the smoky rust belt city’s downtown. Working-class residents and people of color saw their neighborhoods cleared and replaced with upscale, white residents and with large corporations housed in massive skyscrapers. Pittsburgh’s Renaissance’s apparent success quickly became a model for several struggling industrial cities, including St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia.In A Good Place to Do Business, Roger Biles and Mark Rosechronicle these urban “makeovers” which promised increased tourism and fashionable shopping as well as the development of sports stadiums, convention centers, downtown parks, and more. They examine the politics of these government-funded redevelopment programs and show how city politics (and policymakers) often dictated the level of success.As city officials and business elites deteTrade Review“A Good Place to Do Business brilliantly exposes municipal and business leaders’ decades-long preoccupation with insulating their cities’ downtowns from seismic postwar metropolitan change. They spared no expense, but cities’ most vulnerable citizens paid steeper costs. Through a fresh interpretation of racialized downtown renewal and the people who championed or fought it in five cities, Biles and Rose narrate with precision and clarity an essential but troubling national tale of how myopic, downtown-centered visions for urban revitalization blurred as boosters peered at the city from their gleaming towers.” —J. Mark Souther, Professor of History at Cleveland State University, and author of Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in “The Best Location in the Nation”“A Good Place to Do Business is a powerful yet nuanced story told by two of the most important urban historians writing today. Biles and Rose take us on a fascinating tour of the commercial, investment, and political cultures of big city downtowns in the decades following World War II. Along the way, we meet a plethora of actors, from mayors and ward heelers to corporate executives, planners, consultants, union bosses, and neighborhood residents. And we see a wide range of programs, plans, and schemes, some of which take shape in glass and steel, others that remain on the drawing board. At the core of this compelling drama are the racial and class politics of urban America, and the sacrifice of working-class and poor neighborhoods in pursuit of the elusive dream of a downtown renaissance. But the story is not straightforward, and the comparative framework shows different paths and divergent outcomes among Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Cleveland, and Philadelphia. It is this comparative approach, and the deft hand of two great scholars, that makes this book an outstanding addition to the literature.”—Joseph Heathcott, Chair of Urban and Environmental Studies at The New School"Bringing new detail to the familiar subject of downtown revitalization, veteran historians Roger Biles and Mark Rose offer a compelling critique of urban policy over time as it privileges physical over human capital and produces a troubling view for the future.... [T]hey offer a deeply researched account demonstrating that no matter how many ways policymakers have privileged downtown revitalization, they have fallen short, even as they have done so primarily at the expense of poor and largely minority residents." —Journal of Urban Affairs "This coauthored volume by two well-published, distinguished professors of urban history exquisitely explores how US urban renewal policy since 1945 historically privileged the 'downtown' invariably to the detriment of minority-occupied city neighborhoods. Focusing on urban renewal programs in five large cities—Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, and Cleveland—the book employs delectable vignettes of pro-growth, neoliberal politicians, business leaders, and planners and unveils how the leadership within these cities followed—almost religiously—the model of postwar Pittsburgh’s 'renaissance'.... Lucidly explained and well written, this volume has much to offer to urban history scholars and students alike.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"After reading A Good Place to Do Business, I concur with the judgment of urban scholars J. Mark Southern and Joseph Heathcott that the book is 'brilliant' and 'a powerful yet nuanced story.'”—Journal of Planning History

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Book SynopsisReveals how activism to reclaim gentrifying urban spaces, even in a supposedly equitable welfare state, is dramatically impacted by the physical and social geography of the movement's context.Trade Review“Beginning with a charming portrait of one small Swedish neighborhood, Kimberly Creasap demonstrates the power of the concept of a social movement ‘scene,’ a concentrated network of activists and the places they congregate. Scenes are not just a resource for politics; they are an accomplishment in their own right. Who really owns a city? And how?”—James M. Jasper, author of The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements“A must-read on autonomous social movements resisting gentrification in Swedish cities that draws on a conceptual apparatus made up of centrality, concentration, and visibility. Making a Scene is rich in contextual detail, description, and, critically, a sense of hope for activists everywhere. Creasap puts the spatial into the social of social movement research and contributes to the rapidly growing literature on resistance in gentrification studies.”—Loretta Lees, Incoming Director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University, and coauthor of Gentrification and Planetary Gentrification"Creasap offers the reader ethnographic glimpses and comparisons of the local social movement scenes in Sweden’s three major cities of Stockholm, Göteborg, and Malmö.... [Her] main argument serves as an important contribution to the scholarship on social movement scenes. This book also presents an important call for thinking more critically about spatiality in the sociology of social movements more generally."—Social Forces"Creasap's comparative analysis of autonomous movements across these three different urban spaces provides a nuanced contribution not just to social movement studies but to urban social science, as well.... Making a Scene provides important insights that will be invaluable for social movement scholars, political sociologists, and urban social scientists studying gentrification and neighborhood change."—Mobilization"This book contributes to the understanding of autonomist and anarchist movements in Sweden’s three major cities.... Creasap’s concise and clear writing style helps readers follow the storyline and makes the sociological picture of the activist scenes more palatable for a wider, non-academic audience. The book also enriches the literature by analysing urban activism and radical politics in Sweden at a very specific historical period.... [I]t represents a well-crafted research effort and offers important insights to consider when addressing theoretical questions at the intersection of urban sociology, urban movements, and far-left radical politics in the somewhat unique Swedish context."—Acta Sociologica“Creasap examines an important issue in the social movement literature—the centrality of place for the rise and fall of social movements. Introducing the concept of social movement scenes, she theorizes their importance and the interplay between these scenes and the political economies of their cities. Moreover, Making a Scene engages in an interesting discussion of how gentrification contributes to both sharpening the grievances of urban activists and destroying the environment they need to survive and thrive."—Walter J. Nicholls, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Immigrant Rights Movement: The Battle over National Citizenship"This slim sociological study provides welcome data on gentrification and oppositional social movements outside the US, while also providing a counterpoint to generalized readings of the overall success of the Swedish welfare state.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"[A] detailed ethnographic study of the social movement 'scenes' in Stockholm, Goteborg, and Malmo in Sweden. Based on fieldwork conducted over several years, it is the kind of ethnographic work that allows for deep exploration of issues and people, and that uses that exploration to raise complex questions.... [I]t adds admirably to the large body of work on urban social movements, and is worth reading by those interested in dynamics and processes in such movements.... [T]his is a good book that should be of real interest to scholars who are interested in urban social movements, and those who simply want to read an interesting set of stories about these scenes."—Journal of Urban Affairs

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Book SynopsisHow public history can be a catalyst for stronger relationships between universities and their communitiesTrade Review“Through a collection of compelling scholarship, Bachin and Howard have shown the importance of universities for correcting discrimination and its legacies. Consider this book more than a compendium of inventive campus-community partnerships; it’s an indispensable guide for the future of urban justice.”—N.D.B. Connolly, Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, and author of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida“Robin Bachin and Amy Howard have compiled a powerful case for publicly engaged scholarship not only as a vitally important modus operandi for urban historians but also for universities writ large. The composite picture they have pieced together from public history case studies drawn from cities across the nation compellingly illustrates how the ‘lens of the past’ provides a foundation for reciprocal engagement between universities and their communities. Engaging Place, Engaging Practices vividly demonstrates the value of urban universities collaborating with local partners to heal historical wounds, co-create knowledge of who we are today, and put our universities and communities jointly on a path to racial equity and justice.”—Nancy Cantor, Chancellor and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University–Newark, and coeditor of Our Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society"A real strength of this collection is the range of university–community partnerships highlighted.... Engaging Place, Engaging Practices is an excellent addition to the literature on public history, public humanities, and university–community partnerships. The range of projects included in the book make it an appealing read for anyone already doing university–community partnership work and for those who want to join in it.... [T]he volume is convincing in its call for historians and the broader university to truly partner with surrounding communities in order to collectively analyze and engage in pressing social, economic, and environmental problems." —Teachers College Record"In nearly all the chapters, the authors demonstrate that sustained collaboration and committed university leadership are essential to ensure that the potential and power of urban universities can be leveraged to promote positive change.... [C]hapters demonstrate how instructors and individual courses can make a difference in the lives of students and residents. As such, the collection provides examples at a variety of scales—from the block, neighborhood, city, and regional school-of '...colleges and universities [striving] to matter'. In doing so, the editors make the case that the engaged university can and should do more to shape 'inclusive, equitable, and sustainable' communities—and that universities need to assume a heightened leadership role in a post-COVID-19 world."—Economic Development Quarterly

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Book SynopsisHow we relate to orphaned space matters. Voids, marginalia, empty spacesfrom abandoned gas stations to polluted waterwaysare created and maintained by politics, and often go unquestioned. In Loving Orphaned Space, Mrill Ingram provides a call to action to claim and to cherish these neglected spaces and make them a source of inspiration through art and/or remuneration.Ingram advocates not only for urban greening and green planning, but also for radical caring. These efforts create awareness and understanding of ecological connectivity and environmental justice issuesfrom the expropriation of land from tribal nations, to how race and class issues contribute to creating orphaned space. Case studies feature artists, scientists, and community collaborations in Chicago, New York, and Fargo, ND, where grounded and practical work of a fundamentally feminist nature challenges us to build networks of connection and care.The work of environmental artists who venture into and transform these discoTrade Review“In a time when people need places to gather and be outside in nature, Loving Orphaned Space is an essential guide for how to activate forgotten spaces in our landscape. It strikes the perfect balance of being inspiring and practical. With lively examples and impressive research, Ingram took me by the hand and walked me through the nuances of working with orphaned spaces. If only I had this book when I started out as an eco-artist!”—Stacy Levy, artist“In this remarkable book, Mrill Ingram challenges us to think of vacant land not as abandoned but as orphaned. She takes us on tours where we meet communities and artists who have adopted orphaned land and are using community art to care for these places. Ingram’s stories have changed the way I see and think about the land around me. I now see orphaned land wherever I go, and because of this book, I know how—and why—to love and care for these places.”—Samuel Dennis Jr., Professor of Planning and Landscape Architecture and Director of the Environmental Design Lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison"As a result of the book’s cross-categorical structure, it has a broad range of appeal, connecting ecological restoration to activism, social justice, art and environmentalism, and public engagement. It also presents a model for collaboration: bringing together artists and scientists to work with community groups. I can envision an urban planning studio project focusing on caring for orphaned space as a rich and meaningful life experience for students."—Journal of Urban Affairs"Loving Orphaned Space offers important insights into nature-society relations regarding dwelling, home and belonging, and a conceptual framework about processes of disconnection that also materialize in housing.... [T]he book is recommended to urban scholars, artists, activists, or anyone with an interest in ecological restoration, maintenance and repair studies, feminist ethics, or creative and collaborative knowledge production."—Housing Studies

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Book SynopsisWith the passing of Zane L. Miller in 2016, academia lost a renowned scholar and one of the key founders of new urban history—a branch of the discipline that placed urban life at the center of American history and treated the city as an arena for civic and political action. He was a devoted, tireless mentor who published or fostered dozens of books and articles on urban history. He also co-founded Temple University Press’ foundational series Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy.Bringing the Civic Back In provides a critical overview, appreciation, and extension of Miller’s work as scholar, editor, mentor, colleague, and citizen. Included are three excerpts from Miller’s final, unfinished work, in which he presented cities as the source of a civic nationalism he viewed as fundamental to the development of American democracy. The editors—along with contributors Robert B. Fairbanks and Charles Lester—reflect on the life and work of Trade Review"[This book] should be appreciated both for the soundness of the scholarship that went into the pieces and as an affectionate and thoughtful memorial to the man who inspired them. Whether cities today can help us rekindle the spirit of 'civic nationalism' that were instrumental in creating remains to be seen. But these authors clearly hope they will, an aspiration they inherited from their mentor and colleague."—Journal of Urban Affairs

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Book SynopsisWith the passing of Zane L. Miller in 2016, academia lost a renowned scholar and one of the key founders of new urban history—a branch of the discipline that placed urban life at the center of American history and treated the city as an arena for civic and political action. He was a devoted, tireless mentor who published or fostered dozens of books and articles on urban history. He also co-founded Temple University Press’ foundational series Urban Life, Landscape, and Policy.Bringing the Civic Back In provides a critical overview, appreciation, and extension of Miller’s work as scholar, editor, mentor, colleague, and citizen. Included are three excerpts from Miller’s final, unfinished work, in which he presented cities as the source of a civic nationalism he viewed as fundamental to the development of American democracy. The editors—along with contributors Robert B. Fairbanks and Charles Lester—reflect on the life and work of Trade Review"[This book] should be appreciated both for the soundness of the scholarship that went into the pieces and as an affectionate and thoughtful memorial to the man who inspired them. Whether cities today can help us rekindle the spirit of 'civic nationalism' that were instrumental in creating remains to be seen. But these authors clearly hope they will, an aspiration they inherited from their mentor and colleague."—Journal of Urban Affairs

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Book SynopsisHow nineteenth-century Cincinnati tested the boundaries of nativism, toleration, and freedomTrade Review“The Spires Still Point to Heaven is an important story about the hard-fought battle between evangelical Protestants and Catholics to save souls in Cincinnati, where revivalism became respectable and made the city a religious hub for the nation. Sectarian identity also became inseparable from sectional politics, and religious identification gave women access to the public sphere. Here, the debate about the place of religion in public education has relevance today. Matthew Smith’s study of religious competition in Cincinnati, often expressed as evangelical fervor, helps us better understand the evolution of pluralism, toleration, and liberty in American history.”—R. Douglas Hurt, Professor of History at Purdue University“Matthew Smith has immersed himself in primary and secondary sources, including often overlooked contemporaneous secondary materials, and has synthesized these into a very well-written and compelling narrative. What he demonstrates, among other things, is the relentless push toward toleration and accommodation, even though that push episodically crashed against the shoals of race, ethnicity, religion, and privilege. What is especially impressive about The Spires Still Point to Heaven is its discursive character, covering everything from geography and natural history to William Holmes McGuffey, the female seminary movement, and the (in)famous Cincinnati Bible War. This is an impressive achievement born of prodigious research.”—Randall Balmer, John Phillips Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College, and author of Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America"In this extensively researched volume, Smith focuses on the city of Cincinnati to explore early U.S. tensions between Christian sects, concepts of religion’s role in public education, religious tolerance, nativism, and the temperance movement, to name only the most prominent topics.... This book is very well researched and would be of vital interest to scholars of both early religion and education in the Ohio Valley.... Smith’s book is an excellent example of the type of locally focused resource to which educators and transplants can turn to understand their new homes and neighbors."—Journal of Urban Affairs"The Spires Still Point to Heaven is a well-written and broadly researched text that will be of interest to scholars of American religion and those who want to understand the development of the Western frontier."—American Catholic Studies"The Spires Still Point to Heaven offers readers a fascinating account of multifaceted religiosity in Ohio's 'Queen City' and challenges the habit of trying to wrench homogeneity from America's never less than complicated religious past."—Middle West Review

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Book SynopsisA case study about the formation of American pluralism and religious liberty, The Spires Still Point to Heaven explores why—and more importantly how—the early growth of Cincinnati influenced the changing face of the United States. Matthew Smith deftly chronicles the urban history of this thriving metropolis in the mid-nineteenth century. As Protestants and Catholics competed, building rival domestic missionary enterprises, increased religious reform and expression shaped the city. In addition, the different ethnic and religious beliefs informed debates on race, slavery, and immigration, as well as disease, temperance reform, and education.Specifically, Smith explores the Ohio Valley’s religious landscape from 1788 through thenineteenth century, examining its appeal to evangelical preachers, abolitionists, social critics, and rabbis. He traces how Cincinnati became a battleground for newly energized social reforms following a cholera epidemic, and how Trade Review“The Spires Still Point to Heaven is an important story about the hard-fought battle between evangelical Protestants and Catholics to save souls in Cincinnati, where revivalism became respectable and made the city a religious hub for the nation. Sectarian identity also became inseparable from sectional politics, and religious identification gave women access to the public sphere. Here, the debate about the place of religion in public education has relevance today. Matthew Smith’s study of religious competition in Cincinnati, often expressed as evangelical fervor, helps us better understand the evolution of pluralism, toleration, and liberty in American history.”—R. Douglas Hurt, Professor of History at Purdue University“Matthew Smith has immersed himself in primary and secondary sources, including often overlooked contemporaneous secondary materials, and has synthesized these into a very well-written and compelling narrative. What he demonstrates, among other things, is the relentless push toward toleration and accommodation, even though that push episodically crashed against the shoals of race, ethnicity, religion, and privilege. What is especially impressive about The Spires Still Point to Heaven is its discursive character, covering everything from geography and natural history to William Holmes McGuffey, the female seminary movement, and the (in)famous Cincinnati Bible War. This is an impressive achievement born of prodigious research.”—Randall Balmer, John Phillips Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College, and author of Passion Plays: How Religion Shaped Sports in North America"In this extensively researched volume, Smith focuses on the city of Cincinnati to explore early U.S. tensions between Christian sects, concepts of religion’s role in public education, religious tolerance, nativism, and the temperance movement, to name only the most prominent topics.... This book is very well researched and would be of vital interest to scholars of both early religion and education in the Ohio Valley.... Smith’s book is an excellent example of the type of locally focused resource to which educators and transplants can turn to understand their new homes and neighbors."—Journal of Urban Affairs"The Spires Still Point to Heaven is a well-written and broadly researched text that will be of interest to scholars of American religion and those who want to understand the development of the Western frontier."—American Catholic Studies"The Spires Still Point to Heaven offers readers a fascinating account of multifaceted religiosity in Ohio's 'Queen City' and challenges the habit of trying to wrench homogeneity from America's never less than complicated religious past."—Middle West Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is a tightly argued addition to the conversation on land use and housing and adds a governance dimension that has been missing. It has value to researchers seeking to understand governance as part of the housing policy arena and is especially valuable to those in the San Francisco Bay Area, since it focuses on that region with very specific policy recommendations. With a slender 83 pages of narrative and a straightforward writing style, this book can be useful to scholars and practitioners."—Journal of Urban Affairs"In this short, well-written, and lucid book, Paul Lewis and Nicholas Marantz address the question of why American metropolitan areas fail to deliver housing, thereby precipitating the crisis of homelessness that now prevails so widely. The exemplary case that they use is the San Francisco Bay Area (CA). They address only that case, but their message applies more widely."—Journal of the American Planning Assocation“Regional Governance and the Politics of Housing in the San Francisco Bay Area does an excellent job of articulating the connection between local government fragmentation and an undersupply of housing. Lewis and Marantz synthesize past findings about regional governance and usefully situate their discussion of governance options in this existing literature. This is a concise, clear, and comprehensive primer on regionalism and what’s at stake in the discussion about regional governance.”—Juliet F. Gainsborough, Professor of Political Science at Bentley University, and author of Fenced Off: The Suburbanization of American Politics“Unlike some other books on regional planning and governance, Regional Governance and the Politics of Housing in the San Francisco Bay Area adopts a realist rather than a normative stance by assessing the potential for meaningful reform. The authors evaluate pragmatic, detailed proposals to address housing unaffordability and the jobs-housing mismatch, drawing on their extensive knowledge of the case and presenting nuanced qualitative and well-designed quantitative evidence.”—Zack Taylor, Associate Professor of Political Science at Western University, and author of Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This book is a tightly argued addition to the conversation on land use and housing and adds a governance dimension that has been missing. It has value to researchers seeking to understand governance as part of the housing policy arena and is especially valuable to those in the San Francisco Bay Area, since it focuses on that region with very specific policy recommendations. With a slender 83 pages of narrative and a straightforward writing style, this book can be useful to scholars and practitioners."—Journal of Urban Affairs"In this short, well-written, and lucid book, Paul Lewis and Nicholas Marantz address the question of why American metropolitan areas fail to deliver housing, thereby precipitating the crisis of homelessness that now prevails so widely. The exemplary case that they use is the San Francisco Bay Area (CA). They address only that case, but their message applies more widely."—Journal of the American Planning Assocation“Regional Governance and the Politics of Housing in the San Francisco Bay Area does an excellent job of articulating the connection between local government fragmentation and an undersupply of housing. Lewis and Marantz synthesize past findings about regional governance and usefully situate their discussion of governance options in this existing literature. This is a concise, clear, and comprehensive primer on regionalism and what’s at stake in the discussion about regional governance.”—Juliet F. Gainsborough, Professor of Political Science at Bentley University, and author of Fenced Off: The Suburbanization of American Politics“Unlike some other books on regional planning and governance, Regional Governance and the Politics of Housing in the San Francisco Bay Area adopts a realist rather than a normative stance by assessing the potential for meaningful reform. The authors evaluate pragmatic, detailed proposals to address housing unaffordability and the jobs-housing mismatch, drawing on their extensive knowledge of the case and presenting nuanced qualitative and well-designed quantitative evidence.”—Zack Taylor, Associate Professor of Political Science at Western University, and author of Shaping the Metropolis: Institutions and Urbanization in the United States and Canada

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Book SynopsisPreserving the Vanishing Cityconsiders the unique challenges, conditions, and opportunities facing Cleveland’s historic preservation community during the 1970s and 1980s. While pro-preservationists argued for the economic and revitalization benefits stemming from saving and repurposing older buildings, population loss and economic contraction prompted decades ofdeterioration, underinvestment, vacancy, and abandonment. Stephanie Ryberg-Webster uncovers the motivations, strategies, and constraints driving Cleveland’s historic preservation sector, led by the public-sector Cleveland Landmarks Commission, nonprofit Cleveland Restoration Society, and a cadre of advocates. She sheds light on the ways in which preservationists confronted severe, escalating, and sustained urban decline, which plagued Cleveland, a prototypical rust-belt industrial city.Preserving the Vanishing Citychronicles the rise of the historic preservation profession in CleTrade Review“Ryberg-Webster offers a cogent examination of Cleveland’s historic preservation movement within the context of the city’s decline in both population and economic power. Preserving the Vanishing City chronicles the way preservationists, developers, planners, and residents balanced community priorities and determined what to save. Activists leveraged strategic coalitions, enacted policy changes, and designed innovative programs to preserve the places that tell the city’s story. Their struggles and successes, as recounted by the author, can inform the tactics and priorities of today’s preservationists—especially those working in legacy cities.”—Sara C. Bronin, Professor in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University, and coauthor of Historic Preservation Law“Preserving the Vanishing City offers fresh strategies for shrinking cities by focusing on what preservation contributed to Cleveland’s revitalization efforts since the 1970s. Most preservation research has emphasized the profession’s origin cities, like New Orleans, Charleston, Boston, and Philadelphia, or centered cities facing overdevelopment and gentrification. More typical places like Cleveland have what Ryberg-Webster calls a ‘staggering oversupply of built things’ and a different set of challenges. Twentieth-century Cleveland led the nation in many trends, from 1930s public housing to 1960s community development. This history of preservation in cities experiencing deindustrialization and depopulation will be enormously useful to policy stakeholders and historians.”—Alison Isenberg, author of Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay“Ryberg-Webster breaks new ground, offering a rare, fine-grained analysis of preservation practices that allows readers to appreciate how enduring policies and approaches emerged at the intersection of professional paradigms, political imperatives, and grassroots activism. She suggests a new way of envisioning historic preservation as something more versatile than that which is pursued by preservation professionals and more complicated than its portrayal in much scholarly literature as an agent of gentrification. Preserving the Vanishing City offers both a sober analysis of preservation’s limitations as well as its potential for revitalizing cities.”—Andrew Hurley, Professor of History at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, and author of Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities (Temple)

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Book SynopsisPreserving the Vanishing Cityconsiders the unique challenges, conditions, and opportunities facing Cleveland’s historic preservation community during the 1970s and 1980s. While pro-preservationists argued for the economic and revitalization benefits stemming from saving and repurposing older buildings, population loss and economic contraction prompted decades ofdeterioration, underinvestment, vacancy, and abandonment. Stephanie Ryberg-Webster uncovers the motivations, strategies, and constraints driving Cleveland’s historic preservation sector, led by the public-sector Cleveland Landmarks Commission, nonprofit Cleveland Restoration Society, and a cadre of advocates. She sheds light on the ways in which preservationists confronted severe, escalating, and sustained urban decline, which plagued Cleveland, a prototypical rust-belt industrial city.Preserving the Vanishing Citychronicles the rise of the historic preservation profession in CleTrade Review“Ryberg-Webster offers a cogent examination of Cleveland’s historic preservation movement within the context of the city’s decline in both population and economic power. Preserving the Vanishing City chronicles the way preservationists, developers, planners, and residents balanced community priorities and determined what to save. Activists leveraged strategic coalitions, enacted policy changes, and designed innovative programs to preserve the places that tell the city’s story. Their struggles and successes, as recounted by the author, can inform the tactics and priorities of today’s preservationists—especially those working in legacy cities.”—Sara C. Bronin, Professor in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University, and coauthor of Historic Preservation Law“Preserving the Vanishing City offers fresh strategies for shrinking cities by focusing on what preservation contributed to Cleveland’s revitalization efforts since the 1970s. Most preservation research has emphasized the profession’s origin cities, like New Orleans, Charleston, Boston, and Philadelphia, or centered cities facing overdevelopment and gentrification. More typical places like Cleveland have what Ryberg-Webster calls a ‘staggering oversupply of built things’ and a different set of challenges. Twentieth-century Cleveland led the nation in many trends, from 1930s public housing to 1960s community development. This history of preservation in cities experiencing deindustrialization and depopulation will be enormously useful to policy stakeholders and historians.”—Alison Isenberg, author of Designing San Francisco: Art, Land, and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay“Ryberg-Webster breaks new ground, offering a rare, fine-grained analysis of preservation practices that allows readers to appreciate how enduring policies and approaches emerged at the intersection of professional paradigms, political imperatives, and grassroots activism. She suggests a new way of envisioning historic preservation as something more versatile than that which is pursued by preservation professionals and more complicated than its portrayal in much scholarly literature as an agent of gentrification. Preserving the Vanishing City offers both a sober analysis of preservation’s limitations as well as its potential for revitalizing cities.”—Andrew Hurley, Professor of History at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, and author of Beyond Preservation: Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities (Temple)

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Book SynopsisThe dream of the modern worker’s house emerged in early twentieth-century America as wage earners gained access to new, larger, and better-equipped dwellings. Building a Social Contract is a cogent history of the houses those workers dreamed of and labored for. Michael McCulloch chronicles the efforts of employers, government agencies, and the building industry who, along with workers themselves, produced an unprecedented boom in housing construction that peaked in the mid-1920s. Through oral histories, letters, photographs, and period fiction, McCulloch traces wage earners’ agency in negotiating a new implicit social contract, one that rewarded hard work with upward mobility in modern houses. This promise reflected workers’ increased bargaining power but, at the same time, left them increasingly vulnerable to layoffs.Building a Social Contract focuses on Detroit, the quintessential city of the era, where migrant workers came and

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Book SynopsisThe dream of the modern worker’s house emerged in early twentieth-century America as wage earners gained access to new, larger, and better-equipped dwellings. Building a Social Contract is a cogent history of the houses those workers dreamed of and labored for. Michael McCulloch chronicles the efforts of employers, government agencies, and the building industry who, along with workers themselves, produced an unprecedented boom in housing construction that peaked in the mid-1920s. Through oral histories, letters, photographs, and period fiction, McCulloch traces wage earners’ agency in negotiating a new implicit social contract, one that rewarded hard work with upward mobility in modern houses. This promise reflected workers’ increased bargaining power but, at the same time, left them increasingly vulnerable to layoffs.Building a Social Contract focuses on Detroit, the quintessential city of the era, where migrant workers came and

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Book SynopsisWith an eye for global forces, this panoramic account revolves around a focus on social, spatial, and environmental justice in the city, offering a lively riposte to both dull academicism and theatrical boosterism. - Kanishka Goonewardena, University of TorontoTable of ContentsPreface List of Figures, Tables, and Maps Acknowledgements 1. Canada Urbana: Perspectives of Urban Research 2. The City That Works (No More): Towards the Crisis of the Mid-1990s 3. Tory Toronto: Neoliberalism in the City 4. Making the Megacity 5. Diverse-City 6. Official Planning 7. The In-between City 8. Urinetown or Morainetown? 9. Transportation Dilemmas 10. Creative Competitiveness 11. Millermania 12. Changing Toronto References Index

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Book SynopsisNorth American gated communities, African squatter settlements, European housing estates, and Chinese urban villages all share one thing in common: they represent types of suburban space. As suburban growth becomes the dominant urban process of the twenty-first century, its governance poses an increasingly pressing set of global challenges.In Suburban Governance: A Global View, editors Pierre Hamel and Roger Keil have assembled a groundbreaking set of essays by leading urban scholars that assess how governance regulates the creation of the world’s suburban spaces and everyday life within them. With contributors from ten countries on five continents, this collection covers the full breadth of contemporary developments in suburban governance. Examining the classic North American model of suburbia, contemporary alternatives in Europe and Latin America, and the emerging suburbanisms of Africa and Asia, Suburban Governance offers a strong analytical introduTrade Review'The authors of this book should be applauded for providing us with a volume that stimulates discussion on the meaning of the (sub) urban and governance in today's global (sub)urbanization.' -- Stijn Oosterlynck and Federico Savini International Journal of Urban and Regional Research October 2016 'I would advise anyone interested in understanding suburban processes in a global context to read this book.' -- Bernadette Hanlon Journal of Planning Education and Research vol 37:01:2017 'Many of the book's essays offer rewarding and provocative overviews of suburban development in particular countries and regions and deserve to be read by anyone interested in the diverse ways in which suburbanization is changing our world.' -- Andrew Sancton Canadian Journal of Urban Research vol 24:01:2015Table of ContentsIntroduction: Governance in a Suburban World (Pierre Hamel and Roger Keil) Section 1: Suburban Governance 1. Governing Suburbia: Modalities and Mechanisms of Suburban Governance (Michael Ekers, Pierre Hamel, and Roger Keil) 2. A Note on Governance: More Intervening Variables, Please (Robert Young) Section 2: Suburban Governance in the Classical Anglo-Saxon Cases 3. The United States: Suburban Imaginaries and Metropolitan Realities (Jan Nijman and Tom Clery) 4. Modalities of Suburban Governance in Canada (Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel, Elena Chou, and Kieran Williams) 5. Governing Suburban Australia (Louise C. Johnson) 6. Chicago-School Suburbanism (Jamie Peck) Section 3: The Existing Alternatives 7. Suburban Governance in Western Europe (Nicholas A. Phelps and Amparo Tarazona Vento) 8. Suburbia in Three Acts: The East European Story (Sonia Hirt and Atanas Kovachev) 9. Governing Shrinkage of Large Housing Estates at the Fringe (Sigrun Kabisch and Dieter Rink) 10. Suburbanization in Latin America: Towards New Authoritarian Modes of Governance at the Urban Margin (Dirk Heinrichs and Henning Nuissl) 11. On the Relations of Culture and Suburbia: How to Give Meaning to the Suburban Landscape? (Thomas Sieverts) Section 4: The Emerging Models 12. Africa's New Suburbs (Robin Bloch) 13. Shifting Terrain: Questions of Governance in India's Cities and Their Peripheries (Shubhra Gururani and Burak Kose) 14. Suburban Development and Governance in China (Fulong Wu and Jie Shen) 15. Deconstructing the Decentralized Urban Spaces of the Mega-Urban Regions in the Global South (Terry McGee) 16. Governing the Postcolonial Suburbs (Ananya Roy) Conclusion: Suburban Governance: Convergent and Divergent Dynamics (Roger Keil and Pierre Hamel)

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Book SynopsisPopular and government-funded anniversaries and commemorations, combined with national symbols, play significant roles in shaping how we view Canada, and also provide opportunities for people to challenge the pre-existing or dominant conceptions of the country. Volume 2 of Celebrating Canada continues the scholarly debate about commemoration and national identity. Raymond B. Blake and Matthew Hayday bring together emerging and established scholars to consider key moments in Canadian history when major anniversaries of Canada’s political, social, or cultural development were celebrated. The contributors to this volume capture the multiple and multi-layered meanings of belonging in the Canadian experience, investigate various attempts at shaping and re-shaping identities, and explore episodes of groups resisting or participating in the identity-formation process. By considering the small voices and those on the margins of Canada’s many commemorative anniveTable of ContentsIntroduction Celebrating Canada: Commemorations, Anniversaries and National Symbols 1. National Symbols and Commemorations: Analyzing the Loyalist Centennial and the Conventions nationales acadiennes in New Brunswick in the 1880s Denis Bourque, Bonnie Huskins, Greg Marquis, and Chantal Richard 2. Emblemizing Canada in the "Flag Debate" of 1895 Peter Price 3. Children of a Common Mother: The Rise and Fall of the Anglo-American Peace Centenary Brandon Dimmel 4. Competing Pasts, Multiple Identities: The Diamond Jubilee of Confederation and the Politics of Commemoration Robert Cupido 5. Bilingualism and Biculturalism at the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation Robert J. Talbot 6. Canada’s Centennial Experience Helen Davies 7. A "labor of love in a community spirit": The Cape Breton Miners’ Museum and the Remaking of Historical Consciousness Meaghan Beaton 8. Federal Funding, Local Priorities: Urban Planning and Ontario’s Municipal Centennial Projects Christopher Los 9. Alternative Identities: The 1967 Centennial and the Campaign for a Better Canada Ted Cogan 10. Fit for Citizenship’: Scouting and the Centennial Celebrations of 1967 James Trepanier 11. A Continental Centennial: Situating Expo 67 within the Canadian-American Relationship Robyn E. Schwar 12. New Nationalism in the Cradle of Confederation: Prince Edward Island’s Centennial Decade Matthew McRae Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in U.S. and Canadian Cities is a collection of essays examining how recent immigrants have fared in getting access to jobs and housing in urban centres across the continent.Trade Review'This compilation is an example of how comparative research can further advance our knowledge and understanding of structural inequality in place making.' -- Regina Serpa Housing Studies vol 31:02:2016 'This book is an excellent resource to learn about past and current understandings of the processes through which immigrants integrate into the housing markets and economies of the cities in the US and Canada.' -- Craig E. Jones Canadian Journal of Urban Research vol 24:01:2015Table of ContentsPreface (Audrey Kobayashi) Introduction 1. The Housing and Economic Experiences of Immigrants in Canada and the United States (Wei Li and Carlos Teixeira) Part One: The Housing Experiences of Immigrants Introduction to Part One: The Housing Experiences of Immigrants (Carlos Teixeira) 2. Home Ownership among Immigrants in Canada and the United States: Similarities and Differences (Joe T. Darden) 3. Cohort Progress toward Household Formation and Homeownership: A Comparison of Immigrant Racialized Minority Groups in Canada and the United States (Michael Haan and Zhou Yu) 4. How Are Sri Lankan Tamils Doing in Toronto's Housing Markets? A Comparative Study of the Refugee Claimants and the Family Class Migrants (Sutama Ghosh) 5. A Two-Sided Question: The Negative and Positive Impacts of Gentrification on Portuguese Residents in West-Central Toronto (Robert A. Murdie and Carlos Teixeira) 6. The Good, the Bad and the Suburban: Tracing North American Theoretical Debates about Ethnic Enclaves, Ethnic Suburbs & Housing Preference (Virpal Kataure and Margaret Walton-Roberts) 7. Housing Experiences and Trajectories among Ethnoburban Chinese in Los Angeles: Achieving Chinese Immigrants' American Dream (Wan Yu) Part Two: The Economic Experiences of Immigrants Introduction to Part Two: Economic Experiences of Immigrants in Canada and the United States (John Miron) 8. The Colour of Money Redux: Immigrant/Ethnic Earnings Disparity in Canada 1991-2006 (Krishna Pendakur and Ravi Pendakur) 9. Immigrant Underemployment in the US Urban Labor Markets (Tetiana Lysenko and Qingfang Wang) 10. The Latino Commercial Landscape and Evolving Hispanic Immigrant Population in Two Midwestern Metropolitan Areas (Alex Oberle) 11. Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the Washington Metropolitan Area: Opportunities and Challenges Facing Ethnic Minorities (Elizabeth Chacko and Marie Price) 12. Financing Immigrant Small Businesses in the US and Canada (Wei Li and Lucia Lo) Conclusion 13. Immigrant Experiences and Integration Trajectories in North American Cities: An Overview and Commentary on Themes and Concepts (John W. Frazier)

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Book SynopsisIn The National Mall, Lisa Benton-Short explores the critical issues that are redefining and reshaping this extraordinary public space.Trade Review‘This is a valuable document in the development of a movement towards rationalization and reform of Mall governance.’ -- Don Alexander Hawkins * Washington History Spring 2017 *‘An excellent book on the National Mall’s history of failures and mismanagement… Benton-Short’s book is firmly rooted in social science scholarship, but it should be read by everyone interested in the past, present, and future of public spaces.’ -- Mark A Barron * H-FedHist July 2017 *Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures List of Plates Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: From Grand Avenue to Public Space: A Brief History of the Mall Part I: Management Challenges Chapter 2: Neglecting the Mall Chapter 3: Managing the Mall Part II Use and Development Pressures Chapter 4: Making Space for the Dream Chapter 5: Brawl on the Mall Chapter 6: Securing the Mall Part III Planning and Public Participation Chapter 7: Whose Mall is It? Chapter 8: The Right to the Mall Chapter 9: Envisioning a 21st Century Mall Conclusion Notes and References

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Book SynopsisIn this collection of essays the changing structure of the Canadian community, especially in its urban growth, is brought before the reader with many fresh insights, much vigorous comment, and apt illustration. The authors, concentrating on certain kinds of problems which have interested them individually, provide for student and general reader stimulating analysis of social phenomena which are under lively examination these days in Canada and beyond both in popular and semi-popular journals and magazines and in learned writings.Nathan Keyfitz opens the volume with a valuable background analysis of the way in which the population of Canada has reached its present numbers and distribution and examines the effects of immigration and of changing rates of birth and death. S.D. Clark deals with the controversial question of what the real characteristics of the suburban community can be seen to be and comments forcefully on the 'suburbia' of Riesman, Whyte, et al. W.E. Mann present

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Book SynopsisSuburban Governance: A Global View is a groundbreaking set of essays by leading urban scholars that assess how governance regulates the creation of the world's suburban spaces and everyday life within them.Trade Review'The authors of this book should be applauded for providing us with a volume that stimulates discussion on the meaning of the (sub) urban and governance in today's global (sub)urbanization.' -- Stijn Oosterlynck and Federico Savini International Journal of Urban and Regional Research October 2016 'I would advise anyone interested in understanding suburban processes in a global context to read this book.' -- Bernadette Hanlon Journal of Planning Education and Research vol 37:01:2017 'Many of the book's essays offer rewarding and provocative overviews of suburban development in particular countries and regions and deserve to be read by anyone interested in the diverse ways in which suburbanization is changing our world.' -- Andrew Sancton Canadian Journal of Urban Research vol 24:01:2015Table of ContentsIntroduction: Governance in a Suburban World (Pierre Hamel and Roger Keil) Section 1: Suburban Governance 1. Governing Suburbia: Modalities and Mechanisms of Suburban Governance (Michael Ekers, Pierre Hamel, and Roger Keil) 2. A Note on Governance: More Intervening Variables, Please (Robert Young) Section 2: Suburban Governance in the Classical Anglo-Saxon Cases 3. The United States: Suburban Imaginaries and Metropolitan Realities (Jan Nijman and Tom Clery) 4. Modalities of Suburban Governance in Canada (Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel, Elena Chou, and Kieran Williams) 5. Governing Suburban Australia (Louise C. Johnson) 6. Chicago-School Suburbanism (Jamie Peck) Section 3: The Existing Alternatives 7. Suburban Governance in Western Europe (Nicholas A. Phelps and Amparo Tarazona Vento) 8. Suburbia in Three Acts: The East European Story (Sonia Hirt and Atanas Kovachev) 9. Governing Shrinkage of Large Housing Estates at the Fringe (Sigrun Kabisch and Dieter Rink) 10. Suburbanization in Latin America: Towards New Authoritarian Modes of Governance at the Urban Margin (Dirk Heinrichs and Henning Nuissl) 11. On the Relations of Culture and Suburbia: How to Give Meaning to the Suburban Landscape? (Thomas Sieverts) Section 4: The Emerging Models 12. Africa's New Suburbs (Robin Bloch) 13. Shifting Terrain: Questions of Governance in India's Cities and Their Peripheries (Shubhra Gururani and Burak Kose) 14. Suburban Development and Governance in China (Fulong Wu and Jie Shen) 15. Deconstructing the Decentralized Urban Spaces of the Mega-Urban Regions in the Global South (Terry McGee) 16. Governing the Postcolonial Suburbs (Ananya Roy) Conclusion: Suburban Governance: Convergent and Divergent Dynamics (Roger Keil and Pierre Hamel)

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Urban Anthropology presents a collection of original essays on central concepts in urban anthropology and ethnography. Featuring contributions from 35 leading international scholars in urban studies, readings cover a wide variety of topics central to the contemporary study of cities.Table of ContentsPreface viii Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 Donald M. Nonini Part I Foundational Concepts: Affirmed and Contested 13 1 Spatialities 15 Setha M. Low 2 Flows 28 Gary W. McDonogh 3 Community 46 John Clarke 4 Citizenship 65 Sian Lazar Part II Materializations and Their Imaginaries 83 5 Built Structures and Planning 85 Deborah Pellow and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga 6 Borders 103 Thomas M. Wilson 7 Markets 120 Linda J. Seligmann 8 Cars and Transport 142 Catherine Lutz Part III Dividing Processes, Bases of Solidarity 155 9 Class 157 Don Kalb 10 Gender 177 Ida Susser 11 Sexualities 193 Ara Wilson 12 Race 210 Brett Williams 13 Extralegality 222 Alan Smart and Filippo M. Zerilli Part IV Abstractions of Consequence 239 14 Global Systems and Globalization 241 Jonathan Friedman 15 Governance 255 Jeff Maskovsky and Julian Brash 16 Policing and Security 271 Josiah McC. Heyman 17 Transnationality 291 Nina Glick Schiller 18 Cosmopolitanism 306 Pnina Werbner Part V Experiencing/Knowing the City in Everyday Life 327 19 Practices of Sociality 329 José Guilherme Cantor Magnani 20 Memory and Narrative 347 Lindsay DuBois 21 Religion 364 Thomas Blom Hansen Part VI Nature and the City 381 22 Nature 383 Robert Rotenberg 23 Food and Farming 394 Donald M. Nonini 24 Pollution 414 Eveline Dürr and Rivke Jaffe 25 Resilience 428 Stephan Barthel Part VII Challenging the Present, Anticipating Urban Futures 447 26 The Commons 449 Maribel Casas-Cortés, Sebastian Cobarrubias, and John Pickles 27 Social Movements 470 Michal Osterweil 28 Futures 486 Hilary Cunningham and Stephen Bede Scharper Index 498

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Book SynopsisUpdated with a majority of new readings, the Third Edition of Readings in Urban Theory expands its focus to present the most recent developments in urban and regional theories and policies in a globalized world. Around 75% of the readings included are new for thethird edition Unifies readings by an orientation toward political economy and normative themes of social justice Expands the focus on international planning, including globalization and theories of development Addresses the full range of core urban theory so as to remain the primary text in courses Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viii 1 Introduction: Theories of Urban Development and Their Implications for Policy and Planning 1 Susan S. Fainstein and Scott Campbell Part I The Changing Urban and Regional System 19 2 Regulation Theory, Post-Fordism and Urban Politics 23 Joe Painter 3 Neoliberalization and Democracy 42 Mark Purcell 4 The Global City: Strategic Site/New Frontier 55 Saskia Sassen 5 The Fifth Migration 73 Robert Fishman 6 Urban ‘Regions’ and Their Governance 90 Patsy Healey Part II Diversity: Race, Gender, Ethnicity and the Partitioning of Space 111 7 Cities and Diversity: Should we want it? Can we plan for it? 115 Susan S. Fainstein 8 Conceptualizing Recognition in Planning 129 Ruth Fincher and Kurt Iveson 9 Women’s Aspirations and the Home: Episodes in American Feminist Reform 147 Gwendolyn Wright 10 Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? 161 Susan Moller Okin 11 Cities in Quarters 167 Peter Marcuse 12 Social Exclusion and Opportunity Structures in European Cities and Neighbourhoods 180 Alan Murie and Sako Musterd Part III Redevelopment and Urban Transformation 205 13 Partnership and the Pursuit of the Private City 207 Gregory D. Squires 14 Gentrification, the Frontier, and the Restructuring of Urban Space 229 Neil Smith 15 Promoting Tourism in US Cities 247 Dennis R. Judd Part IV Culture, Design, and Urban Form Introduction 271 16 The End(s) of Urban Design 273 Michael Sorkin 17 Changing Landscapes of Power: Opulence and the Urge for Authenticity 290 Sharon Zukin 18 The ‘Bilbao Effect’ 303 Donald McNeill 19 Connecting New Urbanism and American Planning: An Historical Interpretation 319 Emily Talen 20 Blurring the Boundaries: Public Space and Private Life 342 Margaret Crawford Part V Cities and Space in a Globalized World 353 21 Uneven Geographical Developments and Universal Rights 357 David Harvey 22 Transnationalism and Citizenship 377 Michael Peter Smith 23 Reflections on Place and Place-Making in the Cities of China 395 John Friedmann 24 The Economic Theory of the Developmental State 424 Ha-Joon Chang 25 The Prevalence of Slums 440 Mike Davis 26 Dangerous Spaces of Citizenship: Gang Talk, Rights Talk and Rule of Law in Brazil 460 James Holston Credit and Source Information 480 Index 484

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Book Synopsis* Transnational spatial relations offer a key point from which to study the geographies of contemporary globalization. * This book assesses the possible cross-fertilization between two of the most notable analytical frameworks - the world city network framework and the global commodity chain framework.Trade Review"The Global Commodity Chain framework looks at the interconnected functions, operations, and transactions through which specific commodities are produced, distributed, and consumed. The purpose here is to assess the possible cross-fertilization of the two in order to strengthen the critique of conventional state-centric social science that both engage in separately. Contributors whose disciplines are not revealed - presumably economists and geographers like the editors - consider such topics as exploring the role of Mexico City in the geography of global economic governance, urban places in the system of chains, and intra-firm and extra-firm linkages in the knowledge economy as exemplified by the emerging mega-city where Munich once stood." (Reference and Research Book News, February 2011) Table of Contents1. World Cities and Global Commodity Chains: An introduction (Ben Derudder and Frank Witlox). 2. World City Networks and Global Commodity Chains: Towards a World-Systems' Integration (Ed Brown, Ben Derudder, Christof Parnreiter, Wim Pelupessy, Peter J. Taylor and Frank Witlox). 3. Global cities in Global Commodity Chains: Exploring the Role of Mexico City in the Geography of Global Economic Governance (Christof Parnreiter). 4. City Networks and Commodity Chains: Identifying Global Flows and Local Connections in Ho Chi Minh City (Ingeborg Vind and Niels Fold). 5. Cities, Material Flows and the Geography of Spatial Interaction: Urban Places in the System of Chains (Markus Hesse). 6. Integrating World Cities into Production Networks: The Case of Port Cities (Wouter Jacobs, Cesar Ducruet and Peter De Langen). 7. Intra-firm and Extra-firm Linkages in the Knowledge Economy: The Case of the Emerging Mega-city Region of Munich (Stefan Lüthi, Alain Thierstein and Viktor Goebel). 8. Making Connections: Global Production Networks and World City Networks (Neil M. Coe, Peter Dicken, Martin Hess and Henry Wai-Cheung Yeung). 9. Global Inter-city Networks and Commodity Chains: Any Intersections? (Saskia Sassen). Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective. Critiques Richard Florida''s popular books about cities and the creative class Presents an alternative approach based on analyses of empirical research data concerning the German urban system and the case study regions, Hanover and Berlin Underscores that the culture industry takes a leading role in conforming with neoliberal conceptions of labor markets Table of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Creativity and innovation under the command of capital. The capitalist imperative of creativity and innovation. Generalizing models of urban economic development. The role of innovation and inter-urban competition in Harvey’s theory of capitalist urbanization. Conclusion. 2. Creative cities as a new urban growth ideology. The impact of creative occupations on regional economic success. Introduction. Critique of Florida’s conception of the creative class. An assessment of regional economic success factors and the impact of creative workers on regional development. The impact of creative occupational groups on regional economic development in Germany. Relationship between ‘qualities of place’ and the regional concentration of scientifically and technologically creative workers. Conclusion. 3. Innovation and knowledge networks in a metropolitan region. The impact of localization economies and networking on technological creativity. Introduction. Innovation and knowledge networks: Theoretical approaches. The application of network analysis to urban regions’ knowledge networks. Geographic scales and structural properties of knowledge networks in the metropolitan region of Hanover. Assessment of network impacts on regional firms’ innovation output. Conclusion. 4. Creativity in the culture and media industries. The impact of commercial imperatives on artistic creativity. Introduction. The institutional order of the cultural economy: Creativity in a capitalist context. Global centres of the culture industry and the production of lifestyle images. Conclusion. 5. Local clustering of the cultural economy in the metropolis of Berlin. The urbanization economies of artistically creative occupations. Introduction. The rise of the cultural economy in Berlin’s inner-city area. Creative cities and the role of the culture industries in urban economic and spatial development: Implications for urban regeneration. Conclusion. 6. Synthesis: The creative capital of cities. References. Appendix. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective. Critiques Richard Florida''s popular books about cities and the creative class Presents an alternative approach based on analyses of empirical research data concerning the German urban system and the case study regions, Hanover and Berlin Underscores that the culture industry takes a leading role in conforming with neoliberal conceptions of labor markets Trade Review"On the whole, The Creative Capital of Cities makes a valuable contribution to the urban economic literature. It provides a critical and quite comprehensive overview of a number of issues that have so far been left too much aside in the current debate." (J Hous and the Built Environ, 8 September 2012) Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Series Editors’ Preface x Introduction 1 1 Creativity and Innovation under the Command of Capital 12 The Capitalist Imperative of Creativity and Innovation 12 Generalizing Models of Urban Economic Development 18 The Role of Innovation and Interurban Competition in Harvey’s Theory of Capitalist Urbanization 24 Conclusion 34 2 Creative Cities as a New Urban Growth Ideology: The Impact of Creative Occupations on Regional Economic Success 37 Introduction 37 Critique of Florida’s Conception of the Creative Class 39 An Assessment of Regional Economic Success Factors and the Impact of Creative Workers on Regional Development 47 The Impact of Creative Occupational Groups on Regional Economic Development in Germany 52 Relationship between “Qualities of Place” and the Regional Concentration of Scientifically and Technologically Creative Workers 77 Conclusion 88 3 Innovation and Knowledge Networks in a Metropolitan Region: The Impact of Localization Economies and Networking on Technological Creativity 92 Introduction 92 Innovation and Knowledge Networks: Theoretical Approaches 97 The Application of Network Analysis to Urban Regions’ Knowledge Networks 104 Geographic Scales and Structural Properties of Knowledge Networks in the Metropolitan Region of Hanover 109 Assessment of Network Impacts on Regional Firms’ Innovation Output 121 Conclusion 125 4 Creativity in the Culture and Media Industries: The Impact of Commercial Imperatives on Artistic Creativity 128 Introduction 128 The Institutional Order of the Cultural Economy: Creativity in a Capitalist Context 131 Global Centers of the Culture Industry and the Production of Lifestyle Images 146 Conclusion 155 5 Local Clustering of the Cultural Economy in the Metropolis of Berlin: The Urbanization Economies of Artistically Creative Occupations 158 Introduction 158 The Rise of the Cultural Economy in Berlin’s Inner-City Area 163 Creative Cities and the Role of the Culture Industries in Urban Economic and Spatial Development: Implications for Urban Regeneration 183 Conclusion 191 6 Synthesis: The Creative Capital of Cities 194 Appendix: Grouping of Occupations and Subsectors 208 References 219 Index 234

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Book SynopsisIron Curtains has been awarded Honorable Mention for the 2013 ASEEES Harvard Davis Center Book Prize! The prize is sponsored by Harvard University''s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and is awarded annually by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography. Utilizing research conducted primarily with residents of Sofia, Bulgaria, Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs, and Privatization of Space in the Post-socialist City explores the human dimension of new city-building that has emerged in East Europe. Features original data, illustrations, and theory on the process of privatization of resources in societies undergoing fundamental socio-economic transformations, such as those in Eastern Europe Represents the sole in-depth monograph on contemporary urbanism in Southeast Europe<Table of ContentsList of Illustrations and Tables viii Series Editors’ Preface xi Acknowledgements xii 1 Introduction 1 2 Public, Private, Privatism 14 3 The Post-socialist City 34 4 Post-modern Urbanism Revisited 60 5 Sofia: Wither the Socialist City 81 6 The Ninth Ring: Suburbanizing Sofia 105 7 Iron Curtains I: Gated Homes 131 8 Iron Curtains II: Gated Complexes 149 9 Architecture of Disunity 170 10 Possibilities 191 References 198 Index 220

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Book SynopsisThe first book to fully explore the multiple ways in which body work features in health and social care and the meanings of this work both for those employed to do it and those on whose bodies they work. Explores the commonalities between different sectors of work, including those outside health and social care Contributions come from an international range of experts Draws on perspectives from across the medical, therapeutic, and care fields Incorporates a variety of methodological approaches, from life history analysis to ethnographic studies and first person accounts Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii 1 Conceptualising body work in health and social care 1 Julia Twigg, Carol Wolkowitz, Rachel Lara Cohen and Sarah Nettleton 2 Time, space and touch at work: body work and labour process (re)organisation 19 Rachel Lara Cohen 3 Managing the body work of home care 36 Kim England and Isabel Dyck 4 The means of correct training: embodied regulation in training for body work among mothers 50 Emma Wainwright, Elodie Marandet and Sadaf Rizvi 5 From body-talk to body-stories: body work in complementary and alternative medicine 67 Nicola Kay Gale 6 Educating with the hands: working on the body⁄self in Alexander Technique 81 Jennifer Tarr 7 Treating women’s sexual diffi culties: the body work of sexual therapy 94 Thea Cacchioni and Carol Wolkowitz 8 Actions speak louder than words: the embodiment of trust by healthcare professionals in gynae-oncology 108 Patrick R. Brown, Andy Alaszewski, Trish Swift and Andy Nordin 9 Body work in respiratory physiological examinations 123 Per Måseide 10 In a moment of mismatch: overseas doctors’ adjustments in new hospital environments 134 Anna Harris 11 The co-marking of aged bodies and migrant bodies: migrant workers’ contribution to geriatric medicine in the UK 147 Parvati Raghuram, Joanna Bornat and Leroi Henry 12 Afterword: Body work and the sociological tradition 162 Chris Shilling Index 167

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Book SynopsisThis engaging book argues that imaginative place-based leadership can enable citizens to shape the urban future while advancing social justice, promoting care for the environment and bolstering community empowerment.Trade Review"This is a useful work for practitioners as well as academics, offering conceptual and instrumental insights that should stimulate cross-disciplinary dialogue." Choice"[This book] makes an important contribution to the planning discourse by calling for strong place-based leadership and highlighting... what can be achieved when civic leaders from local government to activist groups strive to make cities more liveable and inclusive." Town Planning Review"Robin Hambleton's Leading the Inclusive City: Place-Based Innovation for a Bounded Planet lays the groundwork for an important call to action." Journal of the American Planning Association"It is a timely re-formulation and consolidation of various strands in current thinking about places, and its optimistic signposting of a possible future makes it required reading." Local Economy"The book is well-structured and solution-oriented. It provides diagnosis and concepts with a wide array of figures and resources but also experiences of place-based leadership in action and lesson-drawing for practice from international ‘innovation stories’ (case studies). Examples provided are really interesting throughout, from the NYC high line showing how place-based activism can influence public policy decisions to the closure of the Cadbury factory in Somerdale as an example of poor placeless decisions resulting in local impacts. Highly recommended reading." 5* Review on Amazon"Raises important issues regarding the creation of more just and ecologically sensitive cities" - Journal of Planning Education and Research"This book bridges practice and academia and provides inspiration through exploring cases of urban innovation and leaders that co-created more inclusive cities together with local communities." Environment & Urbanization journal"this book is one which scholars will admire and politicians and policy-makers will not want to miss." Journal of Contemporary European Studies“One of the more interesting and helpful characteristics of the book is that it provides 17 ‘Innovation Stories’, drawn from cities across the world … the presentation of Innovation Stories proves useful in bridging ‘the worlds of academia and practice’.” Urban Research and Practice Journal"This book is an important read for those that want to engage with the coming devolution debates in the UK and indeed the debate of how urban environments across the globe should be governed." 5* review on Amazon from Mike Childs, Head of Policy, Friends of the EarthTable of ContentsPreface; A guide to the book; Innovation Stories; Overview; Place-based leadership and the inclusive city; Part 1 Diagnosis: Understanding trends and challenges; Global trends and our urban future; The changing nature of public service reform; Part 2 Concepts: Place, leadership, innovation and democratic governance; Understanding place and public policy; Place-based leadership; Leading public service innovation; Democratic urban governance; Part 3 Experiences: Place-based leadership in action; Leading the eco-city; Creating people-friendly cities; The diversity advantage; Part 4 Lesson drawing: Insights and international learning; From smart cities to wise cities; International lesson drawing;

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Book SynopsisThis important book engages critically with Lefebvre's spatial theories and challenges recent thinking about the nature of urban space. Research in three iconic post-industrial cities in the UK and North America, explains how urban public spaces, including differential space are socially produced.Trade Review"This book is a call to arms to begin applying and elaborating spatial theory to old and new situations, as well as valuing an archival approach to urban analysis." Town Planning Review"This volume is a thoughtful, meticulously researched, and empirically rich account of the character and counter-hegemonic potential of contemporary urban public space. Its strongly argued position on how we should understand space and difference in cities will, no doubt, inspire valuable debate among urbanists.” Eugene McCann, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Canada"A terrific book that explores the production of urban space through case studies of three cities, which are brought to life in fascinating and meticulous detail and capture the transition from industrial to post-industrial urban space by drawing on the latest advancements in urban theory." John Roberts, Sociology and Communications, Brunel University LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction: Cities and public space; Vancouver: (Re)presenting urban space; Vancouver: Producing urban public space and city transformation; Lowell (Re)presenting urban space; Lowell: Producing urban public space and city transformation; Manchester (Re)presenting urban space; Manchester: Producing urban public space and city transformation; Venturing beyond Lefebvre: Producing differential space; Conclusions: Differential space implications.

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Book SynopsisThis text makes sense of the multiple ways in which urban issues and problems have been addressed in different places at different times. From initiatives that focus on social tensions within the urban realm, to those which seek to develop cities as economic entities, it provides an accessible discussion and critique of some key approaches.Trade Review"A staunchly critical and comprehensive primer on the political logics and dynamics of dominant urban policy forms. This excellent text is accessible and engaging, historically grounded and well resourced. A must-read for students of urban studies, urban governance and urban geography." Pauline McGuirk, The University of Newcastle, Australia"Engaging reading...chapters build on a variety of case studies, suggested recommeded readings and provide web links, which all provide useful resources for readers seeking to enter the urban policy field in the context of Western cities." Environment and Urbanization"An ideal introductory text: Comprehensive – covering an impressive array of topics – yet concise; sophisticated, yet decidedly accessible to undergraduates as well as reflective practitioners. An excellent primer for those on both sides of the Atlantic" David Imbroscio, University of Louisville, USA, author of Urban America Reconsidered"An engaging and wide-ranging introduction to urban policy, which highlights debates about the nature of the city and urban life, thoughtfully reflecting on possible urban futures and the policy implications associated with them." Allan Cochrane, The Open UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; The urban challenge; Understanding urban policy; Whose right to the city?; Privatisation and entrepreneurial urban policy; Community planning and partnership; Culture and the creative city; Urban renaissance and sustainable urban development; Urban recovery and the future for cities; Postscript; Keeping up to date.

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Book SynopsisLisa Mckenzie lived on the notorious St Ann's estate in Nottingham for more than 20 years. Her insider' status enables us to hear the stories of its residents, often wary of outsiders, to give a unique account of life in poor communities in contemporary Britain.Trade Review"The stories within this book lay bare what it means to be regarded as inferior and an outcast in your own society. This is a resolutely impressive book written with authenticity and passion." Mary O'Hara, journalist and author of Austerity Bites"[McKenzie] leads the reader to examine their own understanding of the working class by challenging the stigma attached to this identity and by representing this silenced community in modern Britain." BSA Network"McKenzie has managed to transform several academic pieces of work into a accessible book full of humanity and honesty about St Ann's and some of the people who live there." The Spokesman"This book challenges social scientists to think again about how working-class life on urban estates is portrayed, both academically and in the mainstream media." Social Policy & Administration"Lisa McKenzie did not try to paint an idyllic view of the council estate with its ethnic tensions across families that settled many generations ago. However her ethnography, which describes a mixed race community facing racism and endogamy from the middle classes, balances the narrow minded view that often associates lower classes with racism." [trans] lectures.revues.org"A very fine ethnography of life in austerity Britain, charting the resilience and creativity of the community it describes, as well as their injuries and mistreatment by others." John Holmwood, Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham"As a child of St Ann’s and son of Jamaican immigrants, this is one of the most powerful celebrations of working-class and multi-cultural Britain I have ever read. I challenge you to read this book and not be ignited by a range of emotions such as sadness, anger, pleasure and joy. Read and enjoy. I did." Donald Mclean, Vice-Principal, Longley Park Sixth Form College"A vivid, passionate account of class, gender and race in a stigmatised and poor working-class community, and a powerful defence of its people. Essential reading for 21st century Britain." Andrew Sayer, Professor of Social Theory and Political Economy, Lancaster University and author of Why we can't afford the rich"This is one small example of a working class estate. But it tells the story of ordinary people as they see themselves, and in a corporate-dominated world that's worth something." Education for Tomorrow“Getting By is an essential antidote to media and governmental depictions of poverty in the UK today. McKenzie transports the reader into realities, rather than the stigmatised hype, of council estate life. This accessible and moving account of how people ‘get by’ in conditions of heightened poverty and inequality draws throughout on the powerful voices of working class people themselves.” Imogen Tyler, Lancaster University & author of Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain"Who am I to pass comment on this book? But that's the trick they play on you isn't it. We are all used, processed, slashed, but the under class, the worker, well they are thoroughly abused." Jason Williamson, Sleaford Mods"The book excels in bringing to life the realities of life lived in hard circumstances and the ways in which people respond to troubling experiences and harsh lie conditions." Journal of Social Policy“A heart-wrenching, eminently readable, powerful book. This is class analysis at its most visceral and sensitive, uncovering incredibly resourceful survival strategies for staying human in conditions of incredible inhumanity." Bev Skeggs, Goldsmiths, University of London"A book that pulls no punches about its politics and commitment to challenging the anti-working class hatreds that are so prevalent in the UK today." Journal of Poverty and Social Justice"Getting By is a moving portrait of stigma and inequality which illuminates how the people of St Ann's navigate through the architecture, institutions and prestige systems of estate life, and shows, powerfully, why we must put value at the centre of class analysis." Dr Tracey Jensen, University of East LondonTable of ContentsForeword by Danny Dorling; Introduction; Being and belonging: the importance of narrative; ‘Being St Ann's’: an alternative value system; ‘Passing by’: family and community; ‘A little bit of sugar’: a discussion of taste; ‘The roof is on fire’: despair, fear and civil unrest; ‘On Road, don’t watch’; Conclusion; Afterword by Owen Jones

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Book SynopsisThis book compares the impacts of ABIs in two deprived urban areas in England and Germany on organisations and development actors at the neighbourhood level. It applies a mixed method approach to help the reader with a wider spectrum of illustrations and is aimed at those studying and working in the field of urban regeneration and planning.Trade Review"A well-structured and well-documented book, which analyses urban policies and local institutional framework in great detail and depth." Journal of Housing and the Built EnvironmentTable of ContentsIntroduction; New Localism(s) in Europe; Policies for deprived urban areas; Conceptualising New Localism(s): exploring local variations in urban governance practices across Europe; Lost in transformation: urban governance practices and the New Deal for Communities (NDC) in Bristol; Local government experiments to cope with structural change: The Social City Programme in Duisburg; The crystallization of New Localism(s) in Bristol and Duisburg: a cross-case comparison; The neo-institutional study of New Localism(s) as an analytical window for comparative urbanism: concluding reflections; Appendices.

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Book SynopsisMoving beyond theoretical notions of resilience' this is the first book to offer a conceptual and empirical approach to exploring and comparing the process of resilience across service hubs' in three complex but different global inner-city regions: London, Los Angeles and Sydney.Trade Review"DeVerteuil demonstrates well the complex interplay of public, private and voluntary sectors across the three city regions studied and offers real insight around the varied strategies that have enabled VSOs' survival." Antipode"Makes a vital contribution to a wider search for a more realistic understanding of what is really happening on the ground of key urban governance and policy realms" - Voluntas“An insightful and theory-laden exposition of the challenges facing the voluntary sector in the 21st century… the appeal of this book goes beyond geographers to include those interested in welfare reforms, voluntary sector provision and the city as a contested arena.” The Voluntary Sector Review"The siege on the welfare state has destroyed most collective consumption institutions, yet voluntary organisations survive in the global city. DeVerteuil’s excellent analysis shows us how – and why it matters." Elvin Wyly, The University of British Columbia, CanadaTable of ContentsPart One: Introducing resilience in the post-welfare inner city: conceptual and methodological considerations; Introduction; Resilience and residualism; The voluntary sector within the post-welfare city; Part Two: Case studies: spatial and social resilience in London, Los Angeles and Sydney; National and local settlements: London, UK; Los Angeles, US; and Sydney, Australia; Established gentrified place-types; Mixed place-types; Pioneer gentrified place-types; Immigrant enclaves; Comparative analysis and summary; Part Three: Conclusions, critical resilience, commons and austerity; The critical resilience of the residuals; Here, now: recasting service hubs in an age of austerity.

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Book SynopsisExplores the impact of Africa's rapidly growing urban population on local resources and the environment, acknowledging the clash between Western focus on sustainable development and the lived realities of residents of often poor, informal settlements.Trade Review"A tour de force that opens up an entirely new terrain of scholarly research on urban Africa this book fills a variety of huge gaps in the existing literature" Martin Murray University of MichiganTable of ContentsIntroduction; The Experts: The ‘State’ of Urban Environments in Africa; The Past: The Urban Biogeography of (Post)Colonialism; The Artists: Using African Literature to Read Urban Environments; The Cityscape: Place-Names, Culture and Spirits; From the Grass Roots: Popular Understandings of Urban Environmental Issues in Africa; Conclusion: Re-Reading Urban Environments.

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Book SynopsisExplores the impact of Africa's rapidly growing urban population on local resources and the environment, acknowledging the clash between Western focus on sustainable development and the lived realities of residents of often poor, informal settlements.Trade Review"A tour de force that opens up an entirely new terrain of scholarly research on urban Africa this book fills a variety of huge gaps in the existing literature" Martin Murray University of MichiganTable of ContentsIntroduction; The Experts: The ‘State’ of Urban Environments in Africa; The Past: The Urban Biogeography of (Post)Colonialism; The Artists: Using African Literature to Read Urban Environments; The Cityscape: Place-Names, Culture and Spirits; From the Grass Roots: Popular Understandings of Urban Environmental Issues in Africa; Conclusion: Re-Reading Urban Environments.

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