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Random House USA Inc Evicted Poverty and Profit in the American City
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which noth
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Random House USA Inc Evicted
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iUniverse On the Nature of Cities Toward Enduring and Creative Human Environments
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iUniverse SLIPPING INTO THE SHADOWS Junkies Prostitutes Con Artists
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iUniverse Forging A More Perfect Union For a Grand Harmony of Cities Democracy Ecology
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Yun Yin Cai Ingrained
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Random House Publishing Group The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Book SynopsisPublished to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs?s masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book?s original editor, who provides an intimate perspective on Jacobs herself and unique insights into the creation and lasting influence of this classic. The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as ?perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning. . . . [It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book?s arguments.? Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jane Jacobs?s tour de force is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It remains sensible, knowledgeable, readable, and indispensable.
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Abingdon Press Urban Ministry
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Project for Public Spaces, Inc How to Turn a Place Around
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Unfair Housing How National Policy Shapes Community Action
Book SynopsisWhy do most neighbourhoods in the United States continue to be racially divided? In this work, author Mara Sidney offers a fresh explanation for the persistent colour lines in America's cities by showing how weak national policy has silenced and splintered grassroots activists.Table of ContentsHousing Discrimination - Problems, Politics, Policies; Crafting Housing Policy In Spotlight And Shadow; Linking Housing Policy To Advocacy; Advocacy For Housing Equality In Minneapolis; Advocacy For Housing Equality In Denver; A Comparative Analysis Of Fair Housing And Community Reinvestment Movements - National And Local Impacts On Advocacy; Advancing The Struggle For Housing Equality - Opportunities And Constraints.
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Hamilton Books Surviving the City
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Random House USA Inc 740 Park
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Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Love in the Big City
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New Directions Publishing Corporation The Bloater
Book SynopsisA rediscovered literary classic, The Bloater is a rollicking hothouse novel where love and repulsion are two paths to the same abyssTrade Review"Uncommonly good." -- The Guardian"Writing like this?—?a bit of Rhys, a bit of Knut Hamsun, a bit of Wyndham Lewis, a bit of Muriel Spark, overlaying the everlasting Shakespeare/Austen/?Brontë/George Eliot marriage drama?—?is far too beautiful and accomplished to be kept off the shelf. It catches like nothing else the smogs, the rodentine genes, the murky post-War grays, the lurking sexual violence of London, between Hangover Square and Carnaby Street." -- Michael Hofmann - Poetry"The Bloater delights us by its wit, relish, and new-minted metaphors." -- Daily Telegraph"Redolent of Swinging-Sixties London, Tonks’s brilliant sex comedy reveals sobering depths beneath its flashing surface... the revival of this beguiling 1967 novel restores a truly original voice to the shelves; a must." -- David Wright - Library Journal"Passion and revulsion, tenderness and cruelty, worldly sophistication and schoolgirl naiveté—outside of the classic will-they-won’t-they set-up of an unlikely romantic pairing, it’s Tonks’s embrace of oppositional forces that provides the source of the novel’s tension, as well as its levity…The joy of reading The Bloater is in the vitality of Tonks’s sentences, which are teeming with sensory particulars and surprising, delightful connections…its republication seems a small miracle." -- Madelaine Lucas - Astra Magazine"It is about flirtation as a method of self-organization, and a crush as a method of self-torture. All of The Bloater, however—every single sentence—is funny." -- Audrey Wollen - The New Yorker
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MW - Rutgers University Press Time and the Town A Provincetown Chronicle
Table of ContentsForeword Part I. Age of Innocence [1907-1911] Part II. The Onion [1912-1916] Part III. Wartime [1917-1921] Part IV. Days of the Locust [1922-1926] Part V. Depression [1927-1931] Part VI. New Deal [1932-1936] Part VII. A World Ends [1937-1941]
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John Wiley & Sons Between Good and Ghetto African American Girls and Inner City Violence Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
Book SynopsisShows the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. This title presents an account of how African American girls negotiate schools and neighborhoods governed by the so-called 'code of the street' - the form of street justice that governs violence in distressed urban areas.Trade Review"This book adds invaluable information and analysis to the growing debate on the violence perpetrated by girls, and the ethnographic method is exactly what is needed to further the question of whether today's girls—particularly those most marginalized due to class, race, and neighborhood—are more violent." -- Joanne Belknap * author of The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime & Justice *"Between Good and Ghetto is an expertly written and fascinating ethnography of the gendered racial dimensions of violence in the inner city. Jones does an excellent job in communicating the strength and sensitivity [of the girls she interviewed] to her readers while, simultaneously, producing a work of tremendous insight and immense sociological imagination." * Contemporary Sociology *"A very compelling account of daily life as experienced by poor, urban, African American adolescent girls. Recommended." * Choice *"Nikki Jones' sharp, detailed investigation of the way fighting, on the street and in school, shapes the lives of young African American women combines shrewd analytical insight and clear evocative language to give readers an understanding of what it costs a 'good girl' to stay good, and what happens to those who 'go for bad.'" -- Howard S. Becker * author of Outsiders and Writing for Social Scientists *"The young women in Between Good and Ghetto compel the reader to consider their lives and the violence they experience in relation to the shifting and dynamic concept of protection. What is perhaps the most significant and disturbing revelation in the book is that there are few contexts, behavioral strategies, institutional spaces, or ways of identifying that fully protect young inner-city African American women's physical well-being, emotional health, and empowered self-perception." * Signs *"Intellectually and emotionally evocative. Jones’s [book] is hard to put down due to her adept use of imagery and obvious passion for her work." * Feminist Formations *"This book adds invaluable information and analysis to the growing debate on the violence perpetrated by girls, and the ethnographic method is exactly what is needed to further the question of whether today's girls—particularly those most marginalized due to class, race, and neighborhood—are more violent." -- Joanne Belknap * author of The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime & Justice *"Between Good and Ghetto is an expertly written and fascinating ethnography of the gendered racial dimensions of violence in the inner city. Jones does an excellent job in communicating the strength and sensitivity [of the girls she interviewed] to her readers while, simultaneously, producing a work of tremendous insight and immense sociological imagination." * Contemporary Sociology *"A very compelling account of daily life as experienced by poor, urban, African American adolescent girls. Recommended." * Choice *"Nikki Jones' sharp, detailed investigation of the way fighting, on the street and in school, shapes the lives of young African American women combines shrewd analytical insight and clear evocative language to give readers an understanding of what it costs a 'good girl' to stay good, and what happens to those who 'go for bad.'" -- Howard S. Becker * author of Outsiders and Writing for Social Scientists *"The young women in Between Good and Ghetto compel the reader to consider their lives and the violence they experience in relation to the shifting and dynamic concept of protection. What is perhaps the most significant and disturbing revelation in the book is that there are few contexts, behavioral strategies, institutional spaces, or ways of identifying that fully protect young inner-city African American women's physical well-being, emotional health, and empowered self-perception." * Signs *"Intellectually and emotionally evocative. Jones’s [book] is hard to put down due to her adept use of imagery and obvious passion for her work." * Feminist Formations *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Social World of Inner City Girls 2 "It's Not Where You Live, It's How You Live" 3 "Ain't I A Violent Person?" 4 "Love Make You Fight Crazy" Conclusion: The Other Side of the Crisis Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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MI - New York University The Latinoa Condition A Critical Reader Second Edition
Book SynopsisOffers a broad portrait of Latino/a life in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first centuryTrade Review"The authors of these essays explore the theme of Latino/a identity by presenting popular media images of Latino/as and by examining the issues of representation that these images raise...instructive and useful." * Choice *"A valuable and highly informative discussion of the theoretical questions that underlie the production of popular culture in the twenty-first century." * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionPart I The Shape of the Latino Group: Who Are We and What Are We Talking about Anyway? Part II Conquest and Immigration: How We Got (Get) Here Part III Nativism, Racism, and Our Social Construction as a "Problem" Group: How Once We Were Here, We Were Racialized by the Dominant Culture Part IV Racial Construction and Demonization in Mass Culture: Media Treatment and StereotypesPart V Counterstories: We Begin to Talk Back and "Name Our Own Reality" Part VI Rebellious Lawyering and Resistance Strategies: We Fight Back Part VII Revisionist Law: Does the Legal System Work for Us? Part VIII Assimilation: Maybe Our Best Strategy Is Just to Duck? Part IX Splits and Tensions within the Civil Rights Community Part X Sex, Gender, and Class: Sure I'm a Latino, but I'm Still Different from You - How about It? Part XI English-Only, Bilingualism, Interpreters: You Mean I Can't Speak Spanish? Contributors Index
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John Wiley & Sons Corrupt Cities A Practical Guide to Cure and Prevention
Book SynopsisDrawing on their experience in battling corruption around the world, the authors of this text offer ways to defeat corruption on the local level. Using case studies, the publication aims to show how seemingly hopeless problems can become the catalysts of successful reform.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Cosmopolis Ii Mongrel Cities of the 21st Century Mongrel Cities of the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisThis text presents a global tour of contemporary cities - from Birmingham to Rotterdam, Frankfurt to Berlin, Sydney to Vancouver, and Chicago to East St.Louis.Trade ReviewCongratulations to Leonie Sandercock on being awarded the 2005 Dale Prize, awarded each year by the Department of Urban & Regional Planning at California State Polytechnic University for excellence in a common field of urban and regional planning."Cosmopolis II captures the radical mood of the early 21st century and turns it into a positive project about living in multi-cultural cities. It will appeal to all those struggling with and studying contemporary cities. Beautifully written, clear, authoritative, and enhanced with evocative imagery, the book brings together new ideas, new literature, new cases and new arguments. It is likely to become a core text in the literature on cities and planning very quickly. No other book achieves the synthesis provided here."--Patsy Healey, University of Newcastle"The most important book on planning practice of the late 20th Century. It will set the terms of debate for years to come"--Robert Beauregard, New School for Social Research, New York"The best contemporary text for teaching planning history and theory."--Edward Soja, Planning, UCLA"An extraordinarily comprehensive investigation."--Blueprint"Sandercock's pervasive commitment and sensitive imagination provide a valuable inspiration to all those concerned with the quality of cities and their governance."--Urban Studies"A book of passion and conviction about how cities are and what they might become. It is a challenge to all those whose professions are bound up with shaping the world's urban future."--CityTable of ContentsPart One Looking Back: Modernist Planning and its Discontents; Modernist Cities and Planning; Rewriting Planning History; Who Knows? -Exploring Planning's Knowledges. Part Two Looking Forward: Mongrel Cities and the 21st Century Multicultural project; Mongrel Cities - How Can We Live Together?; Home, Nation and Stranger - Fear in the City; There is No Hiding Place - Integrating Immigrants. Part Three Towards a New Planning Imagination: Transfomative Planning Practices; How and Why Cities Change; The Power of Story Planning; City Songlines.
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Vanderbilt University Press Cities and the Health of the Public
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Vanderbilt University Press Cities and the Health of the Public
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North Point Press Suburban Nation
Book SynopsisWelcome to the Suburban NationPlunge into the pivotal exploration of America''s car-centric suburban phenomenon that has shaped the landscape of the North American continent over the last century. Suburban Nation stands as a prominent voice advocating change in suburban sprawl and the over-reliance on personal vehicles.Suburban Nation is the brainchild of the founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, who are leading the charge towards traditional urban planning practices.But this is no simple exposé of post-war planning failures. Instead, Suburban Nation presents a compelling rebuttal to the ''sprawl and crawl'' of residential development and transportation design that has marked America''s suburban spaces. This inspiring narrative delves into the multi-faceted aspects of urban design, public transit accessibility, traffic, and sprawl, invoking a collective rethink of how we liv
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Project for Public Spaces, Inc The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces
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Louisville Urban League 2024 State of Black Louisville
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LEGARE STREET PR Asgaardsrejen
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LEGARE STREET PR Asgaardsrejen
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LEGARE STREET PR The City That Was
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LEGARE STREET PR The City That Was
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LEGARE STREET PR No Thoroughfare
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LEGARE STREET PR The Metropolis
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LEGARE STREET PR Comptes Fantastiques Dhaussmann
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LEGARE STREET PR The The Social Settlement Movement in Chicago
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LEGARE STREET PR The The Improvement Of The Dwellings Of The Labouring Classes Through The Operation Of Government Measures c.
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LEGARE STREET PR An An Essay On The Population Of Dublin
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Legare Street Press Street Life In London. By J. Thomson And Adolphe Smith
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Legare Street Press The The Barrier
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Legare Street Press Die Die Städtische Bodenfrage
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Legare Street Press London And Its Teeming Toilers
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Legare Street Press Usque Ad Coelum
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Legare Street Press Building a Community
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Legare Street Press The The Mechanism of the City
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Legare Street Press Cities are Abnormal
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Legare Street Press The Present Position of the Housing Problem in and Around London
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Legare Street Press The The Growth of Cities a Study in Statistics
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Legare Street Press Substitutes for the Saloon
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Legare Street Press Report of the New York City Commission On Congestion of Population
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