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Kohlhammer W. Populistische Spiele
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£21.60
Böhlau-Verlag GmbH Stadtbücher I
£49.50
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Differenz im Raum: Sozialstruktur und
Book SynopsisSoziale Grenzziehungen prägen das Zusammenleben in Städten. Wie diese Einsicht in der quantitativen Stadtsoziologie berücksichtigt werden kann, thematisiert dieser Sammelband. Beispielhaft vermitteln dessen Beiträge die Bedeutung von gruppen- und raumbezogener Kategorisierung für die Analyse räumlicher Sozialstruktur. Anhand verschiedener empirischer Studien zu Ausmaß, Ursachen und Konsequenzen von Segregation und räumlicher Ungleichheit liefern sie gleichzeitig eine Bestandsaufnahme räumlicher Differenz in Deutschland.Table of ContentsWo und wie Grenzen ziehen? Soziale Kategorisierung in der quantitativen Stadtsoziologie-Die sozialräumliche Verteilung von Zugewanderten in den deutschen Städten zwischen 2014 und 2017.- Muster ethnischer Segregation in Deutschland – Ein Vergleich anhand räumlicher Segregationsmaße.- Nachbarschaften als Bildungskontexte und die Dynamiken räumlicher Mobilität von Familien.-Ethnic Choice Effects“: Welche Rolle spielt die räumliche Verfügbarkeit anspruchsvoller Bildungsalternativen?.- Ethnische Nachbarschaftskomposition und die Entwicklung einwanderungsbezogener Sorgen in Zeiten starker Zuwanderung.- Der Halo-Effekt in Deutschland – Revisited. Sind Menschen, die in der Nähevon – aber nicht in – ethnisch diversen Nachbarschaften leben besonders Xenophob und Rassistisch?.- Kulturelle und ethnische Definitionen von Zugehörigkeit in Ost- und Westdeutschland und im Stadt-Land-Vergleich.- Welche kontextuellen Faktoren beeinflussen interethnische Beziehungen in der Schule? Eine explorative Netzwerkanalyse.
£56.99
Hirzel S. Verlag Schone Neue Stadt
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£21.60
transcript Urban Contact Zones
£37.50
Spector Books DNA #17: Geology of the Present
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£9.50
Spector Books Broken Relations: Infrastructure, Aesthetics, and
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£24.70
Taylor & Francis Ltd Battery Park City: Politics and Planning on the
Book SynopsisBattery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban redevelopment planning. The flood of praise for its design, however, can obscure the many lessons from the long struggle to develop the project. Nothing was built on the site for more than a decade after the first master plan was approved, and the redevelopment agency flirted with bankruptcy in 1979.Taking a practice-oriented approach, the book examines the role of planning and development agencies in implementing urban waterfront redevelopment. It focuses upon the experience of the central actor - the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) - and includes personal interviews with executives of the BPCA, former New York mayors John Lindsay and Ed Koch, key public officials, planners, and developers. Describing the political, financial, planning, and implementation issues faced by public agencies and private developers from 1962 to 1993, it is both a case study and history of one of the most ambitious examples of urban waterfront redevelopment.Trade Review"Gordon argues that Battery Park City is a remarkably successful urban development project, and that its implemented plan, prepared largely by Cooper Eckstut Associates, was an admiral combination of postmodern and new urbanist development." - Journal of American Planning Association" Superbly designed for economic development professionals [and] urban design and planning firms." - Mitchell L. Moss, New York UniversityTable of Contents1. Dueling Plans: Proposals for the Lower Hudson Waterfront 2. Department of Marine and Aviation Plan 3. Governor Rockefeller's Proposal - Battery Park City 4. The City and State Negotiate 5. The 1969 Master Development Plan 6. Physical Design Cost Estimates 7. Designating Developers 8. Funding the Authority 9. Stalling Out: 1972-1979 10. The Real Estate Market Collapse The New York City Fiscal Crisis 11. The 1979 Master Plan 12. Building Battery Park City 13. Gateway Plaza 14. The World Financial Center 15. Public Spaces and Facilities 16. Issues for the Twenty-First Century 17. Corporate Structure 18. Why Battery Park City Matters 19. The Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association 20. Plan Implementation 21. Affordable Housing 22. Recharging Battery Park City: 1979-1982
£999.99
Valiz Urban Challenges, Resilient Solutions: Design
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£26.60
Valiz Commonism: A New Aesthetics of the Real
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£21.38
Penguin Putnam Inc Minor Black Figures
£15.20
The University of Chicago Press Alien Neighbors Foreign Friends Asian Americans
Book SynopsisBetween the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors evolved from outright hostility to relative acceptance. The author examines this transformation through the lens of California's urban housing markets.
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal
Book SynopsisExamines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically changed by the political and physical realities of sprawl, urban decay, and urban renewal. The author traces changing responses to the challenging issues that most affected day-to-day life in the world's cities.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Marketing Schools Marketing Cities
Book SynopsisDiscuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up - in fact, it will likely be a crucial factor in determining where that family lives. In this title, the author shows how education policy makes overt attempts to prevent, or at least slow, middle-class flight to the suburbs.Trade Review"Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara provides a very clear and compelling example of the involvement of private people and business in public education and of the ways in which market strategies have been at work here. She offers a major contribution that provides a good, detailed look at how 'market mechanisms' play out in practice." (Lisa Stulberg, New York University)"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Streetwise Race Class and Change in an Urban
Book SynopsisA portrait of city life which explores the dilemma of both blacks and whites, the underclass and the middle class, caught up in the new struggle not only for common ground--prime real estate in a racially changing neighborhood--but for shared moral community.
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press City Water City Life
Book SynopsisA city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. This book explores this infrastructure of ideas through an examination of the development of the first successful waterworks systems in Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago between the 1790s and 1860s.Trade Review"City Water, City Life is a gem of a book, a tightly focused meditation on the antebellum city's 'infrastructure of ideas.' By masterfully compressing myriad period sources, Carl Smith makes major contributions to our understanding of American society and culture." (Harold Platt, Loyola University Chicago)"
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Building the South Side Urban Space and Civic
Book SynopsisExplores the struggle for influence that dominated the planning and development of Chicago's South Side during the Progressive Era. This work examines the University of Chicago, Chicago's public parks, and the Black Belt to consider how community leaders looked to the physical design of the city to shape its culture and promote civic interaction.Trade Review"Bachin incisively charts the development of key urban institutions and landscapes that helped constitute the messy vitality of Chicago's late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century public realm." - Daniel Bluestone, Journal of American History "This is an ambitious book filled with important insights about issues of public space and its use by urban residents.... It is thoughtful, very well written, and should be read and appreciated by anyone interested in Chicago or cities generally. It is also a gentle reminder that people are as important as structures and spaces in trying to understand urban development." - Maureen A. Flanagan, American Historical Review"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press A Neighborhood That Never Changes Gentrification
Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnographic research in four distinct communities - the Chicago neighborhoods of Andersonville and Argyle and the New England towns of Provincetown and Dresden - this title paints a colorful portrait of how residents new and old, from wealthy gay homeowners to Portuguese fishermen, think about gentrification.Trade Review"A Neighborhood That Never Changes offers a sophisticated reinvention of the classic community study by emphasizing how local residents interpret contemporary economic and political forces through the lens of culture and the imagination of authenticity. Brown-Saracino's intellectually ambitious and entertaining book adds to the burgeoning literature on gentrification by slicing through some of the assumptions of the field with empirical rigor." - David Grazian, University of Pennsylvania"
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Sprawl A Compact History
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£17.00
The University of Chicago Press Human Targets
Book SynopsisAt fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a teacher, who mentored him and helped him find a job at an auto shop. That job would alter the course of his whole life putting him on the road to college and eventually a PhD. Now, Rios is a rising star, hailed for his work studying the lives of African American and Latino youth. In Human Targets, Rios takes us to the streets of California, where we encounter young men who find themselves in much the same situation as fifteen-year-old Victor. We follow young gang members into schools, homes, community organizations, and detention facilities, watch them interact with police, grow up to become fathers, get jobs, get rap sheets and in some cases get killed. What is it that sets apart young people like Rios who succeed and survive from the ones who don't?Rios makes a powerful case that the traditional good kid/bad kid, street kid/decent kid dichotomy is much too simplistic, arguing instead that authorities and institutions help create these identities and that they can play an instrumental role in providing young people with the resources for shifting between roles. In Rios's account, to be a poor Latino youth is to be a human target victimized and considered an enemy by others, viewed as a threat to law enforcement and schools, and treated with stigma, disrepute, and punishment. That has to change. This is not another sensationalistic account of gang bangers. Instead, the book is a powerful look at how authority figures succeed and fail at seeing the multi-faceted identities of at-risk youths, youths who succeed and fail at demonstrating to the system that they are ready to change their lives. In our post-Ferguson era, Human Targets is essential reading.
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press A World More Concrete
Book SynopsisMany people understand urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised, and even racist, tools for reshaping American cities in the postwar period. Concerned more with winners and losers than with heroes and villains, this book offers a sober assessment of money and power in Jim Crow America.Trade Review"A World More Concrete marks the arrival of an exciting new voice in American political and social history. Through a fascinating history of Miami, Connolly brings together politics, culture, and economics in a riveting account of how shared understandings of property rights and real estate were central to the racial segregation that has plagued America's cities. Connolly unpacks the complex dynamics of property transactions and urban development, meticulously analyzing all the various institutional actors who shape this market in order to understand the political economy of racism." (Julian E. Zelizer, Princeton University)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press When MiddleClass Parents Choose Urban Schools
Book SynopsisIn recent decades a growing number of middle-class parents have considered sending their children to - and often end up becoming active in - urban public schools. Their presence can bring long-needed material resources to such schools. The author shows that, it can also introduce new class and race tensions, and even exacerbate inequalities.Trade Review"Posey-Maddox's book makes an original contribution that is important to current conversations about urban schools. The question of what role middle-class families can/should play in urban school reform is a pressing one, and her research raises a series of questions that I have not seen raised elsewhere as clearly or directly. It captures key dimensions of how cities are changing and the impact those changes are having on our most important institutions." (Amanda E. Lewis, Emory University)"
£25.00
The University of Chicago Press Venice A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles
Book SynopsisNestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions. There, people of various races and classes live side by side. The author invites the reader on an ethnographic tour of this legendary California beach community and the people who live there.Trade Review"Andrew Deener writes clearly and engagingly about development and gentrification in Venice, one of those places that everyone has heard about but few people actually know. Unfailingly interesting to anyone interested in urbanism, urban sociology, and history, this first-class book will command respect from scholars. Deener clearly knows what he's talking about, and when he's through, so do you." -Howard S. Becker, University of California, Santa Barbara"
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press Sexual Politics Sexual Communities
Book SynopsisIncluding documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the late-20th-century gay culture to emerge, this text aims to provide a definitive analysis of the homophile movement in the USA from 1940 to 1970.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Shanghai Nightscapes A Nocturnal Biography of a
Book SynopsisDrawing on over years of fieldwork and hundreds of interviews, the authors spotlight a largely hidden world of nighttime pleasures - the dancing, drinking, and socializing going on in dance clubs and bars that have flourished in Shanghai over the last century.
£76.00
University of Chicago Press Shanghai Nightscapes A Nocturnal Biography of a
Book SynopsisDrawing on over years of fieldwork and hundreds of interviews, the authors spotlight a largely hidden world of nighttime pleasures - the dancing, drinking, and socializing going on in dance clubs and bars that have flourished in Shanghai over the last century.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press In the Watches of the Night
Book SynopsisOver the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks, buildings, and public spaces. This book depicts the changing experience of the urban night over this period, visiting a host of actors - scavengers, newsboys, and mashers alike - in the nocturnal city.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Managing to Make It Urban Families Adolescent
Book SynopsisBased on over 500 interviews/case studies of families in inner-city Philadelphia, this text reveals how parents managed different levels of resources and dangers in low-income neighbourhoods and how this management, rather than community involvement, contributed to the success of their children.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Teenage Wasteland Suburbias Dead End Kids
Book SynopsisThis volume provides portraits of rock and roll kids and analyses of their interests in heavy metal music and Satanism. It aims to draw new conclusions and to present solid reasons to admire the resilience of suburbia's dead-end kids.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press The City at Its Limits
Book SynopsisIn 1996, an older woman in Lima, Peru - part of a group of women street sweepers protesting the privatization of the city's cleaning services - stripped to the waist in full view of the crowd that surrounded her. This title analyzes the ramifications of this act within the city's conflicted history and across its class divisions.Trade Review"This is a brilliant, beautifully and powerfully written book and a much-needed intervention into academic thought about the senses, affect, intensity, place, the city, and politics - I found it entirely convincing." - Kathleen Stewart, University of Texas at Austin"
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press The Urbanization of Opera Music Theater in Paris
Book SynopsisAnselm Gerhard argues in this text that questions such as "why do so many operas end in suicide, murder, and death?" can only be answered by looking at life in the rapidly urbanized mid-19th-century Paris, which introduced new social forces, and also new modes of perception and expectations of art.Table of ContentsPreface to the English-Language Edition Acknowledgments Chronology Introduction Ch. 1: Realities of a Metropolis Ch. 2: Victor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy, a Hermit in the City Ch. 3: Rossini and the Revolution Ch. 4: Eugene Scribe, an Apolitical Man of Letters Ch. 5: Meyerbeer and the Happy Medium Ch. 6: Victor Hugo, the Illustrious Poet as Librettist Ch. 7: Meyerbeer and Reaction Ch. 8: The Composer as Librettist Ch. 9: Verdi and an Institutional Crisis Ch. 10: The International View Ch. 11: Verdi and Interior Space Bibliography Index of Titles of Operas and Plays Index of Names
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Urbanization of Opera Music Theater in Paris
Book SynopsisGerhard explores the origins of grand opera, arguing that its aesthetic innovations reflected not bourgeois tastes, but changes in daily life and psychological outlook produced by the rapid urbanization of Paris. The text explores eight operas composed by Verdi and Rossini, for example.
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era
Book SynopsisFor decades, North American cities racked by deindustrialization and population loss have followed one primary path in their attempts at revitalization: a focus on economic growth in downtown and business areas. Neighborhoods, meanwhile, have often been left severely underserved. There are, however, signs of change. This collection of studies by a distinguished group of political scientists and urban planning scholars offers a rich analysis of the scope, potential, and ramifications of a shift still in progress. Focusing on neighborhoods in six cities-Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Toronto-the authors show how key players, including politicians and philanthropic organizations, are beginning to see economic growth and neighborhood improvement as complementary goals. The heads of universities and hospitals in central locations also find themselves facing newly defined realities, adding to the fluidity of a new political landscape even as structural inequalities exe
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The University of Chicago Press A Nation of Neighborhoods Imagining Cities
Book SynopsisDespite the pundits who have written its epitaph and the latter-day refugees who have fled its confines for the half-acre suburban estate, the city neighborhood has endured as an idea central to American culture. In A Nation of Neighborhoods, Benjamin Looker presents us with the city neighborhood as both an endless problem and a possibility. Looker investigates the cultural, social, and political complexities of the idea of neighborhood in postwar America and how Americans grappled with vast changes in their urban spaces from World War II to the Reagan era. In the face of urban decline, competing visions of the city neighborhood's significance and purpose became proxies for broader debates over the meaning and limits of American democracy. By studying the way these contests unfolded across a startling variety of genres-Broadway shows, radio plays, urban ethnographies, real estate documents, and even children's programming-Looker shows that the neighborhood ideal has functioned as a ce
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The University of Chicago Press From Boom to Bubble
Book SynopsisDuring the Great Recession, the housing bubble took much of the blame for bringing the American economy to its knees, but commercial real estate also experienced its own boom-and-bust in the same time period. In Chicago, for example, law firms and corporate headquarters abandoned their historic downtown office buildings for the millions of brand-new square feet that were built elsewhere in the central business district. What causes construction booms like this, and why do they so often leave a glut of vacant space and economic distress in their wake? In From Boom to Bubble, Rachel Weber debunks the idea that booms occur only when cities are growing and innovating. Instead, she argues, even in cities experiencing employment and population decline, developers rush to erect new office towers and apartment buildings when they have financial incentives to do so. Focusing on the main causes of overbuilding during the early 2000s, Weber documents the case of Chicago's Millennial Boom, showing that the Loop's expansion was a response to global and local pressures to produce new assets. An influx of cheap cash, made available through the use of complex financial instruments, helped transform what started as a boom grounded in modest occupant demand into a speculative bubble, where pricing and supply had only tenuous connections to the market. Innovative and compelling, From Boom to Bubble is an unprecedented historical, sociological, and geographic look at how property markets change and fail-and how that affects cities.
£37.05
The University of Chicago Press MusicCity American Festivals and Placemaking in
Book SynopsisAustin's famed South by Southwest is far more than a festival celebrating indie music. It's also a big networking party that sparks the imagination of hip, creative types and galvanizes countless pilgrimages to the city. Festivals like SXSW are a lot of fun, but for city halls, media corporations, cultural institutions, and community groups, they're also a vital part of a complex growth strategy. In Music/City, Jonathan R. Wynn immerses us in the world of festivals, giving readers a unique perspective on contemporary urban and cultural life. Wynn tracks the history of festivals in Newport, Nashville, and Austin, taking readers on-site to consider different festival agendas and styles of organization. It's all here: from the musician looking to build her career to the mayor who wants to exploit a local cultural scene, from a resident's frustration over corporate branding of his city to the music executive hoping to sell records. Music/City offers a sharp perspective on cities and cultu
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press MusicCity American Festivals and Placemaking in
Book SynopsisAustin's famed South by Southwest is far more than a festival celebrating indie music. It's also a big networking party that sparks the imagination of hip, creative types and galvanizes countless pilgrimages to the city. Festivals like SXSW are a lot of fun, but for city halls, media corporations, cultural institutions, and community groups, they're also a vital part of a complex growth strategy. In Music/City, Jonathan R. Wynn immerses us in the world of festivals, giving readers a unique perspective on contemporary urban and cultural life. Wynn tracks the history of festivals in Newport, Nashville, and Austin, taking readers on-site to consider different festival agendas and styles of organization. It's all here: from the musician looking to build her career to the mayor who wants to exploit a local cultural scene, from a resident's frustration over corporate branding of his city to the music executive hoping to sell records. Music/City offers a sharp perspective on cities and cultural institutions in action and analyzes how governments mobilize massive organizational resources to become promotional machines. Wynn's analysis culminates with an impassioned argument for temporary events, claiming that when done right, temporary occasions like festivals can serve as responsive, flexible, and adaptable products attuned to local places and communities.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Living the Drama Community Conflict and Culture
Book SynopsisLooks at three neighborhoods in Boston to analyze the many complex ways that the context of community shapes the daily lives and long-term prospects of inner-city boys. Offering a glimpse into the world of urban adolescent boys, this title paints an insightful portrait of life in the inner city.Trade Review"Living the Drama tackles a substantive topic, engages in key theoretical debates, employs a distinctive comparative approach, gives ample voice to its subjects, and enriches our knowledge of poor youth." - Claude S. Fischer, University of California, Berkeley"
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press The Third City
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£17.00
The University of Chicago Press Practicing Utopia
Book SynopsisThe typical town springs up around a natural resourcea river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harboror in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with new towns, which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are often intended to break from the tendencies of past development. New towns aren't a new thingancient Phoenicians named their colonies Qart Hadasht, or New Citybut these utopian developments saw a resurgence in the twentieth century. In Practicing Utopia, Rosemary Wakeman gives us a sweeping view of the new town movement as a global phenomenon. From Tapiola in Finland to Islamabad in Pakistan, Cergy-Pontoise in France to Irvine in California, Wakeman unspools a masterly account of the golden age of new towns, exploring their utopian qualities and investigating what these towns can tell us about contemporary modernization and urban planning. She presents the new town movement as something truly global, defying a Cold War East-West dichotomy or the north-south polarization of rich and poor countries. Wherever these new towns were located, whatever their size, whether famous or forgotten, they shared a utopian lineage and conception that, in each case, reveals how residents and planners imagined their ideal urban future.
£37.05
The University of Chicago Press The Modernist City An Anthropological Critique of
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£40.85
The University of Chicago Press How Places Make Us Novel LBQ Identities in Four
Book SynopsisWe like to think of ourselves as possessing an essential self, a core identity that is who we really are, regardless of where we live, work, or play. But places actually make us much more than we might think, argues Japonica Brown-Saracino in this novel ethnographic study of lesbian, bisexual, and queer individuals in four small cities across the United States. Taking us into communities in Ithaca, New York; San Luis Obispo, California; Greenfield, Massachusetts; and Portland, Maine; Brown-Saracino shows how LBQ migrants craft a unique sense of self that corresponds to their new homes. How Places Make Us demonstrates that sexual identities are responsive to city ecology. Despite the fact that the LBQ residents share many demographic and cultural traits, their approaches to sexual identity politics and to ties with other LBQ individuals and heterosexual residents vary markedly by where they live. Subtly distinct local ecologies shape what it feels like to be a sexual minority, including
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press A World More Concrete
Book SynopsisMany people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools for reshaping American cities in the postwar period. InA World More Concrete, N. D. B. Connolly uses the history of South Florida to unearth an older and far more complex story. Connolly captures nearly eighty years of political and land transactions to reveal how real estate and redevelopment created and preserved metropolitan growth and racial peace under white supremacy. Using a materialist approach, he offers a long view of capitalism and the color line, following much of the money that made land taking and Jim Crow segregation profitable and preferred approaches to governing cities throughout the twentieth century. A World More Concreteargues that black and white landlords, entrepreneurs, and even liberal community leaders used tenements and repeated land dispossession to take advantage of the poor and generate remarkable wealth. Through a pol
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Chicagos Block Clubs How Neighbors Shape the City
Book SynopsisWhat do you do if your alley is strewn with garbage after the sanitation truck comes through? Or if you're tired of the rowdy teenagers next door keeping you up all night? Is there a vacant lot on your block accumulating weeds, needles, and litter? For a century, Chicagoans have joined block clubs to address problems like these that make daily life in the city a nuisance. When neighbors work together in block clubs, playgrounds get built, local crime is monitored, streets are cleaned up, and every summer is marked by the festivities of day-long block parties. In Chicago's Block Clubs, Amanda I. Seligman uncovers the history of the block club in Chicago from its origins in the Urban League in the early 1900s through to the Chicago Police Department's twenty-first-century community policing program. Recognizing that many neighborhood problems are too big for one resident to handle but too small for the city keep up with city residents have for more than a century created clubs to establi
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Learning from Shenzhen Chinas PostMao Experiment
Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China's contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed from an experimental site for economic reform into a dominant city at the crossroads of the global economy. The first of China's special economic zones, Shenzhen is today a UNESCO City of Design and the hub of China's emerging technology industries. Bringing China studies into dialogue with urban studies, the contributors explore how the post-Mao Chinese appropriation of capitalist logic led to a dramatic remodeling of the Chinese city and collective life in China today. These essays show how urban villages and informal institutions enabled social transformation through cases of public health, labor, architecture, gender, politics, education, and more. Offering scholars and general readers alike an unprecedented look at one of the world'
£31.00
The University of Chicago Press The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal
Book SynopsisExamines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically changed by the political and physical realities of sprawl, urban decay, and urban renewal. This title traces changing responses to the challenging issues that most affected the lives of the world's cities.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Race Class and Politics in the Cappuccino City
Book SynopsisFor long-time residents of Washington, D.C.'s Shaw/U Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent years. Where the city's most infamous open-air drug market once stood, a farmers' market now sells grass-fed beef and homemade duck egg ravioli. On the corner where AM.PM carryout used to dish out soul food, a new establishment markets its $28 foie gras burger. Shaw is experiencing a dramatic transformation, from ghetto to gilded ghetto, where white newcomers are rehabbing homes, developing dog parks, and paving the way for a third wave coffee shop on nearly every block.Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City is an in-depth ethnography of this gilded ghetto. Derek S. Hyra captures here a quickly gentrifying space in which long-time black residents are joined, and variously displaced, by an influx of young, white, relatively wealthy, and/or gay professionals who, in part as a result of global economic forces and the recent development of central business dist
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press African American Urban History since World War II
Book SynopsisFocuses on black migration and Latino immigration, examining tensions and alliances that emerged between African Americans and other groups. Exploring the challenges of residential segregation and deindustrialization, this book also tackles such topics as the real estate industry's discriminatory practices.Trade Review"Taken together, the essays in this volume are transformative - and excellent across the board. They collectively propel the historiography of the postwar era in profitable directions. They push against the most staid boundaries of urban history, they break out of the black-white binary that ensnares so much of African American history, and they juxtapose different objects of study in a way that establishes this book as a wonderfully realized interdisciplinary examination of the past." - Jonathan Holloway, Yale University"
£28.00
