Urban communities / city life Books
The University of Chicago Press Going All City Struggle and Survival in LAs
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Going All City is an amazing read that is impossible to put down. A cutting-edge geographical exploration of under-examined Los Angeles landscapes, this poignant, insightful book is unique within graffiti scholarship and expansive in our understanding of the city. Depicting the pain of a childhood spent in poverty, the ambiguity of race, and the subjective experience of policing and gangs, this is the remarkable story of just one of thousands of young people who have found power in the clandestine practice of graffiti."--Susan Phillips, author of Wallbangin' Gangs and Graffiti in L.A.
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press How States Shaped Postwar America State
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The University of Chicago Press Bargaining for Brooklyn
Book SynopsisWhen middle-class residents fled American cities in the 1960s and '70s, government services and investment capital left too. Countless urban neighborhoods entered phases of precipitous decline, prompting the creation of community-based organizations to bring resources back to the city. This book examines such organizations that drive urban life.Trade Review"This is a valuable work that will influence the way sociologists understand the cycle of development of poor, urban neighborhoods. Nicole Marwell makes a unique contribution with an analytic strategy that emphasizes the important role played by community-based organizations, actors that have been generally ignored in urban sociology." - Mitchell Duneier, author of Sidewalk"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Schools Betrayed
Book SynopsisInner-city schools suffered from far fewer problems a century ago, when black children in most northern cities attended school alongside white children. This title tells the story of how and why these schools came to serve black children so poorly. It compares the circumstances of blacks and white immigrants.Trade Review"One of those rare books that will become a standard reference not only for social scientists, historians, and school officials, but for educated lay readers as well.... No previous study has provided a more definitive analysis of why so many black youngsters and their parents have lost faith in the public schools." - William Julius Wilson. "Kathryn Neckerman's analysis provides a welcome antidote to much of the historical literature on American education, which rarely examines actual policy choices.... Segregation did harm blacks, as this fine book shows." - "Journal of American History"
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press The Problem of Jobs Liberalism Race and
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The University of Chicago Press The Browning of the New South
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This provocative book upends the conventional wisdom about relationships between Latinos and African-Americans. Jones shows in vivid detail how shared experiences of hostility from the white majority generate new forms of solidarity and organization. The Browning of the New South has important implications for the future of American politics and scholarly understandings of cross-ethnic coalitions."--David FitzGerald "co-author of Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas " "Jones offers a dynamic, complex, compellingly argued account of the remarkably understudied black-Latinx alliances, an account that will surely resonate far beyond Winston-Salem. At this political moment, she shines a bright light on the possibilities for powerful minority coalitions, which can be key for necessary social change. The Browning of the New South is insightful, timely, and inspiring. I cannot recommend it highly enough."--Cecilia Menj var, University of California, Los Angeles
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Maxwell Street Writing and Thinking Place
Book SynopsisMaxwell Street sheds light on a historic Chicago neighborhood and offers a new model for how to write about place, approaching the study of place as an assemblage of things, meanings, and practices.
£91.00
The University of Chicago Press New York Recentered Building the Metropolis from
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The University of Chicago Press Community Health Equity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In healthcare, we are taught that the right treatment comes from the right diagnosis. Paradoxically our profession almost always gets the diagnosis for health inequity wrong, and mistreats accordingly. Health workers who read this book will interrupt that cycle, recognizing that they cannot continue to support the current social arrangement if we dream of achieving health equity this generation."--Michelle Morse, founding codirector of EqualHealth "Community Health Equity is an exciting and important opportunity to present the whole story of Chicago's long and deeply rooted history of structural inequities. The book exposes a city divided by power and racism, which impacts access to health care, causing gaps in public health outcomes throughout the last hundred years. The editors detail how these inequities are duly caused and reinforced by structural and social determinants of health; they also provide ways to take action to address them. The target audience for Community Health Equity is wide and broad--after all, learning from the past can help shape and influence the future."--Christina R. Welter, University of Illinois at Chicago
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The University of Chicago Press Mama Might Be Better Off Dead
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The University of Chicago Press The World Is Always Coming to an End Pulling
Book SynopsisBlending journalism, memoir, and archival research, The World Is Always Coming to an End uses the story of one American neighborhood to challenge our assumptions about what neighborhoods are, and to think anew about what they might be if we can bridge gaps and commit anew to the people who share them with us.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The Patchwork City
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The University of Chicago Press Black on the Block
Book SynopsisUses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago's North Kenwood - Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in contemporary urban America. This title explores the battles between haves and have-nots, home owners and apartment dwellers, and newcomers and old-timers.Trade Review"A century from now, when today's sociologists and journalists are dust and their books are too, those who want to understand what the hell happened to Chicago will be finding the answer in this one." - Chicago Reader "To see how diversity creates strange and sometimes awkward bedfellows... turn to Mary Pattillo's Black on the Block." - Boston Globe"
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press The Origins of the Dual City Housing Race and
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The University of Chicago Press The Origins of the Dual City Housing Race and
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The University of Chicago Press Running the Numbers Race Police and the History
Book SynopsisEvery day in the United States, people test their luck in numerous lotteries, from state-run games to massive programs like Powerball and Mega Millions. Yet few are aware that the origins of today's lotteries can be found in an African American gambling economy that flourished in urban communities in the mid-twentieth century. In Running the Numbers, Matthew Vaz reveals how the politics of gambling became enmeshed in disputes over racial justice and police legitimacy. As Vaz highlights, early urban gamblers favored low-stakes games built around combinations of winning numbers. When these games became one of the largest economic engines in nonwhite areas like Harlem and Chicago's south side, police took notice of the illegal businessand took advantage of new opportunities to benefit from graft and other corrupt practices. Eventually, governments found an unusual solution to the problems of illicit gambling and abusive police tactics: coopting the market through legal state-run lotteries, which could offer larger jackpots than any underground game. By tracing this process and the tensions and conflicts that propelled it, Vaz brilliantly calls attention to the fact that, much like education and housing in twentieth-century America, the gambling economy has also been a form of disputed terrain upon which racial power has been expressed, resisted, and reworked.
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The University of Chicago Press The Problem with Feeding Cities The Social
Book SynopsisFor most people, grocery shopping is a mundane activity. Few stop to think about the massive, global infrastructure that makes it possible to buy Chilean grapes in a Philadelphia supermarket in the middle of winter. Yet every piece of food represents an interlocking system of agriculture, manufacturing, shipping, logistics, retailing, and nonprofits that controls what we eator don't. The Problem with Feeding Cities is a sociological and historical examination of how this remarkable network of abundance and convenience came into being over the last century. It looks at how the US food system transformed from feeding communities to feeding the entire nation, and it reveals how a process that was once about fulfilling basic needs became focused on satisfying profit margins. It is also a story of how this system fails to feed people, especially in the creation of food deserts. Andrew Deener shows that problems with food access are the result of infrastructural failings stemming from how Trade Review"...a major addition to the literature on food infrastructure history and analysis." * Civil Engineering Magazine *"We take food for granted—that it will always be on the shelf, mostly affordable, and safe to eat. Andrew Deener no longer takes the food supply for granted and in this book, using the City of Philadelphia as a case study, examines the high-volume, high-variety food system on which the U.S. relies." * CHoW Line *"The Problem with Feeding Cities is a tour de force in its examination of the logistical and supply chain effects on our food system...[It] is a valuable book for those interested in food insecurity and organizational sociology." * Sociological Forum *"Deener urges us to think of food as similar to other goods, [such as] electricity [and] housing that changed dramatically in the twentieth century. He does an excellent job taking the reader on the trip--by boat, by railroad, long haulers, and cars--to see how food gets from point A to point B (with a lot of other points in-between)...Changes in food distribution in the twentieth century led to much of the infrastructural decay we see in US cities in the 21st century and exacerbated food inequalities that we still see today." * Urbanities: The Journal of Urban Ethnography *"Andrew Deener’s fascinating book represents an important contribution to the sparsely populated field of social studies of food infrastructure. . . . The Problem with Feeding Cities represents an ambitious attempt to unpack the black box of fresh food provisioning in the United States and theorize the role of food infrastructure in shaping the contemporary city. . . .[It] reveals the importance of understanding what stands between the proverbial farm and table in terms of crafting policies and theories that can adequately confront the 'problem with feeding cities.'" * Gastronomica *“Most of us give little thought to the question of how our food gets to the grocery store, or of how and why this matters. But Deener has spent years investigating the hidden infrastructure that shapes what we grow, what we eat, what we spend, and, most surprisingly, how we’ve built cities, suburbs, and transit networks around the world. The Problem with Feeding Cities is a revelatory study, loaded with ideas about how to create healthier, more sustainable systems for our changing world.” -- Eric Klinenberg, author of Palaces for the People and Heat Wave“This is the food chain fully traced and newly understood. We learn how grocery companies, road builders, and bar codes have shaped cities and fields—and what goes in our mouths. Deener combines politics, technology, and taste for lessons in urban history, consumption, and the wiles and woes of business. He brings the concept of infrastructure to explanatory life.” -- Harvey Molotch, author of Where Stuff Comes From“The Problem with Feeding Cities is a masterpiece of sociological imagination, making the familiar grocery store aisle into a strange concoction of methyl bromide and Universal Product Codes. Deener narrates the ‘social life of infrastructure’ over a century of history and with a remarkable variety of foodstuff examples. This book is a model of urban, economic, organizational, and environmental sociology.” -- Mary Pattillo, author of Black on the Block"What is singularly insightful about this volume is that it disaggregates the food system, showing how supplying cities with grains or meats, about which much has been written...is quite different from feeding cities fresh fruits and vegetables...[Deener] underlines the epistemic consequences of separating rural sociology from urban sociology and a sociology of production from a sociology of consumption, with the ties between the two falling out of analytical view. That sets his task for the rest of the book, which includes exemplary chapters on technologies and techniques of classifying uneven organic material." * City & Community *"Sociologists with interests in food, urban studies, and politics will find The Problem with Feeding Cities to be a helpful resource for many years to come. Any evolution of our food distribution system that expands beyond today’s supermarket model (e.g., home delivery) will require new infrastructure to succeed. Deener’s framing of the problem of getting food to people will help us keep track of the ways industry and government mutually adapt to stock the household pantries of the future." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsPreface One / The Transformation of the Food System Two / The Rise and Fall of the Urban Middlemen Three / Infrastructural Exclusion Four / The Bar Code: A Micro-technical Force of Change Five / Defeating Seasons: Reassembling the Produce Aisle Six / Cracks in the System Seven / Food Distribution as Unfinished Infrastructure Eight / The Problem with Feeding Cities Acknowledgments Methods Appendix: Strategic Variation and Historical Excavation Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Street Therapists Race Affect and Neoliberal
Book SynopsisDrawing from almost a decade of ethnographic research in largely Brazilian and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey, the author examines how affect, emotion, and sentiment serve as waypoints for the navigation of interracial relationships among US-born Latinos, Latin American migrants, blacks, and white ethnics.Trade Review"There are many books that try to look at affect/emotion and contemporary urban life, or at the logic of neoliberalism, or even at the many complex links between race/ethnicity/multiculturalism and gender/sexuality, but I can't think of one that takes them all on - and so compellingly. Indeed, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas does a masterful job of emphasizing emotion/affect as significant to the social science of diverse urban communities while putting all of these other themes in conversation with that central concern. It is a tremendously smart, useful, and ambitious piece of urban ethnography." (John L. Jackson Jr., University of Pennsylvania)"
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The University of Chicago Press Upsold Real Estate Agents Prices and
Book SynopsisWhat do you want for yourself in the next five, ten years? Do your plans involve marriage, kids, a new job? These are the questions a real estate agent might ask in an attempt to unearth information they can employ to complete a sale, which as Upsold shows, often results in upselling. In this book, sociologist Max Besbris shows how agents successfully upsell, inducing buyers to spend more than their initially stated price ceilings. His research reveals how face-to-face interactions influence buyers' ideas about which neighborhoods are desirable and which are less-worthy investments and how these preferences ultimately contribute to neighborhood inequality. ? Stratification defines cities in the contemporary United States. In an era marked by increasing income segregation, one of the main sources of this inequality is housing prices. A crucial part of wealth inequality, housing prices are also directly linked to the uneven distribution of resources across neighborhoods and to racial Trade Review"Real estate agents, it turns out, do more than show off properties, interpret price points, and sing the praises of trendy design features like open-plan kitchens and soaking tubs. Their role, as sociologist Max Besbris reveals in Upsold: Real Estate Agents, Prices, and Neighborhood Inequality, is instead to work a kind of sorcery on buyers—and, by extension, on entire neighborhoods—through a complex matrix of business and interpersonal tactics. . . . Upsold is an intricate, well-researched, and well-written book that provides new insights into real estate, spatial inequalities, and the real estate profession. It is a must-read for scholars interested in markets, decision-making, and residential inequalities." * Public Books *Upsold offers a putative critique of the formal modeling of markets by focusing on the central role of real estate agents, as a distinct occupational community, in structuring the New York real estate market. Besbris uses the sociology of work as a chisel with which to carve a complex and sensitive depiction of real estate agents, their formal and informal training, and their occupational socialization... Besbris's writing is clear, engaging and intellectually mature, which coupled with a clear structure makes Upsold enjoyable and illuminating reading. * British Journal of Sociology *"Max Besbris’s excellent Upsold describes this work of real estate agents in New York City and their interactions with prospective buyers in rich and fascinating detail. Bridging the gap between network and cultural explanations of economic decision-making, he demonstrates how social interactions serve to construct buyers’ preferences. He details how real estate agents push buyers toward sales above their stated price caps—transactions in which agents have a clear vested interest. Importantly, Besbris links these interpersonal interactions and valuations to broader trends, arguing that they contribute to the production and perpetuation of segregation among neighborhoods." * American Journal of Sociology *"In recent years, urban sociologists have paid increasing attention to how people make decisions—about housing, schools, job finding, and more. Besbris makes a powerful contribution to this work by examining how people decide what to buy, why they often end up paying more than they expected, and how realtors play a bigger role in the process than realized. Upsold is based on a remarkable amount of data, including interviewers with buyers, realtors, and others, and quantitative analyses of the spatial patterns of realtor concentration. But perhaps its most intriguing sources of data are its direct, tag-along observations of the interaction between buyer and realtor as they make their round, an interaction where, as the author argues, the price and purchase decisions are actually produced. The book reveals the fascinating ways these costly decisions end up being not only less rational but also less individual, more emotional, and far more interpersonally determined than many have supposed. A contribution to the sociological study of economic decisions, of taste, of neighborhoods, of network brokerage, and of housing, Upsold is wonderfully wide-ranging in its implications." -- Mario Lois Small, Harvard University"Bravo Max Besbris, for deciphering the complex and deeply emotional process of buying a home. Drawing from engrossing interviews with New York sales agents and wealthy buyers, Upsold demonstrates the crucial role of intermediaries in shaping real estate markets. How much we are willing to pay for a home, how satisfied we are with our purchase, and even where we choose to live are contingent on interactions with real estate agents. A pathbreaking contribution to relational economic sociology, the book is a must-read for anyone interested in learning how markets really work." -- Viviana A. Zelizer is Lloyd Cotsen, ’50 Professor of Sociology, Princeton University“In this illuminative ethnography, Besbris roots the macro-dynamics of real estate prices and neighborhood gentrification in the micro-sociological work done by agents driving up buyers’ expectations and affordability thresholds. An entertaining read, it will cause more than one homeowner to look back on their own process and the subtle interactions by which they, too, were once ‘upsold.’” -- Marion Fourcade, University of California, Berkeley"Casting real estate agents as 'market intermediaries' who occupy similar interactional spaces as others who help to define and influence “consumer” preferences and choices (e.g., sommeliers, travel agents, career counselors), we gain a sense oft he transcontextual relevance of Besbris’ engaging work. . . . This is a volume rich in detail and marked by methodological sophistication that deserves a readership far beyond the confines of its substantive area of interest." * Symbolic Interaction *"Max Besbris deserves a lot of credit for the amount of work that he put into the book—observing buyers and agents at open house sessions, conducting interviews with buyers and agents, attending real estate schools, and doing regression analyses. His hard work has paid off. Upsold is a highly readable book that I recommend to scholars, practitioners (including real estate professionals and planners), and the general public." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"Provides insights into how home buyers come to pay the prices they do and the role of market intermediaries in shaping taste preferences in unequal ways, focusing on how real estate agents guide buyers through the process of searching for a home." * Journal of Economic Literature *"[Upsold] shows how, in a variety of ways, real estate agents reinforce and per- petuate inequalities that frame the context in which agents and buyers interact." * American Sociological Association *
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The University of Chicago Press The City Creative The Rise of Urban Placemaking
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An unprecedented and refreshing history of creative placemaking, from the postwar era to the recent aftermath of the Great Recession. Carriere and Schalliol carefully examine the concept of sociability through the evolution of placemaking, describing how the latter expressed and negotiated tensions between individual identity and communal belonging. With compelling photography and hundreds of examples, the authors skillfully unravel a double narrative that characterizes placemaking and urban planning in contemporary American cities. . . . The City Creative is an exciting invitation to look past outdated practices of trickle-down urban development. The book offers a much needed and long overdue history of placemaking that acknowledges its shortcomings, incorporates more inclusive ideas, and celebrates novel practices. With honesty, rigor, and remarkable visual appeal, Carriere and Schalliol encourage readers to seek more holistic outcomes and benefits that can be distributed equitably. In doing so, they recast placemaking in a broader, more generous light." * Journal of Planning History *"Provocative, although its tone is not strident. Implicit in its narrative, the book raises questions about the very core of city revitalization—the interaction of markets and public policies. . . . Courses in urban planning theory or practice may find this study a useful reference on the power of citizen-initiated action outside of the usual parameters of officialdom to reshape neighborhood environments and reinvigorate activity centers. Its highly readable text and copious images make it accessible to laypersons, as well as practitioners and scholars." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"Carriere and Schalliol consider ideas about revitalizing cities by putting arts at the center of economic development. . . . This is a good reference book for students, urban planners, and community activists. . . . Recommended." * Choice *"This is essential reading for this year of crisis (2020) and beyond: in the midst of a global pandemic, which has decimated urban public life, as diverse Americans reclaim the city’s streets in the name of racial justice, The City Creative illustrates a broader history of creative placemaking in American cities and highlights the diverse and sometimes conflicting efforts to build anew. With an assemblage of rigorous case studies, a commitment to community engagement, and a rich compilation of compelling photographs, Carriere and Schalliol show us how the struggle for more inclusive and more just cities begins at the grassroots." -- Eric Avila, University of California Los Angeles"The City Creative is a profound exploration of how residents working together can turn around the nation’s most struggling cities. It is part scholarly critique of placemaking as an economic and social strategy of urban revitalization, part gorgeous photo essay of urban experimentations, and part powerful argument for making cities productive rather than postindustrial, with remedies homegrown and not top-down. This breathtaking book inspires hope and confidence in what committed members of a community can make possible." -- Lizabeth Cohen, author of Saving America’s Cities“The City Creative is an important book, the first to offer an extensive study of the increasingly ubiquitous practice of creative placemaking. Carriere and Schalliol are the first urbanists offering a persuasive (or any) history of that phenomenon. Drawing upon their rigorous investigation of grassroots local projects, they provide a vital direction for mainstream placemaking to follow.” * Journal of Urban History *
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The University of Chicago Press Making the Second Ghetto Race and Housing in
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1983 and praised by the likes of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Thomas Sugrue, Arnold R. Hirsch's Making the Second Ghetto is the rare book that has only become more piercingly prescient over the years. Hirsch's classic and groundbreaking work of urban history is a revelatory look at Chicago in the decades after the Great Depression, a period when the city dealt with its rapidly growing Black population not by working to abolish its stark segregation but by expanding and solidifying it. Even as the civil rights movement rose to prominence, Chicago exploited a variety of methods of segregationincluding riots, redevelopment, and a host of new legal frameworksthat provided a national playbook for the emergence of a new kind of entrenched inequality. Hirsch's chronicle of the strategies employed by ethnic, political, and business interests in reaction to the Great Migration of Southern Blacks in the mid-twentieth century makes startingly clear how the violent reactions of an emergent white population found common ground with policy makers to segregate first a city and then the nation. This enlarged edition of Making the Second Ghetto features a visionary afterword by historian N. D. B. Connolly, explaining why Hirsch's book still crackles with blistering relevance for contemporary readers. Trade Review“Arnold Hirsch’s deeply transformational book lays out how a perfect storm of racism, redlining, and public policies formed Chicago and other American cities. If you want to understand what came after the 1960s, you have to understand what came before them. And today we’re still dealing with the same issues Hirsch wrote about. Every sector of the city—its business interests, its government, its people, and sometimes even its churches—have employed particular weaponry to effect a single goal: the subjugation of black people. It hasn’t changed.” * Ta-Nehisi Coates, author of We Were Eight Years In Power and Between the World and Me *Table of ContentsList of tables and maps Foreword Preface 1 The second ghetto and the dynamics of neighborhood change 2 An era of hidden violence 3 Friends, neighbors, and rioters 4 The Loop versus the slums: downtown strikes back 5 A neighborhood on a hill: Hyde Park and the University of Chicago 6 Divided we stand: white unity and the color line at midcentury 7 Making the second ghetto Epilogue: Chicago and the nation Afterword to the 2021 edition Notes Index
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The University of Chicago Press Block by Block Neighborhoods and Public Policy on
Book SynopsisSeligman's careful and evenhanded account will be essential to understanding that the flight of whites to the suburbs was the eventual result of a series of responses to transformations in Chicago's physical and social landscape, occurring one block at a time.Trade Review"A creative reinterpretation of the postwar urban crisis, Seligman's book challenges the one-dimensional portrait of Chicago's West Side. Her multiplicity of stories and experiences makes this a very rich urban history. Original and useful, Block by Block is an important contribution to postwar urban historiography." - Becky Nicolaides, University of California, San Diego"
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The University of Chicago Press Believing in South Central
Book SynopsisThe area of Los Angeles known as South Central is often overshadowed by dismal stereotypes, problematic racial stigmas, and its status as the home to some of the city's poorest and most violent neighborhoods. Amid South Central's shifting demographics and its struggles with poverty, sociologist Pamela J. Prickett takes a closer look, focusing on the members of an African American Muslim community and exploring how they help each other combat poverty, job scarcity, violence, and racial injustice. Prickett's engaging ethnography relates how believers in this longstanding religious community see Islam as a way of life, a comprehensive blueprint for individual and collective action, guiding how to interact with others, conduct business, strive for progress, and cultivate faith. Prickett offers deep insights into the day-to-day lived religion of the Muslims who call this community home, showing how the mosque provides a system of social support and how believers deepen their spiritual pracTrade Review"Smart and highly original, Believing in South Central details how a small Muslim community in South Central, Los Angeles, makes meaning of their faith in the midst of a changing racial landscape and a declining community of believers. Prickett brings nuanced analysis, beautiful prose, and seamless narration together in this ethnography that will expand scholars' understanding of how African Americans practice their Islamic faith outside Arab and South Asian Muslim communities."--Ula Y. Taylor, author of The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of IslamTable of ContentsIntroduction: Living a Muslim Way of Life in South Central Chapter One: “Our Test Is Living a Community Life” Chapter Two: “Don’t Move. Improve” Chapter Three: “Money Is Funny” Chapter Four: “Why Not Just Use a Cucumber!” Chapter Five: “That’s What They Think of Us” Conclusion: “Allahu Akbar” Methods Appendix Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Back of the Yards The Making of a Local Democracy
Book SynopsisRobert A. Slayton's Back of the Yards is one of the finest accounts I have ever read on an urban, working-class neighborhood in twentieth-century America. Its focus on family, politics, and worklife is penetrating and its conclusions reinforce an emerging scholarly picture of ordinary people exercising unique forms of power.John Bodnar, author of The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America
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The University of Chicago Press Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief The Great
Book SynopsisThe Great Chicago Fire of 1871, Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullman are remarkable events. This book explores the imaginative dimensions of these events and traces the evolution of interconnected beliefs and actions that increasingly linked city, disorder, and social reality in minds of Americans.Trade Review"Cultural history at its finest....Smith creates a sophisticated account of changing visions of urban America." - Robin F. Bachin, Journal of Interdisciplinary History "This deeply researched, subtle, and complex book seeks to comprehend the significance of three events of signal importance in the development of the American urban landscape." - Douglas Greenberg, Chicago Tribune "What ultimately distinguishes this book is the coherence, grace, and clarity of Smith's interpretations and the beauty of his writing." - John J. Pauly, Journal of American History"
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The University of Chicago Press Vice Patrol
Book SynopsisIn the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and clubs. Vice officers surveilled public bathrooms through peepholes and two-way mirrors. In Vice Patrol, Anna Lvovsky chronicles this painful story, tracing the tactics used to criminalize, profile, and suppress gay life from the 1930s through the 1960s, and the surprising controversies those tactics often inspired in court. Lvovsky shows that the vice squads' campaigns stood at the center of live debates about not only the law's treatment of queer people, but also the limits of ethical policing, the authority of experts, and the nature of sexual difference itselfdebates that had often unexpected effects on the gay community's rights and freedoms. Examining those battles, Vice Patrol enriches understandings of the regulation of queer life Trade Review"Lvovsky has written an important history of antigay policing in the US between 1930 and 1970. . . . Lvovsky dives into municipal archives, court records, and psychological literature to interrogate queer tropes, taking care to guide readers through this narrative. . . . Lvovsky deftly handles these topics with nuance and compassion. Those studying law, history, gender and sexuality, and political science will benefit from her work in terms of understanding queer life in the 20th century, the professionalization of policing, and how the two intersected to shape (mis)understandings about the other. This is a necessary title for all libraries at all levels. . . . Essential." * Choice *"Anna Lvovsky’s Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall offers an exciting, novel contribution to the fast-growing field of police history in the United States. . . . Vice Patrol reshapes our understanding of the state’s regulation of gay life, and it complicates long-held assumptions about the relationship between police knowledge and police power." * American Journal of Legal History *"With precise details and careful analysis, Vice Patrol tells a fascinating story about how the policing of homosexuality from the 1940s to the 1960s was far more contradictory and contested than we might think, and how courts of law played a crucial role in the emerging understanding and visibility of LGBT life." * The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide *"In Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle Over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall, Anna Lvovsky examines with both precision and breadth a time period during which litigants in queer society encountered considerably greater difficulty in the justice system... This important book casts new light on the legal intricacies and political realities of anti-gay legislation several generations before courts began looking with disfavor on laws stigmatizing or even criminalizing members of the queer community." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"Lvovsky chronicles the tactics used to criminalize, profile, and suppress gay life in the US from the1930s through the 1960s, and the surprising controversies those tactics often inspired in court. She finds that the vice squads’ campaigns stood at the center of debates about not only the law’s treatment of queer people, but also the limits of ethical policing, the authority of experts, and the nature of sexual difference itself—debates that had often unexpected effects on the LGBTQ community’s civil liberties, and that continue to be relevant today." * Law & Social Inquiry *"In her stunning new book, Vice Patrol, Anna Lvovsky argues that, in the United States, the criminal justice system was disjointed on the subject of homosexuality and how it should be policed. . . In an elegantly written examination of state liquor boards, courts and police, Lvovsky demonstrates that individual agents and agencies of the criminal justice system, alongside same-sex desiring people and ‘experts’, shaped and reshaped the public and legal concept of the ‘homosexual.'" * Journal of Urban History *"In this sophisticated and original work, Anna Lvovsky interrogates the policing of queer sexual and cultural expression in the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s. . . This textured and innovative study will interest legal and urban historians and scholars of gender and sexuality in the United States." * Journal of American History *"In Vice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall, Anna Lvovsky tackles a topic—the history of police abuses of queer people and spaces—that historians have long documented and gives it an impressive new spin. Histories of LGBTQ experience in particular cities, for example, always include significant attention to these anti-LGBTQ policing practices. Lvovsky, however, turns this topic on its head by approaching the issue from the perspective of the state regulatory, police, and judicial systems. . . . Lvovsky has produced a work of impressive and fascinating scholarship. . ." * Contemporary Sociology *"Vice Patrol offers powerful lessons for today’s civil rights battles, both in the courts and online. The book uses a case study of state enforcement of anti-vice laws against gay people to tell a larger story about an epistemological struggle over facts and knowledge, as well as the limits, if any, they place on power." * Michigan Law Review *"Visibility is the clarion call of LGBT politics, but Vice Patrol scrambles the signal. Lvovsky takes familiar moments of gay visibility as her starting point, showing how media attention hardened stereotypes about gay culture. Those stereotypes had a curious afterlife in the legal system, leading to 'epistemic gaps' between enforcement institutions. . . . By elaborating on this process, Lvovsky reveals the 'regulatory underside' to gay cultural visibility. . . [and] brings new insight to a question that has puzzled scholars across several fields: Why and how does cultural representation lead to increased state repression?" * The University of Chicago Law Review *"Lvovsky’s sophisticated approach paints a complex portrait of the state apparatus aimed at regulating queer spaces . . . [Vice Patrol is] a crucial contribution to the scholarly literatures on LGBT communities and policing more generally. I expect it will be useful in part or in whole in courses for instructors in a wide range of disciplines, including history; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; criminology; and sociology." * Journal of the History of Sexuality *“Lvovsky has done incredible detective work to take us deep inside the machinery of antigay policing during its peak years. Focusing on three distinct sites—the regulation of gay bars by state liquor agencies, the work of plainclothes decoys, and the policing of public restrooms through ‘peepholes’—Lvovsky shows that a legal system we assumed to be monolithically repressive was in fact internally divided about these practices. This subtle and smart book not only illuminates the boundaries around sexual difference but criminal justice as well. Revelatory in every sense of the word.” -- Margot Canaday, Princeton University"Lvovsky takes the vice patrolman—the villain who lurks at the edges of virtually every work of the queer communities that flourished in twentieth-century U.S. cities—and insistently pulls him into the spotlight. Vice Patrol is ambitious, meticulously researched, exceptionally well-conceived, and startlingly original. It deserves a wide readership among historians of law and legal history, LGBTQ history, urban history, and the history of policing and punishment. It is, in fact, a tour de force that will be read and reread by every scholar in the field and will lead us to ask new questions of our sources in the years to come." -- Timothy Stewart-Winter, Rutgers University“Lvovsky has written a splendid, insightful history of anti-gay policing in mid-twentieth century America. Vice Patrol shows how investigatory tactics evolved and how they prompted and were in turn shaped by debates about the nature and prevalence of same-sex desire, the appropriate limits on law enforcement, and the kinds of authority and expertise that should matter in answering those questions. It's a gripping read, combining rich, ground-level detail with sober assessments of what those decades-old struggles signified and what lessons they hold for us today.” -- David Sklansky, Stanford Law School“’The 'police’ and ‘the gay community’ are often portrayed as monolithic entities. In Vice Patrol, Lvovsky shows how each entity revealed the extraordinary diversity of the other through their interactions in the pre-Stonewall United States. This is the debut of an important new scholar, who can etch a legal world in scrimshaw with strokes that are both bold and sure.” -- Kenji Yoshino, New York University School of LawTable of ContentsList of Illustrations INTRODUCTION ONE / When Anyone Can Tell TWO / Expert Witnesses on Trial THREE / Plainclothes Decoys and the Limits of Criminal Justice FOUR / The Rise of Ethnographic Policing FIVE / Peepholes and Perverts SIX / The Popular Press and the Gay World EPILOGUE Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes Index
£91.00
The University of Chicago Press Pockets of Crime
Book SynopsisDrawing on Chicago Police Department statistics and interviews with both law-abiding citizens and criminals in one of the city's highest-crime areas, this work demonstrates that drug dealers and robbers are primarily attracted to locations with businesses like liquor stores, fast food restaurants, and check-cashing outlets.Trade Review"In this unique and original book, Peter St. Jean examines why some blocks in urban areas experience more crime than others. Based on a number of sources - most importantly, in-depth interviews with drug dealers and routine robbers about their strategies for selecting a location or victim - St. Jean finds pitfalls in both broken windows and collective efficacy theories, while proposing a promising new alternative." - Mario Luis Small, author of Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio"
£63.65
The University of Chicago Press Pockets of Crime Broken Windows Collective
Book SynopsisDrawing on Chicago Police Department statistics and interviews with both law-abiding citizens and criminals in one of the city's highest-crime areas, this work demonstrates that drug dealers and robbers are primarily attracted to locations with businesses like liquor stores, fast food restaurants, and check-cashing outlets.Trade Review"In this unique and original book, Peter St. Jean examines why some blocks in urban areas experience more crime than others. Based on a number of sources - most importantly, in-depth interviews with drug dealers and routine robbers about their strategies for selecting a location or victim - St. Jean finds pitfalls in both broken windows and collective efficacy theories, while proposing a promising new alternative." - Mario Luis Small, author of Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio"
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press The Death Gap
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The University of Chicago Press Political Monopolies in American Cities
Book SynopsisAsks whether bosses and reformers are more alike than we might have realized. This title finds that the answer - yes - illuminates the nature of political power. It shows that the resulting loss of democratic responsiveness eventually mobilizes residents to vote monopolistic regimes out of office.Trade Review"Ambitious, creative, and convincing, this book combines an impressive sweep of historical data with two fine case studies, significantly contributing to our understanding of how political power is forged in cities. Comparing political tactics in Chicago and San Jose - a machine city and a reform city - to discover underlying similarities in the apparently different means of attaining electoral dominance is counterintuitive yet compelling." - John Mollenkopf, Graduate Center, City University of New York"
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Moving Away from Silence
Book SynopsisIncreasingly popular in the United States and Europe, Andean panpipe and flute music draws its vitality from the traditions of rural highland villages and of rural migrants who have settled in Andean cities. In Moving Away from Silence, Thomas Turino describes panpipe and flute traditions in the context of this rural-urban migration and the turbulent politics that have influenced Peruvian society and local identities throughout this century. Turino's ethnography is the first large-scale study to concentrate on the pervasive effects of migration on Andean people and their music. Turino uses the musical traditions of Conima, Peru as a unifying thread, tracing them through the varying lives of Conimeos in different locales. He reveals how music both sustains and creates meaning for a people struggling amid the dramatic social upheavals of contemporary Peru. Moving Away from Silence contains detailed interpretations based on comparative field research of Conimeo musical performance, rehearsals, composition, and festivals in the highlands and Lima. The volume will be of great importance to students of Latin American music and culture as well as ethnomusicological and ethnographic theory and method.
£85.00
The University of Chicago Press Moving Away from Silence
Book SynopsisIncreasingly popular in the United States and Europe, Andean panpipe and flute music draws its vitality from the traditions of rural highland villages and of rural migrants who have settled in Andean cities. In Moving Away from Silence, Thomas Turino describes panpipe and flute traditions in the context of this rural-urban migration and the turbulent politics that have influenced Peruvian society and local identities throughout this century. Turino's ethnography is the first large-scale study to concentrate on the pervasive effects of migration on Andean people and their music. Turino uses the musical traditions of Conima, Peru as a unifying thread, tracing them through the varying lives of Conimeos in different locales. He reveals how music both sustains and creates meaning for a people struggling amid the dramatic social upheavals of contemporary Peru. Moving Away from Silence contains detailed interpretations based on comparative field research of Conimeo musical performance, rehearsals, composition, and festivals in the highlands and Lima. The volume will be of great importance to students of Latin American music and culture as well as ethnomusicological and ethnographic theory and method.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race Community
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Saul Alinsky and the Dilemma of Race is a major contribution to scholarship on postwar racial politics in northern US cities. Writing at the intersections of urban, labor and African-American histories, Santow has forged an analytical narrative that depicts Alinsky’s decades-long efforts to bridge Chicago’s racial divide neither as a quixotic challenge to white flight nor as a broad strategy that might have prevented northern resegregation. Rather, he provides a nuanced portrait of both the potential of Alinsky’s organizing for promoting neighborhood integration and its inability to address the structural forces driving racial transition in mid-twentieth-century Chicago.” -- Matthew Countryman, author of Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia"What do race in the US and Saul Alinsky have in common? Both are mercurial, shrouded in myth, and caricatured across the political spectrum. Mark Santow confronts each, illuminating the intersection of the community organizer and the pragmatics of racism in the crucible of Chicago." -- Amanda I. Seligman, author of Block by Block"The Catholic theologian Jacques Maritain once called Saul Alinsky 'a great soul'--a mahatma, devoted to promoting human dignity through the pursuit of radical democracy. In his exemplary new book, Mark Santow brings Alinksy’s vision up against the brutal realities of race in midcentury Chicago. The result is a consistently compelling, sometimes exhilarating, often sobering story of idealism, activism, and reactionary resistance in one of the nation’s most segregated cities." -- Kevin Boyle, author of The Shattering: America in the 1960sTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. “Americanism in the Truest Sense?” Alinsky and Race in Packingtown 2. “Dissolving the Walls of Racial Partition”: The 1957 General Report 3. Chicago’s “Great Question”: Racial Geography and the Creation of the Organization for the Southwest Community, 1958–1959 4. The “Benign Quota,” Racial Liberalism, and the OSC 5. “And Just All of a Sudden, They Left”: The OSC and the Challenges of Neighborhood Integration, 1961–1969 6. “We Will Not Be Planned For”: The Creation of the Woodlawn Organization 7. Truth Squads and Death Watches: TWO, Schooling, and Spatial Strategy 8. Maximum Feasible Alinsky: TWO and the War on Poverty 9. Model Cities, TWO, and the Spatial Dilemmas of Metropolitan Segregation Conclusion: Mending Walls and Building Bridges Acknowledgments Notes Index
£28.50
The University of Chicago Press From Boom to Bubble How Finance Built the New
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Weber gives us a compelling book that cements her reputation as one of the top urban planners in the field of urban political economy. Her sophisticated and nuanced understanding of complex systems like global finance and real estate markets is conveyed easily and accessibly to those both inside and outside of academia. From Boom to Bubble is a major contribution, one that will most certainly be widely read and discussed for years to come.” * Joel Rast, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee *“Weber offers an innovative and valuable approach, contributing important new insights and understanding to a multidisciplinary audience. From Boom to Bubble will be widely read as it contributes to the long standing and enduring scholarly focus on Chicago as the paradigmatic city and as a timely explication of financialization, the defining moment of the twenty-first century. Weber has an extraordinary depth of knowledge and she writes in an engaging and readable style that explains complex material in an accessible and understandable manner. This book solidifies Weber’s position as one of the leading scholars of the urban built environment.” * Robert W. Lake, Rutgers University *“In her focus on the role of property developers and their interactions with other agents in the construction process, Weber brilliantly shows the determining and indeterminate factors that create real estate booms and busts. A must-read for planners, geographers, urban sociologists, and political scientists—and anyone concerned with the forces building and rebuilding cities.” * Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard Graduate School of Design and author of The City Builders *“The downtown Chicago skyline added many high-rise office structures during the first decade of the 2000s, even though existing buildings provided sufficient space for their tenants. Why this happened and whether it was justified is the concern of Weber. Her findings identify this ‘speculative bubble’ as a composite product of the abundant global supply of capital, the ambitions of a host of real estate professionals to inflate demand for new office space, and the pro-growth Chicago government’s fiscal incentives for such expansion. They promoted the ideology that the constant renewal of a city is socially and economically beneficial and necessary to progress. This is a well-documented analysis of a trend common to many other US cities. Weber’s challenge is that such overbuilding is wasteful and can be restrained. ‘Slow, smart cities’ that are environmentally more sensitive have distinct advantages over rapid downtown expansion. A concluding chapter catalogs methods by which city officials can practice life-cycle and reuse planning to take a broader view of building costs and their impact upon residents. This is a solid analysis and critique of this trend. Recommended.” * Choice *“Weber’s From Boom to Bubble will appeal to planners, geographers, sociologists, political scientists, and historians who appreciate a critical perspective on global real estate and capital flows and those who study global financial crises. This is outstanding scholarship, and offers deep insights into the dynamic real estate markets of this Millennial era.” * Journal of the American Planning Association *“Weber offers a conceptually, theoretically and methodologically innovative and empirically detailed account of the operation of the commercial real estate market in Chicago, drawing on a longitudinal ‘elite ethnography’ in a lucid and engaging way. . . . She has not just given us a valuable analysis of what happened in Chicago in the 2000s, but has sketched an extensive research agenda. This book deserves to be widely read.” * LSE Review of Books *“Weber’s subject matter in this very good book is a phenomenon that has fascinated and vexed urban scholars and economists of various hues for at least a century: city-building booms and subsequent busts. Although at various points, especially in the book’s final chapter, Weber observes and reflects upon the consequences of these boom-and-bust cycles––indeed in the same chapter she even boldly ponders potential ‘solutions’, in the form of possible methods of modulating these all-too-familiar development frenzies––consequences are not her main concern. Causes are what principally animate this book and its author. How, in short, can we explain the repeating tendency, particularly in the United States, for urban overbuilding? Weber explores and attempts to answer this question largely through a marvelously informed and detailed case study of Chicago.” * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *“From Boom to Bubble is a careful, convincing, and very readable account of how the real estate bubble that fueled the Great Recession happened, and Weber indicates, could well happen again. Weber builds a case for how all the stakeholders in the process – developers, mortgage brokers, real estate brokers, appraisers, building managers, real estate lawyers, permit expediters, mayors, and planners – face incentives to fuel a boom to such an extent that it becomes a bubble, with real estate investment continuing unabated even when demand no longer exists and vacancy rates are high.” * Planning Perspectives *“Weber’s recent book offers a landmark contribution to the scholarship of urban studies. Written in a sharp and vivid style, and drawing from an intimate knowledge of Chicago, From Boom to Bubble constitutes an impressive work. Combining empirically-rich material with theoretically-informed research, Weber achieves the feat of bringing a strikingly new perspective to the much-debated question of why urban development is prone to overbuilding.” * Planning Theory and Practice *“This superb, well-written book should be required reading for anyone studying or practicing in the field of real estate. It will also be of interest to planners and government officials; those with an interest in urban sociology, geography, economics, and planning; and general readers who want a clear explanation of the commercial real estate boom to sit beside the cornucopia of books about the residential real estate bubble or who are taxpayers in the City of Chicago. Weber asks the hard questions and gets readers to rethink the taken-for-granted ideas that underlie the heuristics we use for modeling and explaining the real estate process, narrowing the gap between the academic literature and the everyday work of real estate development.” * Journal of Real Estate Literature *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why We Overbuild Part 1 Real Estate Speculations 1 The Rhythm of Urban Redevelopment 2 Fast Money Builds the Speculative City 3 Out with the Old: How Professional Practices Construct the Desire for New Construction Part 2 Chicago in the 2000s 4 Downtown Chicago’s Millennial Boom 5 Who Overbuilt Chicago? 6 Making the Market for Chicago’s New Skyscrapers Part 3 Building the Future 7 The Slow Build Epilogue: Why We Will Continue to Overbuild Appendix Acknowledgments Notes Index
£31.00
University of Chicago Press A Day in the Hole
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£87.40
The University of Chicago Press The Philadelphia Barrio The Arts Branding and
Book SynopsisHow does a so-called bad neighborhood go about changing its reputation? Is it simply a matter of improving material conditions or picking the savviest marketing strategy? What kind of role can or should the arts play in that process? This title examines one neighborhood's fight to erase the stigma of devastation.
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The University of Chicago Press Constructed Climates
Book SynopsisAs our world becomes increasingly urbanized, an understanding of the context, mechanisms, and consequences of city and suburban environments becomes more critical. This title demonstrates the value of urban green. Focusing specifically on the role of vegetation and trees, it shows the costs and benefits reaped from urban open spaces.Trade Review"At a time when we all need to approach our shared environmental challenges with an integrative, interdisciplinary perspective, Wilson provides us with a much-needed resource that combines urban ecology, physics, chemistry, and sociology. A must read for anyone seeking to have a positive impact on the places in which we live." (Richard V. Pouyat, US Forest Service)"
£76.95
The University of Chicago Press Constructed Climates
Book SynopsisAs our world becomes increasingly urbanized, an understanding of the context, mechanisms, and consequences of city and suburban environments becomes more critical. This title demonstrates the value of urban green. Focusing specifically on the role of vegetation and trees, it shows the costs and benefits reaped from urban open spaces.Trade Review"At a time when we all need to approach our shared environmental challenges with an integrative, interdisciplinary perspective, Wilson provides us with a much-needed resource that combines urban ecology, physics, chemistry, and sociology. A must read for anyone seeking to have a positive impact on the places in which we live." (Richard V. Pouyat, US Forest Service)"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Tour Guide
Book SynopsisEveryone wants to visit New York at least once. The Big Apple is a global tourist destination with a dizzying array of attractions throughout the five boroughs. This title provides long history of tour-giving across the globe as well as the ups and downs of New York's tour guide industry in the wake of 9/11.Trade Review"The Tour Guide is an enormously interesting book. Wynn's extensive interviews and observations show us a variety of people giving tours of New York in a variety of ways, and by the time you finish the book you've learned a great deal about them, how they work, and why they do it. While The Tour Guide intersects with other classic books on urban life, Wynn's major accomplishment here is to provide a unique way of looking at cities you would never have arrived at just by thinking about them yourself." (Howard S. Becker, author of Outsiders)"
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Everyday Law on the Street
Book SynopsisToronto prides itself on being the world's most diverse city, and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies designed to promote social inclusion. The author brings to light the often unexpected ways that the development and implementation of policies shape everyday urban life.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Stuck in Place
Book SynopsisIn the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement's successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. This book argues for urban policies that have the potential to create transformative and sustained changes in urban communities and the families that live within them, and also outlines a durable urban policy agenda.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Untimely Ruins
Book SynopsisAmerican urban ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in debates about home foreclosures, images of 9/11, or postapocalyptic movies. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation, this title argues that this association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation's history.Trade Review"Untimely Ruins is a magisterial work of scholarship, brimming with intelligence, insight, and interest on every page. Nick Yablon's scholarship is prodigious. His extended meditation on the meanings of American ruins explains why they are distinctive, what they reveal, and how they matter. This is a book of exceptional historical expanse and interpretive ambition that is at the same time remarkably lucid from sentence to sentence, paragraph to paragraph, and page to page." - Carl Smith, author of The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City"
£28.00
McGill-Queen's University Press From the Theater to the Plaza Spectacle Protest
Book SynopsisThis innovative study sketches the physical and imaginary contours of Lavapiés, one of Madrid’s most iconic neighbourhoods. By linking its role as a site and subject of Madrid’s theatre tradition with its contemporary struggles over gentrification, Feinberg offers new approaches for understanding how culture and capital produce the contemporary city.Trade Review“From the Theater to the Plaza provides an indispensable look into the dialogic relationship between urban space and theater. Matthew Feinberg skillfully moves across three scales of experience (the local, the municipal, and the global) to offer a compelling reading of the urban history of both Madrid and Lavapiés.” Stephen Vilaseca, Northern Illinois University and author of Anarchist Socialism in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: A Ricardo Mella Anthology“Using evidence found in the streets and on the stage, Feinberg finds Lavapiés to be a space for theater and a theatrical space, represented, representing, lived, practiced, bought, sold, and contested. Beautifully written, From the Theater to the Plaza is a thoroughly enjoyable and insightful read.” Nathan Richardson, University of Texas at San Antonio and author of Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, 1953–2003
£91.80
John Wiley & Sons From the Theater to the Plaza Spectacle Protest
Book SynopsisThis innovative study sketches the physical and imaginary contours of Lavapiés, one of Madrid’s most iconic neighbourhoods. By linking its role as a site and subject of Madrid’s theatre tradition with its contemporary struggles over gentrification, Feinberg offers new approaches for understanding how culture and capital produce the contemporary city.Trade Review“From the Theater to the Plaza provides an indispensable look into the dialogic relationship between urban space and theater. Matthew Feinberg skillfully moves across three scales of experience (the local, the municipal, and the global) to offer a compelling reading of the urban history of both Madrid and Lavapiés.” Stephen Vilaseca, Northern Illinois University and author of Anarchist Socialism in Early Twentieth-Century Spain: A Ricardo Mella Anthology“Using evidence found in the streets and on the stage, Feinberg finds Lavapiés to be a space for theater and a theatrical space, represented, representing, lived, practiced, bought, sold, and contested. Beautifully written, From the Theater to the Plaza is a thoroughly enjoyable and insightful read.” Nathan Richardson, University of Texas at San Antonio and author of Constructing Spain: The Re-imagination of Space and Place in Fiction and Film, 1953–2003
£999.99
McGill-Queen's University Press The Participation Paradox Between BottomUp and
Book SynopsisThe last two decades have ushered in what has become known as a “Participatory Revolution,” with authorities called into communities to listen to ordinary people through “open” forums for engagement. The Participation Paradox argues that amplifying the voices of the poor and dispossessed is often a quick fix incapable of delivering lasting change.Trade Review“This is an outstanding book, rich with data from the grassroots of South African politics and brimming with significant and important contributions to how we should understand the power of a radical reframing of participation.” Alexander Beresford, University of Leeds and author of South Africa’s Political Crisis: Unfinished Liberation and Fractured Class Struggles
£52.70
Palgrave MacMillan UK Olympic Games MegaEvents and Civil Societies
Book SynopsisThis volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and the responses of civil societies to them.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Sports Mega-Events, Sustainable Development, and Civil Societies; G.Hayes & J.Karamichas The Four 'Cs' of Sports Mega-Events: Capitalism, Connections, Citizenship and Contradictions; J.Horne Civilizing Beijing: Social Beautification, Civility and Citizenship at the 2008 Olympics; A.Broudehoux Istanbul's Olympic Challenge: A Passport for Europe?; J.Polo The Failed Bid for Lyon '68 and France's Winter Olympics from Grenoble '68 to Annecy 2018: French Politics, Civil Society and Olympic Mega-Events; H.Dauncey The Role of Environmental Issues in Mega-Events Planning and Management Processes: Which Factors Count?; P.Caratti & L.Ferraguto Sustainability as Global Norm: The Greening of Meag-Events in China; A.Mol & L.Zhang Olympic Games as an Opportunity for the Ecological Modernization of the Host Nation: The Cases of Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004; J.Karamichas What Happens When Olympic Bids Fail? Sustainable Development and Paris 2012; G.Hayes Olympic Games, Conflicts and Social Movements: The Case of Torino 2006; E.Dansero, B.Corpo, Al.Mela & I.Ropolo Vancouver 2010: The Saga of Eagleride Bluffs; D.Whitson Resisting the Torch; X.Renou Conclusion: Sports Mega-Events: Disputed Places, Structural Contradictions and Critical Moments; G.Hayes & J.Karamichas Bibliography Index
£42.74
Columbia University Press Cities and Urban Living
Book Synopsis-- Richard Evans Schultes, Botanical Museum of Harvard University
£35.70
Columbia University Press Trouble in Paradise Paper The Suburban
Book SynopsisTakes a fresh look at American suburbs, explains why they are changing, and discusses the housing crisis, growth, local government, and demand for services.
£28.00
