Urban communities / city life Books

Book Synopsis"Exploring the impact of an affordable housing development in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, this book provides new and innovative methodologies for examining key theoretical and public policy issues that have been the subject of intensive debate."--Gregory Squires, George Washington University.sity.Trade Review"Winner of the 2013 Paul Davidoff Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning""Co-winners of the 2014 Robert E. Park Award, Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association""Upscale Mount Laurel loomed large in the New Jersey State Supreme Court's key fair housing decisions in 1975 and 1983. But the housing itself wasn't built until all of 2001. For years, locals protested hard that home values would fall and crime rates would rise. Douglas S. Massey and four other authors . . . meticulously document how this wasn't the case at all."---Katharine Whittemore, Boston Globe"Sociologist Massey and his coauthors tell a remarkable story about the Ethel Lawrence Homes (ELH) project, an affordable housing project for low- and moderate-income minority residents in an affluent white suburb in Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey. . . . They argue that the development of affordable housing projects for low-income minorities in affluent suburbs is an effective means to reduce race and class segregation, increase social mobility, reduce dependency, create better human capital, and achieve family well-being. A significant contribution to urban community studies and the literature on social policy related to housing in the metropolitan U.S." * Choice *"Climbing Mount Laurel should be on every planner's bookshelf for two key reasons. First, the book will likely serve as a fine, detailed study of a successful affordable housing project. Second, Climbing Mount Laurel can serve as a source of inspiration that economic and racial integration is possible in suburbia, but only when planners and developers pay attention to the big and little details."---Stuart Meck, Journal of American Planning Association"Massey and his coauthors provide a concise, effective overview of exclusionary practices and their effects on residential segregation."---John R. Logan, American Journal of Sociology"Climbing Mount Laurel is a welcome addition to the literature on housing mobility programs and neighborhood effects. Its methodological rigor and ability to avoid the pitfalls of spatial determinism are some of its key strengths, and the book should be of interest to scholars and practitioners of affordable housing, planning law, and program evaluation."---Aretousa Bloom, Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare"Impeccable. . . . Climbing Mount Laurel exemplifies social science at its finest—conclusively demonstrating through precise, thorough, thoughtful, and thought-provoking analysis how, for tens of millions of Americans, the path to the American Dream begins and ends at home."---Mark Rubinfeld, Journal of American Culture

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[City of the Good] proffers much information, insight, and wisdom." * Choice *"There is much to like about [City of the Good]. It is written for a broad audience and takes on big questions, something more social scientists should attempt. The personal anecdotes create a certain intimacy and lightheartedness, while the historical disquisitions convey real urgency and seriousness. Bell did not spend all this time reading about the world’s religious traditions just for fun. He was searching for answers to questions that matter to him, and to all of us."---Philip S. Gorski, Contemporary Sociology

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Book SynopsisThe ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework for studying collective actionHow Civic Action Works renews the tradition of inquiry into collective, social problem solving. Paul Lichterman follows grassroots activists, nonprofit organization staff,

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Paul Davidoff Book Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning""Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, Inequality, Poverty, and Social Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association""An engaging read. Most compellingly, Rosen offers a moving psychological portrait of her interlocutors, revealing how people cope with neighborhood change and reconcile limited opportunities and chronic disappointments."---Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader"Rosen’s ethnographic study helps to correct a weak point in the literature on the HCV program. . . . The Voucher Promise provides a look at the HCV program from many perspectives including the participating voucher households and the renter households not lucky enough to receive a voucher. The book studies the landlords who choose to participate as well as those who do not. Finally, the book explores the households, especially long-term homeowners, who populate the neighborhoods where the HCV voucher households locate. This mix of perspectives is the strength of the book."---Kirk McClure, Social Forces"This work, although a valuable contribution to the sociology literature, is also an important book for urban planners and policy scholars and practitioners. Rosen has managed the difficult task of creating rigorous research that is highly critical of an important federal program but at the same time recognized how vital the program is to the lives of so many economically fragile families. . . . a must read for anyone interested in housing markets and housing policy. It is refreshingly well written and at the same time highly substantive."---Dan Immergluck, Journal of the American Planning Association"A fine study with important insights for scholars and practitioners, regardless of their disciplinary leanings. Readers may find themselves comparing [The Voucher Promise] favorably to the highly acclaimed Evicted: Poverty and Poverty in the American City by Matthew Desmond."---Dennis E. Gale, Journal of Planning Education and Research"[Rosen] bring[s] to the table workable and much needed suggestions for changes to a flawed policy."---Lisa Lucile Owens, Critical Sociology"The Voucher Promise provides an informative, in-depth, and necessary look into the policy and practice of the HCV program clearly identifying a need to reassess the way it currently operates. . . . [A]n essential read for policymakers, urban sociologists, and scholars."---Jeanne Kimpel, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, Labor and Labor Movements Section of the American Sociological Association""Winner of the Distinguished Scholarly Book Award, Sociology of Development Section of the American Sociological Association""Winner of the John Friedman Best Book Award, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An insightful look at Uber’s impact on Washington, D.C." * Publishers Weekly *"a fantastic look at how and why Uber was able to conquer our cities"---Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times"The global financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession offered an opportunity for an ideological break with what had been the defining neoliberal worldview of the previous 30 years. Instead it yielded continuity. Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City...narrates that story, in careful and powerful detail."---Sandeep Vaheesan, American Prospect

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Book SynopsisIn the 1290s a new guild-based Florentine government placed a group of noble families under severe legal restraints, on the grounds that they were both the most powerful and the most violent and disruptive element in the city. In this colorful portrayal of civic life in medieval Florence, Carol Lansing explores the patrilineal structure and functioTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES, pg. ix*PREFACE, pg. xi*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xv*ONE. Introduction: The Medieval Florentine Nobles, pg. 3*TWO. The Formation of Urban Lineages, pg. 29*THREE. Joint Lineage Property: An Overview, pg. 46*FOUR. Ecclesiastical Rights as Joint Property, pg. 64*FIVE. Joint Property: Towers and Palaces, pg. 84*SIX. Disaffection from the Lineage: Umiliana dei Cerchi and the Cathars, pg. 109*SEVEN. Women Within the Lineage, pg. 125*EIGHT. Knighthood and Courtly Style, pg. 145*NINE. Violence and Faction, pg. 164*TEN. The Popolo and the Ordinances of Justice, pg. 192*ELEVEN. The Debate Over True Nobility, pg. 212*TWELVE. The Magnates in the Early Fourteenth Century, pg. 229*APPENDIX I. List of the Magnates, pg. 239*APPENDIX II. A Note on Coinage, pg. 243*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 245*INDEX, pg. 259

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Book SynopsisThis revised edition examines major redevelopment efforts in New York and London to uncover the forces behind these investment cycles and the role that public policy can play in moderating market instability. It chronicles the progress of three development projects in New York and three in London.Trade ReviewFainstein’s updating of her work will retain the book’s position at the forefront of urban development literature."—Planning Theory & Practice"A truly exceptional book. Fainstein provides a rich theoretical standpoint to question the complex relationship that exists between politicians, community groups, developers, financiers, activists, and others in urban redevelopment."—Urban Affairs Review"Fainstein writes a very fascinating story about real estate development in New York and London. She gives not only attention to the role of local governmental authorities, the impact of globalisation, and the changing built environment of cities but also to the role of individuals in that process. This study is an essential reading for students in urban sociology, economic and planning. Instead of being outdated by the events of September 11 this study may teach us preeminently how to understand what is happening today, noting how real estate companies like Silverstein and others are already active and eager to make their profits in Lower Manhattan."—Housing Studies"An utterly unique book that offers new, powerful arguments about the interaction between governmental authority and property investment in the urban environment, the impact of globalization on urban economies, and the role of property markets in changing the built environment of cities."—Dennis R. Judd, coauthor of City Politics"A fascinating and important story that challenges conventional, radical and post-modern theories of property development."—Michael Harloe, coauthor of City Class and Capital"This is, more than ever, essential reading for any serious student of the contemporary city."—Peter Hall, author of Cities in Civilization

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Book SynopsisA critical look at cultural urban regeneration and how it is used as a political tool by the ruling elite to police populations.Trade Review'A clear sighted and important contribution. At last, a much needed corrective to the narrative of the 'creative class'. I really recommend it.' -- Anna Minton, Reader in Architecture at the University of East London and author of Ground Control'Builds on more than a decade of writing against the grain of culture-led urban regeneration. This book is not only critique but an attempt to re-imagine what a progressive future for cities might be' -- Justin O'ConnorTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Cultural Turns: A De-Industrialised Estate 2. Creative Classes: Aesthetics and Gentrification 3. Colliding Values: Civic Hope and Capital’s Bind 4. New Cool: England’s New Art Museums 5. New Codes: Culture as Social Ordering 6. New Air: Urban Spaces and Democratic Deficits 7. Dissent: Antagonistic Art in a Period of Neoliberal Containment 8. Limits to Culture: Art after Occupy Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA fascinating ethnography of the democratic organisation of shack settlements in South AfricaTrade Review'One of the most exciting and provocative books that I've read in a long time, 'Amakomiti' challenges the stereotype of shanty-dwellers as a powerless underclass without social power. Ngwane unveils instead a defiant working-class world with rich traditions of resistance and a genius for self-organization' -- Mike Davis, author of 'Planet of the Slums' (Verso, 2007)'A remarkable book - Ngwane's great achievement is he once more rescues the amakomiti from academic condescension and historical obliteration. Here, he says, is a vision of another world made, run, and governed by working people. 'Amakomiti' is a book everyone should read' -- Leo Zelig, author of 'An Ounce of Practice' (Hoperoad, 2017), and an editor of the 'Review of African Political Economy''A powerfully compelling account of grassroots democracy and forms of self-organisation in shack settlements [that] makes vividly clear the diversity, dynamism, and significance of these committees. Wonderfully illuminating' -- Gillian Hart, Distinguished Professor at Witwatersrand University and author of 'Rethinking the South African Crisis' (University of Georgia Press, 2013)'A work of great erudition and elegance, it writes shack dwellers and their committees into the history of the working class movements and democratic theory' -- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South, University of Bayreuth, Germany'Compelling ... beats powerfully with an urgency for radical social change and democracy from below, fuelled and informed by the hard, daily struggles for housing, land, dignity and justice it makes visible' -- Aziz Choudry, editor of 'The University and Social Justice Struggles Across the Globe' (Pluto, 2020)'A rich and illuminating exploration of how working-class people organise to advance their interests that, thanks to Ngwane's flair for storytelling, is a pleasure to read' -- Alex Callinicos, Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King's College LondonTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables List of Photos List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Series Preface Preface 1. Introduction: Disrupting Private Land Ownership? 2. ‘The People Cannot Live in the Air’: History of the Squatter Movement in South Africa 3. Amakomiti are Everywhere 4. Fatal Embrace by the ANC in Duncan Village 5. Iinkundla of Nkaneng: The Rural in the Urban Dialectic 6. Thembelihle Settlement: A Vision of Hope 7. Amakomiti: A Vision of Alternatives Postscript: Covid-19 and the Shacks Appendix 1: List of Case Study Interviews Appendix 2: List of Research Tour Interviews and Places Visited Notes Index

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Book SynopsisWith the majority of the world's population now living in cities, questions about the cultural and political trajectories of urban societies are increasingly urgent. Media and the City explores the global city as the site where these questions become most prominent.Trade Review"This elaborate and elegantly written volume connects ideas of cosmopolitanism, urbanity and the media. Crucially, this volume not only provides a compelling summary of existing debates but also offers a novel and exciting approach to these issues. The book will provide an important reference point for anyone seeking to understand some of the central debates of the twenty-first century." Nick Stevenson, University of Nottingham "An impressive contribution to understanding the cultural dynamism of London as a global, cosmopolitan city and London’s position among global cities more generally. Georgiou delves expertly beneath official hype to the street level where diverse creative worlds are shaped by different media, especially in the divisions and cultural encounters of the East End." John Eade, University of Roehampton "Cities are competitive projects of creativity and power. More than half of the human species live in them, and more want to. Myria Georgiou's fascinating new vision of the mediated and cosmopolitan city explores humanity’s biggest project yet by investigating its role in consumption, identity, community and civic action." John Hartley, Curtin UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction - The mediated cosmopolis Chapter 2 Media and the city: synergies of power Chapter 3 Consumption: the hegemonic and the vernacular Chapter 4 - Identity: popular culture and self-making Chapter 5 Community: transnational solidarities Chapter 6 Action: presence and marginality Epilogue - Cosmopolitan contradictions

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Book SynopsisWho makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process and examines the close relationship between the social and physical shaping of urban environments. With cities taking a growing share of the global population, urban forms and urban experience are crucial for understanding social injustice, economic inequality and environmental challenges. Current processes of urbanization too often contribute to intensifying these problems; cities, likewise, will be central to the solutions to such problems. Focusing on a range of cities in developed and developing contexts, Cities by Design highlights major aspects of contemporary urbanization: urban growth, density and sustainability; inequality, segregation and diversity; informality, environment and infrastructure. Offering keen insights into how the shaping of our cities is shaping our lives, Cities by Design provides a critical exploTrade Review"She brings to the fore a wealth of research from design, planning, and development studies and offers for her own part a compelling view of urban form and place making that complicates common assumptions—in sociology and planning alike—about the nature of cities in the 21st century."American Journal of Sociology"A momentous work of uncommon intelligence and clarity that packs a powerful political punch."Morning Star''Finally, a book on urban design that gets close to the formal and informal practices, the material, social and virtual matter, and the deliberate and deliberative impulses that make and unmake cities. Fran Tonkiss offers a whole new repertoire of possibilities to help fashion the liveable and democratic city.''Ash Amin, University of Cambridge ''Tonkiss is among the most insightfully spatial of urban sociologists and uses this social-spatial acuity to re-design urban design as “the social life of urban form”. Cities by Design re-opens the old claim that urban design can become a convergent focus for critical thinking and effective practice across all disciplines and professions. Tonkiss applies her expanded vision of design to such controversial issues as density and sprawl, inequality and injustice, segregation and diversity, ordinary urbanism and informality, environmental racism and sustainability, never losing touch with practical, political, and policy implications.''Edward Soja, UCLATable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii 1 Introduction: Cities by Design 1 2 The Social Life of Urban Form: Size, Density, Diversity 26 3 Unequal Cities, Segregated Spaces 60 4 The Contradictions of Informality 91 5 Urban Environments: Ecology, Inequity, Mobility 113 6 Infrastructure as 'Design Politics' 138 7 Afterword: The Possible City 159 References 178 Index 201

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Book SynopsisGeomedia offers critical analysis of the new possibilities and power relations emerging in the public space of contemporary cities. As ubiquitous digital networks enable embedded and mobile devices to integrate place-specific data with real-time feedback circuits, everyday experience of public space has become subject to new demands.Trade Review"This book is a reflexive navigation of the changing meanings and uses of public space at times of intense mediation. Through the concept of geomedia, McQuire skilfully brings the media back to the city and to the public space where sociality and politics are negotiated and contested." Myria Georgiou, London School of Economics and Political Science "Scott McGuire�s scholarly tour takes the reader from mimesis to urban screens, from the magic of the street to global interpersonal civics. His creative insights are rooted in an impressively diversified body of work from communication, urban, and architectural theorists. GeoMedia is an absolute primer in urban communication." Gary Gumpert, Queens College of the City University of New YorkTable of ContentsContents00 Introduction01 Transforming Media and Public Space02 Googling the City03 Participatory Public Space04 Urban Screens and Urban Media Events05 Recomposing Public SpaceNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisGeomedia offers critical analysis of the new possibilities and power relations emerging in the public space of contemporary cities. As ubiquitous digital networks enable embedded and mobile devices to integrate place-specific data with real-time feedback circuits, everyday experience of public space has become subject to new demands.Trade Review"This book is a reflexive navigation of the changing meanings and uses of public space at times of intense mediation. Through the concept of geomedia, McQuire skilfully brings the media back to the city and to the public space where sociality and politics are negotiated and contested." Myria Georgiou, London School of Economics and Political Science "Scott McGuire�s scholarly tour takes the reader from mimesis to urban screens, from the magic of the street to global interpersonal civics. His creative insights are rooted in an impressively diversified body of work from communication, urban, and architectural theorists. GeoMedia is an absolute primer in urban communication." Gary Gumpert, Queens College of the City University of New YorkTable of ContentsContents00 Introduction01 Transforming Media and Public Space02 Googling the City03 Participatory Public Space04 Urban Screens and Urban Media Events05 Recomposing Public SpaceNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisSeeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone.Trade Review‘Amin and Thrift are a magnificent duet, conjuring for the reader a sensorium of the intersecting forces affecting and shaped by the sociotechnical systems making up the urban. Here, cities are the locus through which to rethink the very composition of our world and how we might remake, with reinvestment in the provisioning of public goods, a more judicious, viable place within it.’AbdouMalique Simone, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and Goldsmiths, University of London‘This is a book that needed to be written. It takes us beyond the common notion of cities as settings, and pulls us into layer after layer of what constitutes the urban. Written in a highly conceptualized way, it gives us the full experience of theoria in its original meaning: seeing.’Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions"With this book and their earlier Cities: Reimagining the Urban (2000), Amin and Thrift present a compelling theoretical argument and take an extreme position amongst those who resist the determinativeness and embrace the relationality of cities. [...N]ot to know its argument is to be uneducated in the world of urban theory. Still, this is not a book for the faint-hearted. It offers no reassurance [...] that change can be managed and all will be well. Rather, it challenges us to re-think our fundamental understandings of what we mean by a city." Robert Beauregard, Urban Studies

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Book SynopsisSeeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone.Trade Review�Amin and Thrift are a magnificent duet, conjuring for the reader a sensorium of the intersecting forces affecting and shaped by the sociotechnical systems making up the urban. Here, cities are the locus through which to rethink the very composition of our world and how we might remake, with reinvestment in the provisioning of public goods, a more judicious, viable place within it.�AbdouMalique Simone, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity and Goldsmiths, University of London�This is a book that needed to be written. It takes us beyond the common notion of cities as settings, and pulls us into layer after layer of what constitutes the urban. Written in a highly conceptualized way, it gives us the full experience of theoria in its original meaning: seeing.�Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of ExpulsionsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Prologue 1 1 Looking through the City 9 2 Shifting the Beginning: The Anthropocene 33 3 How Cities Think 67 4 The Matter of Economy 99 5 Frames of Poverty 125 Epilogue 159 Notes 168 References 171 Index 190

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Book SynopsisMost incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police. Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed of working-class families of immigrant origin or belonging to ethnic minorities. These tragic events have received a great deal of media coverage, but we know very little about the everyday activities of urban policing that lie behind them. Over the course of 15 months, at the time of the 2005 riots, Didier Fassin carried out an ethnographic study in one of the largest precincts in the Paris region, sharing the life of a police station and cruising with the patrols, in particular the dreaded anti-crime squads. Far from the imaginary worlds created by television series and action movies, he uncovers the ordinary aspects of law enforcement, characterized by inactivity and boredom, by eventless days and nights where minor infractions givTrade Review“Enforcing Order is an intriguing read, not least for what it reveals about the politics of law and order, and of policing, in France in recent times” Tim Newburn, LSE, LSE Review of Books "Powerful, distressing and thought-provoking. The book is based on 15 months of fieldwork, an undertaking unprecedented in France and one that, as the difficulties of access Fassin encountered suggest, will not be conducted again for some time." Times Higher Education "Fassin’s book – the most significant contribution to the public anthropology of policing – has opened up space to discuss the unresolved tension underlying the contemporary state, that between providing security and protecting human rights." Social Anthropology "Fassin has written a brilliant example of public anthropology. This ethnography of the anti-crime squads of the French police powerfully captures the institutionalization of racism and violence against poor youth and immigrants. His book must reach the widest possible audience because these paramilitaries operating out of sight of the general public with the complicity of politicians, career bureaucrats and the courts must be dismantled." Philippe Bourgois, University of Pennsylvania "This vivid description of the daily routines of police squads operating in under-privileged Parisian suburbs reinstates ethnography as a powerful tool for revealing how social exclusion works. By bringing to life, from the point of view of its officers, how the police consolidates social hierarchies, Fassin reminds us eloquently that the behavior of its police forces is the best index of the state of a democracy." Philippe Descola, Collège de France "A fascinating read – a brilliant, deep plunge into the lives, routines, racial tensions, sometimes violence, and intricate moral reasoning of the police officers in an anti-crime brigade in the French banlieues during a heated time of rioting in Paris. It blends a subtle analysis of the moral economy of the police with rigorous ethnographic detail and a genuine honesty or transparency on Didier Fassin’s part. It is a very important contribution to our understanding of police practices in this new age of security." Bernard Harcourt, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preliminary Remarks Preface to the Engish Edition Prologue - Interpellation In which the author comes to understand that it is sometimes dangerous to wait for a bus in the outer city on New Year’s Eve. How policing practice provides the language for a philosophical theory, and how a philosophical theory supplies the meaning of policing practice. That this is not a testimony, and that indignation is not rage. Introduction - Inquiry How the present research was authorized and then forbidden, and that this censorship is revelatory of petty exceptions in a democratic regime. That an ethnography of the police requires resisting the dual temptation of exoticism and culturalism. That a study is often the result of the converging effects of chance and necessity. Chapter 1 - Situation How an imaginary of war came to be established in the relations between the police and the projects. That a brief history of the social question and security issues is essential in order to understand the context in which law enforcement faces classes reputed to be dangerous. That the creation of more aggressive special units was judged necessary to deal with the alleged disorder in the outer cities. Chapter 2 - Ordinary How the daily work of police officers is far removed from the image they had of it when they joined the force, and the illusion they continue to maintain of it. That evaluation of the work of urban patrols yields such unexpected results that it is not taken into account by government. That inaction generates action, and what this phenomenon of spontaneous generation means for the residents of the projects. Chapter 3 - Interactions How stops and frisks serve purposes other than those they are supposed to serve, and prove more effective in perpetuating a social order than in maintaining public order. That the way police officers speak about the individuals with whom they deal throws light on their way of operating in the outer cities. That the theater of police intervention sometimes plays comedies in which not all spectators laugh at the same moment. Chapter 4 - Violence How a criminal court can offer valuable lessons on excessive use of force by the police in the outer cities. That by not reducing violence to its physical aspect and not limiting the definition of it to the legal sense, one can gain a different understanding of it. That there are many ways of preventing police brutality from being prosecuted Chapter 5 - Discrimination How police officers and sociologists challenge the existence of discriminatory practices that the rest of the French population is convinced prevail. That racist ideas do not automatically lead to discriminatory practices, but that the two are far from incompatible. That institutions show more tolerance toward institutional racism than toward its victims. Chapter 6 - Politics How some signs are not deceiving, but may nevertheless be surprising in a democratic regime. That local practices enjoy great autonomy with respect to national guidelines, but that government policy has some influence on the everyday work of law enforcement. That the corollary of the increasing criminalization of behaviors is an unprecedented casting of the police as victims. Chapter 7 - Morality How police officers disappointed by the justice of the courts began to practice street justice. That jokes in the precinct can prove more serious than is customarily maintained. That a code of ethics is not enough to interpret the ethical forces at work in the behavior of police officers and the moral impasse in which the police find themselves. Conclusion - Democracy How the French police preferred the model of the cop in the United States to the style of the British bobby, and what was the result. That the imposition of the rationale of security has a high social cost for contemporary societies. That the interests of ethnography are intimately bound with those of democracy. Epilogue - Time In which the author looks back to a not-so-distant past, observes that the more things change the more they do not stay the same, wonders about the present as it is experienced by certain segments of French society and ignored by the others, and expresses concerns about the future. Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal street-level politics to transnational governing institutions.Trade Review"This is a major book: one that is set to change the field in important ways. It is brief, challenging, informative, and accessible. There is hardly anyone who has the breadth of knowledge and experience that Julie-Anne Boudreau has, and few indeed who can bring such acute analytical insights to the work at hand. This book is a very important contribution to the literature. I would use it as a principal text for any course on urban politics." - Warren Magnusson, University of Victoria "In Global Urban Politics, Julie-Anne Boudreau has produced a synthesis of theory and observation to provide a strikingly original understanding of the urban. Seeing the urban as demarcated by practices rather than boundaries, she provides important insights into the nature of politics in the present era." - Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

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Book SynopsisIn what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal street-level politics to transnational governing institutions.Trade Review"This is a major book: one that is set to change the field in important ways. It is brief, challenging, informative, and accessible. There is hardly anyone who has the breadth of knowledge and experience that Julie-Anne Boudreau has, and few indeed who can bring such acute analytical insights to the work at hand. This book is a very important contribution to the literature. I would use it as a principal text for any course on urban politics." Warren Magnusson, University of Victoria "In Global Urban Politics, Julie-Anne Boudreau has produced a synthesis of theory and observation to provide a strikingly original understanding of the urban. Seeing the urban as demarcated by practices rather than boundaries, she provides important insights into the nature of politics in the present era." Susan S. Fainstein, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

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Book SynopsisIn what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism? And in what ways is global capitalism forged by the urban experience? This book provides a response to these questions, exploring the multifaceted dimensions of the city-capitalism nexus.Trade Review"Ugo Rossi offers a highly original analysis of the current urban condition. The book plays imaginatively on the complex relationships linking cities, neoliberal capitalism and globalization and extracts from these materials a remarkably informative and incisive diagnosis." - Allen J. Scott, UCLA "In this historically grounded, highly current and well-argued volume, Rossi combines critical reviews of diverse theoretical currents and empirical analyses to highlight recent trends, crises and struggles in and beyond the capitalist heartlands. He explores the growing links between neoliberalism and globalization, making cities ever more critical as sites of everyday resistance as well as crucial spaces of accumulation. Enjoy reading this book and acting upon it." - Bob Jessop, Lancaster University "Rossi provides a remarkably comprehensive, clear, and tremendously useful survey of theorizations of the relation between cities and capitalism. As he does so, he offers the reader a rich exploration of the many facets of that complex and mutually constitutive relation." - Miranda Joseph, The University of Arizona "Reading contemporary global capital from the perspective of the city, Ugo Rossi's Cities in Global Capitalism presents a critical geography, rich in analysis and haunted with spectral figures. Rossi shows how the city - the site of historical struggle, artistic and social innovations, and revolutionary uprisings - has been shaped by capital and its state partners with new spatial inequalities, potentialities, and peripheries. As the city once again becomes the destination for the global rich, economic innovation becomes a leading edge of gentrification and the abandoned warehouses of Fordist production become the ghost towers haunting the urban sky - vast areas the mega rich own but rarely inhabit as the ever-expanding homeless below pass by." - Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Columbia University "Cities in Global Capitalism presents an impressive tour de force on the mutually reinforcing relationship between cities, on the one hand, and the capitalist system on the other. Sifting through a wide range of work from across numerous disciplines, Ugo Rossi's account of the contemporary global urban condition is conceptually sophisticated, geographically nuanced and historically sensitive!" - Kevin Ward, University of Manchester "Ugo Rossi's book is a clear and illuminating overview of the complex relationships between globalized capitalism and urban spaces. A valuable contribution to the project of critically reflecting on our contemporary condition." - Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism and Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work"The Introduction alone is worth the price of admission. It provides an original, up-to-the-minute […], creative framework and overview of cities in global capitalism that is rare. Others in the field of urban studies provide narrower depictions, specific in-depth explanations. But Rossi gives you the whole show; tries to explain it all. It takes chutzpah. […] As a project, Rossi's is ambitious and sweeping, but it is never out of control, the arguments always systematic and tightly drawn." - Trevor J. Barnes, Papers in Regional ScienceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Emergences 2. Extensions 3. Continuities 4. Diffusions 5. Variations Conclusion: Living in the age of ambivalence

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Book SynopsisThe majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few can deny the dynamic influence migration has on cities. However, a one-size-fits-all approach cannot describe the activities and settlement patterns of immigrants in contemporary cities.Trade Review"Fong and Berry examine immigrants in the United States and Canada to give us a sweeping overview of the diverse experiences of immigrants in cities, mapping the ways immigrants shape the contours of cities and cities define immigrant experiences. This book is a necessary resource to anyone interested in immigration and urban studies."—Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, University of Southern California "Immigration and the City provides an illuminating and comprehensive portrait of how immigrants are being incorporated in cities in the United States and Canada, and how the immigrants and their children are, in turn, transforming the urban landscape in these two countries. The book offers a strong theoretical base from which to understand these processes and the social and economic forces that shape them."—John Iceland, Penn State University "The book forms a good and concise overview for those who are new to the field [and] is very useful in courses on Immigration and the City."—Journal of Housing and the Built EnvironmentTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Residential Patterns of Immigrants in Cities Chapter 3: Housing Attainment, Ownership, and the Immigrant Experience in Global Cities Chapter 4: Immigration and Ethnic Community Chapter 5: Immigrant Business and Ethnic EconomiesChapter 6: Immigrants and the Foodscapes, Playscapes, and the Landscapes of Global Cities Chapter 7: Time Use among Immigrants: A Window to Acculturation into a New Society Chapter 8: Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisThe majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few can deny the dynamic influence migration has on cities. However, a one-size-fits-all approach cannot describe the activities and settlement patterns of immigrants in contemporary cities.Trade Review"Fong and Berry examine immigrants in the United States and Canada to give us a sweeping overview of the diverse experiences of immigrants in cities, mapping the ways immigrants shape the contours of cities and cities define immigrant experiences. This book is a necessary resource to anyone interested in immigration and urban studies."—Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, University of Southern California "Immigration and the City provides an illuminating and comprehensive portrait of how immigrants are being incorporated in cities in the United States and Canada, and how the immigrants and their children are, in turn, transforming the urban landscape in these two countries. The book offers a strong theoretical base from which to understand these processes and the social and economic forces that shape them."—John Iceland, Penn State University "The book forms a good and concise overview for those who are new to the field [and] is very useful in courses on Immigration and the City."—Journal of Housing and the Built EnvironmentTable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Residential Patterns of Immigrants in Cities Chapter 3: Housing Attainment, Ownership, and the Immigrant Experience in Global Cities Chapter 4: Immigration and Ethnic Community Chapter 5: Immigrant Business and Ethnic Economies Chapter 6: Immigrants and the Foodscapes, Playscapes, and the Landscapes of Global Cities Chapter 7: Time Use among Immigrants: A Window to Acculturation into a New Society Chapter 8: Conclusions References Index

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Book SynopsisIt is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being born.Trade Review"Ceaselessly inventive and frequently provocative, New Urban Worlds anticipates new models, methods and modes of urbanism. Paying attention to the details, AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse recount a multiplicity of urban stories from Asia and Africa - stories of political possibility and experimental potential - with a keen-eyed and always creative purpose."—Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia "Deeply conceptual and creatively pragmatic, this is a core text from two of the most significant voices in urban studies today. They offer a highly original retheorization of the urban and open up distinctive new horizons for scholars everywhere seeking to catch the dynamic, varied meanings and effects of the urban."—Jennifer Robinson, University College London "The vision of urban life that emerges here is messy, pluralistic, paradoxical and - perhaps above all - serendipitous. Simone and Pieterse call on researchers to be as experimental and eclectic in our scholarship as urban inhabitants are in their everyday lives; borrowing ideas and resources from different domains, and re-assembling them in ways that shed new light on pressing issues."—Urban StudiesTable of ContentsDetailed Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: Paradoxes of the Urban Chapter 2: Precarious Now Chapter 3: Re-Description Chapter 4: Secretions Chapter 5: Horizons From Within the Break Chapter 6: Experimentations Chapter 7: Epilogue: A Story About Stories Endnotes References

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Book SynopsisIt is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being born. The full implications of this challenge cry out to be understood because city building (and retrofitting) cannot but be an undertaking entangled in profound societal and cultural shifts. In this highly original account, renowned urban sociologists AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse offer a call for action based fundamentally on the detail of people''s lives. Urban regions are replete with residents who are compelled to come up with innovative ways to maintain or extend livelihoods, whose makeshift character is rarely institutionalized into a fixed set of practices, locales or organizational forms. This novel analytical approach reveals a more complex relationship between people, the state and other agents than has previously Trade Review"Ceaselessly inventive and frequently provocative, New Urban Worlds anticipates new models, methods and modes of urbanism. Paying attention to the details, AbdouMaliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse recount a multiplicity of urban stories from Asia and Africa - stories of political possibility and experimental potential - with a keen-eyed and always creative purpose."—Jamie Peck, University of British Columbia "Deeply conceptual and creatively pragmatic, this is a core text from two of the most significant voices in urban studies today. They offer a highly original retheorization of the urban and open up distinctive new horizons for scholars everywhere seeking to catch the dynamic, varied meanings and effects of the urban."—Jennifer Robinson, University College London "The vision of urban life that emerges here is messy, pluralistic, paradoxical and - perhaps above all - serendipitous. Simone and Pieterse call on researchers to be as experimental and eclectic in our scholarship as urban inhabitants are in their everyday lives; borrowing ideas and resources from different domains, and re-assembling them in ways that shed new light on pressing issues."—Urban StudiesTable of ContentsDetailed Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1: Paradoxes of the Urban Chapter 2: Precarious Now Chapter 3: Re-Description Chapter 4: Secretions Chapter 5: Horizons From Within the Break Chapter 6: Experimentations Chapter 7: Epilogue: A Story About Stories Endnotes References

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Book SynopsisWe tend to think cities look the way they do because of the conscious work of architects, planners and builders. But what if the look of cities had less to do with design, and more to do with social, cultural, financial and political processes, and the way ordinary citizens interact with them? What if the city is a process as much as a design? Richard J. Williams takes the moment construction is finished as a beginning, tracing the myriad processes that produce the look of the contemporary global city. This book is the story of dramatic but unforeseen urban sights: how financial capital spawns empty towering skyscrapers and hollowed-out ghettoes; how the zoning of once-illicit sexual practices in marginal areas of the city results in the reinvention of culturally vibrant gay villages; how abandoned factories have been repurposed as creative hubs in a precarious postindustrial economy. It is also the story of how popular urban clichés and the fictional portrayal of cities powerfully Trade Review"Fascinating."—The Guardian "Williams is an affable guide, breezy and smart. And brave. 'I hate Venice,' he declares in the first sentence."—The Spectator "Why Cities Look the Way They Do is a great read. It's comfortable in voice but provocative in uncovering harsh truths and filled with fascinating visuals. To walk the city and travel the world with Williams is to journey to the brutal core of the power of image and to understand its sway over bodies and minds."—Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places "Using our eyes to understand the social and psychological DNA of cities is the refreshing and important contribution of Richard J. Williams's new book. Read it and look around you with heightened vision!"—Richard Burdett, London School of Economics and Political Science "Nicely spiky... Very enjoyable."—Diane Coyle, The Enlightened Economist "I enjoyed Williams' insightful observations, his use of quirky sources [...], the introduction of fascinating off-piste examples and his beautiful writing. The book opens up questions rather than closing them down and, being relatively short and accessible, is likely to be on reading lists for some time."—Times Higher Education "The conclusion is remarkable for its honesty."—Swarajya "The originality of Williams' argument makes for a riveting read, in which everything from the gay village to the shopping mall is explored. Essential for anyone is with an interest in the buildings around them."—SpearsTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Money 3. Power 4. Sex 5. Work 6. War 7. Culture 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisFounded in 1925, the town of Arvida was established to provide labour for Alcan's plant on the Saguenay River. With the arrival of big business in the rural Quebec countryside, two cultures collided -- the modern industrial culture of English North AmericTrade Review"An excellent portrait of the evolution of Arvida in the first twenty years of existence. This is one of the few investigations of its type to be produced in Quebec in recent years on the history of the working class. Arvida au Saguenay makes an important and original contribution to social history." [translation] Fernand Harvey, INRS -- Culture et Societe, Quebec. "Arvida au Saguenay fills a significant gap in Quebec historiography. Igartua's analysis of the work force, the union movement, and the 1941 strike adds an important new dimension to Canadian labour and working-class history." Jack Little, Department of History, Simon Fraser University.

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Book SynopsisGuidance on the community-researcher relationship, to support further scholarship and positive community change.Trade Review" Effectively treading the line between prescriptive and illustrative, Doing Community-Based Research is appealing and easy to apply, retool, and retrofit for the instance at hand. It promises to be an excellent resource for implementing damage control, amongst both the studied and the students." - Joy Parr, University of Western Ontario

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Book SynopsisThis first comprehensive account of contemporary planning and urban design practice in any Canadian city examines the development of Vancouver's unique approach to zoning, planning, and urban design from its inception in the early 1970s to the present day.Trade ReviewThe Vancouver Achievement represents the most substantial evaluation to date on the role of planning and local policy concerning the reformation of land use and landscapes in Vancouver, including treatments of the planning record in suburban as well as in central city settings ... The Vancouver Achievement, in the comprehensiveness and depth of its analysis, supported by an extensive fieldwork program entailing interviews and documentary review, is itself a considerable achievement. -- Tom Hutton * BC Studies, Spring 2005 *The Vancouver Achievement is a solid book, promising a long shelf life for anyone wishing to learn about the history of planning and architecture in British Columbia. -- Jill Wade * Canadian Literature 184, Spring 2005 *Admirably organized and readable. * New Urban News *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Urban Design as Public Policy in North America1 Introducing VancouverPart 1: Setting a New Planning Agenda2 TEAM and the Reform of Planning, 1972-803 Creating a Livable Central Area, 1975-91Part 2: Designing Neighbourhoods4 Single-Family Neighbourhoods, 1980-20005 CityPlan, 1992-2000 6. Megaprojects on the Waterfront, 1987-20007 Downtown Vancouver, 1991-2000Part 3: Regulating Development and Improving Design8 Reforming Permit Processing and Development Levies, 1980-20009 Discretionary Control and Design Quality, 1997-200010 Conclusion: Assessing Vancouver’s Achievement PostscriptAppendices:1 Awards for planning and design in Vancouver2 Chronology of key planning initiatives, policy documents, government policies, and politics in the City of Vancouver, 1965-20013 Organization charts for the city planning function, 1975-2001GlossaryReferencesFigureCreditsIndex

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Book SynopsisPresents an elegant analysis of the mechanisms of political mobilization under systemic racism that draws on case studies, interviews, and a detailed understanding of the racialized legal and sociocultural histories of the United States and Canada.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Racing against Time and Place2 Systemic Racism in Canada3 Toronto: Political Participation and Chinese Canadian Community Groups in the Multicultural City4 Systemic Racism in the United States5 Los Angeles: Political Mobilization and the Place of Chinese/Asian American Community Groups in the Multicultural City6 Conclusion: Racing into the Future Appendix: InterviewQuestionnaireNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisPresents an elegant analysis of the mechanisms of political mobilization under systemic racism that draws on case studies, interviews, and a detailed understanding of the racialized legal and sociocultural histories of the United States and Canada.Trade Review"A fascinating contribution to a dialogue on alternative forms of political participation by Chinese community groups in two multicultural North American cities. Race and the City should be read by students and scholars of urban politics, race relations, political science, and ethnic studies, as well as by those community leaders mobilizing for political change. - Kim Geron, author of Latino Political Power In her exploration of the processes of marginalization and mobilization of the Chinese communities in two multiracial cities, Shanti Fernando charts new ground, critically challenging the way we think about political inclusion. - Myer Siemiatycki, Director, Graduate Program in Immigration and Settlement Studies, Ryerson University"Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments 1 Introduction: Racing against Time and Place2 Systemic Racism in Canada3 Toronto: Political Participation and Chinese Canadian Community Groups in the Multicultural City4 Systemic Racism in the United States5 Los Angeles: Political Mobilization and the Place of Chinese/Asian American Community Groups in the Multicultural City6 Conclusion: Racing into the Future Appendix: InterviewQuestionnaireNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis vivid account of the creation of three public monuments in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside offers unique insights into the links between power, public space, and social memory and asks us to reconsider the nature and role of civic art.Table of ContentsPrefacePart 1: ActMarker of Change/ À l’aube du changementCRAB Park BoulderStanding with Courage, Strength and PridePart 2: FramePublic Space, Social Order and VisibilityMemory: Blending the Personal and the SocialMonuments: Permanence and MemoryA Geographic SensibilityPart 3: ForgeContinuousness of the IssueAcknowledging the UnseenConsolidating Claims of CommunityDesign FeaturesStreet SmartsProposition: A Politics of VisibilityReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisBy examining urban revitalization in Toronto from the perspective of women, this book reveals the neoliberal agenda that lies beneath the rhetoric of condo ownership.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 Growing Up: Toronto’s Condominium Boom and the Politics of Urban Revitalization2 Troubling Tenure: Condominium Ownership, Gender, and the Entrepreneurial Subject3 Under Construction: The Place of Community in the Neoliberal City4 Securing Relations of Threat: The Intersection of Gender, Fear, and Capital5 A Date with the Big City: Gendering the Myth of UrbanityConclusionAppendicesNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisDistorted price signals and flawed public policy create powerful and largely hidden perverse subsidies and incentives that promote urban sprawl.Trade ReviewAnalytical and detailed in its approach and consistently daring in challenging accepted views of the causes of and solutions for urban sprawl. -- Donner Prize JuryTable of ContentsPreface1 The Price of SprawlPart 1: The Planning Problem2 Sprawl: A Planning Problem3 The Costs and Benefits of SprawlPart 2: The Problem with Planning4 The Costs and Benefits of Planning5 How Do Our Cities Grow? Plans versus Reality6 Prices Drive SprawlPart 3: Subsidies, Cross-Subsidies, and Mis-Incentives: How Public Policy Finances Sprawl7 Municipal Services: Costs and Prices8 Network Services: Costs and Prices9 Housing, Infrastructure, and Energy: More Mis-Pricing and Mis-Incentives10 Driving Sprawl: Pricing and Policy Mis-IncentivesPart 4: What to Do11 Principles for a Market-Oriented Approach12 A Toolbox of Market-Oriented Instruments13 Perverse Subsidies, Perverse CitiesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Irish Catholic neighbourhood in Montreal, brings to life the history of Irish identity and collective memory in this legendary enclave.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Nations and Nationalism in Griffintown, 1900–142 Griffintown from the First World War to Irish Independence, 1914–223 The Last Stand of Irish-Catholic Griffintown, 1929–454 The Death of Griffintown, 1945–755 The Griffintown Commemorative Project, 1991–2010 ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Montreal neighbourhood, brings to life the history of Irish identity in the legendary enclave. As Irish immigration dwindled by the late nineteenth century, Irish culture in the city became diasporic, reflecting an imagined homeland. Focusing on the power of memory to shape community, Matthew Barlow finds that, despite sociopolitical pressures and a declining population, the spirit of this ethnic quarter was nurtured by the men and women who grew up there. Today, as Griffintown attracts renewed interest from developers, this textured analysis reveals how public memory defines our urban centres.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Nations and Nationalism in Griffintown, 1900–142 Griffintown from the First World War to Irish Independence, 1914–223 The Last Stand of Irish-Catholic Griffintown, 1929–454 The Death of Griffintown, 1945–755 The Griffintown Commemorative Project, 1991–2010 ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisNeighbourhood Houses documents how the neighbourhood house model, a century-old type of community organization, can help overcome isolation in urban neighbourhoods by creating welcoming places.Trade ReviewYan and Lauer have assembled a set of passionate essays that dig deep into opportunities for community building offered by the neighbourhood house movement. * Plan Canada *The use of multiple authors adds to the authenticity of the work and creates a readable, interesting case study that could certainly be applied to other municipalities in British Columbia and beyond. -- Pamela Show; Vancouver Island University * BC Studies *Yan and Lauer’s Neighbourhood Houses: Building Community in Vancouver provides an important collection of essays reminding us that cities are made up of people with complex needs and desires, but who want to connect and support each other when given an opportunity to feel safe to do so. -- Jennifer Chutter * The British Columbia Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction / Sean Lauer and Miu Chung Yan1 History of Vancouver Neighbourhood Houses and Beyond / Sean Lauer, Miu Chung Yan, and Eleanor Stebner2 The Eyes and Ears of the Community: Engaging Citizens and Community Advocacy / Oliver Schmidtke3 Mechanism of Connection: Accessibility and Beyond / Miu Chung Yan4 Social Infrastructure for Building Community / Sean Lauer5 Trajectories of Life and Belonging in the Neighbourhood Houses of Metro Vancouver / Pilar Riaño-Alcalá and Erika Ono6 From Immigrant to Citizen: Life Stories of Transformation / Jenny Francis7 Limitations and Potentials of Neighbourhood House in Community-Building / Miu Chung Yan and Sean LauerAppendix 1: Technical NotesAppendix 2: Neighbourhood Houses in Metro VancouverContributors; Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the sidewalk to City Hall, in the corporate boardroom, and around the kitchen table, The Heart of Toronto traces the power dynamics and projects that have transformed downtown Toronto.Trade Review"Daniel Ross’ Heart of Toronto is a much needed analysis of a critical aspect of downtown Toronto’s postwar development." -- Ross Fair, Toronto Metropolitan University * Ontario Historical Society Review *"In The Heart of Toronto: Corporate Power, Civic Activism, and the Remaking of Downtown Yonge Street, historian Daniel Ross reminds us how streets provide a unique and critical lens into urban growth and development." -- Karen Chapple, University of Toronto * Journal of the American Planning Association *Table of ContentsThe Street and the City1 Making Downtown Yonge Street2 The City of Tomorrow3 A People Place4 Fighting Sin Strip5 Malling Main StreetRemaking Downtown Yonge StreetNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the 1950s to the 1970s, downtown North America was reconfigured for the suburban age. Municipal officials planned renewal schemes, merchant groups lobbied for street improvements, developers built bigger and taller. Everywhere, attention turned to the problems and possibilities at the commercial and civic heart of cities.The Heart of Toronto follows one such example of reinvention: downtown Yonge Street. Efforts to keep pace with, or even lead, urban change included the street's conversion into a car-free public space, a clean-up campaign targeting the sex industry, and the construction of North America's largest urban shopping mall. These revitalization projects were all connected to wider trends of postwar decentralization, economic restructuring, and cultural transformation.Interweaving histories of development, civic activism, and corporate clout, The Heart of Toronto widens our understanding of the actors and power dynamics involved in remakTrade Review"Daniel Ross’ Heart of Toronto is a much needed analysis of a critical aspect of downtown Toronto’s postwar development." -- Ross Fair, Toronto Metropolitan University * Ontario Historical Society Review *"In The Heart of Toronto: Corporate Power, Civic Activism, and the Remaking of Downtown Yonge Street, historian Daniel Ross reminds us how streets provide a unique and critical lens into urban growth and development." -- Karen Chapple, University of Toronto * Journal of the American Planning Association *Table of ContentsThe Street and the City1 Making Downtown Yonge Street2 The City of Tomorrow3 A People Place4 Fighting Sin Strip5 Malling Main StreetRemaking Downtown Yonge StreetNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the remarkable story, told by a key insider, about Vancouver’s dramatic transformation from a typical mid-sized North American city into an inspiring world-class metropolis celebrated for its liveability, sustainability, and vibrancy.Trade ReviewBeasley’s book is a captain’s log that will sit nicely alongside other books on city building in Vancouver. -- C. Cheung * The Tyee *...this will be the definitive insider’s account of the creation of Vancouver’s famous skyline, its downtown neighbourhoods and its mix of natural beauty and urbanism. -- Michael Kluckner * BC Bookworld *In Beasley’s hands, Vancouverism’s seemingly disparate parts emerge as a cohesive whole. -- Spencer Morrison * The Literary Review of Canada *...an insider’s view of how, especially during Beasley’s decades inside city hall, the Terminal City came to be an internationally renowned exemplar of livable, family-friendly urban neighbourhoods. -- Alex Bozikovic * Globe and Mail *Overall, this book is a fantastic look at the history of how a city came to be. -- Jenna Collingnon * Western Exteriors Magazine *Table of ContentsPrologueThe Beginnings | Frances BulaPart 1: What Is Vancouverism?1 Setting the Stage2 A Unique Context for Urban Innovation3 Counter-Intuitive Perspectives for Shaping a CityPart 2: The Key Urban Principles of Vancouverism4 Neighbourhoods5 Transportation Choices6 Diversity7 Urban Design8 Environmental Responsibility9 Public and Private CollaborationPart 3: The Future of Vancouverism10 New Iterations and Lessons LearnedEpilogueA Special Urban ExperienceNotes; Index

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Book SynopsisThis latest volume in the Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education series shows what urban leadership looks like from the inside. The authors have been leaders in big city schools and understand the unique managerial, instructional, and political tasks of this role.Table of ContentsThe Authors x 1 Our Urban Schools 1 2 The Legal, Political, and Fiscal Landscape 29 3 Serving Urban School Children 69Janice E. Jackson 4 Managing People 85 5 Urban School Leadership Skills 115 6 Challenges Facing the Next Generation of Urban School Leaders 143 7 Conclusion 177 Index 187

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Book SynopsisTwentieth-century New York is now famous as the city of "cliff dwellers," but in the second half of the nineteenth century, middle-class apartments in Manhattan were a new—and somewhat suspect—architectural form. Alone Together presents a history of...

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Book SynopsisHow, in the years before the advent of urban maps, did city residents conceptualize and navigate their communities? In his strikingly original book, Daniel Lord Smail develops a new method and a new vocabulary for understanding how urban men and women...Trade ReviewThis book makes a lively and original contribution to current debates on state development. -- Karl Appuhn, Columbia University * Sixteenth Century Journal *In this interesting and thought-provoking work, Daniel Smail concludes that the emergence of the street as the normal cartographic marker led first to the development of urban maps, and finally to the process of attaching street addresses to citizens.... Smail's work is scholarly and is highly recommended. -- A.G. Traver * History: Reviews of New Books *This book is elegantly written, and it is a pleasure to follow its argument through learned forays into topics ranging from cognitive psychology to cartography.... This is an ambitious book, filled with ideas that will stimulate researchers to look much more closely at records that they may have taken for granted. -- John Drendel, Universite du Quebec * Speculum *Imaginary Cartographies is a masterful case study of the relationship between spatial representation and the emergence of identity in late medieval and early modern Marseille. Through exhaustive archival and theoretical research, Smail explores the ways in which notorial records refer to an individual's relationship to the territory, thereby revealing the emergence of the notion of personal and national identity.... The author's convincing argument allows his readers to rethink not only how identity was articulated in the late medieval and early modern period, but also how both visual and linguistic spatial representations intersect in an emergent national imagination. The scope of Smail's work will appeal across lines of discipline as this book... lays out a solid methodological approach, navigating smoothly between the theoretical and the archival. -- Elisabeth Hodges * Mapline *This is an important work, establishing a methodology and analytical framework that I hope will inspire studies of these questions of language, perception, and statecraft elsewhere, including the other towns of Provence and cities in the north that were little affectd by the culture of the public notaries. -- David Nicholas, Clemson University * American Historical Review *

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