Urban communities / city life Books
Cornell University Press The Just City
Book SynopsisSusan Fainstein's concept of the "just city" encourages planners and policymakers to embrace a different approach to urban development, combining progressive city planners' earlier focus on equity and material well-being with considerations of diversity.Trade Review[Fainstein's] work deepens, enriches, and extends deliberative planning theory in complementary rather than antagonistic ways. Like the idea of justice itself, The Just City is not the last word concluding a debate. More important, it is a trenchant, penetrating, and reasoned contribution to precisely that discursive and contested, but necessary and fruitful deliberative process that fuels the hope for progress toward realization of the just city. -- Sarah J. Peterson * Journal of Planning Education and Research *The just city is one in which equity, democracy, and diversity are important considerations. This is in contrast with the city as growth machine. Fainstein examines three cities: New York, London, and Amsterdam. She provides a history of post–World War II planning and then focuses on fairly recent cases of development in each. Her goals, though modest, are important if growing inequality in urban areas is to be reversed. Recommended. * Choice *Susan Fainstein's book is the result of some 20 years of intense research and thinking on the subject of the 'just city,' and it seems likely to me to become something of a classic.... Fainstein's slightly deadpan style serves only to make her accounts more compelling. A recent history of planning in London, written with equality, democracy and diversity in mind, is really useful as a teaching tool. Here the Docklands development, Coin Street and the 2012 Olympics are placed under scrutiny, with the last of those three, perhaps not surprisingly, receiving poor marks on the grounds of equity not least because the 'huge expenditure involved took away resources from other parts of London and the country more widely without providing them any benefits beyond the glory of hosting the Games.'... She notes that there are two possible responses to the injustices illustrated by the book. The first is to recognize the impossibility of achieving even small amounts of justice within the dominant system of global capitalism. The second, which is one that Fainstein herself adheres to, is that much can be achieved through incremental change. The book's final chapter is therefore devoted to a discussion of policies that are conducive to social justice in cities. Her vision is of a world where market forces no longer dominate decisions about city planning and justice drives the world of policy. -- Flora Samuel * Times Higher Education Supplement *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Toward an Urban Theory of Justice 1. Philosophical Approaches to the Problem of Justice 2. Justice and Urban Transformation: Planning in Context 3. New York 4. London 5. Amsterdam: A Just City? 6. Conclusion: Toward the Just City References Index
£45.00
Cornell University Press Working for Justice
Book SynopsisWorking for Justice features eleven case studies of recent low-wage worker organizing campaigns in Los Angeles, making the case for a distinctive "L.A. Model" of union and worker center organizing.Trade ReviewWorking for Justice serves both to refine and expand our knowledge of employee representation in Los Angeles through a collection of chapters related to union- and worker center-led efforts' on behalf of low-wage earning individuals. It offers a nuanced study of specific instances in which unions and advocacy groups have sought to organize low-wage workers.... The collection also takes us beyond the well-trodden ground of union advocacy in Los Angeles, introducing readers to the importance of worker centers within the region.... In so doing, the authors cover tremendously varied terrain while concurrently interweaving numerous threads of commonalities across the campaigns and organizing efforts to create a portrait of the intricate links between union and nonunion worker groups, a picture that most fully emerges in the excellent afterword. -- J. Ryan Lamare * ILR Review *The essays in this volume offer us not only an informative account of some of the most vibrant and creative organizing campaigns to have emerged in recent years; they may also provide a glimpse of labor's future. -- Joseph A. McCartin * Labor/Le Travail *Table of ContentsForeword by Joshua Bloom Introduction by Ruth MilkmanPart I: Worker Centers, Ethnic Communities, and Immigrant Rights AdvocacyChapter 1. The Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance: Spatializing Justice in an Ethnic "Enclave" by Jong Bum KwonChapter 2. Organizing Workers along Ethnic Lines: The Pilipino Workers' Center by Nazgol GhandnooshChapter 3. Alliance-Building and Organizing for Immigrant Rights: The Case of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles by Caitlin C. PatlerChapter 4. Building Power for "Noncitizen Citizenship": A Case Study of the Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network by Chinyere OsujiPart II: Occupational and Industry-Focused Organizing CampaignsChapter 5. The Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance by Jacqueline Leavitt and Gary BlasiChapter 6. From Legal Advocacy to Organizing: Progressive Lawyering and the Los Angeles Car Wash Campaign by Susan Garea and Sasha Alexandra SternChapter 7. NDLON and the History of Day Labor Organizing in Los Angeles by Maria DziembowskaChapter 8. The Garment Worker Center and the "Forever 21" Campaign by Nicole A. Archer, Ana Luz Gonzalez, Kimi Lee, Simmi Gandhi, and Delia HerreraPart III: Unions and Low-Wage Worker OrganizingChapter 9. Ally to Win: Black Community Leaders and SEIU’s L. A. Security Unionization Campaign by Joshua BloomChapter 10. From the Shop to the Streets: UNITE HERE Organizing in Los Angeles Hotels by Forrest StuartChapter 11. The Janitorial Industry and the Maintenance Cooperation Trust Fund by Karina MuñizAfterword by Victor NarroNotes References About the Contributors Index
£81.00
Cornell University Press Sarajevo 19411945
Book SynopsisThis history of Sarajevo and its diverse population under Nazi rule.Trade ReviewEmily Greble has written an enthralling history of Sarajevo under Nazi occupation, contributing very usefully to the histography of World War II and the former Yugoslavia. Mastering a wealth of archival sources and focusing specifically on Bosnia and Herzegovina's capital, Greble argues that a unique sense of community helped the city pull together and persist through the hardships of one of the worst ordeals in its history.... Greble’s book can serve as an inspiring template for future studies of cities in wartime. -- Christian Axobe Nielsen * Austrian History Yearbook *Greble's book quietly takes on a much larger subject than is immediately apparent. Groups that have dominated accounts of Yugoslavia's war years are absent here.... Greble offers a different setting and new leading men. * London Review of Books *In addition to enriching our understanding of Sarajevo and of Yugoslavia during World War II, Greble's analysis adds to a growing historiography challenging the idea that nationality overshadowed other loyalties in early twentieth-century East-Central Europe.. This excellent study uses rich archival research to describe a complex situation in a nuanced and accessible way. It is an important contribution to the literature on Yugoslavia during World War II, and will be of broad interest to the scholars of East Central Europe, European nationalisms, and the Nazi Empire. -- Caitlin E. Murdock * Canadian Journal of History *The result of painstaking work in the archives of the former Yugoslavia, this study of Sarajevo under the Ustasha dictatorship is essential for scholars with an interest in Yugoslav history, World War II, fascism, ethnicity, and community studies. How, Greble asks, did the cultural elites of Sarajevo attempt to secure autonomy for their communities—Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, and Orthodox—in a time of dictatorship and war?... Treating her subjects with great sensitivity and showing a keen eye for telling details, Greble compellingly demonstrates 'the persistence of a civic community spirit' during these difficult years. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * Choice *There is much to commend this study. Emily Greble capitalizes on a recent historiographical trend which prioritizes the local to observe the national and international.... Greble has contributed an important study which should be useful to others researching the war years in the region. -- Hannah Holtschneider * Journal of Jewish Studies *Emily Greblo's Saravejo is an elaborately detailed portrayal of Sarajevan's wartime experience It is an absolutely significant contribution to the literature and a must-read for those who are interested in Balkan history in general and Saravejo in particular. -- Elif Zaim * Insight Turkey 18:2 *Table of ContentsCity Lines: Multiculturalism and Sarajevo 1. Portraits of a City on the Eve of War 2. Autonomy Compromised: Nazi Occupation and the Ustasha Regime 3. Conversion and Complicity: Ethnically Cleansing the Nation 4. Between Identities: The Fragile Bonds of Community 5. Dilemmas of the New European Order: The Muslim Question and the Yugoslav Civil War 6. An Uprising in the Making 7. The Final Months: From Total War to Communist Victory The Sympathetic City: Community and Identity in Wartime SarajevoBibliography Index
£32.30
Cornell University Press Urban Flow
Book SynopsisIn Urban Flow, Jeffrey L. Kidder introduces readers to the fascinating subculture of bike messengers, exploring its appeal as well as its uncertainties and dangers.Trade ReviewUrban Flow is a view of the cool urban culture that messengers have grown on the barren soil of the service economy, and reverberates with cycling's visceral pleasure. * American Journal of Sociology *Urban Flow's principle contribution is a call to sociologists of culture to more thoroughly examine emotions, space, and the relationship between the two; emotions are emplaced, and physical structures significantly shape interaction. Through what Kidder calls the 'affective appropriation of space' messengers resist the conformist, rationalized world of the city, affording moments, however small, of creativity and liberation. -- Ross Haenfler * Qualitative Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Lure of Delivery 1. The Job 2. The Lifestyle 3. Men's Work and Dirty Work 4. Playing in Traffi 5. The Deep Play of Alleycats 6. The Aff ective Appropriation of Space 7. The Meaning of Messenger Style Conclusion: The Politics of Appropriation
£24.69
Cornell University Press No One Helped
Book SynopsisMarcia M. Gallo provides a sensitive and multifaceted exploration of one of America's most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese.Trade ReviewGallo [is] successful in her quest to restore Genovese's 'personhood.' In a chapter evocatively titled 'Hidden in Plain Sight,' Gallo does a wonderful job placing Genovese within the context of her times as a vibrant, successful, homosexual woman. Gallo’s interviews with Genovese’s lover, Mary Ann Zielonko, and some of Genovese’s friends add poignant and touching details to a life cut tragically short. -- Mariah Adin * H-Net Reviews *After reading Gallo's solidly researched book, readers can no longer simply accept the standard narrative about Kitty Genovese's murder and the claims of urban apathy.... She asks us to think more broadly about the ways in which historical narratives build up around important events and sometimes cloud our view of the past.... With this book, Gallo has at least brought the real Kitty Genovese back to life. * Italian American Review *Gallo's insightful and important book about the Genovese murder is both a provocative history of the ways apathy continues to challenge our popular memory of social activism and an engaging history of the postwar years that highlights the intersection of a range of social issues and political problems. It deserves a wide audience. -- Randy D. McBee * Journal of American History *Several books and numerous articles have marked the 50th anniversary of the infamous murder of Kitty Genovese on the night of March 13, 1964 in the borough of Queens in New York City. Marcia M. Gallo offers a valuable addition to this literature in a well-written, intelligent, comprehensive, and provocative new account of the often-told story. I believe it will be of interest to a broad range of readers, including social psychologists, other social scientists, and to lay and professional readers interested in any of the many questions raised by the case for policy making, journalism, social planning, and more. -- Robert Levine * PsycCRITIQUES *Table of ContentsPrologue: A New York Story1. Urban Villages in the Big City2. Hidden in Plain Sight3. Thirty-Eight Witnesses4. The Metropolitan Brand of Apathy5. The City Responds6. Surviving New City Streets7. Challenging the Story of Urban ApathyEpilogue: Kitty, Fifty Years LaterNotes Selected Bibliography Index
£97.20
Cornell University Press Gangs of Russia
Book SynopsisSince their spectacular rise in the 1990s, Russian gangs have remained entrenched in many parts of the country. Some gang members have perished in gang wars or ended up behind prison bars, while others have made spectacular careers off the streets and joined the Russian elite. But the rank and file of gangs remain substantially incorporated into their communities and society as a whole, with bonds and identities that bridge the worlds of illegal enterprise and legal respectability. In Gangs of Russia, Svetlana Stephenson explores the secretive world of the gangs. Using in-depth interviews with gang members, law enforcers, and residents in the city of Kazan, together with analyses of historical and sociological accounts from across Russia, she presents the history of gangs both before and after the arrival of market capitalism.Contrary to predominant notions of gangs as collections of maladjusted delinquents or illegal enterprises, Stephenson argues, Russian gangTrade Review[I]n her landmark study, Gangs of Russia: From the Streets to the Corridors of Power, Svetlana Stephenson finds an analytical similarity between the two types of organizations: like the Mafia, gangs in Russia are woven into the fabric of society. They have roots in the community and instead of challenging the established order, they reinforce it... Stephenson finds that most of her interviewees had finished high school, were studying at university (in some cases, medicine and law), or held professional jobs. They do not come from broken homes and are in steady relationships. Many are married. Some even belong to belong to political parties, such as the pro-Putin United Russia, and have relatives working for the police. Over time, a number of them become respected businessmen and even local politicians. -- Federico Varese * Times Literary Supplement *A recent and valuable contribution to this field of study is Dr. Svetlana Stephenson's book Gangs of Russiaa fine expose that contributes much to our understanding of the very roots of the reality of Russia 'corruption [...] violence and crime.’ -- David Holohan * East-West Review *This is a history of the growth and partial assimilation of youth gangs in Russia after the collapse of Soviet socialism... highly recommended. -- M. G. Meacham * CHOICE *Stephenson's account of gang life has much to offer, and the complications in pursuing this research may have been truly staggering. The result is an exhaustive - but never exhausting – account of the multifaceted nature of Russian gang life – including a fascinating section on the fleeting existence of a handful of all-female street gangs. -- Maxim Edwards * Transitions Online *This rich, absorbing work should impel readers to ask questions about political and economic transitions... this research offers a powerful caveat with regard to building such systems based on mass immiseration. * Terrorism and Political Violence *Table of ContentsIntroduction: In the Shadow of the State1. Street Organizations and Gangs in Russia2. The Transformation of Gangs in the 1990s3. The Business of Bandit Gangs: From Predation to Assimilation4. Gang Organization5. Street Trajectories6. The Gang in the Community7. Life according to the Poniatiia: The Gang's Code8. Navigating the World of Violence9. Gang Culture and the Wider Russian SocietyConclusion: Out of the Shadows?Appendix. Development of Tatarstan Gangs: Three Examples Key to Interviewees Methodological Note Glossary References Index
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Cornell University Press Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris
Book SynopsisThis book about poor men and women in thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century Paris reveals the other side of the age of cathedrals in the very place where gothic architecture and scholastic theology were born. In Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris, Sharon Farmer extends and deepens the understanding of urban poverty in the High Middle Ages. She explores the ways in which cultural elites thought about the poor, and shows that their conceptions of poor men and women derived from the roles assigned to men and women in the opening chapters of the Book of Genesismen are associated with productive labor, or labor within the public realm, and women with reproductive labor, or labor within the private realm.Farmer proceeds to complicate this picture, showing that elite society''s attitude toward an individual''s social role and moral capacity depended not only on gender but also on the person''s social status. Such perceptions in turn influenced the kinds of care extended or denieTrade ReviewWe are starting to see several excellent histories of gender written by authors informed by feminist theories attuned to class, age, and marital status as important categories of difference—categories that only complicate and enrich our vision of past societies. Sharon Farmer's latest work on the lives of the poor in the thirteenth-and fourteenth century Paris is a prime example of this historiographical shift, and the author's approach, method, and insights will prove significant to early modern historians interested in social and gender history. -- Christopher R. Corley, Minnesota State University * Sixteenth Century Journal *
£19.99
Cornell University Press The Neoliberal City
Book SynopsisThe shift in the ideological winds toward a "free-market" economy has brought profound effects in urban areas. The Neoliberal City presents an overview of the effect of these changes on today's cities. The term "neoliberalism" was originally used in...Trade Review"Drawing from geography, urban studies, and political science, The Neoliberal City is a good introduction to many debates in those disciplines and to some important arguments about the neoliberal city. Jason Hackworth's discussion of liberalism and neoliberalism is particularly valuable for its clarity and because it provides a punchy and well-argued account of the intellectual development of neoliberalism. By focusing on the roles of bond-rating agencies, real-estate agents, developers, and public housing authorities, Jason Hackworth successfully reveals the internal processes of neoliberalism in action." -- Joe Painter, University of Durham"In this fascinating book, Jason Hackworth explores the new geographies of inequality, exclusion and displacement that have been forged within U.S. cities during the last three decades of worldwide urban restructuring. Written in an accessible style and grounded upon an impressive assemblage of empirical evidence, The Neoliberal City will be an essential resource for anyone concerned to decipher the contemporary urban condition in the United States. The book provides, simultaneously, a serious engagement with key strands of contemporary critical urban theory, an illuminating exploration of several spheres of contemporary urban restructuring and a nuanced analysis of on-the-ground sociospatial changes and struggles in several major U.S. cities. The book will become an essential reference point in future debates on the nature of neoliberalized urbanization and in ongoing scholarly efforts to decipher the restlessly changing landscape of post-Keynesian urbanization both in the USA and beyond." -- Neil Brenner, New York University"Jason Hackworth grounds theories of neoliberalism in an astute analysis of urban governance, urban development, and social movements in cities. His empirical studies demonstrate that neoliberal processes are more contingent and more context-sensitive than abstract theorizations might suggest. The Neoliberal City makes a persuasive case that it is hard to understand contemporary cities without a more nuanced view of neoliberalism." -- Susan E. Clarke, University of Colorado at BoulderTable of Contents1. The Place, Time, and Process of Neoliberal UrbanismPart 1: Governing the Neoliberal City 2. Choosing the Neoliberal Path 3. The Glocalization of Governance 4. The Public-Private PartnershipPart 2: The Acceleration of Uneven Development 5. The Neoliberal Spatial Fix 6. The Reinvested Urban Core 7. Neoliberal Gentrification 8. Mega-Projects in the Urban Core: Bread or Circus?Part 3: Contesting the Neoliberal City 9. Social Struggle in a Neoliberal Policy Landscape 10. Alternative Futures at the End of HistoryReferences Index
£24.69
Cornell University Press White FlightBlack Flight
Book SynopsisLife of a working-class neighborhood in the aftermath of white flight.Trade ReviewWhite Flight/Black Flight is a book worth reading—Rachael A. Woldoff puts the flesh on what are often our dry demographic discussions of population change in American urban neighborhoods. The book is considered, thoughtful, and provides a nuanced ethnographic interpretation of the decision about whether to stay or move when a neighborhood changes.... The strength of the book is in the stories of people who observed the transitions in their neighborhood as it changed its ethnic composition. Their stories are the stories of people dealing with the day-to-day interactions of living in changing neighborhoods. -- William A. V. Clark * American Journal of Sociology *Much has been written about neighborhood change and the process of white flight from urban and suburban neighborhoods. However, the white flight literature only documents a small part of a much wider process of neighborhood change. In White Flight/Black Flight the author makes attempts to redress the balance through an ethnographic exploration of longer-term change in one neighborhood. Woldoff demonstrates how initial neighborhood change as a result of a changing ethnic structure is only a small part of the story and that neighborhood transition is as much an outcome of class, income, and values as it is about race or ethnicity. Ultimately, what this book reminds us is that neighborhoods, far from being static entities that only change in response to large dramatic shocks, are actually entities in constant flux responding constantly to a barrage of small changes.... What this book demonstrates is that, while the study of neighborhood change in the United States has focused on white flight, the ethnographic study in Parkmont shows that class divisions and class flight are just as important. A broader approach such as Woldoff's is needed to reach a better understanding of how a neighborhood changes and how residents cope with that change. * Urban Studies *Rachael A. Woldoff tells Parkmont's seemingly common story in an uncommon way. Rather than focusing on racial change, Woldoff explores what comes next, as a few white residents who chose to stay ('stayers'), black pioneers, and African Americans who arrived later ('second wavers') formed a complex social system. In focusing on 'the cultural and social dynamics that occur in the aftermath of white residents leaving,' Woldoff sheds new light on contemporary urban communities and opens new fields of investigation.... Woldoff's close attention to interracial and intraracial relationships after Parkmont became a black community is White Flight/Black Flight's greatest strength.... It is a fine study that opens new questions for scholarly investigation. -- James Wolfinger * Journal of American History *Sociologist Rachael A. Woldoff has crafted a clever topic in her study of the impact of racial change in Parkmont, an unidentitfied U.S. Northeast neighborhood.White Flight/ Black Flight: The Dynamics of Racial Change in an American Neighborhoodasks what happens to a residential area after moderately prosperous African Americans, the pioneers, move into a majority white area seeking a better community life and integrated living, and are later followed by lower-class African Americans, the second wavers.. Woldoff's extensive use of the secondary literature should help expand our understanding of 'gentrification' beyond the simple black-white dichotomy. -- Keith A. Dye * The Journal of African American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: What Happens to a Neighborhood after White Flight? 1. The Parkmont Environment 2. Choosing Parkmont: Whites Staying and Blacks Pioneering 3. Stella Zuk's Story: Choosing to Stay 4. Cross-Racial Caregiving: Pioneers Helping Stayers to Age in Place 5. Ken Wilkinson: Striving for the Next Generation 6. Black Flight: Consequences of Neighborhood Cultural Conflict 7. Billy's Narrative: Clashing in Parkmont 8. Skipping School: The Negative Effects of a Neighborhood Institution 9. Conclusions: Understanding the Cultural Dynamics of Neighborhood ChangeAppendix References Index
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Cornell University Press Cities Classes and the Social Order
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together nine conceptual and theoretical essays by the influential anthropologist, Anthony Leeds (1925–1989), whose pioneering work in the anthropology of complex societies was built on formative personal and research experiences in both urban and rural settings in the US, Brazil, Venezuela, and Portugal.Trade Review"This volume brings together nine conceptual and theoretical essays by Anthony Leeds (1925–89) whose pioneering work on the anthropology of complex societies was built upon formative personal and research experience in both urban and rural settings in the United States, Brazil, Venezuela, and Portugal. This volume should serve well a broad spectrum of anthropological as well as comparative social theory and contemporary urban studies."—Urban StudiesTable of ContentsPreface by Roger SanjekAnthony Leeds: Life and WorkThe Life of Anthony Leeds: Unity in Diversityby R. Timothy SieberThe Holistic Anthropology of Anthony Leedsby Roger SanjekCities [poem]Cities in History1. Cities and Countryside in Anthropology2 Towns and Villages in Society: Hierarchies of Order and CauseThe FMI Helps Portugal [poem]The Green Eye of Xerox in the Tropics [poem]Casal Ventoso . . . [poem]3. Mythos and Pathos: Some Unpleasantries on Peasantries4. Economic-Social Changes and the Future of the Middle Class5. Some Problems in the Analysis of Class and the Social Order6. Marx, Class, and PowerWhen the Gulls Fly, the Tempest Comes [poem]São Martinho [poem]Betrayals [poem]Localities in Urban Systems7. Locality Power in Relation to Supralocal Power Institutions8. The Anthropology of Cities: Some Methodological IssuesBibliographyIndex
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Cornell University Press The Future of Us All
Book SynopsisBefore the next century is out, Americans of African, Asian, and Latin American ancestry will outnumber those of European origin. In the Elmhurst-Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York City, the transition occurred during the 1970s, and the area''s two-decade experience of multiracial diversity offers us an early look at the future of urban America. The result of more than a dozen years'' work, this remarkable book immerses us in Elmhurst-Corona''s social and political life from the 1960s through the 1990s.First settled in 1652, Elmhurst-Corona by 1960 housed a mix of Germans, Irish, Italians, and other white ethnics. In 1990 this population made up less than a fifth of its residents; Latin American and Asian immigrants and African Americans comprised the majority. The Future of Us All focuses on the combined impact of racial change, immigrant settlement, governmental decentralization, and assaults on local quality of life which stemmed from the city''s 1975 fiscal crTrade ReviewThis is a very optimistic book.... Sanjek's discussion of quality-of-life issues and the decline of manufacturing are especially important.... The Future of Us All is an interesting and important look at changes in urban America during the last third of the twentieth century. -- Dominic A. Pacyga * Journal of American History *
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Cornell University Press Sanya Blues
Book SynopsisOver the years, Edward Fowler, an American academic, became a familiar presence in San''ya, a run-down neighborhood in northeastern Tokyo. The city''s largest day-labor market, notorious for its population of casual laborers, drunks, gamblers, and vagrants, has been home for more than half a century to anywhere from five to fifteen thousand men who cluster in the mornings at a crossroads called Namidabashi (Bridge of Tears) in hopes of getting work. The day-labor market, along with gambling and prostitution, is run by Japan''s organized crime syndicates, the yakuza. Working as a day laborer himself, Fowler kept a diary of his experiences. He also talked with day laborers and local merchants, union leaders and bureaucrats, gangsters and missionaries. The resulting oral histories, juxtaposed with Fowler''s narrative and diary entries, bring to life a community on the margins of contemporary Japan.Located near a former outcaste neighborhood, on what was once a public execution gTrade ReviewA fascinating glossary.... Haunting photographs.... All readers must agree that San'ya Blues does indeed give a sense of the 'price paid by a great many' for Japan's economic success, as the author intends, and does so with a respect for historic and social differences.... What this highly personalized fieldwork offers us is crucial glimpses into the relationships incorporating the labor of unwanted men into the nationalized political economy of post high economic growth Japan. -- Miriam Silverberg * Journal of Asian Studies *A fascinating book.... Fowler has brought San'ya to life by describing the men he met not as titillating images of despair, but as individual human beings, each with a personal story to tell. -- Ian Buruma * New York Review of Books *A remarkable insight into... Japan.... Fowler's highly descriptive account is vividly personal and a fascinating read. -- Meir Ronnen * The Jerusalem Post Magazine *Accepted by the day-laborers, Fowler was able to gain a confidence that... allows him to present life-stories in ways both informative and surprising.... Fowler's unabashedly personal approach guarantees not only that the book's subject come refreshingly alive, but that its author does as well. * Times Literary Supplement *Anyone who believes that Japanese society is a homogeneous, well-oiled machine—a stereotype often sounded in American media—would do well to read this gritty, firsthand account of life for day-laborers in Tokyo's shunned ghetto district, San'ya.... Fowler's descriptive powers and cultural understanding offer a vivid context for the oral accounts of San'ya inhabitants describing their personal histories and daily lives.... A vivid, if depressing, account of an urban Japanese underclass that bears a surprising resemblance to America's own inner-city population. * Publishers Weekly *This book offers a vivid personal tour of the San'ya district and its denizens, culled from many repeated visits by Fowler which culminated in a six-week stint as a day laborer.... He came to realize that... 'San'ya's inhabitants collectively give the lie to so much of what is being said and written about Japan.' * Japan Quarterly *
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Cornell University Press Peasant Metropolis Social Identities in Moscow
Book SynopsisDuring the 1930's, 23 million peasants left their villages and moved to Soviet cities, where they comprised almost half the urban population and more than half the nation's industrial workers. Drawing on previously inaccessible archival materials...Trade ReviewHoffmann develops a clear argument from beginning to end, he presents strong supporting evidence, and he writes well. His subject is the massive migration of Soviet peasants from village to city during the 1930s.... His book is a major contribution to our understanding of the creation of Soviet society and of Soviet industry. -- John Bushnell * The Journal of Economic History *Just as the subjects of his study span the village and the city, Hoffmann has bridged the chasms between the literature on workers and on peasants. He also places his study in the context of literature on migration, class, and identity formation. * Journal of Social History *In his engrossing study of the social, political, and economic effects of the peasant influx into Moscow, David Hoffmann demonstrates from a vast array of evidence how on the one hand the long-standing tradition of migration assisted industrialization by directing peasant labor to factories and construction work but on the other the shape of that workforce was in the hands of village networks rather than official recruitment programs.... With scholarship as penetrating as it is original, Hoffmann shows quite dramatically that... the Soviet industrial system... never achieved 'rationalized and routinized production.' -- John Erickson * The Times Higher Education Supplement *It is the first study to place the Soviet experience of peasant in-migration during the 1930s into a European and even global context. * International Labor and Working-Class History *
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Cornell University Press Getting Paid
Book SynopsisThe working class in New York City was remade in the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1820s a substantial majority of city artisans were native-born; by the 1850s three-quarters of the city's laboring men and women were immigrants. How did the influx of this large group of young adults affect the city's working class? What determined the texture...Trade Review"This is one of the most important works I have read on working-class life. It will be widely read, praised, and debated." -- Elliott J. Gorn, Miami University
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Johns Hopkins University Press Toward an Urban Vision Ideas and Institutions in
Book Synopsis'Trade ReviewAn important book... Provocative, thoughtful, and worth reading. Journal of American History
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Johns Hopkins University Press Since Megalopolis The Urban Writings of Jean
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCollects some of the outstanding writings on the city by Gottmann since 1961, many of them out of print in English . . . The book is a minor masterpiece, a sympathetic but emphatic rebuttal of the presumptions of those who would plan our lives.—New ScientistTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Opening of the Oyster ShellPart I. Urban OriginsChapter 1. Orbits: The Ancient Mediterranean Tradition of Urban NetworksPart II. Urban CentralityChapter 2. Urban Centrality and the Interweaving of Quaternary ActivitiesChapter 3. Capital CitiesChapter 4. The Study of Former CapitalsPart III. City and MetropolisChapter 5. Economics, Esthetics, and Ethics in Modern UrbanizationChapter 6. The Growing City as a Social and Political ProcessPart IV. MegalopolisChapter 7. How Large Can Cities Grow?Chapter 8. Megalopolitan Systems around the WorldChapter 9. Planning and Metamorphosis in JapanPart V. The Transactional CityChapter 10. Office Work and the Evolution of CitiesChapter 11. Urban Settlements and TelecommunicationsChapter 12. The Recent Evolution of OxfordPart VI. Living in the Modern MetropolisChapter 13. The Ethics of Living at High DensitiesChapter 14. Urbanization and Employment: Toward a General TheoryChapter 15. The Metamorphosis of the Modern MetropolisPart VII. ImplicationsChapter 16. Transatlantic Orbits: The Interplay in the Evolution of CitiesUrban Publications by Jean GottmannIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Back to Nature The Arcadian Myth in Urban America
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe subject has needed detailed treatment for years, and I always expected the definitive study would be accomplished by a naturalist. But Peter Schmitt is a historian, and it's probably better that way after all. I guess this book is the one I've been looking for. -- John Eastman Natural HistoryTable of ContentsForeword, by John R. StilgoePrefacePreface to the First EditionIntroductionChapter 1. Back to natureChapter 2. The Literary CommuterChapter 3. Birds in the BushChapter 4. Nature FakersChapter 5. This Elegant ArtChapter 6. Keep Off the GrassChapter 7. Arcadia Comes to SchoolChapter 8. Bluebirds and BeansproutsChapter 9. The Customary ThingChapter 10. Backwoods BrotherhoodsChapter 11. Children's Fiction and the Out-of-DoorsChapter 12. The Wilderness NovelChapter 13. The Church in the WildwoodChapter 14. Nature and the CamerChapter 15. The Search for SceneryChapter 16. The Search for SolitudeChapter 17. The New FrontierNotesSelected REadings since 1969Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Nature of Cities
Book SynopsisThe Nature of Cities brings together environmental and urban history to reveal how, over four decades, this ecological vision shaped the development of cities around the nation.Trade ReviewOf interest to scholars and students of urban history, planning, geography, and sociology, as well as urban studies more generally... Highly recommended. Choice 2010 An outstanding history of how ecological concerns have shaped urban development around the country. -- James A. Cox Midwest Book Review 2009 A fascinating and suggestive account. -- Adam Rome Technology and Culture 2010 This book makes an important contribution to the study of twentieth century American cities. -- Robert Gioielli Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Revisiting American Antiurbanism1. The City Is an Ecological Community2. The City Is a National Resource3. A Life Cycle Plan for Chicago4. From Natural Law to State Law5. A Nation of Renewable CitiesConclusion: From Ecology to SystemNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£51.75
University of Toronto Press The Structure of Urban Systems
Book SynopsisAs the world’s population is increasingly concentrated in urban centres, urban systems analysis has become a critical field of research – one that overlaps the traditional academic territories of geography, economics, and regional science. John Marshall defines urban systems analysis as a study of the spatial organization of networks of urban centres at regional, national, and international scales. In this introduction to the subject he presents a framework for its study.Marshall maintains that the study of the structure and development of urban systems should be guided by a principle-based framework in which the themes of location, economic functions, and population size are in the foreground. He outlines how urban systems analysis seeks to provide ‘insight into the roles performed by urban centres as elements of the gran process of settlement and development of the earth by humankind.’
£33.30
University of Toronto Press Saint John
Book SynopsisSaint John, New Brunswick, was a small, stagnant mercantile town in 1800. Its character was set by its British garrison, a few prominent Loyalist officials, and a small merchant elite. But that character changed quickly and dramatically in the first half of the nineteenth century. T.W. Acheson traces the events that lead to the change and analyses their impact on the community.Trade Review'An excellent work on the very frontier of 19th-century urban research.' -- P.B. Waite Choice 'An unforgettable insight into a hitherto sadly neglected part of the history of the city and the province.' -- George M. Betts City Magazine 'The finest study to date of early 19th century Canadian Society.' -- Gilbert A. Stelter Canadian Historical Review
£29.70
University of Toronto Press Governing the PostCommunist City
Book SynopsisOriginal, engaging, and authoritative, this study has much to say about the political climate in Prague after the downfall of communism, and makes insightful conclusions about the factors that contributed to present political circumstances in the region.
£46.75
University of Toronto Press Home in the City
Book SynopsisAlan B. Anderson and the volume's contributors provide an important resource for understanding contemporary Aboriginal life in Canada.Table of ContentsTables Acronyms CHAP. 1: INTRODUCTION CHAP. 2: DEMOGRAPHICS The Complexity and Reliability of Urban Aboriginal Data Growth and Distribution of the Aboriginal Population of Saskatoon Socio-demographic Profile of the Aboriginal Population of Saskatoon CHAP. 3: FIRST NATIONS IN THE CITY Reserve Conditions and Migration to Cities Migration and Mobility Between Reserve and City: Whitecap Dakota/Sioux First Nation Residents in Saskatoon (A.B. Anderson, University of Saskatchewan) Urban Housing Needs of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation (A.B. Anderson) CHAP. 4: NEIGHBOURHOOD LIVING Aboriginal Living Conditions and Health Meeting the People: Aboriginal Residents Speak Out (A.B. Anderson) Community Voices: Assessing Capacity and Needs Within Inner-city Neighbourhoods (A.B. Anderson) Patterns and Influences of Home Ownership and Renting in Pleasant Hill (D. Lanceley, University of Saskatchewan) CHAP. 5: FAMILY, WOMEN AND YOUTH The Role of Family, Women and Youth in Urban Aboriginal Life Aboriginal Women Fleeing Violence (S.T. Prokop, First Nations University of Canada, and J. Sanderson, First Nations University of Canada) HIV/AIDS and Urban Aboriginal Women (C. Romanow, University of Saskatchewan) The City as Home: The Sense of Belonging Among Aboriginal Youth (G. MacKay, University of Saskatchewan) CHAP. 6: AFFORDABLE HOUSING Affordability and the Housing Crisis Affordable Home Ownership for Aboriginal People: Financial and Funding Options (V. Sutton) Aboriginal Homelessness (A.B. Anderson) HOME IN THE CITY: PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY (K. Anderson) CHAP. 7: HOUSING PROVIDERS Who Provides Housing for Urban Aboriginal People? Aboriginal Housing Needs: A Survey of SaskNative Rentals Clients (A.B. Anderson) First Nations Housing in Saskatoon: A Survey of Cress Housing Clients (A.B. Anderson) CHAP. 8: SPECIAL NEEDS AND HOUSING DESIGN IN URBAN ABORIGINAL HOUSING Urban Aboriginal Populations in Special Need and Implications for Housing Design Aboriginal Post-secondary Student Housing (B. Wallace, Saskatoon Housing Initiatives Partnership, B. Maire, Alberta Justice, A. Lachance, Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations) The Metis Elders Circle Housing Research Project: A Study to Determine Respectful Sustainable Housing Options for Metis Elders (J. Durocher, SaskNative Rentals, J. Hammersmith, C. Littlejohn, SaskNative Rentals, W. McCaslin, University of Saskatchewan) CHAP. 9: ABORIGINAL PARTICIPATION IN ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND HOMEBUILDING Involving Aboriginal People in Economic and Community Development and the Homebuilding Industry More Than Four Walls and a Roof (Quint Development Corporation) Urban Aboriginal Homebuilding Apprenticeships (A. Thomarat, Canadian Home Builders Association) CHAP. 10: URBAN RESERVES The Development of Urban Reserves Residential Urban Reserves: Issues and Options for Providing Adequate and Affordable Housing (J. Garcea, University of Saskatchewan) CHAP. 11: RACE RELATIONS AND CRIME Being Aboriginal in Saskatoon Race Relations and Housing (C.J.A. Spence, University of Saskatchewan) Life in the Inner-City: Crime and Policing (A.B. Anderson) CHAP. 12: CONCLUSION Bibliography Contributors
£30.60
University of Toronto Press Home in the City Urban Aboriginal Housing and
Book SynopsisAlan B. Anderson and the volume's contributors provide an important resource for understanding contemporary Aboriginal life in Canada.Table of ContentsTables Acronyms CHAP. 1: INTRODUCTION CHAP. 2: DEMOGRAPHICS The Complexity and Reliability of Urban Aboriginal Data Growth and Distribution of the Aboriginal Population of Saskatoon Socio-demographic Profile of the Aboriginal Population of Saskatoon CHAP. 3: FIRST NATIONS IN THE CITY Reserve Conditions and Migration to Cities Migration and Mobility Between Reserve and City: Whitecap Dakota/Sioux First Nation Residents in Saskatoon (A.B. Anderson, University of Saskatchewan) Urban Housing Needs of the Muskeg Lake Cree Nation (A.B. Anderson) CHAP. 4: NEIGHBOURHOOD LIVING Aboriginal Living Conditions and Health Meeting the People: Aboriginal Residents Speak Out (A.B. Anderson) Community Voices: Assessing Capacity and Needs Within Inner-city Neighbourhoods (A.B. Anderson) Patterns and Influences of Home Ownership and Renting in Pleasant Hill (D. Lanceley, University of Saskatchewan) CHAP. 5: FAMILY, WOMEN AND YOUTH The Role of Family, Women and Youth in Urban Aboriginal Life Aboriginal Women Fleeing Violence (S.T. Prokop, First Nations University of Canada, and J. Sanderson, First Nations University of Canada) HIV/AIDS and Urban Aboriginal Women (C. Romanow, University of Saskatchewan) The City as Home: The Sense of Belonging Among Aboriginal Youth (G. MacKay, University of Saskatchewan) CHAP. 6: AFFORDABLE HOUSING Affordability and the Housing Crisis Affordable Home Ownership for Aboriginal People: Financial and Funding Options (V. Sutton) Aboriginal Homelessness (A.B. Anderson) HOME IN THE CITY: PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY (K. Anderson) CHAP. 7: HOUSING PROVIDERS Who Provides Housing for Urban Aboriginal People? Aboriginal Housing Needs: A Survey of SaskNative Rentals Clients (A.B. Anderson) First Nations Housing in Saskatoon: A Survey of Cress Housing Clients (A.B. Anderson) CHAP. 8: SPECIAL NEEDS AND HOUSING DESIGN IN URBAN ABORIGINAL HOUSING Urban Aboriginal Populations in Special Need and Implications for Housing Design Aboriginal Post-secondary Student Housing (B. Wallace, Saskatoon Housing Initiatives Partnership, B. Maire, Alberta Justice, A. Lachance, Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations) The Metis Elders Circle Housing Research Project: A Study to Determine Respectful Sustainable Housing Options for Metis Elders (J. Durocher, SaskNative Rentals, J. Hammersmith, C. Littlejohn, SaskNative Rentals, W. McCaslin, University of Saskatchewan) CHAP. 9: ABORIGINAL PARTICIPATION IN ECONOMIC AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND HOMEBUILDING Involving Aboriginal People in Economic and Community Development and the Homebuilding Industry More Than Four Walls and a Roof (Quint Development Corporation) Urban Aboriginal Homebuilding Apprenticeships (A. Thomarat, Canadian Home Builders Association) CHAP. 10: URBAN RESERVES The Development of Urban Reserves Residential Urban Reserves: Issues and Options for Providing Adequate and Affordable Housing (J. Garcea, University of Saskatchewan) CHAP. 11: RACE RELATIONS AND CRIME Being Aboriginal in Saskatoon Race Relations and Housing (C.J.A. Spence, University of Saskatchewan) Life in the Inner-City: Crime and Policing (A.B. Anderson) CHAP. 12: CONCLUSION Bibliography Contributors
£60.35
University of Nebraska Press Bike Lanes Are White Lanes Bicycle Advocacy and
Book SynopsisThis study of three prominent U.S. cities—Milwaukee, Portland, and Minneapolis—examines how the burgeoning popularity of urban bicycling is trailed by systemic issues of racism, classism, and displacement. Trade Review"Environmental historians interested in urban issues will profit from Hoffmann's look at social justice issues associated with "green" development. For urban planning students, as well as anyone involved in city planning, this book could be considered required reading. Bicycle advocates will find the work provocative and a stimulus toward more inclusive efforts in creating better transportation options for all city residents. Hoffmann has written an important and significant contribution to scholarship and to public discussions about bicycles, urban living, and development."—James A. Pritchard, Environmental History"Powerfully relevant."—Cat Ariail, Sport in American History“For anyone interested in the urban role of cycling, this is an important book. Informed by an overdue concern with race, class, and gender, it critically redresses imbalances in our current understandings of cycling. [Hoffmann] usefully punctures a general liberal, middle-class complacency over the implicitly assumed superiority of the bicycle. . . . Indispensable reading if our goal is to broaden cycling’s appeal and to make inclusive and just cities, as well as genuinely ecologically sustainable ones.”—Dave Horton, author of Promoting Walking and Cycling: New Perspectives on Sustainable Travel“Important to many fields: transportation, race, city planning, housing and migration, sustainability, community organizing, planning and policy processes, and equity. . . . In the emerging scholarship concerning ‘bike equity,’ Melody Hoffmann is an early and influential entrant.”—Julian Agyeman, author of Incomplete Streets: Processes, Practices and PossibilitiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. One Less Car, One More Critique: U.S. Urban Bicycle Culture and Advocacy2. More Races, Less Racing: The Role of a Bicycle Race in Community Building3. Bike Lanes Are White Lanes: Gentrification and Historical Racism in Portland's Bicycle Infrastructure Planning4. Recruiting People Like You: Class-Based Recruitment and Bicycle Advocacy in Minneapolis5. The Beginning of the Equity Era: Possibilities and Solutions NotesBibliography Index
£28.80
Ohio University Press Photographs from Detroit 19752019
Book SynopsisWith these intimate social documentary photographs and oral histories, Bruce Harkness and John J. Bukowczyk have sensitively collaborated with and amplified the stories of Detroit’s often overlooked people and lost neighborhoods. The result is an unforgettable portrait of Detroit’s hard-won resiliency.Trade Review“Bruce Harkness is a masterful hunter, communicator, and seer in the visual language of photography. His photographs are charged with an emotional level that transfixes the viewer into wanting to know more.” -- Adger Cowans“In the 1950s, the avant-garde group known as the Situationist International developed the concept of dérive (French: drift) to describe a method of serendipitously navigating the urban environment to reveal its objective and subjective conditions, to disclose not only how things look but how they feel. Over a lifetime of circumambulating Detroit’s environs, photographer Bruce Harkness has observed the often-neglected people and places of the city to expose, as it were, the essence of its otherwise marginalized physical, social, and emotional spaces. In these much-vaunted times of Detroit as a ‘Comeback City,’ the photography of Bruce Harkness calls upon us to pause and take note of what too often gets left behind in the march of ‘progress.’” -- Vince Carducci, dean emeritus, College for Creative Studies”An incredibly beautiful and elegantly constructed body of work…[with] masterful editing. The captions are unpretentious and straightforward, like the images, which navigate the years with honesty and sensitivity. Love it, man. Bravo.“ -- Brian Day, award-winning Detroit street photographer“Harkness’s photography portrays the undulating moods of shadow and light refracted in a community’s afterlife and rebirth, like the image of jazz great Marcus Belgrave reconfiguring loss into belief flowing from his trumpet.” -- Melba Joyce Boyd, distinguished professor in African American studies, Wayne State University, and author of Discarded Legacy: Politics and Poetics in the Life of Frances E. W. Harper, 1825–1911“In this collection of intimate portraits, ragged streetscapes, and lively clubs and coffeehouses, Bruce Harkness depicts the stark beauty of Detroit and its people. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes uplifting, and always beautiful, Harkness captures both the city’s struggles and its profound resilience.” -- Thomas J. Sugrue, author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit“Unsentimental but deeply human, Bruce Harkness’s photographs draw you in to every detail—into the tales told by every crack in the plaster, every poster on the wall, every storefront and front stoop. They compel you to look in every eye and, in these moving images of brick and mortar and flesh and blood, to read the stories of the communities we create and those we leave behind.” -- Karen Majewski, author of Traitors and True Poles: Narrating a Polish-American Identity, 1880–1939 and former mayor of Hamtramck, Michigan“Bruce Harkness spent decades walking the streets of Detroit and photographing the people he met along the way. His images capture not just a street-level view of Detroit’s human tapestry, but the very soul of this city.” -- Peter O'Keefe, filmmaker and editor of A Brief Peculiar History of Detroit“We tend to think of history as a written record established by others. Photographs from Detroit, 1975–2019 takes you on a rare journey back in time, showing how history is written by the people who live it.” -- Nadja Rottner, professor of art history, University of Michigan-Dearborn and editor of Cardiovista: Detroit Street Photography
£21.59
Stanford University Press Invention and Reinvention
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Invention & Reinvention: The Evolution of San Diego's Innovation Economy is a fascinating story of regeneration. Using a social history perspective over different periods, it offers a wonderful case study of urban reinvention and hence is a must-read for any economic geographer who studies regions, technology development, innovation, entrepreneurship, and evolutionary geography."—Shiri M. Breznitz, Economic Geography"Throughout my career in public office, I was conscious of the need for a good history about the dynamic south west corner of our state. Mary Walshok and Abe Shragge have captured a century and a half of San Diego history in a book that will ring true for anyone who has been engaged in its political and economic evolution over the last fifty years."—Pete Wilson, Former California State Assemblyman, Mayor of San Diego, U.S. Senator, and Governor of California"Sociologist Mary Walshok and historian Abraham Shragge show their readers that San Diego truly is a city of invention and innovation . . . It is a very worthwhile read for an economic historian, for it provides a thorough introduction to the city's economic history . . . [Invention and Reinvention] forces the reader to think about why San Diego's experience has been so different from U.S. cities that have not done well over the past half century."—Fred Smith, EH.Net: The Economic History Network"This is an important, pioneering book that contributes to our unique understanding of how one place, San Diego, has achieved what most places want: the capacity to evolve and meet the challenges of a constantly changing global economic environment. Walshok and Shragge help us understand why some places thrive while others wither."—David B. Audretsch, Indiana University and Author of The Entrepreneurial Society"The San Diego region has long deserved a really comprehensive history of how its economy emerged from a primarily military and defense contracting town into one of the leading innovation regions in America. This book describes that journey and contains a number of insights that will be extremely useful to other regions that are trying to reinvent themselves."—Richard Florida, Author of The Rise of the Creative Class, Director, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto and the Creative Class Group"San Diego has a unique history in terms of its long relationship with the federal government, and especially the military, which this book captures superbly. Especially relevant is the discussion of the role that the research institutions on the Torrey Pines Mesa played in the transformation of the region's economy. A wonderfully engaging book for anyone interested in trying to realize the social and economic benefits of basic research."—Richard C. Atkinson, President Emeritus, University of California and Director, National Science Foundation 1977–1980"Having been an early faculty member at the UCSD School of Medicine, a founder of Hybritech, and an investor in many of San Diego's biotech companies, I am impressed with how well this book captures the dynamics shaping San Diego's emergence as a world class science hub."—Ivor Royston, Founding Managing Partner, Forward Ventures and Founder, Hybritech"As a third generation Californian, with deep roots in the San Diego region, I am delighted to see a book that focuses on the distinctive character of the San Diego economy and its evolution. Walshok and Shragge have made a significant contribution to San Diego and California history."—Malin Burnham, Vice Chairman, Cushman & Wakefield, Board Member, Sanford/Burnham Medical Research Institute, and Co-Chair, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine"In this economic history, Walshok and Shragge give this a different spin by emphasizing San Diego's civic culture, its spirit of collaboration, and civic values. Focusing on civic leaders, scientists, and business entrepreneurs, they tell a story of almost unimpeded achievement . . . Recommended."—R. A. Beauregard, CHOICE
£91.80
Stanford University Press Invention and Reinvention
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Invention & Reinvention: The Evolution of San Diego's Innovation Economy is a fascinating story of regeneration. Using a social history perspective over different periods, it offers a wonderful case study of urban reinvention and hence is a must-read for any economic geographer who studies regions, technology development, innovation, entrepreneurship, and evolutionary geography."—Shiri M. Breznitz, Economic Geography"Throughout my career in public office, I was conscious of the need for a good history about the dynamic south west corner of our state. Mary Walshok and Abe Shragge have captured a century and a half of San Diego history in a book that will ring true for anyone who has been engaged in its political and economic evolution over the last fifty years."—Pete Wilson, Former California State Assemblyman, Mayor of San Diego, U.S. Senator, and Governor of California"Sociologist Mary Walshok and historian Abraham Shragge show their readers that San Diego truly is a city of invention and innovation . . . It is a very worthwhile read for an economic historian, for it provides a thorough introduction to the city's economic history . . . [Invention and Reinvention] forces the reader to think about why San Diego's experience has been so different from U.S. cities that have not done well over the past half century."—Fred Smith, EH.Net: The Economic History Network"This is an important, pioneering book that contributes to our unique understanding of how one place, San Diego, has achieved what most places want: the capacity to evolve and meet the challenges of a constantly changing global economic environment. Walshok and Shragge help us understand why some places thrive while others wither."—David B. Audretsch, Indiana University and Author of The Entrepreneurial Society"The San Diego region has long deserved a really comprehensive history of how its economy emerged from a primarily military and defense contracting town into one of the leading innovation regions in America. This book describes that journey and contains a number of insights that will be extremely useful to other regions that are trying to reinvent themselves."—Richard Florida, Author of The Rise of the Creative Class, Director, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto and the Creative Class Group"San Diego has a unique history in terms of its long relationship with the federal government, and especially the military, which this book captures superbly. Especially relevant is the discussion of the role that the research institutions on the Torrey Pines Mesa played in the transformation of the region's economy. A wonderfully engaging book for anyone interested in trying to realize the social and economic benefits of basic research."—Richard C. Atkinson, President Emeritus, University of California and Director, National Science Foundation 1977–1980"Having been an early faculty member at the UCSD School of Medicine, a founder of Hybritech, and an investor in many of San Diego's biotech companies, I am impressed with how well this book captures the dynamics shaping San Diego's emergence as a world class science hub."—Ivor Royston, Founding Managing Partner, Forward Ventures and Founder, Hybritech"As a third generation Californian, with deep roots in the San Diego region, I am delighted to see a book that focuses on the distinctive character of the San Diego economy and its evolution. Walshok and Shragge have made a significant contribution to San Diego and California history."—Malin Burnham, Vice Chairman, Cushman & Wakefield, Board Member, Sanford/Burnham Medical Research Institute, and Co-Chair, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine"In this economic history, Walshok and Shragge give this a different spin by emphasizing San Diego's civic culture, its spirit of collaboration, and civic values. Focusing on civic leaders, scientists, and business entrepreneurs, they tell a story of almost unimpeded achievement . . . Recommended."—R. A. Beauregard, CHOICE
£22.49
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Stigma Cities
Book SynopsisThe first work to investigate the important effects of stigmatized identities on urban places, Jonathan Foster’s innovative study suggests that reputation, no less than physical and economic forces, explains how cities develop and why.
£22.46
Louisiana State University Press Cityscapes of New Orleans
Book SynopsisExploring the Crescent City from the ground up, Richard Campanella takes us on a winding journey toward explaining the city's distinct urbanism and eccentricities. Campanella - a historical geographer - reveals the why behind the where, delving into the historical and cultural forces that have shaped the spaces of New Orleans for three centuries.
£24.65
John Wiley & Sons Ghetto Schooling A Political Economy of Urban
Book SynopsisProviding evidence that inner city schools have failed in their capacity to implement current strategies of educational reform, this work offers a historical analysis of a century of government and business policies that have drained the economic, political and human resources of urban populations.
£23.76
John Wiley & Sons Its Not About Grit
Book SynopsisTable of Contents Foreword Michelle Fine - xi Acknowledgments - xv Introduction - 1 1. “Unlivable Conditions”: Health and Housing - 13 “Where the Rats Come Out”: Slumlord Neglect - 15 “Silent Killers”: Mold and Asthma in Public Housing - 17 “Where Are We Going to Wind Up?”: The Trauma of Foreclosure - 23 “As If They’re Passing Away”: Gentrification - 26 “We Have a Petition”: Speaking Out and Taking Action - 31 2. “They Put Us Down When We Already Down”: Police and Juvenile Justice - 34 “He Starts Grabbing Me”: Student Perspectives on Policing in and out of Schools - 35 “It’s a Memorable Moment”: Stop-and-Frisk Policing of Students in the Community - 38 “All My Youth Was Locked Up in Prison”: Juvenile Incarceration and the War on Drugs - 40 “He Never Got to Meet Me”: Growing Up with Incarcerated Parents - 42 “Their Wrists Are Too Small, So You Have to Handcuff Them up by Their Biceps”: Zero-Tolerance Policing In School - 46 “I Was 15. Came Home at 25”: Juvenile Detention in Rikers - 50 “On the Side of the Kids”: Restorative Justice and Student Action - 52 3. “The Legal Right to Be Somebody”: Immigration - 56 “Fearful of Any Institution”: Challenges Facing Emergent Bilinguals - 57 “In the Desert, the Mountains, the Cold— With Only Water”: Border Crossing Stories - 59 “I Was Doing Really Bad”: A Downward Educational Spiral - 63 “She’s Barely Home”: Labor Exploitation and Parent–School Engagement - 67 “Not Having a Dad”: Deportation and Forced Single-Parent Homes - 70 “He Never Went to School”: A Climate of Fear - 74 “I Was Empowering My People”: Student Immigrant Rights - 76 4. “People Are Strong When They Stand Together”: Gender and Identity - 81 “I Never Went Back”: Bullying and Anti-LGBTQ Violence - 83 “Get the Hell Out!”: Family Rejection and LGBTQ Homelessness - 87 “The Place for Me!”: Inclusive School Cultures and Legal Silencing - 89 “I Never Talked with Anybody About This”: Sexual Harassment - 93 “Being the Sexy Girl”: Body Image and Self-Objectification - 97 “I Look Fat”: Body Image and Eating Disorders - 101 “Save a Kid’s Education”: Girls Support Groups and Genders & Sexualities Alliances - 104 5. “Some Place to Call Home”: Foster Care and Child Welfare - 108 “They Stole 10 Years from Me”: The Trauma of Family Separation - 109 “The System Failed Me”: The Disproportionate Academic Impact of Foster Care 111 “Welfare Queens”: The Criminalization of Poor Black Mothers - 117 “She Could Not Take Care of Herself”: Parental Substance Abuse - 121 “Not Me, Not Mine”: Aging Out and Youth Advocacy - 124 Conclusion “I’ve Got Your Back”: Moving from Trauma and Resilience Toward Student Activism - 129 “Sites of Possibility” - 131 “A Knock on the Door”: A Sign of the Times - 132 “Where We Want to Be”: Youth Participatory Action Research - 134 At the Screening: Parting Thoughts - 140 Guide for Using Videos - 143 Notes - 159 References - 163 Index 179 About the Author - 190
£26.96
University of Pennsylvania Press The Private City
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With a skillful use of carefully researched detail, Warner relates the transformation from a handicraft to a factory system of production to the pervasive quest for private gain, and shows how that basic objective restricted the city's response to such community needs as education, health, and welfare. . . . His book is packed with suggestive historical detail." * American Historical Review *"[This book] serves, in a way which no other city biography can claim to, as the historical analogy of urban America." * Urban Studies *"Written with intelligent elegance and candor. . . . A fascinating book." * Times Literary Supplement *"A splendidly economical and enlightening piece of urban history. . . . Contributes more than an important remedial lesson in the cultural foundation of the urban crisis." * American Institute of Planners Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Intorduction to the Second Edition PART ONE: THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY TOWN 1- The Environment of Private Opportunity 2- War and the Limits of the Tradition PART TWO: THE BIG CITY 1830-1860 3- Spatial Patterns of Rapid Growth 4- Industrialization 5- The Specialization of Leadership 6- Municipal Institutions 7- Riots and the Restoration of Public Order PART THREE: THE INDUSTRIAL METROPOLIS 8- The Structure of the Metropolis 9- Some Metropolitan Districts 10- The Industrial Metropolis as an Inheritance Bibliography of Recent Philadelphia Books Notes to Tables in Text
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press City Rediscovering the Center
Book SynopsisIn a challenging and provocative book, William Whyte, author of the classic The Organization Man, observes the influence public spaces have on the people who use them. In this exploration of pedestrian behavior and urban dynamics, he calls on city planners to provide functional, pleasant places to live and work.Trade Review"City punctures commonplace assumptions about urban life in virtually every chapter. . . . There is genuine brilliance here." * New York Times *"We who hug the city to us by instinct are grateful to Whyte for providing us with a hundred-a thousand-arguments for doing so." * New Yorker *"City is written in clear, straightforward, and vivid prose. . . . Whyte bubbles over with data. . . . He is an authentic visionary." * Los Angeles Times *"Whyte's Street Life Project studied the use of urban spaces for 16 years. This follow-up to The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces is an engaging look at the variety of human interactions which make 'downtown' vibrant. Whyte looks at such diverse topics as pedestrian movement, concourses and skyways, sunlight and its effects-all from the perspective of a confirmed city-lover. His observations and recommendations can be read with profit and pleasure by professional planners and readers interested in what makes a city tick." * Library Journal *Table of ContentsForeword, by Paco Underhill 1. Introduction 2. The Social Life of the Street 3. Street People 4. The Skilled Pedestrian 5. The Physical Street 6. The Sensory Street 7. The Design of Spaces 8. Water, Wind, Trees, and Light 9. The Management of Spaces 10. The Undesirables 11. Carrying Capacity 12. Steps and Entrances 13. Concourses and Skyways 14. Megastructures 15. Blank Walls 16. The Rise and Fall of Incentive Zoning 17. Sun and Shadow 18. Bounce Light 19. Sun Easements 20. The Corporate Exodus 21. The Semi-Cities 22. How to Dullify Downtown 23. Tightening Up 24. The Case for Gentrification 25. Return to the Agora Appendices A. Digest of Open-Space Zoning Provisions in New York City B. Mandating of Retailing at Street Level Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£27.90
University of Pennsylvania Press Police Power and Race Riots
Book SynopsisCathy Lisa Schneider looks at the relationship between racialized police violence and urban upheaval in impoverished neighborhoods of New York and greater Paris, and considers some of the changes that have made American cities less riot-prone today.Trade Review"[A] devastating study of police officers failing to enforce law in a manner that expresses appropriate respect for the communities that they purport to serves . . . the arguments raise much broader issues about the function of the police within the institutional fabric of the modern state." * Perspectives on Politics *"Readers will be rewarded with subtle remarks, a vast knowledge of historical trends helping to better grasp the current situations, and a stimulating ethnographic work." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Incredibly thorough and provocative. . . . Schneider skillfully brings individual perspectives to this complicated social phenomenon. In so doing, she demonstrates that violent revolt holds value for all those involved." * Humanity & Society *"[Police Power and Race Riots] generates a depth of ethnographic material that provides the reader with a rare insight as to the plight of specific ethnic minority groups and their relationship with the police." * Policing and Society: An International Journal of Research and Policy *"In past decades, most urban unrest in Western countries has been provoked by deadly confrontations between law enforcement officers and inhabitants of disadvantaged neighborhoods belonging to minorities. Offering a transatlantic comparison and a temporal depth to events which for the most part have been studied in national contexts from an ahistorical perspective, Police Power and Race Riots proposes a novel and crucial addition to the literature on the subject, allowing for a greater understanding of the often overlooked colonial and racial dimension of iterative disturbances in France as well as the little analyzed political and social aspects of the relative calm in New York-a remarkable achievement." * Didier Fassin, author of Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing *"Cathy Lisa Schneider's comparative analysis of policing in New York and Paris examines the relationships between the state and urban minorities, and asks under what conditions do fractious relationships turn into riots. Schneider compares police tactics in enforcing racial boundaries, and argues that access to the judicial system and municipal authorities are the key variables in dampening social unrest. The book is an exciting addition to the literature on policing and urban violence, and will find an appreciative audience with those interested in urban studies, sociology, and public policy." * Eric Schneider, University of Pennsylvania *"A superb work of comparative and historical scholarship that makes a major contribution to our understanding of policing, violence, and urban riots, in the United States as well as France." * Jacqueline E. Ross, University of Illinois College of Law *
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press Miami Transformed
Book SynopsisSix-year-old Manuel Diaz and his mother first arrived at Miami''s airport in 1961 with little more than a dime for a phone call to their relatives in the Little Havana neighborhood. Forty years after his flight from Castro''s Cuba, attorney Manny Diaz became mayor of the City of Miami. Toward the end of the twentieth century, the one-time citrus and tourism hub was more closely associated with vice than sunshine. When Diaz took office in 2001, the city was paralyzed by a notoriously corrupt police department, unresponsive government, a dying business district, and heated ethnic and racial divisions. During Diaz''s two terms as mayor, Miami was transformed into a vibrant, progressive, and economically resurgent world-class metropolis.In Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time, award-winning former mayor Manny Diaz shares lessons learned from governing one of the most diverse and dynamic urban communities in the United States. This firstTrade Review"Miami Transformed is the story of a doer, a big thinker with a passion for improving the lives of people. Manny Diaz is undaunted by the challenges that inevitably arise in government and business but always squarely focused on the agenda he has carefully set to reach his goals. That's the definition of a good leader, and that, based on my experience, is Manny Diaz." * Richard M. Daley, former Mayor of Chicago *"Manny Diaz became the mayor of Miami during a critical time, when professional leadership was needed. He took the city to new heights and also represented Miami nationally and internationally as president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Manny is a visionary leader who has never lost his footing or his roots. He epitomizes the immigrant success story and the fruition of the American Dream." * Eduardo J. Padrón, President of Miami Dade College *"Under Mayor Manny Diaz's leadership and direction, Miami has undergone a great and sustaining transformation into a cultural hotspot and a hub for the 'creative class,' with a thriving business climate that is open, multicultural, and inclusive. Miami Transformed offers politicians and policymakers a blueprint for transforming their cities block-by-block into destinations for innovative businesses and entrepreneurs, building livable and safe communities for all." * Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class Revisited *"Manny Diaz was a great mayor, and he will go down in history as one of our country's most innovative urban leaders because he put progress before partisanship-and because he never stopped asking 'Why not?' His legacy will be defined not only by a soaring skyline but also by cutting-edge policies that made Miami a national leader on urban issues." * From the Foreword, by Mayor Michael Bloomberg *Table of ContentsForeword —by Michael Bloomberg Introduction Chapter 1. July 21, 1961 Chapter 2. The Lost Generation Finds Its Way Chapter 3. Creating My Own Politics Chapter 4. Two Six-Year-Olds Chapter 5. The Choice for Change Chapter 6. Now What? Chapter 7. Grand Ideas Chapter 8. Expanding Economic Opportunity Chapter 9. Education Chapter 10. Making Neighborhoods Safe Chapter 11. Investing in Our Future Chapter 12. Designing a Sustainable City Chapter 13. Fostering Arts and Culture Conclusion Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Displacing Democracy
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, economically disadvantaged Americans have become more residentially segregated from other communities: they are increasingly likely to live in high-poverty neighborhoods that are spatially isolated with few civic resources. Low-income citizens are also less likely to be politically engaged, a trend that is most glaring in terms of voter turnout. Examining neighborhoods in Atlanta, Kansas City, Milwaukee, and Rochester, Amy Widestrom challenges the assumption that the class gap in political participation is largely the result of individual choices and dispositions. Displacing Democracy demonstrates that neighborhoods segregated along economic lines create conditions that encourage high levels of political activity, including political and civic mobilization and voting, among wealthier citizens while discouraging and impeding the poor from similar forms of civic engagement.Drawing on quantitative research, case studies, and interviews, Widestrom shows tTrade Review"Displacing Democracy sets out to challenge and complicate a story that is often understood as an easy equation between individual resources and individual political behavior: most rich people vote, most poor people don't. Amy Widestrom's fine book recasts this as a challenge of political engagement under conditions of stark economic segregation. What matters, in the end, is where you live-and the ways in which civic infrastructure and civic resources can sustain (or sap) democratic participation." * Colin Gordon, University of Iowa *Table of ContentsIntroduction. A Theory of Economic Segregation and Civic Engagement Chapter 1. Understanding Civic Engagement in Context: Methodology and the Logic of Case Study Selection Chapter 2. Public Policy and Civic Environments in Urban America Chapter 3. Economic Segregation and the Mobilizing Capacity of Voluntary Associations Chapter 4. Economic Segregation, Political Parties, and Political Mobilization Conclusion. The Dynamics and Implications of Economic Segregation, Civic Engagement, and Public Policy Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Metropolitan Airport
Book SynopsisJohn F. Kennedy International Airport is one of New York City''s most successful and influential redevelopment projects. Built and defined by outsize personalities—Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, famed urban planner Robert Moses, and Port Authority Executive Director Austin Tobin among them—JFK was fantastically expensive and unprecedented in its scale. By the late 1940s, once-polluted marshlands had become home to one of the world''s busiest and most advanced airfields. Almost from the start, however, environmental activists in surrounding neighborhoods and suburbs clashed with the Port Authority. These fierce battles in the long term restricted growth and, compounded by lackluster management and planning, diminished JFK''s status and reputation. Yet the airport remained a key contributor to metropolitan vitality: New Yorkers bound for adventure and business still boarded planes headed to distant corners of the globe, billions of tourists and immigrants came and went, and maTrade Review"The Metropolitan Airport is a valuable study of the complex history of John F. Kennedy International Airport. Filled with fascinating information on the airport and the Port Authority that built and operates it, Bloom's analysis is insightful and balanced." * Jameson W. Doig, Princeton University *"Nicholas Dagen Bloom has written the first good book on JFK International. Writing in a fluent, accessible style, he is attuned to the multiple areas of the airport's significance, from its impact on the New York regional economy to its design, environmental impact, and political status under the Port Authority of New York." * Elizabeth Blackmar, Columbia University *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Shared Prosperity in Americas Communities
Book SynopsisWhile the nation''s GDP has doubled in the last thirty years, significant increases in family income have been restricted to a small subset of the American population. This disjunct between national economic growth and stagnating incomes in all but the very top tier of the population corresponds with increasing economic inequality and a lack of social and economic mobility. As a consequence, neighborhoods and metropolitan areas have become more polarized. Stark geographic differences in levels of poverty, income, health outcomes, job opportunities, lifetime earning potential, and educational attainment highlight the degree to which place matters in terms of social and economic opportunity.Shared Prosperity in America''s Communities examines this place-based disparity of opportunity and suggests what can be done to ensure that the benefits of economic growth are widely shared. Contributors'' essays explore social and economic mobility throughout the country to illuminateTrade Review"While income inequality has received much attention from scholars and the media, the profound impact of geography on inequality has not been explored deeply. This volume brings together an impressive collection of essays that create a nuanced map of inequality in America and point toward solutions." * Raphael Bostic, Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California *"Missing in the national dialogue about income equality is the role that cities have traditionally fulfilled as building blocks for opportunity and indeed must fulfill going forward. Susan Wachter and Lei Ding have assembled a group of respected scholars who advance important ideas about how schools, cities, and metropolitan areas can strengthen our national quest for social and economic progress." * Henry Cisneros, City View *"An important contribution to the conversation about urban inequality. The essays collected by Susan M. Wachter and Lei Ding tackle issues such as intergenerational mobility, racial and socioeconomic segregation, active labor market policy, and strategic urban renewal efforts with balance and rigor." * Steven Raphael, University of California, Berkeley *"Wachter and Ding have assembled a dazzling collection of contributors to explore the intersection of inequality and place. This volume makes clear that policy cannot ignore geography-the future of opportunity in America begins at the neighborhood level. I encourage scholars, policymakers, and the interested public worried about increasing inequality to take advantage of the many insights this collection offers." * Sarah Rosen Wartell, The Urban Institute *"The country is riven by social and economic inequality. This book explains why mending this rift must take place community by community and provides the research and analysis to make this happen." * Marc Morial, National Urban League *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC MOBILITY IN AMERICA'S COMMUNITIES Chapter 1. Socioeconomic Mobility in the United States: New Evidence and Policy Lessons —Raj Chetty Chapter 2. Neighborhoods and Segregation —Paul A. Jargowsky Chapter 3. The Changing Geography of Disadvantage —Elizabeth Kneebone Chapter 4. U.S. Workers' Diverging Locations: Causes and Inequality Consequences —Rebecca Diamond PART II. HOW TO ENCOURAGE GROWTH AND EXPAND OPPORTUNITY Chapter 5. Building Shared Prosperity Through Place-Conscious Strategies That Reweave the Goals of Fair Housing and Community Development —Margery Austin Turner Chapter 6. Confronting the Legacy of American Apartheid —Douglas S. Massey Chapter 7. Expanding Educational Opportunity in Urban School Districts —Paul A. Jargowsky, Zachary D. Wood, J. Cameron Anglum, and David N. Karp Chapter 8. Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's Jobs —Anthony P. Carnevale and Nicole Smith Chapter 9. Labor-Demand-Side Economic Development Incentives and Urban Opportunity —Timothy J. Bartik PART III. SHARED PROSPERITY: PERSPECTIVES ON EQUITABLE AND INCLUSIVE GROWTH Chapter 10. Equitable and Inclusive Growth Strategies for American Cities —Victor Rubin, Angela Glover Blackwell, and Chris Schildt Chapter 11. The Fragility of Growth in a Post-Industrial City —Jeremy Nowak Chapter 12. Fostering an Inclusive Metropolis: Equity, Growth, and Community —Chris Benner and Manuel Pastor Notes References List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Slums
Book SynopsisLarge numbers of people in urbanizing regions in the developing world live and work in unplanned settlements that grow through incremental processes of squatting and self-building. Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work shows that unauthorized settlements in rapidly growing cities are not divorced from market forces; rather, they must be understood as complex environments where state policies and market actors still do play a role. In this volume, contributors examine how the form and function of informal real estate markets are shaped by legal systems governing property rights, by national and local policy, and by historical and geographic particularities of specific neighborhoods. Their essays provide detailed portraits of individuals and community organizations, revealing in granular detail the working of informal real estate markets, and they review programs that have been implemented in unconventional settlements to provide lessons about the effectiveness and impleTrade Review"Likely to be a frequently used and often cited book, Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work provides an extraordinary array of information on a complex and highly idiosyncratic subject that existing studies treat only in a limited way." * Robert Buckley, The New School *Table of ContentsPreface PART I. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Chapter 1. Urban Governance and Development of Informality in China and India —Arthur Acolin, Shahana Chattaraj, and Susan M. Wachter Chapter 2. Comparative Evidence on Urban Land-Use Regulation Bureaucracy in Developing Countries —Paavo Monkkonen and Lucas Ronconi Chapter 3. Urban Land Titling: Lessons from a Natural Experiment —Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky PART II. ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES Chapter 4. The Formalization of Informal Real Estate Transactions in Rio's Favelas —Janice E. Perlman Chapter 5. Tenure Regularization Programs in Favelas in Brazil —Patricia Cezario Silva and Yvonne Mautner Chapter 6. Property Markets Without Property Rights: Dharavi's Informal Real Estate Market —Shahana Chattaraj Chapter 7. Periurban Land Markets in the Bangalore Region —Sai Balakrishnan PART III. PUBLIC POLICY PERSPECTIVES Chapter 8. Rehousing Mumbai: Formulizing Slum Land Markets Through Redevelopment —Vinit Mukhija Chapter 9. Tenure Regularization: Process and Experiences in Latin America —José Brakarz Chapter 10. Making a Difference in the Predominantly Informal City —David Gouverneur Chapter 11. Informal Land Markets: Perspectives for Policy —Bish Sanyal Notes References List of Contributors Index
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University of Pennsylvania Press Roaring Metropolis
Book SynopsisDebates about poverty and inequality in the United States frequently invoke the early twentieth century as a time when new social legislation helped moderate corporate power. But as historian Daniel Amsterdam shows, the relationship between business interests and the development of American government was hardly so simple.Roaring Metropolis reconstructs the ideas and activism of urban capitalists roughly a century ago. Far from antigovernment stalwarts, business leaders in cities across the country often advocated extensive government spending on an array of social programs. They championed public schooling, public health, the construction of libraries, museums, parks, and playgrounds, and decentralized cities filled with freestanding homes—a set of initiatives that they believed would foster political stability and economic growth during an era of explosive, often chaotic, urban expansion.The efforts of businessmen on this front had deep historical roots buTrade Review"Roaring Metropolis is a great success . . . a terrific read." * EH.net *"[In] deeply researched and tightly drawn chapters . . . Amsterdam traces, with greater detail and acuity than any previous scholar, what kinds of social programs businessmen supported, and why, and with what consequences." * Business History Review *"Meticulously researched and elegantly written . . . [A] rich political history." * Planning Perspectives *"In Roaring Metropolis, Amsterdam joins a burgeoning community of scholars . . . combining compelling historical research with a sophisticated understanding of the complex nature of 'businessmen' as historical actors." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *"Amsterdam's highly engaging political and business history . . . convincingly demonstrates that business elites played decisive roles in shaping the substance, size, and scope of civic welfare projects, as well as limiting who benefited from them." * Enterprise & Society *"We tend to think of 1920s cities as cockpits of cultural conflict. In this exemplary study Daniel Amsterdam gives us a new perspective, showing with subtlety and precision the modern metropolis as businessmen wanted it to be. Anyone interested in the construction of urban America needs to read this enlightening book." * Kevin Boyle, Northwestern University *"Richly researched and elegantly written, Roaring Metropolis uncovers the forgotten explosion in municipal spending and businessmen's political activism during the supposedly conservative 1920s. With three smartly chosen case studies in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta, Daniel Amsterdam illuminates distinct and unique urban political trajectories. This topic is important and the contributions original." * Sarah Phillips, Boston University *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. At Cross Purposes: Businessmen's Political Activism Before the Armistice Chapter 2. Detroit: Businessmen at Large Chapter 3. Philadelphia: Money and the Machine Chapter 4. Atlanta: City Building in Black and White Chapter 5. Businessmen's Social Politics Beyond the Civic Welfare State Epilogue. The 1930s and After Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Creative Urbanity
Book SynopsisBased on more than a decade of ethnographic research in Genoa, Italy, Creative Urbanity argues for an understanding of contemporary urban life that refuses scholarly condemnation of urban lifestyles and consumption and casts a fresh light on an oft-neglected social group-the middle class.Trade Review"Creative Urbanity is an artful rendering of ethnography's versatility and nuance, its multi-sited and multi-vocal possibilities. Guano uncovers dramatic transformations of urban space, class-culture, gender politics and aesthetics as they are refracted through the political-economic history of Genoa. Her subjects-newly fashioned tour-guides, entrepreneurs, and cultural brokers-embody resilience, creativity and precarious insecurity. An evocative narrative and sophisticated analysis, Creative Urbanity will be a must-read by all students of contemporary neoliberalism." * Carla Freeman, Emory University *"Creative Urbanity is an extremely thoughtful and elegant work that connects to important dialogues of both anthropological analysis and urban theory in its identification of creative middle classes as agents in urban change. Moreover, it speaks eloquently to current literatures on European and Mediterranean cities but amplifies them in both scale and location, revealing an important and interesting case study that interrogates received wisdom." * Gary McDonogh, Bryn Mawr College *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Chronotopes of Hope Chapter 2. Genoa's Magic Circle Chapter 3. Gentrification Without Teleologies Chapter 4. Cultural Bricoleuses Chapter 5. Touring the Hidden City Chapter 6. Utopia with No Guarantees Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press Precarious Lives
Book SynopsisIn Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians'' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of precarity give rise to a sense of hopelessness, shared visions of a futureless tomorrow, widespread home(land)lessness, intense individualism, and a growth of incivilities. On the other, daydreaming and hope, as well as civility and solidarity in political protests, street carnivals, and social movements, continue to persist. Young Iranians describe themselves as being stuck in purposelessness and forced to endure endless waiting, and they are also aware that they are perceived as unproductive and a burden on their society. Despite the aspirations and inspiration they possess, they find themselves forced into petrifying social and spatial immobility. Uncertainty in the present, a seemingly futureless tomorrow: these are the circumstances that Khosravi explores in Precarious LivesTrade Review"A theoretically well-informed, engaging account... Its comparative approach and theoretical richness will make it a worthwhile read not only for anthropologists of Iran, the Middle East, and Central Asia, but also for those in other disciplines working on such themes as youth culture, under- or unemployment, neoliberalism, inequality, gender and the family, crime and criminalization, and class." * Anthropological Quarterly *"Professor Khosravi has provided detailed, well written accounts of the lives of ordinary Iranians, as well as analysis of some contemporary film and artistic endeavors. His narrative gives welcome prominence to the Iranian middle and lower economic classes, with some additional material from areas outside of Tehran, including his native Bakhtiari region, where members of his family still reside. This book thus departs from other recent works that have focused on more elite populations, with heavy attention to the wealthier residents of northern Tehran." * The Middle East Journal *"Shahram Khosravi's elegant new book weaves together his two substantive areas-urban Iranian youth culture and migration and border studies-to narrate stories of social lives carved out of multiple precarities, ever-present waitings, but also, the need to hope. Dispensing with facile dichotomies that caricature contemporary Iran, Khosravi's rich and granular storytelling breathes life, in all of its complexity and contradiction, into depictions of Iran's most vulnerable populations." * Arzoo Osanloo, University of Washington *"In his second important anthropological accounting of social tensions in contemporary Iran, Shahram Khosravi deftly brings Iran into the conversation about the transformations affecting countries across the globe: precarity and the criminalization of youth; neoliberal practices of 'blaming the victims' of increased poverty; and street-level performances of resistance and demands for rights. Engaging with film, photography, painting, and street performativity, Khosravi shows Iran is not as 'other' as either Western or Iranian media portray it, and calls to mind comparative phenomena such as Japanese shut ins, American incarceration culture, and European migrant detention camps." * Michael M.J. Fischer, author of Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry *"Shahram Khosravi writes brilliantly about the unintended consequences of the Iranian Revolution on the traditional family, on the social lives of young people, on the 'street' as a space of free expression and protest, and on public walls as places of political expression. Precarious Lives is a thoroughly researched analysis of the 'precarious' society that is contemporary Iran, a country at war with its own youth." * Paul Stoller, author of The Sorcerer's Burden and 2013 Anders Retzius Gold Medal Laureate in Anthropology *"There is so much social theory incisively deployed by Shahram Khosravi, and so many pertinent anthropological works about other places used for comparative purposes, that Precarious Lives will appeal to more readers than those interested in Iran, or those interested in the anthropology of time and space." * Ghassan Hage, University of Melbourne *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in
Book SynopsisIn less than a generation, the dominant image of American cities has transformed from one of crisis to revitalization. Poverty, violence, and distressed schools still make headlines, but central cities and older suburbs are attracting new residents and substantial capital investment. In most accounts, native-born empty nesters, their twentysomething children, and other educated professionals are credited as the agents of change. Yet in the past decade, policy makers and scholars across the United States have come to understand that immigrants are driving metropolitan revitalization at least as much and belong at the center of the story. Immigrants have repopulated central city neighborhoods and older suburbs, reopening shuttered storefronts and boosting housing and labor markets, in every region of the United States.Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States is the first book to document immigrant-led revitalization, with contributions by leading sTrade Review"This volume brings together cutting-edge research on revitalization from leading social scientists across a range of fields, from demography and economics to geography, history, sociology, and urban planning. . . . An important book with implications for today's cities and municipalities-both those experienced with immigration and those facing fresh change." * Audrey Singer, Urban Institute *
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Sociable City
Book SynopsisThe Sociable City chronicles how, as the city's physical and social landscapes evolved over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, urban intellectuals developed new vocabularies, narratives, and representational forms to explore and advocate for the social configurations made possible by urban living.Trade Review"The Sociable City is an act of recovery, a taut intellectual history dense with insights on the surfaces and depths of urban life." * HIstorical Geography *"The Sociable City is an excellent and sophisticated contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of urbanism. It brings a novel and enriched vocabulary to the history of urban thought through reconsideration of classic writers and the introduction of new ones as well." * Samuel Zipp, Brown University *"Jamin Creed Rowan has provided a much needed book for all of us working to understand the complexity of cities. His clear, nuanced discussion of the ecology of cities advances our collective efforts to build and rebuild relationships with our neighborhoods and each other. The Sociable City boldly reminds us how to hold fast to the intricate web of diversity that comprise the places we call home." * Stephen Goldsmith, Center for the Living City *"With persuasive arguments and highly inventive juxtapositions of sources, Rowan compellingly urges us to consider how Americans have understood and contested the meanings of human interactions in the city. The Sociable City surveys the urban ideas emerging from a strikingly wide-ranging variety of genres, while offering close readings that glisten with creative and surprising insights." * Benjamin Looker, author of A Nation of Neighborhoods *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Making Cities Global
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, hundreds of millions of people across the world have moved from rural areas to metropolitan regions, some of them crossing national borders on the way. While urbanization and globalization are proceeding with an intensity that seems unprecedented, these are only the most recent iterations of long-term transformations-cities have for centuries served as vital points of contact between different peoples, economies, and cultures. Making Cities Global explores the intertwined development of urbanization and globalization using a historical approach that demonstrates the many forms transnationalism has taken, each shaped by the circumstances of a particular time and place. It also emphasizes that globalization has not been persistent or automatic-many people have been as likely to resist or reject outside connections as to establish or embrace them. The essays in the collection revolve around three foundational themes. The first is an emphasis on connections among the UTrade Review"With this collection, Sandoval-Strausz and Kwak have gathered transnational perspectives necessary for any truly global urban history, namely, a world beyond the well-established North Atlantic conversation. This is a much-needed volume." * Christopher Klemek, George Washington University *
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University of Pennsylvania Press Metropolitan Denver
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is book is a classic geography, presented topically, that addresses the physical environment and human geography of Denver, Colorado, from its founding to the present…[It] contains a wealth of knowledge about city planning processes and how these relate to Denver…[and] is valuable for its careful survey of the growth and planning of an important city of the US Mountain West and for what policy makers in and outside the academy might learn from it." * Historical Geography *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction. From "Queen City of the Plains" to the "Mile High City" Chapter 1. Physical Landscape and Natural Surroundings Chapter 2. Historical Development Chapter 3. Demographics and Culture Chapter 4. Image and Place Making Chapter 5. Political Landscapes Chapter 6. Sustainable Futures Conclusion. The Next Frontier Notes Index Acknowledgments
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Rutgers University Press Contesting Community The Limits and Potential of
Book SynopsisWhat do community organizations and organizers do, and what should they do? For the past thirty years politicians, academics, advocates, and activists have heralded community as a site and strategy for social change. In contrast, Contesting Community paints a more critical picture of community work which, according to the authors--in both theory and practice--has amounted to less than the sum of its parts. Their comparative study of efforts in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada describes and analyzes the limits and potential of this work. Covering dozens of groups, including ACORN, Brooklyn's Fifth Avenue Committee, and the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal, and discussing alternative models, this book is at once historical and contemporary, global and local. Contesting Community addresses one of the vital issues of our day--the role and meaning of community in people's lives and in the larger political economy.Trade Review"This book offers the most incisive, compelling treatment of community organizing that I have seen. As a study of the strategic challenges of community-based action, it is not only authoritative but also highly original in its combination of sure-handed historical grasp, careful intellectual critique, and practical engagement with important community efforts taking place on the ground." -- William Sites * School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago *"This book could not be more timely. DeFilippis, Fisher, and Shragge give us a seriously analytical yet readable discussion of the possibilities and limits of locally based organizing. A major contribution to the ongoing debates about community and social movement organizing." -- Frances Fox Piven * author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America *"Contesting Community is a valuable asset for political radicals interested in examining the possibilities and pitfalls of local organizing. The authors manage an effective critique of actually existing community organizing, while also plotting out a path to build an alternative practice." * Counterpunch *"Contesting Community is an excellent historical analysis of the evolution of community practice. This book is valuable reading for scholars, graduate students and practitioners in sociology, social work, public administration, public health or political science." * Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare *"an engaging and provocative critique of the evolution of neoliberalism and its impact on communities and community organizing." * New Labor Forum *"Contesting Community is a refreshing and important book which looks at the current state of community organizing in America, Canada, and the United Kingdom from a critical perspective. It should be required reading for scholars and students interested in community work, community sociology and social change, and communitarianism as a theory." * Contemporary Sociology *"Contesting Community calls for a 'wider, larger-scale, and longer-term movement for social change'. Community organizing as a process of movement-building is a process of learning in struggle. This book is a contribution to that learning." * Shelterforce Magazine *"This is a timely and potentially significant book that goes a long way toward bringing up to date the literature on community organizing and community development." * Journal of Planning Education and Research *"This book offers the most incisive, compelling treatment of community organizing that I have seen. As a study of the strategic challenges of community-based action, it is not only authoritative but also highly original in its combination of sure-handed historical grasp, careful intellectual critique, and practical engagement with important community efforts taking place on the ground." -- William Sites * School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago *"This book could not be more timely. DeFilippis, Fisher, and Shragge give us a seriously analytical yet readable discussion of the possibilities and limits of locally based organizing. A major contribution to the ongoing debates about community and social movement organizing." -- Frances Fox Piven * author of Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America *"Contesting Community is a valuable asset for political radicals interested in examining the possibilities and pitfalls of local organizing. The authors manage an effective critique of actually existing community organizing, while also plotting out a path to build an alternative practice." * Counterpunch *"Contesting Community is an excellent historical analysis of the evolution of community practice. This book is valuable reading for scholars, graduate students and practitioners in sociology, social work, public administration, public health or political science." * Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare *"an engaging and provocative critique of the evolution of neoliberalism and its impact on communities and community organizing." * New Labor Forum *"Contesting Community is a refreshing and important book which looks at the current state of community organizing in America, Canada, and the United Kingdom from a critical perspective. It should be required reading for scholars and students interested in community work, community sociology and social change, and communitarianism as a theory." * Contemporary Sociology *"Contesting Community calls for a 'wider, larger-scale, and longer-term movement for social change'. Community organizing as a process of movement-building is a process of learning in struggle. This book is a contribution to that learning." * Shelterforce Magazine *"This is a timely and potentially significant book that goes a long way toward bringing up to date the literature on community organizing and community development." * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Community and Its Discontents 2. History Matters: Canons, Anti-canons, and Critical Lessons from the Past 3. The Market, the State, and Community in the Contemporary Political Economy 4. "It Takes a Village": Community as Contemporary Social Reform 5. What's Left in the Community? 6. Radicalizing Community Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Regional Planning for a Sustainable America How
Book SynopsisRegional Planning for a Sustainable America is the first book to represent the great variety of today's effective regional planning programs, analyzing dozens of regional initiatives across North America. The American landscape is being transformed by poorly designed, sprawling development. This sprawland its wasteful resource use, traffic, and pollutiondoes not respect arbitrary political boundaries like city limits and state borders. Yet for most of the nation, the patterns of development and conservation are shaped by fragmented, parochial local governments and property developers focused on short-term economic gain. Regional planning provides a solution, a means to manage human impacts on a large geographic scale that better matches the natural and economic forces at work. By bringing together the expertise of forty-two practitioners and academics, this book provides a practical guide to the key strategies that regional planners are using to achieve truly sustainable growth.Trade Review"The combination of thorough analysis and the contributors' specificity make this an extremely valuable resource for planners seeking ways to promote regionalism." * Planning *"an emporium of regional planning initiatives and concepts, well organized for people who suspect a regional initiative would facilitate sustainable human communities or adaptive natural environments in their region. Regional Planning for a Sustainable America offers a broad look at a phenomenon that has many contexts and variations, and it delivers a valuable chronicle and assessment of an experiment that is half-finished and still ongoing." * Journal of Regional Science *Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART I: Mandatory Plans1. Regional Growth Management in the Portland Metropolitan Area2. Regional Planning for the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area3. Restoring the Tahoe Region with Comprehensive Regional Planning4. Ontario’s Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe5. Adirondack Park: The Great Conservation Experiment6. Pinelands National Reserve: Saving a Unique Ecosystem in the Nation’s Most Densely Developed State7. Planning for Tomorrow in the Highlands of New Jersey8. Restoration, Conservation, and Economy in the New Jersey Meadowlands9. Changing the Land Use Paradigm to Save New York’s Central Pine Barrens10. Cape Cod: Protecting a Land of Sand and WaterPART II: Collaborative and Voluntary Planning Initiatives11. Integrated Planning for a Sustainable Future in Puget Sound12. Integrated Land Use, Transportation, and Air Quality Planning in Sacramento13. Envision Utah: Building Communities on Values14. Regional Planning in Florida15. Regional Planning for Livable Communities in Atlanta16. From the Mountains to the Sea: Maryland’s Smart Growth Program17. Raising the Bar at the Chesapeake Bay Program18. The Political Dead Zone in Chesapeake Bay19. Regional Planning at a County Scale in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania20. Land Use and Infrastructure Planning in the Greater Philadelphia Region21. Regional Planning for the Delaware River22. Planning for Sustainable Agriculture, Forestry, and Biodiversity in MainePART III: Society, Economics, and Regional Planning23. Regions for Climate Resiliency24. Megaregion Planning and High-Speed Rail25. The Economic Benefits of Regional Planning26. Serving the Environment and Economy through Regional Planning27. Promoting Fiscal Equity and Efficient Development Practices at the Metropolitan Scale28. But Where Will People Live? Regional Planning and Affordable HousingPART IV : Land Acquisition and Regional Planning29. Ecoregional Conservation: A Comprehensive Approach to Conserving Biodiversity30. Saving the Chesapeake Bay through Regional Land Conservation31. Creating Synergy with Regional Planning and Conservation EasementsPART V: Envisioning the Region32. Creating a Regional Vision for Regional Planning33. Visioning SacramentoConclusion: Fulfilling the Promise of Regional PlanningReferencesOnline ResourcesIndex
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