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Trade Review"Norman presents a thought-provoking and important analysis of an urban world often overlooked by most social science researchers. Those seeking to understand the future of metropolitan America would be wise to read this book." -- Robert Adelman * University at Buffalo, SUNY *"Norman attempts to fill a gap in the study of US urban regions by focusing exclusively on what he labels 'small cities,' those with a population of between 100,000 and 200,000. The changes in smaller cities are the results of a myriad of social forces, including globalization, immigration and internal migration, educational attainment, ethnic diversity, and economic opportunity, inequality, and diversification, among other factors. Though many of these variables have no doubt contributed to changes in large US cities, Normanargues that the way in which they have influenced the development of small cities is more nuanced. As a result, scholars must develop new conceptualizations and theories that better reflect those subtleties. This book is one contribution toward that end. Recommended." * Choice *"In Small Cities USA, Norman surveys a largely overlooked segment of U.S. urban areas: cities that contain 100,000 to 200,000 people and that are not part of a larger metro area. Norman sees these places as an important—and neglected—piece of the urban puzzle." * Planning *"Norman’s Small Cities USA takes an important step toward reminding urban scholars of the importance of smaller cities. It is a welcome alternative to the deluge of global cities research and offers a clear and concise point of entry for those wanting to explore this neglected side of urban studies." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsMaps, Figures, and TablesAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Small Cities in a Big Nation2. The Divergent Fates of Small Cities3. Putting Out the Welcome Mat: How People Affect Small Cities4. Diversity, Don't Specialize5. Balance It All: Paths of Success or Failure for Small Metro Areas6. Small Cities Matter!7. Epilogue: Small Cities after 2000Appendix: Technical Information on Data Sources and Statistical AnalysesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An outstanding example of the new interdisciplinary direction in the study of urban communities, combining political economy, sociology, and history. Loft Living is literate, evocative, [and] ambitious." * Contemporary Sociology *1. "An impressive book. Zukin entered the tangled world of zoning law, development politics, and real estate markets, analyzed documents and conducted interviews until she understood that world and was able to make us understand it, and emerged with a persuasive analysis of what may be the fundamental model for urban change." * American Journal of Sociology *"An important, substantive study in urban sociology and political economy...readable...style, free of academic cant." * Choice *"One of the most insightful analyses yet to be published on the recent processes of transformation of American cities...a most interesting exploration of the social roots of urban vitality as well as the new forms of spatial inequality." -- Manuel Castells * author of The City and the Grassroots *"A formidable book." * New Statesman *"An engrossing, enlightening, and elegantly written book." * Theory and Society *"The Last of the SoHo Pioneers," by Kim Velsey https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/realestate/soho-artist-loft-sale.html?action=clickmodule=Editors%20Pickspgtype=Homepage * New York Times *"Zukin outlines the economic and political changes that influenced the abandonment of manufacturing in Manhattan and impacted the culture surrounding residential loft conversion." * Soho Broadway *Table of ContentsUpdated IntroductionLoft Living Grows Up: From Artists’ Studio to Global BrandForeword by David HarveyPreface: Reader, Beware!1 Living Lofts as Terrain and Market2 Investment and Politics3 The Creation of a “Loft Lifestyle”4 Art in the Arms of Power5 From Arts Production to Housing Market6 Demand and Development in the Loft Market7 Speculation and the State8 Capital Shifts and the Cultural Avant-Garde in Urban AmericaPostscript to the Paperback Edition: More Market Forces

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Book Synopsis While many older American cities struggle to remain vibrant, New Brunswick has transformed itself, adapting to new forms of commerce and a changing population, and enjoying a renaissance that has led many experts to cite this New Jersey city as a model for urban redevelopment. Featuring more than 100 remarkable photographs and many maps, New Brunswick, New Jersey explores the history of the city since the seventeenth century, with an emphasis on the dramatic changes of the past few decades. Using oral histories, archival materials, census data, and surveys, authors David Listokin, Dorothea Berkhout, and James W. Hughes illuminate the decision-making and planning process that led to New Brunswick’s dramatic revitalization, describing the major redevelopment projects that demonstrate the city’s success in capitalizing on funding opportunities. These projects include the momentous decision of Johnson & Johnson to build its world headquarteTrade Review“A fascinating look at the City of New Brunswick and its urban decline and rebirth. A book on this subject could not have been better written.” * New Jersey Studies *"Overall, the book does a good job at bringing together multiple perspectives on redevelopment processes and specific projects and is a valuable contribution to many disciplines and fields, including planning, public policy, urban studies, community development, sociology, political science, architecture, historical preservation, history, and geography." * Journal of Planning Education and Research *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1. The Economy of New Brunswick: A City Reinventing Itself from Inian’s Ferry to the Information Age Photo Essay: The Corner of Albany and George Streets2. The People of New Brunswick: Population and Resident Profile over Time3. The National Context of Urban Revitalization4. New Brunswick Transformation: Challenge and Strategic Response Photo Essay: The Transformation of Seminary Hill5. New Brunswick Transformation: Critical Projects in a Multi-Decade Revitalization6. Looking to the Past and Future of New Brunswick and National Urban RevitalizationAppendix A. New Brunswick Oral History Interviews, 2009–2015: Biographical InformationAppendix B. New Brunswick Redevelopment and Economic History: A TimelineAppendix C. MapsNotesReferencesIndex

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Trade Review"[When Good Jobs Go Bad] presents an automobile industry in decline. It begins with the North American Free Trade Agreement and recounts dramatic changes in employment and in the work environments at GM, Ford, and Chrysler … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." * Choice *"Ultimately, U.S., Mexican, and for that matter Chinese workers will write the next chapters in the evolution of the global auto industry. But for right now, Rothstein’s book offers a powerful analysis of how those good jobs went so bad." * Perspectives on Work *"When Good Jobs Go Bad is an excellent study: strategically designed, executed well, historically grounded, theoretically fruitful, gracefully written, and blessedly free from jargon... Best of all, it furnishes students with a vibrant and contemporary examples of C. Wright Mills' 'sociological imagination' revealing the complex and unhappy intersections of biography and history in the lives of automobile workers." * Contemporary Sociology *"An important and insightful intervention in the discussions of industrial upgrading and the auto industry, Rothstein provides a striking critique of lean production and the decline of good jobs." -- Nancy Plankey-Videla * author of We Are in This Dance Together *"It’s not just McDonald’s and Walmart. Rothstein brilliantly illuminates how even auto assembly jobs—still among the best blue collar jobs—have been steadily degraded by global corporations. An essential contribution to understanding work in the global economy." -- Chris Tilly * director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UCLA *"When Good Jobs Go Bad questions whether the tide is rising at all....This is a sobering read, but the final chapter explores some more hopeful possibilities....Perhaps the main lesson from this book is that there is no trade-off between workplace control and influence. When unions sacrifice the first, they risk losing both." * Work, Employment and Society *"Rothstein’s book provides us with much of what we need to understand why wages and the quality of work life in the US and Mexican auto industries has deteriorated since the late 1970s." * Journal of World-Systems Research *"[Rothstein's] important point is that there is nothing natural or inevitable about the form that globalization takes; the global economy is a product of political choices." * American Journal of Sociology *"[When Good Jobs Go Bad] presents an automobile industry in decline. It begins with the North American Free Trade Agreement and recounts dramatic changes in employment and in the work environments at GM, Ford, and Chrysler … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." * Choice *"Ultimately, U.S., Mexican, and for that matter Chinese workers will write the next chapters in the evolution of the global auto industry. But for right now, Rothstein’s book offers a powerful analysis of how those good jobs went so bad." * Perspectives on Work *"When Good Jobs Go Bad is an excellent study: strategically designed, executed well, historically grounded, theoretically fruitful, gracefully written, and blessedly free from jargon... Best of all, it furnishes students with a vibrant and contemporary examples of C. Wright Mills' 'sociological imagination' revealing the complex and unhappy intersections of biography and history in the lives of automobile workers." * Contemporary Sociology *"An important and insightful intervention in the discussions of industrial upgrading and the auto industry, Rothstein provides a striking critique of lean production and the decline of good jobs." -- Nancy Plankey-Videla * author of We Are in This Dance Together *"It’s not just McDonald’s and Walmart. Rothstein brilliantly illuminates how even auto assembly jobs—still among the best blue collar jobs—have been steadily degraded by global corporations. An essential contribution to understanding work in the global economy." -- Chris Tilly * director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UCLA *"When Good Jobs Go Bad questions whether the tide is rising at all....This is a sobering read, but the final chapter explores some more hopeful possibilities....Perhaps the main lesson from this book is that there is no trade-off between workplace control and influence. When unions sacrifice the first, they risk losing both." * Work, Employment and Society *"Rothstein’s book provides us with much of what we need to understand why wages and the quality of work life in the US and Mexican auto industries has deteriorated since the late 1970s." * Journal of World-Systems Research *"[Rothstein's] important point is that there is nothing natural or inevitable about the form that globalization takes; the global economy is a product of political choices." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Introduction: Three Auto Plants in the Global Economy2 The Intensification of Work under Lean Production3 Whipsawed! Local Unions Fight for Jobs in the United States4 Greenfield Opportunity: Orchestrated Labor Relations in Silao5 Globalization and Union Decline6 Conclusion: Toward a Better-Regulated Global EconomyNotesReferencesIndex

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Trade Review"[When Good Jobs Go Bad] presents an automobile industry in decline. It begins with the North American Free Trade Agreement and recounts dramatic changes in employment and in the work environments at GM, Ford, and Chrysler … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." * Choice *"Ultimately, U.S., Mexican, and for that matter Chinese workers will write the next chapters in the evolution of the global auto industry. But for right now, Rothstein’s book offers a powerful analysis of how those good jobs went so bad." * Perspectives on Work *"When Good Jobs Go Bad is an excellent study: strategically designed, executed well, historically grounded, theoretically fruitful, gracefully written, and blessedly free from jargon... Best of all, it furnishes students with a vibrant and contemporary examples of C. Wright Mills' 'sociological imagination' revealing the complex and unhappy intersections of biography and history in the lives of automobile workers." * Contemporary Sociology *"An important and insightful intervention in the discussions of industrial upgrading and the auto industry, Rothstein provides a striking critique of lean production and the decline of good jobs." -- Nancy Plankey-Videla * author of We Are in This Dance Together *"It’s not just McDonald’s and Walmart. Rothstein brilliantly illuminates how even auto assembly jobs—still among the best blue collar jobs—have been steadily degraded by global corporations. An essential contribution to understanding work in the global economy." -- Chris Tilly * director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UCLA *"When Good Jobs Go Bad questions whether the tide is rising at all....This is a sobering read, but the final chapter explores some more hopeful possibilities....Perhaps the main lesson from this book is that there is no trade-off between workplace control and influence. When unions sacrifice the first, they risk losing both." * Work, Employment and Society *"Rothstein’s book provides us with much of what we need to understand why wages and the quality of work life in the US and Mexican auto industries has deteriorated since the late 1970s." * Journal of World-Systems Research *"[Rothstein's] important point is that there is nothing natural or inevitable about the form that globalization takes; the global economy is a product of political choices." * American Journal of Sociology *"[When Good Jobs Go Bad] presents an automobile industry in decline. It begins with the North American Free Trade Agreement and recounts dramatic changes in employment and in the work environments at GM, Ford, and Chrysler … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." * Choice *"Ultimately, U.S., Mexican, and for that matter Chinese workers will write the next chapters in the evolution of the global auto industry. But for right now, Rothstein’s book offers a powerful analysis of how those good jobs went so bad." * Perspectives on Work *"When Good Jobs Go Bad is an excellent study: strategically designed, executed well, historically grounded, theoretically fruitful, gracefully written, and blessedly free from jargon... Best of all, it furnishes students with a vibrant and contemporary examples of C. Wright Mills' 'sociological imagination' revealing the complex and unhappy intersections of biography and history in the lives of automobile workers." * Contemporary Sociology *"An important and insightful intervention in the discussions of industrial upgrading and the auto industry, Rothstein provides a striking critique of lean production and the decline of good jobs." -- Nancy Plankey-Videla * author of We Are in This Dance Together *"It’s not just McDonald’s and Walmart. Rothstein brilliantly illuminates how even auto assembly jobs—still among the best blue collar jobs—have been steadily degraded by global corporations. An essential contribution to understanding work in the global economy." -- Chris Tilly * director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, UCLA *"When Good Jobs Go Bad questions whether the tide is rising at all....This is a sobering read, but the final chapter explores some more hopeful possibilities....Perhaps the main lesson from this book is that there is no trade-off between workplace control and influence. When unions sacrifice the first, they risk losing both." * Work, Employment and Society *"Rothstein’s book provides us with much of what we need to understand why wages and the quality of work life in the US and Mexican auto industries has deteriorated since the late 1970s." * Journal of World-Systems Research *"[Rothstein's] important point is that there is nothing natural or inevitable about the form that globalization takes; the global economy is a product of political choices." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Introduction: Three Auto Plants in the Global Economy2 The Intensification of Work under Lean Production3 Whipsawed! Local Unions Fight for Jobs in the United States4 Greenfield Opportunity: Orchestrated Labor Relations in Silao5 Globalization and Union Decline6 Conclusion: Toward a Better-Regulated Global EconomyNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisCosmopolitanism - the genuine appreciation of cultural and racial diversity - is often associated with adult worldliness and sophistication. Yet, as this innovative new book suggests, children growing up in multicultural environments might be the most cosmopolitan group of all.Trade Review"I highly recommend this unique interdisciplinary work, which contributes to childhood studies and race studies with vivid ethnography." -- Lauren Silver * Rutgers University, Camden *"City Kids: Transforming Racial Baggage is an inspirational read highly recommended to a wide range of social scientists across disciplines and educators at both the PK-12 and post-secondary levels" -- Maryann Krikorian * Teachers College Record *"I highly recommend this unique interdisciplinary work, which contributes to childhood studies and race studies with vivid ethnography." -- Lauren Silver * Rutgers University, Camden *"City Kids: Transforming Racial Baggage is an inspirational read highly recommended to a wide range of social scientists across disciplines and educators at both the PK-12 and post-secondary levels" -- Maryann Krikorian * Teachers College Record *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Transcription Conventions Introduction: The Transformative Politics of Learning Race 1. Sensing Urban Space 2. Loving Friends and Things 3. The Collective Labors of Conviviality 4. Racist or Fair? 5. Enacting Sex Ed Conclusion: Out of the Heart of Whiteness Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Istanbul focus on the city’s connection to massive migration and globalization over the last two centuries, exploring the rise, collapse, and rebirth of cosmopolitan thinking and behaviors, and trying to sort out what functions as cosmopolitanism and what fails to live up to that term. Trade Review"Istanbul: Living with Difference in a Global City presents a theoretically-guided framing of the city as a site of cosmopolitan intersections from the nineteenth century to the present and is a significant contribution to the field." -- Erdag Göknar * author of Nomadologies *"Are ‘global cities’ an antidote to populism and nationalism? Istanbul offers some hope" by Nora Fisher Onar * Washington Post *"An interesting and thoroughly researched edited volume about Istanbul." * Middle East Journal *"This book offers an interesting and somewhat offbeat look at Istanbul with the desire to combine diverse approaches to history and anthropology....The book also shifts the gaze to the urban and architectural transformation of Istanbul on which there has been a plethora of academic research. Instead, it emphasizes the perception and use of space by different people and communities, and this may be one of the great strengths of this book." * Émulations –Revue de sciences sociales *

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Book SynopsisOffers a broad portrait of Latino/a life in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first centuryTrade Review"The authors of these essays explore the theme of Latino/a identity by presenting popular media images of Latino/as and by examining the issues of representation that these images raise...instructive and useful." * Choice *"A valuable and highly informative discussion of the theoretical questions that underlie the production of popular culture in the twenty-first century." * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionPart I The Shape of the Latino Group: Who Are We and What Are We Talking about Anyway? Part II Conquest and Immigration: How We Got (Get) Here Part III Nativism, Racism, and Our Social Construction as a "Problem" Group: How Once We Were Here, We Were Racialized by the Dominant Culture Part IV Racial Construction and Demonization in Mass Culture: Media Treatment and StereotypesPart V Counterstories: We Begin to Talk Back and "Name Our Own Reality" Part VI Rebellious Lawyering and Resistance Strategies: We Fight Back Part VII Revisionist Law: Does the Legal System Work for Us? Part VIII Assimilation: Maybe Our Best Strategy Is Just to Duck? Part IX Splits and Tensions within the Civil Rights Community Part X Sex, Gender, and Class: Sure I'm a Latino, but I'm Still Different from You - How about It? Part XI English-Only, Bilingualism, Interpreters: You Mean I Can't Speak Spanish? Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisExplains how New Orleans became a tourist town, a locale known as much for its excesses as for its quirky Southern charm. This title examines various image-building campaigns and promotional strategies to disseminate a palatable image of New Orleans on a national scale.Trade Review"In this remarkable book, Kevin Fox Gotham combines careful historical research, vivid ethnographic observation and sophisticated theoretical insight to produce an indispensable account of New Orleans tourist economy, from its earliest origins to the eve of Hurricane Katrina. A major achievement." -- Richard Douglas Lloyd,author of Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City"“Gotham succeeds most clearly in offering a fresh interpretation of the 1884 World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition and in capturing the complexity of New Orleanians’ attitudes about “authenticity” at different moments in the city’s history. He also offers a compelling analysis enlivened with colorful details, especially for the mid- to late nineteenth century and the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His work deserves historians’ attention for emphatically rejecting one-dimensional, theory-driven analyses that fail to capture the diversity of human agency." * The Journal of Southern History *"A testament to the ways our social and legal system failed these women beginning in their childhoods and ended up causing them to fail their own children by being responsible for their deaths." * PsycCRITIQUES *"Gotham traces a fascinating yet critical history of racial exclusion, corporate tourism, and urban branding that students of all cities should read." -- Sharon Zukin,author of The Cultures of Cities"Gotham shows how over time power relations, conflict, and 'tourism practices' have constructed and reshaped the authentic and explains the ways that reisdents through the years have defined authenticity. In doing so, he succeeds in demonstrating that racial inequalities, up which the Katrina disaster focused the nation's attention, helped toshape the images of New Orleans that promoters of the city projected to the rest of the nation and the world." -- John Gruesser,African American Review"Authentic New Orleans is a convincing and productive work, which will be fruitful for further research on gentrification within urban studies." -- Thomas Doerfler,University of Bayreuth"Authentic New Orleans provides a unique interpretation of the city, one that goes beyond its material elements (and devastation) and moves into the rich cultural roots of this special American landmark. I recommend it not only to students of cities, but to all those with a passion for and interest in American culture." -- Anthony Orum,author of City-Building in America"A seminal social and economic history of tourism and travel promotion in New Orleans, covering nearly two centuries from the early 1800s to the present. Authentic New Orleans should instantly become a standard case history in the sociology of tourism." -- John Hannigan,author of Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis"Gothams bold critique of the heritage industry in New Orleans as exemplified by its famous French Quarter, Mardi Gras parades, and Creole cuisine exposes a city steeped in the ugly legacy of racial segregation and class exclusion. In rich narrative prose Gotham persuasively explains how commercial development and tourism's overarching footprint may have devastated the heart of the city even before Katrina washed it all away. This is an important book." -- David Grazian,author of Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs"Most of us probably do not think of sociologists as historians, but Kevin Fox Gotham, associate professor of sociology at Tulane University, shows us what is to be gained by bringing those two disciplines and their diverse methods of analyses together in productive counterpoint. Gotham’s use of a post-hurricane Katrina frame for considering tourism and New Orleans provides an accessible lead-in for most readers, but the historical depth of his study enables him to offer significant theoretical contributions to our ways of thinking about the relationships among “race,” tourism, and place, over time" * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Tracking the Tear 1 Moments More Concentrated than Hours: Grief and the Textures of Time 2 Evocations: The Romance of Indian Lament 3 Securing Time: Maternal Melancholia and Sentimental Domesticity 4 Slavery's Ruins and the Countermonumental Impulse 5 Representative Mournfulness: Nation and Race in the Time of Lincoln Coda: Everyday Grief Notes Selected Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisWhat queer lives, loves and possibilities teem within suburbia's little boxes? Moving beyond the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocations offers the first major queer cultural study of sexuality, race and representation in the suburbs. Focusing on the region humorists have referred to as Lesser Los Angelesa global prototype for sprawlKaren Tongson weaves through suburbia's nowherespaces to survey our spatial imaginaries: the aesthetic, creative and popular materials of the new suburbia.Across southern California's freeways, beneath its overpasses and just beyond its winding cloverleaf interchanges, Tongson explores the improvisational archives of queer suburban sociability, from multimedia artist Lynne Chan's JJ Chinois projects and the amusement park night-clubs of 1980s Orange County to the imperial legacies of the region known as the Inland Empire. By taking a hard look at the cosmopolitanism historically considered de rigeur for queer subjects, while engaging with the so-cTrade ReviewRelocations makes powerful contributions across queer, Asian American, Latin, American, and suburban studies, cultural geography, and scholarship on affect and sound, and should be a must-read for scholars interested in Los Angeles, empire, suburbia, gentri?cation, music, sexuality and space, or queer of color critique. It is also a simply exhilarating read, at once rich in its theoretical considerations and refreshingly lucid. -- David Seitz * The Journal of Emotion, Space and Society *Karen Tongson takes us on a wild ride to the hinterlands, the inner empires and the disturbing yet vital & burbs. She skillfully re-routes well-trodden tales of white flight and gay migration and deftly navigates the theoretical freeways to trace the emergence, lives and furtive affective and creative aspirations of queer of color cultures and communities in what have been long been considered the spatial edge of American social life. Relocations is fierce, eloquent and compelling. -- Martin F. Manalansan IV,author of Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the DiasporaReading Relocations is akin to listening to a soundtrack of a favored movie from your teenage years, one whose details are perhaps forgotten, but the sound memory of which can take you, affectively, to another time, another worldto a different mode of being. With considerable style and expansive insight, Karen Tongson makes palpable the proliferation of queerness in such putatively normative sites as suburban Los Angeles. Thoroughly multi-disciplinary, theoretically savvy, archivally and methodologically innovative, this book is a lesson in how to cruise critically through the aesthetic, historic, personal, and political routes that connect places to persons and performances to identities, and present times to as yet unrealized elsewheres. -- Kandice Chuh,author of Imagine Otherwise: on Asian Americanist CritiqueRelocations is luminous, hilarious, rigorous, and profoundly moving. Tongson turns the tables on the critical commonplace that the U.S. suburbs have been and will always be spaces of stultifying sameness. -- Scott Herring * International Journal of Communication *Tongson forwards novel and powerfully interwoven interventions into queer studies metronormativity, the suburbs white heteronormative ethos, and the neoliberal and imperialist complicities that undergird not only suburban queers subordination but also their agency. * GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies *This is provocative and works well, in particular Tongsons risk-taking with regard to formal structure and narrative voice [...] Tongsons style is adamantly interrogative and personal. * Oxford Journal *Relocationsoffers many elegant and playful challenges to [the] logic [of] queer spatial imaginaries [which are] thought through an urban/rural binary. * Society and Space *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface and Acknowledgments 1 Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries 2 Relocating Queer Critique: Lynne Chan's JJ Chinois 3 Behind the Orange Curtain 4 Empire of My Familiar 5 The Light That Never Goes Out: Butchlalis de Panochtitlan Reclaim "Lesser Los Angeles" 6 Coda: Love among the Ruins: Contact, Creativity, and Klub FantasyNotes IndexAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisA collection of essays examining contemporary global immigration trends and their profound effect on specific host cities. It provides a global portrait of accelerating, worldwide immigration driven by income differentials, social networks, and various state policies that recruit skilled and unskilled laborers.Trade ReviewThis book has great value, both for its scholarly contributions to research on the migratory dimensions of globalization and for its utility as a teaching tool. The essays of this book paint a picture of a shifting global landscape shaped by global capital, by ever growing social networks, the reaffirmation of the nation-state, and through contestation. In every essay, migrants have in some way transformed the host society, regardless of whether they settled long-term or moved on. This book’s scope is global, underscoring the interconnections among global cities and the flows among them as perhaps more primarily definitive of contemporary human mobilities than the jigsaw model of juxtaposed nation-states.

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Book SynopsisExamines the ways in which economic and social changes in the twentieth century have affected the black community, and conveys the experiences that bind and divide its people. This book tells the story of urban America through the lives of individuals from diverse, overlapping, and vibrant communities.

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Book SynopsisContributors: Carolyn B. Aldana, California State U, San Bernadino; Carol S. Armstrong; Michael Dear, U of Southern California; Gary Dymski, U of California Riverside; Steven P. Erie, USC; Gregory Freeman; William Fulton; Elizabeth Gearin, USC; Genevieve Giuliano, USC; Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, U of Massachusetts, Boston; Enrico A.

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Book SynopsisAn examination of how history and politics can change the face of a city, this work shows how perpetrators of colonialism have made use of urban planning and architecture to underscore and legitimate ideologies. It highlights Ireland's colonial history and the significance of architecture in the evolution of national identity.

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Book SynopsisAn investigation into Shanghai's rise from peripheral port to urban center. The author examines such cultural practices as the work of the commercial press, street theater, and literary arts, and shows that what appear to be minor cultural changes often signal the presence of larger political and economic developments.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword: Reading John Hagedorn, Mike Davis Acknowledgments Introduction: Why Are Gangs Everywhere? I. Globalizing Gangs 1. Ghetto, Favela, and Township: The Worlds Gangs Live In 2. Street Institutions: Why Some Gangs Won't Go Away 3. The Problem with Definitions: The Questionable Uniqueness of Gangs 4. From Chicago to Mumbai: Touring the World of Gangs II. Race, Space, and the Power of Identity 5. No Way Out: Demoralization, Racism, and Resistance Identity 6. A Tale of Two Gangs: The Hamburgs and the Conservative Vice Lords 7. Reconsidering Culture: Race, Rap, and Resistance 8. Street Wars: Hip Hop and the Rise of Gangsta Culture 9. Contested Cities: Gentrification and the Ghetto Conclusion: A Rose in the Cracks of Concrete Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA social and design history of the urban campus.Trade Review"In The City as Campus, Sharon Haar illuminates the highly-charged relationship of higher education to the American metropolis, using as a case study the University of Illinois, Chicago, the exemplary model of the massive urban commuter campus that has become the dominant form of higher education in so many metropolitan regions." —Robert Fishman, University of MichiganTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. New Institutions for a New Environment: Pedagogical Space in the Progressive City 2. City as Laboratory: Hull-House and the Rise of the Chicago School 3. Modern City, Modern Campus: Institutional Expansion and Urban Renewal in the Post-War Era 4. Classrooms off the Expressway: A New Mission for Higher Education 5. "Model of the Modern Urban University": The New Spatial Form of the Chicago Circle Campus 6. Campus Revolt: The Reform of the Commuter University 7. City as Campus: University Space in the Global City Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding the effects of market liberalization through life in a modern Chinese suburb.Trade Review"Suburban Beijing offers a timely, vivid, and fresh account and a thoughtful analysis of urban housing in China. Friederike Fleischer, a perceptive and careful researcher, draws on firsthand observations, with informative reviews of literature, history, and geography, skillfully weaving a contemporary portrait in both history and location." —Feng Wang, author of Boundaries and Categories: Rising Inequality in Post-Socialist Urban China Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Transforming Suburban Life in China 1. A History of Wangjing: Building the Suburban Industrial Zone 2. Reforming the State Sector, Opening the Private Sector: Changing the Suburban Experience 3. Daily Life in Wangjing: From Exclusive Highrise to Crumbling Compound 4. Socio-economic Differences: Emerging Market Forces, Diverging Values 5. Consumption and the Geography of Space and Social Status Conclusion: Social Stratification, Consumption, and Housing Acknowledgments Appendix A: Field Sites and Methods Appendix B: Beijing Households and Population Year 2000 Appendix C: 2000 Annual Cash Income Per Capita of 1000 Beijing Urban Households Appendix D: Sample Living Conditions of 15 Interviewees in the Hong Yuan Compound Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the university's role in understanding how disasters impact communities.Table of ContentsContents Preface: This Dynamic Culture of Learning E. Thomas Sullivan Introduction: University Voices in the Community Patrick Nunnally Part I. The Bridge: Object, Metaphor, Process 1. Fracture-Critical: The I-35W Bridge Collapse as Metaphor and Omen Thomas Fisher 2. The Infamous Gusset Plates Roberto Ballarini and Minmao Liao 3. Building the New Bridge: Process and Politics in City-Building Patrick Nunnally Part II. The City: Neighborhoods and Transportation 4. Neighborhoods Confront a Disaster Aftermath Judith A. Martin 5. From Here to There to Nowhere: Competing Philosophies of Planning Roger Miller Part III. The River: After the Collapse 6. A Fickle Partner: Minneapolis and the Mississippi River John O. Anfinson 7. A Bridge to Somewhere Mark Pedelty, Heather Dorsey, and Melissa Thompson 8. Old Man River Deborah L. Swackhamer Conclusion: Reimagining the Mississippi Patrick Nunnally Acknowledgments Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments, Introduction: Sin, Sickness, and the System, Part I. Backstories, 1. Urban Ethnography beyond the Culture Wars, 2. Managing Homelessness in the United States, Part II. The Street Watch Out San Francisco! Ain’t Gonna Get No Peace, 3. Moorings Some Other Kind of Life, 4. Word on the Street No One Loves a Loser, 5. The New Hobos, Part III. Rabble Management Like I Need More Drugs in My Life?, 6. The Homeless Archipelago A Little Room for Myself, 7. The Old Runaround: Class Cleansing in San Francisco The Road to Nowheresville, Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Health Rights are Civil Rights suggests an entirely new geography of Los Angeles based on both activism and geopolitics. Jenna M. Loyd makes pathbreaking connections between health, war-making, race, and the environment that offer us a new way of viewing midcentury Los Angeles. An essential text for all scholars of Los Angeles, health, race, and activism." —Laura Pulido, University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: War, American Exceptionalism, and the Place of Health ActivismPart I. Desegregating Health, Transforming Health Care1. Urban Geopolitics and the Fight for “Equal Justice in Health Care Now”2. Watts, the War on Poverty, and the Promise of Community ControlPart II. Urban Crisis3. Economic Conversion, Survival, and Race in “Dodge City”4. Mothering Underground: The Home in Women’s Welfare and Peace Organizing5. The War at Home: Forging Interracial Solidarities for Peace and FreedomPart III. Cold War Body Politics6. Population Scares and Antiviolence Roots of Reproductive Justice7. Where Is Health? The Place of the Clinic in Social Change8. “Property Rights over Human Life”: Taxes and Austerity in the Divided CityEpilogue: The Right to Health Meets the Right to the CityNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"John Arena has written an important book on an important topic. New Orleans stands out because of the travesty associated with Hurricane Katrina; however, Driven from New Orleans tells a much deeper and broader story that could be replicated in many cities. Arena provides a sorely needed account of neoliberal reorganization of American cities with the active support of nominal advocates and representatives of the impoverished populations who are displaced as part of that reorganization. It is a signal contribution to the study of black urban politics, the political economy of urban redevelopment, and the concrete dynamics of urban neoliberalism." —Adolph Reed, Jr., University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Nonprofits and the Revanchist Agenda1.Confronting the New Boss: Struggles for Home and Community in the Post-Segregation Era, 1965–19852.Undoing the Black Urban Regime: Resistance to Displacement and Elite Divisions, 1986–19883.Neoliberalism and Nonprofits: Selling Privatization at St. Thomas, 1989–19954.No Hope in HOPE VI: Dismantling Public Housing from the Nation to the Neighborhood5.When Things Fall Apart: From the Dreams of St. Thomas to the Nightmare of River Gardens, 1996–20026.Whose City Is It? Hurricane Katrina and the Struggle for New Orleans’ Public Housing, 2003–20087.Managing Contradictions: The Coalition to Stop the DemolitionsConclusion: Lessons from New OrleansNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTurkish Berlin goes beyond the broad generalizations in immigrant integration debates by digging into what officials actually mean as they operationalize the term ‘integration’ and how the subjects of the resulting policy, Turkish-origin women in Berlin, understand the treatment they receive. Full of rich ethnographic material, this is a fine book that readers will ponder for a long time.—John Mollenkopf, author of Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age"An interesting read and a good resource for urban studies and immigration studies."—Political Studies Review"A unique contribution to scholarship on Berlin city space."—Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies"A timely examination of the myriad issues shaping both immigrant experience and integration policy in Germany."—Oral History ReviewTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Babel Berlin, German Immigrant Capital1. Integration or Exclusion? Understanding Turkish Immigration in Germany2. Talk of the Town: Space, Visibility, and the Contestation of German Identity3. Mein Block: The Neighborhood as a Site of Identity4. Location as Destiny: Integrating Kreuzberg and NeuköllnConclusion: Learning from Immigrant NeighborhoodsAppendixesA. Zeynep’s and Bilge’s KreuzköllnB. Berlin SenateC. The Buschkowsky Administration’s 10-Point Integration Agenda for the District of NeuköllnNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review "Eric Avila's in-depth research and his sheer passionate commitment to the subject should make this one of the rare books that succeeds in replacing a widely-accepted narrative." —Robert Fishman, University of Michigan"A must-read cultural history of the 'invisible freeway revolts' through which city people of color have demanded social justice in the midst of aggressive urban reforms. Avila provides timely lessons for scholars and urban planners, pointing us to pay closer attention to the aesthetic and expressive forms of these protests, so necssary to achieve spatial justice in American cities." —Arlene Davila, New York University"The Folklore of the Freeway fuses art and public policy in a graceful narrative."—KCET- LA Letters"Each chapter is rich with details rarely considered, challenging readers to rethink their understanding of growth and development"—CHOICE"Avila’s book is critically important for placing communities of color at the center of the narrative of anti-highway activism. In showing us that culture is affected by political activities like highway construction, he makes a welcome intervention into a historical topic that has often ignored culture and suggests areas for further research."—American Studies Journal"Avila’s work is an important history of the modernist city and its discontents, transforming the narrative of the freeway revolt."—Journal of American History"Eric Avila . . . has written a thoughtful account of the impact of the construction of the American Interstate highway system on the urban barrios and ghettos it often traversed."—Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review"The Folklore of the Freeway makes the invisible freeway revolt not only visible, but vivid, clear, and indisputable."—Buildings & Settlements"The Folklore of the Freeway offers a provocative account of the cultural history of the freeway in the American city, which interweaves past and present into a compelling narrative that challenges urban scholars to rethink the basic points of reference that have framed the storyline of the freeway revolt."—Urban Studies"Avila’s book serves not only as a reminder of the role that race and political power played in the placement of urban highways, but as call to remake the highway system more justly."—Planning PerspectivesTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Invisible Freeway Revolt1. The Master’s Plan: The Rise and Fall of the Modernist City2. “Nobody But a Bunch of Mothers”: Fighting the Highwaymen During Feminism’s Second Wave3. Communities Lost and Found: The Politics of Historical Memory4. A Matter of Perspective: The Racial Politics of Seeing the Freeway5. Taking Back the Freeway: Strategies of Adaptation and ImprovisationConclusion: Identity Politics in Post-Interstate AmericaAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review "This comparative study of community policies related to welfare and community participation is well organized, well writen, and well documented. The narrative moves along, not dwelling too long on one individual or organization, yet it also contains extremely apt quotations from policy makers and activists that vividly conveey their ideas. The attention to gender, female homemaker and male breadwinner, and contestations of that is equally efficient and well conceived, enriching the book. The influence of African Americans and their ideas on contestations over inclusion and welfare policies in Japan is equally compact and relevant." —Kathleen Uno, Temple University"A fascinating addition to the literature on the War on Poverty."—Journal of American History"Reinventing Citizenship leaves the reader with the opportunity to question how contemporary efforts to address poverty and economic inequality might resonate within a transnational context."—Law, Culture, and the Humanities Journal"Reinventing Citizenship is important for exploring the little-known differences and similarities between black welfare activists in Los Angeles and their Korean counterparts in Japan, and for its rare demonstration of the transnational ties that bound them."—American Historical Review"Reinventing Citizenship is a work of solid research, whose comparative approach compels readers to think about state welfare and social movements in the late 1900s globally and expansively, something Americanists should do more in general."—Pacific Historical ReviewTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Los Angeles and Kawasaki as Arenas of Struggle over Citizenship1. Between Inclusion and Exclusion: The Origins of the U.S. Community Action Program2. Fostering Community and Nationhood: Japan's Model Community Program3. Struggling for Political Voice: Race and the Politics of Welfare in Los Angeles4. Recasting the Community Action Program: The Pursuit of Race, Class, and Gender Equality in Los Angeles5. Translating Black Theology into Korean Activism: The Hitachi Employment Discrimination Trial6. Voicing Alternative Visions of Citizenship: The "Kawasaki System" of WelfareConclusion: The Interconnectedness of Oppression and FreedomAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Marc Doussard posits a new interpretation of the 2001 to 2006 profit-wage disjuncture that is innovative and fresh. This is the stuff of truly innovative urban-economic analysis."—David Wilson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign"Distinctive and pioneering, Degraded Work analyzes the areas of excess profit within two sectors that are often viewed as very close to perfectly competitive, smaller scale neighborhood retail and residential construction. These detailed analyses help make a broader case that low wages and precarious work are not inevitable. Doussard integrates these elements into an instructive polemic against some popular but oversimplified analyses of urban and labor market restructuring, introducing the concept of degraded work to capture the changes he observes."—Chris Tilly, UCLA"An important and much-needed intervention in the literature on inequality and low-wage work."—Labour/Le Travail"Degraded Work is a valuable contribution to the study of low-wage work, inequality, labor markets, and organizing. Doussard makes a convincing case that policy makers, practitioners, and scholars need to engage in serious local, sectoral research in order to truly understand the labor market."—Social Service Review"Well-written and clearly argued."—International Journal of Urban and Regional Research"Well-researched and illuminating."—Labor Studies Journal"A remarkably detailed book, Degraded Work challenges one of the dominant theories for urban inequality in North America and challenges readers to do something about inequality in their own city. Perhaps Doussard’s greatest accomplishment is to challenge what his readers believe and what they are doing with their lives or careers, without being confrontational. His analysis shows considerable depth and detail, but he presents it with humor, and without pretense, so it is accessible to experts and laypeople alike."—Economic Geography"Marc Doussard’s Degraded Work is a timely foray into the complex and controversial reality of current workplace circumstances and conditions in urban America."—AAG Review of BooksTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Boom in Poorly Paid and Precarious Jobs1. New Inequalities: The Deterioration of Local-Serving Industries2. Beyond Low Wages: The Problem of Degraded Work3. The City That Sweats Work: Growth and Inequality in Post-Fordist Chicago4. Oases in the Midst of Deserts: How Food Retailers Thrive in Disinvested Neighborhoods5. “They’re Happy to Have a Job”: Mid-Size Supermarkets and Degraded Work6. Building Degradation: Dangerous Work and Falling Pay during a Construction Boom7. A Perfectly Flexible Workforce: Day Labor in a Precarious Industry8. New Answers to New Problems: The Creative Work of Reversing Degradation Conclusion: Building a Fair Labor Market in Post-Manufacturing EconomiesAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A tour de force on the French suburbs and the utopian imaginaries that made them into the twentieth century's largest social experiment. The Social Project is a must-read for anyone interested in the ‘other Paris’ of the suburban periphery and a brilliant contribution to the urban and architectural history of the French suburbs and to understanding the social ambitions of architecture."—Rosemary Wakeman, Fordham University"The Social Project does important work in uncovering and making available the complex projects, motives, dreams, and politics that made possible the vast expansion of urbanism in postwar France. It reminds us with force and insight that today’s despair and gloominess about such projects was not always the case nor were the current dreary outcomes inevitable."—Paul Rabinow, University of California, Berkeley"A thorough history of the development of post-World War II mass housing in France."—The Culture MachineTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Building the Banlieue1950s: Projects in the Making1. Streamlining Production2. A Bureaucratic Epistemology1960s: Architecture Meets Social Science3. Animation to the Rescue4. The Expertise of Participation5. Programming the Villes Nouvelles1970s: Consuming Contradictions6. Megastructures in Denial7. The Ultimate ProjectsConclusion: Where Is the Social Project?NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In shifting the emphasis away from textual analysis of rap songs and toward artists’ understandings of their own practices and identities, Chicago Hustle and Flow avoids the most common pitfalls of hip-hop studies texts. Many scholars have written about gangsta rap, but Geoff Harkness’s committed qualitative approach and vividly drawn setting are deep breaths of fresh air." —Michael Jeffries, author of Thug Life: Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop"While the title of this rather academic text hints at Harkness’s intimate, sometimes engrossing perspective on Chicago gangsta rap, he cast a wide enough net to show the challenges aspiring Chicago MCs faced when this city was still considered a hip-hop flyover zone."—Chicago Reader"A must read that will make an impact on and contribution to the literature on the political economy of black music."—CHOICE"A worthy read about a worthy region."—Roy Christopher"It is not just about rappers and gangs. It is about a bigger picture, one that is a reflection of a class and racially divided society."—Criminal Justice Review"Harkness’s approach is wonderfully refreshing. . . Chicago Hustle and Flow is required reading for anyone wanting a peak inside a major city’s underground rap scene."—American Journal of Sociology"Geoff Harkness’s book is a sincere and genuine urban ethnography of the underground rap science in the post millennium period. . . it is plainly apparent that Harkness had a genuine connection with the artists he interviewed."—Ethnic and Racial Studies"[Chicago Hustle and Flow] offers a much-needed alternative representation of young men struggling with a daily life of inequality."—International Journal of Urban and Regional Research"Chicago Hustle and Flow is a compelling book. . . The author does an excellent job of humanizing his interview subjects (again breaking down stereotypes) and providing readers with a perspective that few would otherwise get to experience."—Popular Music and Society"Chicago Hustle and Flow offers a compelling case study of the vital musical microscenes in the Windy City, revealing the dynamics of race and social class."—The Journal of African American HistoryTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. Welcome to the Terrordome: Chicago’s Gangsta-Rap Microscene1. Who Shot Ya: A Tale of Two Gangsta-Rap Rivals2. The Blueprint: Social Class and the Rise of the Rap Hustler3. Bangin’ on Wax: Recording Studios as Symbolic Spaces4. In Da Club: How Social Class Shapes the Performative Context5. Capital Punishment: Crime and Risk Management in the Rap GameConclusion. Rap Hustlers or Sucker MCs?Epilogue. Six Years LaterNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisHistoric CapitalTrade Review"Cameron Logan presents a clear, convincing thesis—that historic preservation was a driver of urban development, politics and culture, not an afterthought or a sideline. His account is compelling and rich; it will appeal to urbanists, historians and preservationists alike. Critically, the history of preservation is framed not as an insular matter or a progressive narrative of preservationist victories. He rightly presents preservation as part of the mix of urban movements (in urban design, poverty alleviation, community organizing, economic development) competing for political attention."—Randall Mason, University of Pennsylvania"Logan’s powerful and provocative work lays a strong foundation for future scholarship that may follow the tantalizing traces he has uncovered."—Journal of American Ethnic History "Logan’s book adds to the growing literature on the history of Washington, D.C. While Washington is often considered an anomaly in the realms of urban studies, architectural history, and historic preservation, Historic Capital and its contemporaries continue to prove that the nation’s capital is not just a destination worthy of a Fourth of July visit. They show that it is instead a true urban center deserving of rigorous analytical research that connects to these various fields, so that one day the case studies outline herein will be a familiar part of the history of historic preservation, urban planning, and real estate."—Buildings & LandscapesTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: From “Life Inside a Monument” to Neighborhoodswith Life1. Value: Property, History and Homeliness in Georgetown2. Taste: Architectural Complexity and Social Diversity in the 1960s3. The White House and Its Neighborhood: Federal City Making and Local Preservation, 1960–19754. Race and Resistance: Gentrification and the Critique of Historic Preservation5. Whose Neighborhood? Whose History? Expanding Dupont Circle, 1975–19856. Rhodes Tavern and the Problem with Preservation in the 1980s7. Modernist Urbanism as History: Preserving the Southwest Urban Renewal Area Conclusion: Preservation, Profits and LossAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is increasingly becoming clear that cities live by multiple logics and modes of existence, defying essentialist or totalizing encapsulations. Yet, the tools to get close to the living, changing, plural city remain far from adequate. In this engrossing book on Jakarta, AbdouMaliq Simone takes a giant step forward by offering a set of mid-range concepts and a writing style that uncover the structured and improvised recursions of the world's mega-cities. An essential and exciting read." —Ash Amin, University of Cambridge"AbdouMaliq Simone provides a bridge between Deleuzian techniques and ethnographic account of different places in Jakarta. Jakarta thus is not subsumed under particular theories; instead the city itself is a theory-a way of thinking, a way of living. The text itself is a city like Jakarta that offers no comfortable vantage point, but unplanned pathways that often lead, fortunately, to surprising scenes and inspiring commentaries." —Abidin Kusno, University of British Columbia Table of ContentsContentsPreface Introduction: Rehearsal for an Urban Commons in Jakarta 1. The Near-South: Between Megablock and Slum2. The Urban Majority: Improvised Livelihoods in Mixed-up Districts3. Devising Relations: Markets, Streets, Households, and Workshops4. Endurance: Risking the Familiar5. Inventive Policy: Integrating Residents into Running the CityConclusion: Reimagining a CommonsBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Finally, in all the work done on homelessness, Craig Willse puts the focus on the complexity of violence and the ways in which housing intersects with poverty, class, sexuality, and, especially, race."—Vincent Lyon-Callo, Western Michigan University"The Value of Homelessness. . . contains detailed and provocative claims that move beyond current paradigms on the governance of homeless populations. . . Willse’s text undoubtedly makes an important contribution towards a necessary rethinking of homelessness. It is a book which will likely be of interest to all those passionate about matters of social justice for years to come."—Society & Space"This book asks and then critically answers the question of what it means to be homeless. . . a must read for anyone interested in the issue."—CHOICE"This is genuinely an important read for people in the homeless service industry and those in power and shaping policy."—RealChangeNews.orgTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Housing and Other Monsters1. Surplus Life, or Race and Death in Neoliberal Times2. Homelessness as Method: Social Science and the Racial Order3. From Pathology to Population: Managing Homelessness in the United States4. Governing through Numbers: HUD and the Databasing of Homelessness5. The Invention of Chronic HomelessnessConclusion: Surplus Life at the Limits of the GoodNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Despite the weight of the subject matter—urban crime in a violent city—Security in the Bubble goes against the grain of critical scholarship, evoking a new language to capture the fine-grained and culturally attuned spatial practices of identity. As a consequence, novel insights and experiences reveal contemporary urbanity in all its contradictory fullness. This is vital and beautifully crafted urbanism."—Edgar Pieterse, University of Cape Town"Christine Hentschel’s theoretically sharp book shows how the pursuit of security dynamically organizes—and simultaneously fragments—urban life. In a major contribution to criminology as well as to urban studies, Hentschel acknowledges the reality of violence and fear but, refreshingly, avoids dystopian clichés in a work that is as relevant for Chicago and Detroit as it is for Rio and Bogotá."—Mariana Valverde, University of TorontoTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Spatial Governance from Death to Life1. The Politics of Crime and Space in South Africa2. Seeing Like a City: Conceptual Devices3. Handsome Space: Governing through Flirting4. Instant Space: Governing through FleeingConclusion: Making Love to the CityNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The reader is instilled with belief and optimism that social organizing around common needs holds great potential for changing the fabric of society one relationship at a time. This book is a solid contribution to the field of urban studies, and the knowledge it contributes is important to the perspective of practitioners of urban policy planning."—Progressive City"It is more than refreshing to find a scholarly book with a message of hope, albeit a carefully calibrated message."—Journal of Planning Education and Research"By focusing on globally pervasive patterns of discrimination against immigrants and investigating their possible remedies at a microlevel, the four geographers are asking their readers to drop the blinkers of privilege. Their earnest and carefully documented efforts pay close and respectful attention to what people actually do in their daily lives in the city."—H-Net Reviews

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The reader is instilled with belief and optimism that social organizing around common needs holds great potential for changing the fabric of society one relationship at a time. This book is a solid contribution to the field of urban studies, and the knowledge it contributes is important to the perspective of practitioners of urban policy planning."—Progressive City"It is more than refreshing to find a scholarly book with a message of hope, albeit a carefully calibrated message."—Journal of Planning Education and Research"By focusing on globally pervasive patterns of discrimination against immigrants and investigating their possible remedies at a microlevel, the four geographers are asking their readers to drop the blinkers of privilege. Their earnest and carefully documented efforts pay close and respectful attention to what people actually do in their daily lives in the city."—H-Net Reviews

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Using the case of publicly subsidized housing and its residents in Chicago, Catherine Fennell brilliantly traces the architectures of public housing decay and the so-called solutions to them as affective possibilities. Political debates over how to house the urban poor unfold as gripping ethnographic realities here, urging us to think through the materiality of sympathy."—Vincanne Adams, University of California, San Francisco"This book is a must-read for those concerned with public housing and its aftermath. The author has captured stories rarely heard anywhere else."—Planning Magazine"An excellent, timely, and nuance ethnography that moves beyond the more familiar analysis of postwelfare urban inequalities. It is a valuable addition to the literature about urban poverty, urban planning, and the politics of race and class in the contemporary United States."—American Anthropologist"Fennell’s great achievement rests on her ability to capture those critiques of the new housing not as a nostalgia for the old—that kind of thing is the preserve of the social scientists and the museum-advocates in her narrative—but rather as a negotiation of the difference between sympathetic attachments and abstract, sentimentalized obligations to anonymous others."—Somatosphere"Last Project Standing will undoubtedly make a great impact on the ways that other urban anthropologists respond to the influences of interdisciplinary humanistic research methods."—Journal of the Illinois State Historical SocietyTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Across DamenPart I. Sympathy“Toward a Better Life”2. The Many Harms of Staying Here3. Project Heat and Sensory PoliticsPart II. CivicsRadio Rumors4. Experiments in Vulnerability5. The City, the Grassroots, the Poverty PimpsPart III. PublicsResurrections6. The Museum of ResilienceEpilogue: Raising Sympathetic PublicsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Rebecca J. Kinney's sophisticated and compelling study demonstrates the centrality of race-making to contemporary narratives of urban decline and revitalization."—David M. P. Freund, University of Maryland"This is a welcome addition to studies in race and political economy."—Katherine B. Hankins, Georgia State University"In Beautiful Wasteland Rebecca Kinney offers a sweeping cultural analysis of the images and symbolic landscapes that have made and remade our imaginary of the city of Detroit."—Jessa M. Loomis, University of Kentucky"Beautiful Wasteland is a superb analysis of the role of popular culture in the production of Detroit as a 'postindustrial frontier'."—Sara Safransky, Vanderbilt University"Beautiful Wasteland adds greatly to our understanding of why nostalgia is such a central part of how white working and middle class Americans construct their sense of self and the world."—Patrick Vitale, Eastern Connecticut State University"It’s part personal memoir, part reporting, part academic dissection, drawing on life history, pop culture, photojournalism, architecture, TV news, and more."—Detroit Metro Times"While modest in length and scope, Beautiful Wasteland provides a fascinating analysis of the cultural narratives that underpin both public policy and our everyday depictions of postindustrial cities."—The Michigan Historical Review"Kinney’s book is a valuable contribution to the growing body of research on Detroit in that it makes visible the banal ways in which racism occurs through a cultural lens."—Urban Geography "Kinney’s insistence that neoliberal market strategies cannot resolve structural inequities raises this succinct contribution to the critique of ‘ruin porn’ above the fray."—Indiana Magazine of History "Crucially woven into this analysis is Kinney’s sensitivity to the persistence of race in narrative tropes, and the significance of what is unsaid and what is forgotten, as much as what is said and remembered."—Environment & Urbanization"Historical and cultural geographers plus scholars with an interest in the US Midwest, manufacturing history, or urban history will likely find this a welcome addition to their shelves - or night stands: the book was a compelling read and difficult to put down."—Historical GeographyTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Building a Beautiful Wasteland1. It’s Turned into a Race Thing: White Innocence and the Old Neighborhood2. Picturing Ruin and Possibility: The Rise of the Postindustrial Frontier3. Fanning the Embers: Branding Detroit as a Phoenix Rising4. Flickers of the American Dream: Filming Possibility in Decline5. Feeding Detroit’s Rise: Provisions for Urban PioneersConclusion: The Strait: A Tale of Two CitiesAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This pithy, provocative little book brings Marxist humanism to bear on urban problems as pressing today as they were nearly half-a-century ago. Upsizing cities spell downsizing work, the coming of urban society announces the financialization of space, a crisis of industrial production begets a politics of urban reproduction—all with daunting threats as well as immanent possibilities. Dead for twenty-five years, old man Lefebvre lives on as our most visionary twenty-first-century urban thinker."—Andy Merrifield, author of Metromarxism, Magical Marxism, and The New Urban Question"Lefebvre’s work remains of enduring importance."—Stuart Elden, from the Foreword"Stimulating and resonant, suggesting new ways of attending to some classics of urban theory... My high praise goes to Elden and, especially, Bononno for producing this lovely book, which I am glad to have read."—Antipode"The text reads like a well-crafted set of research notes, constituting a preliminary step toward the concrete elaboration of ‘the urban’ as a historical mode of production. This volume would be useful both to those who labor in the Marxist tradition as well as to those generally interested in what Edward Soja calls the ‘spatial turn’ in critical social theory."—Marx & PhilosophyTable of ContentsContentsForewordStuart EldenIntroductory NoteHenri LefebvreMarxist Thought and the City1. The Situation of the Working Class in England2. The City and the Division of Labor3. Critique of Political Economy4. Engels and Utopia5. Capital and Land OwnershipConclusionNotes

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Though architecture theory's autonomous turn has been crumbling for some time, you can sense Tom Fisher's sledgehammer here hastening the process. Designing Our Way to a Better World takes on such expansive topics as education, environmental rescue, politics, and economics to raise our horizons for an architecture of true engagement."—Tom Spector, Oklahoma State University"Finally! A great design thinker who truly connects the objects we put on the land with the planet below them. Thomas Fisher's breakthrough perspective challenges us to rethink almost everything—education, movement, consumption—to dramatically reshape the world each action designs."—R.T. Rybak, former mayor of Minneapolis, executive director of Generation Next, and author of Pothole Confidential: My Life as Mayor of Minneapolis"[Designing Our Way to a Better World] tosses out ideas like a firework tosses out sparks."—Planning Magazine"Fisher lays our a compelling case for addressing the 'wicked problems' of our day with the power of design thinking. And he does so in a voice that seeks to appeal to a general audience--not just experts in various fields. Highly recommended Reading."—Architecture MinnesotaTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionPart I. Invisible Systems1. The Design of the Invisible2. Design Thinking3. The Logic of CreativityPart II. Education4. Creative Education5. Schools and Communities6. Reconstructing Design EducationPart III. Infrastructure7. Fracture-Critical Failures8. Over-Extended Infrastructure9. Designed DisastersPart IV. The Public Realm10. The Infrastructure of Health11. Healthy Landscapes12. Viral CitiesPart V. Politics13. Designer Politics14. The Politics of No15. Politics: Right and WrongPart VI. Economics16. An Opposable Economy17. A Third Industrial Revolution18. Meta-designPart VII. Beliefs19. Community Resiliency20. Evolutionary Transformation21. Spatializing KnowledgePostscript: A Past and Possible FutureNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Though architecture theory's autonomous turn has been crumbling for some time, you can sense Tom Fisher's sledgehammer here hastening the process. Designing Our Way to a Better World takes on such expansive topics as education, environmental rescue, politics, and economics to raise our horizons for an architecture of true engagement."—Tom Spector, Oklahoma State University"Finally! A great design thinker who truly connects the objects we put on the land with the planet below them. Thomas Fisher's breakthrough perspective challenges us to rethink almost everything—education, movement, consumption—to dramatically reshape the world each action designs."—R.T. Rybak, former mayor of Minneapolis, executive director of Generation Next, and author of Pothole Confidential: My Life as Mayor of Minneapolis"[Designing Our Way to a Better World] tosses out ideas like a firework tosses out sparks."—Planning Magazine"Fisher lays our a compelling case for addressing the 'wicked problems' of our day with the power of design thinking. And he does so in a voice that seeks to appeal to a general audience--not just experts in various fields. Highly recommended Reading."—Architecture MinnesotaTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionPart I. Invisible Systems1. The Design of the Invisible2. Design Thinking3. The Logic of CreativityPart II. Education4. Creative Education5. Schools and Communities6. Reconstructing Design EducationPart III. Infrastructure7. Fracture-Critical Failures8. Over-Extended Infrastructure9. Designed DisastersPart IV. The Public Realm10. The Infrastructure of Health11. Healthy Landscapes12. Viral CitiesPart V. Politics13. Designer Politics14. The Politics of No15. Politics: Right and WrongPart VI. Economics16. An Opposable Economy17. A Third Industrial Revolution18. Meta-designPart VII. Beliefs19. Community Resiliency20. Evolutionary Transformation21. Spatializing KnowledgePostscript: A Past and Possible FutureNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review "John Joe Schlichtman’s Showroom City: Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World is a fun book with a weird case...Can a place be gentrified if there are no gentrifiers present? Can a place be economically dynamic but socially ossified? Crummy fast food chains with cracked asphalt parking lots are not supposed to abut architecturally ambitious glass and steel office and exhibition buildings. And yet this is how life in High Point goes—its weirdness is on full display."—Max Besbris, Contemporary Sociology "The claim to fame may be esoteric, but the story is, in a way, a timeless one."—Bloomberg CityLab “A fresh understanding of how cities operate and, more importantly, how that can change."—Harvey Molotch, New York University (from the Foreword) "What the Market has done to downtown High Point is extraordinary….."—Roger Goldman, Mountain Money "The book was fascinating to read. The reviewer's copy is now full of underlining, exclamation points, circled phrases, and side notes.…The in-depth study of High Point, NC, makes the reader consider how communities are shaped, grow and evolve, and how a community chooses to relate to the outside world, both locally and at large."—Kathleen Parrott, Family Consumer Sciences Research Journal "Undoing the decades of racial, cultural and economic decisions that led to the current state of affairs in High Point will not be easy. But learning how it got to where it is now is the book’s value to anyone who makes their living buying, selling and creating furniture—or even sending it to the landfill."—Warren Shoulberg, Business of Home Magazine "High Point defies most urban assumptions, classifications, and labels. Throughout his book, John Joe Schlichtman intersperses insights from his many interviews…with insights from the scholarly literature."—Katrin B. Anacker, Journal of Urban Affairs "Part local history, part personal journal, part urban planning analysis and critique, Showroom City for the most part is easy reading, filled with voices of High Point residents. It is a story with only a handful of identified good guys—both men and women—and many everyday people who see the downtown as in the grips of largely impersonal, international forces they don’t understand."—High Point Enterprise "Showroom City is an engaging and important analysis of how a small city like High Point, North Carolina, became an urban node of globalization with architectural gravitas and specialized flows of commerce, mediated by regional and racial complexities. Two competing global neoliberal logics of design shape High Point's transformation by generating new landscapes of power and conflict that bring nuance to our understanding of the ‘spaces of flows/spaces of places’ framework."—Saskia Sassen, Columbia University "John Joe Schlichtman immersed himself in High Point, talking to market officials, vendors and other market stakeholders as well as High Pointers and city officials. His book, Showroom City, begins in the early 1960s and examines what High Point was, what it is and what it could be."—Thomas Lester, Furniture Today Table of ContentsContents Foreword: Learning from the Outlier Harvey Molotch Introduction: An Empty and Impeccable Downtown 1. The Common Threads in High Point’s Uncommon Fabric Part I. Out of the Mills: A Small City Goes Global 2. Hollowing Out: The “All-American" Downtown Goes Temp 3. The Golden Goose: High Point Becomes the World’s Market Center 4. The Cruise Ship and the Forbidden City: Aesthetic Flair and Private Equity Come to Town Part II. Temp Town: Spaces and Seasons of the Furniture Capital of the World 5. Hibernation: The Downtown Landscape During Backstage Months 6. Choreographing Mini-Manhattan: Visitors Experience the Market 7. The Fragmented Year-Round Design Cluster Part III. The Fight to Reclaim Downtown 8. Poking the Golden Goose: A Brief History of Local Protest 9. The City Project and the Pursuit of a Living Room 10. High Pointers Plan a Downtown for Themselves Conclusion: Integrating Frontstage and Backstage Acknowledgments Appendix: The People in Showroom City Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review "John Joe Schlichtman’s Showroom City: Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World is a fun book with a weird case...Can a place be gentrified if there are no gentrifiers present? Can a place be economically dynamic but socially ossified? Crummy fast food chains with cracked asphalt parking lots are not supposed to abut architecturally ambitious glass and steel office and exhibition buildings. And yet this is how life in High Point goes—its weirdness is on full display."—Max Besbris, Contemporary Sociology "The claim to fame may be esoteric, but the story is, in a way, a timeless one."—Bloomberg CityLab “A fresh understanding of how cities operate and, more importantly, how that can change."—Harvey Molotch, New York University (from the Foreword) "What the Market has done to downtown High Point is extraordinary….."—Roger Goldman, Mountain Money "The book was fascinating to read. The reviewer's copy is now full of underlining, exclamation points, circled phrases, and side notes.…The in-depth study of High Point, NC, makes the reader consider how communities are shaped, grow and evolve, and how a community chooses to relate to the outside world, both locally and at large."—Kathleen Parrott, Family Consumer Sciences Research Journal "Undoing the decades of racial, cultural and economic decisions that led to the current state of affairs in High Point will not be easy. But learning how it got to where it is now is the book’s value to anyone who makes their living buying, selling and creating furniture—or even sending it to the landfill."—Warren Shoulberg, Business of Home Magazine "High Point defies most urban assumptions, classifications, and labels. Throughout his book, John Joe Schlichtman intersperses insights from his many interviews…with insights from the scholarly literature."—Katrin B. Anacker, Journal of Urban Affairs "Part local history, part personal journal, part urban planning analysis and critique, Showroom City for the most part is easy reading, filled with voices of High Point residents. It is a story with only a handful of identified good guys—both men and women—and many everyday people who see the downtown as in the grips of largely impersonal, international forces they don’t understand."—High Point Enterprise "Showroom City is an engaging and important analysis of how a small city like High Point, North Carolina, became an urban node of globalization with architectural gravitas and specialized flows of commerce, mediated by regional and racial complexities. Two competing global neoliberal logics of design shape High Point's transformation by generating new landscapes of power and conflict that bring nuance to our understanding of the ‘spaces of flows/spaces of places’ framework."—Saskia Sassen, Columbia University "John Joe Schlichtman immersed himself in High Point, talking to market officials, vendors and other market stakeholders as well as High Pointers and city officials. His book, Showroom City, begins in the early 1960s and examines what High Point was, what it is and what it could be."—Thomas Lester, Furniture Today Table of ContentsContents Foreword: Learning from the Outlier Harvey Molotch Introduction: An Empty and Impeccable Downtown 1. The Common Threads in High Point’s Uncommon Fabric Part I. Out of the Mills: A Small City Goes Global 2. Hollowing Out: The “All-American" Downtown Goes Temp 3. The Golden Goose: High Point Becomes the World’s Market Center 4. The Cruise Ship and the Forbidden City: Aesthetic Flair and Private Equity Come to Town Part II. Temp Town: Spaces and Seasons of the Furniture Capital of the World 5. Hibernation: The Downtown Landscape During Backstage Months 6. Choreographing Mini-Manhattan: Visitors Experience the Market 7. The Fragmented Year-Round Design Cluster Part III. The Fight to Reclaim Downtown 8. Poking the Golden Goose: A Brief History of Local Protest 9. The City Project and the Pursuit of a Living Room 10. High Pointers Plan a Downtown for Themselves Conclusion: Integrating Frontstage and Backstage Acknowledgments Appendix: The People in Showroom City Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA study revealing the variety of factors involved in the coalescing and dispersal of populations in pre-industrial times. It employs a subset of preindustrial cities on many continents to answer questions archaeologists grapple with, concerning the populating and growth of cities before industrialization.

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