Urban communities / city life Books
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Learning the City
Book SynopsisLearning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politics, arguing both for the centrality of learning for political strategies and developing a progressive international urbanism. Presents a distinct approach to conceptualising the city through the lens of urban learning Integrates fieldwork conducted in Mumbai''s informal settlements with debates on urban policy, political economy, and development Considers how knowledge and learning are conceived and created in cities Addresses the way knowledge travels and opportunities for learning about urbanism between North and South Trade Review“Readers who have ever puzzled over the movement of particular discourses or knowledge systems from one urban context to another, or between otherwise disparate groups, will find in this volume an exhaustive and compelling effort to theorize the development, movement, and effects of learning … Its revelatory power is arguably profound: for McFarlane, it promises nothing short of understanding the power to forge a different kind of city. In the 21st century city, the material and analytical stakes of learning could not be higher.” (Antipode, 1 September 2013) “This book is a significant step in bringing learning to the core of urban study … This volume’s detailed fieldwork effectively supports its desire to see learning occupy a central place in the production of more socially just urbanisms.” (Area, 1 May 2013) “Learning the City is a critical academic contribution useful for scholars of the field ... It is sure to become indispensable for academics of the discipline.” (Geography Helvitica, 1 December 2012) "Through Learning the City McFarlane has made a major contribution to our understandings of the urban. In its commitment to the diverse and lively practices through which the city is learned and known, in its engagement with the diverse forms of agency and political practices through which agency is assembled and re-assembled the book enlivens understandings of spatial politics. It is also a text that is animated by a powerful sense of hope that cities might come to bere-assembled in different ways that are more equitable and more open to different agentic forces and contributions." (Society and Space, 1 November 2012) "In Learning the City, McFarlane successfully manages to open the black box of urban learning in widening the perspective to acknowledge diverse urban learning practices, which may even bear a transformative potential in certain contexts." (International Planning Studies, 23 October 2012) "Learning the City is an important and theoretically sophisticated piece of work. It is like a good movie: you need to re-view it in your mind several times to position yourself ... McFarlane’s innovative theory of urban learning is very helpful to an understanding of contemporary urbanism and of how it can be changed for the better. Its great merit is to make us see cities as complex learning assemblages and milieus." (Urban Geography, 34.1) “A wonderfully insightful book that rewards careful attention and deserves a wide readership ... A powerful framework for re-thinking issues of poverty, urban informality and development in the Global South.” (Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 34 (2013)) “A rich and perceptive account of how we dwell in and learn about cities and what it takes to live an urban life … McFarlane’s book forces us to review the conceptual tools we have in the planning field for “getting to know” what cities are like and how urban life is experienced.” (Patsy Healey, Planning Theory & Practice, 14:2) “Urbanism, McFarlane believes, needs a theory of learning; throughout his book he builds a very sophisticated one…[he] brings us closer to the material stuff of urban life and politics…a kind of urbanism in motion, whereby what we come to term ‘knowledge’, ‘infrastructure’ and ‘resources’ are never simply ‘there’, but must be translated, distributed, coordinated, perceived and inhabited”. (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 38.1, January 2014).Table of ContentsSeries Editors' Preface ix Acknowledgements x Introduction 1 1 Learning Assemblages 15 Introduction 15 Translation: Distribution, Practice and Comparison 17 Coordinating Learning 19 Dwelling and Perception 21 Assemblage Space 23 Conclusion 30 2 Assembling the Everyday: Incremental Urbanism and Tactical Learning 32 Introduction 32 Incremental Urbanism 33 Learning the Unknown City: Street Children in Mumbai 43 Learning, Rhythm, Space 47 Tactical Learning 54 Conclusion 59 3 Learning Social Movements: Tactics, Urbanism and Politics 62 Introduction 62 Knowing Social Movements 63 Global Slumming 66 The Housing Assemblage: Materializing Learning 69 Learning and Representation: Counting the Poor 74 Entrepreneurial Learning 85 Conclusion 90 4 Urban Learning Forums 92 Introduction 92 Uncertain Forums 93 Dialogic Urban Forums 98 Translocalism and Translation 105 Conclusion 113 5 Travelling Policies, Ideological Assemblages 115 Introduction 115 Translating Policy 117 Comparative Learning: Translation and Colonial Urbanism 122 Ideology and Postwar Urban Planning 128 Neoliberal Urban Learning Assemblages 134 Ideology and Explanation: Beyond Diffusionist Story-Making 145 Conclusion 151 6 A Critical Geography of Urban Learning 153 Introduction 153 The Actual and the Possible 155 Agency and Critical Learning 160 Assemblage and the Critical Learning Imaginary 164 Postcolonial Urban Learning? 167 Conclusion 172 Conclusion 174 References 185 Index 205
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Making Competitive Cities
Book SynopsisThe book investigates the impact on the competitiveness of cities developing creative industries (arts, media, entertainment, creative business services, architects, publishers, designers) and knowledge-intensive industries (ICT, R&D, finance, law).Trade Review"Making Competitive Cities is therefore a stimulating read, persuasive and provocative in its lines of argument, and presenting an important challenge to urban political praxis the world over." (Journal of Economic Geography, 19 August 2011) "The strength of Making Competitive Cities is its highly structured, data-driven research on thirteen diverse and widely scattered cities, which facilitates comparative study and the construction of useful generalizations. The informative individual chapters follow parallel structures and are all well prepared." (Association of American Geographers, 14 March 2011) "This collection of essays utilizes comparative case studies to illustrate the challenges cities face from a shifting global economy and the very different ways cities can change. The essays offer insights into the theoretical and practical understanding of the environments required to develop competitive "creative knowledge" cities, cities that are successful, exciting, and enjoyable places to live." (Book News Inc, November 2010) Table of ContentsForeword by Professor Susan Fainstein, Harvard University Preface Contributors PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Making Competitive Cities: Debates and Challenges Sako Musterd and Alan Murie Debates and challenges Sectors Questions and theories Regions and sources Pathways, actors and policies References 2 The Idea of the Creative or Knowledge-Based City Sako Musterd and Alan Murie Essential conditions for competitive cities ‘Hard’ conditions theory Cluster theory Personal networks ‘Soft’ conditions theory Three parts References PART II PATHWAYS 3 Pathways in Europe Denis Eckert, Alan Murie and Sako Musterd Path dependency Initial expectations and comparisons The chapters to come References 4 Stable Trajectories Towards the Creative Knowledge City? Amsterdam, Munich and Milan Anne von Streit, Marco Bontje and Elena dell’Agnese Introduction The economic base and the creative knowledge economy Development path: roots and current conditions of the creative knowledge economy Development paths: a synthesis and conclusion References 5 Reinventing the City: Barcelona, Birmingham and Dublin Veronica Crossa, Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway and Austin Barber Introduction Historical context The trajectory of industrial development The state and policy intervention The challenge of soft factors Conclusions References 6 Institutional Change and New Development Paths: Budapest, Leipzig, Poznan, Riga and Sofia Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz, Joachim Burdack and Tamás Egedy Introduction Socio-economic characteristics of the study areas Development pathways shaping the city profiles and the role of the systemic change Determinants of development of the creative knowledge sector Conclusions Acknowledgements References 7 Changing Specialisations and Single Sector Dominance: Helsinki and Toulouse Hélène Martin-Brelot and Kaisa Kepsu Introduction Setting the context – Helsinki and Toulouse Pathways to knowledge-driven economies Knowledge driving economic development: sciences, industries and policies Future challenges Conclusion and discussion References PART III ACTORS 8 What Works for Managers and Highly Educated Workers in Creative Knowledge Industries? Sako Musterd and Alan Murie Introduction Three groups of actors and a range of conditions The following chapters References 9 Managers and Entrepreneurs in Creative and Knowledge- Intensive Industries: What Determines Their Location? Toulouse, Helsinki, Budapest, Riga and Sofia Evgenii Dainov and Arnis Sauka Introduction: places matter Cities and the creative class: major conceptual challenges Characteristics of the cities: a brief overview Location decisions: ‘individual trajectory’ considerations and ‘hard’ factors Location decisions: the role of ‘soft’ factors In-city location decisions Capital city versus provincial city location decisions Policymaking: ‘soft’, ‘hard’ or ‘other’? Conclusions and implications Acknowledgement References 10 Transnational Migrants in the Creative Knowledge Industries: Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dublin and Munich Heike Pethe, Sabine Hafner and Philip Lawton Introduction Conceptualising transnational migrants and the creative class Places and potentials The attractiveness of European metropolitan regions Conclusion Acknowledgments References 11 Attracting Young and High-Skilled Workers: Amsterdam, Milan and Barcelona Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway, Marco Bontje and Marianne d’Ovidio Introduction Competing for young, highly skilled workers Young and highly-skilled workers in European cities The Amsterdam, Barcelona and Milan city-regions Conclusions References 12 Working on the Edge? Creative Jobs in Birmingham, Leipzig and Poznan Julie Brown, Robert Nadler and Michal Meczynski Introduction: creative work – precariousness, uncertainty and risk? Methodology Insecure, casualised or long-term, sustainable employment? Discussion Conclusions References PART IV POLICIES 13 What Policies Should Cities Adopt? Alan Murie and Sako Musterd Introduction What should cities do? European cities Which policy agendas? Networking policy The following chapters References 14 Strategic Economic Policy: Milan, Dublin and Toulouse Silvia Mugnano, Enda Murphy and Hélène Martin-Brelot Introduction Distinctive policy traditions Existing strengths in creative knowledge policy New strategic economic policy approaches Key actors in entrepreneurial cities Addressing barriers and obstacles Conclusion and new challenges References 15 Beyond Cluster Policy? Birmingham, Poznan and Helsinki Caroline Chapain, Krzysztof Stachowiak and Mari Vaattovaarra Introduction The cluster policy paradigm The state of the creative and knowledge economy Supporting the creative and knowledge economy: three approaches Conclusions Acknowledgments References 16 Policies for Firms or Policies for Individuals? Amsterdam, Munich and Budapest Zoltán Kovács, Heike Pethe and Manfred Miosga Introduction Do policies help in competition? – a theoretical framework Economic development and political conditions The creative and knowledge sector and policies enhancing its development Conclusions References 17 New Governance, New Geographic Scales, New Institutional Settings Bastian Lange, Marc Pradel i Miquel and Vassil Garnizov Introduction Conceptual prerequisites: understanding governance in creative and knowledge industries New governance dimensions Professionalisation – self-regulation and self-governance of new professions Towards new geographical scales? Governance approaches in Barcelona, Leipzig and Sofia Knowledge-intensive industries in regard to governance perspectives Conclusions Acknowledgements References PART V SYNTHESIS 18 Synthesis: Re-making the Competitive City Sako Musterd and Alan Murie Introduction A city is not a T-shirt Multi-layered cities: the importance of pathways Personal actor networks: key conditions New governance approaches Conclusion References Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Place Exclusion and Mortgage Markets
Book SynopsisUtilizing research from the U.S., Italy, and the Netherlands, Place, Exclusion and Mortgage Markets presents an in depth examination of the practice of redlining and the broader implications of contemporary urban exclusion processes. Covers exclusion in mortgage markets in three different countries - the U.S., Italy, and the Netherlands Presents an interdisciplinary perspective to the practice of redlining Connects the literature on social exclusion and financial exclusion Trade Review“Together, these strengths make Place, Exclusion, and Mortgage Markets an excellent resource for those interested in how housing finance markets contribute to social and spatial exclusion.” (City & Community, 1 June 2013) “Place, Exclusion, and Mortgage Markets significantly advances our understanding of the history and current reality of redlining and its exclusionary processes and consequences. Its comparative analysis is a welcome addition to the literature on financial services. Hopefully, it will lead to more equitable approaches to the development of the world’s metropolitan regions.” (International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2012) “Nevertheless, the book provides a valuable account of the literature and makes interesting reading about market behaviour. It will be useful for those interested in the influence of actors on access to homeownership and the development of urban neighbourhoods.” (Housing Studies, 2 August 2012) “This is a timely and forceful book which seeks to bring together aspects of the financial boom and bust and processes of redlining and exclusion in urban housing markets in a number of countries, namely the USA, Italy and the Netherlands.” (International Journal of Housing Policy, 28 May 2012) “By covering the full field of redlining—from abstract socio-spatial theories to concrete cases and a human angle—this books offers an ideal introduction to the topic. At the same time, it considerably expands the state of knowledge on financial exclusion.” (Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2012) "The book's key strength is the actor centred focus on markets that reveals the processes by which markets and places are made in ways that would not be explained by classical models of market behaviour. The detailed descriptions of Rotterdam in particular are of great interest, including a photo essay on Tarwewijk, a neighbourhood of Rotterdam, where the decline was said to have been accelerated by redlining in the 1990s. Furthermore, the history and development of redlining, particular in the US, is also of great use to students and scholars alike." (Housing Studies, 2012) "An important book that fills the empirical and theoretical gaps in the literature on the sociology and geography of mortgage markets. The book is a fantastic, empirically rich and theoretically innovative exploration of the historical trajectory of urban disinvestment (redlining) and social exclusion that compares the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands." (Financial Technology, 15 November 2011)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vi Series Editors' Preface ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I The Exclusion, Urban, and Market Lenses 11 1 Social and Financial Exclusion 13 2 A Socio-Spatial Approach 35 3 Markets, Institutions, Risk, Credit Scoring 53 Part II Redlining Research in the United States, Italy, and the Netherlands 77 4 The United States: One Century of Redlining 79 5 Italy: Capital Switching in Milan 103 6 The Netherlands: Colored Maps 124 Photo Essay The Tarwewijk, Rotterdam 166 Part III Conclusions 179 7 The Globalization of Redlining? 181 References 199 Index 222
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Johns Hopkins University Press The TwentiethCentury American City
Book SynopsisTouching on aging central cities, technoburbs, and the ongoing conflict between inner-city poverty and urban boosterism, The Twentieth-Century American City offers a broad, accessible overview of America's persistent struggle for a better city.Table of ContentsPreface1. Problem, Promise, and Reality2. The Century Begins, 1900–1919The DowntownThe NeighborhoodsRighting the Urban Wrongs3. Promises ThwartedThe Failure of Moral ReformThe Failure of Political ReformThe Imperfect MosaicAutomobiles and the Promise of Suburbia4. An Interlude in Urban Development, 1930–1945The DepressionThe Federal ResponseThe Wartime City5. Suburbia Triumphant, 1945–1964Suburban BoomCentral-City BustReviving the Central City6. An Age of "Urban Crisis," 1964–1979Rebellion and CrimeWashington's Response to Urban CrisisThe Fiscal CrisisThe New Ethnic Politics7. Toward a New Metropolis, 1980 and BeyondRenaissance or BustThe New Ethnic MosaicThe Post-suburban Metropolis8. The Turn-of-the-Century CityRevival amid the RuinsStopping SprawlBibliographical EssayIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press On Middle Ground
Book SynopsisA model of Jewish community history that will enlighten anyone interested in Baltimore and its past. Winner of the Southern Jewish Historical Society Book Prize by the Southern Jewish Historical Society; Finalist of the American Jewish Studies Book Award by the Jewish Book Council National Jewish Book AwardsIn 1938, Gustav Brunn and his family fled Nazi Germany and settled in Baltimore. Brunn found a job at McCormick's Spice Company but was fired after three days when, according to family legend, the manager discovered he was Jewish. He started his own successful business using a spice mill he brought over from Germany and developed a blend especially for the seafood purveyors across the street. Before long, his Old Bay spice blend would grace kitchen cabinets in virtually every home in Maryland. The Brunns sold the business in 1986. Four years later, Old Bay was again soldto McCormick. In On Middle Ground, the first truly comprehensive history of Baltimore's Jewish community, Eric LTrade ReviewOn Middle Ground provides a holistic approach to chronicling Baltimore's Jewish community. Drawing upon rich sources spanning over 250 years—including manuscript collections, oral histories, and newspaper accounts—this history is told in concert with the history of Baltimore's Jewish institutions, and its diverse ethnic community bringing them to life in a way that is unique to Baltimore. On Middle Ground is a foundational work that uses Baltimore as a historical case study to analyze some of the influential culminations of American Jewish life.—Charles L. Chavis Jr., The American Jewish Archives JournalEric L. Goldstein and Deborah R. Weiner trace the history of the Jews of the city of Baltimore from colonial times through the present, providing one of the few comprehensive histories of an American Jewish community outside of New York City. In addition to telling the story of the American Jewish experience at a local level, the authors ask how a variety of different factors—particularly geography, class conflict, and racial dynamics—have shaped the contours of American ethnic identity.—Lawrence Charap, Journal of American History[On Middle Ground] offers an outstanding model of deeply researched local ethnic history.—Joshua Furman, Rice University, Journal of Southern HistoryAs award-winning historians sponsored by the Jewish Museum of Maryland, Goldstein and Weiner write as both insiders and outsiders. Community members will see names and institutions acknowledged, and scholars will find informed argument. Anecdotes enliven the social history . . . Goldstein and Weiner argue for Baltimore's place as a "city and mother in Israel" among the foundational communities of American Jewry. In so doing they ask us to rethink our assumptions. Engagingly written, cogently argued, this book, like Baltimore itself, deserves a place among the exceptional Jewish histories of Boston, Cincinnati, and New York.—Leonard Rogoff, Jewish Heritage Foundation of North Carolina, American Jewish HistoryOn Middle Ground: A History of the Jews of Baltimore offers a prodigiously researched and highly nuanced history of Baltimore Jewry. Readers unfamiliar with the contours of American Jewish history will find myriad connections to topics important in African American, ethnic, labor, political, and urban history.—Mark Greenberg, Western Washington University, Journal of Southern ReligionThe history of Baltimore Jews, as Goldstein and Weiner so deftly show, often proves to be exceptional, challenging accepted narratives of American Jewish history. On Middle Ground persuasively demonstrates the value of a Jewish urban history that draws heavily on urban social, economic, and political studies of the past several decades.—Deborah Dash Moore, University of Michigan, Southern Jewish HistoryGoldstein and Weiner detail every aspect of Jewish life, including day-to-day economic obstacles and opportunities, long-term political struggles, religious observance, and efforts to build communal and social institutions. In all of these spheres, Goldstein and Weiner highlight the influence of a succession of Jewish immigrants, from a variety of locales, with diverse religious and cultural practices . . . On Middle Ground provides a comprehensive biography of the city itself and all of its ethnic and religious communities.—Toni Pitock, University of Delaware, Reviews in HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsixIntroduction1One. Baltimore's First Jews17Two. A "City and Mother in Israel"53Three. The Great Wave Hits Baltimore104Four. Bawlmer Jews: The Interwar Years179Five. From Baltimore to Pikesville244Epilogue. The Challenges of a New Century301Notes 321Index 369
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Johns Hopkins University Press Taxi
Book SynopsisWhy the cabdriver is the real victim of the false promises of Uber and the gig economy. 2007 Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics, Princeton University Industrial Relations SectionHailed in its first edition as a classic study of New York City's history and people, Graham Russell Gao Hodges's Taxi! is a remarkable evocation of the forgotten history of the taxi driver. This deftly woven narrative captures the spirit of New York City cabdrivers and their hardscrabble struggle to capture a piece of the American dream. From labor unrest and racial strife to ruthless competition and political machinations, Hodges recounts this history through contemporary news accounts, Hollywood films, and the words of the cabbies themselves. A new preface recalls the author's five years of hacking in New York City in the early 1970s, and a new concluding chapter explores the rise of app-based ridesharing services with the arrival of companies like Uber and Lyft. Sharply criticizinTable of ContentsPreface to the Revised EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Creation of the Taxi Man, 1907-19202. Hack Men in the Jazz Age, 1920-19303. The Search for Order during the Depression, 1930-19404. Prosperity during Wartime, 1940-19505. The Creation of the Classic Cabby, 1950-19806. Unionization and Its Discontents, 1960-19807. The Lease Driver and Proletarian, 1980-20068. The Ridesharing Era, 2010-2019Appendix. Data TablesNotesEssay on SourcesIndex Illustrations follow page XXX
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Temple University Press,U.S. Beyond Preservation
Book SynopsisA framework for stabilizing and strengthening inner-city neighbourhoods through the public interpretation of historic landscapesTrade Review"[Hurley] seeks to demonstrate how, through the strategic use of public history, historic preservation might become a more effective instrument for inner-city neighborhood revitalization... Beyond Preservation [is] valuable because it provides lessons for those who are considering embarking on public history projects in the inner city, explaining just how frustrating they can become. This kind of community service is hard work. But there are overriding benefits to participating in a city's evolution and writing about it." - Journal of Urban AffairsTable of ContentsPreface 1. Preservation in the Inner City 2. Taking It to the Streets: Public History in the City 3. An Experiment in North St. Louis 4. History that Matters: Integrating Research and Neighborhood Planning 5. Making a Place for Nature: Preserving Urban Environments 6. Scholars in the Asphalt Jungle: The Dilemmas of Sharing Authority in Urban University- Community Partnerships 7. Conclusion: An Agenda for Urban Preservation Notes Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. How Racism Takes Place
Book SynopsisHow racism shapes urban spaces and how African Americans create vibrant communities that offer models for more equitable social arrangementsTrade Review"George Lipsitz's new book, How Racism Takes Place, has a great deal to teach Americans-especially white Americans-about the devastating effects of contemporary racism. Lipsitz utilizes the best research and brilliant arguments to demonstrate how racism continues to fester in racially segregated neighborhoods, workforces, suburbs, schools and country clubs. He demonstrates convincingly that contemporary racism did not emerge accidently but by historical and contemporary designs of white Americans whether they know it or not. How Racism Takes Place is a must read, for it challenges us to grapple with our racial demons and, in the process, become a people truly representing the democratic claims we broadcast throughout the globe." -Aldon Morris, Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University "How Racism Takes Place is a brilliant, timely, and much needed book about racial segregation-how it is produced and reproduced, how white privilege and the subjugation of people of color have a clear spatial dimension, and how the racialization of space and the spatialization of race shape, and are manifestations of, the political and cultural economy of the United States. Beyond unveiling the mechanics of structural racism, Lipsitz also draws out what he calls a 'Black spatial imaginary,' the site of expressive culture where aggrieved and displaced peoples have waged a struggle to resist and survive policies of racial segregation and conceived a different future." -Robin D. G. Kelley, Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern CaliforniaTable of ContentsIntroduction. "Race, Place, and Power" 1. The White Spatial Imaginary 36-76 2. The Black Spatial Imaginary 77-107 3. Space, Sports, and Spectatorship in St. Louis 108-144 4. The Crime The Wire Couldn't Name. Social Decay and Cynical Detachment in Baltimore 145-175 5. Horace Tapscott and the World Stage in Los Angeles 195- 225 6. John Biggers and Project Row Houses in Houston" 226-255 7. "Betye Saar's Los Angeles and Paule Marshall's Brooklyn" 256-293 8. "Something Left to Love. Lorraine Hansberry's Chicago" 294-324 9. New Orleans Today. We Know This Place 325-370 10. A Place Where Everybody Is Somebody 371-399 Acknowledgments Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Sport and Neoliberalism
Book SynopsisHow neoliberal politics appropriates sports for its own endsTrade Review"Sport and Neoliberalism is a sophisticated collection of well-reasoned essays that collectively provide a landmark statement on neoliberalism as a dominant political, social, and economic organizing mechanism. The multidisciplinary nature and range of topics covered are impressive, as is the way that the editors have thematically organized the contributions. Scholars who are interested in any aspect of the political and economic governance of sport will find Sport and Neoliberalism a 'must read,' as will policy makers keen to understand more about the potential consequences of strategies of economic maximization and social control." - John Amis, Department of Management, University of Memphis "[A]n extensive collection of essays that provide a look at sport from political, social, and economic points of view (with a neoliberal slant)... [T]his book attempts to redefine how sport is viewed, discussed, and understood. It will be particularly useful to those interested in the intersection of politics, economics, and sport. Summing Up: Recommended." Choice, January 2013 "For those interested in a critical analysis of sport, this collection has merit. Many of the articles are well written and carefully analyze the intricate relationship between neoliberalism and sport." - Contemporary Sociology, May 2014Table of Contents1 Sport and the Neoliberal Conjuncture: Complicating the Consensus • Michael L. Silk • David L. AndrewsPart I Structures, Formations, and Mechanics of Neoliberalism2 A Distorted Playing Field: Neoliberalism and Sport through the lens of Economic Citizenship • Toby Miller3 Advanced Liberal Government, Sport Policy, and “Building the Active Citizen” • Mick Green4 Race, Class, and Politics in Post-Katrina America • Michael D. Giardina • C. L. Cole5 Nike U: Full-Program Athletics Contracts and the Corporate University • Samantha King6 Growth and Nature: Reflections on Sport, Carbon Neutrality, and Ecological Modernization • Brian Wilson7 The Uncanny of Olympic Time: Michael Phelps and the End of Neoliberalism • Grant FarredPart II Government, Governance, and the Cultural Geographies of Neoliberalism8 The Governance of the Neoliberal Sporting City • Michael L. Silk • David L. Andrews9 Governing Play: Moral Geographies, Healthification, and Neoliberal Urban Imaginaries • Caroline Fusco10 Neoliberal Redevelopment, Sport Infrastructure, and the Militarization of U.S. Urban Terrain • Kimberly S. Schimmel11 Economies of Surf: Evolution, Territorialism, and the Erosion of Localism • Leslie Heywood • Mark Montgomery12 Free Running: Post-Sport Liminality in a Neoliberal World • Michael AtkinsonPart III Consuming Pleasure: Citizenship, Subjectivities, and “Popular” Sporting Pedagogies13 Out-of-Bounds Plays: The Women’s National Basketball Association and the Neoliberal Imaginings of Sexuality • Mary G. McDonald14 Pedagogies of Fat: The Social Currency of Slenderness • Jessica M. Francombe • Michael L. Silk15 Technologies of the South: Sport, Subjectivity, and “Swinging” Capital • Joshua I. Newman16 Hijacking Canadian Identity: Stephen Harper, Hockey, and the Terror of Neoliberalism • Jay Scherer • Lisa McDermott17 Global Smackdown: Vince McMahon, World Wrestling Entertainment, and Neoliberalism • Ted ButrynAfterword: Sport and Neoliberalism • Norman K. DenzinContributorsIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Sport and Neoliberalism
Book SynopsisHow neoliberal politics appropriates sports for its own endsTrade Review"Sport and Neoliberalism is a sophisticated collection of well-reasoned essays that collectively provide a landmark statement on neoliberalism as a dominant political, social, and economic organizing mechanism. The multidisciplinary nature and range of topics covered are impressive, as is the way that the editors have thematically organized the contributions. Scholars who are interested in any aspect of the political and economic governance of sport will find Sport and Neoliberalism a 'must read,' as will policy makers keen to understand more about the potential consequences of strategies of economic maximization and social control." - John Amis, Department of Management, University of Memphis "[A]n extensive collection of essays that provide a look at sport from political, social, and economic points of view (with a neoliberal slant)... [T]his book attempts to redefine how sport is viewed, discussed, and understood. It will be particularly useful to those interested in the intersection of politics, economics, and sport. Summing Up: Recommended." Choice, January 2013Table of Contents1 Sport and the Neoliberal Conjuncture: Complicating the Consensus • Michael L. Silk • David L. AndrewsPart I Structures, Formations, and Mechanics of Neoliberalism2 A Distorted Playing Field: Neoliberalism and Sport through the lens of Economic Citizenship • Toby Miller3 Advanced Liberal Government, Sport Policy, and “Building the Active Citizen” • Mick Green4 Race, Class, and Politics in Post-Katrina America • Michael D. Giardina • C. L. Cole5 Nike U: Full-Program Athletics Contracts and the Corporate University • Samantha King6 Growth and Nature: Reflections on Sport, Carbon Neutrality, and Ecological Modernization • Brian Wilson7 The Uncanny of Olympic Time: Michael Phelps and the End of Neoliberalism • Grant FarredPart II Government, Governance, and the Cultural Geographies of Neoliberalism8 The Governance of the Neoliberal Sporting City • Michael L. Silk • David L. Andrews9 Governing Play: Moral Geographies, Healthification, and Neoliberal Urban Imaginaries • Caroline Fusco10 Neoliberal Redevelopment, Sport Infrastructure, and the Militarization of U.S. Urban Terrain • Kimberly S. Schimmel11 Economies of Surf: Evolution, Territorialism, and the Erosion of Localism • Leslie Heywood • Mark Montgomery12 Free Running: Post-Sport Liminality in a Neoliberal World • Michael AtkinsonPart III Consuming Pleasure: Citizenship, Subjectivities, and “Popular” Sporting Pedagogies13 Out-of-Bounds Plays: The Women’s National Basketball Association and the Neoliberal Imaginings of Sexuality • Mary G. McDonald14 Pedagogies of Fat: The Social Currency of Slenderness • Jessica M. Francombe • Michael L. Silk15 Technologies of the South: Sport, Subjectivity, and “Swinging” Capital • Joshua I. Newman16 Hijacking Canadian Identity: Stephen Harper, Hockey, and the Terror of Neoliberalism • Jay Scherer • Lisa McDermott17 Global Smackdown: Vince McMahon, World Wrestling Entertainment, and Neoliberalism • Ted ButrynAfterword: Sport and Neoliberalism • Norman K. DenzinContributorsIndex
£27.90
Temple University Press,U.S. Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin
Book SynopsisAn international account of homelessness, comparing Berlin and Los Angeles and the possibility of exiting homelessness in each cityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Commonly Used Abbreviations 1 Different Welfare Regimes, Similar Outcomes? The Impact of Public Policy on Homeless People's Exit Chances in Berlin and Los Angeles 2 Homeless Spaces, Homeless Lives: Using Ethnography to Assess Homeless People's Life Courses and Exit Chances in Berlin 3 Not Allowed: Legal Exclusion, Human Rights, and Global Capital 4 Not Wanted: Containment, Warehousing, and Service Exclusion 5 Not Needed: Market Exclusion, Exit Strategies, and the Specter of Neoliberalism 6 Sociospatial Exclusion of Homeless People: Comparative Perspective Postscript Appendix 1: Biographical Sketches of Respondents in Berlin Appendix 2: Key Informants Notes References Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin
Book SynopsisLos Angeles, California, and Berlin, Germany, have been dubbed homeless capitals for having the largest homeless populations of their respective countries. In Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin, Jurgen von Mahs provides an illuminating comparative analysis of the impact of social welfare policy on homelessness in these cities. He addresses the opportunity of people to overcome-or exit-homelessness and shows why Berlin, despite its considerable social and economic investment for assisting its homeless, has been almost as unsuccessful as Los Angeles. Drawing on fascinating ethnographic insights, von Mahs shows how homeless people in both cities face sociospatial exclusion-legal displacement for criminal activities, poor shelters in impoverished neighborhoods, as well as market barriers that restrict reintegration. Providing a necessary wake-up call, Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin addresses the critical public policy issues that can produce effective services to improve homeleTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Commonly Used Abbreviations 1 Different Welfare Regimes, Similar Outcomes? The Impact of Public Policy on Homeless People's Exit Chances in Berlin and Los Angeles 2 Homeless Spaces, Homeless Lives: Using Ethnography to Assess Homeless People's Life Courses and Exit Chances in Berlin 3 Not Allowed: Legal Exclusion, Human Rights, and Global Capital 4 Not Wanted: Containment, Warehousing, and Service Exclusion 5 Not Needed: Market Exclusion, Exit Strategies, and the Specter of Neoliberalism 6 Sociospatial Exclusion of Homeless People: Comparative Perspective Postscript Appendix 1: Biographical Sketches of Respondents in Berlin Appendix 2: Key Informants Notes References Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood
Book Synopsis Based on more than a decade of research, Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood charts the evolution of Sunset Park--with a densely concentrated working-poor and racially diverse immigrant population--from the late 1960s to its current status as one of New York City''s most vibrant neighborhoods. Tarry Hum shows how processes of globalization, such as shifts in low-wage labor markets and immigration patterns, shaped the neighborhood. She explains why Sunset Park''s future now depends on Asian and Latino immigrant collaborations in advancing common interests in community building, civic engagement, entrepreneurialism, and sustainability planning. She shows, too, how residents'' responses to urban development policies and projects and the capital represented by local institutions and banks foster community activism. Hum pays close attention to the complex social, political, and spatial dynamics that forge a community and create new models of leadership as Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Immigrant Places: Toward a Theory of Global Neighborhoods 2 Making Sunset Park: Settlement, Decline, and Transformation 3 The Working Poverty of Neighborhood Revitalization: Industrial Sweatshops and Street Vendors 4 Immigrant Growth Coalitions and Neighborhood Change: The Role of Ethnic Banks 5 Gentrifying Sunset Park: Community Boards, City Planning, and a Migrant Civil Society 6 Power Plants, Sex Shops, Industrial Zones, and Open Space: The Politics of a Sustainable Working Waterfront Conclusion Notes References Index
£24.29
Temple University Press,U.S. The War on Slums in the Southwest
Book Synopsis In The War on Slums in the Southwest, Robert Fairbanks provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plights in Albuquerque, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and San Antonio. He provides brief histories of each city--all of which expanded dynamically between 1935 and 1965--and how they responded to slums under the Housing Acts of 1937, 1949, and 1954. Despite being a region where conservative politics has ruled, these Southwestern cities often handled population growth, urban planning, and economic development in ways that closely followed the national account of efforts to eliminate slums and provide public housing for the needy. The War on Slums in the Southwest therefore corrects some misconceptions about the role of slum clearance and public housing in this region as Fairbanks integrates urban policy into the larger understanding of federal and state-based housing policies. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Cities in the Southwest or Southwestern Cities? 2 The Public Housing Movement in the Southwest: Cities Battle the Slums before 1937 3 Southwestern Cities, Slum Clearance, and the First Permanent Public Housing Program 4 From World War II to the Housing Act of 1949: A Moratorium on Slum Clearance and Public Housing for Low-Income Citizens 5 The Solution Becomes a Problem: The Decline of the Public Housing Movement after the Housing Act of 1949 6 From Urban Redevelopment to Urban Renewal in the Southwest Epilogue: Our War on Poverty, Not Yours on Slums Appendix A: Social Scientists and the Changing Discourse on Slums and Poverty: A Brief Note Appendix B: Public Housing Built in San Antonio, Houston, Phoenix, and Dallas, 1935–1965 Appendix C: Occupation of Initial Tenants of Cuney Homes Public Housing in Houston Appendix D: Total Number of Public Housing Units Built by Selected Cities by 1967 Notes Index
£66.60
Temple University Press,U.S. The War on Slums in the Southwest
Book Synopsis In The War on Slums in the Southwest, Robert Fairbanks provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plights in Albuquerque, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix and San Antonio. He provides brief histories of each city--all of which expanded dynamically between 1935 and 1965--and how they responded to slums under the Housing Acts of 1937, 1949, and 1954. Despite being a region where conservative politics has ruled, these Southwestern cities often handled population growth, urban planning, and economic development in ways that closely followed the national account of efforts to eliminate slums and provide public housing for the needy. The War on Slums in the Southwest therefore corrects some misconceptions about the role of slum clearance and public housing in this region as Fairbanks integrates urban policy into the larger understanding of federal and state-based housing policies. Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Cities in the Southwest or Southwestern Cities? 2 The Public Housing Movement in the Southwest: Cities Battle the Slums before 1937 3 Southwestern Cities, Slum Clearance, and the First Permanent Public Housing Program 4 From World War II to the Housing Act of 1949: A Moratorium on Slum Clearance and Public Housing for Low-Income Citizens 5 The Solution Becomes a Problem: The Decline of the Public Housing Movement after the Housing Act of 1949 6 From Urban Redevelopment to Urban Renewal in the Southwest Epilogue: Our War on Poverty, Not Yours on Slums Appendix A: Social Scientists and the Changing Discourse on Slums and Poverty: A Brief Note Appendix B: Public Housing Built in San Antonio, Houston, Phoenix, and Dallas, 1935–1965 Appendix C: Occupation of Initial Tenants of Cuney Homes Public Housing in Houston Appendix D: Total Number of Public Housing Units Built by Selected Cities by 1967 Notes Index
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Vanishing Eden
Book Synopsis For many whites, desegregation initially felt like an attack on their community. But how has the process of racial change affected whites’ understanding of community and race? In Vanishing Eden, Michael Maly and Heather Dalmage provide an intriguing analysis of the experiences and memories of whites who lived in Chicago neighborhoods experiencing racial change during the 1950s through the 1980s. They pay particular attention to examining how young people made sense of what was occurring, and how this experience impacted their lives. Using a blend of urban studies and whiteness studies, the authors examine how racial solidarity and whiteness were created and maintained—often in subtle and unreflective ways. Vanishing Eden also considers how race is central to the ways social institutions such as housing, education, and employment function. Surveying the shifting social, economic, and racial contexts, the authors explore how race and class at local
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Unsettled
Book Synopsis After surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide, followed by years of confinement to international refugee camps, as many as 10,000 Southeast Asian refugees arrived in the Bronx during the 1980s and ‘90s. Unsettled chronicles the unfinished odyssey of Bronx Cambodians, closely following one woman and her family for several years as they survive yet resist their literal insertion into concentrated Bronx poverty. Eric Tang tells the harrowing and inspiring stories of these refugees to make sense of how and why the displaced migrants have been resettled in the “hyperghetto.” He argues that refuge is never found, that rescue discourses mask a more profound urban reality characterized by racialized geographic enclosure, economic displacement and unrelenting poverty, and the criminalization of daily life. Unsettled views the hyperghetto as a site of extreme isolation, punishment, and confinement. The refugees remain captives in late-capitaTrade Review “Scrupulous, courageous and fiercely argued, Unsettled is an ethnographic revelation. . . . Tang, a former organizer, brings to light the political ecology of a community that has survived war, genocide, and displacement and is now struggling to remake the Bronx hyperghetto, exposing in the process the ‘impossible’ condition that may be the fate of all refugee communities in the neoliberal city.” —Junot Díaz “Scholar-activist Eric Tang has written a brilliantly moving account of how politics, community dynamics, and family relationships shape life for Cambodian refugees who settled in the Bronx in the 1980s and 1990s. Unsettled is at once a stunning ethnography, a superb critical cultural studies project, and an outstanding example of engaged scholarship that will inspire new understandings about the movement of people and the creation of particular kinds of contested spaces. Tang’s riveting account of struggle, change, and resistance is a remarkable achievement.”—Beth Richie, Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law and Justice at University of Illinois at Chicago“Unsettled is a contribution to the emergent field of ‘critical refugee studies,’ and documents a story of Cambodian refugee itinerancy and survival. Not an account of a transition from refugee hardship to redemptive U.S. citizenship, it is rather a description of uprooting, captivity, poverty, displacement, and fugitivity—and the ever elusive project of ‘arrival.’”—Lisa Lowe, Professor of English and American Studies at Tufts University
£56.10
Temple University Press,U.S. Unsettled
Book Synopsis After surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide, followed by years of confinement to international refugee camps, as many as 10,000 Southeast Asian refugees arrived in the Bronx during the 1980s and ‘90s. Unsettled chronicles the unfinished odyssey of Bronx Cambodians, closely following one woman and her family for several years as they survive yet resist their literal insertion into concentrated Bronx poverty. Eric Tang tells the harrowing and inspiring stories of these refugees to make sense of how and why the displaced migrants have been resettled in the “hyperghetto.” He argues that refuge is never found, that rescue discourses mask a more profound urban reality characterized by racialized geographic enclosure, economic displacement and unrelenting poverty, and the criminalization of daily life. Unsettled views the hyperghetto as a site of extreme isolation, punishment, and confinement. The refugees remain captives in late-capitaTrade Review “Scrupulous, courageous and fiercely argued, Unsettled is an ethnographic revelation. . . . Tang, a former organizer, brings to light the political ecology of a community that has survived war, genocide, and displacement and is now struggling to remake the Bronx hyperghetto, exposing in the process the ‘impossible’ condition that may be the fate of all refugee communities in the neoliberal city.” —Junot Díaz “Scholar-activist Eric Tang has written a brilliantly moving account of how politics, community dynamics, and family relationships shape life for Cambodian refugees who settled in the Bronx in the 1980s and 1990s. Unsettled is at once a stunning ethnography, a superb critical cultural studies project, and an outstanding example of engaged scholarship that will inspire new understandings about the movement of people and the creation of particular kinds of contested spaces. Tang’s riveting account of struggle, change, and resistance is a remarkable achievement.”—Beth Richie, Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law and Justice at University of Illinois at Chicago“Unsettled is a contribution to the emergent field of ‘critical refugee studies,’ and documents a story of Cambodian refugee itinerancy and survival. Not an account of a transition from refugee hardship to redemptive U.S. citizenship, it is rather a description of uprooting, captivity, poverty, displacement, and fugitivity—and the ever elusive project of ‘arrival.’”—Lisa Lowe, Professor of English and American Studies at Tufts University
£18.99
Temple University Press,U.S. The Mutual Housing Experiment
Book SynopsisIn 1940, the U.S. Federal Works Agency created an experimental housing program for industrial workers. Eight model communities were leased and later sold to the residents, who formed a non-profit corporation called a mutual housing association. Further development of housing under the mutual housing plan was stymied by controversies around radical politics and race, and questions over whether the federal government should be involved in housing policy. In The Mutual Housing Experiment, Kristin Szylvian examines 32 mutual housing associations that are still in existence today, and offers strong evidence to show that federal public housing policy was not the failure that critics allege. She explains that mutual home ownership has not only proven its economic value, but has also given rise to communities characterized by a strong sense of identity and civic engagement. The book shows that this important period in urban and housing policy provides criticTrade Review"Szylvian treats readers to the fruits of her extensive research locating and piecing together the records of many government agencies and individuals...to tell the story of the mutual housing program during and immediately after WWII. The Federal Works Agency created the Mutual Plan, but the WWII housing crisis (the 1940s are an understudied era in housing policy) provided a critical opportunity for reformers committed to cooperative housing. Szylvian traces the origins of the Mutual Plan and then focuses on eight projects in five states.... Primarily, though, the author’s intent was to detail policy struggles and widespread lack of political support; mutual housing projects remained an 'experiment' rather than a stepping-stone to a new housing policy. The epilogue provides a look at a few of the communities today and includes statements from the residents themselves, emphasizing the connection between policy and people. Summing Up: Recommended." —CHOICE Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Acronyms and AbbreviationsIntroduction1 The New Deal Origins of Mutual Housing2 Mutual Housing: “Contingency-Proof” Home Ownership for Labor3 Mutually Compatible? Mutual Housing and Modern Architecture4 Mutual Housing Offers a “New Day in Housing”5 The Mutual Plan’s “Arrested” Development6 No Fair Deal for Mutual Housing7 Mutual Housing: “America’s New Housing Economy”?EpilogueAppendixNote on SourcesNotesIndex
£59.40
Temple University Press,U.S. The Mutual Housing Experiment
Book SynopsisIn 1940, the U.S. Federal Works Agency created an experimental housing program for industrial workers. Eight model communities were leased and later sold to the residents, who formed a non-profit corporation called a mutual housing association. Further development of housing under the mutual housing plan was stymied by controversies around radical politics and race, and questions over whether the federal government should be involved in housing policy. In The Mutual Housing Experiment, Kristin Szylvian examines 32 mutual housing associations that are still in existence today, and offers strong evidence to show that federal public housing policy was not the failure that critics allege. She explains that mutual home ownership has not only proven its economic value, but has also given rise to communities characterized by a strong sense of identity and civic engagement. The book shows that this important period in urban and housing policy provides criticTrade Review"Szylvian treats readers to the fruits of her extensive research locating and piecing together the records of many government agencies and individuals...to tell the story of the mutual housing program during and immediately after WWII. The Federal Works Agency created the Mutual Plan, but the WWII housing crisis (the 1940s are an understudied era in housing policy) provided a critical opportunity for reformers committed to cooperative housing. Szylvian traces the origins of the Mutual Plan and then focuses on eight projects in five states.... Primarily, though, the author’s intent was to detail policy struggles and widespread lack of political support; mutual housing projects remained an 'experiment' rather than a stepping-stone to a new housing policy. The epilogue provides a look at a few of the communities today and includes statements from the residents themselves, emphasizing the connection between policy and people. Summing Up: Recommended." —CHOICE Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Acronyms and AbbreviationsIntroduction1 The New Deal Origins of Mutual Housing2 Mutual Housing: “Contingency-Proof” Home Ownership for Labor3 Mutually Compatible? Mutual Housing and Modern Architecture4 Mutual Housing Offers a “New Day in Housing”5 The Mutual Plan’s “Arrested” Development6 No Fair Deal for Mutual Housing7 Mutual Housing: “America’s New Housing Economy”?EpilogueAppendixNote on SourcesNotesIndex
£21.59
Temple University Press,U.S. Building the Urban Environment
Book Synopsis Building the Urban Environment is a comparative study of the contestation among planners, policymakers, and the grassroots over the production and meaning of urban space. Award-winning historian Harold Platt presents case studies of seven cities, including Rotterdam, Chicago, and Sao Paulo, to show how, over time, urban life created hybrid spaces that transformed people, culture, and their environments. As Platt explains, during the post-1945 race to technological modernization, policymakers gave urban planners of the International Style extraordinary influence to build their utopian vision of a self-sustaining “organic city.” However, in the 1960s, they faced a revolt of the grassroots. Building the Urban Environment traces the rise and fall of the Modernist planners during an era of Cold War, urban crisis, unnatural disasters, and global restructuring in the wake of the oil-energy embargo of the ’70s. Ultimately, Platt provides a waTrade Review“Building the Urban Environment is entirely original in its overall conceptualization, synthesis of the literature, and its major arguments. Platt demonstrates how post–WWII planning was conducted within a historical context that valorized specific ideas and visions of the city often at the expense of the people who lived in the city. His analytical framework of the organic city is original and significant. It challenges the reader to reconsider the rationales/rationality of modernism as well as the values upon which so much of the received wisdom of the post–WWII planning of cities was predicated.”—Maureen A. Flanagan, Illinois Institute of Technology “Building the Urban Environment offers many fresh and powerful insights. Platt makes a convincing case that planners were as much a part of the problem as the solution to many urban ills. His synthesis, within the metaphor of the organic city, is highly effective. It frames the entire discussion in a unique way, and provides a cogent means to incorporate nature into the discussion of the city, and to highlight many of the wrong-headed ideas of modernist urban planning. Building the Urban Environment provides a powerful and penetrating critique that touches not only on environmental issues, but race, labor, housing, and municipal administration at both the local and national levels. Through his effective exploration of multi-continent case studies, Platt enriches the argument for the adoption, the failure, and rejection of the organic city.”—Craig E. Colten, Louisiana State University
£67.50
Temple University Press,U.S. Building the Urban Environment
Book Synopsis Building the Urban Environment is a comparative study of the contestation among planners, policymakers, and the grassroots over the production and meaning of urban space. Award-winning historian Harold Platt presents case studies of seven cities, including Rotterdam, Chicago, and Sao Paulo, to show how, over time, urban life created hybrid spaces that transformed people, culture, and their environments. As Platt explains, during the post-1945 race to technological modernization, policymakers gave urban planners of the International Style extraordinary influence to build their utopian vision of a self-sustaining “organic city.” However, in the 1960s, they faced a revolt of the grassroots. Building the Urban Environment traces the rise and fall of the Modernist planners during an era of Cold War, urban crisis, unnatural disasters, and global restructuring in the wake of the oil-energy embargo of the ’70s. Ultimately, Platt provides a waTrade Review“Building the Urban Environment is entirely original in its overall conceptualization, synthesis of the literature, and its major arguments. Platt demonstrates how post–WWII planning was conducted within a historical context that valorized specific ideas and visions of the city often at the expense of the people who lived in the city. His analytical framework of the organic city is original and significant. It challenges the reader to reconsider the rationales/rationality of modernism as well as the values upon which so much of the received wisdom of the post–WWII planning of cities was predicated.”—Maureen A. Flanagan, Illinois Institute of Technology “Building the Urban Environment offers many fresh and powerful insights. Platt makes a convincing case that planners were as much a part of the problem as the solution to many urban ills. His synthesis, within the metaphor of the organic city, is highly effective. It frames the entire discussion in a unique way, and provides a cogent means to incorporate nature into the discussion of the city, and to highlight many of the wrong-headed ideas of modernist urban planning. Building the Urban Environment provides a powerful and penetrating critique that touches not only on environmental issues, but race, labor, housing, and municipal administration at both the local and national levels. Through his effective exploration of multi-continent case studies, Platt enriches the argument for the adoption, the failure, and rejection of the organic city.”—Craig E. Colten, Louisiana State University
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. A Nice Place to Visit
Book Synopsis How did tourism gain a central role in the postwar American Rustbelt city? And how did tourism development reshape the meaning and function of these cities? These are the questions at the heart of Aaron Cowan’s groundbreaking book, A Nice Place to Visit. Cowan provides an insightful, comparative look at the historical development of Cincinnati, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore in the post–World War II period to show how urban tourism provided a potential solution to the economic woes of deindustrialization. A Nice Place to Visit chronicles the visions of urban leaders who planned hotels, convention centers, stadiums, and festival marketplaces to remake these cities as tourist destinations. Cowan also addresses the ever-present tensions between tourist development and the needs and demands of residents in urban communities. A Nice Place to Visit charts how these Rustbelt cities adapted to urban decline and struggled to meet the chTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Urban Decline and the Search for Solutions in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis after 1945 Part I Heads in Beds and a Box with Docks: Conventions and the Restructuring of the Central City, 1945–1975 2 From Social Center to Convention Center: The Changing Function of Downtown Hotels in Postwar Cincinnati 3 “Fear and Greed”: Race, the St. Louis Convention Center, and the Decline of Liberalism in the Postwar City Part II Cities Are Fun! Tourism, Image Making, and the “Livable City,” 1970–1990 4 City of Champions: Three Rivers Stadium and the Shaping of Pittsburgh's Postwar Image 5 The Accidental Tourist Trap: Image Making and the “Livable City” in Baltimore's Inner Harbor Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£62.90
Temple University Press,U.S. A Nice Place to Visit
Book Synopsis How did tourism gain a central role in the postwar American Rustbelt city? And how did tourism development reshape the meaning and function of these cities? These are the questions at the heart of Aaron Cowan’s groundbreaking book, A Nice Place to Visit. Cowan provides an insightful, comparative look at the historical development of Cincinnati, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore in the post–World War II period to show how urban tourism provided a potential solution to the economic woes of deindustrialization. A Nice Place to Visit chronicles the visions of urban leaders who planned hotels, convention centers, stadiums, and festival marketplaces to remake these cities as tourist destinations. Cowan also addresses the ever-present tensions between tourist development and the needs and demands of residents in urban communities. A Nice Place to Visit charts how these Rustbelt cities adapted to urban decline and struggled to meet the chTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Urban Decline and the Search for Solutions in Baltimore, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis after 1945 Part I Heads in Beds and a Box with Docks: Conventions and the Restructuring of the Central City, 1945–1975 2 From Social Center to Convention Center: The Changing Function of Downtown Hotels in Postwar Cincinnati 3 “Fear and Greed”: Race, the St. Louis Convention Center, and the Decline of Liberalism in the Postwar City Part II Cities Are Fun! Tourism, Image Making, and the “Livable City,” 1970–1990 4 City of Champions: Three Rivers Stadium and the Shaping of Pittsburgh's Postwar Image 5 The Accidental Tourist Trap: Image Making and the “Livable City” in Baltimore's Inner Harbor Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. The Death and Life of the SingleFamily House
Book Synopsis Vancouver today is recognized as one of the most livable cities in the world as well as an international model for sustainability and urbanism. Single-family homes in this city are “a dying breed.” Most people live in the various low-rise and high-rise urban alternatives throughout the metropolitan area. The Death and Life of the Single-Family House explains how residents in Vancouver attempt to make themselves at home without a house. Local sociologist Nathanael Lauster has painstakingly studied the city’s dramatic transformation to curb sprawl. He tracks the history of housing and interviews residents about the cultural importance of the house as well as the urban problems it once appeared to solve. Although Vancouver’s built environment is unique, Lauster argues that it was never predestined by geography or demography. Instead, regulatory transformations enabled the city to renovate, build over, and build around the house. Moreover,
£25.19
Temple University Press,U.S. Painting Publics
Book SynopsisPublic art is a form of communication that enables spaces for encounters across difference. These encounters may be routine, repeated, or rare, but all take place in urban spaces infused with emotion, creativity, and experimentation. In Painting Publics, Caitlin Bruce explores how various legal graffiti scenes across the United States, Mexico, and Europe provide diverse ways for artists to navigate their changing relationships with publics, institutions, and commercial entities.Painting Publics draws on a combination of interviews with more than 100 graffiti writers as well as participant observation, and uses critical and rhetorical theory to argue that graffiti should be seen as more than counter-cultural resistance. Bruce claims it offers resources for imagining a more democratic city, one that builds and grows from personal relations, abandoned or under-used spaces, commercial sponsorship, and tacit community resources. In the case of Mexico, Germany, and France, there is even some
£92.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Painting Publics
Book SynopsisPublic art is a form of communication that enables spaces for encounters across difference. These encounters may be routine, repeated, or rare, but all take place in urban spaces infused with emotion, creativity, and experimentation. In Painting Publics, Caitlin Bruce explores how various legal graffiti scenes across the United States, Mexico, and Europe provide diverse ways for artists to navigate their changing relationships with publics, institutions, and commercial entities.Painting Publics draws on a combination of interviews with more than 100 graffiti writers as well as participant observation, and uses critical and rhetorical theory to argue that graffiti should be seen as more than counter-cultural resistance. Bruce claims it offers resources for imagining a more democratic city, one that builds and grows from personal relations, abandoned or under-used spaces, commercial sponsorship, and tacit community resources. In the case of Mexico, Germany, and France, there is even some
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Sinking Chicago
Book Synopsis In Sinking Chicago, Harold Platt shows how people responded to climate change in one American city over a hundred-and-fifty-year period. During a long dry spell before 1945, city residents lost sight of the connections between land use, flood control, and water quality. Then, a combination of suburban sprawl and a wet period of extreme weather events created damaging runoff surges that sank Chicago and contaminated drinking supplies with raw sewage. Chicagoans had to learn how to remake a city built on a prairie wetland. They organized a grassroots movement to protect the six river watersheds in the semi-sacred forest preserves from being turned into open sewers, like the Chicago River. The politics of outdoor recreation clashed with the politics of water management. Platt charts a growing constituency of citizens who fought a corrupt political machine to reclaim the region’s waterways and Lake Michigan as a single eco-system. Environmentalists contested poliTrade Review"Platt has written the first study of the effects of long-term climate change on the American city of Chicago. It is an important undertaking, and the author is fit for the task.... Platt’s fine study, then, is a model for how other historians might write the history of ongoing climate change—with a critical eye toward crafting policies that will help people weather the storm."--American Historical Review
£69.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Sinking Chicago
Book Synopsis In Sinking Chicago, Harold Platt shows how people responded to climate change in one American city over a hundred-and-fifty-year period. During a long dry spell before 1945, city residents lost sight of the connections between land use, flood control, and water quality. Then, a combination of suburban sprawl and a wet period of extreme weather events created damaging runoff surges that sank Chicago and contaminated drinking supplies with raw sewage. Chicagoans had to learn how to remake a city built on a prairie wetland. They organized a grassroots movement to protect the six river watersheds in the semi-sacred forest preserves from being turned into open sewers, like the Chicago River. The politics of outdoor recreation clashed with the politics of water management. Platt charts a growing constituency of citizens who fought a corrupt political machine to reclaim the region’s waterways and Lake Michigan as a single eco-system. Environmentalists contested poliTrade Review"Platt has written the first study of the effects of long-term climate change on the American city of Chicago. It is an important undertaking, and the author is fit for the task.... Platt’s fine study, then, is a model for how other historians might write the history of ongoing climate change—with a critical eye toward crafting policies that will help people weather the storm."--American Historical Review
£23.39
Temple University Press,U.S. Constructing the Patriarchal City
Book Synopsis In the Anglo-Atlantic world of the late nineteenth century, groups of urban residents struggled to reconstruct their cities in the wake of industrialization and to create the modern city. New professional men wanted an orderly city that functioned for economic development. Women’s vision challenged the men’s right to reconstruct the city and resisted the prevailing male idea that women in public caused the city’s disorder. Constructing the Patriarchal City compares the ideas and activities of men and women in four English-speaking cities that shared similar ideological, professional, and political contexts. Historian Maureen Flanagan investigates how ideas about gender shaped the patriarchal city as men used their expertise in architecture, engineering, and planning to fashion a built environment for male economic enterprise and to confine women in the private home. Women consistently challenged men to produce a more equitable social infrastructur
£77.40
Temple University Press,U.S. Constructing the Patriarchal City
Book Synopsis In the Anglo-Atlantic world of the late nineteenth century, groups of urban residents struggled to reconstruct their cities in the wake of industrialization and to create the modern city. New professional men wanted an orderly city that functioned for economic development. Women’s vision challenged the men’s right to reconstruct the city and resisted the prevailing male idea that women in public caused the city’s disorder. Constructing the Patriarchal City compares the ideas and activities of men and women in four English-speaking cities that shared similar ideological, professional, and political contexts. Historian Maureen Flanagan investigates how ideas about gender shaped the patriarchal city as men used their expertise in architecture, engineering, and planning to fashion a built environment for male economic enterprise and to confine women in the private home. Women consistently challenged men to produce a more equitable social infrastructur
£26.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Immigrant Crossroads
Book SynopsisNearly half the 2.3 million residents of Queens, New York are foreign-born. Immigrants in Queens hail from more than 120 countries and speak more than 135 languages. As an epicenter of immigrant diversity, Queens is an urban gateway that exemplifies opportunities and challenges in shaping a multi-racial democracy.The editors and contributors to Immigrant Crossroads examine the social, spatial, economic, and political dynamics that stem from this fast-growing urbanization. The interdisciplinary chapters examine residential patterns and neighborhood identities, immigrantincorporation and mobilizations, and community building and activism. Essays combine qualitative and quantitative research methods to address globalization and the unprecedented racial and ethnic diversity as a result of international migration. Chapters on incorporation focus on immigrant participation and representation in electoral politics, and advocacy for immigrant inclusion in urban governance and service provisi
£81.60
Temple University Press,U.S. Immigrant Crossroads
Book SynopsisNearly half the 2.3 million residents of Queens, New York are foreign-born. Immigrants in Queens hail from more than 120 countries and speak more than 135 languages. As an epicenter of immigrant diversity, Queens is an urban gateway that exemplifies opportunities and challenges in shaping a multi-racial democracy.The editors and contributors to Immigrant Crossroads examine the social, spatial, economic, and political dynamics that stem from this fast-growing urbanization. The interdisciplinary chapters examine residential patterns and neighborhood identities, immigrantincorporation and mobilizations, and community building and activism. Essays combine qualitative and quantitative research methods to address globalization and the unprecedented racial and ethnic diversity as a result of international migration. Chapters on incorporation focus on immigrant participation and representation in electoral politics, and advocacy for immigrant inclusion in urban governance and service provisi
£30.60
Temple University Press,U.S. Courting the Community
Book SynopsisCommunity Courts are designed to handle a city's low-level offenses and quality-of-life crimes, such as littering, loitering, or public drunkenness. Court advocates maintain that these largely victimless crimes jeopardize the well-being of residents, businesses, and visitors. Whereas traditional courts might dismiss such cases or administer a small fine, community courts aim to meaningfully punish offenders to avoid disorder escalating to apocalyptic decline. Courting the Community is a fascinating ethnography that goes behind the scenes to explore how quality-of-life discourses are translated into court practices that marry therapeutic and rehabilitative ideas. Christine Zozula shows how residents and businesses participate in meting out justicesuch as through community service, treatment, or other sanctionsmaking it more emotional, less detached, and more legitimate in the eyes of stakeholders. She also examines both impact panels, in which offenders, residents, and business owners m
£64.60
Temple University Press,U.S. Courting the Community
Book SynopsisCommunity Courts are designed to handle a city's low-level offenses and quality-of-life crimes, such as littering, loitering, or public drunkenness. Court advocates maintain that these largely victimless crimes jeopardize the well-being of residents, businesses, and visitors. Whereas traditional courts might dismiss such cases or administer a small fine, community courts aim to meaningfully punish offenders to avoid disorder escalating to apocalyptic decline. Courting the Community is a fascinating ethnography that goes behind the scenes to explore how quality-of-life discourses are translated into court practices that marry therapeutic and rehabilitative ideas. Christine Zozula shows how residents and businesses participate in meting out justicesuch as through community service, treatment, or other sanctionsmaking it more emotional, less detached, and more legitimate in the eyes of stakeholders. She also examines both impact panels, in which offenders, residents, and business owners m
£21.59
Temple University Press,U.S. Daily Labors
Book SynopsisOn street corners throughout the country, men stand or sit together patiently while they wait for someone looking to hire un buen trabajador (a good worker). These day laborers are visible symbols of the changing nature of workand the demographics of workersin the United States.Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky spent nearly three years visiting with African American men and Latino immigrant men who looked for work as day laborers at a Brooklyn street intersection. Her fascinating ethnography, Daily Labors, considers these immigrants and citizens as active participants in their social and economic life. They not only work for wages but also labor daily to institute change, create knowledge, and contribute new meanings to shape their social world.Daily Labors reveals how ideologies about race, gender, nation, and legal status operate on the corner and the vulnerabilities, discrimination, and exploitation workers face in this labor market. Pinedo-Turnovsky shows how workers market themselves to coTrade Review"This ethnographic study of a community of day laborers who sought work at an intersection in Brooklyn, New York, deepens our understanding of not only how the labor market for this important, precarious form of employment functions but also how—despite the constraints produced by hierarchies created on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, immigration, and legality—workers maintain a sense of dignity and agency. By so doing, Pinedo-Turnovsky’s study enhances our knowledge of how structural conditions affect individuals’ interactions."—Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies“A formidable account of the lives of day laborers in early twenty-first-century New York City, Daily Labors makes an important contribution to the literature on migration and urban studies. Pinedo-Turnovsky’s book is a uniquely valuable resource for scholars and students of the ethnography of contemporary work and labor.”—Immanuel Ness, Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and author of Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class
£68.40
Temple University Press,U.S. Daily Labors
Book SynopsisOn street corners throughout the country, men stand or sit together patiently while they wait for someone looking to hire un buen trabajador (a good worker). These day laborers are visible symbols of the changing nature of workand the demographics of workersin the United States.Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky spent nearly three years visiting with African American men and Latino immigrant men who looked for work as day laborers at a Brooklyn street intersection. Her fascinating ethnography, Daily Labors, considers these immigrants and citizens as active participants in their social and economic life. They not only work for wages but also labor daily to institute change, create knowledge, and contribute new meanings to shape their social world.Daily Labors reveals how ideologies about race, gender, nation, and legal status operate on the corner and the vulnerabilities, discrimination, and exploitation workers face in this labor market. Pinedo-Turnovsky shows how workers market themselves to coTrade Review"This ethnographic study of a community of day laborers who sought work at an intersection in Brooklyn, New York, deepens our understanding of not only how the labor market for this important, precarious form of employment functions but also how—despite the constraints produced by hierarchies created on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, immigration, and legality—workers maintain a sense of dignity and agency. By so doing, Pinedo-Turnovsky’s study enhances our knowledge of how structural conditions affect individuals’ interactions."—Arne L. Kalleberg, Kenan Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies“A formidable account of the lives of day laborers in early twenty-first-century New York City, Daily Labors makes an important contribution to the literature on migration and urban studies. Pinedo-Turnovsky’s book is a uniquely valuable resource for scholars and students of the ethnography of contemporary work and labor.”—Immanuel Ness, Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and author of Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Ecohumanism and the Ecological Culture
Book SynopsisLewis Mumford, one of the most respected public intellectuals of the twentieth century, speaking at a conference on the future environments of North America, said, In order to secure human survival we must transition from a technological culture to an ecological culture. In Ecohumanism and the Ecological Culture, William Cohen shows how Mumford's conception of an educational philosophy was enacted by Mumford's mentee, Ian McHarg, the renowned landscape architect and regional planner at the University of Pennsylvania. McHarg advanced a new way to achieve an ecological culture-through an educational curriculum based on fusing ecohumanism to the planning and design disciplines.Cohen explores Mumford's important vision of ecohumanisma synthesis of natural systems ecology with the myriad dimensions of human systems, or human ecology-and how McHarg actually formulated and made that vision happen. He considers the emergence of alternative energy systems and new approaches to planning and comm
£26.99
Temple University Press,U.S. Modern Mobility Aloft
Book SynopsisIn the first half of the twentieth century, urban elevated highways were much more than utilitarian infrastructure, lifting traffic above the streets; they were statements of civic pride, asserting boldly modern visions for a city’s architecture, economy, and transportation network. Yet three of the most ambitious projects, launched in Chicago, New York, and Boston in the spirit of utopian models by architects such as Le Corbusier and Hugh Ferriss, ultimately fell short of their ideals.Modern Mobility Aloft is the first study to focus on pre-Interstate urban elevated highways within American architectural and urban history. Amy Finstein traces the idealistic roots of these superstructures, their contrasting realities once built, their impacts on successive development patterns, and the recent challenges they have posed to contemporary urban designers.Filled with more than 100 historic photographs and illustrations of beaux arts and art deco architecture, <Trade Review“Like the elevated railroads before them, elevated highways have generally been viewed in negative terms by urban dwellers. Yet the elevated highway represents an important, if not altogether welcome, phase in the daunting challenges to reconcile the demands of accommodating motor vehicles to city fabric on a large scale. Amy Finstein’s beautifully researched and written book examines the seminal early stages of implementing this complex and costly infrastructure in Chicago, New York, and Boston during the first half of the twentieth century. Modern Mobility Aloft is an important analysis of the visionary schemes first devised to address the issue and the myriad factors involved in conceiving and implementing actual projects. Economic considerations, local politics, architectural design values, and changes in building and transportation technology are all addressed in a seamless, engaging narrative.”—Richard Longstreth, Professor of American Studies Emeritus, George Washington University“In Modern Mobility Aloft, Finstein looks deeply at the historical intersection of civil engineering, technology, and urbanism and comes up with a major topic that no one has seen before. She is exactly right in her assertion that the elevated highway as a specific mode of technological response to the problem of automobile congestion has not been treated systematically. More importantly, she sees the connection between the elevated highway and elements of modernist urbanism and culture. Her extensive, original archival work and case studies of downtown congestion and early highway design point to a new integration of the history of technology and urban history.”—Robert Fishman, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Taubman College, University of Michigan"This handsomely produced, well-written book is about how three cities—New York, Chicago, and Boston—used elevated roadways well into the 20th century to alleviate the growing crush of traffic on surface roadways. Finstein chronicles the reconciliation of competing interests of political, engineering, and architectural remedies in the solutions offered and in what was either not built, built and later rebuilt, or demolished. Notable is Finstein's attention to issues of architectural style in projects thought of as mere engineering.... Well-illustrated with charts, plans, and photos, and supported by lots of endnotes and bibliographic information, this is an important scholarly resource. Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"Modern Mobility Aloft focuses on the aesthetics of the structures, the design decisions that went into these highways, and their legacies.... [It is a] strong design-oriented history of elevated highways."—Technology and Culture"Finstein develops a clear and detailed narrative of the history and design of the three elevated highway projects, and presents an impressive amount of information, including numerous images, collected through extensive archival research. This makes the book an enjoyable read…. [T]he book offers important and relevant insights for urban planning and design professionals."—Journal of Planning History"[A] timely book.... Finstein offers an important addition to our understanding of the roots of America’s current transportation systems and of modern American cities.... One of the greatest strengths of Finstein’s work is the effective job she does of showing how a diffuse group of proponents viewed the elevated highways as the perfect solution to a range of issues faced in inter-war cities.... This book firmly and convincingly asserts that the period, the projects and the people who made them a reality influenced a great deal of the post-war world." —Urban History"A welcome addition to the growing body of literature on the impact of automobiles on the American built environment that includes suburbanization and large-scale highway systems.... Modern Mobility Aloft effectively broadens and deepens our understanding of highways as built form."—Buildings & Landscapes
£81.60
Temple University Press,U.S. Reinventing the Austin City Council
Book SynopsisUntil recently, Austin, the progressive, politically liberal capital of Texas, elected its city council using a not-so-progressive system. Candidates competed citywide for seats, and voters could cast ballots for as many candidates as there were seats up for election. However, this approach disadvantages the representation of geographically-concentrated minority groups, thereby—among other things—preventing the benefits of growth from reaching all of the city’s communities.Reinventing the Austin City Council explores the puzzle that was Austin’s reluctance to alter its at-large system and establish a geographically-based, single-member district system. Ann Bowman chronicles the repeated attempts to change the system, the eventual decision to do so, and the consequences of that change. In the process, she explores the many twists and turns that occurred in Austin as it struggled to design a fair system of representation. Reinventing the AustinTrade Review“This is a deeply researched yet readable analysis of Austin’s shift in city council composition. Austinites will recognize the players and positions, but the interested reader will find much to ponder as well. The impact of Austin’s new governance structure is still evolving—and this book is essential for understanding it.”—Annise Parker, former Mayor of HoustonTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Best Place to Live in America? 1. How Austin Became the City It Is Today . . . and What the City Council Had to Do with It 2 .Austin and the Long Road to City Council Districts 3. The Impact of Council Electoral Change Conclusion: Looking below the Surface . . . and Forward Notes Bibliography Index
£41.40
Temple University Press,U.S. Reinventing the Austin City Council
Book SynopsisUntil recently, Austin, the progressive, politically liberal capital of Texas, elected its city council using a not-so-progressive system. Candidates competed citywide for seats, and voters could cast ballots for as many candidates as there were seats up for election. However, this approach disadvantages the representation of geographically-concentrated minority groups, thereby—among other things—preventing the benefits of growth from reaching all of the city’s communities.Reinventing the Austin City Council explores the puzzle that was Austin’s reluctance to alter its at-large system and establish a geographically-based, single-member district system. Ann Bowman chronicles the repeated attempts to change the system, the eventual decision to do so, and the consequences of that change. In the process, she explores the many twists and turns that occurred in Austin as it struggled to design a fair system of representation. Reinventing the AustinTrade Review“This is a deeply researched yet readable analysis of Austin’s shift in city council composition. Austinites will recognize the players and positions, but the interested reader will find much to ponder as well. The impact of Austin’s new governance structure is still evolving—and this book is essential for understanding it.”—Annise Parker, former Mayor of HoustonTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction: The Best Place to Live in America? 1. How Austin Became the City It Is Today . . . and What the City Council Had to Do with It 2 .Austin and the Long Road to City Council Districts 3. The Impact of Council Electoral Change Conclusion: Looking below the Surface . . . and Forward Notes Bibliography Index
£15.19
Temple University Press,U.S. Understanding Crime and Place
Book SynopsisA hands-on introduction to the fundamental techniques and methods used for understanding geography of crimeTrade Review“Understanding Crime and Place is an impressive collection of methods in spatial criminology. It sets itself apart through its breadth, depth, and practical orientation. The editors and contributors cover just about everything one needs to conduct an empirical research study on place-based crime, starting with theory and moving on to data collection, spatial units, and all the way to evaluation methods. The scope and accessibility of Understanding Crime and Place will appeal to a wide range of expertise levels. This book deserves to be on the bookshelf of any criminologist interested in the influences of place and space on crime.”—Michael Townsley, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University, and editor of Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis (Second Edition)“An understanding of place is as important to the study of crime as an appreciation of victims, offenders, and police. The consistency of geography allows for reliable measurements and objective analyses, enabling the development of practical crime prevention and control techniques. This methods handbook establishes a solid theoretical and methodological foundation, and the broad range of conceptual, measurement, and analytic topics discussed by the contributors will be appreciated by scholars and practitioners alike.”—D. Kim Rossmo, Professor, School of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Texas State University, and author of Criminal Investigative Failures"Overall, the handbook serves as an excellent primer for anyone interested in crime and place research. It supplies readers with the cutting-edge analytic techniques being used in the field. The book still pays homage to communities and crime research by including sections on larger spatial units such as neighborhoods.... In the years ahead, people should come to see the book as foundational given the book can serve researchers, practitioners, instructors, and students."—Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books
£105.40
Temple University Press,U.S. Understanding Crime and Place
Book SynopsisA hands-on introduction to the fundamental techniques and methods used for understanding geography of crimeTrade Review“Understanding Crime and Place is an impressive collection of methods in spatial criminology. It sets itself apart through its breadth, depth, and practical orientation. The editors and contributors cover just about everything one needs to conduct an empirical research study on place-based crime, starting with theory and moving on to data collection, spatial units, and all the way to evaluation methods. The scope and accessibility of Understanding Crime and Place will appeal to a wide range of expertise levels. This book deserves to be on the bookshelf of any criminologist interested in the influences of place and space on crime.”—Michael Townsley, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University, and editor of Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis (Second Edition)“An understanding of place is as important to the study of crime as an appreciation of victims, offenders, and police. The consistency of geography allows for reliable measurements and objective analyses, enabling the development of practical crime prevention and control techniques. This methods handbook establishes a solid theoretical and methodological foundation, and the broad range of conceptual, measurement, and analytic topics discussed by the contributors will be appreciated by scholars and practitioners alike.”—D. Kim Rossmo, Professor, School of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Texas State University, and author of Criminal Investigative Failures"Overall, the handbook serves as an excellent primer for anyone interested in crime and place research. It supplies readers with the cutting-edge analytic techniques being used in the field. The book still pays homage to communities and crime research by including sections on larger spatial units such as neighborhoods.... In the years ahead, people should come to see the book as foundational given the book can serve researchers, practitioners, instructors, and students."—Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books
£52.70
Temple University Press,U.S. A Good Place to Do Business
Book SynopsisThe “Pittsburgh Renaissance,” an urban renewal effort launched in the late 1940s, transformed the smoky rust belt city’s downtown. Working-class residents and people of color saw their neighborhoods cleared and replaced with upscale, white residents and with large corporations housed in massive skyscrapers. Pittsburgh’s Renaissance’s apparent success quickly became a model for several struggling industrial cities, including St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia.In A Good Place to Do Business, Roger Biles and Mark Rosechronicle these urban “makeovers” which promised increased tourism and fashionable shopping as well as the development of sports stadiums, convention centers, downtown parks, and more. They examine the politics of these government-funded redevelopment programs and show how city politics (and policymakers) often dictated the level of success.As city officials and business elites deteTrade Review“A Good Place to Do Business brilliantly exposes municipal and business leaders’ decades-long preoccupation with insulating their cities’ downtowns from seismic postwar metropolitan change. They spared no expense, but cities’ most vulnerable citizens paid steeper costs. Through a fresh interpretation of racialized downtown renewal and the people who championed or fought it in five cities, Biles and Rose narrate with precision and clarity an essential but troubling national tale of how myopic, downtown-centered visions for urban revitalization blurred as boosters peered at the city from their gleaming towers.” —J. Mark Souther, Professor of History at Cleveland State University, and author of Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in “The Best Location in the Nation”“A Good Place to Do Business is a powerful yet nuanced story told by two of the most important urban historians writing today. Biles and Rose take us on a fascinating tour of the commercial, investment, and political cultures of big city downtowns in the decades following World War II. Along the way, we meet a plethora of actors, from mayors and ward heelers to corporate executives, planners, consultants, union bosses, and neighborhood residents. And we see a wide range of programs, plans, and schemes, some of which take shape in glass and steel, others that remain on the drawing board. At the core of this compelling drama are the racial and class politics of urban America, and the sacrifice of working-class and poor neighborhoods in pursuit of the elusive dream of a downtown renaissance. But the story is not straightforward, and the comparative framework shows different paths and divergent outcomes among Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Cleveland, and Philadelphia. It is this comparative approach, and the deft hand of two great scholars, that makes this book an outstanding addition to the literature.”—Joseph Heathcott, Chair of Urban and Environmental Studies at The New School"Bringing new detail to the familiar subject of downtown revitalization, veteran historians Roger Biles and Mark Rose offer a compelling critique of urban policy over time as it privileges physical over human capital and produces a troubling view for the future.... [T]hey offer a deeply researched account demonstrating that no matter how many ways policymakers have privileged downtown revitalization, they have fallen short, even as they have done so primarily at the expense of poor and largely minority residents." —Journal of Urban Affairs "This coauthored volume by two well-published, distinguished professors of urban history exquisitely explores how US urban renewal policy since 1945 historically privileged the 'downtown' invariably to the detriment of minority-occupied city neighborhoods. Focusing on urban renewal programs in five large cities—Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, and Cleveland—the book employs delectable vignettes of pro-growth, neoliberal politicians, business leaders, and planners and unveils how the leadership within these cities followed—almost religiously—the model of postwar Pittsburgh’s 'renaissance'.... Lucidly explained and well written, this volume has much to offer to urban history scholars and students alike.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"After reading A Good Place to Do Business, I concur with the judgment of urban scholars J. Mark Southern and Joseph Heathcott that the book is 'brilliant' and 'a powerful yet nuanced story.'”—Journal of Planning History
£88.40
Temple University Press,U.S. A Good Place to Do Business
Book SynopsisThe “Pittsburgh Renaissance,” an urban renewal effort launched in the late 1940s, transformed the smoky rust belt city’s downtown. Working-class residents and people of color saw their neighborhoods cleared and replaced with upscale, white residents and with large corporations housed in massive skyscrapers. Pittsburgh’s Renaissance’s apparent success quickly became a model for several struggling industrial cities, including St. Louis, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia.In A Good Place to Do Business, Roger Biles and Mark Rosechronicle these urban “makeovers” which promised increased tourism and fashionable shopping as well as the development of sports stadiums, convention centers, downtown parks, and more. They examine the politics of these government-funded redevelopment programs and show how city politics (and policymakers) often dictated the level of success.As city officials and business elites deteTrade Review“A Good Place to Do Business brilliantly exposes municipal and business leaders’ decades-long preoccupation with insulating their cities’ downtowns from seismic postwar metropolitan change. They spared no expense, but cities’ most vulnerable citizens paid steeper costs. Through a fresh interpretation of racialized downtown renewal and the people who championed or fought it in five cities, Biles and Rose narrate with precision and clarity an essential but troubling national tale of how myopic, downtown-centered visions for urban revitalization blurred as boosters peered at the city from their gleaming towers.” —J. Mark Souther, Professor of History at Cleveland State University, and author of Believing in Cleveland: Managing Decline in “The Best Location in the Nation”“A Good Place to Do Business is a powerful yet nuanced story told by two of the most important urban historians writing today. Biles and Rose take us on a fascinating tour of the commercial, investment, and political cultures of big city downtowns in the decades following World War II. Along the way, we meet a plethora of actors, from mayors and ward heelers to corporate executives, planners, consultants, union bosses, and neighborhood residents. And we see a wide range of programs, plans, and schemes, some of which take shape in glass and steel, others that remain on the drawing board. At the core of this compelling drama are the racial and class politics of urban America, and the sacrifice of working-class and poor neighborhoods in pursuit of the elusive dream of a downtown renaissance. But the story is not straightforward, and the comparative framework shows different paths and divergent outcomes among Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Cleveland, and Philadelphia. It is this comparative approach, and the deft hand of two great scholars, that makes this book an outstanding addition to the literature.”—Joseph Heathcott, Chair of Urban and Environmental Studies at The New School"Bringing new detail to the familiar subject of downtown revitalization, veteran historians Roger Biles and Mark Rose offer a compelling critique of urban policy over time as it privileges physical over human capital and produces a troubling view for the future.... [T]hey offer a deeply researched account demonstrating that no matter how many ways policymakers have privileged downtown revitalization, they have fallen short, even as they have done so primarily at the expense of poor and largely minority residents." —Journal of Urban Affairs "This coauthored volume by two well-published, distinguished professors of urban history exquisitely explores how US urban renewal policy since 1945 historically privileged the 'downtown' invariably to the detriment of minority-occupied city neighborhoods. Focusing on urban renewal programs in five large cities—Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, and Cleveland—the book employs delectable vignettes of pro-growth, neoliberal politicians, business leaders, and planners and unveils how the leadership within these cities followed—almost religiously—the model of postwar Pittsburgh’s 'renaissance'.... Lucidly explained and well written, this volume has much to offer to urban history scholars and students alike.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"After reading A Good Place to Do Business, I concur with the judgment of urban scholars J. Mark Southern and Joseph Heathcott that the book is 'brilliant' and 'a powerful yet nuanced story.'”—Journal of Planning History
£27.90
Temple University Press,U.S. Making a Scene
Book SynopsisReveals how activism to reclaim gentrifying urban spaces, even in a supposedly equitable welfare state, is dramatically impacted by the physical and social geography of the movement's context.Trade Review“Beginning with a charming portrait of one small Swedish neighborhood, Kimberly Creasap demonstrates the power of the concept of a social movement ‘scene,’ a concentrated network of activists and the places they congregate. Scenes are not just a resource for politics; they are an accomplishment in their own right. Who really owns a city? And how?”—James M. Jasper, author of The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements“A must-read on autonomous social movements resisting gentrification in Swedish cities that draws on a conceptual apparatus made up of centrality, concentration, and visibility. Making a Scene is rich in contextual detail, description, and, critically, a sense of hope for activists everywhere. Creasap puts the spatial into the social of social movement research and contributes to the rapidly growing literature on resistance in gentrification studies.”—Loretta Lees, Incoming Director of the Initiative on Cities at Boston University, and coauthor of Gentrification and Planetary Gentrification"Creasap offers the reader ethnographic glimpses and comparisons of the local social movement scenes in Sweden’s three major cities of Stockholm, Göteborg, and Malmö.... [Her] main argument serves as an important contribution to the scholarship on social movement scenes. This book also presents an important call for thinking more critically about spatiality in the sociology of social movements more generally."—Social Forces"Creasap's comparative analysis of autonomous movements across these three different urban spaces provides a nuanced contribution not just to social movement studies but to urban social science, as well.... Making a Scene provides important insights that will be invaluable for social movement scholars, political sociologists, and urban social scientists studying gentrification and neighborhood change."—Mobilization"This book contributes to the understanding of autonomist and anarchist movements in Sweden’s three major cities.... Creasap’s concise and clear writing style helps readers follow the storyline and makes the sociological picture of the activist scenes more palatable for a wider, non-academic audience. The book also enriches the literature by analysing urban activism and radical politics in Sweden at a very specific historical period.... [I]t represents a well-crafted research effort and offers important insights to consider when addressing theoretical questions at the intersection of urban sociology, urban movements, and far-left radical politics in the somewhat unique Swedish context."—Acta Sociologica“Creasap examines an important issue in the social movement literature—the centrality of place for the rise and fall of social movements. Introducing the concept of social movement scenes, she theorizes their importance and the interplay between these scenes and the political economies of their cities. Moreover, Making a Scene engages in an interesting discussion of how gentrification contributes to both sharpening the grievances of urban activists and destroying the environment they need to survive and thrive."—Walter J. Nicholls, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine, and author of Immigrant Rights Movement: The Battle over National Citizenship"This slim sociological study provides welcome data on gentrification and oppositional social movements outside the US, while also providing a counterpoint to generalized readings of the overall success of the Swedish welfare state.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"[A] detailed ethnographic study of the social movement 'scenes' in Stockholm, Goteborg, and Malmo in Sweden. Based on fieldwork conducted over several years, it is the kind of ethnographic work that allows for deep exploration of issues and people, and that uses that exploration to raise complex questions.... [I]t adds admirably to the large body of work on urban social movements, and is worth reading by those interested in dynamics and processes in such movements.... [T]his is a good book that should be of real interest to scholars who are interested in urban social movements, and those who simply want to read an interesting set of stories about these scenes."—Journal of Urban Affairs
£55.80
Temple University Press,U.S. Engaging Place Engaging Practices
Book SynopsisHow public history can be a catalyst for stronger relationships between universities and their communitiesTrade Review“Through a collection of compelling scholarship, Bachin and Howard have shown the importance of universities for correcting discrimination and its legacies. Consider this book more than a compendium of inventive campus-community partnerships; it’s an indispensable guide for the future of urban justice.”—N.D.B. Connolly, Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University, and author of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida“Robin Bachin and Amy Howard have compiled a powerful case for publicly engaged scholarship not only as a vitally important modus operandi for urban historians but also for universities writ large. The composite picture they have pieced together from public history case studies drawn from cities across the nation compellingly illustrates how the ‘lens of the past’ provides a foundation for reciprocal engagement between universities and their communities. Engaging Place, Engaging Practices vividly demonstrates the value of urban universities collaborating with local partners to heal historical wounds, co-create knowledge of who we are today, and put our universities and communities jointly on a path to racial equity and justice.”—Nancy Cantor, Chancellor and Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University–Newark, and coeditor of Our Compelling Interests: The Value of Diversity for Democracy and a Prosperous Society"A real strength of this collection is the range of university–community partnerships highlighted.... Engaging Place, Engaging Practices is an excellent addition to the literature on public history, public humanities, and university–community partnerships. The range of projects included in the book make it an appealing read for anyone already doing university–community partnership work and for those who want to join in it.... [T]he volume is convincing in its call for historians and the broader university to truly partner with surrounding communities in order to collectively analyze and engage in pressing social, economic, and environmental problems." —Teachers College Record"In nearly all the chapters, the authors demonstrate that sustained collaboration and committed university leadership are essential to ensure that the potential and power of urban universities can be leveraged to promote positive change.... [C]hapters demonstrate how instructors and individual courses can make a difference in the lives of students and residents. As such, the collection provides examples at a variety of scales—from the block, neighborhood, city, and regional school-of '...colleges and universities [striving] to matter'. In doing so, the editors make the case that the engaged university can and should do more to shape 'inclusive, equitable, and sustainable' communities—and that universities need to assume a heightened leadership role in a post-COVID-19 world."—Economic Development Quarterly
£73.10
Temple University Press,U.S. Loving Orphaned Space
Book SynopsisHow we relate to orphaned space matters. Voids, marginalia, empty spacesfrom abandoned gas stations to polluted waterwaysare created and maintained by politics, and often go unquestioned. In Loving Orphaned Space, Mrill Ingram provides a call to action to claim and to cherish these neglected spaces and make them a source of inspiration through art and/or remuneration.Ingram advocates not only for urban greening and green planning, but also for radical caring. These efforts create awareness and understanding of ecological connectivity and environmental justice issuesfrom the expropriation of land from tribal nations, to how race and class issues contribute to creating orphaned space. Case studies feature artists, scientists, and community collaborations in Chicago, New York, and Fargo, ND, where grounded and practical work of a fundamentally feminist nature challenges us to build networks of connection and care.The work of environmental artists who venture into and transform these discoTrade Review“In a time when people need places to gather and be outside in nature, Loving Orphaned Space is an essential guide for how to activate forgotten spaces in our landscape. It strikes the perfect balance of being inspiring and practical. With lively examples and impressive research, Ingram took me by the hand and walked me through the nuances of working with orphaned spaces. If only I had this book when I started out as an eco-artist!”—Stacy Levy, artist“In this remarkable book, Mrill Ingram challenges us to think of vacant land not as abandoned but as orphaned. She takes us on tours where we meet communities and artists who have adopted orphaned land and are using community art to care for these places. Ingram’s stories have changed the way I see and think about the land around me. I now see orphaned land wherever I go, and because of this book, I know how—and why—to love and care for these places.”—Samuel Dennis Jr., Professor of Planning and Landscape Architecture and Director of the Environmental Design Lab at the University of Wisconsin–Madison"As a result of the book’s cross-categorical structure, it has a broad range of appeal, connecting ecological restoration to activism, social justice, art and environmentalism, and public engagement. It also presents a model for collaboration: bringing together artists and scientists to work with community groups. I can envision an urban planning studio project focusing on caring for orphaned space as a rich and meaningful life experience for students."—Journal of Urban Affairs"Loving Orphaned Space offers important insights into nature-society relations regarding dwelling, home and belonging, and a conceptual framework about processes of disconnection that also materialize in housing.... [T]he book is recommended to urban scholars, artists, activists, or anyone with an interest in ecological restoration, maintenance and repair studies, feminist ethics, or creative and collaborative knowledge production."—Housing Studies
£69.70
