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...
In "The War on Slums in the Southwest," Robert Fairbanks provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plig...
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...
In "The War on Slums in the Southwest," Robert Fairbanks provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plig...
"Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis" focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's older, industrial cities during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Robert Gioielli offers incisive case studies of Baltimore, St. Louis, and Chicago to show how urban activism developed as an impassioned response to a host of racial, social, and political conflicts. As deindustrialization, urban renewal, and suburbanization caused the decline of the urban environment, residents--primarily African Americans and working-class whites--organized to...
"Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis" focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's ...
Philadelphia s Chinatown, like many urban chinatowns, began in the late nineteenth century as a refuge for immigrant laborers and merchants in which to form a community to raise families and conduct business. But this enclave for expression, identity, and community is also the embodiment of historical legacies and personal and collective memories. In "Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia s Chinatown. "Kathryn Wilson charts the unique history of this neighborhood. After 1945, a new generation of families began to shape Chinatown s future. As plans for urban renewalranging from a cross-town...
Philadelphia s Chinatown, like many urban chinatowns, began in the late nineteenth century as a refuge for immigrant laborers and merchants in which t...
Philadelphia s Chinatown, like many urban chinatowns, began in the late nineteenth century as a refuge for immigrant laborers and merchants in which to form a community to raise families and conduct business. But this enclave for expression, identity, and community is also the embodiment of historical legacies and personal and collective memories. In "Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia s Chinatown. "Kathryn Wilson charts the unique history of this neighborhood. After 1945, a new generation of families began to shape Chinatown s future. As plans for urban renewalranging from a cross-town...
Philadelphia s Chinatown, like many urban chinatowns, began in the late nineteenth century as a refuge for immigrant laborers and merchants in which t...
"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...
"Building the Urban Environment" is a comparative study of the contestation among planners, policymakers, and the grassroots over the production an...
"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...
"Building the Urban Environment" is a comparative study of the contestation among planners, policymakers, and the grassroots over the production an...
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,...
For many whites, desegregation initially felt like an attack on their community. But how has the process of racial change affected whites understan...
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,...
For many whites, desegregation initially felt like an attack on their community. But how has the process of racial change affected whites understan...
Walking connects the rhythms of urban life to the configuration of urban spaces. As the contributors and editors show in "Walking in Cities," walking also reflects the systematic inequalities that order contemporary urban life. Walking has different meanings because it can be a way of temporarily taking possession of urban space, or it can make the relatively powerless more vulnerable to crime. The essays in "Walking in Cities "explore how walking intersects with sociological dimensions such as gender, race and ethnicity, social class, and power.
Various chapters explorethe "flaneuse,"...
Walking connects the rhythms of urban life to the configuration of urban spaces. As the contributors and editors show in "Walking in Cities," walki...
