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Exploring Urban America

Author : Roger W. Caves
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Urban America written by Roger W. Caves and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is no easy matter to make a good selection of readings on exploring urban America, but Roger W. Caves does it excellently in a substantial collection published by Sage. . . . The collection is intended as an introductory reader, but it could also well serve as a main text in U.S. urban studies." --Barry Cullingworth Review An outstanding new introductory text, Exploring Urban America presents a collection of seminal articles gathered from top urban studies journals. This carefully edited and accessible collection of articles introduces undergraduate students to the interdisciplinary field of urban studies and urban affairs. As such, it investigates a variety of areas, including cities and urbanism, urban history, urban policy, economic development, community development, community services and infrastructure, housing, urban education, and growth. Each section of this reader begins with an introduction by a leading figure in the field. This text is skillfully synthesized and provides an accessible format that will serve well as an introductory reader/text for students of urban studies, political science, and public administration.

Urban America in the Modern Age

Author : Carl Abbott
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban America in the Modern Age written by Carl Abbott and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2007 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the appearance of Urban America in the Modern Age in 1987, the study of American cities has flourished. In this long-awaited second edition, Carl Abbott draws on the recent works of historians who have explored issues of urban growth, municipal politics, immigration and ethnicity, “suburbanization,” and environmental change. The fascination with growth and change in the nation’s metropolitan areas spans a wide range of scholarly fields, and the new edition also benefits from scholarship in disciplines closely related to urban history, including geography, political science, sociology, and urban planning. Featuring an entirely new chapter covering the years since 1980 and a bank of interesting photographs, the second edition of Urban America in the Modern Age further explores and fine-tunes the themes and topics central to its predecessor—the physical form of metropolitan areas, their sources of growth and mix of ethnic and racial groups, the shaping of and responses to public policy, and ideas of community planning. Regionally balanced—with examples from New York, Boston, and Chicago, as well as Los Angeles, Atlanta, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, San Antonio, Miami, Charlotte, Washington, Detroit, and Cleveland—the second edition of Urban America in the Modern Age makes ideal supplementary reading for courses in Urban History, twentieth-century America, as well as the second half of the U.S. survey.

Peculiarities of American Cities

Author : Willard W. Glazier
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Peculiarities of American Cities written by Willard W. Glazier and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-27 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peculiarities of American Cities is a historical travelogue written by Willard W. Glazier, here delving into the appearance and spirit of numerous big American cities during the late 19th century. Excerpt: "Boston sits like a queen at the head of her harbor on the Massachusetts coast, and wears her crown of past and present glory with an easy and self-satisfied grace. Her commercial importance is large; her ships float on many seas; and she rejoices now in the same uncompromising spirit of independence which controlled the actions of the celebrated "Tea Party" in the pioneer days of '76. Her safe harbor is one of the best on the Atlantic seaboard, and is dotted with over a hundred islands. On some of these, garrisoned forts look grimly seaward."

The Making of Urban America

Author : John William Reps
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691238243
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Urban America written by John William Reps and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive survey of urban growth in America has become a standard work in the field. From the early colonial period to the First World War, John Reps explores to what extent city planning has been rooted in the nation's tradition, showing the extent of European influence on early communities. Illustrated by over three hundred reproductions of maps, plans, and panoramic views, this book presents hundreds of American cities and the unique factors affecting their development.

Neighborhoods, Family, and Political Behavior in Urban America

Author : Yvette Alex-Assensoh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317945174
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis Neighborhoods, Family, and Political Behavior in Urban America by : Yvette Alex-Assensoh

Download or read book Neighborhoods, Family, and Political Behavior in Urban America written by Yvette Alex-Assensoh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undergirded by a multidisciplinary framework of political science, geography, and sociology, this book examines hte manner in which neighborhood economic resources and family structure shape individual political behavior among white and black citizens in urban America.

Cities in the Third Wave

Author : Leonard I. Ruchelman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 074257346X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (425 download)

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Book Synopsis Cities in the Third Wave by : Leonard I. Ruchelman

Download or read book Cities in the Third Wave written by Leonard I. Ruchelman and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2006-12-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully updated edition surveys the remarkable transformation that is taking place in urban America. Arguing that technology has both created and recast cities throughout history, Leonard I. Ruchelman explores how cities are being affected by new technology and how they will evolve in the future. Countries such as the United States and Japan have passed through the preindustrial and industrial stages of urban development and have now entered the stage of post-industrialism—what the Tofflers called the "third wave." Considering key questions, Ruchelman asks: How do the computer and communications technologies that are fueling an information economy affect cities and suburbs? How do urban places adapt to changing conditions brought about by deindustrialization and the globalization of business enterprise? What kinds of strategies do they devise to attract and retain investment and jobs? Why do some cities appear to prosper in the new postindustrial era while others become victims? Helping students understand what it will take for their cities, and other cities around the world, to survive and even thrive in this fast-moving environment, this book will be a valuable supplement for a range of courses in urban studies.

Exploring Urban Youth Culture Outside of the Gang Paradigm

Author : Jade Levell
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529225604
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Urban Youth Culture Outside of the Gang Paradigm written by Jade Levell and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘On-road’ is a complex term used by young people to describe street-based subculture and a general way of being. Featuring the voices of young people, this collection explores how race, class and gender dynamics shape this aspect of youth culture. With young people on-road often becoming criminalised due to interlocking structural inequalities, this book looks beyond concerns about gangs and presents empirical research from scholars and activists who work with and study the social lives of young people. It addresses the concerns of practitioners, policy makers and scholars by analysing aspects and misinterpretations of the shifting realities of young people’s urban life.

Rediscovering Urban America

Author : Jack Sommer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Rediscovering Urban America written by Jack Sommer and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cities in Full

Author : Steve Belmont
Publisher : American Planning Association
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cities in Full written by Steve Belmont and published by American Planning Association. This book was released on 2002 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three decades ago, urban America was troubled by escalating crime rates and a fleeing middle class, but conditions in many cities were enviable then compared to now. Some are so damaged that to restore them to their 1970 condition seems an insurmountable task, and true revitalization may seem unimaginable to those who control their fate. Yet, all is not lost. Cities in Full explores the great potential of the American city and outlines essential elements necessary for its revitalization. Steve Belmont embraces Jane Jacobs' much acclaimed prescription for urban vitality-high densities, mixed land uses, small blocks, and variously aged buildings. This book examines neighborhoods that adhere to precepts and those that do not and compares the results. He examines the destructive forces of decentralization and shows how and why they must be turned into forces of renewal. The author outlines an agenda for recentralizing commerce, housing, and transportation infrastructure and discusses how recentralization is affected by poor social and economic conditions. The author analyzes the deficiencies of current low-income housing policy and offers a strategy more favorable to cities and their metropolitan areas. Belmont exposes neighborhood political forces that sometimes thwart a city's best interests and offers an ambitious blueprint for renewal that includes creating middle and upper income housing at moderate and high densities; revitalizing neighborhood commercial streets with an urban spirit; building new centralized infrastructure; and transforming the public realm to attract the middle class. Exhaustively researched and well illustrated, this book is an invaluable resource for planners dedicated to reviving American cities.

Handbook of Research on Urban Politics and Policy in the United States

Author : Ronald K. Vogel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313032947
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Research on Urban Politics and Policy in the United States by : Ronald K. Vogel

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Urban Politics and Policy in the United States written by Ronald K. Vogel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-01-21 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reference work which provides a way to access research on urban politics and policy in the United States. Experts in the field guide readers through major controversies, while evaluating and assessing the subfields of urban politics and policy. Each chapter follows the same basic organization with topics such as methodological and theoretical issues, current states of the field, and directions for future research. For students, this work provides a starting place to guide them to the most important works in a particular subfield and a context to place their work in a larger body of knowledge. For scholars, it serves as a reference work for immediately familiarity with subfields of the discipline, including classic studies and major research questions. For urban policymakers or analysts, the handbook provides a wealth of information and allows quick identification of existing academic knowledge and research relevant to the problem at hand.

Urban America

Author : John M. Levy
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Urban America written by John M. Levy and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refreshingly unbiased, this comprehensive, multi-perspective study on urban America provides an historic overview of the field, emphasizes economic, financial, political, and administrative considerations, and explores some of today's most critical urban issues and problems --such as multiculturalism, the controversy over immigration, poverty, crime, and public education. Analyzes the present state of urban housing, urban planning, urban governance, urban economy, and the financing of urban government; provides a history of U.S. immigration and presents divergent views on immigration ranging from essentially open borders to highly restrictionist; covers U.S. poverty since the 1960s, with alternative perspectives on both causes and remedies. Contains a detailed examination of crime and the criminal justice system and outlines changes over the last several decades in both incarceration policy and policing techniques; discusses how public schools are funded, controversies over busing and bilingual education, and the pros of recent proposals such as vouchers and charter schools. For professionals in a variety of fields that have an interest in urban studies.

Neoliberal Cities

Author : Andrew J. Diamond
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479828823
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Neoliberal Cities written by Andrew J. Diamond and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces decades of troubled attempts to fund private answers to public urban problems The American city has long been a laboratory for austerity, governmental decentralization, and market-based solutions to urgent public problems such as affordable housing, criminal justice, and education. Through richly told case studies from Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and New York, Neoliberal Cities provides the necessary context to understand the always intensifying racial and economic inequality in and around the city center. In this original collection of essays, urban historians and sociologists trace the role that public policies have played in reshaping cities, with particular attention to labor, the privatization of public services, the collapse of welfare, the rise of gentrification, the expansion of the carceral state, and the politics of community control. In so doing, Neoliberal Cities offers a bottom-up approach to social scientific, theoretical, and historical accounts of urban America, exploring the ways that activists and grassroots organizations, as well as ordinary citizens, came to terms with new market-oriented public policies promoted by multinational corporations, financial institutions, and political parties. Neoliberal Cities offers new scaffolding for urban and metropolitan change, with attention to the interaction between policymaking, city planning, social movements, and the market.

The Handbook of Social Policy

Author : James Midgley
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1412950775
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Social Policy written by James Midgley and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Handbook of Social Policy' is a comprehensive examination of the development, implementation and impact of social policy. The contributors document the substantial body of knowledge about government social policies and their driving forces.

The Making of Urban America

Author : Raymond A. Mohl
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493083627
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Urban America written by Raymond A. Mohl and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. The authors’ extensively revised introductions and the fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the preindustrial city to the twentieth-century city. With emphasis on the social, economic, political, commercial, and cultural aspects of urban history, these essays illustrate the growth and change that created modern-day urban life. Dynamic topics such as technology, immigration and ethnicity, suburbanization, sunbelt cities, urban political history, and planning and housing are examined. The Making of Urban America is the only reader available that covers all of U.S. urban history and that also includes the most recent interpretive scholarship on the subject.

Urban America + Mysearchlab

Author : John M. Levy
Publisher : Pearson College Division
ISBN 13 : 9780205703685
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Urban America + Mysearchlab written by John M. Levy and published by Pearson College Division. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MySearchLab provides students with a complete understanding of the research process so they can complete research projects confidently and efficiently. Students and instructors with an internet connection can visit www.MySearchLab.com and receive immediate access to thousands of full articles from the EBSCO ContentSelect database. In addition, MySearchLab offers extensive content on the research process itself—including tips on how to navigate and maximize time in the campus library, a step-by-step guide on writing a research paper, and instructions on how to finish an academic assignment with endnotes and bibliography. Refreshingly unbiased, this comprehensive, multi-perspective study on urban America provides an historic overview of the field, emphasizes economic, financial, political, and administrative considerations, and explores some of today's most critical urban issues and problems –such as multiculturalism, the controversy over immigration, poverty, crime, and public education.Analyzes the present state of urban housing, urban planning, urban governance, urban economy, and the financing of urban government; provides a history of U.S. immigration and presents divergent views on immigration ranging from essentially open borders to highly restrictionist; covers U.S. poverty since the 1960s, with alternative perspectives on both causes and remedies. Contains a detailed examination of crime and the criminal justice system and outlines changes over the last several decades in both incarceration policy and policing techniques; discusses how public schools are funded, controversies over busing and bilingual education, and the pros of recent proposals such as vouchers and charter schools.For professionals in a variety of fields that have an interest in urban studies.

Housing Urban America

Author : Jon Pynoos
Publisher : AldineTransaction
ISBN 13 : 0202320111
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Housing Urban America written by Jon Pynoos and published by AldineTransaction. This book was released on 1980 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of housing: an increasingly difficult quest in the contemporary urban United States, where crime, urban blight, and continuing capital decay undercut the advantages of city living. The American dream has moved to the suburbs; the nightmare of our cities prompts new recognition both in the president's cabinet and the college curriculum. The editors of this book have updated their acclaimed earlier collection, providing new introductory articles; new papers, such as, Discrimination in Housing Prices and Mortgage Lending, A Summary Report of Current Findings from the Experimental Housing Allowance Program, Alternative Mortgage Designs and Their Effectiveness in Eliminating Demand and Supply Effects on Inflation; and a new bibliography of the literature. Additional chapters focus on differing strategies for improved urban housing and renewal by providing concrete suggestions for distributing existing resources and allocating new funding. The bibliography provides the best single guide to the current literature on housing. Housing Urban America, in this new edition, is an important guide to those students and scholars fascinated by the essential questions of adequate housing: its social costs, and the source of the revenues to provide it.

The Social Impacts of Urban Containment

Author : Arthur C. Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317015673
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Social Impacts of Urban Containment written by Arthur C. Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the policies that has been most widely used to try to limit urban sprawl has been that of urban containment. These policies are planning controls limiting the growth of cities in an attempt to preserve open rural uses, such as habitat, agriculture and forestry, in urban regions. While there has been a substantial amount of research into these urban containment policies, most have focused on issues of land use, consumption, transportation impacts or economic development issues. This book examines the effects of urban containment policies on key social issues, such as housing, wealth building and creation, racial segregation and gentrification. It argues that, while the policies make important contributions to environmental sustainability, they also affect affordability for all the economic groups of citizens aside from the most wealthy. However, it also puts forward suggestions for revising such policies to counter these possible negative social impacts. As such, it will be valuable reading for scholars of environmental planning, social policy and regional development, as well as for policy makers.