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Author : William Gorham
Publisher : The Urban Insitute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Urban Predicament written by William Gorham and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 1976 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Gorham
Publisher : Urban Inst Press
ISBN 13 : 9780877661610
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (616 download)
Download or read book The Urban Predicament written by William Gorham and published by Urban Inst Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Gorham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Urban Predicament written by William Gorham and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Ray Papke
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628953527
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Containment and Condemnation written by David Ray Papke and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The populations of American cities have always included poor people, but the predicament of the urban poor has worsened over time. Their social capital, that is, the connections and organizations that traditionally enabled them to form communities, has shredded. Economically comfortable Americans have come to increasingly care less about the plight of the urban poor and to think of them in terms of “us and them.” Considered lazy paupers in the early nineteenth century, the urban poor came to be seen as a violent criminal “underclass” by the end of the twentieth. Living primarily in the nation’s deindustrialized inner cities and making up nearly 15 percent of the population, today’s urban poor are oppressed people living in the midst of American affluence. This book examines how law works for, against, and with regard to the urban poor, with “law” being understood broadly to include not only laws but also legal proceedings and institutions. Law is too complicated and variable to be seen as simply a club used to beat down the urban poor, but it does work largely in negative ways for them. An essential text for both law students and those drawn to areas of social justice, Containment and Condemnation shows how law helps create, expand, and perpetuate contemporary urban poverty.
Author : Peter L'Official
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674238079
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Urban Legends written by Peter L'Official and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of the South Bronx that reaches beyond familiar narratives of urban ruin and renaissance, beyond the “inner city” symbol, to reveal the place and people obscured by its myths. For decades, the South Bronx was America’s “inner city.” Synonymous with civic neglect, crime, and metropolitan decay, the Bronx became the preeminent symbol used to proclaim the failings of urban places and the communities of color who lived in them. Images of its ruins—none more infamous than the one broadcast live during the 1977 World Series: a building burning near Yankee Stadium—proclaimed the failures of urbanism. Yet this same South Bronx produced hip hop, arguably the most powerful artistic and cultural innovation of the past fifty years. Two narratives—urban crisis and cultural renaissance—have dominated understandings of the Bronx and other urban environments. Today, as gentrification transforms American cities economically and demographically, the twin narratives structure our thinking about urban life. A Bronx native, Peter L’Official draws on literature and the visual arts to recapture the history, people, and place beyond its myths and legends. Both fact and symbol, the Bronx was not a decades-long funeral pyre, nor was hip hop its lone cultural contribution. L’Official juxtaposes the artist Gordon Matta-Clark’s carvings of abandoned buildings with the city’s trompe l’oeil decals program; examines the centrality of the Bronx’s infamous Charlotte Street to two Hollywood films; offers original readings of novels by Don DeLillo and Tom Wolfe; and charts the emergence of a “global Bronx” as graffiti was brought into galleries and exhibited internationally, promoting a symbolic Bronx abroad. Urban Legends presents a new cultural history of what it meant to live, work, and create in the Bronx.
Author : A. J. Scott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135686963
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book The Urban Land Nexus and the State written by A. J. Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was first published in 1980. In this book, the author has tried to establish the main guidelines of a determinate analysis of the phenomena of urbanization and planning, in two principal stages. Firstly, the attempt to identify something of the broad social structure and logic within which these phenomena are embedded, and from which they ultimately draw their character. Second, to attempt to discover in detail the ways in which these phenomena appear within society, assume a specific internal order, and change through time.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438113498
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Tennessee Williams, Updated Edition written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays on Williams and his works, arranged in chronological order of publication.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Preconference activities - State, regional and other reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raquel Rolnik
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788731611
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Urban Warfare written by Raquel Rolnik and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How finance and politics have caused the global housing crisis The most comprehensive survey of the current crisis, Urban Warfare charts how the financial crisis and wider urban politics have left millions homeless and in financial desperation across the world. The financialization of housing has become a global catastrophe, leaving millions desperate and homeless. Since the 2008 financial collapse, models of home ownership, originating in the US and UK, are being exported around the world. Using examples from across the globe, Rolnik shows how our cities have been sold to construction companies and banks, while supported by government-facilitated schemes, such as “the right to buy” subsidies and micro-financing. Our homes and neighbourhoods have become the “last subprime frontiers of capitalism,” organised by those who benefit the most.
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Fiscal and Intergovernmental Policy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Is the Urban Crisis Over? written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Fiscal and Intergovernmental Policy and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Department of Justice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book "Equal Justice Under Law." written by United States. Department of Justice and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of addresses by prominent authorities on legal topics relating to the Bicentennial.
Author : Pamela N. Corey
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295749245
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)
Download or read book The City in Time written by Pamela N. Corey and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The City in Time, Pamela N. Corey provides new ways of understanding contemporary artistic practices in a region that continues to linger in international perceptions as perpetually “postwar.” Focusing on art from the last two decades, Corey connects artistic developments with social transformations as reflected through the urban landscapes of Ho Chi Minh City and Phnom Penh. As she argues, artists’ engagements with urban space and form reveal ways of grasping multiple and layered senses and concepts of time, whether aligned with colonialism, postcolonial modernity, communism, or postsocialism. The City in Time traces the process through which collective memory and aspiration are mapped onto landscape and built space to shed light on how these vibrant Southeast Asian cities shape artistic practices as the art simultaneously consolidates the city as image and imaginary. Featuring a dynamic array of creative productions that include staged and documentary photography, the moving image, and public performance and installation, The City in Time illustrates how artists from Vietnam and Cambodia have envisioned their rapidly changing worlds.
Author : United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Public Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book News Release written by United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Public Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1967-07 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. Brent Plate
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472595483
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Key Terms in Material Religion written by S. Brent Plate and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Material religion is a rapidly growing field, and this volume offers an accessible, critical entry into these new areas of research. Each "key term" uses case studies and is accompanied by a color image – an object, practice, space, or site. The entries cut across geographies, histories, and traditions, offering a versatile and engaging text for the classroom. Key topics covered include: - Icon, ritual, magic, gender, race - Sacred, spirit, technology, - Space, belief, body, brain - Taste, touch, smell, sound, vision Each entry demonstrates in clear and jargon-free prose how the key term figures prominently in understanding the materiality of religion. Written by leading international scholars, all entries are linked by the ways materiality stands at the forefront of the understanding of religion, whether that comes from humanistic, social scientific, artistic, curatorial, or other perspectives. Brent Plate brings his expertise and extensive teaching experience to the comprehensive introduction which introduces students to the themes and methods of the material cultural study of religion. Key Terms in Material Religion provides a much-needed resource for courses on theory and method in religious studies, the anthropology of religion, and the ever-increasing number of courses focused on material religion.
Author : George C. Galster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351479520
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Metropolis in Black and White written by George C. Galster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Metropolis in Black and White highlights a stark fact: America's metropolitan areas are more polarized along racial lines than at any time since the mid-1960s. Though urban areas have become multicultural, the editors argue that black-white racial differences will outlast ethnic differences in metropolitan America and that the race issue in most urban areas is perceived as a black-white one. Galster and Hill perceive that the theme of place, power, and polarization is most powerful when blacks and whites are contrasted. African Americans, on average, are the poorest, most segregated, most disadvantaged urban racial (or ethnic) group, because they are deeply entangled in the web of interrelationships connecting place, power, and polarization. Since these interrelationships form a comprehensive set of social structures that oppress African Americans, they can be judged to be racist at their core. Race, not merely class, continues to play a pivotal role in shaping urban African Americans. In clear analyses, the contributors examine employment, income, the underclass, education, housing, health and mortality, political participation, and racial politics. Intertwined themes of spatial isolation, political empowerment, and racial disparities-place, power, and polarization-guide the analyses. Thisis a vital text for courses in urban affairs, American studies, economics, geography, sociology, political science, urban planning, and racial and ethnic studies. In clear analyses, the contributors examine employment, income, the underclass, education, housing, health and mortality, political participation, and racial politics. Intertwined themes of spatial isolation, political empowerment, and racial disparities-place, power, and polarization-guide the analyses. This is a vital text for courses in urban affairs, American studies, economics, geography, sociology, political science, urban planning, and racial and ethnic studies.
Author : Michael Neuman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000513696
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Sustainable Infrastructure for Cities and Societies written by Michael Neuman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central role of infrastructure to cities, and in particular their sustainability, is essential for proper planning and design since most energy and materials are themselves consumed by or through infrastructures. Moreover, infrastructures of all types affect matters of economic and social equity, due to access that they provide or prevent. Sustainable Infrastructure for Cities and Societies shows how fundamental planning, design, finance, and governance principles can be adapted for sustainable infrastructure to provide solutions to make cities significantly more sustainable. By providing a contemporary overview on infrastructure, cities, planning, economies, and sustainability, the book addresses how to plan, design, finance, and manage infrastructure in ways that reduce consumption and harmful impacts while maintaining and improving life quality. It considers the interrelationships between the economic, political, societal, and institutional frameworks, providing an integrative approach including livability and sustainability, principles and practice, and planning and design. It further translates these approaches that professionals, policymakers, and leaders can use. This approach gives the book wide appeal for students, researchers, and practitioners hoping to build a more sustainable world.
Author : Derek Hyra
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520401468
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Slow and Sudden Violence written by Derek Hyra and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra weaves together a persuasive unrest narrative, linking police aggression to an ongoing cycle of racial and spatial urban redevelopment repression. By delving into the real estate history of the St. Louis region and Baltimore, Hyra shows how rounds of urban renewal decisions to segregate, divest, displace, and gentrify Black communities advance neighborhood inequality. Despite moments of racial political representation, repeated decisions to 'upgrade' the urban fabric and uproot low-income Black populations, result in Black poverty pockets inhabited by people experiencing chronic displacement trauma and unrelenting police surveillance. These interconnected sets of accumulated frustrations powerfully culminate and surface when tragic and unjust police killings occur. To confront the core components of U.S. unrest, Hyra suggests we must end racialized policing, stop Black community destruction and displacement, and reduce neighborhood inequality"--
