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Urban America in Transformation

Author : Benjamin Kleinberg
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Urban America in Transformation written by Benjamin Kleinberg and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban America in Transformation analyzes the changing federal system of urban policy making as an evolving complex of interorganizational networks and relates it to the restructuring of American urbanism over the past half century. Comparing the major perspectives (ecological and Marxist), the book provides a thorough review of the evolution of the urban policy system in the 20th century, and explores its significance for the postindustrial transition of older big cities. This book is timely and innovative in its approach and suggests a new method of analyzing the federal system of urban-related policy making. Advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in policy studies, political science, sociology, and urban planning will find this book to be an innovative and valuable contribution to the field.

Cities in the Third Wave

Author : Leonard I. Ruchelman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742539099
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Cities in the Third Wave written by Leonard I. Ruchelman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities in the Third Wave surveys the remarkable transformation that is taking place in urban America. In the belief that technology is the force that has created and recast cities throughout history, this book addresses the important question of how the modern-day technology affects cities today and how it will shape cities in the future.

Saving Our Cities

Author : William W. Goldsmith
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501706039
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Saving Our Cities written by William W. Goldsmith and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived cities and suburbs, working as places that serve all their residents, metropolitan areas will thrive, thus making the national economy more productive, the environment better protected, the citizenry better educated, and the society more reflective, sensitive, and humane. Goldsmith argues that America has been in the habit of abusing its cities and their poorest suburbs, which are always the first to be blamed for society’s ills and the last to be helped. As federal and state budgets, regulations, and programs line up with the interests of giant corporations and privileged citizens, they impose austerity on cities, shortchange public schools, make it hard to get nutritious food, and inflict the drug war on unlucky neighborhoods. Frustration with inequality is spreading. Parents and teachers call persistently for improvements in public schooling, and education experiments abound. Nutrition indicators have begun to improve, as rising health costs and epidemic obesity have led to widespread attention to food. The futility of the drug war and the high costs of unwarranted, unprecedented prison growth have become clear. Goldsmith documents a positive development: progressive politicians in many cities and some states are proposing far-reaching improvements, supported by advocacy groups that form powerful voting blocs, ensuring that Congress takes notice. When more cities forcefully demand enlightened federal and state action on these four interrelated problems—inequality, schools, food, and the drug war—positive movement will occur in traditional urban planning as well, so as to meet the needs of most residents for improved housing, better transportation, and enhanced public spaces.

The Making of Urban America

Author : Raymond A. Mohl
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842026390
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (263 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 1997 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition is designed to introduce students of urban history to recent interpretive literature in this field. Its goal is to provide a coherent framework for understanding the pattern of American urbanization, while at the same time offering specific examples of the work of historians in the field.

Designing Urban Transformation

Author : Aseem Inam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135006393
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Designing Urban Transformation written by Aseem Inam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While designers possess the creative capabilities of shaping cities, their often-singular obsession with form and aesthetics actually reduces their effectiveness as they are at the mercy of more powerful generators of urban form. In response to this paradox, Designing Urban Transformation addresses the incredible potential of urban practice to radically change cities for the better. The book focuses on a powerful question, "What can urbanism be?" by arguing that the most significant transformations occur by fundamentally rethinking concepts, practices, and outcomes. Drawing inspiration from the philosophical movement known as Pragmatism, the book proposes three conceptual shifts for transformative urban practice: (a) beyond material objects: city as flux, (b) beyond intentions: consequences of design, and (c) beyond practice: urbanism as creative political act. Pragmatism encourages us to consider how we can make deeper and more systemic changes and how urbanism itself can be a design strategy for such transformations. To illuminate how these conceptual shifts operate in vastly different contexts through analysis of transformative urban initiatives and projects in Belo Horizonte, Boston, Cairo, Karachi, Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Paris. The book is a rare integration of theory and practice that proposes essential ways of rethinking city-design-and-building processes, while drawing critical lessons from actual examples of such processes.

Self-reliant Cities

Author : David J. Morris
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Self-reliant Cities written by David J. Morris and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1982 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban America in the Eighties

Author : Donald A. Hicks
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412840781
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Urban America in the Eighties written by Donald A. Hicks and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Washington by the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties in 1980.

Ethnoburb

Author : Wei Li
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824830652
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Ethnoburb written by Wei Li and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2009 Book Award in Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies This innovative work provides a new model for the analysis of ethnic and racial settlement patterns in the United States and Canada. Ethnoburbs—suburban ethnic clusters of residential areas and business districts in large metropolitan areas—are multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual, and often multinational communities in which one ethnic minority group has a significant concentration but does not necessarily constitute a majority. Wei Li documents the processes that have evolved with the spatial transformation of the Chinese American community of Los Angeles and that have converted the San Gabriel Valley into ethnoburbs in the latter half of the twentieth century, and she examines the opportunities and challenges that occurred as a result of these changes. Traditional ethnic and immigrant settlements customarily take the form of either ghettos or enclaves. Thus the majority of scholarly publications and mass media covering the San Gabriel Valley has described it as a Chinatown located in Los Angeles’ suburbs. Li offers a completely different approach to understanding and analyzing this fascinating place. By conducting interviews with residents, a comparative spatial examination of census data and other statistical sources, and fieldwork—coupled with her own holistic view of the area—Li gives readers an effective and fine-tuned socio-spatial analysis of the evolution of a new type of racially defined place. The San Gabriel Valley tells a unique story, but its evolution also speaks to those experiencing a similar type of ethnic and racial conurbation. In sum, Li sheds light on processes that are shaping other present (and future) ethnically and racially diverse communities. The concept of the ethnoburb has redefined the way geographers and other scholars think about ethnic space, place, and process. This book will contribute significantly to both theoretical and empirical studies of immigration by presenting a more intensive and thorough "take" on arguments about spatial and social processes in urban and suburban America.

The Divided City

Author : Alan Mallach
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610917812
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Divided City written by Alan Mallach and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Divided City, urban practitioner and scholar Alan Mallach presents a detailed picture of what has happened over the past 15 to 20 years in industrial cities like Pittsburgh and Baltimore, as they have undergone unprecedented, unexpected revival. He spotlights these changes while placing them in their larger economic, social and political context. Most importantly, he explores the pervasive significance of race in American cities, and looks closely at the successes and failures of city governments, nonprofit entities, and citizens as they have tried to address the challenges of change. The Divided City concludes with strategies to foster greater equality and opportunity, firmly grounding them in the cities' economic and political realities.

Strangers at the Gates

Author : Roger Waldinger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520230934
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Strangers at the Gates written by Roger Waldinger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-10-10 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays look at U.S. immigration and the nexus between urban realities and immigrant destinies. They argue that immigration today is fundamentaly urban and that immigrants are flocking to places where low-skilled workers are in trouble.

Urban Economics and Land Use in America: The Transformation of Cities in the Twentieth Century

Author : Alan Rabinowitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317452801
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Urban Economics and Land Use in America: The Transformation of Cities in the Twentieth Century written by Alan Rabinowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the reality of place in America, the events and influences that led to the America we recognize today. It is a book about the growth of American cities and their suburbs during the twentieth century, about institutions and metropolitan governance, about real estate development and finance, about housing and the lack of it, about the emergence and perhaps the eventual debilitation of cities and suburbs alike. Incorporating the thinking of visionary city planners and land use economists, the author presents a lucid primer on the economics of land, its development and usage, and on how things actually get done in the real estate industry.

Urban America in the Eighties

Author : United States. Panel on Policies and Prospects for Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Urban America in the Eighties written by United States. Panel on Policies and Prospects for Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban America

Author : Bayrd Still
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Urban America written by Bayrd Still and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban America in the Eighties

Author : United States. Panel on Policies and Priorities for Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Urban America in the Eighties written by United States. Panel on Policies and Priorities for Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Areas and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Urban Transformations in the U.S.A.

Author : Julia Sattler
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839431115
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis Urban Transformations in the U.S.A. by : Julia Sattler

Download or read book Urban Transformations in the U.S.A. written by Julia Sattler and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2016-01-31 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did American cities change throughout the 20th and early 21st century? This timely publication integrates research from American Literary and Cultural Studies, Urban Studies and History. The essays range from negotiations of the »ethnic city« in US literature and media, to studies of recent urban phenomena and their representations: gentrification, re-appropriation and conversion of urban spaces in the USA. These interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives on American cities provide unique points of access for studying the complex narratives of urban transformation.

Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends

Author : Charlotte Brooks
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226075990
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends written by Charlotte Brooks and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors evolved from outright hostility to relative acceptance. Charlotte Brooks examines this transformation through the lens of California’s urban housing markets, arguing that the perceived foreignness of Asian Americans, which initially stranded them in segregated areas, eventually facilitated their integration into neighborhoods that rejected other minorities. Against the backdrop of cold war efforts to win Asian hearts and minds, whites who saw little difference between Asians and Asian Americans increasingly advocated the latter group’s access to middle-class life and the residential areas that went with it. But as they transformed Asian Americans into a “model minority,” whites purposefully ignored the long backstory of Chinese and Japanese Americans’ early and largely failed attempts to participate in public and private housing programs. As Brooks tells this multifaceted story, she draws on a broad range of sources in multiple languages, giving voice to an array of community leaders, journalists, activists, and homeowners—and insightfully conveying the complexity of racialized housing in a multiracial society.

Urban America: Growth, Crisis, and Rebirth

Author : John Mcdonald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317452860
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Urban America: Growth, Crisis, and Rebirth written by John Mcdonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will change the way Americans think about their cities. It provides a comprehensive economic and social history of urban America since 1950, covering the 29 largest urban areas of that period. Specifically, the book covers 17 cities in the Northeast, 6 in the South, and 6 in the West, decade by decade, with extensive data and historical narrative. The author divides his analysis into three periods - urban growth (1950 to 1970), urban crisis (late 1960s to 1990), and urban rebirth (since 1990). He draws on the concepts of the vicious circle and the virtuous circle to offer the first in-depth explanation for the transition from urban crisis to urban rebirth that took place in the early 1990s. "Urban America" is both a message of hope and a call to action for students and professionals in urban studies. It will inspire readers to concentrate on finding ways and means to ensure that the urban rebirth will continue.