Neighborhood and Life Chances

• Paperback | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• Does the place where you lived as a child affect your health as an adult? To what degree does your neighbor's success influence your own potential? Th... Lees meer

Governing the Fragmented Metropolis

Christina D Rosan

• Hardcover | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• Today the challenges facing our nation's metropolitan regions are enormous: demographic change, aging infrastructure, climate change mitigation and ad... Lees meer

Why Don't American Cities Burn?

Michael B Katz

• Paperback | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horri... Lees meer

Ed Bacon

Gregory L Heller

• Paperback | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• In the mid-twentieth century, as Americans abandoned city centers in droves to pursue picket-fenced visions of suburbia, architect and urban planner E... Lees meer

Principles of Housing Finance Reform

• Hardcover | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• In the fall of 2008, the world watched in horror as the U.S. housing finance system shattered, triggering a global financial panic and ultimately the ... Lees meer

Locked In, Locked Out

Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores

• Hardcover | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• In November 1993, the largest public housing project in the Puerto Rican city of Ponce--the second largest public housing authority in the U.S. federa... Lees meer

My Storm

Edward J Blakely

• Hardcover | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's... Lees meer

Shared Prosperity in America's Communities

• Hardcover | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• While the nation's GDP has doubled in the last thirty years, significant increases in family income have been restricted to a small subset of the Amer... Lees meer

The Disaster Experts

Scott Gabriel Knowles

• Paperback | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• In the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, many are asking what, if anything, can be done to prevent large-scale disasters. How is it that we know mor... Lees meer

Making New York Dominican

Christian Krohn-Hansen

• Hardcover | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• Large-scale emigration from the Dominican Republic began in the early 1960s, with most Dominicans settling in New York City. Since then the growth of ... Lees meer

Revitalizing American Cities

• Hardcover | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• Small and midsized cities played a key role in the Industrial Revolution in the United States as hubs for the shipping, warehousing, and distribution ... Lees meer

Urban Tomographies

Martin H Krieger

• Hardcover | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• Tomography is a method of exploring a phenomenon through a large number of examples or perspectives. In medical tomography, such as a CAT scan, two-di... Lees meer

America's Waterfront Revival

Peter Hendee Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• Since the early years of the twentieth century, public authorities have been providing an enormous share of the public infrastructure in the United St... Lees meer

How Real Estate Developers Think

Peter Hendee Brown

• Hardcover | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• Cities are always changing: streets, infrastructure, public spaces, and buildings are constantly being built, improved, demolished, and replaced. But ... Lees meer

Street Commerce

Andres Sevtsuk

• Hardcover | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• A comprehensive analysis of the issues involved in planning for and facilitating successful street commerce Street commerce has gained prominence in u... Lees meer

Design After Decline

Brent D Ryan

• Paperback | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities--Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others--began shedding people and jobs. Today th... Lees meer

Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics

Chandan Deuskar

• Hardcover | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• In many rapidly urbanizing countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, local politics undermines the effectiveness of urban planning. Politicians ha... Lees meer

The Other Philadelphia Story

Ram A Cnaan

• Hardcover | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• For people living in U.S. cities, social services come not only from the government but increasingly also from local religious communities. Ever since... Lees meer

Public Pensions and City Solvency

• Hardcover | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• Underfunded pension liabilities threaten the fiscal stability of many cities. While Detroit's bankruptcy has dominated the headlines, the problem is w... Lees meer

The Paradox of Urban Revitalization

Howard Gillette

• Hardcover | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• In the twenty-first century, cities in the United States that had suffered most the shift to a postindustrial era entered a period widely proclaimed a... Lees meer

Against the Wall

• Paperback | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Typically residing in areas of concentrated urban poverty, too many young black men are t... Lees meer

How Real Estate Developers Think

Peter Hendee Brown

• Paperback | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• Cities are always changing: streets, infrastructure, public spaces, and buildings are constantly being built, improved, demolished, and replaced. But ... Lees meer

Mayor

Michael A Nutter

• Hardcover | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• In 2007, after serving almost fifteen years on the Philadelphia City Council, Michael A. Nutter became the ninety-eighth mayor of his hometown of Phil... Lees meer

The University & Urban Revival

Judith Rodin

• Hardcover | Engels | City in the Twenty-First Century
• In the last quarter of the twentieth century, urban colleges and universities found themselves enveloped by the poverty, crime, and physical decline t... Lees meer