Contracting Out for Human Services

Ruth H de de Hoog

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Contracting out for services has become a popular technique in government's perennial quest to cut spending. Yet seldom has the practice been examined... Lees meer

Sprawl & Politics

John W Frece

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Sprawl and Politics is a political history of the origin, enactment, and implementation of Maryland's well-known Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conserv... Lees meer

Gentrification, Displacement, and Neighborhood Revitalization

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Bringing an empirical, objective approach to a topic that has often been the source of emotional and uninformed controversy, Gentrification, Displacem... Lees meer

Kitchen Capitalism

Margaret Sherrard Sherraden, Cynthia K Sanders, Michael Sherraden

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• The first in-depth examination of self-employment from the perspectives of low-income entrepreneurs. Businesses come to life as owners are allowed to ... Lees meer

On Narrow Ground

Scott a Bollens

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Uses case studies of Jerusalem and Belfast to explore how cities function in the midst of nationalistic conflict. Examining how nationalistic ethnic c... Lees meer

Economic Development in American Cities

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Evaluates the impact of equity investments in five cities during the 1990s. Economic Development in American Cities addresses the roles of municipal l... Lees meer

Under One Roof

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Americans with changing lifestyles, nontraditional households, and special needs and interests are increasingly looking for alternatives to the single... Lees meer

City Choices

Kenneth K Wong

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• City Choices argues that both economic concerns and political factors can be synthesized in a new framework in city policymaking. This synthesis is ba... Lees meer

The Sometime Connection

Elaine B Sharp

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Explores the role that public opinion plays in the development of social policy in the United States. CHOICE 2000 Outstanding Academic Title The Somet... Lees meer

Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair

Herbert J Rubin

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Builds upon the narratives of community development activists to describe how they bring about affordable, quality housing, commercial opportunities a... Lees meer

Neighborhood Upgrading

David P Varady

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Neighborhood Upgrading examines the effectiveness of government-subsidized housing rehabilitation programs in reversing patterns of neighborhood decli... Lees meer

Business Improvement Districts and the Shape of American Cities

Jerry Mitchell

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Examines the impact of business improvement districts on the quality of contemporary civic life. Jerry Mitchell provides a comprehensive analysis of b... Lees meer

Shutdown at Youngstown

Terry F Buss, F Stevens Redburn

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• In spite of the gravity of the problem of mass unemployment and its periodic recurrence in industrial societies, few scientific studies have been unde... Lees meer

Ideology and the Urban Crisis

Peter J Steinberger

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Ideology and the Urban Crisis explores the philosophical underpinnings of the contemporary debate surrounding the urban crisis. It examines three majo... Lees meer

The Urban Growth Machine

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Two decades after Harvey Molotch's "city as a growth machine," this book offers a unique, critical assessment of his thesis. Harvey Molotch's "city as... Lees meer

Gangs

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• This book is an examination of contemporary gangs in American cities. Gangs have proliferated over the past ten years and pose a new set of challenges... Lees meer

Housing and Community Development in New York City

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Provides a comprehensive, up-to-date description and analysis of the housing and neighborhood problems facing residents of the nation's largest city, ... Lees meer

The Federal Government and Urban Housing, Third Edition

R Allen Hays

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Since its initial publication, The Federal Government and Urban Housing has become a standard reference on the history of housing policy in the United... Lees meer

Revitalizing America's Cities

Michael H Schill, Richard P Nathan

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• In many American cities, middle and upper income people are moving into neighborhoods that had previously suffered disinvestment and decay. The new re... Lees meer

The Creation of a Federal Partnership

Margaret M Brassil

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• New perspective on state-level housing policy, how its role has grown in relation to the federal role. With the ongoing recession and housing crisis, ... Lees meer

Shelter and Society

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• An in-depth examination of the non-profit housing sector that covers theory, research, and policy. Dissatisfied with the performance of government and... Lees meer

Selling Cities

David P Varady, Jeffrey A Raffel

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Shows that cities can be revitalized by attracting and retaining the middle class through schools and housing programs. Selling Cities takes the optim... Lees meer

The Organization of Hope

Howell S Baum

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Analyzes the future of urban communities and presents models for community planning, taking into account different classes, ethnicities, and cultures.... Lees meer

Business Elites and Urban Development

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Written in a non-technical, narrative style, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone concerned with current trends in urban development. During... Lees meer