Shelter and Society

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Dissatisfied with the performance of government and the for-profit sector in the provision of low-income housing, housing policymakers have increasing... Lees meer

Contracting Out for Human Services

Ruth H 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
• J. John Palen is Professor of Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth University. His publications include The Urban World, City Scenes: Problems and Prosp... Lees meer

Gentrification, Displacement, and Neighborhood Revitalization

• Hardcover | 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
• At the University of Missouri at St. Louis, Margaret Sherrard Sherraden is Professor of Social Work, and Cynthia K. Sanders is Assistant Professor of ... Lees meer

On Narrow Ground

Scott a Bollens

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Scott A. Bollens is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of California, Irvine. His previous boo... Lees meer

Economic Development in American Cities

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Michael I. J. Bennett is Associate Professor of Sociology and Executive Director of the Monsignor John J. Egan Urban Center at DePaul University. He i... 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
• Kenneth K. Wong is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Chicago. Previously, he co-authored When Federalism Works . Lees meer

Transporting Atlanta

Miriam Konrad

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Miriam Konrad is Lecturer of Sociology at Georgia State University. Lees meer

The Sometime Connection

Elaine B Sharp

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Elaine B. Sharp is Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas. She is the author of several books, including Culture Wars and City Pol... Lees meer

Sprawl & Politics

John W Frece

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• At the University of Maryland, John W. Frece is Associate Director of the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education. He is the coeditor ... Lees meer

Kitchen Capitalism

Margaret Sherrard Sherraden, Cynthia K Sanders, Michael Sherraden

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Businesses come to life as owners are allowed to speak in their own words in this first in-depth examination of self-employment told from the perspect... Lees meer

Selling Cities

David P Varady, Jeffrey A Raffel

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Selling Cities takes the optimistic position that cities can be revitalized by attracting and retaining the middle class. The authors, experienced pol... 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
• David P. Varady is an Associate Professor in the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati. Lees meer

Business Improvement Districts and the Shape of American Cities

Jerry Mitchell

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Jerry Mitchell is Professor of Public Affairs at Baruch College, the City University of New York, and the author of The American Experiment with Gover... Lees meer

Shutdown at Youngstown

Terry F Buss, F Stevens Redburn

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Terry F. Buss is Director of the Center for Urban Studies at Youngstown State University. F. Stevens Redburn is Social Science Research Analyst at the... Lees meer

The Politics of Capital Investment

Carolyn T Adams

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• This book examines both the politics and products of the public investment process in one of America's largest cities. It broadens the scope of contem... Lees meer

Gangs

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Urban Public Policy
• Scott Cummings is Professor of Urban Policy in the Institute of Urban and Public Affairs at the University of Louisville. He is the editor of the Jour... 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. Lees meer

The Organization of Hope

Howell S Baum

• Hardcover | 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