The Politics of Staying Put

Carolyn Gallaher

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• When cities gentrify, it can be hard for working-class and low-income residents to stay put. Rising rents and property taxes make buildings unaffordab... Lees meer

Believing in Cleveland

J Mark Souther

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Detractors have called it "The Mistake on the Lake." It was once America's "Comeback City." According to author J. Mark Souther, Cleveland has long so... Lees meer

A Nice Place to Visit

Aaron Cowan

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• How did tourism gain a central role in the postwar American Rustbelt city? And how did tourism development reshape the meaning and function of these c... Lees meer

Church and State in the City

William Issel

• Hardcover | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• How Catholic religious activism shaped the language and outcome of San Francisco's debates about over the common good and the public interest Lees meer

The War on Slums in the Southwest

Robert B Fairbanks

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• In The War on Slums in the Southwest , Robert Fairbanks provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plights i... Lees meer

The War on Slums in the Southwest

Robert B Fairbanks

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• In The War on Slums in the Southwest , Robert Fairbanks provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plights i... Lees meer

The Mutual Housing Experiment

Kristin M Szylvian

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• In 1940, the U.S. Federal Works Agency created an experimental housing program for industrial workers. Eight model communities were leased and later s... Lees meer

Bringing the Civic Back in

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• With the passing of Zane L. Miller in 2016, academia lost a renowned scholar and one of the key founders of new urban history--a branch of the discipl... Lees meer

To The City

Julia L. Foulkes

• Hardcover | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• New Deal photographs reveal the inexorable "pull of the city" even as they lament the demise of rural America Lees meer

Fire on the Prairie

Gary Rivlin

• Hardcover | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• A revised edition of the classic story of race and power, set in Chicago during the 1980s, when this most political of cities elected its first black ... Lees meer

Believing in Cleveland

J Mark Souther

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Detractors have called it "The Mistake on the Lake." It was once America's "Comeback City." According to author J. Mark Souther, Cleveland has long so... Lees meer

Second Cities

Jerome I Hodos

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Manchester, England, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, are what sociologist Jerome Hodos calls second cities--viable alternatives to well-known global c... Lees meer

Preserving the Vanishing City

Stephanie Ryberg-Webster

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Preserving the Vanishing City considers the unique challenges, conditions, and opportunities facing Cleveland's historic preservation community during... Lees meer

Constructing the Patriarchal City

Maureen A Flanagan

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• In the Anglo-Atlantic world of the late nineteenth century, groups of urban residents struggled to reconstruct their cities in the wake of industriali... Lees meer

Preserving the Vanishing City

Stephanie Ryberg-Webster

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Preserving the Vanishing City considers the unique challenges, conditions, and opportunities facing Cleveland's historic preservation community during... Lees meer

Bringing the Civic Back In

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• With the passing of Zane L. Miller in 2016, academia lost a renowned scholar and one of the key founders of new urban history-a branch of the discipli... Lees meer

Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown

Kathryn Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Philadelphia's Chinatown, like many urban chinatowns, began in the late nineteenth century as a refuge for immigrant laborers and merchants in which t... Lees meer

To the City

Julia L Foulkes

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• New Deal photographs reveal the inexorable pull of the city even as they lament the demise of rural America Lees meer

Democratizing Urban Development

Maureen M Donaghy

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Rising housing costs put secure and decent housing in central urban neighborhoods in peril. How do civil society organizations (CSOs) effectively dema... Lees meer

A Good Place to Do Business

Roger Biles, Mark H Rose

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• The "Pittsburgh Renaissance," an urban renewal effort launched in the late 1940s, transformed the smoky rust belt city's downtown. Working-class resid... Lees meer

Constructing the Patriarchal City

Maureen A Flanagan

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• In the Anglo-Atlantic world of the late nineteenth century, groups of urban residents struggled to reconstruct their cities in the wake of industriali... Lees meer

Patriotic Professionalism in Urban China

Lisa M Hoffman

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• In the post-Maoist era, China adopted a strategy for investing in the OC qualityOCO of its peopleOCothrough education and training opportunitiesOCotha... Lees meer

A Good Place to Do Business

Roger Biles

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• The "Pittsburgh Renaissance," an urban renewal effort launched in the late 1940s, transformed the smoky rust belt city's downtown. Working-class resid... Lees meer

Sinking Chicago

Harold L Platt

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• In Sinking Chicago, Harold Platt shows how people responded to climate change in one American city over a hundred-and-fifty-year period. During a long... Lees meer