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Neighborhood and Life Chances
How Place Matters in Modern America
Av Harriet B. Newburger, Eugenie L. Birch m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
554 kr
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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? The importance of place is increasingly recognized in urban research as an important variable in understanding individual and household outcomes. Place …
Blues for New Orleans
Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul
E-bok, 2010
415 kr
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea, as the city in which some of the most important …
Other Philadelphia Story
How Local Congregations Support Quality of Life in Urban America
Av Ram A. Cnaan
E-bok, 2010
1157 kr
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For people living in U.S. cities, social services come not only from the government but increasingly also from local religious communities. Ever since the Clinton administration's welfare reform, faith-based institutions, and especially congregations, have been allowed to bid for federal funds for …
Growing Greener Cities
Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
Av Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter
E-bok, 2011
688 kr
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Nineteenth-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted described his most famous project, the design of New York's Central Park, as "a democratic development of highest significance." Over the years, the significance of green in civic life has grown. In twenty-first-century America, not only …
American Mortgage System
Crisis and Reform
Av Susan M. Wachter, Marvin M. Smith
E-bok, 2011
615 kr
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Successful home ownership requires the availability of appropriate mortgage products. In the years leading up to the collapse of the housing market, home buyers frequently accepted mortgages that were not only wrong for them but catastrophic for the economy as a whole. When the housing market …
Global Urbanization
Av Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter
E-bok, 2011
1132 kr
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For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in urban areas. Much of this urbanization has been fueled by the rapidly growing cities of the developing world, exemplified most dramatically by booming megacities such as Lagos, Karachi, and Mumbai. In the coming years, …
Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Av Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter
E-bok, 2013
1027 kr
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Disasters-natural ones, such as hurricanes, floods, or earthquakes, and unnatural ones such as terrorist attacks-are part of the American experience in the twenty-first century. The challenges of preparing for these events, withstanding their impact, and rebuilding communities afterward require …
Urban Tomographies
E-bok, 2011
766 kr
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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-dimensional slices or images of a three-dimensional organ are used to envision the organ itself. Urban tomography applies the same approach to the …
Women's Health and the World's Cities
Av Afaf Ibrahim Meleis, Eugenie L. Birch m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
554 kr
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Growing urbanization affects women and men in fundamentally different ways, but the relationship between gender and city environments has been ignored or misunderstood. Women and men play different roles, frequent different public areas, and face different health risks. Women suffer …
Why Don't American Cities Burn?
E-bok, 2012
415 kr
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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 horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American neighborhood of North Philadelphia-one of seven homicides to occur in the city that …
Beat Cop to Top Cop
A Tale of Three Cities
E-bok, 2011
519 kr
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Born in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Dublin, John F. Timoney moved to New York with his family in 1961. Not long after graduating from high school in the Bronx, he entered the New York City Police Department, quickly rising through the ranks to become the youngest four-star chief in the …
Design After Decline
How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities
E-bok, 2012
493 kr
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Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities-Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others-began shedding people and jobs. Today they are littered with tens of thousands of abandoned houses, shuttered factories, and vacant lots. With population and housing losses continuing in the …
Divided Cities
Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia
Av Jon Calame, Esther Charlesworth
E-bok, 2011
479 kr
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In Jerusalem, Israeli and Jordanian militias patrolled a fortified, impassable Green Line from 1948 until 1967. In Nicosia, two walls and a buffer zone have segregated Turkish and Greek Cypriots since 1963. In Belfast, "peaceline" barricades have separated working-class Catholics and Protestants …
Against the Wall
Poor, Young, Black, and Male
E-bok, 2011
489 kr
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleTypically residing in areas of concentrated urban poverty, too many young black men are trapped in a horrific cycle that includes active discrimination, unemployment, violence, crime, prison, and early death. This toxic mixture has given …
My Storm
Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
E-bok, 2012
654 kr
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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 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment …
City After Abandonment
Av Margaret Dewar, June Manning Thomas
E-bok, 2012
1451 kr
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A number of U.S. cities, former manufacturing centers of the Northeast and Midwest, have suffered such dramatic losses in population and employment that urban experts have put them in a class by themselves, calling them "rustbelt cities," "shrinking cities," and more recently "legacy cities." This …
Making New York Dominican
Small Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
E-bok, 2012
1157 kr
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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 the city's Dominican population has been staggering, now accounting for around 7 percent of the total populace. How have Dominicans influenced New …
Miami Transformed
Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time
Av Manny Diaz
E-bok, 2012
424 kr
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Six-year-old Manuel Diaz and his mother first arrived at Miami's airport in 1961 with little more than a dime for a phone call to their relatives in the Little Havana neighborhood. Forty years after his flight from Castro's Cuba, attorney Manny Diaz became mayor of the City of Miami. Toward the end …
Sound, Space, and the City
Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles
E-bok, 2012
489 kr
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On summer nights on downtown Los Angeles's Bunker Hill, Grand Performances presents free public concerts for the people of the city. A hip hop orchestra, a mariachi musician, an Afropop singer, and a Chinese modern dance company are just a few examples of the eclectic range of artists employed to …
Ed Bacon
Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia
E-bok, 2013
493 kr
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In the mid-twentieth century, as Americans abandoned city centers in droves to pursue picket-fenced visions of suburbia, architect and urban planner Edmund Bacon turned his sights on shaping urban America. As director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, Bacon forged new approaches to …
Policy, Planning, and People
Promoting Justice in Urban Development
Av Naomi Carmon, Susan S. Fainstein
E-bok, 2013
940 kr
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The contributors of Policy, Planning, and People argue for the promotion of social equity and quality of life by designing and evaluating urban policies and plans. Edited by Naomi Carmon and Susan S. Fainstein, the volume features original essays by leading authorities in the field of urban …
Disaster Experts
Mastering Risk in Modern America
E-bok, 2012
479 kr
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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 more about the hazards of modern American life than ever before, yet the nation faces ever-increasing losses from such events? History shows that …
Global Downtowns
Av Marina Peterson, Gary McDonogh
E-bok, 2012
554 kr
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Global Downtowns reconsiders one of the defining features of urban life-the energy and exuberance that characterize downtown areas-within a framework of contemporary globalization and change. It analyzes the iconic centers of global cities through individual case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa, …
Locked in, Locked Out
Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City
E-bok, 2013
1027 kr
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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. federal system-became a gated community. Once the exclusive privilege of the city's affluent residents, gates now not only locked "undesirables" out but …
Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's Jobs in Metropolitan America
E-bok, 2012
976 kr
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Education, long the key to opportunity in the United States, has become simply essential to earning a decent living. By 2018, 63 percent of all jobs will require at least some postsecondary education or training. Teachers and civic leaders stress the value of study through high school and beyond, …
Revitalizing American Cities
Av Susan M. Wachter, Kimberly A. Zeuli
E-bok, 2013
1157 kr
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Small and midsized cities played a key role in the Industrial Revolution in the United States as hubs for the shipping, warehousing, and distribution of manufactured products. But as the twentieth century brought cheaper transportation and faster communication, these cities were hit hard by …
Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Av Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter
Häftad, 2006
805 kr
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Disasters-natural ones, such as hurricanes, floods, or earthquakes, and unnatural ones such as terrorist attacks-are part of the American experience in the twenty-first century. The challenges of preparing for these events, withstanding their impact, and rebuilding communities afterward require …
Against the Wall
Poor, Young, Black, and Male
Häftad, 2009
388 kr
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleTypically residing in areas of concentrated urban poverty, too many young black men are trapped in a horrific cycle that includes active discrimination, unemployment, violence, crime, prison, and early death. This toxic mixture has given …
Growing Greener Cities
Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century
Av Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter
Häftad, 2008
514 kr
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Nineteenth-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted described his most famous project, the design of New York's Central Park, as "a democratic development of highest significance." Over the years, the significance of green in civic life has grown. In twenty-first-century America, not only …
Divided Cities
Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia
Av Jon Calame, Esther Charlesworth
Häftad, 2012
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
388 kr
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In Jerusalem, Israeli and Jordanian militias patrolled a fortified, impassable Green Line from 1948 until 1967. In Nicosia, two walls and a buffer zone have segregated Turkish and Greek Cypriots since 1963. In Belfast, "peaceline" barricades have separated working-class Catholics and Protestants …
