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Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Av Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter
Häftad, 2006
909 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
441 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
607 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)
437 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 …
Sound, Space, and the City
Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles
Häftad, 2012
373 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 …
Policy, Planning, and People
Promoting Justice in Urban Development
Av Naomi Carmon, Susan S. Fainstein
Häftad, 2013
829 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 …
The Disaster Experts
Mastering Risk in Modern America
Häftad, 2013
441 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 …
Women's Health and the World's Cities
Av Afaf Ibrahim Meleis, Eugenie L. Birch m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
497 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 …
Neighborhood and Life Chances
How Place Matters in Modern America
Av Harriet B. Newburger, Eugenie L. Birch m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
497 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 …
Why Don't American Cities Burn?
Häftad, 2013
245 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 …
Miami Transformed
Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time
Av Manny Diaz
Häftad, 2014
385 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 …
Design After Decline
How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities
Häftad, 2014
454 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 …
Global Downtowns
Av Marina Peterson, Gary McDonogh
Häftad, 2014
493 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, …
Ed Bacon
Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia
Häftad, 2016
465 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 …
How Real Estate Developers Think
Design, Profits, and Community
Häftad, 2018
443 kr
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Cities are always changing: streets, infrastructure, public spaces, and buildings are constantly being built, improved, demolished, and replaced. But even when a new project is designed to improve a community, neighborhood residents often find themselves at odds with the real estate developer who …
The Other Philadelphia Story
How Local Congregations Support Quality of Life in Urban America
Av Ram A. Cnaan
Inbunden, 2006
1074 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 …
Blues for New Orleans
Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul
Inbunden, 2006
400 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 …
The University and Urban Revival
Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets
Av Judith Rodin
Inbunden, 2007
553 kr
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In the last quarter of the twentieth century, urban colleges and universities found themselves enveloped by the poverty, crime, and physical decline that afflicted American cities. Some institutions turned inward, trying to insulate themselves rather than address the problems in their own …
America's Waterfront Revival
Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment
Inbunden, 2009
906 kr
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Since the early years of the twentieth century, public authorities have been providing an enormous share of the public infrastructure in the United States and have shaped our urban environment in powerful ways. Politicians have continued to create new public authorities, but many older ones remain …
Beat Cop to Top Cop
A Tale of Three Cities
Inbunden, 2010
485 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 …
Global Urbanization
Av Eugenie L. Birch, Susan M. Wachter
Inbunden, 2011
1074 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, …
Urban Tomographies
Inbunden, 2011
737 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 …
My Storm
Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
Inbunden, 2011
625 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 …
Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's Jobs in Metropolitan America
Inbunden, 2012
935 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, …
Making New York Dominican
Small Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
Inbunden, 2013
1074 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 …
Locked in, Locked Out
Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City
Inbunden, 2013
962 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 …
Revitalizing American Cities
Av Susan M. Wachter, Kimberly A. Zeuli
Inbunden, 2013
1074 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 …
How Real Estate Developers Think
Design, Profits, and Community
Inbunden, 2015
1074 kr
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Cities are always changing: streets, infrastructure, public spaces, and buildings are constantly being built, improved, demolished, and replaced. But even when a new project is designed to improve a community, neighborhood residents often find themselves at odds with the real estate developer who …
Shared Prosperity in America's Communities
Inbunden, 2016
906 kr
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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 American population. This disjunct between national economic growth and stagnating incomes in all but the very top tier of the population corresponds …
Slums
How Informal Real Estate Markets Work
Av Eugenie L. Birch, Shahana Chattaraj m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
850 kr
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Large numbers of people in urbanizing regions in the developing world live and work in unplanned settlements that grow through incremental processes of squatting and self-building. Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work shows that unauthorized settlements in rapidly growing cities are not …
