Good Neighbors
Good Neighbors

Author: Sylvie Tissot

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 1781689490

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Does gentrification destroy diversity? Or does it thrive on it? Boston’s South End, a legendary working-class neighborhood with the largest Victorian brick row house district in the United States and a celebrated reputation for diversity, has become in recent years a flashpoint for the problems of gentrification. It has born witness to the kind of rapid transformation leading to pitched battles over the class and race politics throughout the country and indeed the contemporary world. This subtle study of a storied urban neighborhood reveals the way that upper-middle-class newcomers have positioned themselves as champions of diversity, and how their mobilization around this key concept has reordered class divisions rather than abolished them.

South Boston, My Home Town
South Boston, My Home Town

Author: Thomas H. O'Connor

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781555531881

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An engaging yet objective look at the 350-year old history of "Southie," a neighborhood that has survived largely unchanged since the early days of immigrant Irish families and old-time political bosses.

Transforming Urban Waterfronts
Transforming Urban Waterfronts

Author: Gene Desfor

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-10-04

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1136897720

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The collection engages with major theoretical debates and empirical findings on how waterfronts transform and have been transformed in port-cities in North and South America, Europe, and the Caribbean. It brings together authors from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds to tackle vital questions of waterfront development.

New Urbanism
New Urbanism

Author: Ilse Helbrecht

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-05-13

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 1317087852

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The advent of the 21st century marks the unfolding of a new urbanism, of a new urban fabric in the making. Bringing together a range of leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this edited collection examines innovative urban redevelopment projects around Europe and North America which are at the forefront of this new urbanism and which are here termed 'New Downtowns'. It introduces this term and concept and addresses major questions such as: What does a sustained urbanity for the 21st century look like? Which strategies do politicians and planners deploy to create new synergies between planning for the public good and private interest? Can market forces be co-opted for collective interests? Does the imagination of a European city continue to inspire new urbanism within and beyond Europe? And can a future urbanity for the 21st century be planned at all? In particular, it focuses on Hamburg's HafenCity", which, at around 155 hectares, is one of the most prominent city centre development projects in Europe and will increase the size of Hamburg's city centre by 40 percent. The project HafenCity serves as a starting point for a conceptually wide ranging debate on the character, shape, function and meaning of New Downtowns.

Diversity and Education
Diversity and Education

Author: H. Richard Milner

Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0398078300

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Explicit examples of what these constructs mean and how they are used is provided. The book is complemented by an overview of each chapter and section. Written by some of the leading scholars in education and beyond, this book will be a valuable resource for practicing teachers, teacher educators, graduate students, undergraduate students, and educational researchers."--BOOK JACKET.