Rediscovering Urban America
Author: Jack Sommer
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13:
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Neighborhoods, Family, and Political Behavior in Urban America
Author: Yvette Alex-Assensoh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1317945174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUndergirded by a multidisciplinary framework of political science, geography, and sociology, this book examines hte manner in which neighborhood economic resources and family structure shape individual political behavior among white and black citizens in urban America.
Exploring Urban Youth Culture Outside of the Gang Paradigm
Author: Jade Levell
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2023-09-21
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1529225590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘On-road’ is a complex term used by young people to describe street-based subculture and a general way of being. Featuring the voices of young people, this collection explores how race, class and gender dynamics shape this aspect of youth culture. With young people on-road often becoming criminalised due to interlocking structural inequalities, this book looks beyond concerns about gangs and presents empirical research from scholars and activists who work with and study the social lives of young people. It addresses the concerns of practitioners, policy makers and scholars by analysing aspects and misinterpretations of the shifting realities of young people’s urban life.
The Making of Urban America
Author: Raymond A. Mohl
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-10-03
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1493083627
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. The authors’ extensively revised introductions and the fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the preindustrial city to the twentieth-century city. With emphasis on the social, economic, political, commercial, and cultural aspects of urban history, these essays illustrate the growth and change that created modern-day urban life. Dynamic topics such as technology, immigration and ethnicity, suburbanization, sunbelt cities, urban political history, and planning and housing are examined. The Making of Urban America is the only reader available that covers all of U.S. urban history and that also includes the most recent interpretive scholarship on the subject.
The Crisis of America's Cities
Author: Randall Bartlett
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-05-20
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1317457706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn original work on American cities and the ongoing "urban crisis". Using the metaphor of the socially constructed organization of space, Bartlett takes a broad view of the evolution of urban America, from its historical roots to the present; he then examines the way in which current policies have responded to, and affected the organization of space (covering housing, transportation, government and other urban problems). He concludes with a look to the future of American cities, how they will impact and be impacted on by changing commercial and labor markets, by the problems of poverty and cultural change. In an epilogue, he explores possible ways to overcome the "social dilemmas", while recognizing the difficulty of this undertaking. A thoroughly unique perspective to the study of cities, this book is about how space is used in America and how it changes as the "logic of location" evolves historically. Starting with the assumption that cities are fundamentally unnatural" phenomena, it unravels the interactions of technological advances that have made them possible and policies that have given them shape.
Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods
Author: William Dennis Keating
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the 1950s and the advance of urban renewal, local governments and urban policy have focused heavily on the central business district. However, such development has all but ignored the inner-city neighborhoods that continue to struggle in the shadows of high-rise America. This analysis of urban neighborhoods in the United States from 1960 to 1995 presents fifteen essays by scholars of urban planning and development. Together they show how urban neighborhoods can and must be preserved as economic, cultural, and political centers.
Housing Urban America
Author: Jon Pynoos
Publisher: AldineTransaction
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 688
ISBN-13: 0202320111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLife, liberty, and the pursuit of housing: an increasingly difficult quest in the contemporary urban United States, where crime, urban blight, and continuing capital decay undercut the advantages of city living. The American dream has moved to the suburbs; the nightmare of our cities prompts new recognition both in the president's cabinet and the college curriculum. The editors of this book have updated their acclaimed earlier collection, providing new introductory articles; new papers, such as, Discrimination in Housing Prices and Mortgage Lending, A Summary Report of Current Findings from the Experimental Housing Allowance Program, Alternative Mortgage Designs and Their Effectiveness in Eliminating Demand and Supply Effects on Inflation; and a new bibliography of the literature. Additional chapters focus on differing strategies for improved urban housing and renewal by providing concrete suggestions for distributing existing resources and allocating new funding. The bibliography provides the best single guide to the current literature on housing. Housing Urban America, in this new edition, is an important guide to those students and scholars fascinated by the essential questions of adequate housing: its social costs, and the source of the revenues to provide it.
Urban America: Goals and Problems
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Urban Affairs
Publisher:
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsiders goals, priorities, and functional problems of community institutions and programs to improve the urban environment. Includes "Demographic Change and Racial Ghettoes: The Crisis of American Cities," by Herbert Hill, NAACP natl labor sec (p. 99-153).
Urban American Indians
Author: Donna Martinez
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2016-08-29
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1440832080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn outstanding resource for contemporary American Indians as well as students and scholars interested in community and ethnicity, this book dispels the myth that all American Indians live on reservations and are plagued with problems, and serves to illustrate a unique, dynamic model of community formation. City-dwelling American Indians are part of both the ongoing ethnic history of American cities in the 20th and 21st centuries and the ancient history of American Indians. Today, more than three-quarters of American Indians live in cities, having migrated to urban areas in the 1950s because of influences such as the Termination and Relocation policy of the federal government, which was designed to end the legal status of tribes, and because of the draw of employment, housing, and educational opportunities. This book documents how North America was home to many ancient urban Indian civilizations and progresses to describing contemporary urban American Indian communities, lifestyles, and organizations. The book concentrates on contemporary urban American Indian communities and the modern-day experiences of the individuals who live within them. The authors outline urban Indian identity, relationships, and communities, drawing connections between ancient urban Indian civilizations hundreds of years ago to the activism of contemporary urban Indians. As a result, readers will gain an in-depth understanding of both ancient and contemporary urban Indian communities; comprehend the differences, similarities, and overlap between reservation and urban American Indian communities; and gain insight into the key role of urban environments in creating ethnic community identities.
Handbook of Research on Urban Politics and Policy in the United States
Author: Ronald K. Vogel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1997-01-21
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 0313032947
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive reference work which provides a way to access research on urban politics and policy in the United States. Experts in the field guide readers through major controversies, while evaluating and assessing the subfields of urban politics and policy. Each chapter follows the same basic organization with topics such as methodological and theoretical issues, current states of the field, and directions for future research. For students, this work provides a starting place to guide them to the most important works in a particular subfield and a context to place their work in a larger body of knowledge. For scholars, it serves as a reference work for immediately familiarity with subfields of the discipline, including classic studies and major research questions. For urban policymakers or analysts, the handbook provides a wealth of information and allows quick identification of existing academic knowledge and research relevant to the problem at hand.
