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Drawing upon the experiences of social workers and community-based professionals, this book provides a cross-section... Read More >>
The second edition of this highly acclaimed book brings the story of urban America upto date through the early 1990s,... Read More >>
In an era when government seems remote and difficult to approach, participatory democracy may seem a hopelessly... Read More >>
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Draws on extensive field research to examine eighteen settlements along the 2,000-mile Mexican border, ranging from... Read More >>
An ethnographic study of Chinese urban life in the Mongolian city of Huhhot. The text is organized around specific... Read More >>
There is widespread consensus that progress towards sustainable development is desirable. However, a particularly... Read More >>
Gathering an internationally renowned group of scholars in urbanization and development studies, this work explores... Read More >>
"""[Sennett] has ended up writing the best available contemporary defense of anarchism. . . . The issues [he] raises... Read More >>
Penetrating analysis of the functions and organization of city neighborhoods, the forces of deterioration and regeneration,... Read More >>
Explores the dynamic relations between cultural forms and political formations in some urban cultural movements.... Read More >>
Throughout Front Yard America, Schroeder inquires into the functions, values, and meanings that Americans have found... Read More >>
Examines the institutions and experiences that kept a small ethnic community unassimilated in Kansas for 80 years... Read More >>
A survey of those towns traditionally associated with textiles, mining or tool manufacturing, particularly those... Read More >>
Examines how formerly redlined communities have generated billions of dollars in reinvestment. Read More >>
Focusing on the pressures of urban development, this study explains how planners and policy-makers can achieve a... Read More >>
Community activists examine how formerly redlined communities have generated billions of dollars in reinvestment... Read More >>
This is the first comprehensive study of the rebuilding of West Germany's cities following the Second World War.... Read More >>