Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston, Paperback - Jeremy R. Levine

A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban development Who makes decisions that shape the housin...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): James R. MooreNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 232 x 22Cover type: Paperback /...

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A unique collection examining the African urban experience, with a special focus on the causes, consequences and power dynamics of urban inequality...

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When an expatriate bureaucrat toured a devastated city, he saw more than ashes and ruins. He envisioned a thriving metropolis where God's people co...

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Contributes to the existing literature on inequality in Asia by focusing on three broad themes, corresponding to three parts of the volume. Part I ...

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DescriptionBuilding from his acclaimed anthology Tales of Two Americas, beloved writer and editor John Freeman draws together a group of our greate...

In July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed a Black teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Christopher...

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