New Urban Crisis, Paperback

Classic study of the fiscal crisis that gripped New York City -- and much of urban America -- in the 1970s.

The classic primer for its subject, Housing Policy in the United States, has been substantially revised in the wake of the 2007 near-collapse of th...

Where are all the homes?The affordable housing crisis today can be solved through innovative residential and urban design. Family models have evolv...

Reducere. This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the fa...

In Policing Protest Paul A. Passavant explores how the policing of protest in the United States has become increasingly hostile since the late 1990...

Reducere. Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing th...

DescriptionMobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our dayWe are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experie...

Reducere. DescriptionNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Captures the angst and anxiety of modern life with . . . astute observations about interactions between the...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. A new collection six years after Nicholas Wong won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetr...

Reducere. Detroit City Is the Place to Be is one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country...

Reducere. How can the United States create the political will to address our major urban problems--poverty, unemployment, crime, traffic congestion, toxic po...

Reducere. There's never a dull moment at the Crooked Rock Urban Indian Center. Rayanne Larson knows firsthand the struggles of native people. Working at Croo...

Reducere. Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restor...

Reducere. Men are just like cats. They don't do what they're told and constantly want cuddles.Kat misses her solitary assassin life. Instead of doing one col...

Reducere. Activist essays on ending the Anthropocene, from Belgian theorist Lieven De Cauter, author of Entropic Empire and The Dwarf in the Chess MachineIn ...

Reducere. Learn How To Design A Rainwater Harvesting System For Your Home Today NEW & UPDATED with 30% new content, diagrams, pictures and charts to help you...

This thought-provoking book offers a new global approach to understand how four social class structures have rocked our political systems, to the e...

Some utopian plans have shaped our cities --from England's New Towns and Garden Cities to the Haussmann plan for Paris and the L'Enfant plan for Wa...

Reducere. DescriptionA revised and improved edition of a book in continuing demand. Do animals have rights? If not, do we have duties towards them? If so, wh...

Reducere. Amiri Baraka is unquestionably the most recognized leader of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the key literary and cultur...