From Improvement to City Planning

Henry C Binford

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• From Improvement to City Planning emphasizes the ways people in nineteenth-century America managed urban growth. Historian Henry Binford shows how eff... Lees meer

Ethnic Renewal in Philadelphia's Chinatown

Kathryn Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Philadelphia's Chinatown, like many urban chinatowns, began in the late nineteenth century as a refuge for immigrant laborers and merchants in which t... Lees meer

Building the Urban Environment

Harold L Platt

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Building the Urban Environment is a comparative study of the contestation among planners, policymakers, and the grassroots over the production and mea... Lees meer

Sinking Chicago

Harold L Platt

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• In Sinking Chicago, Harold Platt shows how people responded to climate change in one American city over a hundred-and-fifty-year period. During a long... Lees meer

Preserving the Vanishing City

Stephanie Ryberg-Webster

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Preserving the Vanishing City considers the unique challenges, conditions, and opportunities facing Cleveland's historic preservation community during... Lees meer

Building a Social Contract

Michael McCulloch

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• The dream of the modern worker's house emerged in early twentieth-century America as wage earners gained access to new, larger, and better-equipped dw... Lees meer

The Death and Life of the Single-Family House

Nathanael Lauster

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Vancouver today is recognized as one of the most livable cities in the world as well as an international model for sustainability and urbanism. Single... Lees meer

Communities and Crime

Pamela Wilcox, Francis T Cullen, Ben Feldmeyer

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Social scientists have long argued over the links between crime and place. The authors of Communities and Crime provide an intellectual history that t... Lees meer

Architectures of Revolt

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the worldwide mass protest movements of 1968--against war, imperialism, racism, poverty, misogyny, and hom... Lees meer

The Politics of Staying Put

Carolyn Gallaher

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• When cities gentrify, it can be hard for working-class and low-income residents to stay put. Rising rents and property taxes make buildings unaffordab... Lees meer

Atlanta Unbound

Carlton Wade Basmajian

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Answers the question: Toward what end and for whom is Atlanta's regional planning process working? Lees meer

A Good Place to Do Business

Roger Biles, Mark H Rose

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• The "Pittsburgh Renaissance," an urban renewal effort launched in the late 1940s, transformed the smoky rust belt city's downtown. Working-class resid... Lees meer

Second Cities

Jerome I Hodos

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Provides a thought-provoking, comparative look at these cities as he considers how Manchester and Philadelphia have confronted problems of globalizati... Lees meer

Believing in Cleveland

J Mark Souther

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Detractors have called it "The Mistake on the Lake." It was once America's "Comeback City." According to author J. Mark Souther, Cleveland has long so... Lees meer

From Improvement to City Planning

Henry C Binford

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• From Improvement to City Planning emphasizes the ways people in nineteenth-century America managed urban growth. Historian Henry Binford shows how eff... Lees meer

Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind

Scott Larson

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• The antagonism between urbanist and writer Jane Jacobs and master builder Robert Moses may frame debates over urban form, but in "Building Like Moses ... Lees meer

The War on Slums in the Southwest

Robert B Fairbanks

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• In The War on Slums in the Southwest , Robert Fairbanks provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plights i... Lees meer

The Spires Still Point to Heaven

Matthew Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• A case study about the formation of American pluralism and religious liberty, The Spires Still Point to Heaven explores why--and more importantly how-... Lees meer

Building a Social Contract

Michael McCulloch

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• The dream of the modern worker's house emerged in early twentieth-century America as wage earners gained access to new, larger, and better-equipped dw... Lees meer

Preserving the Vanishing City

Stephanie Ryberg-Webster

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Preserving the Vanishing City considers the unique challenges, conditions, and opportunities facing Cleveland's historic preservation community during... Lees meer

Sinking Chicago

Harold L Platt

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• In Sinking Chicago, Harold Platt shows how people responded to climate change in one American city over a hundred-and-fifty-year period. During a long... Lees meer

Vanishing Eden

Michael Maly

• Paperback | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• For many whites, desegregation initially felt like an attack on their community. But how has the process of racial change affected whites' understandi... Lees meer

Crossing Great Divides

John D Fairfield

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Ranging across two centuries of American history, Crossing Great Divides argues that the habit of construing city and country as opposites is at the r... Lees meer

Democratizing Urban Development

Maureen M Donaghy

• Hardcover | Engels | Urban Life, Landscape and Policy
• Rising housing costs put secure and decent housing in central urban neighborhoods in peril. How do civil society organizations (CSOs) effectively dema... Lees meer