Bloom’s First Batch of NYC Housing Authority Answers
02/05/2009
Yesterday, Nicholas Dagen Bloom, author of Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century, served up his first batch of answers to The New York Times City Room… READ MORE
Category: Urban Studies
Bloom Answers Housing Questions for NYT’s City Room Blog
02/03/2009
From The New York Times City Room Blog: This week, Nicholas Dagen Bloom, the author of Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century, will be answering selected… READ MORE
Schneider Sees Drug War History Repeat at HNN
01/15/2009
In "The War on Drugs Redux," a new essay on the History News Network, Eric C. Schneider warns that current U. S. attempts to control opium production in Afghanistan are… READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–Smack
01/08/2009
In this month’s Penn Press podcast, Eric. C. Schneider, historian and author of Smack: Heroin and the American City, discusses the connection between the urban landscape and the king of… READ MORE
Women of Fes–Now Available
12/18/2008
Women of Fes: Ambiguities of Urban Life in Morocco Rachel Newcomb 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4124-2 | $49.95 | £32.50 A… READ MORE
America’s Waterfront Revival–Now Available
12/10/2008
America's Waterfront Revival: Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment Peter Hendee Brown 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 54 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4122-8 | $59.95 | £39.00 A… READ MORE
Bloom on Private Sector Methods in Public Housing
12/09/2008
In today's Gotham Gazette, Nicholas Dagen Bloom places calls for private sector methods and non-government revenue in public housing within the context of the New York City Housing Authority's overall… READ MORE
A New Penn Press Podcast–Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia
12/03/2008
In the latest Penn Press podcast, historian and author Roger W. Moss and photographer Tom Crane discuss their collaboration on Historic Landmarks of Philadelphia, the final book in their architecture… READ MORE
Talking Points Memo on Mapping Decline, Gordon on StLMag.com
12/02/2008
Talking Points Memo Café blogger Kenneth Thomas calls Colin Gordon's Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City "an outstanding overview of the decline of America's cities."… READ MORE
The Arts of Democracy–Now in Paperback
11/06/2008
The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State Edited by Casey Nelson Blake 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 45 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4029-0 |… READ MORE
