Bloom’s Public Housing Commentary
06/30/2008
"Public housing that works is a legacy that New York would be foolish to squander," argues Nicholas Dagen Bloom, author of Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth… READ MORE
Category: Urban Studies
St. Louis and the Picture of Dorian Gray
05/30/2008
Here’s one local reaction to Colin Gordon’s Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City. "Mr. Gordon literally gives us a bird’s eye view of the worst… READ MORE
Public Housing That Worked–Now Available
05/21/2008
Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century Nicholas Dagen Bloom 368 pages | 6 x 9 | 33 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4077-1 | $39.95 |… READ MORE
Podcast Interview with Colin Gordon
05/09/2008
Marshall Poe interviewed Colin Gordon, author of Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City, for the New Books in History blog. An audio file of this… READ MORE
Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City–Now Available
04/16/2008
Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City Colin Gordon 304 pages | 7 x 10 | 78 color illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4070-2 | $55.00… READ MORE
H-Urban Review of Nightclub City
". . .[Nightclub City: Politics and Amusement in Manhattan] is an important addition to the literature on New York and the social world of leisure and entertainment that emerged between… READ MORE
Sacks Guides NYT through Historic San Juan Hill
02/05/2008
Marcy Sacks, author of Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City Before World War I, guides New York Times reporter John Strausbaugh through the Manhattan’s San Juan Hill… READ MORE
Hartford Courant Commentary on The University & Urban Revival
10/17/2007
Can urban colleges and universities find revitalization lessons in our neighborhood, West Philly? A professor and administrator at St. Joseph College in West Hartford, CT thinks so. In "Town And… READ MORE
Resolution of Appreciation for Martin Meyerson
09/20/2007
The Penn Press Board of Trustees unanimously approved the following resolution of appreciation for the work of Martin Meyerson, University of Pennsylvania President Emeritus, who died earlier this year at… READ MORE
Praise for Jackson in The Texas Observer
09/13/2007
The Texas Observer columnist Todd Moye praises Thomas F. Jackson’s From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice in a recent review…. READ MORE
