Category: Urban Studies

Air Kornbluh

Felicia Kornbluh, author of The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America, has been hitting the airwaves from coast to coast this summer in live radio interviews…. READ MORE

Meet the Press at the Fest

The University of Pennsylvania Press is pleased to be a part of the first annual Philadelphia Book Festival, April 21 and 22, 11 a.m – 7 p.m. at the Free… READ MORE

Nightclub City–Now Available

Nightclub City: Politics and Amusement in Manhattan Burton W. Peretti 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3997-3 | $39.95 | £26.00 This dark… READ MORE

More Praise for Up South

In a recent article on scholarly books about Black Nationalism in the 60s and 70s, Multicultural Review commended Matthew Countryman’s Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia for… READ MORE

The Making of a Miami Treasure

Like its palatial contemporaries Biltmore and San Simeon, Vizcaya represents an achievement of the Gilded Age, when country houses and their gardens were a conspicuous measure of personal wealth and… READ MORE