Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America examines how generations of urban dwellers have dealt with the tensions between the rights of the homeless and those of other city residents. In this new urban studies book, historian Ella Howard traces the rise and fall of skid rows in America through the lens of New York's Bowery.
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