Governing Philadelphia in the Early Twenty-First Century
Stephen J. McGovern
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512826784
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Hardcover
456 Pages
How grassroots activism transforms contemporary urban politics in Philadelphia and beyondImmigration, gentrification, and the rise of an innovation-based economy are altering American cities. In Mobilization...
History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District
Laura Wolf-Powers
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512826913
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Paperback
204 Pages
A chronicle of neighborhood redevelopment politics in West Philadelphia over 60 yearsIn twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers increasingly celebrate university-sponsored innovation districts...
Traces the dynamics of territorial and ethnic conflicts between Jews and PalestiniansFor Oren Yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by...
In Equality and the City, Enrique Peñalosa Londoño draws on his experience as mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, as well as his many years of international work as a lecturer and consultant, to share his...
This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground moves beneath Romania’s capital, Bucharest, to examine how the demands of global accumulation have extended urban...
In Community Benefits, Jovanna P. Rosen explores a new pattern in urban development: local residents and community representatives leveraging large-scale development projects for agreements that promise...
The Economy, Politics, and Development of the Washington Region
Dr. Royce Hanson and Harold Wolman
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512822915
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
Nation’s Metropolis describes how the national capital region functions as a metropolitan political economy. Its authors distinguish aspects of the Washington region that reflect its characteristics...
The Economy, Politics, and Development of the Washington Region
Royce Hanson and Harold Wolman
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512822922
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: eBook
Nation’s Metropolis describes how the national capital region functions as a metropolitan political economy. Its authors distinguish aspects of the Washington region that reflect its characteristics...
China turned majority urban only in the recent decade, a dramatic leap given that less than 20 percent of its population lived in cities before 1980. This book situates China’s urbanization in the...
Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era
Howard Gillette Jr.
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812253719
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
In the twenty-first century, cities in the United States that had suffered most the shift to a postindustrial era entered a period widely proclaimed as an urban renaissance. From Detroit to Newark to...
