Launched in 2005 and published in collaboration with the Penn Institute for Urban Research, The City in the Twenty-First Century is an interdisciplinary series that publishes work addressing urban architecture, economics, history, planning, political science, sociology, and urban design.
Series Editors: Eugénie L. Birch Lawrence C. Nussdorf Professor of Urban Research and Education, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Susan Wachter Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate and Professor of Finance, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Staff Editorial Contact: Robert Lockhart, Senior Editor rlockhar@upenn.edu
This book gets to the bottom of the twenty-first-century city, literally. Underground details public and private efforts to gentrify and expand Bucharest’s subterranean Metro stations, basements, and cellars—amidst surging inequality—to expand the opportunities to live, work, and play in an overcrowded city for its new middle classes.
Enrique Peñalosa Londoño’s book describes how cities can become powerful means to achieve equality and inclusion. It provides democratic and practical criteria for conceiving and constructing different and better cities, describes the obstacles that are confronted when doing so, and identifies ways to overcome them.
Master Plans and Encroachments presents informality as an adaptation to formal planning rather than a deviation from it. Faiza Moatasim demonstrates that architectural forms and aesthetics are central to how residents and businesspeople build encroachments and how city officials tolerate them in Islamabad, at both elite and ordinary levels.
Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India
Sai Balakrishnan
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512825503
Pub Date: August 2023
Format: Paperback
240 Pages
In Shareholder Cities, Sai Balakrishnan argues that some of India's most decisive conflicts over its urban futures will unfold in the regions along the new economic corridors, such as the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, where electorally strong agrarian propertied classes directly encounter financially powerful incoming urban firms.
Community Benefits explores how, and to what end, community residents leverage large-scale development projects for local benefits. Rosen shows that, without accountability, project advocates can neglect their community commitments, leaving the residents responsible for benefits delivery, but with few viable avenues to produce outcomes.
The Economy, Politics, and Development of the Washington Region
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, focusing on four themes: the federal government as the region’s basic industry; race as a core force in development; the mismatch between governance and the economy; and the conundrum of achieving democratic governance for Washington, DC.
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. The chapters in China Urbanizing, written by American and Chinese scholars, provide new perspectives to understand the transitions underway and the gravity of the progress, particularly in the context of demographic shifts and climate change.
Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era
Howard Gillette Jr.
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812253719
Pub Date: June 2022
Format: Hardcover
344 Pages
Even as postindustrial cities have climbed from the depths of decline in the twenty-first century, they have witnessed a cruel paradox: with prosperity has come greater inequality. Tracing the origins and effects of uneven revitalization, this book examines the genesis of America's second urban crisis and prospects for its resolution.
In this book, Chandan Deuskar explores how politicians in developing democracies provide urban land and services to the urban poor in exchange for their support, demonstrates how this impacts urban growth, and suggests innovative and practical ways in which urban planners can try to be more effective in this political context.
Edited by Vincent J. Reina, Wendell E. Pritchett and Susan M. Wachter
Contributions by Marc Morial
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9780812252750
Pub Date: November 2020
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Perspectives on Fair Housing provides historical, sociological, economic, and legal perspectives on the critical and continuing problem of housing discrimination and offers insight on the tools required to address it.
