Baltimore Revisited

Author : P. Nicole King,Kate Drabinski,Joshua Clark Davis
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813594019

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Baltimore Revisited by P. Nicole King,Kate Drabinski,Joshua Clark Davis Pdf

Nicknamed both “Mobtown” and “Charm City” and located on the border of the North and South, Baltimore is a city of contradictions. From media depictions in The Wire to the real-life trial of police officers for the murder of Freddie Gray, Baltimore has become a quintessential example of a struggling American city. Yet the truth about Baltimore is far more complicated—and more fascinating. To help untangle these apparent paradoxes, the editors of Baltimore Revisited have assembled a collection of over thirty experts from inside and outside academia. Together, they reveal that Baltimore has been ground zero for a slew of neoliberal policies, a place where inequality has increased as corporate interests have eagerly privatized public goods and services to maximize profits. But they also uncover how community members resist and reveal a long tradition of Baltimoreans who have fought for social justice. The essays in this collection take readers on a tour through the city’s diverse neighborhoods, from the Lumbee Indian community in East Baltimore to the crusade for environmental justice in South Baltimore. Baltimore Revisited examines the city’s past, reflects upon the city’s present, and envisions the city’s future.

Author : R. David Simpson,Michael A. Toman,Robert U. Ayres
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136524738

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Scarcity and Growth Revisited by R. David Simpson,Michael A. Toman,Robert U. Ayres Pdf

In this volume, a group of distinguished international scholars provides a fresh investigation of the most fundamental issues involved in our dependence on natural resources. In Scarcity and Growth (RFF, 1963) and Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered (RFF, 1979), researchers considered the long-term implications of resource scarcity for economic growth and human well-being. Scarcity and Growth Revisited examines these implications with 25 years of new learning and experience. It finds that concerns about resource scarcity have changed in essential ways. In contrast with the earlier preoccupation with the adequacy of fuel, mineral, and agricultural resources and the efficiency by which they are allocated, the greatest concern today is about the Earth‘s limited capacity to handle the environmental consequences of resource extraction and use. Opinion among scholars is divided on the ability of technological innovation to ameliorate this 'new scarcity.' However, even the book‘s more optimistic authors agree that the problems will not be successfully overcome without significant advances in the legal, financial, and other social institutions that protect the environment and support technical innovation. Scarcity and Growth Revisited incorporates expert perspectives from the physical and life sciences, as well as economics. It includes issues confronting the developing world as well as industrialized societies. The book begins with a review of the debate about scarcity and economic growth and a review of current assessments of natural resource availability and consumption. The twelve chapters that follow provide an accessible, lively, and authoritative update to an enduring-but changing-debate.

Author : Lawrence T. Brown
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781421439884

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The Black Butterfly by Lawrence T. Brown Pdf

The best-selling look at how American cities can promote racial equity, end redlining, and reverse the damaging health- and wealth-related effects of segregation. Winner of the IPPY Book Award Current Events II by the Independent Publisher The world gasped in April 2015 as Baltimore erupted and Black Lives Matter activists, incensed by Freddie Gray's brutal death in police custody, shut down highways and marched on city streets. In The Black Butterfly—a reference to the fact that Baltimore's majority-Black population spreads out like a butterfly's wings on both sides of the coveted strip of real estate running down the center of the city—Lawrence T. Brown reveals that ongoing historical trauma caused by a combination of policies, practices, systems, and budgets is at the root of uprisings and crises in hypersegregated cities around the country. Putting Baltimore under a microscope, Brown looks closely at the causes of segregation, many of which exist in current legislation and regulatory policy despite the common belief that overtly racist policies are a thing of the past. Drawing on social science research, policy analysis, and archival materials, Brown reveals the long history of racial segregation's impact on health, from toxic pollution to police brutality. Beginning with an analysis of the current political moment, Brown delves into how Baltimore's history influenced actions in sister cities such as St. Louis and Cleveland, as well as Baltimore's adoption of increasingly oppressive techniques from cities such as Chicago. But there is reason to hope. Throughout the book, Brown offers a clear five-step plan for activists, nonprofits, and public officials to achieve racial equity. Not content to simply describe and decry urban problems, Brown offers up a wide range of innovative solutions to help heal and restore redlined Black neighborhoods, including municipal reparations. Persuasively arguing that, since urban apartheid was intentionally erected, it can be intentionally dismantled, The Black Butterfly demonstrates that America cannot reflect that Black lives matter until we see how Black neighborhoods matter.

Author : Guian A. McKee
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512823929

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Hospital City, Health Care Nation by Guian A. McKee Pdf

Hospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the U.S. health care system by emphasizing its economic, social, and medical importance in American communities. Focusing on urban hospitals and academic medical centers, the book argues that the country's high level of health care spending has allowed such institutions to become vital, if often problematic, economic anchors for communities. Yet that spending has also constrained possibilities for comprehensive health care reform over many decades, even after the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. At the same time, the role of hospitals in urban renewal, in community health provision, and as employers of low-wage workers has contributed directly to racial health disparities. Guian A. McKee explores these issues through a detailed historical case study of Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital while also tracing their connections across governmental scales--local, state, and federal. He shows that health care spending and its consequences, rather than insurance coverage alone, are core issues in the decades-long struggle over the American health care system. In particular, Hospital City, Health Care Nation points to the increased role of financial capital after the 1960s in shaping not only hospital growth but also the underlying character of these vital institutions. The book shows how hospitals' quest for capital has interacted with structural racism and inequality to shape and constrain the U.S. health care system. Building on this reassessment of the hospital system, its politics, and its financing, Hospital City, Health Care Nation offers ideas for the next steps in health care reform.

Author : Heleni Porfyriou,Marichela Sepe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317269168

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Waterfronts Revisited by Heleni Porfyriou,Marichela Sepe Pdf

Waterfronts Revisited addresses the historical evolution of the relationship between port and city and re-examines waterfront development by looking at the urban territory and historical city in their complexity and entirety. By identifying guiding values, urban patterns and typologies, and local needs and experiences, cities can break the isolation of the harbor by reconnecting it to the urban structure; its functions, spaces and forms. Using the UNESCO recommendation for the "Historic Urban Landscape" as the guiding concept and a tool for managing urban preservation and change, this collection of essays illustrates solutions to issues of globalisation, commercialization of space and commoditisation of culture in waterfront development. Through sixteen selected case studies, Editors Heleni Porfyriou and Marichela Sepe offer planners and urban designers a broad spectrum of alternative solutions to waterfront regeneration interventions and redevelopments, addressing sustainability, regional cultural diversity, and the debate between conservation and transformation.

Author : V. Kerry Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135989453

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Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered by V. Kerry Smith Pdf

Current views on resource availability are examined, along with the original Barnett-Morse thesis of resource supply. Originally published in 1979

Author : April Kalogeropoulos Householder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666917666

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Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution by April Kalogeropoulos Householder Pdf

Using a variety of methodologies from multi-disciplinary backgrounds, this volume is the first to present an in-depth analysis of the life and times of Laskarina Bouboulina, the legendary heroine of the Greek Revolution and one of the most important figures in modern Greek history, the Mediterranean, and indeed, the world. At the age of fifty and mother to ten children, Bouboulina commanded a fleet of ships from the island of Spetses and became the first female admiral in world naval history. But her success on the battlefield is only part of the story – by considering her three-century impact on feminism, cultural production, and as a touchstone of diasporic Greek identity, the contributors to this volume also expand our understanding of her far-reaching and under-recognized contributions.

Author : Stanley L. Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015050157695

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Mencken Revisited by Stanley L. Harrison Pdf

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) was a prodigious author of some three dozen books, editor of two magazines of national significance, literary critic, and social commentator. His writing retains the capacity to arouse readers to anger or prompt roars of approval and laughter. This collection of essays from various journals provides an introduction to Mencken and encourages a wider acquaintance for modern readers.

Author : Derek Hyra
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520401488

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Slow and Sudden Violence by Derek Hyra Pdf

Exposing the roots of racial unrest that consistently harm Black communities In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ongoing cycle of racial and spatial urban redevelopment repression. By delving into the real estate histories of St. Louis and Baltimore, he shows how housing and community development policies advance neighborhood inequality by segregating, gentrifying, and displacing Black communities. Repeated decisions to “upgrade” the urban fabric and uproot low-income Black populations have resulted in pockets of poverty inhabited by people experiencing displacement trauma and police surveillance. These interconnected sets of divestments and accumulated frustrations have contributed to eruptions of violence in response to tragic, unjust police killings. To confront American unrest, Hyra urges that we end racialized policing, stop Black community destruction and displacement, and reduce neighborhood inequality.

Author : Félix Klein
Publisher : Chicago : A.C. McClurg
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : YALE:39002003226983

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In the Land of the Strenuous Life by Félix Klein Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : American literature
ISBN : IND:30000046366278

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Literary Magazine Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Better Homes & Gardens Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0696019051

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America's Heritage Quilts by Anonim Pdf

Looks at the history of American quilts, shows and describes traditional patterns, and offers advice on planning and making a quilt.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : North Carolina
ISBN : UGA:32108043091670

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Carolina Comments by Anonim Pdf

Author : James D. Dilts,Catharine Foster Black
Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015029151290

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Baltimore's Cast-iron Buildings and Architectural Ironwork by James D. Dilts,Catharine Foster Black Pdf

Baltimore was an innovator in the development of cast-iron architecture, but the city's heritage of buildings in this genre, once numbering more than a hundred, has dwindled to only a handful today. The Baltimore region also had a long tradition in iron production, beginning with the colonial era and continuing through the 1950s as Sparrows Point became the single largest steel complex in the world. Baltimore's Cast-Iron Buildings is a celebration of a unique aspect of Baltimore's architectural and industrial history. The authors examine cast-iron buildings in an integrated way to show how the material was fabricated and the buildings erected. They also explore the cast and wrought ironwork used for gates, fences, railings, and ornaments. The heavily illustrated work includes ironwork catalogs from the mid-1800s.

Author : James A. Michener
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 1026 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812986280

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Chesapeake by James A. Michener Pdf

In this classic novel, James A. Michener brings his grand epic tradition to bear on the four-hundred-year saga of America’s Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the modern age. In the early 1600s, young Edmund Steed is desperate to escape religious persecution in England. After joining Captain John Smith on a harrowing journey across the Atlantic, Steed makes a life for himself in the New World, establishing a remarkable dynasty that parallels the emergence of America. Through the extraordinary tale of one man’s dream, Michener tells intertwining stories of family and national heritage, introducing us along the way to Quakers, pirates, planters, slaves, abolitionists, and notorious politicians, all making their way through American history in the common pursuit of freedom. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii. Praise for Chesapeake “Another of James Michener’s great mines of narrative, character and lore.”—The Wall Street Journal “[A] marvelous panorama of history seen in the lives of symbolic people of the ages . . . An emotionally and intellectually appealing book.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Michener’s most ambitious work of fiction in theme and scope.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer “Magnificently written . . . one of those rare novels that is enthusiastically passed from friend to friend.”—Associated Press