Urban America Examined

Author : Dale E. Casper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351216647

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Urban America Examined by Dale E. Casper Pdf

Originally published in 1985 Urban America Examined, is a comprehensive bibliography examining the urban environment of the United States. The book is split into sections corresponding to the four main geographic regions of the country, looking respectively at research conducted in the East, South, Midwest and West. The book provides a broad cross section of sources, from books to periodicals and covers a range of interdisciplinary issues such as social theory, urbanization, the growth of the city, ethnicity, socialism and US politics.

Author : Carl Abbott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951001878813Y

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The New Urban America by Carl Abbott Pdf

New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities, revised edition

Author : Alan Mallach
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781610917810

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The Divided City by Alan Mallach Pdf

In The Divided City, urban practitioner and scholar Alan Mallach presents a detailed picture of what has happened over the past 15 to 20 years in industrial cities like Pittsburgh and Baltimore, as they have undergone unprecedented, unexpected revival. He spotlights these changes while placing them in their larger economic, social and political context. Most importantly, he explores the pervasive significance of race in American cities, and looks closely at the successes and failures of city governments, nonprofit entities, and citizens as they have tried to address the challenges of change. The Divided City concludes with strategies to foster greater equality and opportunity, firmly grounding them in the cities' economic and political realities.

Author : Stephen A. Mrozowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052185394X

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The Archaeology of Class in Urban America by Stephen A. Mrozowski Pdf

An engaging study which looks at archaeological, documentary and environmental evidence to explore the factors determining class identity.

Author : Raymond A. Mohl
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0842026398

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The Making of Urban America by Raymond A. Mohl Pdf

This second edition is designed to introduce students of urban history to recent interpretive literature in this field. Its goal is to provide a coherent framework for understanding the pattern of American urbanization, while at the same time offering specific examples of the work of historians in the field.

Author : Elizabeth Korver-Glenn
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190063863

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Race Brokers by Elizabeth Korver-Glenn Pdf

"Race Brokers examines how housing market professionals-including housing developers, real estate agents, mortgage lenders, and appraisers-construct 21st century urban housing markets in ways that contribute to or undermine racial segregation. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and interview data collected in Houston, Texas, Race Brokers shows that housing market professionals play a key role in connecting people-or refusing to connect people-to housing resources and opportunities. They make these brokering decisions through reference to racist or anti-racist ideas. Typically, housing market professionals draw from racist ideas that rank-order people and neighborhoods according to their perceived economic and cultural housing market value, entwining racism with their housing market activities and interactions. Racialized housing market routines encourage this entwinement by naturalizing racism as a professional tool. Race Brokers tracks how professionals broker racism across the housing exchange process-from the home's construction, to real estate brokerage, mortgage lending, home appraisals, and the home sale closing. In doing so, it shows that professionals make housing exchange a racialized process that contributes to neighbourhood inequality and racial segregation. However, in contrast to the racialized status-quo, a small number of housing market professionals draw on anti-racist ideas and strategies to extend equal opportunities to individuals and neighborhoods, de-naturalizing housing market racism. Race Brokers highlights the imperative to interrupt the racism that pervades housing market professionals' work, dismantle the racialized routines that underwrite such racism, and cultivate a truly fair housing market"--

Author : G. Tate
Publisher : Springer
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349735723

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The Black Urban Community by G. Tate Pdf

This book explores the many facets of black urban life from its genesis in the 18th century to the present time. With some historical background, the volume is primarily a contemporary critique, focusing on the major themes which have arisen and the challenges the confront African Americans as they create communities: political economy, religion and spirituality, health care, education, protest, and popular culture. The essays all examine the interplay between culture and politics, and the ways in which forms of cultural expression and political participation have changed over the past century to serve the needs of the black urban community. The collection closes with analysis of current struggles these communities face - joblessness, political discontent, frustrations with health care and urban schools - and the ways in which communities are responding to these challenges.

Author : Laura M. Nicosia,James F. Nicosia
Publisher : Myers Education Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781975502461

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Examining Images of Urban Life by Laura M. Nicosia,James F. Nicosia Pdf

There are novels that portray cities as magical places, others as stifling, imposing environments, and others still as a gritty but beautiful, living landscape. Cities can be the center of culture, business, the arts, and are the meeting places for diversities of all kinds. Examining Images of Urban Life gathers contributions from scholars, educators, and young adult authors, like Benjamin Alire Saenz and e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, who consider how living in a city affects character identity and growth, and the ways authors world-build the urban setting. The collection discusses what the urban landscape means, and dispels the media-driven, anecdotally propagated preconceptions about city living. Urban life is varied and rich, just as its literature is. The collection revolves around a reconsideration of what the city represents, to its readers and to its inhabitants, and serves as a resource in urban settings, wherein teachers can select books that mirror and advocate for the students sitting in their classes. Perfect for courses such as: Young Adult Literature | Children’s Literature | Elementary Literacy | Reading and Literacy | Methods of Teaching | Public Purposes of Education | Educational or Historical Foundations of Education | Urban Studies | Media and Library Sciences

Author : Raymond A. Mohl,Roger Biles
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493083626

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The Making of Urban America by Raymond A. Mohl,Roger Biles Pdf

The revised and updated third edition of The Making of Urban America includes seven new articles and a richly detailed historiographical essay that discusses the vast urban history literature added to the canon since the publication of the second edition. The authors’ extensively revised introductions and the fifteen reprinted articles trace urban development from the preindustrial city to the twentieth-century city. With emphasis on the social, economic, political, commercial, and cultural aspects of urban history, these essays illustrate the growth and change that created modern-day urban life. Dynamic topics such as technology, immigration and ethnicity, suburbanization, sunbelt cities, urban political history, and planning and housing are examined. The Making of Urban America is the only reader available that covers all of U.S. urban history and that also includes the most recent interpretive scholarship on the subject.

Author : Yvette Alex-Assensoh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317945178

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Neighborhoods, Family, and Political Behavior in Urban America by Yvette Alex-Assensoh Pdf

Undergirded by a multidisciplinary framework of political science, geography, and sociology, this book examines hte manner in which neighborhood economic resources and family structure shape individual political behavior among white and black citizens in urban America.

Author : James Jennings
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313389832

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Blacks, Latinos, and Asians in Urban America by James Jennings Pdf

This volume of essays by scholars and activists focuses on the political and social relations between blacks, Latinos, and Asians in key urban centers. Collectively, the essays examine the particular status of relations between these groups, the reasons for conflict or consensus, and the prospects for future relations. While a number of cities are examined, the book focuses on Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Miami as particularly instructive case studies. Urban eruptions in these cities are examined in terms of the nature of political relations between blacks, Latinos, and Asians. These essays provide analyses within a sociohistorical context and offer the kind of political activism that might ensure consensus, rather than conflict, between these groups in urban America. As Luis Fuentes observes, This book should be read by all activists and scholars interested in changing the face of urban and ultimately, national America; for if communities of color can come together for progressive political action, then it will only be a matter of time before America finally begins to look like, and act like, what it has been preaching for generations.

Author : Ryan Twomey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030459925

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Examining The Wire by Ryan Twomey Pdf

This book examines The Wire’s authenticity and its establishment of the series realism. Along with tracing creator David Simon’s onscreen critique of numerous failed American institutions, the book focuses on the connection between authenticity and realism in three distinct areas: language, character, and location. While it is shown that The Wire is indeed authentic, the study examines occasions where the language, characters, and even the location are ‘curated’. Yet, while we can witness these moments of curation, it is The Wire’s unflinching focus on authentic dialogue, authentic characterisation, and an authentic location that makes the series the most realistic, and arguably the best, television show of all time.

Author : University of Michigan--Dearborn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : UOM:39076005117762

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Undergraduate Catalog by University of Michigan--Dearborn Pdf

Author : Raymond A. Mohl
Publisher : Scholarly Resources, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 0842026371

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The Making of Urban America by Raymond A. Mohl Pdf

The process by which a group of small colonial settlements in an untamed wilderness grew into a highly industrialized and urbanized nation is one of the central and most important themes of American history. The updated Making of Urban America provides a superb collection of essays for students and teachers on the many facets of urban development through history. This detailed and well-researched study traces urban development from the preindustrial city to the twentieth-century city. With emphasis on the social, economic, political, commercial, and cultural aspects of urban history, these essays illustrate the growth and change that brought about modern-day urban life. In his extensive historiographical analysis of urban America, Professor Raymond Mohl introduces the reader to current literature and perspectives on urban history. Dynamic topics such as technology, immigration and ethnicity, suburbanization, sunbelt cities, urban political history, and planning and housing are examined. The Making of Urban America is the only reader available covering all of U.S. urban history and includes the most recent interpretive scholarship on the subject.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1642 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
ISBN : UCBK:C047349385

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Examination of the War on Poverty by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty Pdf