The Cinematic City circa 1968
Edited by Mark Shiel
A groundbreaking exploration of how filmmaking, architecture, and urban planning shaped and were shaped by mass protest movements in and around 1968
262 pages
| 6 x 9
| 34 halftones
Enabling Sprawl through Policy and Planning
Carlton Wade Basmajian
How metropolitan Atlanta’s regional planning groups accelerated the sprawl they were trying to control
288 pages
| 7 x 10
| 32 color photos
Managing Decline in “The Best Location in the Nation”
J. Mark Souther
Explores how civic and business leaders used image-making in an effort to reimagine and revive Cleveland in the decades after World War II
284 pages
| 6 x 9
| 2 figures, 12 halftones, 2 maps
Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities
Andrew Hurley
A framework for stabilizing and strengthening inner-city neighborhoods through the public interpretation of historic landscapes
248 pages
| 6 x 9
| 3 maps 14 halftones
Zane L. Miller and American Urban History
Edited by Larry Bennett, John D. Fairfield, and Patricia Mooney-Melvin
A critical appraisal of the career of Zane L. Miller, one of the founders of the new urban history
226 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
Modern Workers’ Houses in Early Twentieth-Century Detroit
Michael McCulloch
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240 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 table, 9 figures, 61 halftones
Contemporary Planning in New York City
Scott Larson
How Bloomberg's urban development relies on a blending of Moses and Jacobs
198 pages
| 6 x 9
Visions of the Organic City in the United States, Europe, and Latin America
Harold L. Platt
An international comparative study that considers how competing agents of change have interacted to build the urban environment
312 pages
| 6 x 9
| 1 figure, 14 maps
Catholics and Politics in Twentieth-Century San Francisco
William Issel
How Catholic religious activism shaped the language and outcome of San Francisco's debates about over the common good and the public interest.
336 pages
| 6 x 9
| 11 halftones
An Enduring American Challenge
Pamela Wilcox, Francis T. Cullen, and Ben Feldmeyer
A systematic exploration of how criminology has accounted for the role of community over the past century
274 pages
| 6 x 9
| 10 line drawings
Gender and the Built Environments of London, Dublin, Toronto, and Chicago, 1870s into the 1940s
Maureen A. Flanagan
An original, comparative examination of how ideas about gender resulted in the consolidation of the patriarchal city in the Anglo-Atlantic urban world
342 pages
| 6 x 9
| 14 halftones, 6 maps
Lessons from Vancouver on Building a Livable City
Nathanael Lauster
A detailed study of how Vancouver moved away from the single-family house and the effects of this transformation, detailed by interviews with residents
262 pages
| 6 x 9
| 7 tables, 11 figures, 4 halftones, 6 maps
Community Organizations for Housing across the United States and Brazil
Maureen M. Donaghy
Examining how community organizations fight to prevent displacement and secure affordable housing across cities in the U.S. and Brazil
234 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 2 tables
Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago
Robert R. Gioielli
How the postwar decay of America's industrial city's helped to give rise to environmental movement
224 pages
| 6 x 9
| 11 halftones
Space, Place, and Struggle
Kathryn E. Wilson
How Philadelphia’s Chinatown resisted and engaged with urban renewal processes in the late twentieth century
270 pages
| 6 x 9
| 2 tables, 2 figures, 15 halftones, 3 maps