Socialism in Burlington
W. J. Conroy
A reissued edition of a significant case study of the achievements and failures of Bernard Sanders’ radical administration in 1980s Burlington, VT
278 pages
| 6 x 9
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
New Deal Communities for the Urban Middle Class
Kristin M. Szylvian
How the sale of World War II public housing to non-profit mutual home-ownership associations represents a road not taken in federal housing policy
294 pages
| 6 x 9
| 14 halftones, 1 map
Tourism and Urban Revitalization in the Postwar Rustbelt
Aaron Cowan
An engaging, first-of-its-kind historical analysis of four Rustbelt cities’ efforts to remake themselves into tourist locales in the postindustrial era
236 pages
| 6 x 9
| 10 figures
Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935-1965
Robert B. Fairbanks
The untold story of public housing and urban renewal in the American Southwest
256 pages
| 6 x 9
| 15 tables, 1 figure, 6 halftones, 4 maps
Condo Conversion and Tenant Right-to-Buy in Washington, DC
Carolyn Gallaher
Analyzes whether tenant right-to-buy programs may mitigate displacement in fast-gentrifying cities like Washington, DC
278 pages
| 6 x 9
| 12 tables, 5 line drawings, 16 halftones, 33 color illustrations
Quotidian Mobility as Urban Theory, Method, and Practice
Edited by Evrick Brown and Timothy Shortell
Making the case for urban walking as a significant social activity and as a method for studying urban communities
264 pages
| 6 x 9
| 9 tables, 3 halftones, 1 map
White Construction of Memory, Meaning, and Identity in a Racially Changing City
Michael T. Maly and Heather M. Dalmage
Tracking the complexities of whiteness through an analysis of the experiences and memories of whites who lived in racially changing Chicago neighborhoods
184 pages
| 6 x 9
Cambodian Refugees in the New York City Hyperghetto
Eric Tang
Why Cambodian refugees experience life in the U.S. as a form of captivity, since self-sufficiency remains an elusive goal
242 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 10 halftones
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
Information Technology, Water, and Neoliberal Governance in India
Simanti Dasgupta
An ethnographic investigation of the class politics that underscore the emergence of neoliberalism in urban India
232 pages
| 6 x 9
The Sociospatial Exclusion of Homeless People
Jürgen von Mahs
An international account of homelessness, comparing Berlin and Los Angeles and the possibility of exiting homelessness in each city
208 pages
| 6 x 9
| 7 tables, 13 figures
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
Communities of Organizations as Settings for Change
Dan Ryan
What happens to communities after social organizations pack up and leave?
276 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 7 tables, 29 figures
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
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