Mirya R. Holman
How and why gender matters in framing and determining urban policy and politics
210 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
| 20 tables, 27 figures
Brooklyn's Sunset Park
Tarry Hum
How immigrants are reinventing Sunset Park, forming new multi-racial alliances, and reshaping its community
300 pages
| 6 x 9
| 15 tables, 7 halftones, 1 maps
Neighborhood Perspectives on University-Driven Revitalization in West Philadelphia
Harley F. Etienne
A critical study of university-driven development from the neighborhood resident's perspective
192 pages
| 5.5 x 8.25
Globalization and Local Politics in Manchester and Philadelphia
Jerome I. Hodos
How Philadelphia and Manchester have successfully grappled with globalization, carving out a series of distinctive niche roles for themselves over time
264 pages
| 6 x 9
| 8 tables, 3 figures, 13 halftones, 5 maps
History, Politics, and Prospects
Edited by Christopher Niedt
How the suburbs can give rise to campaigns for progressive change
276 pages
| 6 x 9
| 7 tables, 12 figures, 30 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
Capital, Community, and State in San Francisco
Karl Beitel
How San Francisco's housing protest movements help us understand global mobilization
230 pages
| 6 x 9
| 2 figures, 1 map
Somerville, MA
Susan Ostrander
How community influences contribute to civic and political engagement in a city undergoing rapid change
190 pages
| 6 x 9
| 3 figures, 5 maps
Prewar Seattle and Japanese America
Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
How the interests of Seattle and Japanese Americans were linked in the processes of urban boosterism before World War II
272 pages
| 6 x 9
| 18 halftones
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
Harold Washington, Chicago Politics, and the Roots of the Obama Presidency
Revised Edition
Gary Rivlin and Clarence Page
A revised edition of the classic story of race and power, set in Chicago during the 1980s, when this most political of cities elected its first black mayor
312 pages
| 6 x 9
| 8 halftones
Inner-Ring Suburbs of the Metropolitan United States
Bernadette Hanlon
A comprehensive national study of inner-ring suburbs in the U.S.
224 pages
| 6 x 9
| 32 tables, 11 figures, 13 maps
Triumphs and Tragedies in the American City
John Fairfield
Throughout U.S. history, our unrealized civic aspirations provide the essential counterpoint to an excessive focus on private interests
368 pages
| 6 x 9
Relief and Recovery after the 1906 Disaster
Andrea Rees Davies
How the relief and rebuiliding efforts after the 1906 disaster reproduced the class and racial divisions of pre-quake San Francisco
232 pages
| 6 x 9
| 5 tables, 21 halftones, 8 maps
Riots and Rebirth in an American City
Edited by Jessica Elfenbein, Thomas Hollowak, and Elizabeth Nix
The first comprehensive study of one city, Baltimore, forty years after the unrest that swept across some 120 U.S. cities
294 pages
| 6 x 9
| 20 halftones, 1 map
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