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Urban Policy in the Time of Obama
With his background as a community organizer and as a state legislator representing Chicago’s South Side, Barack Obama became America’s most “urban” president since Teddy …
Urban Policy in the Time of Obama
With his background as a community organizer and as a state legislator representing Chicago’s South Side, Barack Obama became America’s most “urban” president since Teddy …
Work Of Cities
Examines the new role of cities in a global economy.Are cities obsolete relics of an earlier era? In this pathbreaking book, Susan E. Clarke and Gary L. Gaile contend that contrary …
Selling The Lower East
The Lower East Side of Manhattan is rich in stories -- of poor immigrants who flocked there in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; of beatniks, hippies, and artists …
City Requiem, Calcutta
Uses Calcutta as a site for the exploration of persistent structures of deprivation and want.Housing developments emerge amid the paddy fields on the fringes of Calcutta; …
Reconstructing Chinatown
An exploration of this fascinating community as a window on globalization.In the American popular imagination, Chinatown is a mysterious and dangerous place, clannish and …
Remaking New York
Uses New York City to discuss the ways that policy has mismanaged the effects of globalizationInequality increases, instability grows, communities fragment: this is the fate of a …
Regions That Work
"A remarkable and timely book. . . . Must reading." William Julius WilsonOffering a new vision of community-based regionalism, this book arrives just as "smart growth" measures and …
Does Local Government Matter?
Until recently, policy evaluation has mostly meant assessing whether government programs raise reading levels, decrease teen pregnancy rates, improve air quality levels, lower …
Selling The Lower East
Tracks the shifting views of the Lower East Side from ghetto to desirable urban niche.The Lower East Side of Manhattan is rich in stories-of poor immigrants who flocked there in …
Does Local Government Matter?
Until recently, policy evaluation has mostly meant assessing whether government programs raise reading levels, decrease teen pregnancy rates, improve air quality levels, lower …
Private Metropolis
Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s …