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Class Divide

Yale '64 and the Conflicted Legacy of the Sixties

By: Howard Gillette, Jr.

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Class Divide

Yale '64 and the Conflicted Legacy of the Sixties

By: Howard Gillette, Jr.

Members of the Yale College class of 1964—the first class to matriculate in the 1960s—were poised to take up the positions of leadership that typically followed an Ivy League education. Their mission gained special urgency from the inspiration of John F. Kennedy’s presidency and the civil rights movement as it moved north. Ultimately these men proved successful in traditional terms—in the professions, in politics, and in philanthropy—and yet something was different. Challenged by the issues that would define a new era, their lives took a number of unexpected turns. Instead of confirming the triumphal perspective they grew up with in the years after World War II, they embraced new and often conflicting ideas. In the process the group splintered.In Class Divide, Howard Gillette Jr. draws particularly on more than one hundred interviews with representative members of the Yale class of ’64 to examine how they were challenged by the issues that would define the 1960s: civil rights, the power of the state at home and abroad, sexual mores and personal liberty, religious faith, and social responsibility. Among those whose life courses Gillette follows from their formative years in college through the years after graduation are the politicians Joe Lieberman and John Ashcroft, the Harvard humanities professor Stephen Greenblatt, the environmental leader Gus Speth, and the civil rights activist Stephen Bingham.Although their Ivy League education gave them access to positions in the national elite, the members of Yale ’64 nonetheless were too divided to be part of a unified leadership class. Try as they might, they found it impossible to shape a new consensus to replace the one that was undone in their college years and early adulthood.

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Cornell University Press

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0801456118

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9780801456114

Between Justice and Beauty

Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C.

By: Howard Gillette, Jr.

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Between Justice and Beauty

Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C.

By: Howard Gillette, Jr.

As the only American city under direct congressional control, Washington has served historically as a testing ground for federal policy initiatives and social experiments—with decidedly mixed results. Well-intentioned efforts to introduce measures of social justice for the district's largely black population have failed. Yet federal plans and federal money have successfully created a large federal presence—a triumph, argues Howard Gillette, of beauty over justice. In a new afterword, Gillette addresses the recent revitalization and the aftereffects of an urban sports arena.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812205294

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9780812205299

Class Divide

Yale '64 and the Conflicted Legacy of the Sixties

By: Howard Gillette, Jr.

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Yale '64 and the Conflicted Legacy of the Sixties

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Camden After the Fall

Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City

By: Howard Gillette, Jr.

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Camden After the Fall

Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City

By: Howard Gillette, Jr.

What prevents cities whose economies have been devastated by the flight of human and monetary capital from returning to self-sufficiency? Looking at the cumulative effects of urban decline in the classic post-industrial city of Camden, New Jersey, historian Howard Gillette, Jr., probes the interaction of politics, economic restructuring, and racial bias to evaluate contemporary efforts at revitalization. In a sweeping analysis, Gillette identifies a number of related factors to explain this phenomenon, including the corrosive effects of concentrated poverty, environmental injustice, and a political bias that favors suburban amenity over urban reconstruction. Challenging popular perceptions that poor people are responsible for the untenable living conditions in which they find themselves, Gillette reveals how the effects of political decisions made over the past half century have combined with structural inequities to sustain and prolong a city's impoverishment. Even the most admirable efforts to rebuild neighborhoods through community development and the reinvention of downtowns as tourist destinations are inadequate solutions, Gillette argues. He maintains that only a concerted regional planning response—in which a city and suburbs cooperate—is capable of achieving true revitalization. Though such a response is mandated in Camden as part of an unprecedented state intervention, its success is still not assured, given the legacy of outside antagonism to the city and its residents. Deeply researched and forcefully argued, Camden After the Fall chronicles the history of the post-industrial American city and points toward a sustained urban revitalization strategy for the twenty-first century.

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0812205278

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The Paradox of Urban Revitalization

Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era

By: Howard Gillette, Jr.

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The Paradox of Urban Revitalization

Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era

By: Howard Gillette, Jr.

In the twenty-first century, cities in the United States that had suffered most the shift to a postindustrial era entered a period widely proclaimed as an urban renaissance. From Detroit to Newark to Oakland and elsewhere commentators saw cities rising again. Yet revitalization generated a second urban crisis marked by growing inequality and civil unrest reminiscent of the upheavals associated with the first urban crisis in the mid-twentieth century. The urban poor and residents of color have remained very much at a disadvantage in the face of racially biased capital investments, narrowing options for affordable housing, and mass incarceration. In profiling nine cities grappling with challenges of the twenty-first century, author Howard Gillette, Jr. evaluates the uneven efforts to secure racial and class equity as city fortunes have risen. Charting the tension between the practice of corporate subsidy and efforts to assure social justice, The Paradox of Urban Revitalization assesses the course of urban politics and policy over the past half century, before the COVID-19 pandemic upended everything, and details prospects for achieving greater equity in the years ahead.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812298330

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9780812298338

Civitas by Design

Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism

By: Howard Gillette

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Civitas by Design

Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism

By: Howard Gillette

The best study so far about the virtual collapse in the late twentieth century of South Jersey's largest city."--New York Times.

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0812222229

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Camden After the Fall

Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City

By: Howard Gillette, Jr.

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Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City

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Civitas by Design

Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism

By: Howard Gillette, Jr.

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Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism

By: Howard Gillette, Jr.

Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but also to strengthen civic ties through better design of built environments. From Ebenezer Howard and his vision for garden cities to today's New Urbanists, these visionaries have sought to deepen civitas, or the shared community of citizens. In Civitas by Design, historian Howard Gillette, Jr., takes a critical look at this planning tradition, examining a wide range of environmental interventions and their consequences over the course of the twentieth century. As American reform efforts moved from progressive idealism through the era of government urban renewal programs to the rise of faith in markets, planners attempted to cultivate community in places such as Forest Hills Gardens in Queens, New York; Celebration, Florida; and the post-Katrina Gulf Coast. Key figures—including critics Lewis Mumford and Oscar Newman, entrepreneur James Rouse, and housing reformer Catherine Bauer—introduced concepts such as neighborhood units, pedestrian shopping malls, and planned communities that were implemented on a national scale. Many of the buildings, landscapes, and infrastructures that planners envisioned still remain, but frequently these physical designs have proven insufficient to sustain the ideals they represented. Will contemporary urbanists' efforts to join social justice with environmentalism generate better results? Gillette places the work of reformers and designers in the context of their times, providing a careful analysis of the major ideas and trends in urban planning for current and future policy makers.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812205286

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Washington Seen

A Photographic History, 1875-1965

By: Fredric M. Miller,Howard Gillette

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Washington Seen

A Photographic History, 1875-1965

By: Fredric M. Miller,Howard Gillette

This unique portrait of Washington, D.C., from the Guilded Age to the Great Society, brings together nearly 400 photographs which focus not on the monuments and streets of our nation's capital, but on the complex relationships among the people who worked and lived there. 338 photos. Short discount: 5%.

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JHU Press

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0801849799

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9780801849794

Health Risk Assessment Dermal and Inhalation Exposure and Absorption of Toxicants

By: Rhoda G.M. Wang,James B. Knaak,Howard I. Maibach

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Health Risk Assessment Dermal and Inhalation Exposure and Absorption of Toxicants

By: Rhoda G.M. Wang,James B. Knaak,Howard I. Maibach

Health Risk Assessment is a comprehensive reference focusing on dermal absorption, cholinesterase inhibition, adverse reproductive effects, and carcinogenicity. The book features contributions from over 40 top scientists and covers topics such as PBPK modeling, cytochrome P-450 metabolism in skin, percutaneous absorption, adverse effects, new skin models, and the role of epidemiology in assessing the hazards of toxicants. Health Risk Assessment is essential for toxicologists, environmental chemists, pharmacologists, risk assessors, and managers working in industrial, pesticide, and pharmaceutical development. The book will also benefit individuals in environmental, regulatory, and registration affairs, as well as academicians and students.

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CRC Press

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1351361740

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The Paradox of Urban Revitalization

Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era

By: Howard Gillette, Jr.

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Progress and Poverty in America's Postindustrial Era

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081225371X

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Between Justice and Beauty

Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C.

By: Howard Gillette, Jr.

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Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C.

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Class Divide

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Between Justice and Beauty

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Camden After the Fall

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The Paradox of Urban Revitalization

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Civitas by Design

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Camden After the Fall

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Civitas by Design

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Washington Seen

Health Risk Assessment Dermal and Inhalation Exposure and Absorption of Toxicants

Health Risk Assessment Dermal and Inhalation Exposure and Absorption of Toxicants

The Paradox of Urban Revitalization

The Paradox of Urban Revitalization

Between Justice and Beauty

Between Justice and Beauty

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