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Rethinking Rental Housing

By: John Gilderbloom

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In recent years, almost daily media attention has been focused on the plight of the homeless in cities across the United States. Drawing upon experiences in the U.S. and Europe, John Gilderbloom and Richard Appelbaum challenge conventional assumptions concerning the operation of housing markets and provide policy alternatives directed at the needs of low- and moderate-income families. Rethinking Rental Housing is a ground-breaking analysis that shows the value of applying a broad sociological approach to urban problems, one that takes into account the basic economic, social, and political dimensions of the urban housing crisis. Gilderbloom and Appelbaum predict that this crisis will worsen in the 1990s and argue that a "supply and demand" approach will not work in this case because housing markets are not competitive. They propose that the most effective approach to affordable housing is to provide non-market alternatives fashioned after European housing programs, particularly the Swedish model. An important feature of this book is the discussion of tenant movements that have tried to implement community values in opposition to values of development and landlord capital. One of the very few publications on rental housing, it is unique in applying a sociological framework to the study of this topic.

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Temple University Press

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1439906718

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Invisible City

Poverty, Housing, and New Urbanism

By: John I. Gilderbloom

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Invisible City

Poverty, Housing, and New Urbanism

By: John I. Gilderbloom

A legendary figure in the realms of public policy and academia, John Gilderbloom is one of the foremost urban-planning researchers of our time, producing groundbreaking studies on housing markets, design, location, regulation, financing, and community building. Now, in Invisible City, he turns his eye to fundamental questions regarding housing for the elderly, the disabled, and the poor. Why is it that some locales can offer affordable, accessible, and attractive housing, while the large majority of cities fail to do so? Invisible City calls for a brave new housing paradigm that makes the needs of marginalized populations visible to policy makers.Drawing on fascinating case studies in Houston, Louisville, and New Orleans, and analyzing census information as well as policy reports, Gilderbloom offers a comprehensive, engaging, and optimistic theory of how housing can be remade with a progressive vision. While many contemporary urban scholars have failed to capture the dynamics of what is happening in our cities, Gilderbloom presents a new vision of shelter as a force that shapes all residents.

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University of Texas Press

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0292778929

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Urban Fortunes

The Political Economy of Place, 20th Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface

By: John R. Logan,Harvey Molotch

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Urban Fortunes

The Political Economy of Place, 20th Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface

By: John R. Logan,Harvey Molotch

This sociological classic is updated with a new preface by the authors looking at developments in the study of urban planning during the twenty-year life of this influential work.

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Univ of California Press

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0520934571

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Promise and Betrayal

Universities and the Battle for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods

By: John Ingram Gilderbloom,Robert Lee Mullins,Mullins, Robert Lee Mullins

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Promise and Betrayal

Universities and the Battle for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods

By: John Ingram Gilderbloom,Robert Lee Mullins,Mullins, Robert Lee Mullins

Argues that universities can help revitalize poor neighborhoods.

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SUNY Press

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0791464849

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9780791464847

Invisible City

Poverty, Housing, and New Urbanism

By: John I. Gilderbloom

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Invisible City

Poverty, Housing, and New Urbanism

By: John I. Gilderbloom

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University of Texas Press

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Rethinking Rental Housing

By: John Gilderbloom,Richard P. Appelbaum

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Rethinking Rental Housing

By: John Gilderbloom,Richard P. Appelbaum

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Temple University Press

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0877225389

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Fulfilling the Promise

Virginia Commonwealth University and the City of Richmond, 1968–2009

By: John T. Kneebone,Eugene P. Trani

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Fulfilling the Promise

Virginia Commonwealth University and the City of Richmond, 1968–2009

By: John T. Kneebone,Eugene P. Trani

Founded in Richmond in 1968, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) began with a mission to build a university to serve a city emerging from the era of urban crisis—desegregation, white flight, political conflict, and economic decline. With the merger of the Medical College of Virginia and the Richmond Professional Institute into the single state-mandated institution of VCU, the two entities were able to embrace their mission and work together productively. In Fulfilling the Promise, John Kneebone and Eugene Trani tell the intriguing story of VCU and the context in which the university was forged and eventually thrived. Although VCU’s history is necessarily unique, Kneebone and Trani show how the issues shaping it are common to many urban institutions, from engaging with two-party politics in Virginia and African American political leadership in Richmond, to fraught neighborhood relations, the complexities of providing public health care at an academic health center, and an increasingly diverse student body. As a result, Fulfilling the Promise offers far more than a stale institutional saga. Rather, this definitive history of one urban-setting state university illuminates the past and future of American public higher education in the post-1960s era.

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University of Virginia Press

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081394483X

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The State of Working America

1992-93

By: Lawrence Mishel,Jared Bernstein,John Schmitt

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The State of Working America

1992-93

By: Lawrence Mishel,Jared Bernstein,John Schmitt

Drawing on a variety of data on family incomes, taxes, wages, employment, wealth, health care and poverty, this text provides a portrait of the living standards of Americans in the mid-1990s. It contains up-to-date data from the US Census.

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Routledge

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1315287919

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Handbook of Local Government Administration

By: John J. Gargan

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Handbook of Local Government Administration

By: John J. Gargan

This theoretically and experientially grounded reference provides a complete overview of the principles and applications of government administration and management practices in the local public sector. Written by over 25 distinguished academics and professionals with substantial experience as practitioners and consultants of administrative operations to local governments, the book covers the effects of environmental conditions on local administrators and management techniques to administration in different types of local government. It helps readers reduce research time by presenting advanced materials on local government administration and management in a single source.

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Routledge

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135156448X

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Volunteers

A Social Profile

By: Marc A. Musick,John Wilson

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Volunteers

A Social Profile

By: Marc A. Musick,John Wilson

Who tends to volunteer and why? What causes attract certain types of volunteers? What motivates people to volunteer? How can volunteers be persuaded to continue their service? Making use of a broad range of survey information to offer a detailed portrait of the volunteer in America, Volunteers provides an important resource for everyone who works with volunteers or is interested in their role in contemporary society. Mark A. Musick and John Wilson address issues of volunteer motivation by focusing on individuals' subjective states, their available resources, and the influence of gender and race. In a section on social context, they reveal how volunteer work is influenced by family relationships and obligations through the impact of schools, churches, and communities. They consider cross-national differences in volunteering and historical trends, and close with consideration of the research on the organization of volunteer work and the consequences of volunteering for the volunteer.

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Indiana University Press

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0253116864

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9780253116864

Community Equity Audits

Communities and Schools Working Together to Eliminate the Opportunity Gap

By: Kathryn Bell McKenzie,J. Martyn Gunn,Talitha Agan,Campbell John Bullock,Amelia Herrera-Evans

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Community Equity Audits

Communities and Schools Working Together to Eliminate the Opportunity Gap

By: Kathryn Bell McKenzie,J. Martyn Gunn,Talitha Agan,Campbell John Bullock,Amelia Herrera-Evans

Bridge the gap in opportunity to overcome the gap in achievement! Although out-of-school factors that limit student success may seem like obstacles too big to address, this guidebook provides the necessary direction to bridge the opportunity gap and close the achievement gap. Step-by-step instructions on how to conduct a community equity audit, along with detailed case studies, activities, and discussion questions give readers the power to assess opportunity gaps and eliminate them. A community equity audit asks questions such as: • Do the children in my community have the same opportunity as children in other communities? • Does my community have the same resources as other communities? • If my community needs more resources how can we provide them?

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Corwin Press

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1544360983

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Contested Ground

Collective Action and the Urban Neighborhood

By: John Emmius Davis

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Contested Ground

Collective Action and the Urban Neighborhood

By: John Emmius Davis

One of the most striking characteristics of urban protest and social conflict in the United States, Britain, and other nations of the West over the last three decades is the frequency with which these political events have been organized not where people work, but where they live. The residential communities in which people have their homes, raise their children, and relate to each other more as neighbors than as co-workers have become veritable seedbeds of collective action. Contested Ground provides a new approach to understanding how and why such community-based action occurs. Drawing critically and selectively from Marxian theories of conflict and neo-Weberian theories of "housing classes," John Emmeus Davis argues that the political life of residential communities can be explained largely in terms of the competing interests that groups possess by virtue of different and distinctive ways of relating to their community's "domestic property"land and buildings that are used for shelter. In Part I of his book he proposes domestic property interests as the cornerstone of a theoretical framework for exploring the appearance and disappearance, the development and decline, and the cooperation and conflict of the organized groups of the "homeplace." In Part II he tests the plausibility of this framework against the social and political realities of an inner-city neighborhood known as the West End in Cincinnati, Ohio. A neighborhood shaped by successive waves of priyate investment and disinvestment, city neglect and city planning, urban renewal and gentrification, the domestic property of the West End has been the contested ground from which many community organizations have grown. Using archival records, oral histories, and organizational documents, Davis unfolds the story of the rise and fall of these grassroots groups. Davis's concluding chapters evaluate the theoretical and practical implications of his approach. He believes that his analysis may complement neo-Marxian theories of urban development and capitalist reproduction and also provide new insight into ways in which planners, activists, and policy makers can influence the internal politics of the urban neighborhood.

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Cornell University Press

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1501721194

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Contemporary Urban Planning

By: John M. Levy

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Contemporary Urban Planning

By: John M. Levy

Planning is a highly political activity. It is immersed in politics and inseparable from the law. Urban and regional planning decisions often involve large sums of money, both public and private, with the potential to deliver large benefits to some and losses to others. Contemporary Urban Planning, 11e provides students with an unvarnished and in-depth introduction to the historic, economic, political, legal, ideological, and environmental factors affecting urban planning today, and emphasizes the importance of considering who wins and who loses in planning decision making. The extensively revised and updated 11th edition of this beloved text tackles the most pressing recent issues in urban development—including the major turn toward reurbanization, Affordable Housing and the particular housing needs of an aging population, new developments in public transportation planning, policy, and technology, standards for "green" buildings, the second Obama administration’s environmental policy and energy planning, as well as the rapidly growing and critical field of planning for natural catastrophes. Contemporary Urban Planning is an essential resource for students, city planners, and all who are concerned with the nature of contemporary urban development problems.

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Taylor & Francis

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131721384X

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9781317213840

David Harvey's Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

By: John L. Paterson

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David Harvey's Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

By: John L. Paterson

The emphasis of this book is to explore two major philosophical influences in contemporary human geography, namely logical positivism and Marxism, and to explore the relationships between philosophy, methodology and geographical research. Rather than being a biography of David Harvey, the book contributes to the understanding of one of the most innovative and iconoclastic scholars in contemporary Anglo-American human geography.

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Routledge

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1317906535

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Social Problems

By: John J. Macionis

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Social Problems

By: John J. Macionis

Macionis's Social Problems is the only social problems text that explains how society frames social problems and solutions through politics. The text analyzes social issues and policies, using the concepts of sociological theory and the everyday language of politics. & This text helps students understand the attitudes and values that define the political spectrum in the United States. Once students know how social problems are defined by our society through politics, and how the policies to solve these problems are developed, students are able to & become involved in solving social problems through activism and political involvement.

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Prentice Hall

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0131891871

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9780131891876

Promise and Betrayal

Universities and the Battle for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods

By: John I. Gilderbloom,R. L. Mullins Jr.

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Promise and Betrayal

Universities and the Battle for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods

By: John I. Gilderbloom,R. L. Mullins Jr.

Traditionally, institutions of higher education have been viewed as the gateway to a better future, despite the fact that so many of the neighborhoods surrounding them have been filled with hopelessness and despair. In Promise and Betrayal, the authors want nothing less than to start a revolution in higher education, calling on partnerships between "town and gown" to create sustainable urban neighborhoods. John I. Gilderbloom and R. L. Mullins Jr. detail how higher education institutions can play an important role in helping to revitalize our poor neighborhoods by forming partnerships with public, private, and nonprofit groups. They advocate leaving the "ivory tower" and supplying the community with expert knowledge as well as creative and technical resources.

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State University of New York Press

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0791483118

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Rethinking Rental Housing

Rethinking Rental Housing

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Invisible City

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Urban Fortunes

Promise and Betrayal

Promise and Betrayal

Invisible City

Invisible City

Rethinking Rental Housing

Rethinking Rental Housing

Fulfilling the Promise

Fulfilling the Promise

The State of Working America

The State of Working America

Handbook of Local Government Administration

Handbook of Local Government Administration

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Contested Ground

Contested Ground

Contemporary Urban Planning

Contemporary Urban Planning

David Harvey's Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

David Harvey's Geography (RLE Social & Cultural Geography)

Social Problems

Social Problems

Promise and Betrayal

Promise and Betrayal

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