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1	House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods more books like this by Professor Alexander Von Hoffman add to wishlist Not long ago, neighborhoods such as the South Bronx, South Central Los Angeles, and Boston's Roxbury were crime-ridden wastelands of vacant lots and burned-out buildings, notorious symbols of urban decay. In House by House, Block by Block, Alexander von Hoffman tells the remarkable stories of how local activists and community groups helped turn ... see all copies from $2.12! new only from $3.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do about It more books like this by Mindy Thompson Fullilove add to wishlist In the tradition of Nicholas Lehmann's "The Promised Land, Rootshock" gives readers a new way of seeing American urban history and its effects on everyone's lives. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Urban Issues: Selections from CQ Researcher more books like this by CQ Press (Creator) add to wishlist see all copies from $27.07! new only from $46.31! \| SVS
4	Making Cities Work: Prospects and Policies for Urban America more books like this by Robert P Inman (Editor) add to wishlist "Making Cities Work" brings together leading writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in today's fast-evolving economy. Successful cities provide jobs, quality schools, safe and clean neighborhoods, effective transportation, and welcoming spaces for all residents. But cities ... see all copies from $29.83! new only from $29.83! \| SVS
5	Street Wars: Gangs and the Future of Violence more books like this by Tom Hayden add to wishlist Weaving together cutting analysis with numerous firsthand stories from gang leaders, Hayden shows how the prison-industrial complex reinforces gang identity through humiliation and punishment, and reveals how globalization has created a force of unemployable men and women around the world. see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98! \| SVS
6	The Urban Experience: Economics, Society, and Public Policy more books like this by Barry BlueStone, Mary Huff Stevenson, Russell Williams add to wishlist The Urban Experience provides a fresh approach to the study of metropolitan areas by combining economic principles, social insight, and political realities with an appreciation of public policy to understand how U.S. cities and suburbs function in the 21st century. The book is grounded in the real life experiences of students and their families on ... see all copies from $45.45! new only from $74.08! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Urban Policy Reconsidered: Dialogues on the Problems and Prospects of American Cities more books like this by Charles Euchner, Stephen J McGovern add to wishlist This comprehensive overview of the issues and problems facing American cities today covers every important issue in urban affairs: poverty, inequality, race, planning, education and crime. see all copies from $36.78! new only from $46.70! \| SVS
8	Planning in the USA: Policies, Issues, and Processes more books like this by Barry Cullingworth, Dr. Roger W Caves add to wishlist This extensively revised and expanded third edition of "Planning in the USA" continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the policies, theory and practice of planning. Discussing land use, urban planning and environmental protection policies, this fully illustrated book explains the nature of the planning process and the way in which ... see all copies from $4.17! new only from $60.52! \| SVS
9	Urban Policy in Twentieth-Century America more books like this by Arnold Hirsch (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.80! \| signed copies
10	Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of US Cities more books like this by Robert A Beauregard add to wishlist Voices of Decline is a sweeping history of dominant representations of the American City in the twentieth century. Upon its initial publication in 1993, the book was hailed as a breakthrough book that introduced discourse analysis and an appreciation of the shaping power of representation into American urban studies. Beauregard has identified a ... see all copies from $5.25! new only from $37.55! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Planning in the USA: Policies, Issues and Processes more books like this by J Barry Cullingworth add to wishlist This introduction to the policies, theory and practice of planning outlines land use, urban planning and environmental protection policies and explains the nature of the planning process. Offering a detailed account of urbanization in the USA, Barry Cullingworth reveals the problematic nature and limitations of the planning process, the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $48.73! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	From Warfare to Welfare: Defense Intellectuals and Urban Problems in Cold War America more books like this by Professor Jennifer S Light add to wishlist During the early decades of the Cold War, large-scale investments in American defence and aerospace research and development spawned a variety of problem-solving techniques, technologies and institutions. From systems analysis to reconnaissance satellites to think tanks, these innovations did not remain exclusive accessories of the defence ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.12! \| SVS
13 view cover	Reviving America's Forgotten Neighborhoods: An Investigation of Inner City Revitalization Efforts more books like this by Elise M Bright, M Bright Elise add to wishlist This study covers the topic of revitalizing inner city neighbourhoods, which has been an elusive goal for city planners and policy makers for decades. Despite a variety of approaches and policy strategies, many inner city neighbourhoods around the country remain poor, neglected and disinvested. The question then remains, what can be done to ... see all copies from $11.66! new only from $28.69!
14 view cover	Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development, the Environment, and Quality of Life in American Cities more books like this by Kent E Portney add to wishlist Today at least 25 major US cities have pursued some form of sustainability initiative. Although many case studies and "how-to" manuals have been published, there has been little systematic comparison of these cities' programs and initiatives. In this book Kent Portney lays the theoretical groundwork for research on what works and what does not, ... see all copies from $17.83! new only from $22.05! \| SVS
15 view cover	City Making: Building Communities Without Building Walls more books like this by Gerald E Frug add to wishlist American metropolitan areas today are divided into neighborhoods of privilege and poverty, often along lines of ethnicity and race. City residents traveling through these neighborhoods move from feeling at home to feeling like tourists to feeling so out of place they fear for their security. As Gerald Frug shows, this divided and inhospitable ... see all copies from $14.38! new only from $21.99! \| SVS
16 view cover	Urban America more books like this by Laura K Egendorf (Editor) add to wishlist Cities are the center of much of American life. The authors in this anthology evaluate the state of urban America in the following chapters: What Problems is Urban America Facing? What Government Programs Would Improve Urban America? How Can the Lives of Urban Children Be Improved? What Is the Future of Urban America? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $36.64! \| SVS
17	America's Cities more books like this by Charles P Cozic (Editor) add to wishlist An anthology of articles debating issues related to America's cities, including the decline of the cities, measures to improve urban housing, the reduction of homelessness and urban crime, and how cities can be improved. Includes critical thinking activities. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions
18 view cover	Rebuilding America: A Prescription for Creating Strong Families, Building the Wealth of Working People, and Ending Welfare more books like this by John Kenneth Blackwell, Jerome R Corsi, PH.D. add to wishlist In direct challenge to the liberal political thinking that built the welfare state, Blackwell, the future Ohio gubernatorial candidate, and Corsi have developed a blueprint for a new War on Poverty. see all copies from $2.40! new only from $18.69! \| first editions \| SVS
19	Toward a National Urban Policy more books like this by Daniel P Moynihan add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
20 view cover	City Politics: Private Power Public Policy more books like this by Professor Dennis R Judd, Todd Swanstrom add to wishlist Praised for its narrative style, strong research base, and distinctive theme-that urban politics in the U.S. has evolved as a dynamic interaction between governmental power and private purposes-the new edition of this #1 text is the most extensive revision yet. It has been updated to include preliminary data from the 2000 census, information about ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $70.69!
21	Urban Issues: Selections from the CQ Researcher more books like this by CQ Press (Creator) add to wishlist For current coverage of controversial and important policy issues centering on urban politics, offer your students the scrupulous reporting and engaging writing that only The CQ Researcher provides. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $32.95! \| first editions
22 view cover	Race & Place more books like this by John W Frazier, Florence Margai, Eugene Tettey-Fio add to wishlist Racism, racial equity, and the race-place connections related to racial inequalities in the U. S. are the major themes of this book. The long history of U. S. White racism toward Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians is deeply rooted in the political, socioeconomic, and intellectual frameworks of America, permitting racial inequities to become expressed ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $36.16! \| SVS
23 view cover	The Politics of Urban America: A Reader more books like this by Professor Dennis R Judd, Paul P Kantor add to wishlist In this reader, two leading scholars have brought together a collection that represent some of the most important trends in urban scholarship today. The readings fit together in a political economy framework so that, considered as a whole, they illustrate how public power and private resources interact in the governance of cities. Users appreciate ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.91!
24 view cover	Reinventing Cities PB more books like this by Pierre Clavel, Prof. Norman Krumholz add to wishlist "Reinventing Cities" emphasizes the extraordinary accomplishments of eleven urban planners who work for the needs of low income and working class people. Through the voices of equity planners who have worked 'in the trenches' of city halls, Norman Krumholz and Pierre Clavel explore the inner dimensions of social change, economic development, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $29.94! \| first editions
25 view cover	The City in American Political Development more books like this by Dilworth Richar, Richardson Dilworth (Editor) add to wishlist There are nearly 20,000 general-purpose municipal governments - cities - in the United States, employing more people than the federal government. About twenty of those cities received charters of incorporation well before ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and several others were established urban centers more than a century before the ... see all copies from $34.05! new only from $34.05!

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