Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City, Revised Edition
Gentrification and displacement of low-income communities of color are major issues in New York City and the city's zoning policies are a major cause. Race matters but the city ignores it when shaping land use and housing policies. The city promises "affordable housing" that is not truly affordable. Zoned Out! shows how this has played in ......
Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City, Revised Edition
Gentrification and displacement of low-income communities of color are major issues in New York City and the city's zoning policies are a major cause. Race matters but the city ignores it when shaping land use and housing policies. The city promises "affordable housing" that is not truly affordable. Zoned Out! shows how this has played in ......
Country Teachers in City Schools provides insight into the experiences of rural out-migrant teachers teaching in (sub)urban schools and the impact on their practice. The author reports her findings and provides suggestions and teaching applications.
This volume provides a critical analysis of looting from a multi-disciplinary approach that focuses on a combination of themes to show that looting is deeply rooted in property "ownership" and spiraling poverty and inequality that is structural in nature, stemming from colonial and apartheid policies.
This book emphasizes the importance of community development in the change and transformation of a community and why that change matters. Community development improves the social capital of a community, and creates new housing opportunities and new places for people that improve and enhance the overall quality of life of the community.
Silencing Shanghai investigates the paradoxical and counterintuitive contrast between Shanghai's emergence as a global city and the marginalization of its native population, captured through the rapid decline of the distinctive Shanghai dialect. From this unique vantage point, Fang Xu tells a story of power relations in a cosmopolitan metropolis ......
City and Country traces the evolution of urban-rural systems 7,000 years ago into the modern global order and argues that at the heart of the logic of capitalism is an even deeper logic: urbanization is based on urban dependency.
The Gayborhood: From Sexual Liberation to Cosmopolitan Spectacle explores the lived experiences of LGBT+ persons in an era of heightened visibility. The contributors analyze the future of LGBT+ politics and look beyond the commercialized rainbow spectacle of gayborhoods into the communities and aspirations within.
In Sociology of Waiting, Paul Christopher Price investigates how people wait and analyzes what individuals do while waiting. It is a key feature within U.S. and other societies; waiting is universal. Sociologically, waiting gets at order and our ability or inability to pause. Crowds cannot rush into concert venues and supermarket clerks cannot ......