Is New York a post-secular city? From Italian Catholics, Mormons, Muslims, and Russian Jews to Zen Buddhists, Rastafarians, and Pentecostal Latinas, this book captures the richness of religious life in New York City and provides an important foundation for our understanding of the current and future shape of religion in America.
This text offers a sweeping view of urban religion in response to the transformations of de-industrialized large cities. Focusing on Chicago, it explores the ways in which religious organizations both reflect and contribute to changes in American pluralism.
This text offers a sweeping view of urban religion in response to the transformations of de-industrialized large cities. Focusing on Chicago, it explores the ways in which religious organizations both reflect and contribute to changes in American pluralism.
Using real case studies from New York where GIS have been at the centre of a successful programme, the contributors to this study present methods of combining geographic information systems and application software with strategies to reduce crime.'
Reporting the progress in the fight against the ingrained poverty and social problems of many areas with in the US, this text includes case studies from many cities which highlight the achievements in such communities. '
Community Design focuses on the author''s exp erience and work in Minnesota where a design team of archite cts, planners, economic and community development practition ers provided planning and design assistance to local communi ties. '
This is the fifth updated edition of Morgan's study and analysis of urban management in America. First issued in 1980, many of the same problems are found to be facing public officials today - fiscal stress, doing more with less, productivity enhancement, privatization, cutback management, retrenchment, and economic development are still very much ......
ISBN-13: 9781566430654
(Paperback)
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS Imprint: CHATHAM HOUSE PUBLISHERS INC.,U.S.
This book examines how the members of the southern community of Lynchburg, Virginia, experienced four distinct but overlapping events: secession, civil war, black emancipation, and reconstruction. Tripp illustrates the way in which ordinary people influenced the contours of race and class relations in their town.
How the Suburbs Took Control of America and What They Plan to Do With It
There was a time when cities were the dominant force in politics, controlling who was elected and what those candidates fought for in office. This book shows how we have now entered the "Suburban Century", when the voting muscle lies within the quiet, tree-lined streets of "the burbs", far away from the dangers of city life.
