Pioneering field work reveals how infrastructural systems-buildings, laws, algorithms, excavators, regulations, toxins-maintain white supremacy within the urban landscape For decades, Detroit residents, politicians, planners, and advocacy organizations have campaigned for the elimination of empty buildings from city neighborhoods. Leveling these ......
Regenerating Nature, Communities, and Local Economies Through Systems Change
Connected to Place looks at place-based systems change as a real-world solution to our growing environmental and social crises. Distilling lessons from a thirty-year career in the social sector, Matt Biggar offers a practical guide to creating conditions for societal transformation. He presents a vision that addresses the root of our plight by ......
America's Top-Rated Smaller Cities provides current, comprehensive data on 132 US cities, all top-ranked by Population Growth, Median Income, Unemployment Rate and Crime Rate.
How City Politics Shape Muslim Communities in Chicago
An intriguing look at how the city's built environment influences the shape of Muslim communities in Chicago Zoning Faith offers a rare in-depth look at three distinct Muslim communities in Chicago, one Shia Muslim, one Sunni, and one Black Muslim community. The volume explores how these communities navigate their social and political ......
How City Politics Shape Muslim Communities in Chicago
An intriguing look at how the city's built environment influences the shape of Muslim communities in Chicago Zoning Faith offers a rare in-depth look at three distinct Muslim communities in Chicago, one Shia Muslim, one Sunni, and one Black Muslim community. The volume explores how these communities navigate their social and political ......
How Major Change Happens in Urban Welfare Policies
Reforming Social Services in New York City examines efforts across six decades to respond to poverty, joblessness, and homelessness through the establishment and periodic restructuring of the city's Human Resources Administration (HRA) and related social welfare agencies. As Thomas J. Main shows through archival research and interviews with key ......
How Major Change Happens in Urban Welfare Policies
Reforming Social Services in New York City examines efforts across six decades to respond to poverty, joblessness, and homelessness through the establishment and periodic restructuring of the city's Human Resources Administration (HRA) and related social welfare agencies. As Thomas J. Main shows through archival research and interviews with key ......
How Black youth in Detroit made claims for political equality over and against the new order of community policing The criminalization of Black youth was central to policing in urban America during the civil rights era and continued in Detroit even after the rise of Black political control in the 1970s. Wildcat of the Streets documents how the ......
A midwestern urban Republican mayor reveals the success of his moderate approach to governing. Throughout his eight years as mayor of Indianapolis, Greg Ballard did what he thought was right, looking out for the long-term health of his city with political implications being the last of considerations. This included a pointed critique of the ......
