Saving Our Cities: A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America
- ISBN-10
- 1501706039
- ISBN-13
- 9781501706035
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-08-12
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Author
- William W. Goldsmith
Description
Saving Our Cities -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Looking Upstream -- 1. Cities as Political Targets -- 2. Cities as Budget-Cutting Targets -- 3. Troubled City Schools -- 4. Options for City Schools -- 5. The Paradox of Plenty -- 6. Drugs, Prisons, and Neighborhoods -- 7. Drug-War Politics -- Democracy, Inequality, Urban Policy -- Notes -- References -- Index
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2016-08-23
- 304 pages
- Ebook
- Cornell University Press
Similar books
-
Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile
By Taras GrescoeTaras Grescoe rides the rails all over the world and makes an elegant and impassioned case for the imminent end of car culture and the coming transportation revolution "I am proud to call myself a straphanger," writes Taras Grescoe.
-
Saving America's Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
By Lizabeth CohenIn Saving America’s Cities, the prizewinning historian Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private ...
-
How Cities Will Save the World: Urban Innovation in the Face of Population Flows, Climate Change and Economic Inequality
By Ray Brescia, John Travis MarshallBut the evidence suggests otherwise. Cities are actively devising innovative policy solutions and they have the potential to do even more. In this volume, the authors examine current threats to communities across the U.S. and the globe.
-
Saving Cities: A Taxonomy of Urban Technologies
By Shane EptingThis book makes the case that several urban technologies contribute to wicked problems such as climate change and vast social and economic inequalities.
-
Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do about It
By Diane Kalen-Sukra"Save Your City is an inspired and powerful must-read. Our democracy is in peril and this book delivers the right message, by the right person, at the right time.
-
Urban Playground: How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities
By Tim Gill... planning and design that pays attention to children's needs and wishes can make a real difference to their health, well-being and quality of life. And the converse is also true: ignoring children worsens their everyday lives, ...
-
Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
By Jeff SpeckIn this essential new book, Speck reveals the invisible workings of the city, how simple decisions have cascading effects, and how we can all make the right choices for our communities.
-
Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
By Michael Bloomberg, Carl PopeIn Climate of Hope, Bloomberg and Pope offer an optimistic look at the challenge of climate change, the solutions they believe hold the greatest promise, and the practical steps that are necessary to achieve them.
-
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
By Jane JacobsThe “cause” of Hyde Park-Kenwood's decline has been brilliantly identified, by the planning heirs of the bloodletting doctors, as the presence of “blight.” By blight they mean that too many of the college professors and other ...
-
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
By Charles Montgomery"A journalist travels the world and investigates current socioeconomic theories of happiness to discover why most modern cities are designed to make us miserable, what we can do to change this, and why we have more to learn from poor cities ...