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The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders - mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists - are stepping up and powering the nation forward. These state and local leaders are doing the hard work to grow more jobs and make their communities more prosperous, and they're investing in infrastructure, making manufacturing a priority, and equipping workers with the skills they need.
InThe Metropolitan Revolution, Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley highlight success stories and the people behind them.
·New York City: Efforts are under way to diversify the city's vast economy
·Portland: Is selling the \"sustainability\" solutions it has perfected to other cities around the world
·Northeast Ohio: Groups are using industrial-age skills to invent new twenty-first-century materials, tools, and processes
·Houston: Modern settlement house helps immigrants climb the employment ladder
·Miami: Innovators are forging strong ties with Brazil and other nations
·Denver and Los Angeles: Leaders are breaking political barriers and building world-class metropolises
·Boston and Detroit: Innovation districts are hatching ideas to power these economies for the next century
The lessons in this book can help other cities meet their challenges. Change is happening, and every community in the country can benefit. Change happens where we live, and if leaders won't do it, citizens should demand it.
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Neighborhood rebels : Black Power at the local level
This book examines the evolution of Black Power activism at the local level. Comprised of essays that examine Black Power's impact at the grassroots level in cities in the North, South, Mid-West and West, this anthology expands on the profusion of new scholarship that is taking a second look at Black Power.
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Immigrant kids
Text and contemporary photographs chronicle the life of immigrant children at home, school, work, and play during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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American Dictators
One man was tongue-tied and awkward around women, in many ways a mama's boy at heart, although his reputation for thuggery was well earned. The other was a playboy, full of easy charm and ready jokes, his appetite for high living a matter of public record. One man tolerated gangsters and bootleggers as long as they paid their dues to his organization. The other was effectively a gangster himself, so crooked that he hosted a national gathering of America's most ruthless killers. One man never drank alcohol. The other, from all evidence, seldom drank anything else.American Dictatorsis the dual biography of two of America's greatest political bosses: Frank Hague and Enoch \"Nucky\" Johnson. Packed with compelling information and written in an informal, sometimes humorous style, the book shows Hague and Johnson at the peak of their power and the strength of their political machines during the years of Prohibition and the Great Depression. Steven Hart compares how both men used their influence to benefit and punish the local citizenry, amass huge personal fortunes, and sometimes collaborate to trounce their enemies.
Similar in their ruthlessness, both men were very different in appearance and temperament. Hague, the mayor of Jersey City, intimidated presidents and wielded unchallenged power for three decades. He never drank and was happily married to his wife for decades. He also allowed gangsters to run bootlegging and illegal gambling operations as long as they paid protection money. Johnson, the political boss of Atlantic City, and the inspiration for the hit HBO seriesBoardwalk Empire, presided over corruption as well, but for a shorter period of time. He was notorious for his decadent lifestyle. Essentially a gangster himself, Johnson hosted the infamous Atlantic City conference that fostered the growth of organized crime.
Both Hague and Johnson shrewdly integrated otherwise disenfranchised groups into their machines and gave them a stake in political power. Yet each failed to adapt to changing demographics and circumstances. InAmerican Dictators, Hart paints a balanced portrait of their accomplishments and their failures.
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The Changing American Neighborhood
The Changing American Neighborhood
argues that the physical and social spaces created by
neighborhoods matter more than ever for the health and well-being
of twenty-first-century Americans and their communities .
Taking a long historical view, this book explores the many
dimensions of today's neighborhoods, the forms they take, the
forces and factors influencing them, and the people and
organizations trying to change them.
Challenging conventional interpretations of neighborhoods and
neighborhood change, Alan Mallach and Todd Swanstrom adopt a broad,
inter-disciplinary perspective that shows how neighborhoods are
messy, complex systems, in which change is driven by constant
feedback loops that link social, economic and physical conditions,
each within distinct spatial and political contexts. The
Changing American Neighborhood seeks to understand
neighborhoods and neighborhood change not only for their own
importance, but for the insights they offer to help guide peoples'
efforts sustaining good neighborhoods and rebuilding struggling
ones.
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Urban Nightlife
Sociologists have long been curious about the ways in which city dwellers negotiate urban public space. How do they manage myriad interactions in the shared spaces of the city? InUrban Nightlife, sociologist Reuben May undertakes a nuanced examination of urban nightlife, drawing on ethnographic data gathered in a Deep South college town to explore the question of how nighttime revelers negotiate urban public spaces as they go about meeting, socializing, and entertaining themselves.
May's work reveals how diverse partiers define these spaces, in particular the ongoing social conflict on the streets, in bars and nightclubs, and in the various public spaces of downtown. To explore this conflict, May develops the concept of \"integrated segregation\"-the idea that diverse groups are physically close to one another yet rarely have meaningful interactions-rather, they are socially bound to those of similar race, class, and cultural backgrounds. May's in-depth research leads him to conclude that social tension is stubbornly persistent in part because many participants fail to make the connection between contemporary relations among different groups and the historical and institutional forces that perpetuate those very tensions; structural racism remains obscured by a superficial appearance of racial harmony.
Through May's observations,Urban Nightlifeclarifies the complexities of race, class, and culture in contemporary America, illustrating the direct influence of local government and nightclub management decision-making on interpersonal interaction among groups.
Watch a video with Reuben A. Buford May:Watch video now. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCs1xExStPw).
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