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  • Liberty Road

    Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism

    by Gregory Smithsimon ...
    A unique insight into desegregation in the suburbs and how racial inequality persistsHalf of Black Americans who live in the one hundred largest metropolitan areas are now living in suburbs, not cities. In Liberty Road, Gregory Smithsimon shows us how this happened, and why it matters, unearthing the hidden role that suburbs played in establishing the Black middle-class.Focusing on Liberty Road, a ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Beach Beneath the Streets

    Contesting New York City's Public Spaces

    by Benjamin Heim Shepard, Gregory Smithsimon ...
    Series series Excelsior Editions
    Examines New York City as a paradigmatic example of the tensions between privatization and public uses of space in the contemporary U.S.Focusing on the liberating promise of public space, The Beach Beneath the Streets examines the activist struggles of communities in New York City-queer youth of color, gardeners, cyclists, and anti-gentrification activists-as they transform streets, piers, and ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • September 12

    Community and Neighborhood Recovery at Ground Zero

    by Gregory Smithsimon ...
    The collapse of the World Trade Center shattered windows across the street in Battery Park City, throwing the neighborhood into darkness and smothering homes in debris. Residents fled. In the months and years after they returned, they worked to restore their community. Until September 11, Battery Park City had been a secluded, wealthy enclave just west Wall Street, one with all the opulence of the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The World in Brooklyn

    Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City

    by Noel S. Anderson, Alessandro Busà, Evrick Brown, Jennifer Candipan, Phyllis Conn, Roberta Cordeau, William DiFazio, Shanna Farrell, Jerome Krase, Steve Lang, Tammy L. Lewis, Sara Martucci, Lorna Mason, Ed Morlock, Christina Pisano, Bengisu Peker, Mark Peterson, Nicole Riorda, Danielle Shallow, Gregory Smithsimon, Mark Treskon, Kenneth A. Gould ...
    The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, is a collection of scholarly papers which analyze demographic, social, political, and economic trends that are occurring in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, as the context, reflects global forces while also contributing to them. The idea for this volume developed as the editors discovered a group of scholars from ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Cause: . . . And How It Doesn't Always Equal Effect

    by Gregory Smithsimon ...
    Narrated by P.J. Ochlan ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 22 min

    When we try to understand our world, we ask "why?" a specific event occurred. But this profoundly human question often leads us astray. In Cause, sociologist Gregory Smithsimon brings us a much sharper understanding of cause and effect, and shows how we can use it to approach some of our most daunting collective problems.Smithsimon begins by explaining the misguided cause and effect explanations ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Poverty and Prosperity in Urban America

    by Alan Mallach ...
    Who really benefits from urban revival? Cities, from trendy coastal areas to the nation’s heartland, are seeing levels of growth beyond the wildest visions of only a few decades ago. But vast areas in the same cities house thousands of people living in poverty who see little or no new hope or opportunity. Even as cities revive, they are becoming more unequal and more segregated. What does this ... Read more

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  • The Sum of Us

    What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

    by Heather McGhee ...
    Series series One World Essentials
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone—not just for people of color.**WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, The Washington ... Read more

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  • The New Urban Crisis

    How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It

    by Richard Florida ...
    In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth ... Read more

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  • Poverty, by America

    by Matthew Desmond ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, The Star Tribune, Vulture, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Walking Home

    The Life and Lessons of a City Builder

    by Ken Greenberg ...
    One of the world's foremost urban designers shares his passion and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and possibilities of their renewal.From a youth spent in the boroughs of New York City and other great cities of the world, to his beginnings as an architect in Toronto, Ken Greenberg has long recognized that cities at their best provide much of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Economic Facts and Fallacies

    Second Edition

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    **From renowned economist Thomas Sowell, an indispensable examination of widespread economic fallacies"From one of America's most noted conservative economists, a short, original book that offers some unconventional ideas about how to think about common economic topics." ―Baltimore Sun**In this revised and expanded edition of Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell exposes some of the most ... Read more

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  • Suburban Nation

    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

    by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck ...
    The essential handbook for ending suburban sprawl and automobile-based settlement patternsFor a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century's automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater ... Read more

    $12.99 USD