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  • Unwinding Privatization

    Cities and the Restoration of Public Power

    Edited by Alba Alexander, Larry Bennett, Evan McKenzie, Michael A. Pagano ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    How remunicipalization can be implemented to restructure urban governance.Across North America, Europe, and the Global South, public services such as water and energy that were once privatized have returned to public sector functions—an intriguing new development known as remunicipalization. Unwinding Privatization, edited by Alba Alexander, Larry Bennett, Evan McKenzie, and Michael Pagano, ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Ru-lan

    The Prince is Born

    by Larry Bennett ...
    Illustrated by Basia Tov ...
    Series Book 1 - The Adventures of Ru-lan
    Shortly after his miraculous birth, made possible with help from the phoenix, Prince Ru-lan is captured by Su-ling, the evil enchantress, who plans to raise Ru-lan and use him to take over the kingdom. Several years later, the phoenix reminds the little boy of his real identity and he escapes from Su-ling's cottage with the help of his animal friends. Once their son is firmly ensconced in the ... Read more

    $6.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Third City

    Chicago and American Urbanism

    by Larry Bennett ...
    Our traditional image of Chicago—as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends—is such a powerful shaper of the city's identity that many of its closest observers fail to notice that a new Chicago has emerged over the past two decades. Larry Bennett here tackles some of our more commonly held ideas about the Windy City ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reclaiming Modernity

    Essays on a Paradoxical Nostalgia

    by Larry Bennett ...
    Why do we seek to return to the past or rescue pieces of the past that may have value in the present? Why does nostalgia attach to an approach to the world, social rules, and material products that willfully rejected the past?Larry Bennett explores the complexities of nostalgia with considerations of the historic preservation of brutalist architecture, specifically Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Many Futures of Work

    Rethinking Expectations and Breaking Molds

    Edited by Peter A. Creticos, Larry Bennett, Laura Owen, Costas Spirou, Maxine Morphis-Riesbeck ...
    What will work eventually look like? This is the question at the heart of this timely collection. The editors and contributors—a mix of policy experts, academics, and advocates—seek to reframe the typical projections of the “future” of work. They examine the impact of structural racism on work, the loss of family‑sustaining jobs, the new role of gig work, growing economic inequality, barriers to ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Neighborhood Politics

    Chicago and Sheffield

    by Larry Bennett ...
    First Published in 1997. This book is the outcome of a small project that grew and grew. In the fall of 1990 the Chicago-based Policy Research Action Group (PRAG) commissioned the author to do a study of the Uptown area, to which he had moved in 1988.lMeanwhile, in conjunction with his university's Foreign Study Program, he spent the fall of 1991 in Sheffield, England. ... Read more

    $190.00 USD

  • Where are Poor People to Live?: Transforming Public Housing Communities

    Transforming Public Housing Communities

    by Larry Bennett, Janet L. Smith, Patricia A Wright ...
    This groundbreaking book shows how major shifts in federal policy are spurring local public housing authorities to demolish their high-rise, low-income developments, and replace them with affordable low-rise, mixed income communities. It focuses on Chicago, and that city's affordable housing crisis, but it provides analytical frameworks that can be applied to developments in every American city. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD