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  • Purging the Poorest

    Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities

    by Lawrence J. Vale ...
    The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging the Poorest, Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the "deserving poor."In the 1930s, two iconic American cities, Atlanta and Chicago, demolished their slums and established some of this country ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After the Projects

    Public Housing Redevelopment and the Governance of the Poorest Americans

    by Lawrence J. Vale ...
    America is in the midst of a rental housing affordability crisis. More than a quarter of those that rent their homes spend more than half of their income for housing, even as city leaders across the United States have been busily dismantling the nation's urban public housing projects. In After the Projects, Lawrence Vale investigates the deeply-rooted spatial politics of public housing development ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Equitably Resilient City

    Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate Crisis

    by Zachary B. Lamb, Lawrence J. Vale ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    Twelve global planning and urban design interventions—and what they reveal about equity-centered urban resilience in the face of climate change.Hillside favelas in South America imperiled by landslides. Flood-threatened mobile home parks on the American Gulf Coast. Canal-side settlements facing eviction in megacities in Southeast Asia. Too often the places most vulnerable to climate change are the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Public Housing Myths

    Perception, Reality, and Social Policy

    Edited by Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, Lawrence J. Vale ...
    Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Architecture, Power and National Identity

    by Lawrence Vale ...
    The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Resilient City

    How Modern Cities Recover from Disaster

    Edited by Lawrence J. Vale, Thomas J. Campanella ...
    In 1871, the city of Chicago was almost entirely destroyed by what became known as The Great Fire. Thirty-five years later, San Francisco lay in smoldering ruins after the catastrophic earthquake of 1906. Or consider the case of the Jerusalem, the greatest site of physical destruction and renewal in history, which, over three millennia, has suffered wars, earthquakes, fires, twenty sieges, ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

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    Makeover Your Mind Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle

    by Arnold Vale, Lawrence Kane ...
    Narrated by John Hays ...

    Unabridged

    57 min

    Makeover Your Mind Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle: Winning the War in Your Mind and Retrain Your BrainDiscovery is the key to unlock doorways to success. When you discover about you, what you want, and what particular troubles you want to change, you're improving your personal life. To get rolling discovering you, you'll need to use fresh ideas. When you have brain and mind problems, it will feel like your ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Designing Signals of Inclusion

    A Framework for Fostering Shared Neighborhoods

    Edited by Tali Hatuka, Lawrence Vale ...
    In an age of increased polarization and fragmentation, improving the prospects for sharing neighborhoods matters more than ever. Focusing on urban design and planning at the neighborhood scale, this collaborative work explores “signals of inclusion,” the sensory gestures, actions, and spatial elements that convey welcome and belonging in shared urban environments. The book reveals how signals of ... Read more

    Free

  • Just Urban Design

    The Struggle for a Public City

    Edited by Kian Goh, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Vinit Mukhija ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    Contributions by urban planners, sociologists, anthropologists, architects, and landscape architects on the role and scope of urban design in creating more just and inclusive cities.Scholars who write about justice and the city rarely consider the practices and processes of urban design, while discourses on urban design often neglect concerns about justice. The editors of Just Urban Design take ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Imaging the City

    Continuing Struggles and New Directions

    Edited by Lawrence J. Vale, Sam Bass Warner Jr. ...
    Planners face a controversial task because their professional role requires them to be spokespersons for the public interest. In a welter of conflicting pictures and voices, how might the public interest be discovered? Once identified, how might it be expressed so that competing publics attend to it? There are no easy answers, but the experience of planners today suggests ways of working and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Furthering Fair Housing

    Prospects for Racial Justice in America's Neighborhoods

    Edited by Justin P. Steil, Nicholas F. Kelly, Lawrence J. Vale, Maia S. Woluchem ...
    The 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule was the most significant federal effort to increase equality of access to place-based resources and opportunities, such as high-performing schools or access to jobs, since the 1968 Fair Housing Act. However, in an effort to appeal to suburban voters, the Trump administration repealed the rule in 2020, leaving its future in doubt.Furthering Fair ... Read more

    Free

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    Ten Core Drivers

    by Panagiota Kotsila, Isabelle Anguelovski, Melissa García-Lamarca, Filka Sekulova ...
    This book uses a unique typology of ten core drivers of injustice to explore and question common assumptions around what urban sustainability means, how it can be implemented, and how it is manifested in or driven by urban interventions that hinge on claims of sustainability.Aligned with critical environmental justice studies, the book highlights the contradictions of urban sustainability in ... Read more

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