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  • Zoned Out!

    Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City, Revised Edition

    Edited by Tom Angotti, Sylvia Morse ...
    Common sense solutions for affordable housing that is truly affordableGentrification and displacement of low-income communities of color are major issues in New York City and the city’s zoning policies are a major cause. Race matters but the city ignores it when shaping land use and housing policies. The city promises “affordable housing” that is not truly affordable. Zoned Out! shows how this has ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Urban Latin America

    Inequalities and Neoliberal Reforms

    Edited by Tom Angotti ...
    Series series Latin American Perspectives in the Classroom
    Latin America is one of the most urbanized regions of the world. To understand Latin America today it is important to trace the origins and characteristics of the urban-rural divide, inequalities within urban areas, and the prospects for change. This is particularly important and timely given the challenges of widening environmental and social disparities, climate change, and climate justice. The ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The New Century of the Metropolis

    Urban Enclaves and Orientalism

    by Tom Angotti ...
    The problems created by metropolitanization have become increasingly apparent. Attempts to limit growth, disperse populations and plan neighbourhoods have been largely unsuccessful. Strategies are needed to improve the world's major cities in the twenty-first century.Tom Angotti is fundamentally optimistic about the future of the metropolis, but questions urban planning’s inability to integrate ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • 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

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  • Economics for the Rest of Us

    Debunking the Science that Makes Life Dismal

    by Moshe Adler ...
    "Vivid case studies . . . Adler's frustration with wrongheaded economic thinking is as entertaining as it is thought provoking." — Publishers WeeklyWhy do so many contemporary economists consider food subsidies in starving countries, rent control in rich cities, and health insurance everywhere "inefficient"? Why do they feel that corporate executives deserve no less than their multimillion-dollar ... Read more

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  • White House Burning

    The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You

    by Simon Johnson, James Kwak ...
    America is mired in debt—more than $30,000 for every man, woman, and child. Bitter fighting over deficits, taxes, and spending bedevils Washington, D.C., even as partisan gridlock has brought the government to the brink of default. Yet the more politicians on both sides of the aisle rant and the citizenry fumes, the more things seem to remain the same.In White House Burning, Simon Johnson and ... Read more

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  • Fixer-Upper

    How to Repair America’s Broken Housing Systems

    by Jenny Schuetz ...
    Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how the broad set of local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities. It does more than describe how yesterday’s policies led to today’s problems. It proposes practical policy changes than can make stable, decent-quality housing more available and affordable for all Americans in all communities.Fixing systemic problems that arose ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Still Renovating

    A History of Canadian Social Housing Policy

    by Greg Suttor ...
    Series Book 6 - McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance
    Social housing - public, non-profit, or co-operative - was once a part of Canada's urban success story. After years of neglect and many calls for affordable homes and solutions to homelessness, housing is once again an important issue. In Still Renovating, Greg Suttor tells the story of the rise and fall of Canadian social housing policy.Focusing on the main turning points through the past seven ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Northern Light: Lessons for America from Canada's Fiscal Fix

    by Niels Veldhuis ...
    As the US wrestles with its growing fiscal crisis, Northern Light examines what lessons Americans and their political leaders might draw from how Canada in the 1990s slew its deficit dragon, balanced the budget, fixed public pensions and social welfare and in so doing helped forge a national consensus in favour of responsible public finances that endures to this day. ... Read more

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  • World Economy After The Global Crisis, The: A New Economic Order For The 21st Century

    by Barry Eichengreen, Bokyeong Park ...
    Series Book 19 - World Scientific Studies In International Economics

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  • The Battle

    How the Fight between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future

    by Arthur C. Brooks ...
    America faces a new culture war. It is not a war about guns, abortions, or gays -- rather it is a war against the creeping changes to our entrepreneurial culture, the true bedrock of who we are as a people. The new culture war is a battle between free enterprise and social democracy.Many Americans have forgotten the evils of socialism and the predations of the American Great Society's welfare ... Read more

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  • The Bonds of Inequality

    Debt and the Making of the American City

    by Destin Jenkins ...
    Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have probed American cities’ dependence on municipal debt or how the terms of municipal finance structure racial privileges, entrench spatial neglect, elide democratic input, and distribute wealth and power.In this passionate and deeply researched book, Destin Jenkins shows in vivid detail how, beyond ... Read more

    $17.99 USD