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  • Cleveland

    A Metropolitan Reader

    After enjoying exceptional growth at the turn of the last century, Cleveland's fortunes, like that of many metropolitan centers, have sharply declined. How much of this change is due to characteristics of growth and development, the outmigration of population and investment' technological advances, and the changing racial composition of the population? On the eve of its bicentennial, Cleveland ... Leer más

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  • The University as Urban Developer: Case Studies and Analysis

    Case Studies and Analysis

    Integrating topics in urban development, real estate, higher education administration, urban design, and campus landscape architecture, this is the first book to explore the role of the university as developer. Accessible and clearly written, and including contributions from authorities in a wide range of related areas, it offers a rich array of case studies and analyses that clarify the important ... Leer más

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  • Global Universities and Urban Development: Case Studies and Analysis

    Case Studies and Analysis

    The editors of "The University as Urban Developer" now extend that work's groundbreaking analysis of the university's important role in the growth and development of the American city to the global view. Linking the fields of urban development, higher education, and urban design, "Global Universities and Urban Development" covers universities and communities around the world, including Germany, ... Leer más

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  • Here for Good: Community Foundations and the Challenges of the 21st Century

    Community Foundations and the Challenges of the 21st Century

    Community foundations bring together the resources of individuals, families, and businesses to support effective nonprofits in their communities. Over the years, foundations have come to engage community problem-solving through more than just grant-making. They have added a rich array of other activities, including programs of community capacity building, active modes of advocacy, and centres for ... Leer más

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    A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

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  • The Color of Money

    Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

    “Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates“A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family.”—The Atlantic“Extraordinary…Baradaran focuses on a part of the American story that’s often ignored: the way African Americans were locked out of the financial engines ... Leer más

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  • Detroit

    A Biography

    At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub—and then the bottom fell out. Detroit : A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to explain how the city ... Leer más

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  • Ages of American Capitalism

    A History of the United States

    de Jonathan Levy ...
    **A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the era ahead.“A monumental achievement, sure to become a classic.”—Zachary D. Carter, author of The Price of Peace**In this ambitious single-volume history of the United States, economic historian Jonathan Levy reveals how ... Leer más

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  • The Assassination of New York

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    Series Libro 8 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    The story of how the richest city in the world became one of the poorest in North America, with a new introduction by Peter KwongHow did New York City come to be a network of steel towers, banks, and nail salons, with chain drugstores on every block—a place where, increasingly, no one can afford to live except the lords of Wall Street and foreign billionaires, and where more and more of the Big ... Leer más

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  • Invisible Hands

    The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal

    “A compelling and readable story of resistance to the new economic order.” —Boston GlobeIn the wake of the profound economic crisis known as the Great Depression, a group of high-powered individuals joined forces to campaign against the New Deal—not just its practical policies but the foundations of its economic philosophy. The titans of the National Association of Manufacturers and the chemicals ... Leer más

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  • The Origins of the Urban Crisis

    Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit - Updated Edition

    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    The reasons behind Detroit’s persistent racialized poverty after World War IIOnce America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit is now the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of America’s racial and economic inequalities, Thomas Sugrue asks why Detroit and other industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He challenges the conventional wisdom that ... Leer más

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  • Race & Economics

    How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?

    Walter E. Williams applies an economic analysis to the problems black Americans have faced in the past and still face in the present to show that that free-market resource allocation, as opposed to political allocation, is in the best interests of minorities. He debunks many common labor market myths and reveals how excessive government regulation and the minimum-wage law have imposed incalculable ... Leer más

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