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Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
c2017
Physical Desc
xii, 290 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The authors call for a twenty-first century localism, one attuned to the needs of all citizens, including those in rural America. New norms of growth, governance, and finance will emerge fostering a path toward a more prosperous, sustainable and inclusive society.
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Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
ix, 243 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"How Gentrification is killing our cities, and what we can do about it. Leslie Kern, author of the best-selling Feminist City, travels from Toronto, New York, London, Paris and San Francisco and scrutinizes the myths and lies that surround this most urgent urban crisis of our times: gentrification. This process can be seen today in rising rents and evictions, transformed retail areas, increased policing and broken communities. But Kern argues that...
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Language
English
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Description
"[The author] takes us into the poorest neighborhoods of Milwaukee to tell the story of eight families on the edge. Arleen is a single mother trying to raise her two sons on the 20 dollars a month she has left after paying for their rundown apartment. Scott is a gentle nurse consumed by a heroin addiction. Lamar, a man with no legs and a neighborhood full of boys to look after, tries to work his way out of debt. Vanetta participates in a botched...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation--that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes it clear that it was de jure segregation--the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments--that actually promoted the discriminatory...
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