Author: Philadelphia (Pa.). Redevelopment AuthorityPublisher:
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Report
Author: Philadelphia (Pa.). Redevelopment AuthorityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
University City
Author: Laura Wolf-PowersPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 151282271X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
In twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers increasingly celebrate university-sponsored innovation districts as engines of inclusive growth. But the story is not so simple. In University City, Laura Wolf-Powers chronicles five decades of planning in and around the communities of West Philadelphia’s University City to illuminate how the dynamics of innovation district development in the present both depart from and connect to the politics of mid-twentieth-century urban renewal. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, Wolf-Powers concludes that even as university and government leaders vow to develop without displacement, what existing residents value is imperiled when innovation-driven redevelopment remains accountable to the property market. The book first traces the municipal and institutional politics that empowered officials to demolish a predominantly Black neighborhood near the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University in the late 1960s to make way for the University City Science Center and University City High School. It also provides new insight into organizations whose members experimented during that same period with alternative conceptions of economic advancement. The book then shifts to the present, documenting contemporary efforts to position university-adjacent neighborhoods as locations for prosperity built on scientific knowledge. Wolf-Powers examines the work of mobilized civic groups to push cultural preservation concerns into the public arena and to win policies to help economically insecure families keep a foothold in changing neighborhoods. Placing Philadelphia’s innovation districts in the context of similar development taking place around the United States, University City advocates a reorientation of redevelopment practice around the recognition that despite their negligible worth in real estate terms, the time, care, and energy people invest in their local environments—and in one another—are precious urban resources.
National Union Catalog
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Research in Education
Author: Resources in Education
Author: New Metropolitan Perspectives
Author: Carmelina BevilacquaPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030482790
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 2196
Book Description
This book presents the outcomes of the symposium “NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES,” held at Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy on May 26–28, 2020. Addressing the challenge of Knowledge Dynamics and Innovation-driven Policies Towards Urban and Regional Transition, the book presents a multi-disciplinary debate on the new frontiers of strategic and spatial planning, economic programs and decision support tools in connection with urban–rural area networks and metropolitan centers. The respective papers focus on six major tracks: Innovation dynamics, smart cities and ICT; Urban regeneration, community-led practices and PPP; Local development, inland and urban areas in territorial cohesion strategies; Mobility, accessibility and infrastructures; Heritage, landscape and identity;and Risk management,environment and energy. The book also includes a Special Section on Rhegion United Nations 2020-2030. Given its scope, the book will benefit all researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in issues concerning metropolitan and marginal areas.
When the Smoke Cleared
Author: Kyla SommersPublisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620978105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Echoing James Forman Jr.’s Locking Up Our Own, a riveting story of race, civil rights, and rebellion in Washington, DC In April 1968, following the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., a wave of uprisings swept across America. None was more visible—or resulted in more property damage, arrests, or federal troop involvement—than in Washington, DC, where thousands took to the streets in protest against racial inequality, looting and burning businesses in the process. The nation’s capital was shaken to its foundations. When the Smoke Cleared tells the story of the Washingtonians who seized the moment to rebuild a more just society, one that would protect and foster Black political and economic power. A riveting account of activism, urban reimagination, and political transformation, Kyla Sommers’s revealing and deeply researched narrative is ultimately a tale of blowback, as the Nixon administration and its allies in Congress thwarted the ambitions of DC’s reformers, opposing civil rights reforms and self-governance. And nationwide, conservative politicians used the specter of crime in the capital to roll back the civil rights movement and create the modern carceral state. A vital chapter in the struggle for racial equality, When the Smoke Cleared is an account of open wounds, paths not taken, and their unforeseen consequences—revealed here in all of their contemporary significance.
Hearings held in New York, New York Feb. 2-3, 1958; Atlanta, Georgia April 10, 1959; Chicago, Illinois May 5-6, 1959
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 944
Book Description
Imagining Philadelphia
Author: Scott Gabriel KnowlesPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812220780
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A 28-year-old astronomer named Molly ponders an uncertain future after suddenly losing her job, and finding her confidence shaken for the first time in her life. Meanwhile Molly's husband, friends, family, neighbors, and one unusually perceptive Halloween trick-or-treater all weigh in with their opinions on just how she should handle the precarious situation. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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