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Urban Policy in the Time of Obama by James DeFilippis 9780816696598
Booksplease Price: $39.46With his background as a community organizer and as a state legislator representing Chicago's South Side, Barack Obama became America's most "urban" president since Teddy Roosevelt. But what has... -
Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing by James DeFilippis 9780813547565
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $34.96What do community organizations and organizers do, and what should they do? For the past thirty years politicians, academics, advocates, and activists have heralded community as a site and strategy... -
Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital James DeFilippis 9780415945257
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86Arguing against those who say that our communities are powerless in the face of footloose corporations, DeFilippis considers what localities can do in the face of heightened capital mobility in order... -
The Community Development Reader James DeFilippis (CUNY Baruch College Baruch College, CUNY, New York, USA Baruch College, New York, USA) 9780415507769
RRP: $101.90Booksplease Price: $94.35The Community Development Reader is the first comprehensive reader in the past thirty years that brings together practice, theory and critique concerning communities as sites of social change. With... -
Capital's Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916 by Anne E. Mosher 9780801873812
Booksplease Price: $68.36In the 1890s the Apollo Iron and Steel Company ended a bitterly contested labor dispute by hiring replacement workers from the surrounding countryside. To avoid future unrest, however, the company... -
Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy by David L. Imbroscio
RRP: $149.64Booksplease Price: $118.94The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina laid bare the tragedy of American cities. What the storm revealed about the social conditions in New Orleans shocked many Americans. Even more shocking is how...