Penn Press Book Series: The City in the 21st Century

Launched in 2005 and published in collaboration with Penn Press, The City in the Twenty-First Century is an interdisciplinary series that publishes work addressing urban architecture, economics, history, planning, political science, sociology, and urban design.
Book April 30, 2024
Equality and the City: Urban Innovations for All Citizens
In Equality and the City, Enrique Peñalosa Londoño draws on his experience as mayor of Bogotá, Colombia to share his perspective on the issues facing developing cities, especially sustainable transportation and equal access to public space.
Enrique Peñalosa
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Displaying 26 - 50 of 54
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Book May 18, 2015 How Real Estate Developers Think Penn IUR Scholar Peter Hendee Brown writes about real estate development business in Chicago, Miami, Portland (Oregon), and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Peter Hendee Brown Housing
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Book January 1, 2013 Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics and the Building of Modern Philadelphia As Americans abandoned city centers to pursue visions of suburbia, architect and urban planner Edmund Bacon turned his sights on shaping urban America. Urban Development Rapid Urbanization
Cover of Locked in, Locked Out
Book January 1, 2013 Locked In, Locked Out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City In November 1993, the largest public housing project in the Puerto Rican city of Ponce—the second largest public housing authority in the U.S. federal system—became a gated community. Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores Housing
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Book January 1, 2013 Policy, Planning, and People Promoting Justice in Urban Development The contributors of Policy, Planning, and People argue for the promotion of social equity and quality of life by designing and evaluating urban policies and plans. Naomi Carmon Urban Development Rapid Urbanization
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Book January 1, 2013 Revitalizing American Cities Small and mid-sized cities played a key role in the Industrial Revolution in the United States as hubs for the shipping, warehousing, and distribution of manufactured products. Susan Wachter Urban Development
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Book December 15, 2012 Design After Decline: How America Rebuilds Shrinking Cities Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities—Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others—began shedding people and jobs. Brent D. Ryan Rapid Urbanization
Cover of Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's Jobs in Metropolitan America
Book March 17, 2012 Preparing Today's Students for Tomorrow's Jobs in Metropolitan America Education, long the key to opportunity in the United States, has become simply essential to earning a decent living. Laura Perna
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Book March 17, 2012 The City After Abandonment A number of U.S. cities, former manufacturing centers of the Northeast and Midwest, have suffered such dramatic losses in population and employment. June Manning Thomas Margaret Dewar Urban Development Rapid Urbanization
Cover of Miami Transformed
Book March 14, 2012 Miami Transformed Six-year-old Manuel Diaz and his mother first arrived at Miami's airport in 1961 with little more than a dime for a phone call to their relatives in the Little Havana neighborhood. Manuel A. Diaz Rapid Urbanization State & Local Finance
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Book March 7, 2012 The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America In the wake of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, many are asking what, if anything, can be done to prevent large-scale disasters. Scott Gabriel Knowles Urban Development
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Book January 1, 2012 Making New York Dominican Large-scale emigration from the Dominican Republic began in the early 1960s, with most Dominicans settling in New York City. Since then the growth of the city's Dominican population has been staggering, now accounting for around 7 percent of the total populace. Christian Krohn-Hansen Rapid Urbanization
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Book December 4, 2011 Global Downtowns Global Downtowns reconsiders one of the defining features of urban life—the energy and exuberance that characterize downtown areas—within a framework of contemporary globalization and change. Marina Peterson Gary McDonough Rapid Urbanization
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Book March 7, 2011 Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster Lessons from Hurricane Katrina This volume examines the rebuilding of cities and their environs after a disaster and focuses on four major issues. Eugénie L. Birch Susan Wachter Urban Development Rapid Urbanization
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Book March 7, 2011 Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century Over the years, the significance of green in civic life has grown. Susan Wachter Eugénie L. Birch Climate Change & Resilience Rapid Urbanization
Cover of Global Urbanization
Book March 7, 2011 Global Urbanization For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in urban areas. Susan Wachter Eugénie L. Birch Rapid Urbanization
Cover of Neighborhood and Life Chances
Book March 7, 2011 Neighborhood and Life Chances How Place Matters in Modern America Does the place where you lived as a child affect your health as an adult? Susan Wachter Eugénie L. Birch Harriet B. Newburger Rapid Urbanization
Cover of The American Mortgage System: Crisis and Reform
Book March 7, 2011 The American Mortgage System Crisis and Reform Successful home ownership requires the availability of appropriate mortgage products. Susan Wachter Marvin M. Smith Housing State & Local Finance
Cover of Why Don't American Cities Burn?
Book March 7, 2011 Why Don't American Cities Burn? At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. Michael Katz Rapid Urbanization
Cover of My Storm
Book February 4, 2011 My Storm: Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history. Edward J. Blakeley Rapid Urbanization
Cover of Women's Health and the World's Cities
Book January 1, 2011 Women's Health and the World's Cities Growing urbanization affects women and men in fundamentally different ways, but the relationship between gender and city environments has been ignored or misunderstood. Susan Wachter Eugénie L. Birch Afaf Ibrahim Meleis Anchor Institutions
Cover of Urban Tomographies
Book January 1, 2011 Urban Tomographies Tomography is a method of exploring a phenomenon through a large number of examples or perspectives. Martin H. Krieger Anchor Institutions
Cover of Beat Cop to Top Cop
Book March 7, 2010 Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of Three Cities Born in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood of Dublin, John F. Timoney moved to New York with his family in 1961. John F. Timoney Rapid Urbanization Anchor Institutions
Cover of Sound, Space and the City
Book March 7, 2010 Sound, Space, and the City Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles On summer nights on downtown Los Angeles's Bunker Hill, Grand Performances presents free public concerts for the people of the city. Marina Peterson Rapid Urbanization Anchor Institutions
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Book March 7, 2009 Divided Cities Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia In Jerusalem, Israeli and Jordanian militias patrolled a fortified, impassable Green Line from 1948 until 1967. Jon Calame Esther Charlesworth Rapid Urbanization
Book March 7, 2008 America's Waterfront Revival Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment Since the early years of the twentieth century, public authorities have been providing an enormous share of the public infrastructure in the United States. Peter Hendee Brown Urban Development Rapid Urbanization

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