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 - 47 of 47
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Book March 17, 2012 The City After Abandonment The City After Abandonment brings together essays from top urban planning experts to focus on policy and planning issues related to three questions. What are cities becoming after abandonment? Why these outcomes? What should abandoned areas of cities become? June Manning Thomas Margaret Dewar Urban Development Rapid Urbanization
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Book March 14, 2012 Miami Transformed In Miami Transformed: Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time, award-winning former mayor Manny Diaz shares lessons learned from governing one of the most diverse and dynamic urban communities in the United States. Manuel A. Diaz Rapid Urbanization State & Local Finance
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Book March 7, 2012 The Disaster Experts Mastering Risk in Modern America Tracing the intertwined development of disaster expertise, public policy, and urbanization over the past century, historian Scott Gabriel Knowles tells the fascinating story of how this diverse collection of professionals—insurance inspectors, engineers, scientists, journalists, public officials, civil defense planners, and emergency managers—emerged as the authorities on risk and disaster and, in the process, shaped modern America. Scott Gabriel Knowles Urban Development
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Book January 1, 2012 Making New York Dominican Making New York Dominican is not about a Dominican enclave or a parallel sociocultural universe. It is instead about connections—between Dominican New Yorkers' economic and political practices and ways of thinking and the much larger historical, political, economic, and cultural field within which they operate. 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: making cities less vulnerable to disaster, reestablishing economic viability, responding to the permanent needs of the displaced, and recreating a sense of place. 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 In Growing Greener Cities, a collection of essays on urban sustainability and environmental issues edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, scholars and practitioners alike promote activities that recognize and conserve nature's ability to sustain urban life. Susan Wachter Eugénie L. Birch Climate Change & Resilience Rapid Urbanization
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Book March 7, 2011 Global Urbanization Global Urbanization surveys essential dimensions of urban growth and begins to formulate a global urban agenda for the next half century. Susan Wachter Eugénie L. Birch Rapid Urbanization
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Book March 7, 2011 Neighborhood and Life Chances How Place Matters in Modern America Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to present the findings of studies in the fields of education, health, and housing. Susan Wachter Eugénie L. Birch Harriet B. Newburger Rapid Urbanization
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Book March 7, 2011 The American Mortgage System Crisis and Reform The American Mortgage System: Crisis and Reform focuses on the causes of the housing market collapse and proposes solutions to prevent another rash of foreclosures.  Susan Wachter Marvin M. Smith Housing State & Local Finance
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Book March 7, 2011 Why Don't American Cities Burn? Introduced by the gripping narrative of a murder and its circumstances, Why Don't American Cities Burn? charts the emergence of the urban forms that underlie such events. Katz traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America. Michael Katz Rapid Urbanization
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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
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Book January 1, 2011 Women's Health and the World's Cities Women's Health and the World's Cities illuminates the intersection of gender, health, and urban environments. This collection of essays examines the impact of urban living on the physical and psychological states of women and girls in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Susan Wachter Eugénie L. Birch Afaf Ibrahim Meleis Anchor Institutions
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Book January 1, 2011 Urban Tomographies Tomography is a method of exploring a phenomenon through a large number of examples or perspectives. To appreciate different aspects of a community, from infrastructure to work to worship, urban planning expert Martin H. Krieger scans the myriad sights and sounds of contemporary Los Angeles. Martin H. Krieger Anchor Institutions
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Book March 7, 2010 Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of Three Cities Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of Three Cities documents Timoney's rise, from his days as a tough street cop in the South Bronx to his role as police chief of Miami. This fast-moving narrative by the man Esquire magazine named "America's Top Cop" offers a blueprint for crime prevention through first-person accounts from the street, detailing how big-city chiefs and their teams can tame even the most unruly cities. John F. Timoney Rapid Urbanization Anchor Institutions
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Book March 7, 2010 Sound, Space, and the City Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles In Sound, Space, and the City, Marina Peterson explores the processes—from urban renewal to the performance of ethnicity and the experiences of audiences—through which civic space is created at downtown performances. Marina Peterson Rapid Urbanization Anchor Institutions
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Book March 7, 2009 Divided Cities Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia Divided Cities explores the logic of violent urban partition along ethnic lines—when it occurs, who supports it, what it costs, and why seemingly healthy cities succumb to it. Jon Calame Esther Charlesworth Rapid Urbanization
Book March 7, 2008 America's Waterfront Revival Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment Drawing on a wide range of sources, including enabling legislation, annual reports, financial statements, strategic business plans, land use plans, audits, media accounts, and interviews, this book delivers significant new findings on the opportunities and challenges existing authorities face when they engage in new functions. Peter Hendee Brown Urban Development Rapid Urbanization
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Book March 7, 2008 Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male Edited and with an introductory chapter by sociologist Elijah Anderson, the essays in Against the Wall describe how the young black man has come to be identified publicly with crime and violence. Elijah Anderson
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Book March 7, 2007 The University and Urban Revival Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets In the last quarter of the twentieth century, urban colleges and universities found themselves enveloped by the poverty, crime, and physical decline that afflicted American cities. Some institutions turned inward, trying to insulate themselves rather than address the problems in their own backyards. Others attempted to develop better community relations, though changes were hard to sustain. Judith Rodin Anchor Institutions
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Book March 7, 2006 Blues for New Orleans Mardi Gras and America's Creole Soul As the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. Roger Abrahams Anchor Institutions
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Book March 7, 2006 The Other Philadelphia Story: How Local Congregations Support Quality of Life in Urban America In The Other Philadelphia Story, drawing on the first-ever census of congregations in any American city, Ram Cnaan and his colleagues provide an authoritative account of the functioning of congregations, their involvement in social services, and their support of other charitable organizations. Ram Cnaan Anchor Institutions

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