Book List

This area of the Cyberhood includes books that may be of interest to scholars, students, and practitioners working in communities of color and poor central city neighborhoods.

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Featured Books

Anglin, Roland V. 2010. Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development. New York: Routledge.

Atlas, John. 2010. Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Antipoverty Community Organizing Group. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.

Brassil, Margaret M. The Creation of a Federal Partnerhsip: The Role of States in Affordable Housing. Albany: SUNY Press. 

Brown-Saracino, Japonica. 2010. A Neighborhood that Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation and the Search for Authenticity. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Clavel, Pierre. 2010. Activists in City Hall: The Progressive Reponse to the Reagan Era in Boston and Chicago. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Cleveland, O., Wineburg R. 2010. Pracadecmics and Community Change: A True Story of Nonprofit Development and Social Entrepreneurship During Welfare Reform. Chicago, IL: Lyceum Books.

Davies, Jonathan S. 2011. Challenging Governance Theory: From Networks to Hegemony  Bristol: The Policy Press.

Fainstein, Susan S. 2010. The Just City. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Fitzgerald, Joan. 2010. Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Fitzpatrick, Kevin and Mark LaGory. 2010. Unhealthy Cities: Poverty, Race, and Place in America. New York: Routledge.

Gold, Steven J. 2010. The Store in the Hood:A Century of Ethnic Business and Conflict. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.

Hack, Gary, Eugenie Birch, Paul Sedway, Mitchell Silver, eds. Local Planning: Contemporary Principles and Practice. Washington, D.C.: ICMA Press.

Hallam, Paul, Victor Buchli, and Andrea Luka Zimmerman. 2010. Estate, Figitive Images. London: Myrdle Court Press.

Hanlon, Bernadette, John Rennie Short and Thomas J. Vicino. 2010. Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitian Realities in the US. New York: Routledge.  

Hayward, Clarissa Rile and Todd Swanstrom, eds. 2011. Justice and the American Metropolis. Minneapolis: University of Minesota Press.

Hou, Jeffrey, ed. 2010. Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities. New York: Routledge.

Hutton, Thomas A. 2010. The New Economy of the Inner City: Restructuring, Regeneration and Dislocation in the 21st Century Metropolis. New York: Routledge.

Imbroscio, David. 2010. Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy. Ithica, NY: Cornell University Press.

Innes, Judith E. and David E. Booher. 2010. Planning with Complexity: An Introduction to Collaborative Rarionality for Public Policy. New York, NY: Routledge.

King, Peter. 2010. Housing Boom and Bust: Owner Occupation, Government Regulation, and the Credit Crunch. New York, NY: Routledge.

Lawinski, Terese. 2010. Living on the Edge in Suburbia: From Welfare to Work. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press.

Mallach, Alan. 2010. Bringing Buildings Back, 2nd Edition. Piscataway: Rutgers University Press.

Rothe, J. Peter, Linda J. Carrol, and Dejan Ozegovic. 2011. Deliberations in Community Development: Balancing on the Edge. New York: Nova Publishers. 

Schneider, Eric C. 2011. Smack: Heroin and the American City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Silva, Carlos Nunes. 2010. Handbook of Research on E-Planning. Hershey, PA: IGT Global.

Silverman, Robert Mark and Kelly L. Patterson, eds. 2011. Fair and Affordable Housing in the U.S.: Trends, Outcomes, Future Directions. Boston, MA: Brill.

Sutton, Sharon E. and Susan P. Kemp. 2011. The Paradox of Urban Space: Inequality and Transformation in Marginalized Communities. New York: Palgrave MacMillian.