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The award-winning creators of National Public Radio's "Ghetto Life 101" and "Remorse: The 14 Stories of Eric Morse" combine talents with a young photographer to show what life is like in one of the country's darkest places: Chicago's Ida B. Wells housing... [ More...]
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A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961,... [ More...]
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A revolutionary approach to improving one's community through local institutions, including the parish.
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Offering a cross section of hidden infrastructure, this title uses innovative graphic images and clear text explanations to answer all the questions about the way things work in a modern city and the people who support them.
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Philippe Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim when it was first published in 1995. For the first time, an anthropologist had managed to gain the trust and long-term friendship of street-level... [ More...]
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Published in 1890, Jacob Riis's remarkable study of the horrendous living conditions of the poor in New York City had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that affected the lives of millions of people. Riis's reliance on... [ More...]
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The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously avoided--by most of Baltimore. But this notorious corner's 24-hour open-air drug market provides the economic fuel for a dying neighborhood. David Simon, an... [ More...]
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The result of over ten years of immersion reporting, "Random Family" charts atumultuous decade in which girls become mothers, mothers become grandmothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation. 75,000print.
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