For many years Chicago's looming large-scale housing projects defined the city, and their
demolition and redevelopment—via the Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for …

This scoping review of the literature explores the following question: what systematic
measures are needed to achieve a healthy city? The World Health Organization (WHO) …

Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses
against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on …

Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities—Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland,
Baltimore, and others—began shedding people and jobs. Today they are littered with tens of …

In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a
number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgetary constraints, demands for …

This interesting and informative book shows how different groups of urban residents with
different social, economic, and political power cope with the urban environment, struggle to …

Cities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace the perspective of political
economy as its main explanatory framework, and then complement it with the rich …

Over the past decade there has been a sudden, extraordinarily large, and simultaneous
expansion of multi-billion dollar housing programs in many emerging and developing …

Public housing authorities (PHAs) across the country are demolishing and selling off public
housing units. Although some of the units are being replaced in mixed-income …

In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War,
governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for social welfare and …