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Author |
: Tony Proscio |
Publisher |
: Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2019-01-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780983965497 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0983965498 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Embracing a City, The Kresge Foundation in Detroit: 1993-2017 by : Tony Proscio
The book provides a behind-the-scenes look into the unlikely partnerships, unique collaborations, variety of financial tools and bold bets led by The Kresge Foundation during a 13-year period in Detroit to foster a sustainable and equitable recovery for the city and all of its residents. The authors originally imagined the book contents as four individual case studies. In preparation, they performed an exhaustive review of Kresge Foundation historical documents and a comprehensive scan of media coverage and journalistic commentary about Detroit’s recovery. They also conducted more than four dozen interviews with the individuals who participated in, witnessed or otherwise impacted the changing tide in the city of Detroit during this period. Once assembled, the authors agreed that—assembling together in context with one another – the content could serve as an important snapshot of some of the positive forces and extreme undercurrents at play in Detroit during this extraordinary time in the city.
Author |
: Paul Grogan |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2008-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786722945 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786722940 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Comeback Cities by : Paul Grogan
Comeback Cities shows how innovative, pragmatic tactics for ameliorating the nation's urban ills have produced results beyond anyone's expectations, reawakening America's toughest neighborhoods. In the past, big government and business working separately were unable to solve the inner city crisis. Today, a blend of public-private partnerships, grassroots nonprofit organizations, and a willingness to experiment characterize what is best among the new approaches to urban problem solving. Pragmatism, not dogma, has produced the charter-school movement and the police's new focus on "quality of life" issues. The new breed of big city mayors has welcomed business back into the city, stressed performance and results at city agencies, downplayed divisive racial politics, and cracked down on symptoms of social disorder. As a consequence, America's inner cities are becoming vital communities once again.
Author |
: Robert Mark Silverman |
Publisher |
: Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2004 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0814331572 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780814331576 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Community-based Organizations by : Robert Mark Silverman
In response to the ongoing debate over the role social capital plays in the creation and continuation of a healthy civic culture, Community-Based Organizations in Contemporary Urban Society studies the close relationship that social capital shares with local context, social organization, and institutional structure. The book's timely analysis illuminates the institutional barriers currently affecting the mobilization of social capital and establishes a foundation for social and political reform in the future. All components of capital formation--including human, financial, and cultural capital--are identified and considered as they relate to the community development process, as well as how social capital relates to race, class, gender, and religion in urban society. Community-Based Organizations in Contemporary Urban Society offers vital extensions to existing literature on social capital and allows the reader to consider this topic from multiple perspectives through its broad spectrum of interdisciplinary essays by sociologists, political scientists, and urban planners. The essays discuss important steps in the mobilization of social capital, as well as its role in microfinance programs, community development corporations, homeowners associations, religious institutions, and neighborhood associations. Individual chapters present an array of theoretical arguments, empirical analysis, and applied case studies that are of interest to academics, practitioners, and activists in the community development field.
Author |
: June Manning Thomas |
Publisher |
: Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2015-03-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814340271 |
ISBN-13 |
: 081434027X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mapping Detroit by : June Manning Thomas
Containing some of the leading voices on Detroit's history and future, Mapping Detroit will be informative reading for anyone interested in urban studies, geography, and recent American history.
Author |
: National Association of City Transportation Officials |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2019-12-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1642830712 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781642830712 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Designing Streets for Kids by : National Association of City Transportation Officials
Building on the success of their Global Street Design Guide, the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO)-Global Designing Cities Initiative (GDCI) Streets for Kids program has developed child-focused design guidance to inspire leaders, inform practitioners, and empower communities around the world to consider their city from the eyes of a child. The guidance in Designing Streets for Kids captures international best practices, strategies, programs, and policies that cities around the world have used to design streets and public spaces that are safe and appealing to children from their earliest days. The guidance also highlights tactics for engaging children in the design process, an often-overlooked approach that can dramatically transform how streets are designed and used.
Author |
: Jane King Hession |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1890434140 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781890434144 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ralph Rapson by : Jane King Hession
Architect, artist, furniture designer, and educator, Ralph Rapson has played a leading role in the development and practice of modern architecture and design, both nationally and internationally.
Author |
: Shirley Woodson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1732860130 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781732860131 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Palette for the People by : Shirley Woodson
Monograph describing the life and work of 2021 Kresge Eminent Artist Shirley Woodson
Author |
: Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition |
Publisher |
: Island Press |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2018-06-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610918947 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1610918940 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Nourished Planet by : Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition
Nourished Planet illustrates what our global food system can be - a collection of the smartest ideas to nourish us all. From urban farmers in Kenya to American doctors to government officials in Egypt, its voices demonstrate how diverse perspectives are coming together to feed the world sustainably.--back cover.
Author |
: Rudyard Kipling |
Publisher |
: Everyman's Library |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2013-10-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307804457 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307804453 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kipling: Poems by : Rudyard Kipling
Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children’s literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian and modern English literature. In addition to writing more than two dozen works of fiction, including Kim and The Jungle Book, Kipling was a prolific poet, composing verse in every classical form from the epigram to the ode. Kipling’s most distinctive gift was for ballads and narrative poems in which he drew vivid characters in universal situations, articulating profound truths in plain language. Yet he was also a subtle, affecting anatomist of the human heart, and his deep feeling for the natural world was exquisitely expressed in his verse. He was shattered by World War I, in which he lost his only son, and his work darkened in later years but never lost its extraordinary vitality. All of these aspects of Kipling’s poetry are represented in this selection, which ranges from such well-known compositions as “Mandalay” and “If” to the less-familiar, emotionally powerful, and personal epigrams he wrote in response to the war.
Author |
: Toni Morrison |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 137 |
Release |
: 2017-09-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674976450 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674976452 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Origin of Others by : Toni Morrison
What is race and why does it matter? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? America’s foremost novelist reflects on themes that preoccupy her work and dominate politics: race, fear, borders, mass movement of peoples, desire for belonging. Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a foreword to Toni Morrison’s most personal work of nonfiction to date.