Labor and Urban Studies

Urban Studies

Come the Morning

Mark Jonathan Harris

This novel for young readers, told by a thirteen-year-old boy, is the story of a working-class American family plunged into homelessness.

Dreaming Suburbia: Detroit and the Production of Postwar Space and Culture

Amy Maria Kenyon

A multifaceted cultural study of suburbanization in the United States, and Detroit in particular, during the postwar suburban boom.

Critical Evaluations of Economic Development Policies

Laura A. Reese and David Fasenfest

This ground-breaking text offers alternative models for critical evaluation of the values behind and the success of local-level economic development policies.

Community-Based Organizations: The Intersection of Social Capital and Local Context in Contemporary Urban Society

Edited by Robert Mark Silverman

A critical examination of the social capital debate, which establishes a foundation for progressive reform in community development practice and local government.

Civic Culture and Urban Change: Governing Dallas

Royce Hanson

A study of how civic culture shaped policy responses to the demographic and economic transformations of Dallas, Texas.