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Survived physical abuse. Witnessed community violence. Conquered the streets. Saved by education. This is Dr. Maysa Akbar’s story. A story of overcoming urban trauma. It’s easy to look down at urban communities and wonder why economic and social disparities still exist when so many people of color, despite facing severe adversity, have done better.

This is the story of how a crude French settlement along the Detroit River in 1701 became the birthplace of the automotive industry in 1900. 

How do we draw the lines between "good" and "bad" neighborhoods? How do we know “ghettos”? This book questions the widely held assumption that divisions between urban areas are reflections of varying amounts of crime, deprivation, and other social, cultural, and economic problems. Using Ogden, Utah, as a case study, Pepper Glass argues that urban reputations are “moral frontiers” that uphold and create divides between who is a good and respectable - or a bad and vilified - member of a community.

Black Picket Fences is a stark, moving, and candid look at a section of America that is too often ignored by both scholars and the media: the Black middle class. The result of living for three years in "Groveland", a Black middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, sociologist Mary Pattillo-McCoy has written a book that explores both the advantages and the boundaries that exist for members of the Black middle class.

In Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation. Hirsch shows that the legal framework for the national urban renewal effort was forged in the heat generated by the racial struggles waged on Chicago's South Side.

La población urbana se duplicará en cuarenta años, algo que obliga a la transformación holística y sostenible del modelo de ciudad. Para Martha Thorne, decana de IE School of Architecture and Design y directora ejecutiva del Pritzker Architecture Prize, el gran reto de la arquitectura está en su capacidad para hacer metrópolis, que serán más densas y poseerán una alta calidad urbana y una mayor calidad de vida para los residentes.

Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transit services all across the city. With his extraordinary access to powerful players and internal documents, Philip Mark Plotch reveals why the city's subway system, once the best in the world, is now too often unreliable, overcrowded, and uncomfortable. Last Subway offers valuable lessons in how governments can overcome political gridlock and enormous obstacles to build grand projects.

Akilah is a 13-year old author who uses the power of pen and paper to vividly describe the roller coaster of emotions she’s encountered throughout her young life. At 13, Akilah has already experienced the challenges of navigating and overcoming obstacles associated with questioning her worth and the world’s expectations. This book provides a glimpse inside of Akilah’s challenges and how she used the power of her words to find the power within herself to prevail and continue her stride towards the best version of her.

City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600's to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city - from the tycoons and the politicians, to the hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world. In this revised and updated second edition that brings Chicago's story into the 21st century, Spinney sweeps his historian's gaze across the colorful and dramatic panorama of the city's explosive past.

In Moving Up, Moving Out, Will Cooley discusses the damage racism and discrimination have exacted on black Chicagoans in the 20th century, while accentuating the resilience of upwardly mobile African Americans. Cooley examines how class differences created fissures in the black community and produced quandaries for black Chicagoans interested in racial welfare. While black Chicagoans engaged in collective struggles, they also used individualistic means to secure the American Dream.

"Rep: Digest" ti offre ogni settima due appuntamenti con l'informazione di Repubblica. Due raccolte di articoli in formato audio che raccontano e analizzano i temi e le notizie della settimana. Il governo Conte e l'accordo su Autostrade: Un buco da 19 miliardi se Autostrade perderà la concessione, di Giovanni Pons; Autostrade, Di Maio sfida Conte: "Voleva far saltare tutto", di Tommaso Ciriaco e Giovanna Vitale; Da Alitalia alle autostrade, torna lo Stato-padrone. Anche grazie alla pandemia, di Ettore Livini.

Dopo il nuovo ponte di Genova, è il lavoro la sfida per l'Italia: Il confine di Genova, di Dario Cresto-Tina; Il Ponte dell'Italia che reagisce, di Francesco Merlo; Landini: "I lavoratori mantengano il posto o sarà scontro sociale", di Ettore Livini; Spinta alle imprese del Sud. Tasse sul lavoro -30%. Accordo sui licenziamenti, di Roberto Petrini; Senza il paracadute del governo un milione di posti sarebbe a rischio, di Ettore Livini; Lavoro, la tregua fragile, di Francesco Manacorda.

Grandi opere: ripresa o deregulation? Semplificazioni verso il sì al decreto. L'ultimo nodo è l'abuso d'ufficio, di Giovanna Vitale; Lo scatto che ancora manca, di Francesco Bei; Poche gare e commissari, per gli appalti scatta la deregulation, di Roberto Petrini; Gli appalti senza gara, l'allergia alla concorrenza, di Sergio Rizzo; Grandi opere per 200 miliardi, ma il decreto non c'è ancora, di Giovanna Vitale; Dalle grandi opere dieci punti di Pil. Ma gli economisti sono scettici, di Roberto Petrini.

Liguria, un altro viadotto a rischio. "Chiudete o finirà come il Morandi": ecco l'Italia delle strade a pezzi, di Giuseppe Filetto e Marco Preve; Dissesto, la solitudine della Liguria. Allarme porti: "Così si chiude", di Maurizio Crosetti; Nel Paese dell'eterna burocrazia un cantiere su due è bloccato, di Sergio Rizzo; I ponti mettono paura, la procura fa chiudere un pezzo di autostrada, di Giuseppe Filetto e Marco Lignana; Venti ponti a rischio. Conte: revoca vicina per Autostrade, di Giuseppe Filetto e Marco Lignana;

Mose, Ilva, Alitalia. Un Paese in crisi: Mose, Ilva e Alitalia, il paese dei fallimenti, di Massimo Giannini; L'irresponsabilità al governo, di Claudio Tito; Il bivio dei Benetton: ingresso nella compagnia o rischio concessioni, di Ettore Livini; Alitalia, il governo cambia rotta. Prima ristrutturazione, poi la vendita, di Lucio De Lellis; Conte: "Mittal rimane ma non escludo intervento pubblico. Non cadremo a gennaio", di Claudio Tito.

Tras perder la audición de un oído al paso de una ambulancia, Gabi Martínez se preguntó cómo afecta el entorno urbano a nuestra salud. Este audiolibro, narrado por el autor, reflexiona sobre la necesidad de transformación de las ciudades ante un modelo urbano ya caduco y nos cuenta cómo se creó la idea de la supermanzana, uno de los conceptos urbanísticos más revolucionarios de las últimas décadas: su acogida, su implantación y las polémicas que generó.

Deutschland im Sommer 2019: Die AfD wird zur Volkspartei im Osten. Merkel hat Zitteranfälle. Vor zehn Jahren stattete der Reporter Moritz von Uslar der Kleinstadt Zehdenick im Landkreis Oberhavel in der brandenburgischen Provinz einen Besuch ab. Nun kehrt er zurück, er bleibt vier Monate und - wie schon in seinem damaligen Buch Deutschboden - lässt er die Geschichte und die Einwohner des Städtchens auf sich zukommen. Anders als vor zehn Jahren ist der Reporter in der Kleinstadt aber kein Fremder mehr.

Adults don’t talk about the business of doing our business. We work on one assumption: The world of public bathrooms is problem - and politics-free. No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs reveals the opposite is true. No Place to Go is a toilet tour from London to San Francisco to Toronto and beyond. From pay potties to deserted alleyways, No Place to Go is a marriage of urbanism, social narrative, and pop culture that shows the ways - momentous and mockable - public bathrooms just don’t work. 

The Voucher Promise examines the Housing Choice Voucher Program, colloquially known as "Section 8", and how it shapes the lives of families living in a Baltimore neighborhood called Park Heights. Eva Rosen tells stories about the daily lives of homeowners, voucher holders, renters who receive no housing assistance, and the landlords who provide housing.

How does it feel to receive a phone call from your 14-year-old son who is in the back of a squad car because he laughed at a police officer? How does a young person of color cope with being frisked several times a week since the age of 15? These are just some of the stories in No Place on the Corner, which draws on three years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork in the South Bronx before and after the landmark 2013 Floyd v. City of New York decision that ruled that the NYPD's controversial "stop and frisk" policing methods were a violation of rights.