...This introductory chapter examines the race and class hierarchies embedded in Latino/a urban planning discourse. Latin Americans are a growing sector of the U.S. working class and a fragile first-generation middle class. Moreover, they are increasingly concentrated in the very industries that have...

... that is not strictly self-defense, they are labeled “delinquent,” their actions taken as a sign of emotional pathology. However, this book demonstrates that in poor urban areas this kind of street fighting is seen as a normal part of girlhood and a necessary way to earn respect among peers, as well as a way for girls...

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...This chapter assesses the intersections between patterns of urban development, the emergence of the energy sector, and racialized spatialities in relation to diasporic Pakistani and transnational Muslim place making in Houston. Although Pakistani communities are dispersed throughout the Greater...

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... resist Indian mascotry and wannabe Indianness—the phenomena they deem most central to their oppression as urban Indians in Northeast Ohio—by publicly asserting their rights to define Indigenous identities for themselves and others. Denying reclaimers’ Indian identities is only one facet of relocators...

...When urban agriculture becomes a sustainability initiative with institutional backing, it can drive green gentrification even when its advocates are well intentioned and concerned about the possible exclusion of urban farmers and residents. This chapter explores these tensions through the notion...

...In the San Francisco Bay Area, during the last nine years advocates have made major inroads in shifting local policies and approaches to urban agriculture. At the same time, the city’s landscape has undergone massive transformation. In this chapter, based on personal experiences as leaders in urban...

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... for the maintenance of social order. The Lakeside Division’s relationship with local businesses, as the authors found, was not unusual. Rather, this is a normative institutional alignment. Coupling community policing with LA’s post-1992 urban redevelopment scheme, Rebuild Los Angeles, ensures that divisions can...

...This chapter examines the complex and varied ways that the children of migrants have influenced Amsterdam's urban public culture. It deals with “culture” on three levels: everyday youth culture, mass popular culture, and the arts that are recognized and supported by the more highly educated sectors...

...This chapter examines the urban planning history that led to the creation of Battery Park City and gave the community its physical shape and social configuration. In particular, it considers how the exclusive master plans endorsed by elites for Battery Park City's urban development have evolved...

...The domestic ideal that emerged in the 1820s rested on distinctions between marketplace and home, male and female, public and private. At the end of the nineteenth century, changes in American urban life seemed to threaten these distinctions, testing the resilience and adaptability of domesticity...

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...This chapter presents an expanded labor stratification and crime thesis that explains crime patterns under different economic and industrial conditions, and in places other than urban places in modern states. It emphasizes the characteristics of the jobs people have. Just like the case...

...This concluding chapter examines the ups and downs of the South Street Seaport Museum as it tried to realize its historic preservation vision, which included saving an urban renewal district and restoring historic ships. It reflects on the struggle between diverse New Yorkers who dreamed...

...The introduction first introduces Downtown Church, and presents some of the history of white Evangelical Protestantism and its efforts to engage urban America. Connected to this association with cities is the difficult relationship white Evangelical Protestantism has had with race. Recent efforts...

...Another part of the urban imaginary is the assumption that cities are full of diverse people. Racial diversity is, for many, part of the urban culture to be consumed—a new and valued experience. And racial and cultural diversity is a feature of Downtown Church valued by many of the congregants...

...Drawing on nearly two years of ethnographic data and 55 qualitative interviews, this book examines the ways in which race, class, gender, and consumption intersect with an urban context to shape the goals, identity, and experiences of a new religious congregation in Chicago. Downtown Church wants...