Product Description: This edited volume reveals how a permanent war economy has made the United States unable to spread democracy abroad and has worsened domestic problems. The editors draw from classical readings in political theory, from primary documents (including key court decisions), and from social science research to analyze such issues as the effect of militarization and combativeness on the everyday lives of Americans...read more

Product Description: There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first comprehensive critical book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down on record as one of the worst in American history, not least because of the government’s inept and cavalier response...read more

Product Description: In the United States, today, quality of life depends heavily on where one lives, but high levels of racial segregation in residential communities make it frustratingly difficult to disentangle the effects of place from those of race...read more

Product Description: The proverbial American dream of owning a home has become an all-too-real nightmare for a growing number of families. The most vulnerable segments of our society―including minorities, the elderly, and working families―are being victimized by financiers who lure them into commitments they cannot fulfill...read more

Product Description: Community activists were delighted with the passage of the Community Reinvestment Act, but they came to realize that it would take more than the word of law to bring about real change. This book gives voice to the activists who took it upon themselves to agitate for increased investment by financial institutions in their local communities...read more

Product Description: Urban Sprawl is not simply a development that undercuts the quality of life for suburbanites. It has raised alarms across the nation, as fair housing advocates, environmentalists, land use planners, and even many suburban employers who cannot find the workers they need, have recognized that the costs go far beyond aesthetics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Contrary to conventional wisdom, green is not the only color that matters to lenders. This case study of Milwaukee, Wisconsin--a fairly typical urban area that has experienced systematic disinvestment and a budding reinvestment movement--demonstrates the continuing significance of race in determining who gets home mortgage and small business loans. Confirming the ongoing role of politics in both nurturing urban reinvestment and fueling a backlash by financial institutions, Color and Money offers critical policy recommendations for increasing access to capital in central city communities and for racial minorities throughout the nation's metropolitan areas. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This volume brings new evidence to bear on the issues that have framed almost 30 years of debate over insurance redlining -- discrimination in the homeowners' insurance market based on the racial or ethnic characteristics of neighborhoods...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Capital and Communities in Black and White explores the problems created by global economic restructuring, the decline of inner city neighborhoods, and the heightened racial conflicts in the United States."Squires has made an important contribution to the national debate over how America can build a more humane and rational social order...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Examines how formerly redlined communities have generated billions of dollars in reinvestment.

Product Description: This book explores the dynamics of urban development in American cities since World War II. Gregory D.Squires and other contributors examine what has long been a highly inequitable and destructive process of urban development. They look at the political and economic assumptions and interests shaping redevelopment, the social and economic costs of development for the vast majority of urban residents, and emerging alternative approaches...read more

Product Description: Despite local folklore, Chicago is not always a city that works. No longer the "Hog Butcher for the World," the Windy City has, in recent decades, pursued economic growth at all costs - to the detriment of many of its citizens. This book describes the social, economic, and political costs of the growth ideology and examines the populist response that promises an alternative Chicago...read more