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In addition to the featured hardcover releases, the Penn Press fall 2009 catalog announces many new paperbacks, among them: From Civil Rights to Human Rights; W.E.B. Du Bois, American Prophet; Visions of Progress; Mapping Decline; The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa; Faculty Towers; Hitler's Face; Monsters; Used Books; Marriage and Violence; and The Crusades and the Christian World of the East.

Complete Catalog: Urban Studies

Titles from the Penn Press catalog, grouped by subject.

Abbott, Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest (hc 2001, pb 2001)

Anderson, Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male (hc 2008, pb 2009)

Baldeck, Venice, a Personal View (hc 1999, pb 1999)

Birch/Wachter, Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina (pb 2006)

Birch/Wachter, Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century (pb 2008)

Bloom, Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century (hc 2008, pb 2009)

Brown, America's Waterfront Revival: Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment (hc 2008)

Calame/Charlesworth, Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia (hc 2009)

Cnaan, The Other Philadelphia Story: How Local Congregations Support Quality of Life in Urban America (hc 2006)

Cnaan/Dichter, A Century of Social Work and Social Welfare at Penn (hc 2008)

Conn, Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence of the Past (pb 2006)

Daniels/Kettl, On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina (pb 2006)

Davis/Haller, The Peoples of Philadelphia: A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940 (pb 1998)

Ford, Metropolitan San Diego: How Geography and Lifestyle Shape a New Urban Environment (hc 2004, pb 2004)

Gale, Greater New Jersey: Living in the Shadow of Gotham (hc 2006, pb 2006)

Gillette, Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City (hc 2005, pb 2006)

Gillette, Between Justice and Beauty: Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C. (pb 2006)

Gober, Metropolitan Phoenix: Place Making and Community Building in the Desert (hc 2005, pb 2005)

Gordon, Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (hc 2008, pb Oct 2009)

Greiff, Independence: The Creation of a National Park (hc 1987)

Katz/Sugrue, W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the City: "The Philadelphia Negro" and Its Legacy (hc 1998, pb 1998)

Knowles, Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City (pb Oct 2009)

Labov, Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular (hc 1973, pb 1973)

Licht, Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950 (pb 2000)

Murtagh, Moravian Architecture and Town Planning: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Other Eighteenth-Century American Settlements (pb 1997)

Ousterhout, Studies on Istanbul and Beyond: The Freely Papers, Volume 1 (hc 2007)

Recchiuti, Civic Engagement: Social Science and Progressive-Era Reform in New York City (hc 2006)

Rodin, The University and Urban Revival: Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets (hc 2007)

Roux/McNamara, Paris in the Middle Ages (hc 2009)

Schneider, Smack: Heroin and the American City (hc 2008)

Shropshire, The Sports Franchise Game: Cities in Pursuit of Sports Franchises, Events, Stadiums, and Arenas (hc 1995)

Stevick, Imagining Philadelphia: Travelers' Views of the City from 1800 to the Present (hc 1996)

Warner, The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth, 2/e (hc 1987, pb 1987)

Warner, Greater Boston: Adapting Regional Traditions to the Present (hc 2001, pb 2001)

Whyte, The Last Landscape (pb 2002)

Whyte, City: Rediscovering the Center (pb 2009)




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