Shadows of a Sunbelt City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shadows of a Sunbelt City write by Eliot Tretter. This book was released on 2016. Shadows of a Sunbelt City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Austin, Texas, is often depicted as one of the past half century's great urban successstories--a place that has grown enormously through "creative class" strategies. In Shadows of a Sunbelt City, Eliot Tretter reinterprets this familiar story by exploring the racial and environmental underpinnings of the postindustrial knowledge economy.
City in a Garden
City in a Garden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City in a Garden write by Andrew M. Busch. This book was released on 2017-05-16. City in a Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The natural beauty of Austin, Texas, has always been central to the city's identity. From the beginning, city leaders, residents, planners, and employers consistently imagined Austin as a natural place, highlighting the region's environmental attributes as they marketed the city and planned for its growth. Yet, as Austin modernized and attracted an educated and skilled labor force, the demand to preserve its natural spaces was used to justify economic and racial segregation. This effort to create and maintain a "city in a garden" perpetuated uneven social and economic power relationships throughout the twentieth century. In telling Austin's story, Andrew M. Busch invites readers to consider the wider implications of environmentally friendly urban development. While Austin's mainstream environmental record is impressive, its minority groups continue to live on the economic, social, and geographic margins of the city. By demonstrating how the city's midcentury modernization and progressive movement sustained racial oppression, restriction, and uneven development in the decades that followed, Busch reveals the darker ramifications of Austin's green growth.
Geopiracy
Geopiracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geopiracy write by Joel Wainwright. This book was released on 2012-10-30. Geopiracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Geopiracy is a study of the 'Bowman expeditions'—a project through which geographers, with funding from the US Army, are mapping the 'human terrain' of foreign lands. Wainwright offers a critique of human geography today that draws on contemporary social theory to raise unsettling questions about the nature of geography's disciplinary formation.
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower
In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower write by Davarian L Baldwin. This book was released on 2021-03-30. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students’ needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power—and who is made vulnerable. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities.
Caging Borders and Carceral States
Caging Borders and Carceral States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Caging Borders and Carceral States write by Robert T. Chase. This book was released on 2019-04-09. Caging Borders and Carceral States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore the ways in which citizens and migrants alike have been caged, detained, deported, and incarcerated, and what these practices tell us about state building, converging and coercive legal powers, and national sovereignty. As these studies depict the institutional development and state scaffolding of overlapping carceral regimes, they also consider how prisoners and immigrants resisted such oppression and violence by drawing on the transnational politics of human rights and liberation, transcending the isolation of incarceration, detention, deportation and the boundaries of domestic law. Contributors: Dan Berger, Ethan Blue, George T. Diaz, David Hernandez, Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Pippa Holloway, Volker Janssen, Talitha L. LeFlouria, Heather McCarty, Douglas K. Miller, Vivien Miller, Donna Murch, and Keramet Ann Reiter.
