Author: Peter Lang
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Keywords: books, storefront, city, mortal
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1568980469
ISBN-13: 9781568980461

"Each and every individual in the global community is both spectator and?participant in urban carnage: responsible both for the international?administration of violence and its profitable documentation for world?market consumption." - Peter Lang??Urban violence increasingly dominates our day-to-day existence: we watch?footage of the earthquake in Japan, the bombing of Chechnya, the war in?Bosnia - and not so long ago, the same year that war broke out in Bosnia,?we watched the horror of the Los Angeles riots. As events in Sarajevo and?Los Angeles demonstrate, these crises continue without imman

Author: Nancy Milio
Publisher: University of Michigan Press/Regional
Keywords: ann, arbor, paperbacks, preface, new, storefront, burn, kercheval
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2000-12-05
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0472086952
ISBN-13: 9780472086955

In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of its first publication, we are happy to reissue Nancy Milio’s 9226 Kercheval, a groundbreaking book which analyzes the success of the Mom and Tots Center in urban Detroit in the late 1960s. At the time of its first publication, Robert Coles called the book "rare and extremely important" and remarked, "I can only hope that all those concerned with urban problems might read this unusual and inspiring book."Milio adds a new Preface to update readers on the fate of the center and the issues of poverty and health care which continue today.From the origi