The Changing American Neighborhood

The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century

Alan Mallach author Todd Swanstrom author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Published:15th Aug '23

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The Changing American Neighborhood argues that the physical and social spaces created by neighborhoods matter more than ever for the health and well-being of twenty-first-century Americans and their communities. Taking a long historical view, this book explores the many dimensions of today's neighborhoods, the forms they take, the forces and factors influencing them, and the people and organizations trying to change them.

Challenging conventional interpretations of neighborhoods and neighborhood change, Alan Mallach and Todd Swanstrom adopt a broad, inter-disciplinary perspective that shows how neighborhoods are messy, complex systems, in which change is driven by constant feedback loops that link social, economic and physical conditions, each within distinct spatial and political contexts. The Changing American Neighborhood seeks to understand neighborhoods and neighborhood change not only for their own importance, but for the insights they offer to help guide peoples' efforts sustaining good neighborhoods and rebuilding struggling ones.

Alan Mallach and Todd Swanstrom bring deep knowledge and experience to the critical impor tance of good neighborhoods as a place where we can both flourish as individuals and build commu nity. This is a timely book because America is currently so polarized. This is a significant and important book for both practitioners and researchers. It would be a useful supplementary text for a course in housing or community development.

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ISBN: 9781501771132

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 907g

396 pages