Why Don't American Cities Burn? / / Michael B. Katz.
At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American neighborhood of North Philadelphia-one of seven homicides to occur in the city that da...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The City in the Twenty-First Century
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 15 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prologue: The Death of Shorty
- Chapter 1. What Is an American City?
- Chapter 2. The New African American Inequality
- Chapter 3. Why Don't American Cities Burn Very Often?
- Chapter 4. From Underclass to Entrepreneur: New Technologies of Poverty Work in Urban America
- Epilogue: The Existential Problem of Urban Studies
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments