Tag: Suburban

Free Download Paul Lukez, "Suburban Transformations"
English | ISBN: 1568986831 | 2007 | 192 pages | PDF | 10 MB
Smart Growth advocates, environmentalists, and New Urbanists have all tried in their own ways to spread the message of reforming current land use patterns. Their solutions are often criticized for being overly prescriptive, opposed to growth, or nostalgic. Suburban Transformations offers an alternative to these practices while synthesizing many of the ideas and proposals that they put forth. Both a work of theory and a practical tool for suburban community planning, the book introduces the adaptive design process: a method that allows for the organic transformation of communities from siteless suburbs and edge cities into places with their own distinct identity and unique character.

Free Download Matthew D. Lassiter, Tom Beyer (Narrator), "The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs"
English | ASIN: B0CLVSW5J6 | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~29:05:00 | 835 MB
Since the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need rehabilitation instead of incarceration. The Suburban Crisis traces how politicians, the media, and grassroots political activists crusaded to protect white families from perceived threats while criminalizing and incarcerating urban minorities, and how a troubling legacy of racial injustice continues to inform the war on drugs today.
In this incisive political history, Matthew Lassiter shows how the category of the "white middle-class victim" has been as central to the politics and culture of the drug war as racial stereotypes like the "foreign trafficker," "urban pusher," and "predatory ghetto addict." He describes how the futile mission to safeguard and control white suburban youth shaped the enactment of the nation’s first mandatory-minimum drug laws in the 1950s, and how soaring marijuana arrests of white Americans led to demands to refocus on "real criminals" in inner cities.

Free Download Martin Dines, "The Literature of Suburban Change: Narrating Spatial Complexity in Metropolitan America "
English | ISBN: 1474426492 | 2022 | 304 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Explores how American writers articulate the complexity of twentieth-century suburbia