Why Don't American Cities Burn?

Name: Why Don't American Cities Burn?
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ISBN: 9780812222807

ISBN-10: 0812222806

ISBN-13: 9780812222807

Edition: 2012

Authors: Michael B. Katz

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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 day and yet not make the major newspapers. For Michael B. Katz, an urban historian and a juror on the murder trial, the story of Manes and Shorty exemplified the marginalization, social isolation, and indifference that plague American cities.Introduced by the gripping narrative of this murder and its circumstances, Why Don't American Cities Burn? charts the emergence of the urban forms that…

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List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 10/17/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Michael B. Katz is a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania & the author of ten books, including "The Undeserving Poor" & "In the Shadow of the Poorhouse". A Fellow of the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies & the Russell Sage Foundation, he lives in Philadelphia & Oquossoc, Maine.



Prologue: The Death of Shorty



What Is an American City?



The New African American Inequality



Why Don't American Cities Bum Very Often?



From Underclass to Entrepreneur: New Technologies of Poverty Work in Urban America


Epilogue: The Existential Problem of Urban Studies


Notes


Index


Acknowledgments