Penn Press Book Series: The City in the 21st Century

Launched in 2005 and published in collaboration with Penn Press, The City in the Twenty-First Century is an interdisciplinary series that publishes work addressing urban architecture, economics, history, planning, political science, sociology, and urban design.
Book April 30, 2024
Equality and the City: Urban Innovations for All Citizens
In Equality and the City, Enrique Peñalosa Londoño draws on his experience as mayor of Bogotá, Colombia to share his perspective on the issues facing developing cities, especially sustainable transportation and equal access to public space.
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Equality and the City by Enrique Peñalosa Londoño book cover
Book April 30, 2024 Equality and the City: Urban Innovations for All Citizens In Equality and the City, Enrique Peñalosa Londoño draws on his experience as mayor of Bogotá, Colombia to share his perspective on the issues facing developing cities, especially sustainable transportation and equal access to public space. Enrique Peñalosa Urban Development
Underground by Bruce O'Neill book cover
Book April 26, 2024 Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest Underground moves beneath Romania’s capital, Bucharest, to examine how the demands of global accumulation have extended urban life beneath city sidewalks. Bruce O'Neill Urban Development
Master Plans and Encroachments
Book October 1, 2023 Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad Master Plans and Encroachments examines informality in the high-modernist city of Islamabad as a strategic conformity to official schemes and regulations rather than as a deviation from them.  Faiza Moatasim
The Paradox of Urban Revitalization
Book June 1, 2023 The Paradox of Urban Revitalization Charting the tension between the practice of corporate subsidy and efforts to assure social justice, The Paradox of Urban Revitalization assesses the course of urban politics and policy over the past half century, before the COVID-19 pandemic upended everything, and details prospects for achieving greater equity in the years ahead. Howard Gillette Jr.
Community Benefits
Book March 1, 2023 Community Benefits In Community Benefits, Jovanna P. Rosen explores a new pattern in urban development: local residents and community representatives leveraging large-scale development projects for agreements that promise dedicated local benefits, such as parks and jobs. In general, such development projects have not produced impactful benefits for local residents, and often have contributed to significant community harm, including gentrification and displacement. Jovanna Rosen
Nation's Metropolis
Book January 1, 2023 Nation's Metropolis Nation’s Metropolis describes how the national capital region functions as a metropolitan political economy. Its authors distinguish aspects of the Washington region that reflect its characteristics as a national capital from those common to most other metropolitan regions and to other capitals. To do so, they employ an interdisciplinary approach that draws from economics, political science, sociology, geography, and history.  Royce Hanson Harold Wolman
China Urbanizing
Book September 1, 2022 China Urbanizing This book situates China’s urbanization in the interconnected forces of historical legacies, contemporary state interventions, and human and ecological conditions. It captures the complexity of the phenomenon of urbanization in its historical and regional variations, and explores its impact on the country’s socioeconomic welfare, environment and resources, urban form and lifestyle, and population and health.  Weiping Wu Qin Gao
Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics
Book August 1, 2022 Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics In this book, Chandan Deuskar explores how politicians in developing democracies provide urban land and services to the urban poor in exchange for their political support, demonstrates how this impacts urban growth, and suggests innovative and practical ways in which urban planners can try to be more effective in this challenging political context. Chandan Deuskar
Cover of the book New Towns in the Twenty-First Century
Book December 16, 2020 New Towns for the Twenty-First Century: A Guide to Planned Communities Worldwide Richard Peiser Ann Forsyth Urban Development Rapid Urbanization
Article December 11, 2020 Perspectives on Fair Housing: An Overview Fair housing is central to the moral and economic foundation and future of American society. The Fair Housing Act—passed more than 50 years ago—prohibited discrimination in the sale, rent, and financing of housing based on race, religion, and national origin. But, while necessary, the Act alone is insufficient to stop discrimination and undo the decades of discriminatory land, housing, and other policies that have ingrained racial inequality into the nation’s housing markets. Vincent Reina Housing
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Book September 16, 2020 Street Commerce: Creating Vibrant Urban Sidewalks A comprehensive analysis of the issues involved in planning for and facilitating successful street commerce Andres Sevtsuk Urban Development
Cover of Life Among Urban Planners
Book September 16, 2020 Life Among Urban Planners: Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City A collection of ethnographic case studies of urban planners and their practices Jennifer Mack Michael Herzfeld Urban Development
Cover of How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development
Book September 16, 2020 How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development A collection of international case studies that demonstrate the importance of ideas to urban political development Richardson Dilworth Timothy P. R. Weaver Urban Development
Cover of Shareholder Cities
Book October 25, 2019 Shareholder Cities Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India Sai Balakrishnan Urban Development State & Local Finance
Cover of Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change
Book August 23, 2019 Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change Urban Development
Cover of Transforming the Urban University
Book May 22, 2019 Transforming the Urban University Richard Freeland Urban Development
Cover of Smarter Growth
Book October 22, 2018 Smarter Growth: Activism and Environmental Policy in Metropolitan Washington John H. Spiers argues that metropolitan Washington, D.C. laid the foundations for a smart growth movement that blossomed in the late twentieth century John H. Spiers Climate Change & Resilience Urban Development
Mayor The Best Job in Politics - cover
Book January 15, 2018 Mayor: The Best Job in Politics Reflecting on his two terms from 2008 to 2016, Nutter offers insights into building coalitions, governing pragmatically, and improving city life through effective public service. Michael A. Nutter Urban Development
Article December 14, 2017 Mayor: The Best Job in Politics Mayor Michael Nutter writes about his work as two-term mayor of Philadelphia. Michael A. Nutter Anchor Institutions
Cover of Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization
Book July 6, 2017 Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States In Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States, edited by Domenic Vitiello and Thomas J. Sugrue, write that in the past decade, policy makers and scholars across the United States have come to understand that immigrants are driving metropolitan revitalization at least as much and belong at the center of the story. Immigrants have repopulated central city neighborhoods and older suburbs, reopening shuttered storefronts and boosting housing and labor markets, in every region of the United States. Domenic Vitiello Thomas J. Sugrue Urban Development
Cover of Governing the Fragmented Metropolis
Book December 13, 2016 Governing the Fragmented Metropolis Christina D. Rosan observes that policy-makers and scholars have long agreed that we need metropolitan governance, but they have debated the best approach. Christina D. Rosan Anchor Institutions
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Book December 13, 2016 Principles of Housing Finance Reform Susan Wachter Joseph Tracy Housing
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Book April 13, 2016 Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work Large numbers of people in urbanizing regions in the developing world live and work in unplanned settlements that grow through incremental processes of squatting and self-building. Eugénie L. Birch Shahana Chattaraj Susan Wachter Urban Development Rapid Urbanization
Cover of Shared Prosperity in America's Communities
Book March 8, 2016 Shared Prosperity in America's Communities Shared Prosperity in America's Communities, in the City in the 21st Century Book Series, authored by Susan M. Wachter and Lei Ding, examines this place-based disparity of opportunity and suggests what can be done to ensure that the benefits of economic growth are widely shared. Susan Wachter Lei Ding Urban Development
Cover of Public Pensions and City Solvency
Book February 10, 2016 Public Pensions and City Solvency Underfunded pension liabilities threaten the fiscal stability of many cities. While Detroit's bankruptcy has dominated the headlines, the problem is widespread. Susan Wachter Urban Development State & Local Finance

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