Subjects:  1. Architecture    2. Design & Drafting    3. Domestic    4. Planning    5. Public Policy - Social Policy    6. Sociology - Urban    7. U.S. Architecture - General    8. Architecture / General    9. City & town planning - architectural aspects    10. Houses, apartments, flats, etc    11. Housing    12. USA    13. Urban communities   

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Economic History    3. Economic conditions    4. General    5. Great Britain    6. History    7. History: World    8. Housing    9. Social conditions    10. Western Europe - General    11. History / Great Britain    12. Housing--Great Britain--History    13. Social history    14. Western Continental Europe    15. c 1700 to c 1800    16. c 1800 to c 1900   

Subjects:  1. Economics - General    2. Environmental Science    3. Reference    4. Science    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Sociology    7. Sociology - General    8. Business & Economics-Economics - General    9. Central government    10. City & town planning - architectural aspects    11. Housing    12. Science / Environmental Science    13. Science-Environmental Science    14. Social Science / Sociology / General    15. United States    16. Urban communities   

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Eye-Opening Cultural Study, both in method and results.
Male Fantasies is a book I wish many, many people would read.The writing is long-winded, the author's ideas are sometimes (in Volume II) flaky, but the content of the book is too good for this to matter.Theweleit studies the art and literature of a particular group of men--the Freikorps--who were essentially disaffected former soldiers in Germany after the First World War.These men developed their own groups and their own culture, and became the firsts-in-line to man Hitler's new army in the '30s (the Brown Shirts and Black Shirts).What is so fascinating about this book is that it approaches the study of this group by looking at the images of women in their writings.Initially, the author goes in great detail over letters these men wrote; then he looks at their magazines and novels.It turns out that through their images of women, a whole vision of human personal and political reality can be decoded.A particular vision of women (a complex typology of types of women: the mother, the sister, the white nurse, the red nurse, etc.) turns out to be intimately interwoven with a fascist approach to human life--AND this vision turns out to be the core of a great deal of our own imagery and political self-perception.The first 225 pages of Book I are the crucial part to read, and then you can skip around through the rest of Volumes I and II as you see fit.The discussion of Freud and Medusa in this section and the discussion of the notions of deterritorialization and reterritorialization in the work of Deleuze and Guattar are specially valuable segments.This book is also a good introduction to some important Weimar-era history, especially regarding Rosa Luxemburg and the Spartacists.I recommend this book to anyone in the humanities and to any generally intellectually minded adult.If you take the time to get into it, it will change your perception of some important things.

Richly and persuasively detailed history
A deeply felt and extensively documented look at the lives and times of these men in Weimar Germany. The author looks unflinching at the Freikorps men, precursors of the Nazis, with all that they have very different from most of us today--and all they have that is all too common with us today. But here I am stressing the conclusion. The point is, he honestly gets his conclusions out of huge amounts of documentation on everyday life. These men represent an extreme, of course, but their motives and life-conditions were very close to many people in the Weimar Republic. It is a great book on that period, which also relates that time to our own.

fascism is psychoanalysis in reverse
Examines fascism as a Reichian phenomenon gone awry - the fascist male experiences ego-dissolution in early infancy, finds itthreatening, and so builds for himself a "body armor" within which are contained such "female" traits and emotions(unaknowledged) as weakness, fear, guilt, etc. Through repetitive conditioning and a brutal pedagogy, these negative, shadowyperceptions are then projected outward onto the despised classes of scoiety and made to represent the chaotic forces of thecollective cultural unconscious. Like Adorno said, "fascism is psychoanalysis in reverse." ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Fascism and sex    2. Fascism and women    3. Freikorps    4. General    5. Germany    6. Heer    7. Literary Criticism    8. Military - General    9. Sexual behavior    10. Sociology    11. Soldiers    12. Housing    13. Military life & institutions   

Subjects:  1. Central government policies    2. Housing    3. United Kingdom, Great Britain   

Subjects:  1. Automotive - History    2. Housing (Sociological Aspects)    3. Mobile Home Living    4. Mobile home industry    5. Mobile home parks    6. Mobile homes    7. Sociology    8. Sociology - General    9. Transportation    10. United States    11. Housing    12. Human geography    13. Residential buildings, domestic buildings    14. Science / Biology    15. Transport: General Interest    16. USA   

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BADLY NEEDED FRESH VIEW OF URBAN BLIGHT
What makes a city work? What makes one fail? Does government action have an effect? The answers are all here in a readable---no, I'll go further---in a fascinating book. The ideas herein are worth a hearing. They just might save a city you love. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Housing & Urban Development    2. Politics / Current Events    3. Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.    4. Urban & Regional    5. Business & Economics-Urban & Regional    6. Law-Housing & Urban Development    7. Political Science / City Planning & Urban Development   

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Not comprehensive enough...
The essence of every encyclopedia is to cover the largest number of topics (entries) pertinent to the field in study. Although Housing is a vast term and can encompass many things, this book has clearly missed a huge number. If my memory serves me right there is no mention about neighborhood concept, very little on new urbanism, nothing on smart growth, ecological villages and sustainable communities...there is much more missing, this is only a part. As I said it is tough to include all, but take a note of the upcoming Encyclopedia of the City from Routledge (editor Professor Roger Caves from San Diego) and you will see what an encyclopedia means. This book needs a 2nd heavily revised edition. I don't envy the editors at all, it is a horrible task to do something like this.

Catherine, Called Birdy
I think the book Catherine, Called Birdy is a great book for young people like myself.In the book, Catherine is trying to get through her life of being a 14 year old girl who's father is making her marry whoever he wants.How would you like it if you mother or father was making you marry whoever they wanted.I know that I wouldn't like that.Everyday she has to write in her diary and tell how her day went.Her good friend went off with her uncle and they were going to get married but she found some other rich boy and married him.I gave this book 5 star because it had love, action, sadness and much more.I think that is what makes all books good.With a little bit of everything.When you start reading this book you won't want to stop.Everyday we have to go through life no matter what.Catherine had to go through some very hard times.With the prospect of her best friend marrying her uncle and her dad making her marry whoever he wanted, but she was still able to put the past behind her and go on with her life. That's what we should do when we face hard times.Just remember the name Catherine, Called Birdy

Catherine, Called Birdy
I think the book Catherine, Called Birdy is a great book for young people like myself.In the book, Catherine is trying to get through her life of being a 14 year old girl who's father is making her marry whoever he wants.How would you like it if you mother or father was making you marry whoever they wanted.I know that I wouldn't like that.Everyday she has to write in her diary and tell how her day went.Her good friend went off with her uncle and they were going to get married but she found some other rich boy and married him.I gave this book 5 star because it had love, action, sadness and much more.I think that is what makes all books good.With a little bit of everything.When you start reading this book you won't want to stop.Everyday we have to go through life no matter what.Catherine had to go through some very hard times.With the prospect of her best friend marrying her uncle and her dad making her marry whoever he wanted, but she was still able to put the past behind her and go on with her life. That's what we should do when we face hard times.Just remember the name Catherine, Called Birdy ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Encyclopedias    2. Environmental Science    3. General    4. Housing    5. Housing (Economic Aspects)    6. Housing (Sociological Aspects)    7. Politics / Current Events    8. Reference    9. Sociology    10. Sociology - Urban    11. United States    12. Central government    13. Science / Environmental Science   

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evidence of the weakness of public policy?
The basic message of most essays in this book is that growth management and inclusionary zoning simply don't matter as much as their vigourous critics suggest: that neither program does much good or much harm.
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Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. City planning    4. Development - Business Development    5. Housing    6. Politics / Current Events    7. Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.   

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Food For Thought
Don't be swayed by ideologues who likely haven't read the book.
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****right-wing alert*****
I went into this book with a completely open mind hoping to be enlightened.I certainly agree with the assertion that the title makes, and so I was looking forward to hearing Husock's analysis.What a waste of time.I didn't find a lot of original ideas here, or clear thoughts, just your basic John Birch Society argument against "big government." ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Community development corporat    4. Community development corporations    5. Dept. of Housing and Urban Dev    6. Economic Conditions    7. Housing (Economic Aspects)    8. Housing policy    9. Politics / Current Events    10. Poverty    11. Public Policy - Regional Planning    12. Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare    13. Public housing    14. United States    15. Urban & Regional    16. Urban Planning    17. Cultural studies    18. Housing    19. Miscellaneous Items    20. Social Science / Popular Culture    21. USA   

Editorial Review

In their efforts to find a safe, quiet, traffic- and crime-free place to live, more and more Americans are turning to gated communities--self-enclosed developments barricaded off from surrounding neighborhoods, often using security guards to prevent intruders and screen visitors, sometimes even privatizing services traditionally left to local government. In Read more

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Nothing to recommend it.
I've studied the "Gated Community" debates for years, professionally, and this book hasn't a single original idea in it--the research is rehash, the conclusions tepid, and the writing itself is sallow at best, and sophmoric otherwise.One suspects this project was designed for Ivory Tower purposes, as the authors give no indication of ever having been involved in Urban Planning in any way--a necessary prerequisite for a monograph such as this, I'm afraid. Response to Irving Texas--the authors
This is a response to Irving, Texas. The book contains plenty of crime statistic, in fact the best ones available. Perhaps the reviewr is talking about a diferent book. A for effort, but fails a critical test
The authors of "Fortress America" had the resources and effort to put together a very good book on the subject of gated communities.Unfortunately they also had such a strong desire to prove their point thatthey fail to include the most relevant information... crimestatistics.Read more

Subjects:  1. Community    2. Community life    3. Gated communities    4. Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.    5. Social Science    6. Social Stratification    7. Sociology    8. Sociology - General    9. Sociology - Urban    10. United States    11. Housing    12. USA    13. Urban communities   

Subjects:  1. Housing Policy    2. Sociology    3. Sociology - General    4. Central government policies    5. Housing    6. Political Science / General   

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. Developing countries    4. Economic conditions    5. Poverty    6. Reference - General    7. Slums    8. Social conditions    9. Sociology    10. Sociology - Urban    11. Third World Development    12. Urban poor    13. Development economics    14. Housing    15. Social Science / Sociology / Urban    16. Urban & municipal planning   

Subjects:  1. Anesthesiology    2. Evaluation    3. Gerontology    4. Health/Fitness    5. Housing (Social Welfare Aspects)    6. Life care communities    7. Long-Term Care Of The Aged    8. Medical    9. Nursing homes    10. Old age homes    11. Politics / Current Events    12. Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare    13. United States    14. Care of the elderly    15. Geriatric medicine    16. Housing    17. Medical / Geriatrics    18. Medicine | Gerontology   

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Households    3. Housing    4. Housing (Social Welfare Aspects)    5. Housing (Sociological Aspects)    6. Netherlands    7. Real Estate - Sales    8. Social Science    9. Sociology    10. Sociology - Urban    11. United States   

Subjects:  1. Case studies    2. Homelessness    3. Housing    4. Poverty    5. Sociology    6. Sociology - Urban    7. United States    8. Urban poor    9. USA    10. Urban communities   

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Excellent study on the development of communist North Korea
In The North Korean Revolution 1945-1950, Charles K. Armstrong argues that North Korea was not simply the result of an externally imposed communist system strictly controlled by the Soviet Union - and that Kim Il Sung was not a hand-picked Soviet puppet.Instead, he argues that North Korea, though created under the umbrella of the occupying Soviets, developed a uniquely Korean form of communism forged from the experiences of the various Korean communist groups that returned or re-emerged after liberation.Throughout the book, Armstrong strives to demonstrate the uniquely indigenous Korean aspects of the social formation of North Korea into a communist state - particularly those that contrast the Soviet national model and the type of socialism imposed more strongly on the Eastern European states.Read more

Subjects:  1. Asia - Korea    2. History    3. History: World    4. Housing & Urban Development    5. Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism    6. Political Process - Leadership    7. Politics / Current Events    8. Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -    9. North Korea    10. c 1945 to c 1960   

Subjects:  1. Contracting out    2. Human services    3. New York (State)    4. Poverty    5. Social Science    6. Social Work    7. Social settlements    8. Sociology    9. Sociology - Urban    10. United States    11. American studies    12. Housing    13. New York    14. Social Science / Social Work    15. Urban communities   

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An informative survey of homelessness in the United States
An important part of the ABC-CLIO "Contemporary World Issues" series, American Homelessness: A Reference Handbook offers an informative survey of homelessness in the United States since 1980, as well as federal, state, and municipal efforts to solve this persistent and growing problem. Now in an updated and expanded third edition (fifty percent of the material is new), all of the pertinent laws regulating homeless people in public places are covered, as well as the results of federal funding, along with housing, health issues, and state policies affecting the homeless. An essential, core reference for academic, governmental, advocacy organization, and community library reference collections, American Homelessness also offers a series of insights into homelessness in Western Europe, Canada, and Australia. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Handbooks & Manuals    2. Handbooks, manuals, etc    3. Homeless Persons    4. Homelessness    5. Poverty    6. Public Policy - Social Policy    7. Reference    8. Social Science    9. Sociology    10. Sociology - Urban    11. United States    12. Current Events   

Subjects:  1. Case studies    2. City planners    3. City planning    4. Interviews    5. Politics / Current Events    6. Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.    7. Sociology    8. United States    9. Urban policy    10. City & town planning - architectural aspects    11. Housing    12. Social issues