New Village Press: 12 books

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Beyond Zuccotti Park

Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space

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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012

The Occupy Wall Street movement has challenged the physical manifestation of the First Amendment rights to freedom of assembly. Where and how can people congregate today? Forty social scientists, planners, architects, and civil liberties experts explore the definition, use, role, and importance of...
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Homeboy Came to Orange

A Story of People's Power

by Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018

The story of a union organizer who found a second career in community organizing and helped a Jim Crow city become a better place. Ernest Thompson dedicated his life to organizing the powerless. This lively, illustrated personal narrative of his work shows the great contribution that people’s...
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by Carl C. Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017

In this work, Carl Anthony shares his perspectives as an African-American child in post-World War II Philadelphia; a student and civil rights activist in 1960s Harlem; a traveling student of West African architecture; and an architect, planner, and environmental justice advocate in Berkeley. He contextualizes...
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Root Shock

How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It

by Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

Like a sequel to the prescient warnings of urbanist Jane Jacobs, Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove reveals the disturbing effects of decades of insensitive urban renewal projects on communities of color. For those whose homes and neighborhoods were bulldozed, the urban modernization projects that swept...
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From Foreclosure to Fair Lending

Advocacy, Organizing, Occupy, and the Pursuit of Equitable Credit

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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013

Well-known fair housing and fair lending activists and organizers examine the implications of the new wave of fair housing activism generated by Occupy Wall Street protests and the many successes achieved in fair housing and fair lending over the years. The book reveals the limitations of advocacy...
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Urban Alchemy

Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities

by Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013

What if divided neighborhoods were causing public health problems? What if a new approach to planning and design could tackle both the built environment and collective well-being at the same time? What if cities could help each other? Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, the acclaimed author of Root Shock,...
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What We See

Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs

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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010

A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs'...
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By Heart

Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives

by Judith Tannenbaum, Spoon Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

"A boy with no one to listen becomes a man in prison for life and discovers his mind can be free. A woman enters prison to teach and becomes his first listener. And so begins a twenty-five year friendship between two gifted writers and poets. The result is By Heart ? a book that will anger you,...
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Acting Together I: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict

Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence

by Dijana Milosevic, Charles Mulekwa
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011

Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict is a two-volume work describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts. Volume I, Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence, emphasizes the role theatre and ritual play both...
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Arts for Change

Teaching Outside the Frame

by Beverly Naidus
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009

Beverly Naidus shares her passion and strategies for teaching socially engaged art, offering, as well, a short history of the field and the candid views of more than thirty colleagues. A provocative, personal look at the motivations and challenges of teaching socially engaged arts, Arts for...
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American Tensions

Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice

by Elizabeth Alexander, Linda Hogan
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011

This anthology of contemporary American poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, explores issues of identity, oppression, injustice, and social change. Living American writers produced each piece between 1980 and the present; works were selected based on literary merit and the manner in which they address...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011

Acting Together, Volume ll, continues from where the first volume ends documenting exemplary peacebuilding performances in regions marked by social exclusion structural violence and dislocation. Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict is a two-volume work describing...
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