My Storm–Now Available
12/22/2011
My Storm: Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina Edward J. Blakely. Foreword by Henry Cisneros 208 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth… READ MORE
Category: Architecture & Landscape Design
Global Downtowns – Now Available
12/21/2011
Global Downtowns Edited by Marina Peterson and Gary McDonogh 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. Cloth Dec 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4384-0 | $59.95 | £39.00 A volume… READ MORE
Paul’s Pick of the Month, a Free Article from the Journal Change Over Time
11/15/2011
Today marks the beginning of Penn Press Log's free monthly journal article program, Paul's Pick. The program features the extraordinary scholarship published in Penn Press Journals. Every month, Paul Chase… READ MORE
Five Things Urban Planners Must Do to Foster Women’s Health
10/27/2011
What if your daughter couldn’t learn reading or math because it is unsafe to walk to school? What if your neighborhood had no clean running water, but it was your duty to serve healthy meals to your aging in-laws? What if the simple act of crossing the street in time to transfer from one bus to another put you and your children at risk because of poor transit system design? For many women in cities around the world, these “what ifs” are too real.
Women have first-hand knowledge of the particular ways that poorly lit streets, crowded subway cars, and bad or nonexistant infrastructure effect their well-being. And now there’s a growing body of research to back up what the proverbial grandmother could have told us.
The Research Triangle Author William M. Rohe on the Air with North Carolina’s D. G. Martin
09/22/2011
At first glance, William M. Rohe, bone fide professor and author of The Research Triangle: From Tobacco Road to Global Prominence, doesn' t seem to have much in common with… READ MORE
The Disaster Experts Author Hits the Air and the Web Today
09/08/2011
Scott Gabriel Knowles, author of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America, hits the public radio airwaves and web sites today to discuss America's emergency preparedness ten years after… READ MORE
Flora’s Empire: British Gardens in India–Now Available
08/25/2011
Flora's Empire: British Gardens in India Eugenia W. Herbert 432 pages | 7 x 10 | 30 color, 60 b/w illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4326-0 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE
The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America–Now Available
08/18/2011
The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America Scott Gabriel Knowles 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 22 illus. Cloth Sep 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4350-5 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE
A Penn Press Podcast Interview with The Disaster Experts Author Scott Gabriel Knowles
08/08/2011
The tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks is fast approaching. In the August podcast, historian Scott Gabriel Knowles, author of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America, reflects… READ MORE
Women’s Health and the World’s Cities–Now Available
07/25/2011
Women's Health and the World's Cities Edited by Afaf Ibrahim Meleis, Eugenie L. Birch, and Susan M. Wachter 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 29 illus. Cloth 2011 |… READ MORE
