Introducing Penn Press Podcasts
10/01/2008
Visit the new Penn Press Podcast website to listen to our podcasting premiere, an interview with Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter, editors of Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability… READ MORE
Category: Urban Studies
Smack–Now Available
09/29/2008
Smack: Heroin and the American City Eric C. Schneider 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4116-7 | $39.95 | £26.00 A volume in… READ MORE
Smack Q&A on Digphilly
Digphilly.com, a local arts, entertainment and culture blog, posted a short Q&A today with Eric C. Schneider, author of Smack: Heroin and the American City. Here's an excerpt from the… READ MORE
New York Times City Room Blog looks at Bloom
News of Nicholas Dagen Bloom's talk at a recent New York City Housing Authority gathering made its way into The New York Times City Room Blog. Blogger Manny Fernandez referred… READ MORE
Art and the City–Now Available
09/23/2008
Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority in Los Angeles Sarah Schrank 224 pages | 6 x 9 | 42 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4117-4 | $39.95… READ MORE
A Century of Social Work and Social Welfare at Penn–Now Available
09/03/2008
A Century of Social Work and Social Welfare at Penn Ram A. Cnaan, Melissa E. Dichter, and Jeffrey Draine, Editors 632 pages | 7 x 10 | 26 illus. Cloth… READ MORE
Philadelphia Weekly Talks to Birch about Greening Philly
08/27/2008
Eugenie Birch, co-editor of Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century, spoke with Philadelphia Weekly’s Jeffrey Barg about Philly’s status as a green metropolis. "How is Philly doing?"… READ MORE
Growing Greener Cities–Now Available
08/15/2008
Growing Greener Cities: Urban Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter 416 pages | 6 x 9 | 17 color, 55 b/w illus…. READ MORE
Public Culture — Now Available
07/11/2008
Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States Edited by Marguerite S. Shaffer 392 pages | 6 x 9 | 34 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4081-8 |… READ MORE
Gordon’s Book ‘Does the best job,’ says St. Louis Regional Planner
07/01/2008
Les Sterman, Executive Director of the East-West Gateway Council of Governments, the regional planning organization for the Greater St. Louis area, had kind words for the work of historian Colin… READ MORE
