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"Housing insecurity, intensified employment anxiety, access to adequate services and fear of personal and structural violence are some of the issues troubling today's cities and municipalities. Often, these conditions most affect residents whose place in the social hierarchy makes them particularly susceptible to exclusion. Seeking to redress these trends and guide research to facilitate meaningful local action, Toward Equity and Inclusion in Canadian Cities promotes more inclusive urban environments by highlighting and comparing theoretical and practice-based insights. Building on feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonialist arguments to offer action-oriented solutions to inequalities and exclusions, the contributors to this volume tackle themes such as LGBTQ inclusion, health disparities, diversity initiatives, and urban planning dilemmas. Through a lens of critical praxis, the book explores the challenges of collaborations, the negotiations required to re-conceptualize research relations, and the ways in which values and practices inform one another. In light of the growing complexity, interrelations, and interactions of our world, Toward Equity and Inclusion in Canadian Cities is a timely work that speaks to a diverse audience of activists, policy makers, community organizations, and researchers of various disciplines."--

Social justice --- Social integration --- City and town life --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- Inclusion, Social --- Integration, Social --- Social inclusion --- Sociology --- Belonging (Social psychology) --- Equality --- Justice --- Research

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Gold Medalist, 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the US Northeast -Best Regional Non-Fiction CategoryFinalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Regional categorySilver Winner, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the History categoryAt the beginning of the twentieth century the Ashcan School of Art blazed onto the art scene, introducing a revolutionary vision of New York City. In contrast to the elite artists who painted the upper class bedecked in finery, in front of magnificent structures, or the progressive reformers who photographed the city as a slum, hopeless and full of despair, the Ashcan School held the unique belief that the industrial working-class city was a fit subject for great art. In Beauty in the City, Robert A. Slayton illustrates how these artists portrayed the working classes with respect and gloried in the drama of the subways and excavation sites, the office towers, and immigrant housing. Their art captured the emerging metropolis in all its facets, with its potent machinery and its class, ethnic, and gender issues. By exposing the realities of this new, modern America through their art—expressed in what they chose to draw, not in how they drew it—they created one of the great American art forms.

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In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian urban landscapes. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party (TANU) adopted a policy of rural socialism known as Ujamaa between 1967 and 1985, an influx of youth migrants to the city of Dar es Salaam generated innovative forms of urbanism through the production and circulation of what Callaci calls street archives. These urban intellectuals neither supported nor contested the ruling party's anti-city philosophy; rather, they navigated the complexities of inhabiting unplanned African cities during economic crisis and social transformation through various forms of popular texts that included women's Christian advice literature, newspaper columns, self-published pulp fiction novellas, and song lyrics. Through these textual networks, Callaci shows how youth migrants and urban intellectuals in Dar es Salaam fashioned a collective ethos of postcolonial African citizenship. This spirit ushered in a revolution rooted in the city and its networks-an urban revolution that arose in spite of the nation-state's pro-rural ideology.

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In the increasingly popular sport of parkour, athletes run, jump, climb, flip, and vault through city streetscapes, resembling urban gymnasts to passersby and awestruck spectators. In Parkour and the City, cultural sociologist Jeffrey L. Kidder examines the ways in which this sport involves a creative appropriation of urban spaces as well as a method of everyday risk-taking by a youth culture that valorizes individuals who successfully manage danger. Parkour's modern development has been tied closely to the growth of the internet. The sport is inevitably a YouTube phenomenon, making it exemplary of new forms of globalized communication. Parkour's dangerous stunts resonate, too, Kidder contends, with a neoliberal ideology that is ambivalent about risk. Moreover, as a male-dominated sport, parkour, with its glorification of strength and daring, reflects contemporary Western notions of masculinity. At the same time, Kidder writes, most athletes (known as "traceurs" or "freerunners") reject a "daredevil" label, preferring a deliberate, reasoned hedging of bets with their own safety-rather than a "pushing the edge" ethos normally associated with extreme sports.

SPORTS & RECREATION / Outdoor Skills. --- SPORTS & RECREATION / Running & Jogging. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. --- SPORTS & RECREATION / Extreme Sports. --- Extreme sports --- Parkour --- Parkour. --- Art du déplacement (Parkour) --- Art of displacement (Parkour) --- PK (Parkour) --- Athletics --- Human locomotion --- Social aspects. --- sport, sports, parkour, exercise, running, athlete, athleticism, flip, climb, climbing, free run, free running, city, city life, gymnast, gymnastics, urban, urban life, youth, youth culture, urban studies, risk, danger, dangerous.

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Residential and industrial sprawl changed more than the political landscape of postwar Los Angeles. It expanded the employment and living opportunities for millions of Angelinos into new suburbs. In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills examines the struggle for inclusion into this exclusive world-a multilayered process by which Mexican Americans moved out of the barrios and emerged as a majority population in the San Gabriel Valley-and the impact that movement had on collective racial and class identity. Contrary to the assimilation processes experienced by most Euro-Americans, Mexican Americans did not graduate to whiteness on the basis of their suburban residence. Rather, In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills illuminates how Mexican American racial and class identity were both reinforced by and took on added metropolitan and transnational dimensions in the city during the second half of the twentieth century.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes. --- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development. --- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY). --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies. --- Mexican Americans --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- Los Angeles Suburban Area (Calif.) --- History. --- city life. --- city. --- l.a. --- latino. --- los angeles. --- metropolitan. --- mexican american. --- san Gabriel. --- san gabriel valley. --- suburb.