 | Why Don''t American Cities Burn? Subjects: Sociology Urban -- United States -- 20th century; Urban policy -- United States -- 20th century; Inner cities -- United States -- 20th century; City and town life -- United States -- 20th century; Urban historian Michael B. Katz traces the collision of urban transformation with the rightward-moving social politics of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century America. Michael B. Katz is a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania & the author of ten books, including "The Undeserving Poor" & "In the Shadow of the Poorhouse". A Fellow of the Princeton Institute of Advanced Studies & the Russell Sage Foundation, he lives in Philadelphia & Oquossoc, Maine. (Bowker Author Biography) |
