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New Titles at the UConn Library Hartford

This guide includes titles recently added to UConn Library Hartford collections

New Titles (Winter Session 2023-24)

If you have suggestions for career-related titles you would like to see added to our collections, contact Marsha Lee marsha.m.lee@uconn.edu or submit a purchase request here: https://universityofconnecticut-twnqs.formstack.com/forms/rcrp

If you have suggestions for humanities-related titles you would like to see added to our collections, contact Marsha Lee marsha.m.lee@uconn.edu or submit a purchase request here: https://universityofconnecticut-twnqs.formstack.com/forms/rcrp

If you have suggestions for social work titles you would like to see added to our collections, contact Janice Mathews  or submit a purchase request here: https://universityofconnecticut-twnqs.formstack.com/forms/rcrp

If you have suggestions for titles you would like added to this collection, contact library staff at lib-greaterhartford@ad.uconn.edu or submit a purchase request here: https://universityofconnecticut-twnqs.formstack.com/forms/rcrp.

The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century

Why good neighborhoods? -- Understanding neighborhood change: a dynamic systems approach -- The rise of the American urban neighborhood, 1860-1950 -- The American urban neighborhood under siege, 1950-2000 -- The great divergence: the polarization of the American neighborhood, 1990-2020 -- Neighborhoods as markets -- Neighborhoods in an era of demographic change and -- Economic restructuring -- Race and its continuing yet changing significance -- Agents of change: city governments, community development corporations, anchor institutions, and others -- Deconstructing gentrification -- Can the center hold? The crisis of the urban middle neighborhood -- Stuck in place: the persistence of concentrated poverty and disinvestment -- Neighborhood change in the suburbs -- Conclusion: the theory and practice of neighborhood change.