This series was published under the auspices of the Joint Center for Urban Studies, a cooperative venture of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. The Joint Center was founded in 1959 to organize and encourage research on urban and regional problems. Participants have included scholars from the fields of anthropology, architecture, business, city planning, economics, education, engineering, history, law, philosophy, political science, and sociology. This series is no longer active.
This book provides a comprehensive and readable account of the American system of controlling the private use of land—the public control of private development. It explains the general, social, legal,...
A Social Portrait of the First Reform School for Girls in North America, 1856-1905
by Barbara Brenzel
ISBN: 9780262521048
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: October 21, 1985
A rich and fascinating study of education, social reform, and women's history, Daughters of the State explores the lives of young girls who came to the State Industrial School for Girls in Lancaster,...
Revised edition of Regional Development and Planning: A ReaderSince 1964, when Regional Development and Planning: A Reader was first published, the book has become established as perhaps the most useful...
When city planners and designers are given the ideal assignment—to build a new city in the wilderness, unencumbered by an existing urban matrix—and, at the same time, the site is located in the...
The public library as a "community facility dedicated to... service to everyone" is finding it impossible to meet the increasing demands made by a varied and shifting clientele—students require more...
Industrialization, Urbanization, and Education in Ciudad Guayana
by Noel McGinn and Russell Davis
ISBN: 9780262630412
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 15, 1971
This is the fourth volume in the series on the Guayana Project of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.
This critical evaluation of the efforts by the federal government to reduce poverty and alleviate inequality in the inner cities during the past decade is the work of two urban scholars who were themselves...
The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City
by Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan
ISBN: 9780262570220
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub Date: June 15, 1970
Beyond the Melting Pot was one of the most influential books published during the 1960s. This second edition includes a new 90-page Introduction, "New York City in 1960," in which the authors, with...
The rebuilding of cities is now a matter of national concern. Both the federal government and the cities are heavily involved in problems of housing and the future of declining neighborhoods, but the...
