http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Book_Discussions&feed=atom&action=historyBook Discussions - Revision history2024-03-28T21:30:17ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.32.0-alphahttp://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Book_Discussions&diff=274&oldid=prevPghrights: Created page with "<div id="content_view" class="wiki" style="display: block">'''<u>Books for community discussion</u>'''<br /> We encourage educators, community groups, and residents to read a..."2018-06-25T22:53:52Z<p>Created page with "<div id="content_view" class="wiki" style="display: block">'''<u>Books for community discussion</u>'''<br /> We encourage educators, community groups, and residents to read a..."</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div><div id="content_view" class="wiki" style="display: block">'''<u>Books for community discussion</u>'''<br /> We encourage educators, community groups, and residents to read and discuss the following books. Several of the authors below will be part of the Summit program and related events, and the summit will engage with ideas from these books. Organizers will be providing discussion guides and additional resources to encourage conversations about these books.<br /> <br />
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* [http://www.zuccottiparkpress.com/lauradreamforecl/ A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home] <span class="a-size-small a-color-secondary">by [https://www.amazon.com/Laura-Gottesdiener/e/B00EBWXGZO/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3?qid=1483629981&sr=8-3 Laura Gottesdiener] and Clarence Lusane, 2013, Zuccoti Park Press.</span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">''[http://www.evictedbook.com/ Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City]'' By Matthew Desmond, (New York: Crown Publishing, 2015)</span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">[http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100510000 Saving Our Cities: A Progressive Plan to Transform America], William W. Goldsmith (2016, Cornell University Press)</span><br />
* [http://peopleplacespace.org/ The People, Place, and Space Reader] Edited by Jen Jack Gieseking & William Mangold, with Cindi Katz, Setha Low, & Susan Saegert ''(Free-Open Access online)'' This reader contains a chapter by Housing Summit speaker '''Desiree Fields''',"[http://peopleplacespace.org/frr/financialization-at-home-in-the-city/ Financialization at Home, in the City]"<br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">[http://www.newvillagepress.net/book/?GCOI=97660100655590 Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It] by '''Mindy Fullilove''', (2nd Edition, New Village Press, 2016).</span><br />
* [http://www.newvillagepress.net/book/?GCOI=97660100238970 Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities] Mindy Thompson Fullilove. New Village Press, 2013 ([http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/book-reviews/2013/09/01/Pittsburgh-s-Hill-District-gets-key-role-in-Mindy-Thompson-Fullilove-s-Urban-Alchemy/stories/201309010242 Read more local news)]<br />
* ''[https://www.versobooks.com/books/2111-in-defense-of-housing In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis. ]''David Madden and Peter Marcuse, 2016 Verso.<br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">''[http://www.beacon.org/The-Weight-of-Shadows-P1194.aspx The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration and Displacement ]By'' [http://clas.uiowa.edu/latina-latino-studies/events/jos%C3%A9-ordu%C3%B1a-reading-weight-shadows-memoir-immigration-and-displacement Jose Orduna], (Boston: Beacon Press, 2016).</span><br />
* ''[https://www.akpress.org/takebackthelandak.html Take Back the Land Land, Gentrification and the Umoja Village Shantytown ]''Max Rameu (2013, AK Press).<br />
<br /> <u>'''For further study'''</u><br /> <br />
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* <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">[http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/ch...86305.html No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing], By Waverly Duck*, 2015 University of Chicago Press </span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">[http://nyupress.org/books/9781479818631/ Priced Out: Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods], By [http://nyupress.org/author/7153 Rachael A. Woldoff], [http://nyupress.org/author/7154 Lisa M. Morrison] and [http://nyupress.org/author/7158 Michael R. Glass*] 2016 NYU Press </span><br />
* <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">[http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745671642 Planetary Gentrification], By Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin and '''Ernesto Lopez-Morales''', 2016 Polity Press</span><br />
<br /> '''Bold='''Featured speakers at our Housing Summit; *=Housing Summit Steering Committee member<br /> <br /> <br />
==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Suggested discussion questions for groups:</span>==<br />
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* How has this book affected your understanding of home?<br />
* How has this book shaped your understanding of the experiences of people in your community/ in the wider city?<br />
* What do you see as the relationships between housing policies that affect residents' access to housing and the <u>quality of community</u>?<br />
* What would a human rights-based approach to housing look like? What would it take to move existing policies in this direction?<br />
* What factors keep people from achieving housing security?<br />
* How does the lack of decent and affordable housing affect individuals? How does it affect neighborhoods? What are its impacts on the city itself?<br />
* What are the social costs of our society's failure to provide decent and affordable housing?<br />
* How might you define decent housing?<br />
* How does the thinking about housing presented in this book compare/contrast with prevailing public and media assumptions?<br />
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