New Village Press: 12 books
Beyond Zuccotti Park
Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The Occupy Wall Street movement has challenged the physical manifestation of the First Amendment rights to freedom of assembly. Where and how can people congregate today? Forty social scientists, planners, architects, and civil liberties experts explore the definition, use, role, and importance of...
Homeboy Came to Orange
A Story of People's Power
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The story of a union organizer who found a second career in community organizing and helped a Jim Crow city become a better place.
Ernest Thompson dedicated his life to organizing the powerless. This lively, illustrated personal narrative of his work shows the great contribution that people’s...
by Carl C. Anthony
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In this work, Carl Anthony shares his perspectives as an African-American child in post-World War II Philadelphia; a student and civil rights activist in 1960s Harlem; a traveling student of West African architecture; and an architect, planner, and environmental justice advocate in Berkeley. He contextualizes...
Root Shock
How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Like a sequel to the prescient warnings of urbanist Jane Jacobs, Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove reveals the disturbing effects of decades of insensitive urban renewal projects on communities of color. For those whose homes and neighborhoods were bulldozed, the urban modernization projects that swept...
From Foreclosure to Fair Lending
Advocacy, Organizing, Occupy, and the Pursuit of Equitable Credit
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Well-known fair housing and fair lending activists and organizers examine the implications of the new wave of fair housing activism generated by Occupy Wall Street protests and the many successes achieved in fair housing and fair lending over the years. The book reveals the limitations of advocacy...
Urban Alchemy
Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
What if divided neighborhoods were causing public health problems? What if a new approach to planning and design could tackle both the built environment and collective well-being at the same time? What if cities could help each other?
Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, the acclaimed author of Root Shock,...
What We See
Advancing the Observations of Jane Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
A timely revisitation of renowned urbanist-activist Jane Jacobs' lifework, What We See invites thirty pundits and practitioners across fields to refresh Jacobs' economic, social and urban planning theories for the present day. Combining personal and professional observations with meditations on Jacobs'...
By Heart
Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
"A boy with no one to listen becomes a man in prison for life and discovers his mind can be free. A woman enters prison to teach and becomes his first listener. And so begins a twenty-five year friendship between two gifted writers and poets. The result is By Heart ? a book that will anger you,...
Acting Together I: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict
Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2011
Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict is a two-volume work describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts. Volume I, Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence, emphasizes the role theatre and ritual play both...
Arts for Change
Teaching Outside the Frame
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Beverly Naidus shares her passion and strategies for teaching socially engaged art, offering, as well, a short history of the field and the candid views of more than thirty colleagues.
A provocative, personal look at the motivations and challenges of teaching socially engaged arts, Arts for...
American Tensions
Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
This anthology of contemporary American poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, explores issues of identity, oppression, injustice, and social change. Living American writers produced each piece between 1980 and the present; works were selected based on literary merit and the manner in which they address...
Acting Together II: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict
Building Just and Inclusive Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Acting Together, Volume ll, continues from where the first volume ends documenting exemplary peacebuilding performances in regions marked by social exclusion structural violence and dislocation.
Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict is a two-volume work describing...