From Foreclosure to Fair Lending Advocacy, Organizing, Occupy, and the Pursuit of Equitable Credit Shanti Abedin, Katrin A. Anacker, David Berenbaum, Saqib Bhatti, Janis Bowdler, James H. Carr, Peter Dreier, Katrina S. Forrest, Jose A. Garcia, George Goehl, Debby Goldberg, Chester Hartman, Sandra Hinson, Donald L. Kahl, Stephen Lerner, Mike Miller, john a. powell, John P. Relman, Lisa Rice, Robert G. Schwemm, M William Sermons, Shanna L. Smith, Gregory D. Squires This book poses important implications of the Occupy protest movement for fair lending, fair housing advocacy, and equal opportunity.

Last month Wells Fargo, the nation's largest home mortgage lender and fourth largest bank, agreed to pay at least $175 million to redress blatant discrimination against African American and Hispanic borrowers. The irony is that this settlement—the second largest in the Justice Department's history—is with a bank that for decades has made significant strides in recruiting more minorities and women to its corporate board. This raises the obvious question of whether greater diversity within... cont'd

Beyond Zuccotti Park Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space Roland V. Anglin, Caron Atlas, Thomas Balsley, Terri Baltimore, Shirin Barghi, Rick Bell, Marshall Berman, Julian Brash, Wendy E. Brawer, Paul Broches, Carlton Brown, Lance Jay Brown, David Burney, Brennan S. Cavanaugh, Susan Chin, Alexander Cooper, Arthur Eisenberg, Lynne Elizabeth, Anastassia Fisyak, Karen A. Franck, Michael Freedman-Schnapp, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Gan Golan, Jeffrey Hou, Te-Sheng Huang, Lisa Keller, Brad Lander, Peter Marcuse, Jonathan Marvel, Signe Nielsen, Michael Pyatok, Michael Rios, Jonathan Rose, Janette Sadik-Khan, Saskia Sassen, Paula Z. Segal, Sadra Shahab, Benjamin Shepard, Ron Shiffman, Gregory Smithsimon, Michael Sorkin, Nikki Stern, Maya Wiley In the wake of the Occupy Wall Street movement, leading planners and social scientists examine public space today and freedom of assembly.

Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space made Planetizen's top 10 list of books in urban planning, design, and development published in 2012!

"The Planetizen editorial staff based this year's list on a number of criteria, including editorial reviews, popularity, number of references, sales figures, recommendations from experts and the book's potential impact on the urban planning, development and design professions.

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Service-Learning in Design and Planning Educating at the Boundaries Tom Angotti, Keith Bartholomew, Amanda M. Beer, Peter Butler, Linda Corkery, Pat Crawford, Lynne M. Dearborn, Cheryl Doble, Susan Erickson, Susan C. Harris, Sally Harrison, AIA, Paula Horrigan, Jeffrey Hou, Clara Irazábal, Paul Kelsch, Zenia Kotval, Laura Lawson, Mira Locher, Patricia Machemer, V. Paul Poteat, Ann Quinlan, Jodi Rios, Michael Rios, Joseph Schilling, Lynda Schneekloth, Scott Shannon, Lisa B. Spanierman, Jack Sullivan, Daniel Winterbottom Urban planning and architecture educators challenge traditional community-university relationships by modeling meaningful and reciprocal partnerships.

This is a book primarily for educators of planners rather than students. Planners and others outside the academy who are already partners in service-learning, or are contemplating it, will also find much of interest. The book consists of 16 chapters, including an introduction. The 15 substantive chapters are mostly case studies, and even those which are not case studies are still based on direct experience of service-learning. Only one relates to teaching in a university outside the USA,... cont'd

Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict Volume II: Building Just and Inclusive Communities Daniel Banks, Cynthia E. Cohen, Eugene van Erven, Kate Gardner, Roberto Gutiérrez Varea, Mary Ann Hunter, John O'Neal, Jo Salas, Polly O. Walker Acting Together, Volume II, continues from where the first volume ends, documenting exemplary peacebuilding performances in regions marked by social exclusion, structural violence, and dislocation.

In 1996, Back Bone Youth Arts devised a performance, "Sk8 Grrl Space," to be shown only once in a male-dominated skateboarding park in Australia. Thirteen young women played scenes that addressed women's limited access to public space. One audience member became so riled he shattered a bottle on the steep-sided skate bowl where the women performed. The smashed bottle didn't shut the performance down, but instead was incorporated into the action.

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Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence Cynthia E. Cohen, Catherine Filloux, Roberto Gutiérrez Varea, Ruth Margraff, Dijana Milošević, Charles Mulekwa, Abeer Musleh, Aida Nasrallah, Madhawa Palihapitiya, Lee Perlman, Polly O. Walker Courageous artists working in conflict regions describe exemplary peacebuilding performances and groundbreaking theory on performance for transformation of violence.

Beginning this week, the Acting Together project is launching a global campaign for the feature-length documentary, Acting Together on the World Stage, a toolkit of videos and printed guides to aid educators, practitioners and policy-makers, and the first of two volumes of an anthology entitled Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict (New Village Press, 2011). In cinemas, bookstores, theatres, community centers and classrooms, educators,... cont'd

American Tensions Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice Jonis Agee, Elizabeth Alexander, Sherman Alexie, Dorothy Allison, Marvin Bell, Barrie Jean Borich, Nickole Brown, Philip Bryant, James Cihlar, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Anthony Doerr, Mark Doty, Heid E. Erdrich, Louise Erdrich, B. H. Fairchild, Nick Flynn, Kenny Fries, Eric Gansworth, Ray Gonzalez, J. C. Hallman, Patricia Hampl, Greg Hewett, Scott Hightower, Tony Hoagland, Linda Hogan, Javier O. Huerta, Deborah Keenan, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ed Bok Lee, Bobbie Ann Mason, Bill McKibben, Donald Morrill, David Mura, Kristin Naca, Mark Nowak, D. A. Powell, Hilda Raz, Adrienne Rich, Scott Russell Sanders, Patricia Smith, Brian Turner, Emily C. Watson, Diane Wilson This new anthology of contemporary American poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, explores issues of identity, oppression, injustice, and social change.

A good literary anthology has much in common with the musical playlists we make for our love interests. Every inclusion is a clue to the compilers' personality and our ambitions for the relationship. What song to start with, where to drop a classic fun song to make the listener smile, where to place the overly obvious love song, or the thoughtful or familiar one, and what song to conclude with— all are vital decisions to a successful mix-tape. As the mix-masters, we feel there is no room for... cont'd

Between Grace and Fear The Role of the Arts in a Time of Change William Cleveland, Patricia Shifferd This book is a series of interviews with social theorists and scholars, philanthropists, scientists, theologians, artists, community development and community arts activists.

Is a major shift in worldview taking place across the globe today? If so, what role can artists, arts organizations, and cultural creatives play in imagining and sustaining a future with more equitable lifeways?

These are the big questions that Cleveland and Shifferd explore in this thought-provoking and inspiring collection of essays. As creative folks themselves, Cleveland and Shifferd don't tell us what to think and do. Instead, they interviewed thirty leading artists,... cont'd