Douglas W Rae: 2 books
City
Urbanism and Its End
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
How did neighborhood groceries, parish halls, factories, and even saloons contribute more to urban vitality than did the fiscal might of postwar urban renewal? With a novelist’s eye for telling detail, Douglas Rae depicts the features that contributed most to city life in the early urbanist” decades...
Murder in the Model City
The Black Panthers, Yale, and the Redemption of a Killer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
May 20, 1969: Four members of the revolutionary Black Panther Party trudge through woods along the edges of the Coginchaug River outside of New Haven, Connecticut. Gunshots shatter the silence. Three men emerge from the woods. Soon, two are in police custody. One flees across the country. Nine Panthers...