Urban Environmental Education Review

Urban Environmental Education Review explores how environmental education can contribute to urban sustainability.

"Urban Environmental Education Review is a fantastic and unprecedented addition to the literature on environmental education. I appreciate the thoughtfulness of the editors in including authors with many different disciplinary lenses on the field, from a wide geographic range (including within, not just between chapters), and who represent a mix of august, experienced, mid-career, and some new-to-the-field researchers. The chapter topics are logical and provide a nice flow to the... cont'd

Public Housing Myths

Perception, Reality, and Social Policy

Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure. Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. This volume provides an updated, panoramic view of public housing.

"Addressing and debunking 11 widely held assumptions about public housing and why it "failed," this much-needed book largely discredits the policy rhetoric concerning the problematic stereotypes associated with public housing. . . . The book adeptly points out that to blame public housing on the persistence of crime, poverty, and other social problems is simply not accurate."—D.A. Oakley, CHOICE (January 2016)