Daniel J Monti
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 89364 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Daniel J Monti |
| NOMBRES | Daniel J |
| APELLIDO | Monti |
| FIRMA | MONTI D J |
| AFILIACIONES | Saint Louis University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Democracy and Disconsent
St. Louis’s “urban prairie”
As part of a larger project to understand the relative health and disorder of St. Louis City neighborhoods, this paper presents estimates of the number of vacant parcels in the city. These estimates, which are considerably higher than previously published ones, are heavily concentrated in the city's disinvested and segregated North side. We term this heavy concentration of vacancy as "urban prairie". After accounting for other factors as well as …
Riots
Collective acts of “spontaneous” street violence have been a popular means to carry out reprisals, raise grievances, and assert a group's prerogatives for hundreds of years in both western and nonwestern societies. The timing and shape of popular unrest have been used to explain a variety of conflictive situations. Indeed, the persistence of riots throughout history highlights their effectiveness both in addressing specific social issues and in i…
Diversity and Small Business
Small business is the backbone of economies in western societies. It hires more people than large corporations and generates an enormous number and variety of goods and services. In minority communities in urban settings its role is even more important because these may be among the only employers willing to hire their own people. An ethnically and racially diverse collection of small business owners and operators, therefore, is vital to both the…
Gangs
In most cultural settings young people are trained together or encouraged to socialize as groups, though often in separate groups for boys and girls. Gangs are an urban variant of this peer‐based learning and grouping strategy. As such, they are an important variant of this widespread cultural phenomenon. In adopting violent and illegal means to express themselves, they constitute an interesting alternative and challenge to adult “secret societie…
P ruitt– I goe Homes
Large‐scale multistory public housing complexes were a common and sometimes celebrated device in the United States to house low‐income and minority persons whose presence in cities made some kind of official response necessary. But they made better warehouses than they ever did homes for the people who lived there. The Pruitt–Igoe homes in St. Louis, Missouri, have acquired an iconic status as embodying the worst traits of public housing in the U…
Informal Economy
People create employment opportunities for themselves that put them on the margins of the regular paid economy in a variety of cultural settings. Though often viewed as a stop‐gap strategy or last resort for unemployable people, the informal economy can also involve people who have a place in the regular economy and are searching for means to supplement their otherwise insufficient salaries.
Corporately Sponsored Redevelopment Campaigns and the Demographic Stability of Urban Neighborhoods
Much popular speculation and scientific thinking continues to hold that inner-city neighborhoods cannot be redeveloped in a manner that is congenial to a broad array of interests and people. Lower income and minority citizens are not supposed to find a permanent place in redeveloped neighborhoods, especially, perhaps, when the rebuilding process is influenced strongly by corporations with a stake in the area being rehabilitated. This reassessment…
The Company Town
This survey of American industrial towns has three major strengths. First, it is well written and summarizes the histories of past and present industrial towns nicely. (It helps that Hardy Green has a doctorate in history and a lot of practice at writing for nonhistorians.) Second, the author does a good job of showing how nineteenth-century attempts to marry town building with particular industries or companies evolved in the twentieth century i…
Expanding Entrepreneurship
Research on immigrant entrepreneurs in the United States has focused on small businesses in the retail and food service sectors rather than on high-technology start ups. Scholarship on women and immigrants in the U.S. science and technology workforce has focused on academia rather than scientists in industry. This article aims to bridge the gaps in these two literatures by examining the role of women and immigrants in founding science-based biote…
Building Ventures through Civic Capitalism
An exploratory study of urban entrepreneurs participating in a technical assistance program finds that they focus on the bottom line and often have an explicit wish to improve their community. This integrated combination of economic and social values, a kind of civic-minded capitalism, guides their positioning for growth and yields a business that can best be called a “civic enterprise.” A descriptive analysis of qualitative and quantitative rese…
Private Lives and Public Worlds
The tension between one's private life and larger public obligations has been the subject of much speculation, captured powerfully in works as diverse as those of Alexis de Tocqueville and Robert Putnam. This matter is explored to an extent not previously undertaken in a study of Americans' interpersonal ties and civic attachments at the end of the 20th century. Evidence from the GSS for 1974, 1984, and 1994 suggests that a person's gender, race,…
Books in review
The American City
Journal Article The American City: A Social and Cultural History. By Daniel J. Monti Jr. (Malden: Blackwell, 1999. viii, 391 pp. Cloth, $62.95, ISBN 155786-917-0. Paper, $26.95, ISBN 1-55786918-9.) Get access John C. Schneider John C. Schneider Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1537–1538, https://doi.o…
Why Cities Still Matter
The American City
Corporately Sponsored Redevelopment Campaigns and the Social Stability of Urban Neighborhoods
Much popular speculation and scientific thinking hold that inner-city neighborhoods cannot be redeveloped in a manner that is congenial to a broad array of interests and people. Lower income and minority citizens are not supposed to find a permanent place in redeveloped neighborhoods, particularly when the rebuilding process is influenced strongly by corporations with a stake in the area being rehabilitated. This restudy of five neighborhoods in …
In the Line of Fire
Drawing upon their research in the most extensive study to date, the authors here describe the means and methods of gun-related violence among urban youth. Using data collected from juvenile male inmates and male students in inner-city high schools, Sheley and Wright focus on the number, type, and method of acquisition of firearms, as well as the varying reasons given for carrying arms. The book concludes by challenging some stereotypes, and urgi…
Ethnic economies, affirmative action, and mining cultural capital
Wannabe
In the Black
The ongoing desegregation effort involving city and suburban school districts in the St. Louis metropolitan area has been widely hailed as an ambitious and largely successful undertaking. A much different picture emerges in this study of the financial and political dialogue affecting programs introduced to city schools. The value of programs has been overstated, and much more attention has been paid to showcase integrated schools than to schools …
Wannabe
Foreword: Edwin J Delattre. 1. Introductions. 2. Gangs in the World of Children. 3. Coming of Age. 4. Going Along with the Program. 5. Learning to Ride a Bicycle. Index
Gangbangs and Drive-bys
This study, based on quantitative and qualitative data gathered over a twelve-year period, takes its title from the two predominant styles of gang violence: drive-bys, which have replaced rumbles as the primary form of gang violence; and gang-bangs--a generic term for other gang violence that includes assaults, knifings, and beatings. The author attempts to understand the situations in which a young man would drive up to another human being and, …
Bad Guys and Good Guys
Moral Judgments and Crime: An Overview Offenders as Bad Guys Offenders as Good Guys Bad Groups and Good Groups Victims as Good and Bad Guys Processes of Polarization Approaches to Nonpolarization
Gangs
Corporately Sponsored Redevelopment Campaigns and the Social Stability of Urban Neighborhoods
Much popular speculation and scientific thinking hold that inner-city neighborhoods cannot be redeveloped in a manner that is congenial to a broad array of interests and people. Lower income and minority citizens are not supposed to find a permanent place in redeveloped neighborhoods, particularly when the rebuilding process is influenced strongly by corporations with a stake in the area being rehabilitated. This restudy of five neighborhoods in …
St. Louis’s “urban prairie”
As part of a larger project to understand the relative health and disorder of St. Louis City neighborhoods, this paper presents estimates of the number of vacant parcels in the city. These estimates, which are considerably higher than previously published ones, are heavily concentrated in the city's disinvested and segregated North side. We term this heavy concentration of vacancy as "urban prairie". After accounting for other factors as well as …
Private Lives and Public Worlds
The tension between one's private life and larger public obligations has been the subject of much speculation, captured powerfully in works as diverse as those of Alexis de Tocqueville and Robert Putnam. This matter is explored to an extent not previously undertaken in a study of Americans' interpersonal ties and civic attachments at the end of the 20th century. Evidence from the GSS for 1974, 1984, and 1994 suggests that a person's gender, race,…
Legend, Science, and Citizenship in the Rebuilding of Urban America
Contemporary theories of urban redevelopment are compared to traditional folk legends about cities and corporate beneficence. The generally negative portrayal of corporations and their role in rebuilding parts of cities has strong parallels in legends that paint corporations as uncaring profit mongers and unresponsive citizens. There is an equally strong folk tradition, however, that has corporations behaving in a self-interested but responsive w…
On the risks and rewards of ?going native
The Organizational Strengths and Weaknesses of Resident-Managed Public Housing Sites in the United States
The federal government has initiated an effort to encourage public housing residents to manage and own their developments. Notwithstanding the public attention resident management has received, there has been little research dealing with this subject. Reviewed in this article are the experiences of 11 developments that have resident management or whose residents would like to have it. Four major findings are discussed: (1) good housing authority …
The Company Town
This survey of American industrial towns has three major strengths. First, it is well written and summarizes the histories of past and present industrial towns nicely. (It helps that Hardy Green has a doctorate in history and a lot of practice at writing for nonhistorians.) Second, the author does a good job of showing how nineteenth-century attempts to marry town building with particular industries or companies evolved in the twentieth century i…
Building Ventures through Civic Capitalism
An exploratory study of urban entrepreneurs participating in a technical assistance program finds that they focus on the bottom line and often have an explicit wish to improve their community. This integrated combination of economic and social values, a kind of civic-minded capitalism, guides their positioning for growth and yields a business that can best be called a “civic enterprise.” A descriptive analysis of qualitative and quantitative rese…
The culture of gangs in the culture of the school
Corporately Sponsored Redevelopment Campaigns and the Demographic Stability of Urban Neighborhoods
Much popular speculation and scientific thinking continues to hold that inner-city neighborhoods cannot be redeveloped in a manner that is congenial to a broad array of interests and people. Lower income and minority citizens are not supposed to find a permanent place in redeveloped neighborhoods, especially, perhaps, when the rebuilding process is influenced strongly by corporations with a stake in the area being rehabilitated. This reassessment…
A Semblance of Justice
Journal Article A Semblance of Justice: St. Louis School Desegregation and Order in Urban America. By Daniel J. Monti. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1985. xv + 221 pp. $24.00.) and The Burden of Busing: The Politics of Desegregation in Nashville, Tennessee. By Richard A. Pride and J. David Woodard. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985. xiii + 302 pp. $24.95.) Get access Robert L. Harris, Jr Robert L. Harris, Jr Cornell Unive…
Administrative Foxes in Educational Chicken Coops
Recent arguments against the use of the courts as a route for fashioning and implementing complex school desegregation plans are evaluated in light of the experiences of one district where the courts and federal government did not assume an active role. The political consequences of nonenforcement are explored as are the methods employed by school officials to maintain their control over educational policy‐making. On the basis of this evidence, t…
Patterns of Conflict Preceding the 1964 Riots
Data on racial controversies involving New York's black and Puerto Rican population between 1960 and July 1964 were obtained from an analysis of New York Times articles. These data deal with “events” or exchanges between representatives of the city's minority populations and public officials or nonminority actors. An analysis of these exchanges for the four and one-half year period preceding the July riots reveals that violence followed unsuccess…
In the Black
The ongoing desegregation effort involving city and suburban school districts in the St. Louis metropolitan area has been widely hailed as an ambitious and largely successful undertaking. A much different picture emerges in this study of the financial and political dialogue affecting programs introduced to city schools. The value of programs has been overstated, and much more attention has been paid to showcase integrated schools than to schools …
Urban Housing Segregation of Minorities in Western Europe and the United States
The relation between terrorism and domestic civil disorders
Students of civil disorder in the United States look to such events for signs of an incipient tradition in the growth of urban terrorism, but the relation between these two forms of collective violence remains unclear. By examining the evolution of civil violence in New York City for nearly three hundred years, one gains a better grasp of the historically conservative nature of collective violence in this country and the conditions under which it…
Implementing Desegregation Plans
The Strategy of Social Protest
Implementing Desegregation Plans
Patterns of Conflict Preceding the 1964 Riots
Data on racial controversies involving New York's black and Puerto Rican population between 1960 and July 1964 were obtained from an analysis of New York Times articles. These data deal with “events” or exchanges between representatives of the city's minority populations and public officials or nonminority actors. An analysis of these exchanges for the four and one-half year period preceding the July riots reveals that violence followed unsuccess…
Biased and Unbiased News
The merits of two competing views of newspaper bias are evaluated using the New York Times' coverage of racial controversies in New York City between 1960 and July 1964. The idea that the news is biased receives only limited support. Minority actors were not prohibited successfully from presenting their case to the public, were seen as initiating a variety of actions and received similar placement in the paper for their activities as more powerfu…
The relation between terrorism and domestic civil disorders
Students of civil disorder in the United States look to such events for signs of an incipient tradition in the growth of urban terrorism, but the relation between these two forms of collective violence remains unclear. By examining the evolution of civil violence in New York City for nearly three hundred years, one gains a better grasp of the historically conservative nature of collective violence in this country and the conditions under which it…
Administrative Foxes in Educational Chicken Coops
Recent arguments against the use of the courts as a route for fashioning and implementing complex school desegregation plans are evaluated in light of the experiences of one district where the courts and federal government did not assume an active role. The political consequences of nonenforcement are explored as are the methods employed by school officials to maintain their control over educational policy‐making. On the basis of this evidence, t…
The Territorial Experience
Impact of Desegregation
The Growth Dilemma
A Semblance of Justice
A Semblance of Justice
Journal Article A Semblance of Justice: St. Louis School Desegregation and Order in Urban America. By Daniel J. Monti. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1985. xv + 221 pp. $24.00.) and The Burden of Busing: The Politics of Desegregation in Nashville, Tennessee. By Richard A. Pride and J. David Woodard. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985. xiii + 302 pp. $24.95.) Get access Robert L. Harris, Jr Robert L. Harris, Jr Cornell Unive…
A Semblance of Justice
A Semblance of Justice
Shifting the Debate
The Organizational Strengths and Weaknesses of Resident-Managed Public Housing Sites in the United States
The federal government has initiated an effort to encourage public housing residents to manage and own their developments. Notwithstanding the public attention resident management has received, there has been little research dealing with this subject. Reviewed in this article are the experiences of 11 developments that have resident management or whose residents would like to have it. Four major findings are discussed: (1) good housing authority …
Housing and Neighborhoods
Research in Social Policy
Race, Redevelopment, and the New Company Town
The Carrot or the Stick for School Desegregation Policy
The Informational City
Urban Housing Segregation of Minorities in Western Europe and the United States
On the risks and rewards of ?going native
Legend, Science, and Citizenship in the Rebuilding of Urban America
Contemporary theories of urban redevelopment are compared to traditional folk legends about cities and corporate beneficence. The generally negative portrayal of corporations and their role in rebuilding parts of cities has strong parallels in legends that paint corporations as uncaring profit mongers and unresponsive citizens. There is an equally strong folk tradition, however, that has corporations behaving in a self-interested but responsive w…
Corporate Reinvestments in Cities and the Redemptive Power of Money and Citizenship
Corporate and institutional actors in cities have the capacity to promote the public good. Many theorists have overlooked the positive accomplishments of powerful individuals and institutions in the development process. As a result, visions of the city are limited and often inaccurate
The culture of gangs in the culture of the school
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