In this profile of a typical white working-class community on Chicago's South side, Carr describes the response within the community to the shootings of two local teenage girls by gang members. He describes how these shootings led to profound changes in the community's relationship to crime prevention.

In this book about sanitation, readers follow the trail of trash from a household to when it gets picked up by sanitation workers. This thoughtfully illustrated book is a great way to begin the conversation about the cycle of trash and recycling. This book supports a child’s world by reinforcing positive social messages around being a good citizen of the earth.

This study reports the effects of auto traffic on street life and residential neighborhoods, evaluates efforts to manage traffic in residential neighborhoods, and proposes methods for carrying out and evaluating traffic management plans.

From the age of Thomas Jefferson to the Memphis Public Workers strike of 1968 through the present day, ideas about race-- whites are "clean" and non-whites are "dirty"-- have shaped where people have lived, where people have worked, and how American society's wastes have been managed. Zimring draws on historical evidence from statesmen, scholars, sanitarians, novelists, activists, advertisements, and the United States Census of Population to reveal changing constructions of environmental racism, focusing on constructions of race and hygiene. The bigoted idea that non-whites are "dirty" remains deeply ingrained in the national psyche, continuing to shape social and environmental inequalities.