Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs. These suburbs are often missing basic transportation, and strategies to address this are lacking. This absence of public transit creates barriers to viable employment and accessibility to cultural networks, and plays a role in increasing social inequality. This book investigates how housing and transport policy have played their role in creating these "Transit Deserts," and what impact race has upon those likely to be affected. Diane Jones Allen uses research from New Orleans, Baltimore, and Chicago to explore the forces at work in these situations, as well as proposing potential solutions. Mapping, interviews, photographs, and narratives all come together to highlight the inequities and challenges in Transit Deserts, where a lack of access can make all journeys, such as to jobs, stores, or relatives, much more difficult. Alternatives to public transit abound, from traditional methods such as biking and carpooling to more culturally specific tactics, and are examined comprehensively. This is valuable reading for students and researchers interested in transport planning, urban planning, city infrastructure, and transport geography.

Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs. These suburbs are often missing basic transportation, and strategies to address this are lacking. This absence of public transit creates barriers to viable employment and accessibility to cultural networks, and plays a role in increasing social inequality. This book investigates how housing and transport policy have played their role in creating these "Transit Deserts," and what impact race has upon those likely to be affected. Diane Jones Allen uses research from New Orleans, Baltimore, and Chicago to explore the forces at work in these situations, as well as proposing potential solutions. Mapping, interviews, photographs, and narratives all come together to highlight the inequities and challenges in Transit Deserts, where a lack of access can make all journeys, such as to jobs, stores, or relatives, much more difficult. Alternatives to public transit abound, from traditional methods such as biking and carpooling to more culturally specific tactics, and are examined comprehensively. This is valuable reading for students and researchers interested in transport planning, urban planning, city infrastructure, and transport geography.

How can we design places that fulfill urgent needs of the community, achieve environmental justice, and inspire long-term stewardship? By bringing community members to the table, we open up the possibility of exchanging ideas meaningfully and transforming places powerfully. Collaboration like this is hands-on democracy in action. It's up close. It's personal. For decades, participatory design practices have helped enliven neighborhoods and promote cultural understanding. Yet, many designers still rely on the same techniques that were developed in the 1950s and 60s. These approaches offer predictability, but hold waning promise for addressing current and future design challenges. Design as Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity is written to reinvigorate democratic design, providing inspiration, techniques, and case stories for a wide range of contexts. Edited by six leading practitioners and academics in the field of participatory design, with nearly 50 contributors from around the world, Design as Democracy shows how to design with communities in empowering and effective ways. The flow of the book's nine chapters reflects the general progression of community design process, while also encouraging readers to search for ways that best serve their distinct needs and the culture and geography of diverse places. Each chapter presents a series of techniques around a theme, from approaching the initial stages of a project, to getting to know a community, to provoking political change through strategic thinking. Readers may approach the book as they would a cookbook, with recipes open to improvisation, adaptation, and being created anew. Design as Democracy offers fresh insights for creating meaningful dialogue between designers and communities and for transforming places with justice and democracy in mind.

Robert Frost said, A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom, but like a birth, some poems begin in pain before the delight arrives. Such are the poems in this simple collection by Diane C. Jones. Her delicate words reflect the fragile path she has walked since the loss of her son and capture the pain, the beginning of hope, and the surrender to comfort that she has experienced with a startling clarity.

In this very exciting book of short stories and poetry, the author, Diane Jones-Norris, shares her heart for people in her writings. This book is a book of encouragement to those who may have made some bad turns in the road of life. She lets the reader know that it's not too late to turn your life around. Her wit and honesty will capture your attention as you anxiously read to see what happens next. The 21 vibrant short stories and poems are about the many roads we travel through life; they will enlighten you and cause you to hunger for more.

Millions of people are sexually abused each and every day. Not just by rapist, child molesters or pedophiles, but by choice and through life style preferences. Who would enjoy being raped again and again? Why is rape spiritual as well as physical? Can a sex offender be healed, delivered from abusing others? Find answers to these questions and many others in these pages This book is a sequel to my first book "The Story of Me." I wrote my very personal story eight years ago and had it published six years later. It told of my pain, struggle and victory over the sexual abuse that occurred in my child hood. Since the release of that book, I have been persecuted, shunned, educated, strengthened and supported in ways that only better prepared me for ministry to others in this arena. This book is more of a "how to" manual, how to recognize, relate to, categorize and be delivered from the effects of sexual abuse in your life. Although I outline the process and the steps involved in getting free from the vicious cycle of abuse, my intent is still not to advise but mainly to let you know, what the process is and that there is a process. My advice would be that you seek the Lord about your specific experiences and your specific needs. My prayer is that this outline will aid you in your process. To God be the glory for all he has done for me

In this very exciting book of short stories and poetry, the author, Diane Jones-Norris, shares her heart for people in her writings. This book is a book of encouragement to those who may have made some bad turns in the road of life. She lets the reader know that it's not too late to turn your life around. Her wit and honesty will capture your attention as you anxiously read to see what happens next. The 21 vibrant short stories and poems are about the many roads we travel through life; they will enlighten you and cause you to hunger for more.

This narrative is about the personal struggles of being a Black Woman and being a Black Professional in a society that is still bound with racial and gender bias.

Her stories navigate you through the career of a young woman who has hopes, dreams, needs, a purpose and aspirations but she faces constant opposition to fulfilling and attaining these basic human requirements.

Like so many people of color before her, she achieves a certain measure of success but the measure of success is minor compared to what she must do to achieve it.

It is a reflection of the despair she was feeling when she wrote it but does not fully reveal the appreciation, compassion and love that she has for mankind.

It is time for a change!

Jones shows that life isn't easy for anyone who's been abused. She also shows that anything is possible to overcome if one has faith, believes in oneself, has strength, and a positive attitude to forgive those that hurt them.