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  Boston Demographics  
   
  Barry Bluestone and Mary Huff Stevenson, The Boston Renaissance: Race, Space and Economic Change in an American Metropolis
Russell Sage Foundation, 2000
 
   
  Boston Redevelopment Authority:
www.ci.boston.ma.us/bra
 
   
  Boston Redevelopment Authority, Boston's Population - 2000 1. Changes in Population, Race, and Ethnicity in Boston and Boston's NeighborhoodsÐ 1980 TO 2000
Report #541, March 2001
 
   
  Boston Redevelopment Authority, Boston's Population Doubles Every Day
Insight Report, December 1996
 
   
  Boston Redevelopment Authority, Facts and Figures About Boston's Neighborhoods: 16 Neighborhoods and 69 Neighborhood Statistical Areas - A Comprehensive Guide to Population, Income, Housing and Job Statistics From the Census February 1995  
   
  The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth, and the Center for Labor Market Studies of Northeastern University, The Story of Household Incomes in the 1990s
March 2001
 
   
  Vision and Visibility  
   
  Berger, John. Ways of Seeing.
London: Penguin Books, 1972.
 
   
  Wodiczko, Krzysztof. Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects, Interviews.
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1999.
 
   
  The Media  
   
  Gilens, Martin. Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

 
   
  Johnson, Kirk. "Black and White in Boston,"
Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 1987, pp. 50-51.

 
   
  Nichols, John and Robert McChesney. It's the Media Stupid.
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000.

 
   
  Ryan, Charlotte. Prime Time Activism: Media Strategies for Grassroots Organizing.
Boston: South End Press, 1991

 
   
  Williams, Lucy. "Race, Rat Bites and Unfit Mothers: How Media Discourse Informs Welfare Legislation Debate,"
Fordham Urban Law Journal, Vol. XXII, 1995, pp. 1159-1196.

 
   
  Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting:
www.FAIR.org

 
   
  Mediachannel:
www.mediachannel.org

 
   
  Democratic Potential of Technology  
   
  Drew, Jessie. "Media Activism and Radical Democracy,"
in Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information, ed. James Brook and Iain Boal, San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1995, pp. 71-84.

 
   
  The Loka Institute, a nonprofit "dedicated to making research, science, and technology responsive to democratically decided social and environmental concerns":
www.loka.org

 
   
  Central Square Conversations:
web.mit.edu/gsb/www

 
   
  Zapatistas and the Internet:
www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/cleaver/zapsincyber.html

 
   
  MIT's Center for Reflective Community Practices explores the relationship between technology and community building:
web.mit.edu/crcp

 
   
  The History of Technology  
   
  Winston, Brian. Media Technology and Society. A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet.
New York: Routledge, 1998.

 
   
  Housing  
   
  Michael Stone, Shelter Poverty: New Ideas on Housing Affordability
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993
 
   
  Center for Social Policy, McCormack Institute of Public Affairs, University of Massachusetts Boston, Situation Critical: Meeting the Housing Needs of Lower-Income Massachusetts Residents
2000
 
   
  Boston Tenant Coalition, Turning New Growth Into Affordable Housing: A Plan to Create 10,000 Affordable Homes in Boston by 2005
April 2000
 
   
  Center for Urban and Regional Policy, Northeastern University, A New Paradigm for Housing in Greater Boston
September 2000
 
   
  The Urban Artist Alliance is working to create affordable housing and studio spaces for artists throughout Boston. For more information, contact Shannon: 617-423-3651  
   
  "A New Paradigm for Housing in Greater Boston" is posted on the Web site of Northeastern University's Center for Regional and Urban Policy: www.curp.neu.edu

 
   
  For a discussion of the housing crisis in San Francisco, see "The Housing Project": sf.indymedia.org

 
   
  For more information about an art project addressing housing in New York City, see: If You Lived Here: The City in Art, Theory, and Social Activism. A Project by Martha Rosler. ed. Brian Wallis. Seattle: Bay Press, 1991.

 
   
  Community Building  
   
  Gardner, Howard. Leading Minds: Anatomy of Leadership.
New York: Basic Books, 1995.
 
   
  Garland, Anne Witte. Women Activists: Challenging the Abuse of Power.
New York: The Feminist Press, 1988.
 
   
  Medoff, Peter, and Holly Sklar. Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood.
Boston: South End Press, 1994.
 
   
  Shaw, Randy. The Activist's Handbook: A Primer for the 1990's and Beyond.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
 
   
  Collaborative Work and Art  
   
  Felshin, Nina, ed. But Is It Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism.
Seattle: Bay Press, 1995
 
   
  Gomez-Pena, Guillermo. "From Art-Mageddon to Gringostroika: A Manifesto Against Censorship,"
in Suzanne Lacy, ed. Mapping the New Terrain: New Genre Public Art.
 
   
  2001 copyright  
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