A chronicle of neighborhood redevelopment politics in West Philadelphia over 60 yearsIn twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers increasingly celebrate university-sponsored innovation districts as engines of inclusive growth. But the story is not so simple. In University City, Laura Wolf-Powers chronicles five decades of planning in and around the communities of West Philadelphia’s University City to illuminate how the dynamics of innovation dis...

A chronicle of neighborhood redevelopment politics in West Philadelphia over 60 yearsIn twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers increasingly celebrate university-sponsored innovation districts as engines of inclusive growth. But the story is not so simple. In University City, Laura Wolf-Powers chronicles five decades of planning in and around the communities of West Philadelphia’s University City to illuminate how the dynamics of innovation dis...

She was never meant to be chosen.Nyra Solenne Ashvale has spent her life serving the Emberfall Pack from the shadows. As a healer, she mends wounds, calms broken wolves, and bows her head before the same council that disgraced her family. She knows her place. Useful, overlooked, tolerated.Then the Moon Choosing Rite changes everything.Under the full moon, the Alpha's fated mate is revealed before the entire pack.It is not the noble-born woman everyone expect...

Sable was never meant to matter to the Alpha's pack.Fen-born, overlooked, and used only when women were dying or children needed saving, she learned one rule from her mother: never mistake being needed for being wanted. But when the Luna's life and the Alpha heir's future hang by a thread, Sable opens a forbidden power buried in her bloodline and binds her own breath to save them both.Now the pack that ignored her wants to control her. The council sees a weapon. The Beta se...