Making Livable Places explores the history and politics of the issues and places that shape Boise's metropolitan growth.

Making Livable Places: Transportation, Preservation and the Limits of Growth

Arts & Photography

Rediscovered Books

Growing Closer: Density and Sprawl in the Boise Valley

Politics & Social Sciences

Burke, Larry

Social Sciences

River by Design marks 100 years since the Boise River emerged as an engineering sensation with the dedication of Arrowrock Dam. Sequenced like a tour with stops in Boise, Garden City, Eagle, Caldwell, and Parma, these essays collectively search for the politics and cultural values that drive engineering design.

River by Design: Essays on the Boise River, 1915-2015 (Deluxe Edition)

History

Americas

River by Design marks 100 years since the Boise River emerged as an engineering sensation with the dedication of Arrowrock Dam. Sequenced like a tour with stops in Boise, Garden City, Eagle, Caldwell, and Parma, these essays collectively search for the politics and cultural values that drive engineering design.

River by Design: Essays on the Boise River, 1915-2015 (Standard Edition)

Fallen angels in the bawdy houses. Migrants barred from Main Street. Homesteaders driven from homesteads when August rained black storms of dust. The Other Idahoans recovers their hard-luck stories. Volume 7 of Boise State University's prizewinning research series, the book closes with a driving tour of storied places from history's underside.

The Other Idahoans - Regular

Shallat, Todd

Nearly 1 out of every 100 people worldwide is a person displaced and seeking asylum, imperiled by persecution and war. Half the World takes measure of that staggering crisis in stories from a city transformed.
Compelling. Anyone who wants to understand the people we label 'refugees' must read this book." - Jan Reeves, director, Idaho Office for Refugees
"Magnificent. The stories inspire equal parts joy and heartbreak. They are essential reading, and are now as much a part of Idaho's history as any other chronicle." - George Prentice, news editor, the Boise Weekly

Half the World: Refugees Transform the City of Trees (Investigate Boise Community Research)

Nearly one out of every 100 people worldwide is a displaced person seeking asylum, imperiled by famine and war. Half the World takes measure of that staggering crisis in stories from a city transformed. A study of courage and contest over fundamental humanitarian values, the book is volume 8 in a prize-winning Boise State University series about the urban-rural dynamics of metropolitan growth.

Half the World: Refugees Transform the City of Trees (Investigat Boise Community Research)

Boise has it. If you're a kid it's a fun place to visit and a great place to live. A Kid's Guide to Boise helps you find whatever it is that you like to do. It's full of tips about fun food, where to play, and what you can discover. If you've just got a few days in town, check out the sample tours. If you live here, create your own bucket list of things to do whenever you have time. You'll become an expert on what to see and where to go and what your friends don't know about Boise.

A Kid's Guide to Boise

Children's Books

JUST, RICK

Geography & Cultures

Jimmy is a fictional character and his story is based on what a young child might experience as he navigates his family's journey leaving an abusive situation and coming to the WCA (Women and Children's Alliance). It was written by the WCA's Communications Manager, Christine Campbell with input from the WCA's programs staff--specifically one of our clinicians who works with children and utilizes play therapy techniques.

Seeds of Hope

Campbell, Christine

Growing Up & Facts of Life

The Boise Guide by Vardis Fisher is finally making its way to the public eye after sitting forgotten for 80 years in a Library of Congress storage box.Originally completed for the Federal Writers' Project in 1939, the manuscript was never published. But it is now presented as Fisher intended it-with additional pictures and an introduction by Alessandro Meregaglia, the archivist who discovered it after following a trail of vague references and footnotes. Fisher, with his characteristic biting wit and keen observation, allows us a glimpse of Boise in the last days of the Great Depression- a snapshot of our past through the eyes of a beloved Idaho author.

Vardis Fisher's Boise

Fisher, Vardis

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