New Village Press was established in 2005. Since then they have focused on publishing transdisciplinary books in urban sociology, community cultural development, and healthy city design. Most of their books are actively focused on community building and change making. Some of the books they publish are academic, and others are aimed at a general audience. They particularly like to publish books that “go beyond abstract policy and polemics to present the human motivations and nitty-gritty work for making a certain part of the world a better place.” You can get a good feeling for what they’ve recently published here.
New Village press is a 502c3 nonprofit corporation. They are based in New York City, their books are distributed by New York University Press.
New Village expects prospectuses rather than manuscripts. You can read their full guidelines here.
They don’t outline what they need in the query, but I would focus on taking their advice for the proposal, and focus on conveying three points related to that in the query letter. To learn more, please visit their website here.
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