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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro 9780394720241
$41.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Francis Parkman Prize 1975 and Pulitzer Prize 1975.Book InformationISBN 9780394720241Author Robert A. CaroFormat PaperbackPage Count 1344Imprint Random House USA... -
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis by Nick Bano 9781804293874
RRP: $35.68$29.61Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason. Homes are smaller every year, and nearly 20 per cent of... -
Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World by Thomas Heatherwick 9780241389799
RRP: $33.58$24.38From one of the world's most imaginative designers comes a story about humanity told through the lens of our buildings.'This book is a super-accessible guide as to why we shouldn't put up with soulless buildings and how we might change that' GRAYSON... -
The Rentier City: Making Modern Manchester by Isaac Rose 9781915672186
RRP: $31.48$20.58How did Manchester became the poster-child of neoliberal urbanisation, and what can the people that live there do about it? As the crane capital of Europe, Manchester's transformation since the financial crisis has been profound. Capital has flooded... -
Africa Is Not A Country: Breaking Stereotypes of Modern Africa by Dipo Faloyin
RRP: $23.08$16.32A bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story.'Warm, funny, biting and essential reading.' Adam Rutherford'An exhilarating journey through the myths, misconceptions and stereotypes of... -
Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies by Leslie Kern
RRP: $31.48$26.36What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or of economic opportunity? Who does it affect the most? Is there any way to combat it? Leslie Kern, author... -
How to Turn a Place Around: A Placemaking Handbook by Kathy Madden 9780692137703
$53.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692137703Author Kathy MaddenFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Project for Public Spaces, IncPublisher Project for Public Spaces, IncWeight(grams) 191g -
The Basketball Diaries: The Classic About Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets by Jim Carroll
RRP: $35.70$18.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140100181Author Jim CarrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 127mm *... -
Battle Scars: A Story of War and All That Follows by Jason Fox
RRP: $23.08$16.32___________THE EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER.'The most important book you'll ever read... Battle Scars will save lives.' TOM MARCUS, author of SOLDIER SPYBattle Scars tells the story of Jason Fox's career as an elite operator, from the gunfights,... -
Life's Too Short by Abby Jimenez 9781538715666
RRP: $37.78$22.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538715666Author Abby JimenezFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint ForeverPublisher ForeverWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 30mm -
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs 9780679644330
RRP: $38.85$31.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Sidney Hillman Prize 1961.Book InformationISBN 9780679644330Author Jane JacobsFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA... -
The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighbourhoods John McKnight 9781523002528
RRP: $44.10$29.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523002528Author John McKnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers -
Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies by Geoffrey West
RRP: $23.08$16.32Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses.Why do organisms and ecosystems scale with size in a remarkably universal and... -
Paris Isn't Dead Yet: Surviving Gentrification in the City of Light by Cole Stangler 9781908906557
RRP: $35.68$24.23French-American journalist Cole Stangler argues that the beating heart of the City of Light lies in the striving, working-class districts, where residents are now being priced out. Stangler brings the real Paris to life, combining gripping,... -
Imagine a City: A Pilot's Love Letter to the World's Greatest Cities Mark Vanhoenacker 9781529112023
RRP: $23.08$16.32A pilot's love letter to the world's greatest cities from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Skyfaring'A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energised, open to new experiences and ready to return more... -
Chinese Espresso: Contested Race and Convivial Space in Contemporary Italy by Grazia Ting Deng 9780691245799
RRP: $46.20$39.40Why and how local coffee bars in Italy—those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces—have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since the Great Recession of 2008Italians regard espresso as a quintessentially Italian cultural product—so... -
Times Square Red, Times Square Blue 20th Anniversary Edition by Samuel R. Delany 9781479827770
RRP: $41.98$36.83Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square Red, Times Square Blue, Forty-second Street, then the most... -
The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks. by Steven Johnson
RRP: $23.08$16.32From the bestselling author of Everything Bad is Good For You, Steven Johnson's The Ghost Map vividly recreates Victorian London to show how huge populations live together, how cities can kill - and how they can save us. Steven Johnson is one of today's... -
London in the Twentieth Century: A City and Its People by Jerry White 9781847924537
RRP: $52.50$37.84Jerry White's London in the Twentieth Century, Winner of the Wolfson Prize, is a masterful account of the city's most tumultuous century by its leading expert.In 1901 no other city matched London in size, wealth and grandeur. Yet it was also a city where... -
The Sociology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained Sarah Tomley 9780241182291
RRP: $41.98$32.09Learn about how we organise our society in The Sociology Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about Sociology in this overview guide to the subject,... -
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $27.28$19.09'Droll, provocative and crammed to busting with startling facts' Simon Callow, GuardianIn this powerful Sunday Times bestseller Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way - through the history and experiences of its gay population.In Roman... -
Stop Doing That Sh*t by Gary John Bishop
RRP: $31.48$20.37From the author of the New York Times and international bestseller Unfu*k Yourself Gary John Bishop presents a no-holds-barred guide to breaking through our cycles of self-sabotage to get what we want out of life. In Unfu*k Yourself, Gary John... -
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
RRP: $23.08$16.32Sudhir Venkatesh the young sociologist who became famous in Freakonomics (Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?) describes his time living with the gangs on the Southside of Chicago and answers another question: what's it like to live in... -
Inclusive Urban Development in the Global South: Intersectionality, Inequalities, and Community Andrea Rigon (Associate Professor, University College London) 9780367485405
RRP: $77.68$68.31Inclusive Urban Development in the Global South emphasizes the importance of the neighbourhood in urban development planning, with case studies aimed at transforming current intervention practices towards more inclusive and just means of engagement with... -
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design by Charles Montgomery
RRP: $23.08$16.32Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city livingThis is going to be the century of the city. But what actually makes a good city? Why are some cities a joy to live in?As Charles... -
The Language of Cities by Deyan Sudjic
RRP: $23.08$16.32The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the cityWe live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century? Drawing examples from across the globe, Deyan... -
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo 9781846274510
RRP: $23.08$15.37'A Mumbai slum understood and imagined as never before in language of intense beauty' Salman Rushdie 'If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it' Barbara Ehrenreich Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai... -
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman
RRP: $31.50$27.41Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Alice Goffman spent six years living in one... -
A Dictionary of Sociology by John Scott
RRP: $29.38$21.32A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entries on the terminology, methods, concepts, and thinkers in the field, as well as from the related fields of... -
The Town Below the Ground: Edinburgh's Legendary Undgerground City by Jan-Andrew Henderson
RRP: $23.08$16.32Below Scotland's capital, hidden for almost two centuries, is a metropolis whose very existence was all but forgotten. For almost 250 years, Edinburgh was surrounded by a giant defensive wall. Unable to expand the city's boundaries, the burgeoning... -
Stories from a Fractured City Tales of Two Londons by Claire Armistead
RRP: $23.08$13.59London today is embattled as rarely before. In a city of enormous wealth, poverty is rampant. The burnt-out hulk of Grenfell Tower stands as an appalling reminder that inequality can be so acute as to be murderous. Here, Claire Armitstead has drawn... -
Istanbul by Orhan Pamuk
RRP: $23.08$15.37Istanbul, through the mind of its most celebrated writer. ** PRE-ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK **Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'A declaration of love.' Sunday Times'A fascinating read for anyone who has even the... -
Grammars of the Urban Ground by Ash Amin
RRP: $46.18$40.30The contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities. Building on Marxist, feminist, queer, and critical race... -
Settlers: Journeys Through the Food, Faith and Culture of Black African London by Jimi Famurewa
RRP: $23.08$16.32Settlers is a testament to Jimi Famurewa's love not just for his lineage, but for the culture. An incisive, intimate and profound work. - Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie and People Person As thrilling as it is touching and revealing - this... -
Big Capital: Who Is London For? by Anna Minton
RRP: $23.08$16.32The inside story of London's housing crisis, by the award-winning author of Ground ControlLondon is facing the worst housing crisis in modern times, with knock-on effects for the rest of the UK. Despite the desperate shortage of housing, tens, perhaps... -
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino
RRP: $29.38$22.91Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favourite Parisian street. "I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs", Sciolino explains as she celebrates the area's rich history and vibrant lives. While... -
Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze 9780008374990
RRP: $31.48$16.80Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year 'A literary rendering of the Top Boy generation... I cannot conjure another work which captures this... -
Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City by Richard Sennett
RRP: $31.48$23.00'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Meades, GuardianIn Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a... -
How We Lived Then: History of Everyday Life During the Second World War, A by Norman Longmate
RRP: $42.00$30.85Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold. In contrast with the thousands of books on military operations, barely any have concerned... -
Environmental Health and Housing: Issues for Public Health Jill Stewart (MIddlesex University, UK) 9781138090125
RRP: $79.78$70.10The second edition of Environmental Health and Housing has been completely updated to cover the contemporary issues in public health that have emerged in recent years. With a theory and practice approach to public health, this edition focuses more on...