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No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing Waverly Duck 9780226298061
RRP: $50.40$48.36In 2005 Waverly Duck was called to a town he calls Bristol Hill to serve as an expert witness in the sentencing of drug dealer Jonathan Wilson. Convicted as an accessory to the murder of a federal witness and that of a fellow drug dealer, Jonathan faced... -
Brooklyn Tides: The Fall and Rise of a Global Borough by Benjamin Heim Shepard
RRP: $71.38$58.82Brooklyn has all the features of a "global borough" it is a base of immigrant labor and ethnically diverse communities, social and cultural capital, global transportation, cultural production, and policy innovation. At once a model of... -
Service Encounters: Class, Gender, and the Market for Social Distinction in Urban China by Amy Hanser
RRP: $182.70$158.61This lively study explores how social and economic changes to Chinese society create new cultural values and forms of inequality. Amy Hanser examines changes to a particular set of jobs-service work, in this case salesclerk work-and the nature of the... -
Rachel And Her Children by Jonathan Kozol
RRP: $35.68$25.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307345899Author Jonathan KozolFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
No Place Like Home: Wealth, Community and the Politics of Homeownership by Brian J. McCabe
$54.10In the decade following the housing crisis, Americans remain enthusiastic about the prospect of owning a home. Homeownership is a symbol of status attainment in the United States, and for many Americans, buying a home is the most important financial... -
Public Istanbul: Spaces and Spheres of the Urban by Frank Eckardt
RRP: $79.78$65.48Istanbul is one of the largest and most dynamic metropolises on the European continent. In the context of processes of globalization and local urban planning projects urban space is continously contested. In this anthology forms, meanings and images of... -
Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy by Nicholas Dagen Bloom
RRP: $50.38$43.76Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common... -
Port Cities as Areas of Transition: Ethnographic Perspectives by Waltraud Kokot
RRP: $58.78$47.48In the past decades, international port cities have been strongly affected by global transformation processes, dramatically altering life and work around the ports, the built environment and public imagery of urban waterfronts. Based on recent theories... -
Negotiating Urban Conflicts: Interaction, Space and Control by Helmuth Berking
RRP: $67.20$55.52Cities have always been arenas of social and symbolic conflict. As places of encounter between different classes, ethnic groups, and lifestyles, cities play the role of powerful integrators; yet on the other hand urban contexts are the ideal setting for... -
Respectability on Trial: Sex Crimes in New York City, 1900-1918 by Brian Donovan
$61.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438461946Author Brian DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press -
How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles by Paul Lichterman
RRP: $63.00$57.52The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework for studying collective actionHow Civic Action Works renews the tradition of inquiry into collective, social... -
Delirious Naples: A Cultural History of the City of the Sun by Pellegrino D'Acierno
RRP: $65.10$57.46This book is addressed to "lovers of paradoxes" and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the... -
Gangs in the Global City: Alternatives to Traditional Criminology by John M. Hagedorn
RRP: $50.38$43.76Although they were originally considered an American phenomenon, gangs today have grown and transformed into global enterprises. Despite these changes, criminologists have not yet reassessed worldwide gangs in terms of the other changes associated with... -
Transforming Urban Transport by Diane E. Davis
RRP: $69.28$55.23Transforming Urban Transport brings into focus the origins and implementation pathways of significant urban transport innovations that have recently been adopted in major, democratically governed world cities that are seeking to advance sustainability... -
Thick Space: Approaches to Metropolitanism by Dorothee Brantz
RRP: $86.08$71.32Could the concepts of "metropolitanism" and "thick space" aid our understanding of historical and contemporary urban change? Essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide interdisciplinary approaches to the complex... -
Advancing Equity Planning Now by Norman Krumholz
RRP: $52.48$45.51What can planners do to restore equity to their craft? Drawing upon the perspectives of a diverse group of planning experts, Advancing Equity Planning Now places the concepts of fairness and equal access squarely in the center of planning research and... -
White Flight/Black Flight: The Dynamics of Racial Change in an American Neighborhood by Rachael A. Woldoff
RRP: $54.58$47.23Urban residential integration is often fleeting-a brief snapshot that belies a complex process of racial turnover in many U.S. cities. White Flight/Black Flight takes readers inside a neighborhood that has shifted rapidly and dramatically in race... -
Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History by Michael B. Katz
RRP: $73.50$58.25"There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them," acknowledges Michael Katz, in expressing the tensions between activism and scholarship. But this major historian of urban poverty realizes that the pain in... -
Squatting in Rio de Janeiro: Constructing Citizenship and Gender from Below by Bea Wittger
RRP: $94.48$77.15The Brazilian Constitution provides a remarkable set of social rights, including the right to housing. Despite this fact, struggles for decent living conditions have become key issues in the daily urban lives of many people in Brazil. Contesting the... -
Urban Transformations in the U.S.A.: Spaces, Communities, Representations by Julia Sattler
RRP: $94.48$77.99How did American cities change throughout the 20th and early 21st century? This timely publication integrates research from American Literary and Cultural Studies, Urban Studies and History. The essays range from negotiations of the "ethnic... -
Authentic New Orleans: Tourism, Culture, and Race in the Big Easy by Kevin Fox Gotham
RRP: $147.00$126.65Honorable Mention for the 2008 Robert Park Outstanding Book Award given by the ASA's Community and Urban Sociology Section Mardi Gras, jazz, voodoo, gumbo, Bourbon Street, the French Quarter-all evoke that place that is unlike any other: New Orleans. In... -
Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics by Laura Kurgan
RRP: $52.50$39.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942130789Author Laura KurganFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 186mm * 17mm -
Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
RRP: $31.48$23.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780679781424Author Piri ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher... -
Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World by Robert Neuwirth
RRP: $100.78$87.80In almost every country of the developing world, the most active builders are squatters, creating complex local economies with high rises, shopping strips, banks, and self-government. As they invent new social structures, Neuwirth argues, squatters are... -
China's Urban Transition by John Friedmann 9780816646159
RRP: $31.48$28.16Though China's urban history reaches back over five thousand years, it is only in the last quarter century that urbanization has emerged as a force of widespread social transformation while a massive population shift from country to city has brought... -
A Woman Like Her by Marc Levy
$20.81An unexpected love story from Marc Levy, international bestselling author of The Last of the Stanfields, and the most widely read French author in the world. It's been five years since fate upended resilient Chloe Bronstein's world. While she may be... -
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond 9780553447453
RRP: $39.88$23.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award 2017 and Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2017 and Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award... -
Urban Theory: A critical introduction to power, cities and urbanism in the 21st century by Alan Harding
RRP: $83.98$68.59What is Urban Theory? How can it be used to understand our urban experiences? Experiences typically defined by enormous inequalities, not just between cities but within cities, in an increasingly interconnected and globalised world. This book explains: ... -
Undoing Optimization: Civic Action in Smart Cities by Alison B Powell
RRP: $57.75$57.39A unique examination of the civic use, regulation, and politics of communication and data technologies City life has been reconfigured by our use-and our expectations-of communication, data, and sensing technologies. In this book Alison Powell examines... -
The Black Agenda by Glen Ford
RRP: $33.58$23.18Black politics are key to recognizing the most important social dynamics of the United States. Over the past forty years, no commentator has been as deeply insightful about the paradoxes and personalities of Black American public life as the journalist... -
Last Project Standing: Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago by Catherine Fennell
RRP: $44.08$39.94In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago's Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Horner housing complex ushered in the most ambitious urban housing experiment of its kind: smaller,... -
Understanding Crime and Place: A Methods Handbook by Elizabeth R. Groff 9781439920664
RRP: $260.40$224.78Place has become both a major field of criminological study as well as an important area for policy development. Capturing state of the art crime and place research methods and analysis, Understanding Crime and Place is a comprehensive Handbook focused... -
Major Infrastructure Planning and Delivery: Exploring Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (Nsips) in England and Wales by Ben Clifford 9781800085244
RRP: $63.00$56.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085244Author Ben CliffordFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 610gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 22mm -
The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida
RRP: $37.78$26.69In his modern classic The Rise of the Creative Class, urbanist Richard Florida identifies the emergence of a new social class that is reshaping the twenty-first century's economy, geography, and workplace. This Creative Class is made up of... -
The Creative Underclass: Youth, Race, and the Gentrifying City by Tyler Denmead
RRP: $41.98$36.83As an undergraduate at Brown University, Tyler Denmead founded New Urban Arts, a nationally recognized arts and humanities program primarily for young people of color in Providence, Rhode Island. Along with its positive impact, New Urban Arts, under his... -
Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global Ananya Roy (University of California, Berkeley, USA) 9781405192767
RRP: $41.98$37.15Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of... -
Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy by Forrest Stuart
RRP: $29.38$21.19How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurismAmid increasing hardship and limited employment options, poor urban youth are... -
The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast by Heather Hamill 9780691180687
RRP: $52.50$41.14A distinctive feature of the conflict in Northern Ireland over the past forty years has been the way Catholic and Protestant paramilitaries have policed their own communities. This has mainly involved the violent punishment of petty criminals involved in... -
City Living: How Urban Spaces and Urban Dwellers Make One Another by Quill R Kukla
RRP: $66.13$57.92City Living is about urban spaces, urban dwellers, and how these spaces and people make, shape, and change one another. More people live in cities than ever before: more than 50% of the earth's people are urban dwellers. As downtown cores gentrify and... -
Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War by Andrew Lee 9781849355247
RRP: $29.40$19.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849355247Author Andrew LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 20mm