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City of Extremes: The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg by Martin J. Murray 9780822347682
RRP: $58.78$50.53City of Extremes is a powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994. Martin J. Murray describes how a loose alliance of city builders-including real estate developers, large-scale property owners,... -
Learning from Shenzhen: China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City by Dr. Mary Ann O'Donnell
RRP: $65.10$63.40This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China's contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed... -
Urban Legends: The South Bronx in Representation and Ruin by Peter L'Official
RRP: $58.70$46.41A cultural history of the South Bronx that reaches beyond familiar narratives of urban ruin and renaissance, beyond the "inner city" symbol, to reveal the place and people obscured by its myths.For decades, the South Bronx was America's "inner city."... -
The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life by Elijah Anderson
RRP: $42.00$35.22Elijah Anderson, called "one of our best urban ethnographers" by the New York Times Book Review, introduces the concept of the "cosmopolitan canopy": the urban islands of civility amid segregated ghettos, suburbs, and ethnic enclaves.About the... -
Streetwise: Race, Class and Change in an Urban Community by Elijah Anderson 9780226018164
RRP: $39.90$38.85Subject classification:- Sociology: Race, Ethnic, and Minority Relations; Black StudiesBook InformationISBN 9780226018164Author Elijah AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 283Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago... -
Lost Dimension by Paul Virilio
RRP: $31.48$21.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351177Author Paul VirilioFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm -
How Spaces Become Places: Place Makers Tell Their Stories by John F. Forester
RRP: $54.58$46.28Useful and inspiring cases illustrate participatory placemaking practices and strategies. How Spaces Become Places tells stories of place makers who respond to daunting challenges of affordable housing, racial violence, and immigration, as well as... -
Everyday Law on the Street: City Governance in an Age of Diversity by Mariana Valverde
RRP: $58.80$57.52Toronto prides itself on being "the world's most diverse city," and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies designed to promote social inclusion. Yet this progressive vision of law often falls short in practice, limited... -
Township Economy: People, Spaces and Practices by Andrew Charman 9780796925770
RRP: $62.90$50.67Township Economy provides a unique insight into township informal business and entrepreneurship. It is set in the post-apartheid period, in the third decade of Africa's democracy and draws on evidence collected from 2010-2018 in 10 township sites, nine... -
Cities and Literature by Malcolm Miles
RRP: $77.68$68.31This book offers a critical introduction to the relation between cities and literature (fiction, poetry and literary criticism) from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It examines examples of writing from Europe, North America and... -
Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity by Qin Shao 9781442211322
RRP: $79.80$76.19Shanghai has been demolished and rebuilt into a gleaming megacity in recent decades, now ranking with New York and London as a hub of global finance. But that transformation has come at a grave human cost. This compelling book is the first to apply the... -
University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District by Laura Wolf-Powers
$127.93A chronicle of neighborhood redevelopment politics in West Philadelphia over 60 years In twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers increasingly celebrate university-sponsored innovation districts as engines of inclusive growth. But the story... -
Reconstructing Beirut: Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City by Aseel Sawalha
RRP: $35.68$30.95Once the cosmopolitan center of the Middle East, Beirut was devastated by the civil war that ran from 1975 to 1991, which dislocated many residents, disrupted normal municipal functions, and destroyed the vibrant downtown district. The aftermath of the... -
Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco by Teresa Gowan
RRP: $46.18$39.46Winner of the 2011 Robert Park Award for the Best Book in Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2011Co-winner of the 2011 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture, American Sociological Association, 2011... -
The Creative Capital of Cities: Interactive Knowledge Creation and the Urbanization Economies of Innovation by Stefan Kratke 9781444336221
RRP: $41.98$37.15This book challenges the new urban growth concepts of the creative class and creative industries from a critical urban theory perspective. Critiques Richard Florida's popular books about cities and the creative classPresents an alternative approach... -
Code of the Suburb: Inside the World of Young Middle-Class Drug Dealers by Scott Jacques
RRP: $50.40$48.36When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening on urban streets, in disadvantaged, crime-ridden neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere - even in upscale suburbs and top-tier high schools - and teenage users in the... -
The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism by Jason Hackworth
RRP: $58.78$49.69The shift in the ideological winds toward a "free-market" economy has brought profound effects in urban areas. The Neoliberal City presents an overview of the effect of these changes on today's cities. The term "neoliberalism" was originally used in... -
The Informational City: Economic Restructuring and Urban Development by Manuel Castells 9780631179375
RRP: $86.00$76.21The cities and the regions of the world are being transformed under the combined impact of a restructuring of the capitalist system and a technological revolution. This is the thesis of this book, now in paperback. Castells not only brings together an... -
Making Healthy Places: Designing and Building for Health, Well-being, and Sustainability by Andrew L. Danneberg 9781597267274
RRP: $88.20$74.78The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of... -
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability by David Owen 9781594484841
$21.53In this remarkable challenge to conventional thinking about the environment, David Owen argues that the greenest community in the United States is not Portland, Oregon, or Snowmass, Colorado, but New York, New York. Most Americans think of crowded cities... -
Emerald City: How Capital Transformed New York by Joseph Grosso
RRP: $27.28$24.07Joseph Grosso traces the history of New York's transformation back into a gilded city, and asks what can be done about it. He examines New York's deindustrialization and the elite planning and design that followed; New York's financial crisis of the... -
Plough Quarterly No. 23 - In Search of a City by Jenny McCartney
RRP: $16.78$11.55The future of humanity is urban. It might seem a bad move for a magazine named after a farm tool to bring out an issue on cities. Especially if that magazine is published by an Anabaptist community that originated in a back-to-the-land movement and... -
The Hoods: Crime and Punishment in Belfast by Heather Hamill 9780691180687
$59.33A 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... -
Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War by Andrew Lee 9781849355247
RRP: $35.70$24.26Apologies 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 -
The Legal Geographies Reader: Law, Power and Space by Nicholas Blomley
RRP: $79.70$70.90This timely Reader brings together, for the first time, key writings on the relation between law and geography in an effort to clarify the connections between these two increasingly complex concepts.About the AuthorNicholas Blomley is Associate Professor... -
Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State by Julie-Anne Boudreau 9780745685502
RRP: $33.58$30.26In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal street-level politics to transnational governing... -
Mediators: Aesthetics, Politics, and the City by Reinhold Martin
RRP: $18.90$16.30Reinhold Martin's Mediators is a series of linked meditations on the globalized city. Focusing on infrastructural, technical, and social systems, Martin explores how the aesthetics and the political economy of cities overlap and interact. He discusses a... -
My Girls: The Power of Friendship in a Poor Neighborhood by Jasmin Sandelson 9780520388895
RRP: $48.30$37.21Reveals how friendships and social media can help girls survive even the most tragic consequences of American poverty. My Girls explores the overlooked yet transformative power of female friendship in a low-income Boston-area neighborhood. In this... -
Cities and Social Change: Encounters with Contemporary Urbanism by Ronan Paddison
RRP: $90.28$73.82This textbook of essays by leading critical urbanists is a compelling introduction to an important field of study; it interrogates contemporary conflicts and contradictions inherent in the social experience of living in cities that are undergoing... -
Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta by Dan Immergluck
RRP: $48.30$37.07An incisive examination of how growth-at-all-costs planning and policy have exacerbated inequality and racial division in Atlanta. Atlanta, the capital of the American South, is at the red-hot core of expansion, inequality, and political relevance. In... -
Globalizing Cities: A New Spatial Order? by Peter Marcuse 9780631212904
RRP: $50.40$44.10This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of changes in global cities, revealing a growing pattern of social and spatial division or polarization.About the... -
Uneasy Peace: The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence by Patrick Sharkey 9780393356540
RRP: $27.28$23.54From the late '90s to the mid-2010s, American cities experienced an astonishing drop in violent crime, dramatically changing urban life. In many cases, places once characterized by decay and abandonment are now thriving, the fear of death by gunshot... -
Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier by Edward Glaeser
RRP: $39.90$24.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143120544Author Edward GlaeserFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm... -
Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City by Kevin Loughran
RRP: $52.50$40.28A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into distinctive public spaces that meld repurposed infrastructure, wild-looking green space, and landscape... -
The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities by Richard Sennett 9780393308785
RRP: $42.00$35.97From the assembly halls of Athens to the Turkish baths of New York's Lower East Side, from eighteenth-century English gardens to the housing projects of Harlem-a study of the physical fabric of the city as a mirror of Western society and culture.About... -
Main Street: How a City's Heart Connects Us All by Mindy Thompson Fullilove
RRP: $39.88$34.36Mindy Thompson Fullilove traverses the central thoroughfares of our cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communities After an 11-year study of Main Streets in 178 cities and 14 countries, Fullilove discovered the power of city centers to... -
Invisible in Austin: Life and Labor in an American City by Javier Auyero 9781477303658
RRP: $46.18$39.46Austin, Texas, is renowned as a high-tech, fast-growing city for the young and creative, a cool place to live, and the scene of internationally famous events such as SXSW and Formula 1. But as in many American cities, poverty and penury are booming along... -
Readings in Urban Theory by Susan S. Fainstein 9781444330816
RRP: $62.90$56.72Updated with a majority of new readings, the Third Edition of Readings in Urban Theory expands its focus to present the most recent developments in urban and regional theories and policies in a globalized world. Around 75% of the readings included are... -
The Lure of the City: From Slums to Suburbs by Austin Williams 9780745331775
RRP: $56.68$36.94Cities, by their very nature, are a mass of contradictions. They can be at once visually stunning, culturally rich, exploitative and unforgiving. In The Lure of the City Austin Williams and Alastair Donald explore the potential of cities to meet the... -
Designing Cities: Critical Readings in Urban Design by Alexander R. Cuthbert
RRP: $83.90$76.21Designing Cities is the first reader to be published in the thriving field of urban design. It has been assembled to appeal to a broad range of readers interested in how the design of cities comes about. Provides a complex and integrated perspective on...