Urban

This 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...

From 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...

Apologies 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...

A 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...

From 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...

Mindy 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...

Austin, 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...

Updated 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...

Cities, 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 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...

Midnight basketball may not have been invented in Chicago, but the City of Big Shoulders home of Michael Jordan and the Bulls is where it first came to national prominence. And it's also where Douglas Hartmann first began to think seriously about the...

The story of New York's west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. Instead it's a story of urban transformation, cultural shifts, and an expanding contemporary art scene. The Chelsea Gallery District has become New York's most dominant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815710035Author Edward J. BlakelyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

The newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field was developed. The expanded volume continues to make available...

From gang- and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and movie theatres, reports of gun crimes fill the headlines of newspapers and nightly news programs. At the same time, a different kind of headline has captured public...

"Blueprint for Disaster" traces public housing's history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley's Plan for Transformation. In the process, D. Bradford Hunt chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority's own transformation...

Fifty years after the British annexed the Punjab and made Lahore its provincial capital, the city-once a prosperous Mughal center that had long since fallen into ruin-was transformed. British and Indian officials had designed a modern, architecturally...

A sweeping and eye-opening study of wealth inequality and the dismantling of local government in four working-class US cities that passionately argues for reinvestment in people-centered leadership and offers "a welcome reminder of what government can...

A rare look into the world of contemporary graffiti culture On the sides of buildings, on bridges, billboards, mailboxes, and street signs, and especially in the subway and train tunnels, graffiti covers much of New York City. Love it or hate it,...

Candid and intimate accounts of the factory-worker tragedy that shaped American labor rights On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the eighth floor of the Asch Building in Greenwich Village, New York. The top three floors housed the Triangle Waist...

Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865477506Author Andres DuanyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786206334361Author Stalin AlvaradoFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786206056201Author Carolina Heldt d'AlmeidaFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604591668Author G K ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 195g

Exposing the carceral webs and weaponized data that shape Chicago’s police wars Chicago is a city with extreme concentrations of racialized poverty and inequity, one that relies on an extensive network of repressive agencies to police the poor and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400052479Author Jonathan KozolFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Crown Publishing GroupPublisher Crown Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685890995Author Jon AdamsFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786206588931Author Maria Regina M Oliveira SilvaFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams)...

Ranging across two centuries of American history, Crossing Great Divides argues that the habit of construing city and country as opposites is at the root of our current environmental and political disorder. This oversimplifying dualism has distorted how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786205995471Author Paulo Luz de Oliveira JuniorFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams)...

Urban Reflections looks at how places change, the role of planners in bringing about urban change, and the public's attitudes to that change. Drawing on geographical, cinematic and photographic readings, the book offers a fresh incisive story of urban...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375727214Author Dolores HaydenFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

For the first time in human history, more people inhabit urban than rural areas. Investigating the experience of hunger and malnutrition in urban spaces, Food and Agriculture in Urbanized Societies confronts the persistence of social inequalities,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786205279304Author Guerschom N'GottaFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 145g

Reshaping Youth Participation reframes discussions around youth political, social, civic, and cultural participation. Drawing upon insights on democracy and citizenship, self-organising and protest movements, and arts activism as engaged social activism,...

More extensive methodology is required to study the complexities of everyday life in the rapidly expanding urban areas around the globe, as well as to gain a better understanding of life in established urban areas. Presented over two volumes, Visual and...

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