Urban

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...

"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...

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 9781400052479Author Jonathan KozolFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Crown Publishing Group (NY)Publisher Crown Publishing Group (NY)Weight(grams) 312g

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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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786205755679Author Siba SomouFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 100g

This book offers an interdisciplinary and dynamic account of the politicization of urban planning in Mumbai, India. It presents a unique perspective on the tensions and conflicts pervading the development and regulation of contemporary cities in the...

Following publication of the government's White Paper on cities (2000), the question of what makes some cities more successful than others has become an increasingly important policy issue. This topical book tackles this question from differing...

By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people - one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And what will China's cities be like? Over the past thirty years, China's urban population expanded by...

By focusing on the interplay between material, social and narrative dimensions of the city, this book examines urban complexity, namely the dynamic and entangled nature of urban issues, and puts forward a notion of the city as an urban texture. Taking an...

Citizens, nonprofit organizations and local public officials - in increasing numbers - are using the arts and culture as vehicles to improve their downtowns, as well as to enhance general economic conditions within their communities. Public officials...

The National Mall in Washington, D.C. is one of the most important and highly visible urban public spaces in the U.S. It is considered by many Americans to be "the nation's front yard." Yet few have written about the role of this public space...

In the 1960s, socialist and capitalist urban planners, architects, and city officials chose the urban periphery as the site to test out new ideas in modernist architecture and planning: the outskirts of Prague and a bedroom suburb of Toronto would be the...

The relationship between policing and the governance of society is an important and complex one, especially as it relates to destitute areas. Through a comparative analysis of policing in skid row districts in three cities - Edinburgh, San Francisco, and...

A glance at a list of America's fastest growing ""cities"" reveals quite a surprise: most are really overgrown suburbs. Places such as Anaheim, California, Coral Springs, Florida, Naperville, Illinois, North Las Vegas, Nevada, and...

Family life in areas of concentrated poverty and social problems is undermined by surrounding conditions. This timely book, by acclaimed author Anne Power and her team, is based on a unique longitudinal study of over 200 families interviewed annually...

Most new urban growth takes place in the suburbs; consequently, infrastructures are in a constant state of playing catch-up, creating repeated infrastructure crises in these peripheries. However, the push to address the tensions stemming from this rapid...

There is an alleged crisis of cohesion in the UK, manifested in debates about identity and 'Britishness', the breakdown of social connections along the fault lines of geography, ethnicity, faith, income and age, and the fragile relationship between...

Picture your downtown vacant, boarded up, while the malls surrounding your city are thriving. What would you do? In 1974 the politicians, merchants, community leaders, and business and property owners, of Ithaca, New York, joined together to transform...

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...

The lines between the fields of strategy, urban planning, architecture and sociology are currently blurred by ‘futurising’ discourses about progress, renewal and the crises of urbanisation. Aided by an ambitious multifaceted lens, Urban Planning for the...

Neighbours are a lively topic of everyday conversation and interest. Neighbours Around the World takes a comparative look around the world at our relationships and interactions with the people who live next door, analysing the ways in which these...