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How fair are America's urban housing markets, and how effective is the government at ensuring open and diverse housing options for minority groups? To answer these questions, Fragile Rights Within Cities offers a current social science and policy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416561262Author Witold RybczynskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams)...

How fair are America's urban housing markets, and how effective is the government at ensuring open and diverse housing options for minority groups? To answer these questions, Fragile Rights Within Cities offers a current social science and policy...

Although welfare reform is currently the government's top priority, most discussions about the public's responsibility to the poor neglect an informed historical perspective. This important book provides a crucial examination of past attempts, both in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063322615Author Nadina GalleFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 644g

Community gardening is as much about community as it is gardening, and compared to growing plants, cultivating community is far more difficult. In Community Gardening in an Unlikely City: The Struggle to Grow Together in Las Vegas, Schafer documents his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781986756617Author Bernd StreichFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

This volume is based on papers from the second in a series of three conferences that deal with the multi-scalar processes of heritage-making, ranging from the local to the national and international levels, involving different players with different...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933368986Author Erick LyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 369g

Toronto is perhaps the most multicultural city in the world. The process of settlement and integration in modern-day Toronto is, however, more difficult for recent immigrants than it was for those newcomers arriving in previous decades. Many challenges...

Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, a city that he loved, Jonathan Foster was forced to come to grips with its reputation for racial violence. In so doing, he began to question how other cities dealt with similar kinds of stigmas that resulted from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500539863Author Mellenee Miller CarpenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781507638385Author Johan WassenaarFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786206164005Author Kassa Moges TarekeFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic...

Why do people choose the life of an artist, and what happens when they find themselves barely scraping by? Why does New York City, even in an era of hypergentrification, still beckon to aspiring artists as a place to make art and remake yourself?Art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786206603016Author Kouakou Kouadio Jean MarcFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams)...

Dance Music Spaces examines the production of physical and digital spaces in dance music, and how the players—clubs, clubbers, and DJs—use authenticity, branding, and commercialism to navigate them. An in-depth study into three women DJs—The Blessed...

Gregory M. Fulkerson offers a complete portrait of what communities are, how they work, and how they are embedded in urban–rural systems at regional, national, and global scales. After explaining the concept of urban–rural systems, Fulkerson walks...

Cities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace the perspective of political economy as its main explanatory framework, and then complement it with the rich contributions of human ecology as well as perspectives derived from critical...

Each of Siegel's three urban portraits--New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles,-- shows the desperate remedies undertaken by cities searching for a lifeline back to the future whose promise they once seemed to embody. In a narrative that...

Radical Communications explores unauthorized messages we see in the cities we live in and their impact on the construction of social reality. Michael Tsangaris treats the city as a text and examines the political slogans, graffiti, and street art of...

Constructing Mexico City: Colonial Conflicts over Culture, Space, and Authority examines the spatial, material, and cultural dimensions of life in eighteenth-century Mexico City, through programs that colonial leaders created to renovate and reshape...

Bike messengers are familiar figures in the downtown cores of major cities. Tasked with delivering time-sensitive materials within, at most, a few hours-and sometimes in as little as fifteen minutes-these couriers ride in all types of weather, weave in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786205959022Author Frédéric FauglasFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 91g

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 9786206867036Author Aline PeriniFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786206682233Author Marco Antonio López MineraFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams)...

This is is a remarkable study of urban society in one of Indonesia's main port cities. It views Surabaya from the experiences of the people who occupy its alleyways, riverbanks and muddy roadsides, a group that has had little say in the making of policy...

In this volume, the author reflects on anthropological uses of the concept of popular culture. He retraces how his explorations of popular culture in the Shaba region of Zaire, now the Congo, showed that classical culture theory did not account for large...

Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often underappreciated. In Creative Margins, Alison L. Bain documents the unique role of Canadian artists and cultural workers in suburban place-formation and dismantles...

Corruption is a chronic public concern affecting America's cities. Greed, ethical lapses and lack of accountability have drained untold millions in tax dollars. Corrupt practices range from embezzlement, graft, bribery, kickbacks, extortion, nepotism and...

The ability to function safely, healthily, and productively in urban places is a continuing challenge for people everywhere. This challenge is exacerbated when the resources available to people in urban places happen to be severely limited or their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451522761Author Eric CulpepperFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Islam among Urban Blacks examines the evolution of Muslim community development in our nation's third oldest city, Newark, New Jersey. It is an historical account of the efforts of a diverse community that over several decades grappled with the challenge...

Gay neighborhoods are disappearing—or so the conventional story goes. In this narrative, political gains and mainstream social acceptance, combined with the popularity of dating apps like Grindr, have reduced the need for LGBTQ+ people to seek refuges or...

The 1915 Rent Strikes in Glasgow, along with similar campaigns across the UK, catalysed rent restrictions and eventually public housing as a right, with a legacy of progressive improvement in UK housing through the central decades of the 20th century...

Islam among Urban Blacks examines the evolution of Muslim community development in our nation's third oldest city, Newark, New Jersey. It is an historical account of the efforts of a diverse community that over several decades grappled with the challenge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515094047Author Elisa T BertuzzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden...

Urban Ills: Twenty First Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts is a collection of original research focused on critical challenges and dilemmas to living in cities. Volume 2 is devoted to the myriad issues involving urban health and the...