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Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity by Qin Shao 9781442211315
RRP: €113.05€108.27Shanghai 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... -
Creating Place: Remaking America Green by Robert a Fielden Faia 9781456304485
RRP: €23.74€20.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456304485Author Robert a Fielden FaiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
One Nation Inside the Bricks by Jake Manning 9781500494964
RRP: €15.46€13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781500494964Author Jake ManningFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
When Architecture Meets Activism: The Transformative Experience of Hank Williams Village in the Windy City by Roger Guy 9781498512411
RRP: €111.86€103.01This social history and community study documents the events surrounding the attempt by community members, activists, and VISTA architects to resist the planned construction of a community college in the neighborhood of Uptown. The planner and architect... -
City of Vice: Transience and San Francisco's Urban History, 1848–1917 by James Mallery 9781496230263
€65.34San Francisco’s reputation for accommodating progressive and unconventional identities can find its roots in the waves of transients and migrants that flocked to San Francisco between the gold rush and World War I. In the era of yellow journalism, San... -
Dark Tales from the Dungeons: Horrors from the 'Hood for Youth to Beware by Dortell Williams 9781491259986
RRP: €11.89€9.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491259986Author Dortell WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
I am Hip Hop by Candy Molia 9781492717379
RRP: €10.86€8.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781492717379Author Candy MoliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
Rebuilding America's Legacy Cities: New Directions for the Industrial Heartland by Alan Mallach 9781469923574
RRP: €23.74€21.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781469923574Author Alan MallachFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing... -
London's Burning: An Exploration in Punk Subculture by Hans Versluys 9781456435660
RRP: €8.32€7.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781456435660Author Hans VersluysFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent... -
Law, Space, and the Vehicular Environment: Pavement and Asphalt by Sarah Marusek 9781032407555
RRP: €23.79€21.05This book examines the paved road as a liminal space and legal frontier for enlivened, everyday struggles over property, power, and place/definition. Through pavement itself and the pavement-based practices of pavementalities and pavementeering, the road... -
Migration and Educational Policymaking in China: A Critical Engagement with Policy Sociology and Bourdieu by Hui Yu 9781032289953
RRP: €46.40€40.72By concentrating on the topic of school enrolment policy for rural-to-urban migrant children in China, this book analyses the unequal power relations and structural inequalities that can appear in the context of education. The author complements current... -
Immigration and America's Cities: A Handbook on Evolving Services by Roger L. Kemp 9780786496334
RRP: €34.50€27.82Generations ago, droves of immigrant populations came to the U.S. from Europe and Africa. Now they are arriving mainly from Latin America and Asia. Most are authorized, but there is a large number who are not. While the U.S. Congress, federal, and most... -
The Municipal Budget Crunch: A Handbook for Professionals by Roger L. Kemp 9780786463749
RRP: €34.50€27.82This book is based on a national literature search focusing on the best practices of cities, of all sizes and geographic locations, intended to maintain public services while holding down taxes. Many public officials have great ideas, but tend to work in... -
Cities Going Green: A Handbook of Best Practices by Roger L. Kemp 9780786459681
RRP: €34.50€27.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786459681Author Roger L. KempFormat PaperbackPage Count 251Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co IncWeight(grams) 560g -
Engaging the Community in Decision Making: Case Studies Tracking Participation, Voice and Influence by Roz Diane Lasker 9780786443123
RRP: €29.74€24.15In recent years, the rapidly growing field of community participation has promised to give people formerly excluded from decision making an influential voice about issues that affect their lives. Inclusive processes implemented in the United States and... -
Cities and Growth: A Policy Handbook by Roger L. Kemp 9780786431977
RRP: €34.50€27.82This reference work covers the rapidly evolving field of ""cities and growth""; provides the framework and background for the emergence of best growth management practices in America's cities in recent years; includes numerous case studies, or best... -
A People's History of Detroit by Mark Jay 9781478008347
RRP: €28.55€22.54Recent bouts of gentrification and investment in Detroit have led some to call it the greatest turnaround story in American history. Meanwhile, activists point to the city's cuts to public services, water shutoffs, mass foreclosures, and violent police... -
Dance for Me When I Die by Cristian Alarcon 9781478003786
RRP: €26.17€20.49On the morning of February 6, 1999, Buenos Aires police officers shot and killed seventeen-year-old Victor Manuel Vital, better known as Frente, while he was unarmed, hiding under a table, and trying to surrender. Widely known and respected throughout... -
Little Bit by Anthony Lamb 9781441539205
RRP: €16.66€15.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441539205Author Anthony LambFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 91g -
Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City: Youth Experiences of Uneven Opportunity by M. Makris 9781349491759
RRP: €53.54€39.33Winner of the 2016 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award Molly Makris uses an interdisciplinary approach to urban education policy to examine the formal education and physical environment of young people from low-income backgrounds and demonstrate how... -
SEVA to Realize the SELF: Selfless Service by Mahesh C. Mangalick 9780761863700
RRP: €41.65€38.87In villages around India, many people have no facilities that provide adequate health care and education, despite the Indian government allocating an enormous amount of funding. In order to offset this lack of health care and educational facilities in... -
England by Lois E. Bueler 9780761862901
RRP: €111.86€101.36J. W. von Archenholtz's England is a political and sociological description of Great Britain during the second half of the 18th century. Based primarily on Archenholtz's firsthand observations from 1769 to 1779, England looks with precision and anecdotal... -
Marxism and Urban Culture by Benjamin Fraser 9780739191576
RRP: €115.43€106.08Marxism and Urban Culture is the first volume to reconcile social science and humanities perspectives on culture. Covering a range of global cities-Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico... -
Racial Ambivalence in Diverse Communities: Whiteness and the Power of Color-Blind Ideologies by Meghan A. Burke 9780739190623
RRP: €49.98€46.99This book makes use of in-depth interviews with the residents most active in shaping the racially diverse urban communities in which they live. As most of them are white and progressive, it provides a unique view into the particular ways that color-blind... -
Urban Ills: Twenty-first-Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts by Carol Camp Yeakey 9780739186367
RRP: €128.52€117.83Urban 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... -
Bootstrap New Urbanism: Design, Race, and Redevelopment in Milwaukee by Joseph A. Rodriguez 9780739186121
RRP: €124.95€114.28Joseph A. Rodriguez critically examines the urban design and revitalization initiatives undertaken by both the government and the people of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In the 1990s, New Urbanists followed a city tradition of using urban design to solve... -
Urban Ills: Twenty-first-Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts by Carol Camp Yeakey 9780739185605
RRP: €49.98€47.47Urban 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 1 examines both the economic impact of urban life and the social... -
Urban Ills: Twenty-first-Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts by Carol Camp Yeakey 9780739177006
RRP: €141.61€130.13Urban 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 1 examines both the economic impact of urban life and the social... -
Racial Ambivalence in Diverse Communities: Whiteness and the Power of Color-Blind Ideologies by Meghan A. Burke 9780739166673
RRP: €104.72€95.83This book makes use of in-depth interviews with the residents most active in shaping the racially diverse urban communities in which they live. As most of them are white and progressive, it provides a unique view into the particular ways that color-blind... -
Confronting Urban Legacy: Rediscovering Hartford and New England's Forgotten Cities by Xiangming Chen 9780739149423
RRP: €115.43€106.08Confronting Urban Legacy fills a critical lacuna in urban scholarship. As almost all of the literature focuses on global cities and megacities, smaller, secondary cities, which actually hold the majority of the world's population, are either critically... -
The Evolution of the Ancient City: Urban Theory and the Archaeology of the Fertile Crescent by Alexander R. Thomas 9780739138700
RRP: €47.60€43.95Urban theory and archaeology merge to create a readable discussion of how ancient cities came to be. Although many consider our modern social ills to be the consequence of Capitalism, many urban problems are traceable to pre-Capitalist times and thus are... -
Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City: Youth Experiences of Uneven Opportunity by M. Makris 9781137429155
RRP: €53.54€39.83Winner of the 2016 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award Molly Makris uses an interdisciplinary approach to urban education policy to examine the formal education and physical environment of young people from low-income backgrounds and demonstrate how... -
Babylon is Everywhere: the City as Man's Fate by Wolf Schneider 9781022884823
RRP: €46.35€42.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781022884823Author Wolf SchneiderFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 789g -
English Life And Leisure by Seebohm Rowntree B 9781022883253
RRP: €47.54€43.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781022883253Author Seebohm Rowntree BFormat HardbackPage Count 504Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 875g -
The Many Faces of the City: Exploring the Metropolis by Stefan Litz 9780949313102
RRP: €71.40€48.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780949313102Author Stefan LitzFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Common Ground Research NetworksPublisher Common Ground Research NetworksWeight(grams) 156g -
The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the Nineteenth-Century Metropolis by Peter Mandler 9780812282146
RRP: €101.15€99.23Who were the poor of the world's first metropolises, and how did they survive? This collection of eight original essays proposes a revisionist perspective on poverty and its relief in the nineteenth-century city, emphasizing the position of women and... -
Neighborhood and Life Chances: How Place Matters in Modern America by Harriet B. Newburger 9780812222654
RRP: €42.84€39.85Does the place where you lived as a child affect your health as an adult? To what degree does your neighbor's success influence your own potential? The importance of place is increasingly recognized in urban research as an important variable in... -
Urban Growth in the Age of Sectionalism: Virginia, 1847-1861 by David Goldfield 9780807124918
€28.38The urban growth of Virginia during the decade and a half before the Civil War has been an unjustly neglected subject in American history. With this authoritative book David Goldfield fills a long-standing gap in historical scholarship by providing much... -
Unlocking Sustainable Cities: A Manifesto for Real Change by Paul Chatterton 9780745337029
RRP: €101.15€46.80This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising inequality. This book highlights how cities are locked into unsustainable and damaging practices, and how exciting... -
Constructing Mexico City: Colonial Conflicts over Culture, Space, and Authority by Sharon Bailey Glasco 9780230619579
RRP: €53.54€39.51Constructing 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...