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Urban Bonds by Talja Blokland 9780745628011
RRP: $126.00$109.10What is the role of the neighbourhood in our understanding of community and how has this role changed over the last century? Talja Blokland seeks to answer this question in this careful ethnographic study of the changing nature of social relationships... -
The Many Faces of the City: Exploring the Metropolis by Stefan Litz 9780949313119
RRP: $98.70$67.56Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Social Struggles and the City: Case of Sao Paulo by Lucio Kowarick 9780853458623
RRP: $62.90$50.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853458623Author Lucio KowarickFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S. -
Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh 9780674030718
$59.09In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate, dangerous, and remarkable ways in which a community survives. We find there an entire world of unregulated,... -
American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh 9780674008304
$63.21High-rise public housing developments were signature features of the post-World War II city. A hopeful experiment in providing temporary, inexpensive housing for all Americans, the "projects" soon became synonymous with the black urban poor, with... -
Foreclosed: High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America's Mortgage Market by Daniel Immergluck 9780801447723
RRP: $58.78$43.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Family Based Services: A Solution-Based Approach by Insoo Kim Berg 9780393701623
RRP: $70.35$58.46It describes the process of solution-focused intervention in a step-by-step fashion and includes case examples, sample assessment forms, and advice for how this approach can be adapted to a variety of service programs.About the AuthorInsoo Kim Berg, MSW,... -
Building Cities That Work by Edmund P. Fowler 9780773508200
RRP: $189.00$105.99Using Jane Jacobs' critique of postwar city-building as a starting point, Fowler shows that recent North American urban development has been characterized by development projects on a massive scale, an indiscriminate use of vast areas of land, and an... -
Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism by Benjamin Ross 9780199360147
RRP: $74.53$69.43More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and... -
Never Never Lands: Unknown Fields by Kate Davies 9781907896859
RRP: $14.70$14.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907896859Author Kate DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Architectural Association PublicationsPublisher Architectural Association Publications -
The Fragile City & the Risk Nexus by Charles Landry 9781908777041
RRP: $20.90$18.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908777041Author Charles LandryFormat PaperbackPage Count 63Imprint ComediaPublisher ComediaWeight(grams) 182g -
The Urban Response to Internationalization by Peter Karl Kresl 9781843764144
$213.38Three decades of accelerated trade and financial market liberalization have had significant and lasting impacts on the global economy and its component entities. In this volume, Peter Karl Kresl and Earl Fry examine the impacts of these profound changes... -
Dialectical Urbanism: Social Struggles in the Capitalist City by Andy Merrifield 9781583670590
RRP: $73.50$60.31Life in the city can be both liberating and oppressive. The contemporary city is an arena in which new and unexpected personal identities and collective agencies are forged and at the same time the major focus of market forces intent on making all life a... -
Town Life: Main Street and the Evolution of Small Town Alberta, 1880-1947 by Donald G. Wetherell 9780888642684
$35.36In the prairies, the small town rests comfortably in our memories as a setting of childhood innocence, good neighbours and stability. By following the development of "Main Streets" in nine Alberta towns, Wetherell and Kmet present a detailed... -
The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban Sprawl Debate by Oliver Gillham 9781559638333
RRP: $88.20$74.78Looking at the predominant form of land use in America, known as sprawl, this text examines where it came from, what it is and what the alternatives are. The author argues that sprawl is here to stay and that by understanding it we can address the... -
Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia: Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States by Bae-Gyoon Park 9781405192804
RRP: $126.00$109.10Locating Neoliberalism in East Asia: Neoliberalizing Spaces in Developmental States examines the influence of neo-liberal ideologies on urban and regional policies and practices in several Asian Pacific nations. Represents one of the few studies of... -
Cities and Citizenship by James Holston 9780822322542
RRP: $193.20$168.36Cities and Citizenship is a prize-winning collection of essays that considers the importance of cities in the making of modern citizens. For most of the modern era the nation and not the city has been the principal domain of citizenship. This volume... -
Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth-century New York City by Lorrin Thomas 9780226796086
RRP: $168.00$161.72By the end of the 1920s, just ten years after the Jones Act first made them full-fledged Americans, more than 45,000 native Puerto Ricans had left their homes and entered the United States, citizenship papers in hand, forming one of New York City's most... -
Babylon is Everywhere: the City as Man's Fate by Wolf Schneider 9781022890879
RRP: $54.50$49.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781022890879Author Wolf SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 612g -
English Life And Leisure by Seebohm Rowntree B 9781022889583
RRP: $58.70$53.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781022889583Author Seebohm Rowntree BFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 699g -
A Decent Place to Live: From Columbia Point to Harbor Point: A Community History by Jane Roessner 9780998954400
RRP: $31.50$26.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998954400Author Jane RoessnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Calf Pasture PressPublisher Calf Pasture PressWeight(grams) 776g -
Greater New Jersey: Living in the Shadow of Gotham by Dennis E. Gale 9780812219579
RRP: $54.58$49.94Living within the influence of one of the largest and most important cities in the world, how does New Jersey define itself? Is it simply a region of commuters, or have communities created effective local governments and satisfying cultural activities... -
Hispanic and Latino New Orleans: Immigration and Identity since the Eighteenth Century by Andrew Sluyter 9780807160879
$65.00Often overlooked in historic studies of New Orleans, the city's Hispanic and Latino populations have contributed significantly to its development. Hispanic and Latino New Orleans offers the first scholarly study of these communities in the Crescent City... -
Urban Flow: Bike Messengers and the City by Jeffrey L. Kidder 9780801449925
RRP: $58.78$44.48Bike 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... -
How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis 9780393930269
$59.54The text of this Norton Critical Edition is based on the 1901 Scribner edition and includes all 47 of Riis's unforgettable photographs, along with 2 maps. It is accompanied by Hasia Diner's insightful introduction and detailed explanatory annotations. An... -
Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, with a New Preface by Randy Shaw 9780520356214
RRP: $44.10$33.81Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America. Randy Shaw tells the powerful stories of tenants,... -
Building Urban Resilience: Singapore’s Policy Response to Covid-19 by J.J. Woo 9780367696177
RRP: $102.88$89.59This is one of the first few books to discuss the Covid-19 crisis as an urban phenomenon and illustrates this through the case of Singapore and its pandemic response efforts.The book describes the implications and impacts of the pandemic on Singapore’s... -
Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie: Race, Urban Planning, and Cosmopolitanism in Chattanooga, Tennessee by Courtney Elizabeth Knapp 9781469637266
$206.33What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future? Courtney Elizabeth Knapp chronicles the politics of gentrification and culture-based development in... -
Behind the White Picket Fence: Power and Privilege in a Multiethnic Neighborhood by Sarah Mayorga-Gallo 9781469618630
RRP: $79.70$75.92The link between residential segregation and racial inequality is well established, so it would seem that greater equality would prevail in integrated neighborhoods. But as Sarah Mayorga-Gallo argues, multiethnic and mixed-income neighborhoods still... -
Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West by Heather Dorries 9780887559006
RRP: $147.00$138.87While cities like Winnipeg, Minneapolis, Saskatoon, Rapid City, Edmonton, Missoula, Regina, and Tulsa are places where Indigenous marginalization has been most acute, they have also long been sites of Indigenous placemaking and resistance to settler... -
Yellow Cab by Robert Leonard 9780826337856
$65.65In 2001, anthropology professor Robert Leonard began moonlighting as a cabdriver; 'Yellow Cab' is a portrait of the city he found as he drove the streets of night time Albuquerque, picking up everyone from business people and drunken college kids to... -
The Social Origins of the Urban South: Race, Gender, and Migration in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, 1890-1930 by Louis M. Kyriakoudes 9780807854846
RRP: $90.20$83.39In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, millions of black and white southerners left farms and rural towns to try their fate in the region's cities. This transition brought about significant economic, social, and cultural changes in both... -
Political Terrain: Washington, D.C., from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis by Carl Abbott 9780807848050
RRP: $98.60$93.32Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy once remarked, is a city of ""southern efficiency and northern charm."" Kennedy's quip was close to the mark. Since its creation two centuries ago, Washington has been a community with... -
Race, Poverty, and American Cities by Judith Welch Wegner 9780807845783
RRP: $126.00$121.25Precise connections between race, poverty, and the condition of America's cities are drawn in this collection of seventeen essays. Policymakers and scholars from a variety of disciplines analyze the plight of the urban poor since the riots of the 1960s... -
Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie: Race, Urban Planning, and Cosmopolitanism in Chattanooga, Tennessee by Courtney Elizabeth Knapp 9781469637273
RRP: $69.20$66.30What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future? Courtney Elizabeth Knapp chronicles the politics of gentrification and culture-based development in... -
New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910 by Don H. Doyle 9780807842706
RRP: $115.50$109.54Cities were the core of a changing economy and culture that penetrated the rural hinterland and remade the South in the decades following the Civil War. In New Men, New Cities, New South , Don Doyle argues that if the plantation was the world the... -
The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities, revised edition by Carl Abbott 9780807841808
RRP: $126.00$116.72The first comprehensive and comparative analysis of urban growth in the American South and West defines the historical growth of the Sunbelt. Abbott examines the economic base of southern and western cities, the process of suburbanization, and the... -
Voices Matter: Jane-Finch Residents Speak Out by Angelo Furlan 9780992149208
RRP: $31.50$26.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992149208Author Angelo FurlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Jfotm BooksPublisher Jfotm BooksWeight(grams) 249g -
Upper Bunkies Unite: And Other Thoughts On the Politics of Mass Incarceration by Andrea James 9780988759305
RRP: $42.00$34.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988759305Author Andrea JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Goode Book PressPublisher Goode Book PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Gimme Shelter: A Life of Public Service in New York City (paperback) by Bonnie Stone 9780988267558
RRP: $35.68$21.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988267558Author Bonnie StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Brooklyn River PressPublisher Brooklyn River PressWeight(grams) 195g