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How the Other Half Lives by Jacob A. Riis 9780393930269
€33.74The 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: €24.99€19.16Generation 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: €58.30€50.77This 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
€116.92What 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: €45.16€43.02The 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: €83.30€78.69While 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
€29.38In 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: €51.11€47.25In 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: €55.87€52.88Washington, 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: €71.40€68.71Precise 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: €39.21€37.57What 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: €65.45€63.47Cities 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: €71.40€66.14The 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: €17.85€15.27Apologies 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: €23.80€19.54Apologies 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: €20.22€13.03Apologies 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 -
Youth Crime and Urban Policy: A View from the Inner City by Robert L. Woodson 9780844722108
€9.88Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute and held in Washington, May 1980.Book InformationISBN 9780844722108Author Robert L. WoodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 0Imprint AEI PressPublisher AEI Press -
Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization by Steven High 9780801474019
RRP: €23.79€17.80Deindustrialization is not simply an economic process, but a social and cultural one as well. The rusting detritus of our industrial past-the wrecked hulks of factories, abandoned machinery too large to remove, and now-useless infrastructures-has for... -
Shelter by Bobby Burns 9780816518623
RRP: €22.55€14.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816518623Author Bobby BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press -
The Heart of the World by Nik Cohn 9780679744375
€19.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679744375Author Nik CohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 451g -
There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America by William Julius Wilson 9780679724186
RRP: €22.61€16.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679724186Author William Julius WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 226gDimensions(mm)... -
Show Me a Hero by Lisa Belkin 9780316088640
RRP: €26.17€19.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316088640Author Lisa BelkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 216mm *... -
Milwaukee Memories - Milwaukee and Hollywood & Small Town Memories by Jack Nusan Porter 9780932770523
RRP: €17.79€11.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780932770523Author Jack Nusan PorterFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Spencer PressPublisher Spencer PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Urban Texas: Politics and Development by Char Miller 9780890963975
RRP: €23.74€22.93The major cities of Texas have developed through a complex web of politics, society, and economics. To describe and explain the state's urban evolution, the contributors to Urban Texas use comparative and multidisciplinary perspectives that explore the... -
Foreclosed: High-Risk Lending, Deregulation, and the Undermining of America's Mortgage Market by Daniel Immergluck 9780801477140
RRP: €26.17€19.88Over the last two years, the United States has observed, with some horror, the explosion and collapse of entire segments of the housing market, especially those driven by subprime and alternative or "exotic" home mortgage lending. The... -
On the Nature of Cities: Toward Enduring and Creative Human Environments by Kenneth R Schneider 9780595304141
RRP: €24.98€20.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595304141Author Kenneth R SchneiderFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 562g -
Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing by Max Holleran 9780691259116
RRP: €19.03€15.36A fascinating account of the growing "Yes in My Backyard" urban movement The exorbitant costs of urban housing and the widening gap in income inequality are fueling a combative new movement in cities around the world. A growing number of influential... -
Urban Informal Settlements: Chengzhongcun and Chinese Urbanism by Yannan Ding 9789811692017
RRP: €53.54€39.00This book offers a concise and yet diverse study on the Chengzhongcun. It has a broader scope, both geographical and temporal, than existing works on this topic. The typical Chinese urban informal settlement is related to morphologically similar... -
Bike Lanes Are White Lanes: Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planning by Melody Lynn Hoffmann 9780803276789
RRP: €42.84€37.58The number of bicyclists is increasing in the United States, especially among the working class and people of color. In contrast to the demographics of bicyclists in the United States, advocacy for bicycling has focused mainly on the interests of white... -
The Making of Little Saigon: Narratives of Nostalgia, (Dis)Enchantments, and Aspirations by Tung X Bui 9780761874287
RRP: €22.60€19.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761874287Author Tung X BuiFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint University Press of AmericaPublisher University Press of America -
Our America by Lealan Jones 9780671004644
RRP: €21.41€13.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671004644Author Lealan JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 236mm *... -
Shelter, Settlement & Development by Lloyd Rodwin 9781032222028
RRP: €35.69€31.70First published in 1987, Shelter, Settlement & Development presents a comprehensive and authoritative reappraisal of shelter, settlement and development policies and programs in third world countries. Drawing on the considerable research and advisory... -
Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City by Richard E. Ocejo 9780691211329
RRP: €29.75€22.32An unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small cityNewburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New York City in the Hudson River Valley. Like many... -
Tours Inside the Snow Globe: Ottawa Monuments and National Belonging by Tonya K. Davidson 9781771126021
RRP: €48.73€42.54The toppling of monuments globally in the last few years has highlighted the potency of monuments as dynamic and affectively-loaded participants in society. In the context of Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, monuments inspire colonial and imperial... -
Infrastructural Times: Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds by Lauren Marino 9781529229714
RRP: €101.15€77.78Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders—and depends on—multiple urban temporalities. This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between... -
State of Slum: Precarity and Informal Governance at the Margins in Accra by Paul Stacey 9781786992048
€95.25Home to eighty thousand people, Accra's Old Fadama neighbourhood is the largest illegal slum in Ghana. Though almost all its inhabitants are Ghanaian born, their status as illegal 'squatters' means that they live a precarious existence, marginalised... -
Negotiating Demands: Politics of Skid Row Policing in Edinburgh, San Francisco, and Vancouver by Laura Huey 9780802094827
RRP: €41.65€36.58The 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... -
Gentrifier: A Memoir by Anne Elizabeth Moore 9781646221592
RRP: €20.17€11.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646221592Author Anne Elizabeth MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint CatapultPublisher CatapultWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm * 19mm -
The Tiny House Movement: Challenging Our Consumer Culture by Tracey Harris 9781498557474
RRP: €44.03€38.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498557474Author Tracey HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
The Canadian City by Roger Kemble 9780887722226
RRP: €23.74€16.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887722226Author Roger KembleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Ottawa PressPublisher University of Ottawa PressWeight(grams) 277g