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Partisans on both the left and right wings of America's theory class and political spectrum believe we're in trouble, big trouble. The economy is limping along. Inequality has reached unprecedented levels. And we seem to be on the verge of being...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781512812596Author William M KephartFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint University of Pennsylvania PressPublisher University of Pennsylvania...

This book is an exploration of the sociological, biological, and psychological forces that create pathways into and out of street deviance. Utilizing in-depth case studies, the book examines the relationship of an individual's learned and inherited human...

Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States. The city's expansion-at the rate of one acre per hour-comes at the expense of its Sonoran Desert environment. For some residents, the American Dream has become a...

The Overworked Consumer examines how the growing use of self-service technology in the U.S. economy has contributed to Americans' feelings of busyness and overwork by asking them to perform a variety of tasks in work-like settings for free. Focusing on...

It is not uncommon to hear that poor school performance, welfare dependancy, youth unemployment, and criminal activity result more from shortcomings in the personal makeup of individuals than from societal forces beyond their control. Are American values...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013295508Author Pablo SendraFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

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...

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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)...

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...

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...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781794820227Author Larry PerdueFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 132g

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The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814380966Author Siew Yean ThamFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Institute of Southeast Asian StudiesPublisher Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786205316566Author Richard Muniputu MangandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 118g