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Preserving Neighborhoods: How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn by Aaron Passell 9780231194068
RRP: £100.00£77.93Historic preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. In this view, designating a neighborhood as historic is a project by and for affluent residents concerned with aesthetics, not affordability. It leads to gentrification and rising... -
Cities and Urban Living by Mark Baldassare 9780231055031
RRP: £42.00£33.04-- Richard Evans Schultes, Botanical Museum of Harvard UniversityBook InformationISBN 9780231055031Author Mark BaldassareFormat PaperbackPage Count 381Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press -
Cities, Society, and Social Perception: A Central African Perspective by J.Clyde Mitchell 9780198232537
£102.06The social and theoretical difficulties raised by the process of urbanization and westernization have constituted a key problem in the urban sociology of developing countries, in the sociology of development and in urban anthropology. This study of... -
Drones in Smart-Cities: Security and Performance by Fadi Al-Turjman 9780128199725
RRP: £97.99£87.70Drones in Smart-Cities: Security and Performance is the first book dedicated to drones in smart cities, helping address the many research challenges in bringing UAVs into practice. The book incorporates insights from the latest research in Internet of... -
My Girls: The Power of Friendship in a Poor Neighborhood by Jasmin Sandelson 9780520388888
RRP: £80.00£61.89Reveals how friendships and social media can help girls survive even the most tragic consequences of American poverty. My Girls explores the overlooked yet transformative power of female friendship in a low-income Boston-area neighborhood. In this... -
Urbanization: Global Trends, Role of Climate Change & Effects on Biodiversity by Harold J. Kauffman 9781631170638
RRP: £141.99£93.66Urbanisation is caused by migration. However, an essential difference exists between migration in the past and that in the present. This book focuses on several topics that include a comparison between an informational city and a smart city; urbanisation... -
Honky by Dalton Conley 9780520397835
RRP: £16.99£13.65This vivid memoir captures how race, class, and privilege shaped a white boy’s coming of age in 1970s New York—now with a new epilogue. “I am not your typical middle-class white male,” begins Dalton Conley’s Honky, an intensely engaging memoir of... -
On Global Grounds: Urban Change & Globalization by Julie Nevarez 9781606920008
RRP: £97.99£65.49On Global combines sound conceptual work and research in specific sites under the rubric of globalization. It provides the opportunity for scholars, researchers, professors and practitioners to become better acquainted with the different impacts of... -
Urbanization Process in Cameroon: Process, Patterns & Implications by Lawrence Fombe Fon 9781619424722
RRP: £141.99£93.66This book begins with an introduction to urban studies and urbanisation. It provides an analysis of the patterns of urbanisation which are essential for an understanding of the internal structure and development of towns in Cameroon. Furthermore, the... -
Waste Works: Vital Politics in Urban Ghana by Brenda Chalfin 9781478019589
RRP: £25.99£22.89In Waste Works, Brenda Chalfin examines Ghana’s planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics and public life. Chalfin argues that at Tema’s midcentury founding, a prime objective of governing... -
Egypt's Housing Crisis: The Shaping of Urban Space by Yahia Shawkat 9789774169571
RRP: £40.00£32.78Along with football and religion, housing is a fundamental cornerstone of Egyptian life: it can make or break marriage proposals, invigorate or slow down the economy, and popularize or embarrass a ruler. Housing is political. Almost every Egyptian ruler... -
Exploring Nightlife: Space, Society and Governance by Jordi Nofre Mateo 9781786603289
RRP: £113.00£99.02While the night has long been associated with crime and fear, over recent decades 'nightlife' has become increasingly associated with the creative economy, tourism, sociability, job growth, and urban regeneration. Debates about anti-social behaviour,... -
Resonant Fabrics: Listening to Urban Worlds by Marvin Heine 9783837666434
RRP: £55.00£40.71Soundscapes profoundly connect listeners to the places they inhabit and thereby reveal the vibrant and resonant fabrics that lie beneath the delineated spaces of visual representation. Marvin Heine explores and celebrates the many-layered and ambiguously... -
The Literature and Study of Urban and Regional Planning by Brenda White 9781032717920
RRP: £91.99£79.80First published in 1974, The Literature and Study of Urban and Regional Planning discusses the processes of spatial planning and the range of subject knowledge which is required to contribute to it. It describes the physical forms in which the literature... -
Reterritorializing the Spaces of Violence in Colombia: Collective Efforts by Constanza López Baquero 9781032442587
RRP: £135.00£117.28This volume examines how violence and resilience is experienced in urban spaces, and explores the history of a variety of people told from the perspective of the margins.Reterritorializing the Spaces of Violence in Colombia provides critical and... -
The Hipster Economy: Taste and Authenticity in Late Modern Capitalism by Alessandro Gerosa 9781800086074
RRP: £20.00£16.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800086074Author Alessandro GerosaFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 8mm -
Narrative in Urban Planning: A Practical Field Guide by Lieven Ameel 9783837666175
RRP: £35.00£28.01What do planners need to know in order to use narrative approaches responsibly in their practice? This practical field guide makes insights from narrative research accessible to planners through a glossary of key concepts in the field of narrative in... -
Canadian City by Kent Gerecke 9780921689928
RRP: £11.99£9.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780921689928Author Kent GereckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books -
Urban Formalism: The Work of City Reading by David Faflik 9780823288045
RRP: £103.00£89.14Urban Formalism radically reimagines what it meant to "read" a brave new urban world during the transformative middle decades of the nineteenth century. At a time when contemporaries in the twin capitals of modernity in the West, New York and... -
Urban Formalism: The Work of City Reading by David Faflik 9780823287680
RRP: £27.99£24.14Urban Formalism radically reimagines what it meant to "read" a brave new urban world during the transformative middle decades of the nineteenth century. At a time when contemporaries in the twin capitals of modernity in the West, New York and... -
Delirious Naples: A Cultural History of the City of the Sun by Pellegrino D'Acierno 9780823279982
RRP: £112.00£96.81This book is addressed to "lovers of paradoxes" and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate... -
Marxist Thought and the City by Henri Lefebvre 9780816698745
RRP: £63.00£54.40One of the most influential Marxist theorists of the twentieth century, Henri Lefebvre first published Marxist Thought and the City in French in 1972, marking a pivotal point in his evolution as a thinker and an important precursor to his groundbreaking... -
Security in the Bubble: Navigating Crime in Urban South Africa by Christine Hentschel 9780816694327
RRP: £23.99£20.84Focusing on the South African city of Durban, Security in the Bubble looks at spatialized security practices, engaging with strategies and dilemmas of urban security governance in cities around the world. While apartheid was spatial governance at its... -
Beautiful Wasteland: The Rise of Detroit as America's Postindustrial Frontier by Rebecca J. Kinney 9780816697571
RRP: £23.99£20.84According to popular media and scholarship, Detroit, the once-vibrant city that crumbled with the departure of the auto industry, is where dreams can be reborn. It is a place that, like America itself, is gritty and determined. It has faced the worst... -
The Servant Class City: Urban Revitalization versus the Working Poor in San Diego by David J. Karjanen 9780816697489
RRP: £23.99£20.84San Diego, California, is frequently viewed as a model for American urban revitalization. It looks like a success story, with blight and poverty replaced by high-rises and jobs. But David J. Karjanen shows that the much-touted job opportunities for poor... -
The City as Campus: Urbanism and Higher Education in Chicago by Sharon Haar 9780816665655
RRP: £23.99£20.84We are witnessing an explosion of universities and campuses nationwide, and urban schools play an important role in shaping the cities outside their walls. In The City as Campus, Sharon Haar uses Chicago as a case study to examine how universities... -
Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee by Lisa Jean Moore 9780814763063
RRP: £76.00£66.15Winner, 2014 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Animals & Society section of the American Sociological Association Bees are essential for human survival-one-third of all food on American dining tables depends on the labor of bees... -
Zero Tolerance: Quality of Life and the New Police Brutality in New York City by Andrea McArdle 9780814756324
RRP: £27.99£24.14Amadou Diallo, Abner Louima, Anthony Baez, Patrick Dorismond. New York City has been rocked in recent years by the fate of these four men at the hands of the police. But police brutality in New York City is a multi-dimensional phenomenon that refers not... -
Street Kids: Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New York's Streets by Kristina E. Gibson 9780814732281
RRP: £27.99£24.14Street outreach workers comb public places such as parks, vacant lots, and abandoned waterfronts to search for young people who are living out in public spaces, if not always in the public eye. Street Kids opens a window to the largely hidden world of... -
Urban Nightlife: Entertaining Race, Class, and Culture in Public Space by Reuben A. Buford May 9780813569390
RRP: £134.00£116.46Sociologists have long been curious about the ways in which city dwellers negotiate urban public space. How do they manage myriad interactions in the shared spaces of the city? In Urban Nightlife, sociologist Reuben May undertakes a nuanced examination... -
Life Among Urban Planners: Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City by Jennifer Mack 9780812252286
RRP: £76.00£66.15Urban planners project the future of cities. As experts, they draft visions of places and times that do not yet exist, prescribing the tools to be used to achieve those visions. Their choices can determine how a city will merge its public transit and... -
The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth by Sam Bass Warner 9780812212433
RRP: £25.99£22.49This award-winning book charts the unfolding, from the Revolutionary War to the Great Depression, of the American tradition of city building and city living, using Philadelphia as a resonant example.Book InformationISBN 9780812212433Author Sam Bass... -
Informal Politics: Street Vendors and the State in Mexico City by John C. Cross 9780804730624
RRP: £29.99£26.37As economic crises struck the Third World in the 1970s and 1980s, large segments of the population turned to the informal economy to survive. Though this phenomenon has previously been analyzed from a strictly economic point of view, this book looks at... -
Coping with Adversity: Regional Economic Resilience and Public Policy by Harold Wolman 9780801478543
RRP: £32.00£28.21Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chronic distress while others are not. It is particularly concerned with what public policies make a difference... -
Reforming New Orleans: The Contentious Politics of Change in the Big Easy by Peter F. Burns 9780801453854
RRP: £116.00£100.22Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, but in the subsequent ten years, the city has demonstrated both remarkable resilience and frustrating stagnation. In Reforming New Orleans, Peter F. Burns and Matthew O. Thomas chart the city's recovery... -
Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy by Nicholas Dagen Bloom 9780801452048
RRP: £116.00£100.22Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common... -
Speaking for a Long Time: Public Space and Social Memory in Vancouver by Adrienne L. Burk 9780774816984
RRP: £94.00£81.48This book will appeal not only to students and scholars of sociology, geography, anthropology, and BC history but also to artists, activists, and community planners.Book InformationISBN 9780774816984Author Adrienne L. BurkFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston by Jeremy Levine 9780691193656
RRP: £84.00£65.69A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban development Who makes decisions that shape the housing, policies, and social programs in urban neighborhoods? Who, in other words, governs? Constructing... -
In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence by Javier Auyero 9780691173030
RRP: £22.00£17.36Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides--often involving young people--continue to skyrocket, and in the emergency room there, victims of shootings or... -
In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence by Javier Auyero 9780691164779
RRP: £35.00£27.74Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides--often involving young people--continue to skyrocket, and in the emergency room there, victims of shootings or...