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European Cities: Modernity, Race and Colonialism by Noa K. Ha 9781526178718
RRP: $52.50$37.63This multidisciplinary collection of scholarship rethinks European urban modernity from a race-conscious perspective, being aware of (post)colonial entanglements. The twelve original contributions empirically focus on such varied cities as Barcelona,... -
Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe by Udo Grashoff 9781787355224
RRP: $48.28$42.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787355224Author Udo GrashoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press -
Radical Space: Exploring Politics and Practice by Fae Brauer 9781783481521
RRP: $94.50$82.93The spatial turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences has produced a considerable body of work which re-assesses space beyond the fixed Cartesian co-ordinates of Modernity and the nation state. In the process, space has been revealed as a productively... -
Radical Space: Exploring Politics and Practice by Fae Brauer 9781783481514
RRP: $270.90$245.22The spatial turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences has produced a considerable body of work which re-assesses space beyond the fixed Cartesian co-ordinates of Modernity and the nation state. In the process, space has been revealed as a productively... -
Little Vast Rooms of Undoing: Exploring Identity and Embodiment through Public Toilet Spaces by Dara Blumenthal 9781783480340
RRP: $270.90$245.22Public toilets are places where individual identity is put to the test through experiences of fear, anxiety, shame, and embarrassment, yet also places where we shore up, confirm, and check the status of our gendered identities. In these highly gendered... -
Community in Urban-Rural Systems: Theory, Planning, and Development by Gregory M. Fulkerson 9781666917536
RRP: $178.50$156.47Gregory M. Fulkerson offers a complete portrait of what communities are, how they work, and how they are embedded in urban-rural systems at regional, national, and global scales. After explaining the concept of urban-rural systems, Fulkerson walks... -
Country Teachers in City Schools: The Challenge of Negotiating Identity and Place by Chea Parton 9781666909012
RRP: $161.70$142.00Country Teachers in City Schools: The Challenge of Negotiating Identity and Place explores what it’s like to be a country teacher in a city school. Through conversations with teachers who grew up one place and ended up teaching in another, Chea Parton... -
Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire by Edvige Giunta 9781613321515
RRP: $168.00$136.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613321515Author Edvige GiuntaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint New Village PressPublisher New Village PressWeight(grams) 152g -
How Spaces Become Places: Place Makers Tell Their Stories by John F. Forester 9781613321430
RRP: $168.00$136.19Useful and inspiring cases illustrate participatory placemaking practices and strategies These are stories of community members acting together to transform empty, contested, or unsafe spaces into functional, safe, convivial places. A diverse set of... -
Urbanisation Process in Cameroon: Patterns, Implications and Prospects by Lawrence Fon 9781608769186
RRP: $302.38$199.42The book takes off with a general overview which is an introduction to urban studies and urbanisation. The next chapter is an analysis of the patterns of urbanisation which are essential for an understanding of the internal structure and development of... -
Focus on Urbanization Trends by Laura M. De Smet 9781604561098
RRP: $363.28$239.82Urbanisation refers to a process in which an increasing proportion of an entire population lives in cities and the suburbs of cities. Historically, it has been closely connected with industrialisation. When more and more inanimate sources of energy were... -
Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons: Pursuing Democracy’s Promise through Place-Based Activism by Sharon Egretta Sutton 9781531502812
RRP: $226.80$180.05A rare and powerful illustration of what it takes to become a sustainable, community-embedded organization that continually grows the next generation of compassionate leaders. This essential, timely book meets us at our current moment of crisis to offer... -
Beyond the Neoliberal Creative City: Critique and Alternatives in the Urban Cultural Economy by Robert G. Hollands 9781529233124
RRP: $168.00$127.83A buoyant, creative economy can be seen as the saviour of many cities, but behind such ‘urban makeovers’ lie serious problems such as widening inequalities, job precarity, gentrification and environmental issues. In light of the pandemic and climate... -
Cyclescapes of the Unequal City: Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development by John G. Stehlin 9781517903800
RRP: $203.70$176.46A critical look at the political economy of urban bicycle infrastructure in the United States Not long ago, bicycling in the city was considered a radical statement or a last resort, and few cyclists braved the inhospitable streets of most American... -
The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil by Jaime Amparo Alves 9781517901554
RRP: $203.70$176.46An important new ethnographic study of Sao Paulo's favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil While Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call... -
Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers by Shiloh Krupar 9781517915421
RRP: $18.90$16.76The role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheidHealth Colonialism considers how U.S. urban development policies contribute to the uneven and unjust distribution of health care in this country. Here, Shiloh Krupar... -
Fearing the Immigrant: Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto by Parastou Saberi 9781517909840
RRP: $52.48$45.51A fascinating deep dive into one city's urban policy-and the anxiety over immigrants that informs it The city of Toronto is often held up as a leader in diversity and inclusion. In Fearing the Immigrant, however, Parastou Saberi argues that... -
Fearing the Immigrant: Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto by Parastou Saberi 9781517909833
RRP: $218.40$189.00A fascinating deep dive into one city's urban policy-and the anxiety over immigrants that informs it The city of Toronto is often held up as a leader in diversity and inclusion. In Fearing the Immigrant, however, Parastou Saberi argues that... -
American Indians and the American Dream: Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota by Kasey R. Keeler 9781517909253
RRP: $46.18$36.83Understanding the processes and policies of urbanization and suburbanization in American Indian communities Nearly seven out of ten American Indians live in urban areas, yet studies of urban Indian experiences remain scant. Studies of suburban Natives... -
Building on Borrowed Time: Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang by Lukas Ley 9781517908874
RRP: $203.70$162.16A timely ethnography of how Indonesia's coastal dwellers inhabit the "chronic present" of a slow-motion natural disaster Ice caps are melting, seas are rising, and densely populated cities worldwide are threatened by floodwaters, especially... -
Social Policy and Social Justice by John L. Jackson 9781512821468
RRP: $54.58$43.76The Penn School of Social Policy and Practice enjoys a reputation as Penn's social justice school, for its faculty actively strives to translate the highest ideals into workable programs that better people's lives. In this election year, as Americans... -
Panic City: Crime and the Fear Industries in Johannesburg by Martin J. Murray 9781503610194
RRP: $262.50$211.30Despite the end of white minority rule and the transition to parliamentary democracy, Johannesburg remains haunted by its tortured history of racial segregation and burdened by enduring inequalities in income, opportunities for stable work, and access to... -
The Sensation of Security: Private Guards and Social Order in Brazil by Erika Robb Larkins 9781501769740
RRP: $54.58$43.76The Sensation of Security explores how private security guards are a permanent, conspicuous fixture of everyday life in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research with security laborers, managers, company owners, and... -
Vulnerable Communities: Research, Policy, and Practice in Small Cities by James J. Connolly 9781501761546
RRP: $62.98$50.69Vulnerable Communities examines the struggles of smaller cities in the United States, those with populations between 20,000 and 200,000. Like many larger metropolitan centers, these places are confronting change within a globalized economic and cultural... -
How to Build a Global City: Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination by Michele Acuto 9781501761300
RRP: $71.40$55.65In How to Build a Global City, Michele Acuto considers the rise of a new generation of "global cities," Singapore, Sydney and Dubai, and the power that this idea had in their ascent, in order to analyze the general relationship between global... -
The Tiny House Movement: Challenging Our Consumer Culture by Tracey Harris 9781498557450
RRP: $178.50$156.47The Tiny House Movement: Challenging Consumer Culture features in-depth interviews with movement residents, builders, and advocates, as well as the author's insights from her fieldwork of living tiny. In it, we learn how the movement is challenging... -
Vegas Brews: Craft Beer and the Birth of a Local Scene by Michael Ian Borer 9781479885251
RRP: $168.00$95.30An inside look at how craft beer makers and IPA devotees come together to brew, taste, and enjoy fine ale while also building a sense of community in Las Vegas Equally reviled and revered as Sin City, Las Vegas is both exceptional and emblematic of... -
Vegas Brews: Craft Beer and the Birth of a Local Scene by Michael Ian Borer 9781479879618
RRP: $54.58$43.76An inside look at how craft beer makers and IPA devotees come together to brew, taste, and enjoy fine ale while also building a sense of community in Las Vegas Equally reviled and revered as Sin City, Las Vegas is both exceptional and emblematic of... -
Surviving Poverty: Creating Sustainable Ties among the Poor by Joan Maya Mazelis 9781479870080
RRP: $58.78$45.51Surviving Poverty carefully examines the experiences of people living below the poverty level, looking in particular at the tension between social isolation and social ties among the poor. Joan Maya Mazelis draws on in-depth interviews with poor... -
Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism by Gregory Smithsimon 9781479861491
RRP: $58.78$45.51A unique insight into desegregation in the suburbs and how racial inequality persists Half of Black Americans who live in the one hundred largest metropolitan areas are now living in suburbs, not cities. In Liberty Road, Gregory Smithsimon shows us how... -
This Is Our School!: Race and Community Resistance to School Reform by Hava Rachel Gordon 9781479848317
RRP: $168.00$135.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479848317Author Hava Rachel GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Liberty Road: Black Middle-Class Suburbs and the Battle Between Civil Rights and Neoliberalism by Gregory Smithsimon 9781479845118
RRP: $168.00$135.35A unique insight into desegregation in the suburbs and how racial inequality persists Half of Black Americans who live in the one hundred largest metropolitan areas are now living in suburbs, not cities. In Liberty Road, Gregory Smithsimon shows us how... -
Taking Back the Boulevard: Art, Activism, and Gentrification in Los Angeles by Jan Lin 9781479895700
RRP: $58.78$47.78The promises and conflicts faced by public figures, artists, and leaders of Northeast Los Angeles as they enliven and defend their neighborhoods Los Angeles is well known as a sprawling metropolis with endless freeways that can make the city feel... -
South Central Dreams: Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A. by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo 9781479807970
RRP: $60.88$48.97Race, place, and identity in a changing urban America Over the last five decades, South Los Angeles has undergone a remarkable demographic transition. In South Central Dreams, eminent scholars Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor follow its... -
South Central Dreams: Finding Home and Building Community in South L.A. by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo 9781479804023
RRP: $168.00$136.19Race, place, and identity in a changing urban America Over the last five decades, South Los Angeles has undergone a remarkable demographic transition. In South Central Dreams, eminent scholars Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Manuel Pastor follow its... -
The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit by Sara Safransky 9781478020028
RRP: $203.70$163.00In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics. In the 2010s, Detroit government officials classified a staggering 150,000 lots—more than a third of the city—as “vacant” or... -
Grammars of the Urban Ground by Ash Amin 9781478015710
RRP: $193.20$155.00The contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities. Building on Marxist, feminist, queer, and critical race... -
In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda by Antonio Tomas 9781478015529
RRP: $193.20$155.00With In the Skin of the City, Antonio Tomas traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, the nation's capital as well as one of the oldest settlements founded by the European colonial powers in the Southern Hemisphere. Drawing on ethnographic... -
The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture by AbdouMaliq Simone 9781478015505
RRP: $178.50$144.29In The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban theory, and decolonial and Islamic thought, Simone centers the... -
The Creative Underclass: Youth, Race, and the Gentrifying City by Tyler Denmead 9781478005933
RRP: $189.00$151.43As an undergraduate at Brown University, Tyler Denmead founded New Urban Arts, a nationally recognized arts and humanities program primarily for young people of color in Providence, Rhode Island. Along with its positive impact, New Urban Arts, under his...