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The Roads to Hillbrow: Making Life in South Africa's Community of Migrants by Ron Nerio 9780823299393
RRP: $132.87$114.99This highly accessible portrayal of a post-apartheid neighborhood in transition analyzes the relationship between identity, migration, and place. Since it was founded in 1894, amidst Johannesburg's transformation from a mining town into the largest city... -
Zonas Peligrosas: The Challenge of Creating Safe Neighborhoods in Central America by Tom Hare 9780823280919
RRP: $11.60$10.28Zonas Peligrosas: The Challenge of Creating Safe Neighborhoods in Central America examines indicators of orderliness and security in El Salvador, shows how policies and programs based on disorganization theory have been used, and why they might not make... -
Left Bank of the Hudson: Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street by David J. Goodwin 9780823278022
$104.55In the late 1980s, a handful of artists priced out of Manhattan and desperately needing affordable studio space discovered 111 1st Street, a former P. Lorillard Tobacco Company warehouse. Over the next two decades, an eclectic collection of painters,... -
Strip Cultures: Finding America in Las Vegas by The Project on Vegas 9780822359487
RRP: $122.55$106.72On the Las Vegas Strip, blockbuster casinos burst out of the desert, billboards promise "hot babes," actual hot babes proffer complimentary drinks, and a million happy slot machines ring day and night. It's loud and excessive, but, as the... -
Showroom City: Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World by John Joe Schlichtman 9780816699315
RRP: $30.95$26.88A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world High Point, North Carolina, is known as the "Furniture Capital of the World." Once a manufacturing stronghold, most of its furniture factories have... -
DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City without Services by Kimberley Kinder 9780816697076
RRP: $92.88$79.98For ten years James Robertson walked the twenty-one-mile round-trip from his Detroit home to his factory job; when his story went viral, it brought him an outpouring of attention and support. But what of Robertson's Detroit neighbors, likewise stuck in a... -
Cape Town after Apartheid: Crime and Governance in the Divided City by Tony Roshan Samara 9780816670017
RRP: $28.37$24.76Nearly two decades after the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, how different does the nation look? In Cape Town, is hardening inequality under conditions of neoliberal globalization actually reproducing the repressive governance of the apartheid... -
Suburban Beijing: Housing and Consumption in Contemporary China by Friederike Fleischer 9780816665877
RRP: $28.37$24.76In the last decade of the twentieth century, one of the most fundamental changes in urban China has been the expansion and privatization of housing, with per capita housing space increasing by more than 50 percent. As a result, ordinary citizens in urban... -
Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco by Teresa Gowan 9780816648696
RRP: $79.98$69.09Winner of the 2011 Robert Park Award for the Best Book in Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association, 2011 Co-winner of the 2011 Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture, American Sociological Association, 2011 ... -
Urban Encounters by Helen Liggett 9780816641277
RRP: $27.08$23.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816641277Author Helen LiggettFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota Press -
The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy by David N. Pellow 9780814767108
RRP: $32.24$27.95Next to the nuclear industry, the largest producer of contaminants in the air, land, and water is the electronics industry. Silicon Valley hosts the highest density of Superfund sites anywhere in the nation and leads the country in the number of... -
Men and Women Adrift: The YMCA and the YWCA in the City by Nina Mjagkij 9780814755426
RRP: $30.95$26.88The YMCA and the YWCA have been an integral part of America's urban landscape since their emergence almost 150 years ago. Yet the significant influence these organizations had on American society has been largely overlooked. Men and Women Adrift explores... -
Men and Women Adrift: The YMCA and the YWCA in the City by Nina Mjagkij 9780814755419
$116.46The YMCA and the YWCA have been an integral part of America's urban landscape since their emergence almost 150 years ago. Yet the significant influence these organizations had on American society has been largely overlooked. Men and Women Adrift explores... -
Re-Presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the Twenty-First Century Metropolis by Anthony D King 9780814746790
$38.18Representations of the city have typically focused on urban dichotomies such as renewal or decline, poverty or prosperity, and politics or culture. These simplistic portrayals leave many fundamental questions unanswered. What constitutes a city? What... -
Re-Presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the Twenty-First Century Metropolis by Anthony D. King 9780814746783
$116.46Representations of the city have typically focused on urban dichotomies such as renewal or decline, poverty or prosperity, and politics or culture. These simplistic portrayals leave many fundamental questions unanswered. What constitutes a city? What... -
Street Kids: Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New York's Streets by Kristina E. Gibson 9780814732274
$115.95Street 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... -
Authentic New Orleans: Tourism, Culture, and Race in the Big Easy by Kevin Fox Gotham 9780814731864
RRP: $30.95$26.88Honorable Mention for the 2008 Robert Park Outstanding Book Award given by the ASA's Community and Urban Sociology Section Mardi Gras, jazz, voodoo, gumbo, Bourbon Street, the French Quarter-all evoke that place that is unlike any other: New Orleans. In... -
How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development by Richardson Dilworth 9780812252255
RRP: $85.14$73.44Ideas, interests, and institutions are the "holy trinity" of the study of politics. Of the three, ideas are arguably the hardest with which to grapple and, despite a generally broad agreement concerning their fundamental importance, the most... -
The Slow Boil: Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria 9780804798228
RRP: $95.46$83.14Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While neighborhood associations want the vendors off cluttered sidewalks, many... -
Cadres and Kin: Making a Socialist Village in West China, 1921-1991 by Gregory A. Ruf 9780804741293
RRP: $30.95$26.88Building on ethnographic research in a rural village in Sichuan, China's most populous province, this book examines changing relationships between social organization, politics, and economy during the twentieth century. Offering a wealth of empirical... -
Neighbourhood Houses: Building Community in Vancouver by David Hulchanski 9780774865814
RRP: $104.49$83.66This book will be a significant reference for social work researchers, educators, and students, and for local, national, and international policy practitioners, urban planners, community developers, and community service providers.Book InformationISBN... -
Speaking for a Long Time: Public Space and Social Memory in Vancouver by Adrienne L. Burk 9780774816991
RRP: $36.11$31.14This 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 9780774816991Author Adrienne L. BurkFormat PaperbackPage Count... -
Global Perspectives on Urbanization: Essays in Honor of Debnath Mookherjee by George Pomeroy 9780761839101
RRP: $61.92$54.24The emerging and continuing challenge of cities and urbanization has become a forefront in current global concerns. Professors George Pomeroy's and Gerald Webster's book, Global Perspectives on Urbanization, addresses an expanse of challenges related to... -
Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan: A Complex Adaptive Systems Theory Approach by David Rands 9780739173688
RRP: $118.68$103.88Function-Based Spatiality and the Development of Korean Communities in Japan utilizes the theoretical model of complex adaptive systems and introduces the concept of function-based spatiality to investigate the roles of the urban environments of Tokyo... -
Urban Spaces: Planning and Struggles for Land and Community by James Jennings 9780739137444
RRP: $113.52$99.45The control and utilization of urban spaces remains a highly contested issue. Much of the debate centers on issues of economic development versus the maintenance and support of already existing communities. As a number of urban areas are in the throes of... -
From Diversity to Unity: Southern and Appalachian Migrants in Uptown Chicago, 1950-1970 by Roger Guy 9780739118344
RRP: $54.18$47.64From Diversity to Unity is a community study of settlement and adaptation of Southern and Appalachian migrants to the neighborhood of Uptown Chicago. Oral histories, community newspapers, and secondary sources reveal the human experience of urban... -
The Voucher Promise: "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood by Eva Rosen 9780691214986
RRP: $23.21$18.55"A must-read for anyone interested in solutions to America's housing crisis."-Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City An in-depth look at America's largest rental assistance program and... -
The Hero's Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State by Patricia Fernandez-Kelly 9780691173054
RRP: $36.12$28.64Baltimore was once a vibrant manufacturing town, but today, with factory closings and steady job loss since the 1970s, it is home to some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in America. The Hero's Fight provides an intimate look at the effects of... -
The Hero's Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State by Patricia Fernandez-Kelly 9780691162843
$54.36Baltimore was once a vibrant manufacturing town, but today, with factory closings and steady job loss since the 1970s, it is home to some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in America. The Hero's Fight provides an intimate look at the effects of... -
There Goes the Gayborhood? by Amin Ghaziani 9780691158792
RRP: $45.15$36.30Gay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village, have long provided sexual minorities with safe havens in an often unsafe world. But as our society increasingly accepts gays and lesbians into the... -
Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness by Brendan O'Flaherty 9780674543430
RRP: $39.93$31.50Mentally ill people turned out of institutions, crack-cocaine use on the rise, more poverty, public housing a shambles: as attempts to explain homelessness multiply so do the homeless-and we still don't know why. The first full-scale economic analysis... -
Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza 9780520391178
RRP: $30.96$24.29Draws a direct line between redlining, incarceration, and gentrification in an American city. This book shows how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrification in... -
How Ten Global Cities Take On Homelessness: Innovations That Work by Linda Gibbs 9780520344662
RRP: $103.20$79.84Creative solutions for global cities addressing their urgent homeless crises. This book takes on perhaps the most formidable issue facing metropolitan areas today: the large numbers of homeless residents within cities. Four dedicated experts with... -
Aspen and the American Dream: How One Town Manages Inequality in the Era of Supergentrification by Jenny Stuber 9780520306608
RRP: $32.25$25.27How is it possible for a town to exist where the median household income is about $73,000, but the median home price is about $4,000,000? Boring into the "impossible" math of Aspen, Colorado, Stuber explores how middle-class people have found a way to... -
Shaking Up the City: Ignorance, Inequality, and the Urban Question by Tom Slater 9780520303041
RRP: $91.59$79.84Shaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within mainstream urban studies that serve dubious policy agendas. Through a combination of abstract theory and concrete empirical evidence, Tom Slater strives to 'shake up'... -
Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering by Josh Seim 9780520300217
RRP: $103.20$79.84What is the role of the ambulance in the American city? The prevailing narrative provides a rather simple answer: saving and transporting the critically ill and injured. This is not an incorrect description, but it is incomplete. Drawing on field... -
South Bronx Battles: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Renewal by Carolyn McLaughlin 9780520288997
RRP: $32.25$25.27Community activist Carolyn McLaughlin takes us on a journey of the South Bronx through the eyes of its community members. Facing burned-out neighborhoods of the 1970s, the community fought back. McLaughlin illustrates the spirit of the community in... -
The Next Los Angeles, Updated with a New Preface: The Struggle for a Livable City by Robert Gottlieb 9780520250093
RRP: $38.70$30.04While most historians, journalists, and filmmakers have focused on Los Angeles as a bastion of corporate greed, business boosterism, political corruption, cheap labor, exploited immigrants, and unregulated sprawl, "The Next Los Angeles" tells a... -
Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles by Jared Orsi 9780520238503
RRP: $91.59$71.53Although better known for its sunny skies, Los Angeles suffers devastating flooding. This book explores a fascinating and little-known chapter in the city's history - the spectacular failures to control floods that occurred throughout the twentieth... -
Strangers in a Strange Land: Humans in an Urbanizing World by Douglas Massey 9780393927276
$28.88Focusing on three central factors-the physical environment, social relations at the micro level, and social organization at the macro level-Professor Massey argues that humans are genetically programmed to be physiologically, psychologically, and...