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Remaking New Orleans: Beyond Exceptionalism and Authenticity by Thomas Jessen Adams 9781478001829
RRP: €115.43€92.37Approached as a wellspring of cultural authenticity and historical exceptionality, New Orleans appears in opposition to a nation perpetually driven by progress. Remaking New Orleans shows how this narrative is rooted in a romantic cultural tradition,... -
Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal by Rosalind Fredericks 9781478000990
RRP: €107.10€85.81Over the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in the struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor. Through strikes and public dumping, Dakar's streets have been... -
The City Aroused: Queer Places and Urban Redevelopment in Postwar San Francisco by Damon Scott 9781477328347
RRP: €47.60€36.58A history of San Francisco that studies change in the postwar urban landscape in relation to the city's queer culture.Book InformationISBN 9781477328347Author Damon ScottFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint University of Texas PressPublisher University... -
Why Detroit Matters: Decline, Renewal and Hope in a Divided City by Brian Doucet 9781447327875
RRP: €34.50€26.53Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities struggle with urban decline, racial and ethnic tensions and the consequences of neoliberal governance and political fragmentation,... -
Why Detroit Matters: Decline, Renewal and Hope in a Divided City by Brian Doucet 9781447327868
RRP: €102.33€78.66Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities struggle with urban decline, racial and ethnic tensions and the consequences of neoliberal governance and political fragmentation,... -
Divercities: Understanding Super-Diversity in Deprived and Mixed Neighbourhoods by Stijn Oosterlynck 9781447338185
RRP: €32.12€24.80How do people deal with diversity in deprived and mixed urban neighbourhoods? This edited collection provides a comparative international perspective on superdiversity in cities, with explicit attention given to social inequality and social exclusion on... -
Paradoxes of Segregation: Housing Systems, Welfare Regimes and Ethnic Residential Change in Southern European Cities by Sonia Arbaci 9781444338324
€92.23Through an international comparative research, this unique book examines ethnic residential segregation patterns in relation to the wider society and mechanisms of social division of space in Western European regions. Focuses on eight Southern... -
Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe by Adrian Favell 9781405134057
€90.86Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe examines intra-European Union migration in the cities of Amsterdam, London and Brussels.* Based on sixty in-depth interviews of free moving European citizens, and more than... -
Critical Cities: Ideas, Knowledge and Agitation from Emerging Urbanists: Volume 3 by Deepa Naik 9780956353931
RRP: €21.41€21.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956353931Author Deepa NaikFormat PaperbackPage Count 445Imprint Myrdle Court PressPublisher Myrdle Court PressWeight(grams) 671g -
Caste and Class Controversy on Race and Poverty: Round Two of the Willie/Wilson Debate by Charles Vert Willie 9780930390969
€40.88To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.Book InformationISBN 9780930390969Author Charles Vert WillieFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint General Hall Inc.,U.S.Publisher General Hall Inc.,U.S... -
The Twenty-First Century City: Resurrecting Urban America by Stephen Goldsmith 9780847692514
RRP: €41.65€31.20America's cities can be saved-so says Indianapolis Mayor Stephen Goldsmith. As the mayor of America's twelfth largest city, he eliminated city deficits, cut the city payroll, enhanced services, rebuilt infrastructure, revitalized neighborhoods, and... -
The Roads to Hillbrow: Making Life in South Africa's Community of Migrants by Ron Nerio 9780823299409
RRP: €35.69€28.73This 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... -
The Roads to Hillbrow: Making Life in South Africa's Community of Migrants by Ron Nerio 9780823299393
RRP: €133.28€106.08This 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: €10.70€9.48Zonas 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
€97.34In 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: €122.57€98.45On 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: €30.93€24.80A 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: €92.82€73.78For 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: €28.55€22.84Nearly 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: €28.55€22.84In 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: €79.73€63.74Winner 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: €27.36€21.86Apologies 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: €33.31€25.79Next 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: €30.93€24.80The 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
€107.43The 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
€35.22Representations 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
€107.43Representations 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
€106.96Street 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: €30.93€24.80Honorable 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: €85.68€67.75Ideas, 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: €96.39€76.70Street 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: €30.93€24.80Building 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: €96.39€77.17This 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: €36.89€28.73This 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: €57.12€50.04The 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: €109.48€95.83Function-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: €104.72€91.74The 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: €49.98€43.95From 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: €21.41€17.11"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: €33.32€26.42Baltimore 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...