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Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity by Marc Augé 9781804292600
RRP: €11.89€9.72An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computer and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Auge calls 'non-space' results in a profound alteration of... -
Planet of Slums by Mike Davis
RRP: €11.89€7.90According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the... -
City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender And The Politics Of Poverty by Ananya Roy
RRP: €29.74€25.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816639335Author Ananya RoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Islamic Empires: Fifteen Cities that Define a Civilization by Justin Marozzi
RRP: €17.84€13.03'Outstanding, illuminating, compelling ... a riveting read' Peter Frankopan, Sunday Times Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North... -
Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perceptions, Attitudes, and Values by Yi-fu Tuan
RRP: €35.70€27.16What are the links between environment and world view? Topophilia, the affective bond between people and place, is the primary theme of this book that examines environmental perceptions and values at different levels: the species, the group, and the... -
A Dictionary of Sociology by John Scott
RRP: €15.46€11.29A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entries on the terminology, methods, concepts, and thinkers in the field, as well as from the related fields of... -
The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett
RRP: €17.84€11.54In this reissue of the 1972 classic of social anatomy, Richard Sennets adds a new introduction to shows how the injuries of class persist into the 21st century. In this intrepid, groundbreaking book, Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb uncover and define... -
Against Landlords: How to Solve the Housing Crisis by Nick Bano 9781804293874
RRP: €20.22€13.65Housing means prosperity and security for some; poverty, precarity and sickness for others. More people live in private rented accommodation than ever before, and rents rise without apparent reason. Homes are smaller every year, and nearly 20 per cent of... -
To Obama by Jeanne Marie Laskas
RRP: €11.89€8.46One of the most important politics books of the year, To Obama is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy. 'The real story of Obama's America' Sunday Times Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from ordinary... -
Why Public Space Matters by Setha Low
RRP: €23.79€20.86Drawing from decades of research, Setha Low shows how public space contributes to a flourishing society through promoting social justice and democratic practices. Thriving public spaces also enhance creativity, health, urban resilience, and environmental... -
The Sugar Girls: Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End by Duncan Barrett
RRP: €11.89€7.90Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten. 'On an autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the... -
Worktown: The Astonishing Story of the Project that launched Mass Observation by David Hall
RRP: €13.08€8.81The astonishing story of the project that launched Mass Observation In the late 1930s the Lancashire town of Bolton witnessed a ground-breaking social experiment. Over three years, a team of ninety observers recorded, in painstaking detail, the everyday... -
<I>La Parisienne</i> in Cinema: Between Art and Life by Felicity Chaplin
RRP: €29.75€21.32Chic, sophisticated, seductive and enigmatic, the Parisienne possesses a je ne sais quoi that makes her difficult to define. But who or what is the Parisienne, and how is she depicted in cinema? The first book-length study on the subject combines... -
Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise by Scott Rozelle
RRP: €19.04€15.49As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible China,... -
Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too by Matt Brown
RRP: €13.08€8.81Across the world, there is a growing recognition that a new kind of economy is needed: more democratic, less exploitative, less destructive of society and the planet. Paint Your Town Red looks at how wealth can be generated and shared at a local level... -
The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue des Martyrs by Elaine Sciolino
RRP: €16.65€13.41Elaine Sciolino, the former Paris bureau chief of The New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favourite Parisian street. "I can never be sad on the rue des Martyrs", Sciolino explains as she celebrates the area's rich history and vibrant lives. While... -
Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City by Elijah Anderson
RRP: €17.84€15.51Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules-based largely on an individual's ability... -
I Could Be So Good for You: A Portrait of the North London Working Class by John Medhurst
RRP: €22.60€15.65I Could Be So Good For You tackles head-on the pernicious and implicitly racist fiction that London, most especially north London, has no "real" working class in comparison to a more "authentic" working class in a place called "the North". In doing... -
This is London: Life and Death in the World City by Ben Judah
RRP: €13.08€9.17This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers. This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians.This is London as you've never seen it before... -
The Families Who Made Rome: A History and a Guide by Anthony Majanlahti
RRP: €20.22€14.61How often does a visitor to Rome drift towards some landmark and wonder who created it? Why? What was their story? This fascinating book provides the answers. At once a history and a guide, it divides Rome into the districts dominated by the fabulously... -
Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain by Lisa McKenzie 9781447309956
RRP: €20.22€16.16While the 1% rule, poor neighbourhoods have become the subject of public concern and media scorn, blamed for society's ills. This unique book redresses the balance. Lisa Mckenzie lived on the St Ann's estate in Nottingham for more than 20 years. Her... -
Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City by Dale Leorke 9780367618193
RRP: €45.21€39.72This book explores what games and play can tell us about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how the dynamics of gaming can help us understand the interurban competition that underpins the entrepreneurialism of the smart and creative city... -
Seeing Like a City by Ash Amin
RRP: €20.22€18.11Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization... -
Social Glimpses of Iraq's Modern History- Iraq from 1920-1924 by Ali Al-Wardi 9781922583314
RRP: €32.12€22.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922583314Author Ali Al-WardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Lantern PublicationsPublisher Lantern PublicationsWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm)... -
Urban Regeneration in the UK by Andrew Tallon
RRP: €42.83€38.19This textbook provides an accessible and critical synthesis of urban regeneration in the UK, incorporating key policies, approaches, issues, debates and case studies. The central objective of the textbook is to place the historical and contemporary... -
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities by Veronica Davis 9781642832099
RRP: €30.94€25.82Transportation planners, engineers, and policymakers in the US face the monumental task of righting the wrongs of their predecessors while charting the course for the next generation. This task requires empathy while pushing against forces in the... -
The Wandering Jews by Joseph Roth
RRP: €14.27€10.71This is the first English translation of Joseph Roth's portrayal of the Jews of Eastern Europe: their poverty, their towns and trades, their feast days and the mysticism of their rabbis. Roth was conscious that this was a community living under the... -
Affluenza by Oliver James
RRP: €20.22€14.61There is currently an epidemic of 'affluenza' throughout the world - an obsessive, envious, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses - that has resulted in huge increases in depression and anxiety among millions. Over a nine-month period, bestselling author Oliver... -
Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogota by Austin Zeiderman
RRP: €29.74€25.26Security and risk have become central to how cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited in the twenty-first century. In Endangered City, Austin Zeiderman focuses on this new political imperative to govern the present in anticipation of future... -
Creating Community-Led and Self-Build Homes: A Guide to Collaborative Practice in the UK by Martin Field
RRP: €11.89€9.51In Creating Community-Led and Self-Build Homes, Martin Field explores the ways in which people and communities across the UK have been striving to create the homes and neighbourhood communities they want. Giving context to contemporary practices in the... -
The North Will Rise Again: In Search of the Future in Northern Heartlands by Alex Niven
RRP: €23.80€18.30"Incorporating sharp questions and big ideas, Niven shifts deftly between history, politics, culture and literature to offer a fascinating and provocative analysis of the marginalisation of the North." Madeleine Bunting, author of Labours of Love: the... -
Soft City: Picador Classic by Jonathan Raban
RRP: €13.08€9.17Jonathan Raban's Soft City is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city. First published in the 1970s, it is now more relevant to today's overcrowded planet than ever.With an introduction by Iain Sinclair.In the city... -
Les Fleurs Du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) by Charles Baudelaire
RRP: €13.08€9.26The celebrated, National Book Award winning, translation of Baudelaire's masterpiece. "It is the English edition to acquire."-Washington PostPulitzer Prize winning poet and translator, Richard Howard, gives readers the true voice of Baudelaire in this... -
Messengers by Julian Sayarer
RRP: €10.70€7.38AUTHOR OF INTERSTATE, STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016"Julian's tales of weaving through the streets of London on two wheels bring to life the gig economy, showing how things have changed in the modern workforce but have also stayed the same... -
Palaces for the People: How To Build a More Equal and United Society by Eric Klinenberg
RRP: €13.08€9.25How can we bring people together? Sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg introduces a transformative and powerfully uplifting new idea for health, happiness, safety and healing our divided, unequal society. 'This wonderful book shows us how... -
Digital and Smart Cities by Katharine S. Willis
RRP: €44.02€38.71Digital and Smart Cities presents an overview of how technologies shape our cities. There is a growing awareness in the fields of design and architecture of the need to address the way that technology affects the urban condition. This book aims to give... -
Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity by Edward Dimendberg
RRP: €41.59€32.90Film noir remains one of the most enduring legacies of 1940s and '50s Hollywood. Populated by double-crossing, unsavory characters, this pioneering film style explored a shadow side of American life during a period of tremendous prosperity and optimism... -
Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution by Janette Sadik-Khan
RRP: €22.60€15.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128977Author Janette Sadik-KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Roissy Express: Journey Through the Paris Suburbs by Francois Maspero 9780860916987
RRP: €22.60€19.16There can be few routes through France which have not been exhaustively charted by travel writers. There's one, however, which runs for fifty kilometres through picturesque-sounding towns like Aubennlhers. Blanc Mesnil and Gif-sur-Yvette. But there are... -
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis
RRP: €15.46€10.09No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and...