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The Hero's Fight: African Americans in West Baltimore and the Shadow of the State by Patricia Fernandez-Kelly 9780691162843
$90.32Baltimore 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: $73.50$59.09Gay 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: $65.00$51.28Mentally 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: $50.40$39.54Draws 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: $168.00$129.97Creative 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: $52.50$41.14How 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: $149.10$129.97Shaking 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: $168.00$129.97What 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: $52.50$41.14Community 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: $63.00$48.91While 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: $149.10$116.45Although 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
$48.03Focusing 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... -
Urban Risk Management in China: Principles, Methods and Practices by Jianping Sun 9780443186424
RRP: $201.50$180.41Urban Risk Management in China: Principles, Methods and Practices discusses the management of urban risk, the practical application of risk prevention, and the practice of control in the industry. Urban risk management is an emerging and... -
Digitally Disrupted Space: Proximity and New Development Opportunities for Regions and Cities by Anastasia Panori 9780443141508
RRP: $201.50$180.41Digitally Disrupted Space: Proximity and New Development Opportunities for Regions and Cities develops an analytical framework of the key structural elements in relation to the digital space and its impact on existing spatial interactions at a regional... -
Preserving Neighborhoods: How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn by Aaron Passell 9780231194068
RRP: $210.00$163.65Historic 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: $88.20$69.38-- 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
$92.63The 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: $205.78$184.17Drones 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: $168.00$129.97Reveals 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: $298.18$196.69Urbanisation 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: $35.68$28.67This 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: $205.78$137.53On 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: $298.18$196.69This 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: $54.58$44.60In 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... -
Exploring Nightlife: Space, Society and Governance by Jordi Nofre Mateo 9781786603289
RRP: $237.30$207.94While 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: $105.00$85.49Soundscapes 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: $193.18$167.58First 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: $283.50$246.29This 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... -
Narrative in Urban Planning: A Practical Field Guide by Lieven Ameel 9783837666175
RRP: $71.38$58.82What 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: $25.18$20.45Apologies 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: $216.30$172.89Urban 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: $58.78$47.23Urban 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: $235.20$187.19This 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: $132.30$105.36One 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: $50.38$40.30Focusing 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: $50.38$45.30According 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: $50.38$40.30San 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: $50.38$40.30We 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: $159.60$126.65Winner, 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: $58.78$45.51Amadou 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...