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Street Kids: Homeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New York's Streets by Kristina E. Gibson 9780814732281
RRP: £27.99£21.67Street 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... -
Urban Nightlife: Entertaining Race, Class, and Culture in Public Space by Reuben A. Buford May 9780813569390
RRP: £134.00£107.04Sociologists have long been curious about the ways in which city dwellers negotiate urban public space. How do they manage myriad interactions in the shared spaces of the city? In Urban Nightlife, sociologist Reuben May undertakes a nuanced examination... -
Life Among Urban Planners: Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City by Jennifer Mack 9780812252286
RRP: £76.00£60.31Urban planners project the future of cities. As experts, they draft visions of places and times that do not yet exist, prescribing the tools to be used to achieve those visions. Their choices can determine how a city will merge its public transit and... -
The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth by Sam Bass Warner 9780812212433
RRP: £25.99£20.84This award-winning book charts the unfolding, from the Revolutionary War to the Great Depression, of the American tradition of city building and city living, using Philadelphia as a resonant example.Book InformationISBN 9780812212433Author Sam Bass... -
Informal Politics: Street Vendors and the State in Mexico City by John C. Cross 9780804730624
RRP: £29.99£24.14As economic crises struck the Third World in the 1970s and 1980s, large segments of the population turned to the informal economy to survive. Though this phenomenon has previously been analyzed from a strictly economic point of view, this book looks at... -
Coping with Adversity: Regional Economic Resilience and Public Policy by Harold Wolman 9780801478543
RRP: £32.00£24.96Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chronic distress while others are not. It is particularly concerned with what public policies make a difference... -
Reforming New Orleans: The Contentious Politics of Change in the Big Easy by Peter F. Burns 9780801453854
RRP: £116.00£93.40Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, but in the subsequent ten years, the city has demonstrated both remarkable resilience and frustrating stagnation. In Reforming New Orleans, Peter F. Burns and Matthew O. Thomas chart the city's recovery... -
Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy by Nicholas Dagen Bloom 9780801452048
RRP: £116.00£93.40Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common... -
Speaking for a Long Time: Public Space and Social Memory in Vancouver by Adrienne L. Burk 9780774816984
RRP: £94.00£75.53This 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 9780774816984Author Adrienne L. BurkFormat HardbackPage Count... -
Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston by Jeremy Levine 9780691193656
RRP: £84.00£65.69A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban development Who makes decisions that shape the housing, policies, and social programs in urban neighborhoods? Who, in other words, governs? Constructing... -
In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence by Javier Auyero 9780691173030
RRP: £22.00£17.36Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides--often involving young people--continue to skyrocket, and in the emergency room there, victims of shootings or... -
In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence by Javier Auyero 9780691164779
RRP: £35.00£27.74Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides--often involving young people--continue to skyrocket, and in the emergency room there, victims of shootings or... -
Upscaling Downtown: From Bowery Saloons to Cocktail Bars in New York City by Richard E. Ocejo 9780691155166
RRP: £35.00£27.74Once known for slum-like conditions in its immigrant and working-class neighborhoods, New York City's downtown now features luxury housing, chic boutiques and hotels, and, most notably, a vibrant nightlife culture. While a burgeoning bar scene can be... -
Aspen and the American Dream: How One Town Manages Inequality in the Era of Supergentrification by Jenny Stuber 9780520306592
RRP: £80.00£61.89How 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 the middle class have found a... -
My Los Angeles: From Urban Restructuring to Regional Urbanization by Edward W. Soja 9780520281745
RRP: £30.00£23.29Fighting the distorted imagery attached to Los Angeles, Edward Soja uses LA to rekindle our urban imagination about major issues affecting the world today. Here is a Los Angeles worthy to be learned from, an exemplary city region consisting of a network... -
Working-Class Heroes: Protecting Home, Community, and Nation in a Chicago Neighborhood by Maria Kefalas 9780520235434
£31.37Chicago's Southwest Side is one of the last remaining footholds for the city's white working class, a little-studied and little-understood segment of the American population. This book paints a nuanced and complex portrait of the firefighters, police... -
Return to the Center: Culture, Public Space, and City Building in a Global Era by Lawrence A. Herzog 9780292712621
RRP: £21.99£17.54The redesign and revitalization of traditional urban centers is the cutting edge of contemporary urban planning, as evidenced by the intense public and professional attention to the rebuilding of city cores from Berlin to New York City's "Ground... -
Extended Handshake or Wrestling Match?: Youth and Urban Culture Celebrating Politics in Kenya by Fibian Kavulani Lukalo 9789171065674
RRP: £7.95£6.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789171065674Author Fibian Kavulani LukaloFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Nordic Africa InstitutePublisher Nordic Africa InstituteWeight(grams) 154g -
Land Stocks: New Operations Landscapes of City and Territory by ,Maddalena Ferretti 9788898774937
RRP: £20.00£16.43Land Stocks are landscapes whose potential is deemed lost or worthless. This book seeks to reclaim the latent usefulness of these areas. It envisions the residual spaces, wastelands, and destitute buildings that exist within the complex urban tapestry as... -
Single and the City by Julita Czernecka 9788323336945
RRP: £35.00£27.74What does the single life look like and does it have anything in common with what the media show? This question has caused much discussion on the Internet, in TV debates, in the press and on the radio. This book explores the issue of singles in big... -
Contemporary Indian Urban Society: Ethnicity, Gender, and Governance by Rajesh Gill 9788189640613
RRP: £37.99£9.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788189640613Author Rajesh GillFormat HardbackPage Count 380Imprint Bookwell PublicationsPublisher Bookwell Publications -
Earth and Industry: Stories from Gippsland by Erik Eklund 9781922235046
RRP: £26.99£22.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922235046Author Erik EklundFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University PublishingWeight(grams) 368g -
Self-Build Homes: Social Discourse, Experiences and Directions by Michaela Benson 9781911576891
RRP: £40.00£35.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911576891Author Michaela BensonFormat HardbackPage Count 332Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press -
Suburban Urbanities: Suburbs and the Life of the High Street by Professor Laura Vaughan 9781910634141
RRP: £45.00£39.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910634141Author Professor Laura VaughanFormat HardbackPage Count 380Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press -
Drink and the City: Alcohol and Alcohol Problems in Urban UK, Since the 1950s by Dr J. E. McGregory 9781908062857
RRP: £40.00£35.22This book uses Nottingham, a city in the East Midlands of England, as a case study to examine changing attitudes and responses to drinking and alcohol problems in the UK from the 1950s to early 2000s. Based on original research drawn from local archives... -
Little Vast Rooms of Undoing: Exploring Identity and Embodiment through Public Toilet Spaces by Dara Blumenthal 9781783480357
RRP: £45.00£39.49Public 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... -
Contested City: Art and Public History as Mediation at New York's Seward Park Urban Renewal Area by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani 9781609386108
£52.62For forty years, as New York's Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the neighborhood, a wasteland of vacant lots known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area (SPURA). Most of the buildings on... -
The Public Place: Citizen Participation in the Neighbourhood and the City by Dimitrios Roussopoulos 9781551641560
RRP: £13.95£11.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551641560Author Dimitrios RoussopoulosFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Black Rose BooksPublisher Black Rose Books -
The City in China: New Perspectives On Contemporary Urbanism by Ray Forrest 9781529205473
RRP: £79.99£60.86In 1915 Robert Park penned his seminal paper "The City: Suggestions for the investigation of human behaviour in the city environment". This essay provided an agenda for the Chicago School of Urban Sociology, which formed the basis of urban... -
Saving Our Cities: A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America by William W. Goldsmith 9781501704314
RRP: £25.99£20.84In Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived cities and suburbs, working as places that serve all their residents, metropolitan areas will thrive, thus... -
No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court by Edward Humes 9781501102936
RRP: £18.99£12.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501102936Author Edward HumesFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363g -
Reframing the Reclaiming of Urban Space: A Feminist Exploration into Do-It-Yourself Urbanism in Chicago by Megan E. Heim LaFrombois 9781498548694
RRP: £80.00£70.20In Reframing the Reclaiming of Urban Space: A Feminist Exploration into Do-It-Yourself Urbanism in Chicago, Megan E. Heim LaFrombois explores the concept of do-it-yourself (DIY) urbanism from an intersectional, feminist, analytical framework... -
A Recipe for Gentrification: Food, Power, and Resistance in the City by Dr. Alison Hope Alkon 9781479834433
RRP: £89.00£71.66How gentrification uproots the urban food landscape, and what activists are doing to resist it From hipster coffee shops to upscale restaurants, a bustling local food scene is perhaps the most commonly recognized harbinger of gentrification. A Recipe... -
Buzz: Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee by Lisa Jean Moore 9781479827381
RRP: £25.99£20.84Winner, 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. Beyond... -
Market Cities, People Cities: The Shape of Our Urban Future by Michael Oluf Emerson 9781479800261
RRP: £27.99£21.67An in-depth look at the urban environments of Houston and Copenhagen How are modern cities changing, and what implications do those changes have for city inhabitants? What kinds of cities do people want to live in, and what cities do people want to... -
Whiteness Interrupted: White Teachers and Racial Identity in Predominantly Black Schools by Marcus Bell 9781478013709
RRP: £92.00£73.81In Whiteness Interrupted Marcus Bell presents a revealing portrait of white teachers in majority Black schools in which he examines the limitations of understandings of how white racial identity is formed. Through in-depth interviews with dozens of white... -
Dance for Me When I Die by Cristian Alarcon 9781478003144
RRP: £85.00£68.71On the morning of February 6, 1999, Buenos Aires police officers shot and killed seventeen-year-old Victor Manuel Vital, better known as Frente, while he was unarmed, hiding under a table, and trying to surrender. Widely known and respected throughout... -
The New Arab Urban: Gulf Cities of Wealth, Ambition, and Distress by Harvey Molotch 9781479880010
RRP: £80.00£64.85Cities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanization The fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf are, whatever else they may be, indisputably sensational. The world's tallest building is in Dubai; the 2022 World Cup in... -
Building a Better Chicago: Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment by Teresa Irene Gonzales 9781479839759
RRP: £80.00£64.45How local Black and Brown communities can resist gentrification and fight for their interests Despite promises from politicians, nonprofits, and government agencies, Chicago's most disadvantaged neighborhoods remain plagued by poverty, failing schools,... -
Surviving Poverty: Creating Sustainable Ties among the Poor by Joan Maya Mazelis 9781479873593
RRP: £80.00£64.45Surviving 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...