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Neoliberal Cities: The Remaking of Postwar Urban America by Andrew J. Diamond 9781479828821
RRP: £80.00£64.45Traces decades of troubled attempts to fund private answers to public urban problems The American city has long been a laboratory for austerity, governmental decentralization, and market-based solutions to urgent public problems such as affordable... -
Race and the Politics of Deception: The Making of an American City by Christopher Mele 9781479866090
RRP: £80.00£64.45What is the relationship between race and space, and how do racial politics inform the organization and development of urban locales? In Race and the Politics of Deception, Christopher Mele unpacks America's history of dealing with racial problems... -
Market Cities, People Cities: The Shape of Our Urban Future by Michael Oluf Emerson 9781479856794
RRP: £80.00£64.45An 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... -
Taking Back the Boulevard: Art, Activism, and Gentrification in Los Angeles by Jan Lin 9781479809806
RRP: £80.00£72.43The promises and conflicts faced by public figures, artists, and leaders of Northeast Los Angeles as they enliven and defend their neighborhoods Los Angeles is well known as a sprawling metropolis with endless freeways that can make the city feel... -
Doing Global Urban Research by John Harrison 9781473978560
RRP: £129.00£104.24Whether you are an urban geographer, an urban sociologist or an urban political scientist, and whether you take a qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods approach, the challenge that confronts researchers of our increasingly "globalized"... -
Divercities: Understanding Super-Diversity in Deprived and Mixed Neighbourhoods by Stijn Oosterlynck 9781447338178
RRP: £79.99£60.86How 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... -
Estate Regeneration and its Discontents: Public Housing, Place and Inequality in London by Paul Watt 9781447329183
RRP: £80.00£61.27Public housing estates are disappearing from London's skyline in the name of regeneration, but what impact is state-led gentrification having on London's marginalised communities? Watt provides a vivid interdisciplinary account of estate regeneration in... -
Urban Environments in Africa: A Critical Analysis of Environmental Politics by Garth Andrew Myers 9781447322917
RRP: £79.99£60.86Africa's urban population is growing rapidly, raising numerous environmental concerns. Urban areas are often linked to poverty as well as power and wealth, and hazardous and unhealthy environments as the pace of change stretches local resources. Yet... -
For a Liberatory Politics of Home by Michele Lancione 9781478020523
RRP: £97.00£77.62In For a Liberatory Politics of Home, Michele Lancione questions accepted understandings of home and homelessness to offer a radical proposition: homelessness cannot be solved without dismantling current understandings of home. Conventionally, home is... -
Jumped In: What Gangs Taught Me about Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption by Jorja Leap 9780807044810
RRP: £17.99£12.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807044810Author Jorja LeapFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 154mm * 15mm -
Intercultural City Identity & Human Intercultural Cities (H.I.C.): A Conceptual Ontological Model for the Social Co-Existence & Social Cohesion of Modern & Post-Modern Cities by Eugenia P. Bitsani 9781631176081
RRP: £123.99£81.97This book negotiates the complex relationship between the identity of modern multicultural city and its development as well as its social cohesion, on the horizon of globalisation and crisis. Specifically, it expounds on an interdisciplinary approach... -
China's Limited Urbanization: Under Socialism & Beyond by Li Zhang 9781590339107
RRP: £110.99£73.52Under-urbanisation, defined as the achievement of a high industrial growth without a parallel growth of urban population, is one of the profound features of socialist development. Under-urbanisation in China, in effect, represents a seriously distorted... -
Fluidity of Place: Globalization and the Transformation of Urban Space by Naoki Yoshihara 9781920901592
£34.75Fluidity of Place presents an interdisciplinary conversation with theories of space-time, place, and globalisation at the cutting edge of social theory. Focusing on the construction of urban space in the context of hyper-mobility, it examines the social... -
Ritualizing the City: Collective Performances as Aspects of Urban Construction from Constantine to Mao by Zeynep Akture 9788867288946
RRP: £48.00£45.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788867288946Author Zeynep AktureFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Viella EditricePublisher Viella EditriceWeight(grams) 658g -
Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City by Katie J. Wells 9780691249759
RRP: £22.00£17.36A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was defeated. It was here that the company created a... -
The Changing American Neighborhood: The Meaning of Place in the Twenty-First Century by Alan Mallach 9781501771132
RRP: £27.99£21.67The Changing American Neighborhood argues that the physical and social spaces created by neighborhoods matter more than ever for the health and well-being of twenty-first-century Americans and their communities. Taking a long historical view, this book... -
A Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality by Claire W. Herbert 9780520340077
RRP: £80.00£61.89Bringing to the fore a wealth of original research, A Detroit Story examines how the informal reclamation of abandoned property has been shaping Detroit for decades. Claire Herbert lived in the city for almost five years to get a ground-view sense of how... -
Main Street: How a City's Heart Connects Us All by Mindy Thompson Fullilove 9781613321270
RRP: £80.00£64.45Mindy Thompson Fullilove traverses the central thoroughfares of our cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communities After an 11-year study of Main Streets in 178 cities and 14 countries, Fullilove discovered the power of city centers to... -
Growing Up Suburban by Edward A. Wynne 9780292742017
RRP: £21.99£17.54The prosperous, comfortable, and homogeneous American suburb is a relatively recent institution in American history. Edward Wynne was one of the first to take a serious look at the quality of suburban childhood, where, he contends, we have ignored the... -
Breaking the Gender Code: Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States by Georgina Hickey 9781477328224
RRP: £40.00£30.74A history of the activism that made public spaces in American cities more accessible to women. From the closing years of the nineteenth century, women received subtle—and not so subtle—messages that they shouldn’t be in public. Or, if they were, that... -
Claims on the City: Situated Narratives of the Urban by C. Yamini Krishna 9781666941609
RRP: £81.00£71.06Claims on the City: Situated Narratives of the Urban captures a snapshot of the events, protests, and movements that disrupt a city’s existing rhythms across cultures and nationalities and compels us to rethink our understanding of the urban. Using an... -
Major Infrastructure Planning and Delivery: Exploring Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (Nsips) in England and Wales by Ben Clifford 9781800085251
RRP: £45.00£39.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085251Author Ben CliffordFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 790gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 25mm -
A Global Idea: Youth,City Networks, and the Struggle for the Arab World by Mayssoun Sukarieh 9781501771095
RRP: £116.00£108.73A Global Idea outlines how youth—as shown by the Arab Spring uprisings and subsequent state responses—became a prominent social and political category during the first two decades of the twenty-first century in the Middle East. Drawing on ethnographic... -
Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China's Consumer Revolution by Tim Simpson 9781517900304
RRP: £108.00£85.74A comprehensive look into how Macau’s recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planetBetting on Macau delves into the radical transformation of what was formerly the last remaining European territory in... -
Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, New York by Tarry Hum 9781439915936
RRP: £103.00£83.19Nearly half the 2.3 million residents of Queens, New York are foreign-born. Immigrants in Queens hail from more than 120 countries and speak more than 135 languages. As an epicenter of immigrant diversity, Queens is an urban gateway that exemplifies... -
Chasing World-Class Urbanism: Global Policy versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires by Jacob Lederman 9781517908812
RRP: £100.00£81.04Questions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve everyday city dwellers What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that... -
Property Wrongs: The Seventy-Year Fight for Public Housing in Winnipeg by Doug Smith 9781773635972
RRP: £20.00£16.44Until 1969, the City of Winnipeg had undertaken only two public housing projects even though the failure of the market to provide adequate housing for low-income Winnipeggers had been apparent since the beginning of the century. By 1919, providing... -
The Soft City: Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City by Terry Williams 9780231177955
RRP: £25.00£19.59There is no rawer human experience than sex, and in a city as diverse as New York, sexual experiences come in many forms. In the pre-Giuliani days, temptation flooded Times Square on theater marquees and neon signs. Behind unmarked doors downtown, more... -
Before the Fires: An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx from the 1930s to the 1960s by Mark D. Naison 9780823273522
RRP: £89.00£71.26People associate the South Bronx with gangs, violence, drugs, crime, burned-out buildings, and poverty. This is the message that has been driven into their heads over the years by the media. As Howard Cosell famously said during the 1977 World's Series... -
Living with Yards: Negotiating Nature and the Habits of Home by Ursula Lang 9780228008989
RRP: £34.00£26.50Yards are not quite wild, yet rarely tamed. Across diverse residential landscapes in North America and beyond, yards are regulated by the state and markets, defined by imaginary property lines on maps, and sometimes central to privilege and exclusion. ... -
Uninsured in Chicago: How the Social Safety Net Leaves Latinos Behind by Robert Vargas 9781479807147
RRP: £22.99£18.37Why millions of Latinx people don't access the healthcare system, even in times of need More than a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, around eleven million Latinx citizens around the country remain uninsured. In Uninsured in Chicago,... -
Uninsured in Chicago: How the Social Safety Net Leaves Latinos Behind by Robert Vargas 9781479807130
RRP: £80.00£64.45Why millions of Latinx people don't access the healthcare system, even in times of need More than a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, around eleven million Latinx citizens around the country remain uninsured. In Uninsured in Chicago,... -
Vulnerable Communities: Research, Policy, and Practice in Small Cities by James J. Connolly 9781501761324
RRP: £116.00£93.40Vulnerable Communities examines the struggles of smaller cities in the United States, those with populations between 20,000 and 200,000. Like many larger metropolitan centers, these places are confronting change within a globalized economic and cultural... -
Urban-Suburban Interdependencies by Senior Lecturer of English Rosalind Greenstein 9781558441392
RRP: £20.00£15.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558441392Author Senior Lecturer of English Rosalind GreensteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyPublisher Lincoln... -
Toward Camden by Mercy Romero 9781478013785
RRP: £81.00£64.45In Toward Camden, Mercy Romero writes about the relationships that make and sustain the largely African American and Puerto Rican Cramer Hill neighborhood in New Jersey where she grew up. She walks the city and writes outdoors to think about the collapse... -
Quietly Shrinking Cities: Canadian Urban Population Loss in an Age of Growth by Maxwell Hartt 9780774866170
RRP: £27.99£22.49At 5 percent, Canada's population growth was the highest of all G7 countries when the most recent census was taken. But only a handful of large cities drove that growth, attracting human and monetary capital from across the country and leaving myriad... -
Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City by Kevin Loughran 9780231194044
RRP: £100.00£77.93A new kind of city park has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Postindustrial parks transform the derelict remnants of an urban past into distinctive public spaces that meld repurposed infrastructure, wild-looking green space, and landscape... -
Medicine at the Margins: EMS Workers in Urban America by Christopher Prener 9781531501075
RRP: £112.00£96.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781531501075Author Christopher PrenerFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
A Good Place to Do Business: The Politics of Downtown Renewal Since 1945 by Roger Biles 9781439920817
RRP: £112.00£90.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439920817Author Roger BilesFormat HardbackPage Count 362Imprint Temple University PressPublisher Temple University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning by Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago 9781517911751
RRP: £104.00£83.19An alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commons Characterized by shared, self-managed access to food, housing, and the basic conditions for a creative life, the commons are essential for communities to flourish and...