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Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City by Katie J. Wells 9780691249759
RRP: $28.38$22.39A 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: $32.24$27.95The 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: $103.20$79.84Bringing 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: $95.46$83.14Mindy 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: $25.79$22.63The 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: $45.15$39.65A 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: $104.49$91.67Claims 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: $58.05$51.46Apologies 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: $139.32$121.00A 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: $127.71$110.60A 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: $123.84$107.32Nearly 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: $119.97$104.54Questions 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: $25.80$21.21Until 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: $32.25$25.27There 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: $105.78$91.93People 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: $38.69$34.19Yards 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: $27.08$23.70Why 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: $95.46$83.14Why 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: $139.32$120.49Vulnerable 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: $25.80$20.50Apologies 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: $95.46$83.14In 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: $33.53$29.01At 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: $129.00$100.53A 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: $132.87$114.99Apologies 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: $134.16$116.10Apologies 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: $123.84$107.32An 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... -
After Urban Regeneration: Communities, Policy and Place by Dave O'Brien 9781447324157
RRP: $103.19$78.51After Urban Regeneration is a comprehensive study of contemporary trends in urban policy and planning. Leading scholars come together to create a key contribution to the literature on gentrification, with a focus on the history and theory of community in... -
In the Midst of Things: The Social Lives of Objects in the Public Spaces of New York City by Mike Owen Benediktsson 9780691174334
RRP: $32.25$25.27How ordinary urban objects influence our behavior, exacerbate inequality, and encourage social change Assumptions about human behavior lie hidden in plain sight all around us, programmed into the design and regulation of the material objects we... -
Queering the Midwest: Forging LGBTQ Community by Clare Forstie 9781479801879
RRP: $32.24$27.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479801879Author Clare ForstieFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
We Built a Village: Cohousing and the Commons by Diane Rothbard Margolis 9781613321799
RRP: $95.46$83.14Describes the development of one of the first cohousing communities in the U.S. offering a social understanding of its commons. Cohousing, a form of communal living that clusters around shared common space, began about a half century ago in Denmark... -
Electoral Politics Is Not Enough: Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Urban Politics by Peter F. Burns 9780791466544
$39.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791466544Author Peter F. BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Survival of the City: The Future of Urban Life in an Age of Isolation by Edward Glaeser 9780593297704
RRP: $23.22$10.99One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated Cities can make us sick. That's always been true-diseases... -
How to Build a Global City: Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination by Michele Acuto 9781501759703
RRP: $139.32$120.49In How to Build a Global City, Michele Acuto considers the rise of a new generation of "global cities," Singapore, Sydney and Dubai, and the power that this idea had in their ascent, in order to analyze the general relationship between global... -
A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind 9780767901260
RRP: $21.92$14.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767901260Author Ron SuskindFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poorand the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi by Sanjeev Routray 9781503630840
RRP: $95.46$83.14In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available-but exclusively so, as the city deems much of the population ineligible for civic benefits. The Right to Be... -
Spatial Planning and the New Localism by Professor Graham Haughton 9780415683807
RRP: $174.15$151.29This book looks at the transition from New Labour's 'Spatial Planning' approach to the Coalition Government's preferred 'Localism' approach. Localism we are told will liberate local planners from the heavy hand of central government and allow planning to... -
African City Textualities by Ranka Primorac 9780415852531
RRP: $56.75$49.59The stereotype of Africa as a predominantly 'natural' space ignores the existence of vibrant and cosmopolitan urban environments on the continent. Far from merely embodying backwardness and lack, African cities are sites of complex and diverse cultural... -
India's Middle Class: New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity by Christiane Brosius 9780415544535
RRP: $174.15$151.81This book examines the complexities of lifestyles of the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the context of economic liberalisation in the new millennium, by analysing new social formations and aspirations, modes of consumption and ways of being... -
African City Textualities by Ranka Primorac 9780415481557
RRP: $174.15$151.29The stereotype of Africa as a predominantly 'natural' space ignores the existence of vibrant and cosmopolitan urban environments on the continent. Far from merely embodying backwardness and lack, African cities are sites of complex and diverse cultural... -
Cosmopolitan Spaces: Europe, Globalization, Theory by Chris Rumford 9780415390675
RRP: $167.70$144.62Cosmopolitan Spaces: Europe, Globalization, Theory endeavors a highly innovative reading of both globalization theory and contemporary European transformations. Interpreting cosmopolitanism as a politics of space, Rumford positions his analysis at the...