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The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City by Iain Sinclair
RRP: £10.99£7.77A New Statesman Book of the Year London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The... -
One Kensington: Tales from the Frontline of the Most Unequal Borough in Britain by Emma Dent Coad
RRP: £20.00£13.10Kensington and Chelsea - one of the wealthiest spots on planet Earth - is also one of the most unequal. A short walk from Harrods, families cannot buy enough food to feed themselves. Desperate overcrowding is found in the shadow of ultraluxury property... -
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States by Kenneth T. Jackson 9780195049831
RRP: £18.49£13.97The winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize, this book is the first detailed history of suburban life in America from its origin to the drive-in culture of today.About the AuthorKenneth T. Jackson, Professor of History at Columbia... -
Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross
RRP: £10.99£8.94Kristin Ross's new work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary protest, which has found its most powerful expression in the reclamation of public space. Today's... -
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London by Matthew Beaumont
RRP: £11.99£9.70"Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night," wrote the poet Rupert Brooke. Before the age of electricity, the nighttime city was a very different place to the one we know today - home to the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. Matthew... -
Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent by Owen Hatherley
RRP: £10.99£7.77Over the past twenty years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centres, supermodernist concert halls, imaginative public spaces and futuristic egalitarian housing estates which, interconnected by high-speed... -
Fin De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture by Carl E. Schorske
RRP: £22.50£17.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize General Non-Fiction Category 1981.Book InformationISBN 9780394744780Author Carl E. SchorskeFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House USA... -
The Future of Planning: Beyond Growth Dependence Yvonne Rydin (Bartlett School of Planning, University College London) 9781447308409
RRP: £23.99£18.66For the past half-century, the planning system has operated on the basis of a growth-dependence paradigm. It has been based on market-led urban development and has sought to provide community benefits from a share of development profits. However, we do... -
The Monocle Guide to Building Better Cities by Monocle 9783899555035
RRP: £40.00£28.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783899555035Author MonocleFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City by Elijah Anderson
RRP: £14.99£13.03Inner-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... -
What's Tha Up To?: Memories of a Yorkshire Bobby Martyn Johnson 9780751547771
RRP: £10.99£7.40'A wonderful slice-of-life autobiography' Daily Express'I've turned boys into men and policemen into coppers,' said the Sergeant. 'Policemen have got brains, but coppers, they've got brains and common sense.'No two days were ever the same for... -
Cities and the Making of Modern Europe, 1750-1914 by Andrew Lees 9780521548229
RRP: £28.99£25.82This book is a major survey of urbanization and the making of modern Europe from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War. During these years Europe experienced startling rates of urbanization, with the populations of numerous cities growing by... -
Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life by Elijah Anderson 9780226826417
RRP: £15.00£13.05From the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country. A birder strolling in Central Park. A college student lounging on a university quad. Two men sitting in a... -
Full Steam Ahead: How the Railways Made Britain by Peter Ginn
RRP: £25.00£17.43The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life - from trade and transportation to health and recreation. Full Steam Ahead reveals how the world we live in... -
County Lines: Exploitation and Drug Dealing among Urban Street Gangs Simon Harding (University of West London) 9781529203080
RRP: £26.99£20.84Described by the National Crime Agency as a 'significant threat', county lines involve gangs recruiting vulnerable youth to sell drugs in provincial areas. This phenomenon has impacted local drug markets, increasing criminal activity and violence. ... -
Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia by A. Ricardo Lopez-Pedreros
RRP: £23.99£20.84In Makers of Democracy A. Ricardo Lopez-Pedreros traces the ways in which a thriving middle class was understood to be a foundational marker of democracy in Colombia during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide array of sources... -
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis 9780486220123
RRP: £20.99£13.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486220123Author Jacob A. RiisFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Migrant City: A New History of London by Panikos Panayi
RRP: £12.99£11.46The first history of London to show how immigrants have built, shaped and made a great success of the capital city London is now a global financial and multicultural hub in which over three hundred languages are spoken. But the history of London has... -
Gaffs: Why No One Can Get a House, and What We Can Do About It by Rory Hearne 9780008529611
RRP: £9.99£6.64The book that has been waiting to be written - how Ireland's housing policy has locked an entire generation out of the housing market and what we should do about it. Millennials are the first generation in Ireland to be worse off than their... -
London Labour and the London Poor by Victor Neuburg
RRP: £14.99£10.95London Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of newspaper articles written by the great journalist Henry Mayhew between 1849 and 1850. A dozen years later, it had grown into the fullest picture we have of labouring people in the world's... -
Seeing Like a City Ash Amin (University of Durham; University of Newcastle Upon Tyne) 9780745664262
RRP: £16.99£15.22Seeing 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... -
An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny by Laura Schroff 9781982189648
RRP: £18.99£11.36This 10th anniversary edition of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller includes a new introduction and afterword by the author. Chronicling the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy that began with one small... -
The Man Who Drew London by Gillian Tindall
RRP: £16.99£12.28The seventeenth-century London Wenceslaus Hollar knew is now largely destroyed or buried. Yet its populous river, its timbered streets, fashionable ladies, old St Paul's, the devestation of the Fire, the palace of Whitehall and the meadows of Islington... -
Jerusalem: History of a Global City by Juliana Froggatt 9780520299900
RRP: £30.00£22.28An expansive history of Jerusalem as a cultural crossroads, and a fresh look at the urban development of one of the world's most mythologized cities. Jerusalem is often seen as an eternal battlefield in the "clash of civilizations" and in endless,... -
Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in An Age of Extremes by Mimi Sheller
RRP: £16.99£14.10Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day. We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and extreme challenges of urbanization. At the same time it is difficult to ignore the deaths of thousands of migrants at sea... -
Who Runs Edinburgh? by David McCrone
RRP: £14.99£12.55This book tells Edinburgh's modern story and unveils its power structure. It examines its politics, its political economy and the rise of its status as Festival city. The book explores arguments about what sort of city Edinburgh should be and what it... -
The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience Toby Hemenway 9781603585262
RRP: £20.00£13.35Permaculture is more than just the latest buzzword; it offers positive solutions for many of the environmental and social challenges confronting us. And nowhere are those remedies more needed and desired than in our cities. The Permaculture City... -
The Mudd Club by Richard Boch 9781627310512
RRP: £30.99£21.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310512Author Richard BochFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S. -
Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life by Farah Al-Nakib 9780804798525
RRP: £21.99£19.19As the first Gulf city to experience oil urbanization, Kuwait City's transformation in the mid-twentieth century inaugurated a now-familiar regional narrative: a small traditional town of mudbrick courtyard houses and plentiful foot traffic transformed... -
Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld by David E. Kaplan 9780520274907
RRP: £25.00£19.99Known for their striking full-body tattoos and severed fingertips, Japan's gangsters comprise a criminal class eighty thousand strong - more than four times the size of the American mafia. Despite their criminal nature, the yakuza are accepted by fellow... -
The Sweethearts: Tales of love, laughter and hardship from the Yorkshire Rowntree's girls by Lynn Russell 9780007508495
RRP: £8.99£6.87Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State by Samuel Stein
RRP: £9.99£8.17Our cities are changing. Global real estate is now a $217 trillion dollar industry, 36 times the value of all the gold ever mined. It makes up 60 percent of the world's assets, and the most powerful person in the world - the president of the United... -
Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogota by Austin Zeiderman
RRP: £22.99£20.01Security 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... -
Public Places Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design by Matthew Carmona
£46.39Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear and systematic guide. In this new edition the book has been extensively... -
The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London Sarah Wise 9781844133307
RRP: £12.99£9.09Towards the end of 1831, the authorities unearthed a series of crimes at Number 3, Nova Scotia Gardens in East London that appeared to echo the notorious Burke and Hare killings in Edinburgh three years earlier. After a long investigation, three... -
Becoming Arab in London: Performativity and the Undoing of Identity by Ramy M. K Aly 9780745333588
£30.33This is the first ethnographic exploration of gender, race and class amongst British born or raised Arabs in London. It takes a critical look at the idea of 'Arab-ness' and the ways in which their ethnicities are created and expressed in the city. ... -
Red Metropolis: An Essay on the Government of London by Owen Hatherley
RRP: £10.99£7.40London is conventionally seen as merely a combination of the financial centre in the City and the centre of governmental power in Westminster, a uniquely capitalist capital city. This book is about the third London - a social democratic twentieth-century... -
Narrative Environments and Experience Design: Space as a Medium of Communication Tricia Austin 9781032236445
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book argues narrative, people and place are inseparable and pursues the consequences of this insight through the design of narrative environments. This is a new and distinct area of practice that weaves together and extends narrative theory, spatial... -
Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770 by Emily Cockayne
RRP: £12.99£11.46A not-for-the-squeamish journey back through the centuries to urban England, where the streets are crowded, noisy, filthy, and reeking of smoke and decay Modern city-dwellers suffer their share of unpleasant experiences-traffic jams, noisy neighbors,... -
Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance by Raquel Rolnik
£22.50In Urban Warfare, Rolnik charts how the financialisation of housing has become a global crisis, as models of home ownership, originating in the US and UK, are being exported around the world. These developments were largely organised by htosw who...