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Community Livability: Issues and Approaches to Sustaining the Well-Being of People and Communities by Fritz Wagner 9781138084865
RRP: €45.21€39.72What is a livable community? How do you design and develop one? What does government at all levels need to do to support and nurture the cause of livable communities?Using a blend of theory and practice, the second edition of Community Livability... -
Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichy
RRP: €11.89€8.32Malmoe, Sweden. A cellist meets a spun-out junkie. That could have been me. His mind starts to glitch between his memories and the avant-garde music he loves, and he descends into his past, hearing all over again the chaotic song of his youth. He emerges... -
Settlers: Journeys Through the Food, Faith and Culture of African London by Jimi Famurewa
RRP: €22.60€16.98A journey into the extraordinary, vibrant world of Black African London which is shaping modern Britain. What makes a Londoner? What is it to be Black, African and British? And how can we understand the many tangled roots of our modern nation without... -
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles by Rosecrans Baldwin
RRP: €16.65€13.83America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. Not just the end of the line anymore. Not just the... -
Understanding Crime and Place: A Methods Handbook by Elizabeth R. Groff 9781439920664
RRP: €159.46€137.87Place has become both a major field of criminological study as well as an important area for policy development. Capturing state of the art crime and place research methods and analysis, Understanding Crime and Place is a comprehensive Handbook focused... -
The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City by Iain Sinclair
RRP: €13.08€9.25A 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: €23.80€15.89Kensington 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: €20.81€20.46The 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... -
Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration by Ayse Caglar
RRP: €28.55€24.29In Migrants and City-Making Ayse Caglar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions. Grounding their work in comparative... -
Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune by Kristin Ross
RRP: €13.08€10.64Kristin 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: €14.27€11.54"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... -
Blue Above the Chimneys by Christine Marion Fraser
RRP: €13.08€9.25Discover the heart-warming and uplifting story of a Glasgow tenement urchin finding her way against adversityBorn during the Second World War in Glasgow, Christine Fraser was her mother's eighth child.Growing up with her siblings in a tiny flat, learning... -
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution by David Harvey
RRP: €14.27€9.35Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Do the financiers and... -
The Future of Planning: Beyond Growth Dependence by Dr. Yvonne Rydin 9781447308409
RRP: €28.55€22.21For 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... -
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond 9780553447453
RRP: €22.60€14.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award 2017 and Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2017 and Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award... -
London Labour and the London Poor by Victor Neuburg
RRP: €17.84€13.03London 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... -
Migrant City: A New History of London by Panikos Panayi
RRP: €15.46€13.64The 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... -
Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia by A. Ricardo Lopez-Pedreros
RRP: €30.93€26.23In 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... -
County Lines: Exploitation and Drug Dealing among Urban Street Gangs by Simon Harding 9781529203080
RRP: €32.12€24.80Described 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. ... -
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis 9780486220123
RRP: €24.98€16.49Apologies 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)... -
What's Tha Up To?: Memories of a Yorkshire Bobby by Martyn Johnson
RRP: €13.08€8.81'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... -
The Man Who Drew London by Gillian Tindall
RRP: €20.22€14.61The 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... -
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
RRP: €22.60€13.92This 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... -
Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life by Adam Greenfield
RRP: €13.08€10.64Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with the... -
Jerusalem without God: Portrait of a Cruel City by Paola Caridi 9789774168185
RRP: €15.46€13.10There is no escaping the Jerusalem of the religious imagination. Not once but three times holy, its overwhelming spiritual significance looms large over the city's complex urban landscape and the diurnal rhythms and struggles that make up its earthbound... -
Who Runs Edinburgh? by David McCrone
RRP: €17.84€14.93This 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... -
Hubbub: Filth, Noise, and Stench in England, 1600-1770 by Emily Cockayne
RRP: €15.46€13.64A 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,... -
Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in An Age of Extremes by Mimi Sheller
€20.38Mobility 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... -
The Permaculture City: Regenerative Design for Urban, Suburban, and Town Resilience by Toby Hemenway
RRP: €23.80€15.89Permaculture 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... -
America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators by Jacob Heilbrunn 9781324094661
RRP: €26.18€22.09Why is today's Republican Party, which claims to be the defender of American values, so drawn to the Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and the brazenly illiberal Victor Orban, who has crushed an independent judiciary and political dissent in Hungary? As... -
Fin De Siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture by Carl E. Schorske
RRP: €26.78€23.16Apologies 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... -
Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State by Samuel Stein
RRP: €11.89€7.90Our 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... -
Narrative Environments and Experience Design: Space as a Medium of Communication by Tricia Austin
RRP: €47.59€41.72This 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... -
Trans-Europe Express: Tours of a Lost Continent by Owen Hatherley
RRP: €13.08€9.25Over 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... -
The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London by Sarah Wise
RRP: €15.46€10.82Towards 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... -
Public Places Urban Spaces: The Dimensions of Urban Design by Matthew Carmona
RRP: €52.35€48.60Public 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... -
Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies by Leslie Kern
RRP: €17.84€14.93What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process that replaces one community with another? It is a question of class? Or of economic opportunity? Who does it affect the most? Is there any way to combat it? Leslie Kern, author... -
Red Metropolis: An Essay on the Government of London by Owen Hatherley
RRP: €13.08€8.33London 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... -
Town and Country Planning in the UK by Barry Cullingworth
RRP: €85.67€75.03Town and country planning has never been more important to the UK, nor more prominent in national debate. Planning generates great controversy: whether it's spending GBP80m and four years' inquiry into Heathrow's Terminal 5, or the 200 proposed wind... -
Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance by Raquel Rolnik
RRP: €23.79€20.11In 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...