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Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance by Raquel Rolnik
RRP: £19.99£16.90In 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... -
The Rio Tape/Slide Archive: Radical Community Photography in Hackney in the 80s: 2020 by Alan Denney 9780995488663
RRP: £26.00£22.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995488663Author Alan DenneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Isola PressPublisher Isola PressWeight(grams) 940g -
Pandemic Urbanism: Infectious Diseases on a Planet of Cities by SH Ali
RRP: £17.99£17.44Emerging infectious disease outbreaks have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are shaped by the planetary urban condition. Pandemic Urbanism critically investigates these relationships in a... -
A Walk Through Paris: A Radical Exploration by Eric Hazan
RRP: £9.99£6.64Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, leads us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, passing such familiar landmarks as the Luxembourg Gardens, the Pompidou Centre, the Gare du Nord and Montmartre, as well as... -
The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman 9780520280069
RRP: £18.99£14.79In this gripping memoir of the AIDS years (1981-1996), Sarah Schulman recalls how much of the rebellious queer culture, cheap rents, and a vibrant downtown arts movement vanished almost overnight to be replaced by gay conservative spokespeople and... -
People of Providence: Housing Estate and Some of Its Inhabitants by Tony Parker
RRP: £16.99£11.54Over a period of eighteen months Tony Parker interviewed the residents of an ordinary housing estate in South London. He listened to an assorted mixture of personalities - including a vagrant, two policemen, an often-convicted fence who was the mother of... -
Screening the City by Tony Fitzmaurice 9781859844762
RRP: £20.99£18.87The city has long been an important location for film-makers. Visually compelling and always "modern," it is the perfect metaphor for man's place in the contemporary world.In this provocative collection of essays, a diverse range of films are examined in... -
Mundane Methods: Innovative Ways to Research the Everyday by Helen Holmes
RRP: £24.99£17.91Mundane Methods is an innovative and original collection which will make a distinctive methodological and empirical contribution to research on the everyday. Bringing together a range of interdisciplinary approaches it provides a practical, hands-on... -
Medicine at the Margins: EMS Workers in Urban America by Christopher Prener
RRP: £29.99£25.99Presents a unique view of social problems and conflicts over urban space from the cab of an ambulance. While we imagine ambulances as a site for critical care, the reality is far more complicated. Social problems, like homelessness, substance abuse, and... -
Yakuza: Japan's Criminal Underworld by David E. Kaplan 9780520274907
RRP: £25.00£19.58Known 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... -
Grebo!: The Loud & Lousy Story of Gaye Bykers on Acid and Crazyhead by Rich Deakin
RRP: £21.99£15.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909394797Author Rich DeakinFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint HeadpressPublisher Headpress -
Rent and its Discontents: A Century of Housing Struggle by Neil Gray 9781786605757
RRP: £38.00£37.16The 1915 Rent Strikes in Glasgow, along with similar campaigns across the UK, catalysed rent restrictions and eventually public housing as a right, with a legacy of progressive improvement in UK housing through the central decades of the 20th century. ... -
Cities of Power: The Urban, The National, The Popular, The Global by Goeran Therborn
RRP: £12.99£8.48In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Goeran Therborn offers a tour of the world's major capital cities, and the forces that have shaped them. Through a global, historical lens, and... -
The New Urban Crisis: Gentrification, Housing Bubbles, Growing Inequality, and What We Can Do About It by Richard Florida
RRP: £10.99£7.77Never before have our cities been as important as they are now. The drivers of innovation and growth, they are essential to the prosperity of nations. But they are also destructive, plunging us into housing crises and deepening inequality. How can we... -
The Taxi-dance Hall: A Sociological Study in Commercialized Recreation and City Life by Paul Goalby Cressey
RRP: £33.00£32.05First published in 1932, The Taxi-Dance Hall is Paul Goalby Cressey's fascinating study of Chicago's urban nightlife-as seen through the eyes of the patrons, owners, and dancers-for-hire who frequented the city's notoriously seedy "taxi-dance" halls... -
International Community Development Practice by Charlie McConnell
RRP: £32.99£29.16International Community Development Practice provides readers with practice-based examples of good community development, demonstrating its value for strengthening people power and improving the effectiveness of development agencies, whether these be... -
ARCHITECT, verb.: The New Language of Building by Reinier de Graaf
RRP: £16.99£11.47Leading architect Reinier de Graaf punctures the myths behind the debates on what contemporary architecture is, with wit and devastating honesty. Architecture, it seems, has become too important to leave to architects. No longer does it suffice to judge... -
The Uses of Disorder by Richard Sennett
RRP: £9.99£8.17When first published in 1970, The Uses of Disorder, was a call to arms against the deadening hand of modernist urban planning upon the thriving chaotic city. Written in the aftermath of the 1968 student uprising in the US and Europe, it demands a... -
Inside Studio 54 by Mark Fleischman
RRP: £19.99£14.63In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up... -
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey
RRP: £30.00£17.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780525511809Author Donovan X. RamseyFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint One World... -
Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change by Ashley Dawson
RRP: £20.00£13.74How will climate change affect our lives? Where will its impacts be most deeply felt? Are we doing enough to protect ourselves from the coming chaos? In Extreme Cities, Ashley Dawson argues that cities are ground zero for climate change, contributing the... -
Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880 by Peter Hall
RRP: £33.95£30.38Peter Hall's seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the fourth... -
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... -
The Right to Buy?: Selling off public and social housing by Alan Murie 9781447332077
RRP: £11.99£9.42The Right to Buy has had a massive impact on Housing in the UK for 35 years and in 2015 there were proposals to extend it. But what is the Right to Buy policy, how has it developed and what has its impact been? What evidence is there about the wider and... -
The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo by Saskia Sassen 9780691070636
RRP: £35.00£27.61This classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes. What distinguishes Sassen's theoretical framework is the emphasis on the... -
Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life by Elijah Anderson 9780226826417
RRP: £15.00£12.30From 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... -
Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality by Loic J. Wacquant 9780745631257
RRP: £17.99£16.04Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same... -
Imagine a City: A Pilot Sees the World by Mark Vanhoenacker 9781784743260
RRP: £14.99£11.71**A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2022**'A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energised, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives' ALAIN DE BOTTON'A moving account of... -
Ten Cities that Led the World: From Ancient Metropolis to Modern Megacity by Paul Strathern
RRP: £25.00£16.38'A book of ideas [...] Strathern ably guides us through these moments of glory.' -- The Times ***Great cities are complex, chaotic and colossal. These are cities that dominate the world stage and define eras; where ideas flourish, revolutions are born... -
The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City by William B. Helmreich 9780691169705
RRP: £16.99£13.74As a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line, ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood. Decades later, his love for exploring the city is as... -
Restless Cities by Matthew Beaumont
RRP: £21.99£18.49The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a 'city-symphony' to the cinematic tradition that runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies, Restless Cities traces the idiosyncratic character of the metropolitan... -
Generation Locked-Out by Rory Hearne
RRP: £14.99£9.70The 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. "Clear, cogent and persuasive" - Fintan O'Toole ... -
How Cities Can Transform Democracy by Beveridge 9781509545995
RRP: £15.99£14.41We live in an urban age. It is well known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and everyday lives across the globe. But urbanization is also changing the ways we understand and practise politics. What... -
Dream States: Smart Cities and the Pursuit of Utopian Urbanism by John Lorinc
RRP: £12.99£8.63WINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER BOOK PRIZEWINNER OF THE PATTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION GLOBAL CITIES BOOK AWARDIs the 'smart city' the utopia we've been waiting for?The promise of the so-called... -
In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis by Peter Marcuse
RRP: £16.99£14.50Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acute. Profit has become more important than social need. The poor are forced to pay more for worse housing... -
St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street by Ada Calhoun
RRP: £14.99£13.03St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted and the Velvet Underground wailed. Ada Calhoun tells the "Fascinating" (Village Voice) many-layered history of the... -
Walkable City (Tenth Anniversary Edition): How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck
RRP: £20.00£11.19Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability. Making downtown into a walkable, viable community is the essential fix for the typical American city; it is eminently... -
Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa by Garth Andrew Myers
RRP: £33.95£27.99Garth Andrew Myers' work makes a significant contribution to a long tradition of research on colonial cities and a multidisciplinary body of literature on urban legacies of colonialism. He examines both colonial rule and postcolonial inheritance in these... -
Uneven Innovation: The Work of Smart Cities by Jennifer Clark
RRP: £25.00£19.18The city of the future, we are told, is the smart city. By seamlessly integrating information and communication technologies into the provision and management of public services, such cities will enhance opportunity and bolster civic engagement. Smarter... -
Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South by AbdouMaliq Simone 9781509523368
RRP: £14.99£13.58The poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed as places to reside or inhabit. But what if we thought of popular districts in more expansive ways that capture what really goes on...