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Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South AbdouMaliq Simone 9781509523368
RRP: $19.34$17.52The 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... -
Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the Great Good Places at the Heart of Our Communities by Ray Oldenburg 9781569246122
RRP: $21.92$18.19Nationwide, more and more entrepreneurs are committing themselves to creating and running "third places," also known as "great good places." In his landmark work, The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg identified, portrayed, and promoted those third places... -
The Public Wealth of Cities: How to Unlock Hidden Assets to Boost Growth and Prosperity by Dag Detter 9780815729983
RRP: $32.25$24.17Mobilizing existing resources to meet the current and future needs of cities Crumbling streets and bridges. Poorly performing schools and other social services. These are common themes in cities, which too often struggle just to keep the lights on, much... -
Acid Detroit: A Psychedelic Story of Motor City Music Joe Molloy 9781914420511
RRP: $14.18$9.55Acid Detroit tells the story of Motor City through its revolutionary music past and present, in order to find the seeds of radical transformation among its ruins. Acid Detroit is an exhilarating, technicolour view of Detroit's musical and social... -
Landscape by John Wylie
RRP: $56.75$49.59Landscape is a stimulating introduction to and contemporary understanding of one of the most important concepts within human geography. A series of different influential readings of landscape are debated and explored, and, for the first time, distinctive... -
Neuroscience for Designing Green Spaces: Contemplative Landscapes by Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo 9781032280639
RRP: $41.27$36.55Urban parks and gardens are where people go to reconnect with nature and destress. But do they all provide the same benefits or are some better than others? What specific attributes set some green spaces apart? Can we objectively measure their impact on... -
Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space by Keller Easterling
RRP: $15.47$12.51Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-trade zones, the standardized dimensions of credit cards, and hyper-consumerist shopping malls. It is all... -
The Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise by Scott Rozelle 9780226739526
RRP: $30.96$25.95As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible China,... -
Decolonize Museums by Shimrit Lee
RRP: $19.34$15.04Behold the sleazy logic of museums: plunder dressed up as charity, conservation, and care.The idealized Western museum, as typified by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Museum of Natural History, has remained much the same... -
Nemesis: The Hunt for Brazil's Most Wanted Criminal by Misha Glenny
RRP: $16.76$11.73'Breaking Bad meets City of God' Roberto Saviano, author of GomorrahHUSBAND. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and Brazil's most notorious criminal. FATHER. A man who tried to... -
The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poorand the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi by Sanjeev Routray
RRP: $30.95$26.88In 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... -
City of Revolution: Restructuring Manchester by Jamie Peck 9780719058882
RRP: $25.79$18.73Provides a critical account of one of Europe's most celebrated examples of urban transformation, getting beneath the hype to ask what has really changed in the 'new' Manchester.. The first comprehensive account of contemporary political and economic... -
Britain's New Towns: Garden Cities to Sustainable Communities by Anthony Alexander
RRP: $61.91$54.45The New Towns Programme of 1946 to 1970 was one of the most substantial periods of urban development in Britain. The New Towns have often been described as a social experiment; so what has this experiment proved?This book covers the story of how these... -
Waste Worlds: Inhabiting Kampala's Infrastructures of Disposability by Jacob Doherty
RRP: $32.25$25.27Uganda's capital, Kampala, is undergoing dramatic urban transformations as its new technocratic government seeks to clean and green the city. Waste Worlds tracks the dynamics of development and disposability unfolding amid struggles over who and what... -
The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region by David Alff 9780226822839
RRP: $30.96$22.54All aboard for the first comprehensive history of the hard-working and wildly influential Northeast Corridor. Traversed by thousands of trains and millions of riders, the Northeast Corridor might be America’s most famous railway, but its influence goes... -
Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton 9781250038821
RRP: $28.37$24.92An instant Number One New York Times bestseller, Humans of New York began in the summer of 2010, when photographer Brandon Stanton set out on an ambitious project: to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. Armed with his camera,... -
The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting by Alexander Vasudevan
RRP: $25.79$21.18The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised in Europe and North America. Alex Vasudevan retraces the struggle for housing in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Detroit, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Milan, New York, and Vancouver... -
Thinking Like a Climate: Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change by Hannah Knox
RRP: $29.66$25.81In Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester,... -
St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street by Ada Calhoun
RRP: $19.34$16.81St. 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... -
Generation Locked-Out by Rory Hearne
RRP: $19.34$12.51The 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 ... -
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity by Loic Wacquant
RRP: $30.95$27.40The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial... -
Digital and Smart Cities Katharine Willis 9781138890381
RRP: $47.72$41.96Digital and Smart Cities presents an overview of how technologies shape our cities. There is a growing awareness in the fields of design and architecture of the need to address the way that technology affects the urban condition. This book aims to give... -
Mundane Methods: Innovative Ways to Research the Everyday by Helen Holmes
RRP: $32.24$23.10Mundane 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... -
Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey by James Attlee 9781911508908
RRP: $12.89$9.02Can you be a pilgrim without leaving your life behind? How does it feel to approach everyday places with the same reverence as grand cathedrals? And how are we changed by even the smallest of journeys? James Attlee asks these questions and more in his... -
The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture by AbdouMaliq Simone
RRP: $25.79$22.63In The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban theory, and decolonial and Islamic thought, Simone centers the... -
Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration by Ayse Caglar
RRP: $28.37$24.76In 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... -
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
RRP: $18.05$15.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Sidney Hillman Prize 1961.Book InformationISBN 9780679741954Author Jane JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA... -
Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz 9780393652666
RRP: $28.37$23.41In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall... -
Cities by John Reader 9780099284260 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92$3.42Cities is a fascinating exploration of the nature of the city and city life, of its structures, development and inhabitants. From the ruins of the earliest cities to the present, Reader explores how cities coalesce, develop and thrive, how they can... -
Righteous Dopefiend by Philippe Bourgois 9780520254985
$41.42This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on... -
Interpretive Research Design: Concepts and Processes by Peregrine Schwartz-Shea
RRP: $56.75$49.59Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, however, scholars working in an interpretive-qualitative tradition get little guidance on this aspect of... -
Young, Muslim and Criminal: Experiences, Identities and Pathways into Crime Mohammed Qasim 9781447341505
RRP: $34.82$26.88Very little is known about young British male Muslims who offend. Qasim gained unique first-hand insight into the multifaceted lives of a group after spending 4 years studying them. He unwraps their lives, explores their identities and explains what... -
Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts by Charlie LeDuff 9780143034940 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.96$5.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143034940Author Charlie LeDuffFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 138mm... -
Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts by Charlie LeDuff 9780143034940
RRP: $30.96$21.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143034940Author Charlie LeDuffFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 138mm... -
Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men by Elliot Liebow 9780742528963
RRP: $32.25$28.11The first edition of Tally's Corner, a sociological classic selling more than one million copies, was the first compelling response to the culture of poverty thesis-that the poor are different and, according to conservatives, morally inferior-and... -
Dark Matters - A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City Nick Dunn 9781782797487
RRP: $12.89$11.08Dark Matters explores the city at night as a place and time within which escape from the confines of the daytime is possible. More specifically, it is a state of being. There is a long history of nightwalking, often integral to shady worlds of... -
The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character by David Riesman
RRP: $19.34$15.18"The Lonely Crowd . . . remains not only the best-selling book by a professional sociologist in American history, but arguably one that has had the widest influence on the nation at large."-Orlando Patterson, New York Times "As accessible as it is... -
You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World by Nicholas Crane
RRP: $11.60$6.08One word binds us all: geography. We are all geographers, human beings who care about the places we think of as 'home' - our habitat. And yet we have lost touch with the connection between our actions and the state of the planet that we all share. We... -
China's Urban Transition by John Friedmann 9780816646159
RRP: $19.34$17.30Though China's urban history reaches back over five thousand years, it is only in the last quarter century that urbanization has emerged as a force of widespread social transformation while a massive population shift from country to city has brought... -
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg
RRP: $25.80$14.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781524761172Author Eric KlinenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Crown...