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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of ALA Notable Book. Nominated for Booklist Editor's Choice for Young Adults.Book InformationISBN 9780385265560Author Alex KotlowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635901900Author Natasha StaggFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)

J.B. Jackson, a pioneer in the field of landscape studies, here takes us on a tour of American landscapes past and present, showing how our surroundings reflect important changes in our culture. Because we live in urban and industrial environments that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780871547163Author Anna RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Russell Sage FoundationPublisher Russell Sage FoundationWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies 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...

A Woman's Place is based upon Elizabeth Roberts's interviews with 160 elderly people from the towns of Barrow, Lancaster and Preston. They recall their memories of family life as children, youths and adults in the period between the last decade of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807028025Author Christopher EmdinFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 138mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913515188Author Special CorrespondentFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Ditto BooksPublisher Ditto BooksDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising inequality. This book highlights how cities are locked into unsustainable and damaging practices, and how exciting...

Landscape 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...

A funny, snarky, and engaging guide to getting a better biking city.Urban designer Mikael Colville-Andersen draws from his experience working for dozens of cities around the world on bicycle planning, strategy, infrastructure design, and communication...

David Harvey is among the most influential Marxist thinkers of the last half century. This book offers a lucid and authoritative introduction to his work, with a structure designed to reflect the enduring topics and insights that serve to unify Harvey's...

One of BuzzFeed's New Books You'll Love "Cairo Circles is a novel that proves literature needn't choose between pleasure and substance. You will tear through the pages of this delicious book, and you will be changed in the process. Doma Mahmoud is...

'History writing at its compulsive best' A. N. WilsonThis is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses of 19th-century Britain. It charts the controversies...

The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most beautiful and most photographed structures in the world. It's also the most deadly. Since it opened in 1937, more than 1,500 people have died jumping off the bridge, making it the top suicide site on earth. It's...

The Oxford Handbook of Urban Politics is an authoritative volume on an established subject in political science and the academy more generally: urban politics and urban studies. The editors are all recognized experts, and are well connected to the...

It is not lost on commercial organisations that where we live colours how we view ourselves and others. That is why so many now place us into social groups on the basis of the type of postcode in which we live. Social scientists call this practice...

The Situationist International (SI), led by the revolutionary Guy Debord, were active throughout the 1950s and 60s. They published the journal Internationale Situationniste that included many incendiary texts on politics and art, and were a galvanizing...

Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisis in America and reveals the structural conditions that underlie it. In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to...

Author, social critic and "New York City's career elegist" (The New York Times), Jeremiah Moss felt alienated in a town that had become suburbanised and sanitised. Then lockdown launched an unprecedented urban experiment: What happens when an entire...

At century's close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the ghetto: the urban "underclass." Soon the scarecrow category and its demonic...

How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurismAmid increasing hardship and limited employment options, poor urban youth are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Governor General's Literary Awards (Nonfiction) 2004.Book InformationISBN 9781400076703Author Jane JacobsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House...

In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago's Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Horner housing complex ushered in the most ambitious urban housing experiment of its kind: smaller,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Sidney Hillman Prize 1961.Book InformationISBN 9780679644330Author Jane JacobsFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312424305Author Jonathan MahlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

A poignant reflection on alienation and belonging, told through the lives of five remarkable people who struggled against nationalism and intolerance in one of Europe's most stunning cities.What does it mean to belong somewhere? For many of Prague's...

Urban planning is not just about applying a suite of systematic principles or plotting out pragmatic designs to satisfy the briefs of private developers or public bodies. Planning is also an activity of imagination, with a stock of wisdom and an array of...

One 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...

"Thompson's engrossing book is essential for any collection on the history, politics, or society of post-World War II America." Library Journal In Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full...

Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the concentration of factories and other chemical industries in their neighborhoods, residents face elevated rates of lung cancer and other...

In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city's Metropolitan Transit Authority. The resulting consent decree forced the MTA for a period of ten years to essentially reorient...

How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupations In today's new economy--in which "good" jobs are typically knowledge or technology based--many well-educated...

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong's tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani phone...

Policing is a dynamic profession with increasing demands and complexities placed upon the police officers and staff who provide a 24-hour service across a diverse range of communities. Written by experts in police higher education from across both...

The world is getting faster. This sentiment is proclaimed so often that it is taken for granted, rarely questioned or examined by those who celebrate the notion of an accelerated culture or by those who decry it. Sarah Sharma engages with that assumption...

An 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,...

Apologies 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.

A 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...