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Capitalist City by Michael Peter Smith
RRP: $52.83Booksplease Price: $50.45The world of modern capitalism is a global network both of corporations and of cities - 'world command cities' such as New York, London and Tokyo; 'specialized command cities' which concentrate on... -
Explorations in Urban Theory by Michael Peter Smith 9781138509962
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $59.25For over three decades, urban theorist Michael Peter Smith has engaged in constructing innovative theories on central research questions in urban studies. This book brings together his views on the... -
City and Nation: Rethinking Place and Identity by Michael Peter Smith
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place," and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national... -
Reinventing Detroit: The Politics of Possibility Michael Peter Smith 9781412856935
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36This book addresses the questions of what went wrong with Detroit and what can be done to reinvent the Motor City. Various answers to the former-deindustrialization, white flight, and a disappearing... -
Marginal Spaces: Ser Volume 5 by Michael Peter Smith 9781138527638
RRP: $125.12Booksplease Price: $116.98The literature on modernist and postmodernist urban development is abundant, yet few researchers have taken up the challenge of studying the areas hi which marginalized people live as sources of... -
Transnational Ties: Cities, Migrations, and Identities Michael Peter Smith 9781412808064
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $42.43Cities are key sites of the transnational ties that increasingly connect people, places, and projects across the globe. They provide opportunities and constraints within which transnational actors... -
Transnationalism from Below: Comparative Urban and Community Research Michael Peter Smith 9781560009900
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86Expansion of transnational capital and mass media to even the remotest of places has provoked a spate of discourse on transnationalism. A core theme hi this debate is the penetration of national... -
Transnational Urbanism: Locating Globalization Michael Peter Smith (University of California, Davis) 9780631184249
RRP: $50.25Booksplease Price: $47.88Transnational Urbanism is a profound work of theoretical synthesis by internationally renowned urban theorist Michael Peter Smith. Moving deftly across disciplines and discursive terrains, Smith... -
Citizenship across Borders: The Political Transnationalism of El Migrante by Michael Peter Smith 9780801473906
RRP: $33.53Booksplease Price: $28.95Michael Peter Smith and Matt Bakker spent five years carrying out ethnographic field research in multiple communities in the Mexican states of Zacatecas and Guanajuato and various cities in... -
After Modernism: Global Restructuring and the Changing Boundaries of City Life by Michael Peter Smith 9781560005988
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49Michael Peter Smith is distinguished research professor in Community Studies at the University of California, Davis. He is co-author of the award-winning book Citizenship across Borders, and is the... -
Remaking Urban Citizenship: Organizations, Institutions, and the Right to the City Andrew M. Greeley 9781412846189
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $62.15Due to heightened global migration and transnational mobility, many residents of the world's cities lack national citizenship in the places to which they have moved for work, refuge, or retirement... -
Unequal Partnerships: Political Economy of Urban Redevelopment in Postwar America by Gregory D. Squires 9780813514529
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $31.73Unequal Partnerships explores urban development in American cities since World War II. Gregory D. Squires and other contributors examine what has long been a highly inequitable and destructive... -
The Globalizing Cities Reader by Xuefei Ren
RRP: $70.94Booksplease Price: $64.29The newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field was... -
Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe Adrian Favell (University of California) 9781405134040
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.17Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe examines intra-European Union migration in the cities of Amsterdam, London and Brussels. Based on sixty in-depth... -
Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe by Adrian Favell 9781405134057
Booksplease Price: $96.50Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe examines intra-European Union migration in the cities of Amsterdam, London and Brussels. Based on sixty in-depth... -
The Human Face of Global Mobility Adrian Favell 9781412805209
RRP: $65.78Booksplease Price: $62.15Alongside flows of trade and capital, the free movement of professionals, technical personnel, and students is seen as a key aspect of globalization. Yet not much detailed empirical research has been... -
Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacan: From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement by Bada Xochitl 9780813564920
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $33.00Chicago is home to the second-largest Mexican immigrant population in the United States, yet the activities of this community have gone relatively unexamined by both the media and academia. In this... -
Poverty or Development: Global Restructuring and Regional Transformation in the US South and the Mexican South by Richard Tardanico
Booksplease Price: $60.36Offers a look at world inequality by comparing the development problems and prospects of southern Mexico and the US South in the context of global restructuring and NAFTA. Both regions have a history... -
Poverty or Development: Global Restructuring and Regional Transformation in the US South and the Mexican South by Richard Tardanico 9780415924320
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $31.45Offers a look at world inequality by comparing the development problems and prospects of southern Mexico and the US South in the context of global restructuring and NAFTA. Both regions have a history... -
Democratizing Inequalities: Dilemmas of the New Public Participation by Craig Calhoun
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $33.69Opportunities to "have your say," "get involved," and "join the conversation" are everywhere in public life. From crowdsourcing and town hall meetings to government experiments with social media,... -
Democratizing Inequalities: Dilemmas of the New Public Participation by Craig Calhoun 9781479847273
RRP: $81.27Booksplease Price: $66.96Opportunities to "have your say," "get involved," and "join the conversation" are everywhere in public life. From crowdsourcing and town hall meetings to government experiments with social media,... -
Key Thinkers on Cities by Regan Koch
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $47.96Key Thinkers on Cities provides an engaging introduction to the dynamic intellectual field of urban studies. It profiles the work of 40 innovative thinkers who represent the broad reach of... -
Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis Mitchell,Katharyne 9781592130849
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $28.28As wealthy immigrants from Hong Kong began to settle in Vancouver, British Columbia, their presence undid a longstanding liberal consensus that defined politics and spatial inequality there. Riding... -
Crossing the Neoliberal Line: Pacific Rim Migration and the Metropolis by Mitchell,Katharyne 9781592130832
Booksplease Price: $79.92As wealthy immigrants from Hong Kong began to settle in Vancouver, British Columbia, their presence undid a longstanding liberal consensus that defined politics and spatial inequality there. Riding...