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Why Public Space Matters by Setha Low
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $32.39Drawing from decades of research, Setha Low shows how public space contributes to a flourishing society through promoting social justice and democratic practices. Thriving public spaces also enhance... -
The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City by Setha Low 9780367659752
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $88.78The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City provides a comprehensive study of current and future urban issues on a global and local scale. Premised on an 'engaged' approach to urban... -
Why Public Space Matters Setha Low 9780197800898
Booksplease Price: $34.91Drawing from decades of research, Setha Low shows how public space contributes to a flourishing society through promoting social justice and democratic practices. Thriving public spaces also enhance... -
Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place Setha Low 9781138945616
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $74.08This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices,... -
Rethinking Urban Parks: Public Space and Cultural Diversity by Setha Low
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $32.12Urban parks such as New York City's Central Park provide vital public spaces where city dwellers of all races and classes can mingle safely while enjoying a variety of recreations. By coming... -
Beach Politics: Social, Racial, and Environmental Injustice on the Shoreline Setha Low 9781479821952
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Explores how elites restrict access to public beaches around the globe Beaches are a beloved form of public space. Yet there has been an alarming global trend of restricting access to public... -
Beach Politics: Social, Racial, and Environmental Injustice on the Shoreline Setha Low 9781479821945
RRP: $154.05Booksplease Price: $125.62Explores how elites restrict access to public beaches around the globe Beaches are a beloved form of public space. Yet there has been an alarming global trend of restricting access to public... -
Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America by Setha Low 9780415950411
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $93.21In the last twenty years, thousands upon thousands of the upper and middle classes have retreated into gated communities. In 2002 it is estimated that one in eight Americans will live in these... -
Heterotopia and the City: Public Space in a Postcivil Society Michiel Dehaene (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) 9781138975965
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.27Heterotopia, literally meaning 'other place', is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented... -
Public Space Reader Miodrag Mitrasinovic 9780815385042
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.83Recent global appropriations of public spaces through urban activism, public uprising, and political protest have brought back democratic values, beliefs, and practices that have been historically... -
Cities and Cultures Malcolm Miles 9780415354431
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $103.23Cities and Cultures is a critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce and which in turn shape them. The book questions received ideas of what... -
Human-Centered Built Environment Heritage Preservation: Theory and Evidence-Based Practice Jeremy C. Wells 9781138583955
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $86.27Human-Centered Built Environment Heritage Preservation addresses the question of how a human-centred conservation approach can and should change practice. For the most part, there are few answers to... -
The Politics of Public Space by Setha M. Low 9780415951395
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $93.21Why is public space disappearing? Why is this disappearance important to democratic politics and how has it become an international phenomenon? Public spaces are no longer democratic spaces, but... -
Spaces of Security: Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance, and Control by Mark Maguire 9781479870066
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $48.83An ethnographic investigation into the dynamics between space and security in countries around the world It is difficult to imagine two contexts as different as a soccer stadium and a panic room... -
Spaces of Security: Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance, and Control by Mark Maguire 9781479863013
Booksplease Price: $176.61An ethnographic investigation into the dynamics between space and security in countries around the world It is difficult to imagine two contexts as different as a soccer stadium and a panic room... -
Footwork: Urban Outreach and Hidden Lives by Tom Hall 9780745330570
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.72Footwork is an original street-corner ethnography drawing on the themes of urban regeneration, lost space and the 24-hour city. From the rough sleeping homeless to street drinkers and sex workers, it... -
The Politics of Home: Belonging and Nostalgia in Europe and the United States by Jan Willem Duyvendak 9780230293991
Booksplease Price: $90.25This book examines ideas of 'home' of Americans and Western Europeans under the influence of the two major revolutions of our times: the gender revolution and increased mobility due to globalization... -
The Insecure City: Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut by Kristin V. Monroe 9780813574622
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $47.09Fifteen years after the end of a protracted civil and regional war, Beirut broke out in violence once again, forcing residents to contend with many forms of insecurity, amid an often violent... -
The Politics of Home: Belonging and Nostalgia in Europe and the United States by Jan Willem Duyvendak 9780230293984
Booksplease Price: $91.14This book examines ideas of 'home' of Americans and Western Europeans under the influence of the two major revolutions of our times: the gender revolution and increased mobility due to globalization... -
The National Mall: No Ordinary Public Space by Lisa Benton-Short 9781442630550
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $46.37The National Mall in Washington, D.C. is one of the most important and highly visible urban public spaces in the U.S. It is considered by many Americans to be "the nation's front yard." Yet few have... -
Footwork: Urban Outreach and Hidden Lives by Tom Hall 9780745330587
Booksplease Price: $214.85Footwork is an original street-corner ethnography drawing on the themes of urban regeneration, lost space and the 24-hour city. From the rough sleeping homeless to street drinkers and sex workers, it... -
Trapped: Life under Security Capitalism and How to Escape It by Mark Maguire 9781503632967
Booksplease Price: $24.53Exploring the pernicious influence of security capitalism on neighborhoods, airports, cities, and states. Calls to defund the police or to stop brutal police violence, argue Mark Maguire and Setha... -
Domestic Fortress: Fear and the New Home Front by Rowland Atkinson 9781784995317
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $37.50Today's home is a kind of fortress that tells us as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security. Fortress homes, gated communities and elaborate defensive systems have... -
Broken City: Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis Patrick Condon 9780774869553
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $42.24How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon, the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If... -
Futureproof: Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life by D. Asher Ghertner
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Security is a defining characteristic of our age and the driving force behind the management of collective political, economic, and social life. Directed at safeguarding society against future peril,... -
Gated Communities: Social Sustainability in Contemporary and Historical Gated Developments Saskia Sassen 9780415830416
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $103.23Gated Communities provides a historic, socio-political and contemporary cultural perspective of gated communities. In doing so it offers a different lens through which to view the historical... -
The Tale of Healer Miguel Perdomo Neira: Medicine, Ideologies, and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Andes by David Sowell 9780842028271
Booksplease Price: $84.49This new book tells the story of Miguel Perdomo Niera, a healer whose amazing cures during his travels through the northern Andes in the 1860s and 1870s evoked both enormous hostility and widespread... -
Public Space Design and Social Cohesion: An International Comparison Patricia Aelbrecht 9781138594036
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $96.21Social cohesion is often perceived as being under threat from the increasing cultural and economic differences in contemporary cities and the increasing intensity of urban life. Public space, in its... -
Race on the Move: Public Transportation and Unequal Spaces Gwendolyn Purifoye 9781479824083
Booksplease Price: $199.56Whether on the bus, subway or train, public transit continues to be a separate and unequal experience for many Black AmericansIn Race on the Move, Gwendolyn Purifoye argues that, whether on the... -
The People, Place, and Space Reader by Jen Jack Gieseking 9780415664974
RRP: $163.78Booksplease Price: $145.59The People, Place, and Space Reader brings together the writings of scholars, designers, and activists from a variety of fields to make sense of the makings and meanings of the world we inhabit. They... -
Sustainability in the Global City: Myth and Practice by Cindy Isenhour 9781107431720
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $79.91Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban... -
Race on the Move: Public Transportation and Unequal Spaces Gwendolyn Purifoye 9781479824090
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.23Whether on the bus, subway or train, public transit continues to be a separate and unequal experience for many Black AmericansIn Race on the Move, Gwendolyn Purifoye argues that, whether on the... -
Sustainability in the Global City: Myth and Practice by Cindy Isenhour 9781107076280
RRP: $191.10Booksplease Price: $182.38Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban...