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  • Land Fictions

    The Commodification of Land in City and Country

    Edited by D. Asher Ghertner, Robert W. Lake ...
    Series series Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment
    Land Fictions explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity. It interrogates global patterns of property formation, the dispossessions property markets enact, and the popular movements to halt the growing waves of evictions and land grabs.This collection brings together original research on urban, rural, and peri-urban India; ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Futureproof

    Security Aesthetics and the Management of Life

    Edited by D. Asher Ghertner, Hudson McFann, Daniel M. Goldstein ...
    Series series Global Insecurities
    Security 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, security is often thought of as the hard infrastructures and invisible technologies assumed to deliver it: walls, turnstiles, CCTV cameras, digital encryption, and the like. The contributors to ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Rule By Aesthetics

    World-Class City Making in Delhi

    by D. Asher Ghertner ...
    Rule by Aesthetics offers a powerful examination of the process and experience of mass demolition in the world's second largest city of Delhi, India. Using Delhi's millennial effort to become a 'world-class city,' the book shows how aesthetic norms can replace the procedures of mapping and surveying typically considered necessary to administer space. This practice of evaluating territory based on ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

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  • The Human City

    Urbanism for the Rest of Us

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges conventions of urban planning.Around the globe, most new urban development has adhered to similar tenets: tall structures, small units, and high density. In The Human City, Joel Kotkin―called "America's uber-geographer" by David Brooks of the New York Times―questions these nearly ubiquitous practices, suggesting that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Spirit of Community

    Rights, Responsibilities, and the Communitarian Agenda

    by Dr. Amitai Etzioni ...
    America needs to move from me to we.In The Spirit of Community, renowned professor and former White House Fellow Amitai Etzioni, the founder of the Communitarian movement, lays out a blueprint for how in the 1990s Americans can move forward—together.The Spirit of Community calls for a reawakening of our allegiance to the shared values and institutions that sustain us—from our marriages and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Asia-Pacific Security

    An Introduction

    by Joanne Wallis, Andrew Carr, Brad Glosserman, Lowell Dittmer, H.D.P. Envall, Ian Hall, Tim Huxley, Brendan Taylor, James Manicom0, Christopher Paul1, Nick Nelson2, Alistair D. Cook3, Rex Hughes4, Mathew Davies5, Sarah Teitt6, William Tow7 ...
    This new textbook gathers an international roster of top security studies scholars to provide an overview of Asia-Pacific’s international relations and pressing contemporary security issues. It is a suitable introduction for undergraduate and masters students' use in international relations and security studies courses. Merging a strong theoretical component with rich contemporary and historical ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Jakarta, Drawing the City Near

    by AbdouMaliq Simone ...
    Jakarta, a city rife with disparities like many cities in the Global South, is undergoing rapid change. Alongside its megastructures, high-rise residential buildings, and franchised convenience stores, Jakarta’s massive slums and off-hour street markets foster an unsettled urban population surviving in difficult conditions. But where does the vast middle of urban life fit into this dichotomy? In ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Against Security

    How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger - Updated Edition

    by Harvey Molotch, Harvey Molotch ...
    How security procedures could be positive, safe, and effectiveThe inspections we put up with at airport gates and the endless warnings we get at train stations, on buses, and all the rest are the way we encounter the vast apparatus of U.S. security. Like the wars fought in its name, these measures are supposed to make us safer in a post-9/11 world. But do they? Against Security explains how these ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment

    by Henri Lefebvre ...
    Translated by Robert Bononno ...
    Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is the first publication in any language of the only book devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre. Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre’s influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture. Taking the practices and perspective of habitation as his starting place, Lefebvre redefines ... Read more

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  • Urbanization and Urban Governance in China

    Issues, Challenges, and Development

    Edited by Lin Ye ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores the process of urbanization and the profound challenges to China’s urban governance. Economic productivity continues to rise, with increasingly uneven distribution of prosperity and accumulation of wealth. The emergence of individual autonomy including demands for more freedom and participation in the governing process has asked for a change of the traditional top-down control ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Marginalization in Urban China

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by F. Wu, C. Webster ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book covers social inequalities in Chinese cities and provides comparative perspectives on inequality and social polarization, neoliberalization and the poor, the change of property rights, rural to urban migration and migrants' enclaves, deprivation and residential segregation, state social security and reemployment training programs. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD