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  • The Crisis of America's Cities

    Solutions for the Future, Lessons from the Past

    by Randall Bartlett ...
    An original work on American cities and the ongoing "urban crisis". Using the metaphor of the socially constructed organization of space, Bartlett takes a broad view of the evolution of urban America, from its historical roots to the present; he then examines the way in which current policies have responded to, and affected the organization of space (covering housing, transportation, government ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

    by Charles Montgomery ...
    A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can—and do—make us happier peopleCharles Montgomery's Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life.After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning

    1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City

    by Jonathan Mahler ...
    A passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of a city, when baseball and crime reigned supreme, and when several remarkable figures emerged to steer New York clear of one of its most harrowing periods.By early 1977, the metropolis was in the grip of hysteria caused by a murderer dubbed "Son of Sam." And on a sweltering night in July, a citywide power outage touched off an orgy of ... Read more

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  • Clooney's War

    South Sudan, humanitarian failure and celebrity

    by Alex Perry ...
    In this book Alex Perry explores how humanitarian activities across the world, including those of celebrities like George Clooney and others brought pressure to bear that resulted in the creation of South Sudan as a separate state. This at a time when senior diplomats believed the chances of the new nation surviving and thriving were slim. Predictably, it seems an outcome that should have solved ... Read more

    $2.27 USD

  • The Spirit of Cities

    Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age

    by Daniel A. Bell, Avner de-Shalit ...
    A lively and personal book that returns the city to political thoughtCities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom. The Spirit of Cities revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or values. In the ancient world, ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Urban Blues

    by Charles Keil ...
    Charles Keil examines the expressive role of blues bands and performers and stresses the intense interaction between performer and audience. Profiling bluesmen Bobby Bland and B. B. King, Keil argues that they are symbols for the black community, embodying important attitudes and roles—success, strong egos, and close ties to the community. While writing Urban Blues in the mid-1960s, Keil ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

    by Owen Hatherley ...
    Back in 1997, New Labour came to power amid much talk of regenerating the inner cities left to rot under successive Conservative governments. Over the next decade, British cities became the laboratories of the new enterprise economy: glowing monuments to finance, property speculation, and the service industry—until the crash.In A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley sets out to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Violence at the Urban Margins

    Edited by Javier Auyero, Philippe Bourgois, Nancy Scheper-Hughes ...
    Series series Global and Comparative Ethnography
    In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and upper-middle classes. However, a cursory count of the victims of urban violence in the Americas reveals that ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Age of Intelligent Cities

    Smart Environments and Innovation-for-all Strategies

    by Nicos Komninos ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008). Together these books examine intelligent cities as environments of innovation and collaborative problem-solving. In this final book, the focus is on planning, strategy and governance of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Marginalizing Access to the Sustainable Food System

    An Examination of Oakland's Minority Districts

    by Camille Tuason Mata ...
    Marginalizing Access to the Sustainable Food System is a comprehensive analysis of the barriers and opportunities confronting minority communities’ ability to access healthy, fresh foods. It exposits the meaning of marginalization through several measurement indicators examined from the cross sections of history, space, and participation. These indicators include minority participation in ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail

    Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool

    by Jacqueline Nassy Brown ...
    The port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. Its members proudly date their history back at least as far as the nineteenth century, with the global wanderings and eventual settlement of colonial African seamen. Jacqueline Nassy Brown analyzes how this worldly origin story supports an avowedly local Black politic and identity--a theme that becomes ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Scenescapes

    How Qualities of Place Shape Social Life

    by Daniel Aaron Silver, Terry Nichols Clark ...
    Let's set the scene: there's a regular on his barstool, beer in hand. He's watching a young couple execute a complicated series of moves on the dance floor, while at the table in the corner the DJ adjusts his headphones and slips a new beat into the mix. These are all experiences created by a given scene—one where we feel connected to other people, in places like a bar or a community center, a ... Read more

    $20.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus