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  • Urban Crisis, Urban Hope

    A Policy Agenda for UK Cities

    Edited by Julian Dobson, Rowland Atkinson ...
    Urban Crisis, Urban Hope resurrects the concept of the city and its neighbourhoods as a crucible for new ideas and a site of innovative action when cities in the UK are struggling with an unfolding crisis, exacerbated by a policy vacuum and lack of strategic vision about how to resolve a series of growing divisions, social problems and injustices. It celebrates what is being achieved against the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 50 Dark Destinations

    Crime and Contemporary Tourism

    by Alice Storey, Angus Nurse, Anna Sergi, Anthony Lloyd, Ben Colliver, Craig Ancrum, Dan Rusu, David Wilson, Donna Yates, Duncan John Frankis, Eamonn Carrabine, Emiline Smith, Emma Winlow, Eveleigh Buck-Matthews, Gary Potter, Grace Gallacher, Hannah London, Ian R. Cook, Jane Richards, Jack Denham, Jardar Nuland Østbø, Jenna Page, Joe Garrihy, John Bahadur Lamb, Katie Lowe, Keith Hayward, Kevin Hoffin, Kyla Bavin, Laura Hammond, Lucas Danos, Luke Telford, Max Hart, Melindy Brown, Michael Rowe, Natasha Pope, Neil Chakraborti, Nicholas Gibbs, Oliver Smith, Orlando Woods, Patrick Berry, Peter Joyce, Robin West, Rowland Atkinson, Sarah Hodgkinson, Sarah Jones, Selina Patel Nascimento, Simon Winlow, Sophie Gregory, Steve Wadley, Tammy Ayres, Tereza Østbø Kuldova, Thomas Raymen, Travis Linnemann, Wendy Laverick ...
    From the Alcatraz East Crime Museum and Jack the Ripper guided tours to the Phnom Penh killing fields, ‘dark tourism’ is now a multi-million-pound global industry. Even in the most pleasant tourist destinations, underlying harms are constantly perpetuated, affecting both consumers and those who work or live around such tourist hotspots. Highlighting 50 travel destinations across six continents, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Shades of Deviance

    A Primer on Crime, Deviance and Social Harm

    Edited by Rowland Atkinson, Tammy Ayres ...
    Shades of Deviance is a turbo-driven guide to crime and deviance. It offers politically engaged, thought-provoking and accessibly written accounts of a wide range of socially and legally prohibited acts. This updated and revised edition is designed to be essential reading for general readers, undergraduate students in the fields of criminology and sociology, and those preparing to embark on degree ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Urban Crisis, Urban Hope

    A Policy Agenda for UK Cities

    Edited by Julian Dobson, Rowland Atkinson ...
    Series series Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative
    Urban Crisis, Urban Hope recognises that our cities are in crisis. It resurrects the concept of the city and its neighbourhoods as a crucible for new ideas and a site of innovative action, recognising the desperate need for support, resources and complementary visions at urban and national scales. The collection of essays brings together leading thinkers and doers from across the spectrum of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Urban Crisis, Urban Hope

    A Policy Agenda for UK Cities

    Edited by Julian Dobson, Rowland Atkinson ...
    Urban Crisis, Urban Hope resurrects the concept of the city and its neighbourhoods as a crucible for new ideas and a site of innovative action when cities in the UK are struggling with an unfolding crisis, exacerbated by a policy vacuum and lack of strategic vision about how to resolve a series of growing divisions, social problems and injustices. It celebrates what is being achieved against the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Alpha City

    How London Was Captured by the Super-Rich

    by Rowland Atkinson ...
    How London was bought and sold by the Super-Rich, and what it means for the rest of usWho owns London? Today, the city is the epicentre of the world’s financial markets, an elite cultural hub, and a place to hide one’s wealth. In Alpha City, Rowland Atkinson tells the story of eager developers, sovereign wealth, and grasping politicians, all of which paved the way for the plutocratic colonisation ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • What Do We Know and What Should We Do About Housing?

    by Rowland Atkinson, Keith Jacobs ...
    Series series What Do We Know and What Should We Do About
    The UK housing market is in crisis. House-prices are spiralling out of control, rents are rising faster than wages, and there is a serious shortage of new affordable homes. But what caused this crisis and what can we do about it?In this book, established housing policy experts Rowland Atkinson and Keith Jacobs expose the true economic forces behind Britain’s housing crisis. Urging readers to see ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Urban Criminology

    The City, Disorder, Harm and Social Control

    by Rowland Atkinson, Gareth Millington ...
    Urban Criminology offers an accessible analysis of our urban condition, viewed through the prism of crime, disorder and social harm. This book gathers cutting-edge treatments, research field reports and critical examinations of crime and harm in cities, from the disciplines of urban studies and criminology. The social, economic and political composition of cities and the various inequalities that ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Domestic fortress

    Fear and the new home front

    by Rowland Atkinson, Sarah Blandy ...
    Today'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 become everyday features of urban life, highlighting the depth of fear as well as the desire for prestige and social display and the ideological strength of home ownership.This book offers a fresh analysis ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Building Better Societies

    Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart

    by Michael Orton, Sophie Body-Gendrot, Sam Burgum, Alan Walker, Steve Corbett, Paul Ward, Kate Pahl, Richard Williams, Gretel Taylor, Deborah Joy-Warr, Martin Coward, Anthony Ellis, Keith Jacobs, Iain Wilkinson ...
    What would it take to make society better? For the majority, conditions are getting worse and this will continue unless strong action is taken. This book offers a wide range of expert contributors outlining what might help to make better societies and which mechanisms, interventions and evidence are needed when we think about a better society.The book looks at what is needed to prevent the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • New Directions in Crime and Deviancy

    Edited by Simon Winlow, Rowland Atkinson ...
    Criminology is at a crossroads. In the last two decades it has largely failed to produce the kind of new intellectual frameworks and empirical data that might help us to explain the high levels of crime and interpersonal violence that beset inner city areas and corrode community life. Similarly, it has failed to adequately explain forms of antisocial behaviour that are just as much a part of life ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Gated Communities

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Rowland Atkinson, Sarah Blandy ...
    This informative volume gathers contemporary accounts of the growth, influences on, and impacts of so-called gated communities, developments with walls, gates, guards and other forms of surveillance.While gated communities have become a common feature of the urban landscape in South Africa, Latin and North America, it is also clear that there is now significant interest in gated living in the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD