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  • Why Detroit Matters

    Decline, Renewal and Hope in a Divided City

    by Tyree Guyton, Friso Wiersum, Drew Philp, Jessica Brooke Williams, Khalil Ligon, Dan Kinkead, Jessica Care Moore, Julia Sattler, Jason Roche, Kimberley Kinder, Joshua Akers, Rene Kreichauf, Reynolds Farley, George Galster ...
    Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities struggle with urban decline, racial and ethnic tensions and the consequences of neoliberal governance and political fragmentation, Detroit’s relevance grows stronger.Why Detroit Matters bridges academic and non-academic responses to this extreme example of a fractured and divided, ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

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  • Florence’s story (Individual stories from THE SWEETHEARTS, Book 2)

    by Lynn Russell, Neil Hanson ...
    Series Book 2 - Individual stories from THE SWEETHEARTS
    This is Florence’s story, one of five stories extracted from THE SWEETHEARTS.Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire.“Florence was born in 1923 and remembers sleeping three or four to a bed with the other children. ‘If it was really cold, my mum would give us the shelf out of the fireside oven, wrapped in a piece of ... Read more

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  • Suburban Nation

    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

    by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck ...
    The essential handbook for ending suburban sprawl and automobile-based settlement patternsFor a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century's automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Campfire Tales from Hell: Musings on Martial Arts, Survival, Bouncing, and General Thug Stuff

    by Marc MacYoung ...
    Life out at the edges can be rough, scary and at times dangerous. Campfire Tales From Hell is a collection of essays from people who have been there, done that -- some of whom had to fight for their title of 'survivor.' Some are professionals, calmly going to work knowing a bad day means someone dies -- and that 'someone' could be them. Others came through by being smarter, more aware, better ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bottom of the Harbor

    by Joseph Mitchell ...
    On the centennial of Joseph Mitchell's birth, here is a new edition of the classic collection containing his most celebrated pieces about New York City. Fifty years after its original publication, The Bottom of the Harbor is still considered a fundamental New York book. Every story Mitchell tells, every person he introduces, every scene he describes is illuminated by his passion for the eccentrics ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Suburbia (new version)

    by Eric Bogosian ...
    “Chekhov high on speed and Twinkies. A Work as ferocious as Mr. Bogosian’s own one-man shows.” -- David Richards, New York Times “A scarifying dissection of youthful disillusion that manages to be both appalling and appealing.” -- Newsweek “Bogosian’s script retains the playwright-performer’s trademark vitriol and hammer wit.” -- TimeOut New York This updated version of Eric Bogosian’s theatrical ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dead End

    Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism

    by Benjamin Ross ...
    More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason. As an activist and a scholar, Benjamin Ross is uniquely placed to diagnose why this is so. Dead End traces ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Interpretive Research Design

    Concepts and Processes

    by Peregrine Schwartz-Shea, Dvora Yanow ...
    Series series Routledge Series on Interpretive Methods
    Research design is fundamental to all scientific endeavors, at all levels and in all institutional settings. In many social science disciplines, however, scholars working in an interpretive-qualitative tradition get little guidance on this aspect of research from the positivist-centered training they receive. This book is an authoritative examination of the concepts and processes underlying the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Urban Assemblages

    How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies

    Edited by Ignacio Farías, Thomas Bender ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
    This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices. The past century of urban studies has focused on various aspects—space, culture, politics, economy—but these too often address each domain and the city itself as a bounded and cohesive entity. The multiple and overlapping enactments that constitute ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Masters of Craft

    Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy

    by Richard E. Ocejo ...
    How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupationsIn today's new economy—in which "good" jobs are typically knowledge or technology based—many well-educated and culturally savvy young men are instead choosing to pursue traditionally low-status manual labor occupations as careers. Masters of Craft looks at ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human Targets

    Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth

    by Victor M. Rios ...
    At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target—flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a teacher, who mentored him and helped him find a job at an auto shop. That job would alter the course of his whole life—putting him on the road to college ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Civil Unrest

    Rioting in Our Cities

    by Chris Elliott ...
    When British cities erupted into violence in August 2011, the world once again began to ask why and how such riots begin, and whether there will ever be a solution to civil unrest. This important ebook, a collection of writing by the Guardian's finest contributors, charts the causes and responses to riots and disaffection from Notting Hill in 1958 via Brixton, Toxteth, Detroit and LA, to the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD