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  • Urban Informality

    Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia

    de Asef Bayat, Ray Bromley, Alan Gilbert, Arif Hasan, Janice E. Perlman, Ahmed M. Soliman, Peter M. Ward, Haim Yakobi, Oren Yiftachel ...
    Series series Transnational Perspectives on Space and Place
    The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate these trends. The contributions reveal that informal housing is no longer the domain of the urban poor; rather it is a significant ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Favela

    Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro

    de Janice Perlman ...
    Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many longtime favela residents whom she had first met in 1969--as well as their children and grandchildren--Perlman offers the only long-term ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Megacities

    The Politics of Urban Exclusion and Violence in the Global South

    de Robert Gay, Professor Caroline Moser, Janice Perlman, Asef Bayat, Jo Beall, Mariano Aguirre, Owen Crankshaw, Susan Parnell ...
    For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities, the result of a rapid process of urbanization that started in the second half of the twentieth century. 'Megacities' around the world are rapidly becoming the scene for deprivation, especially in the global South, and the urban excluded face the brunt of what in many cases seems like low-intensity warfare ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

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  • The Sugar Girls - Lilian’s Story

    Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End

    de Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi ...
    This is Lilian’s story, one of four stories from The Sugar Girls. During the Blitz and the years of rationing, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but the Tate & Lyle factory was more than just a workplace – it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of East London.‘When Lilian Tull came to Tate & Lyle shortly after ... Leer más

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  • Streetfight

    Handbook for an Urban Revolution

    de Janette Sadik-Khan, Seth Solomonow ...
    Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change, Streetfight imparts wisdom and practical advice that other cities can follow to make their own streets safer and more vibrant.As New York City’s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • What's Wrong With the World

    de G. K. Chesterton ...
    "What's Wrong With the World" is G. K. Chesterton's 1910 collection of essays in which he puts forth his economic philosophy of Distributism. Along with Hillaire Belloc, Chesterton formulated the idea of Distributism as an economic order that was more in line with the principles articulated by the Roman Catholic Church. Put simply Distributism argues that the means of production should be spread ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Another Day in the Death of America

    A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

    de Gary Younge ...
    Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas PrizeShortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation AwardFinalist for the 2017 Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism****Longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Non FictionOn an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death of America, award-winning journalist Gary ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Community Conversations

    Mobilizing the Ideas, Skills, and Passion of Community Organizations, Governments, Businesses, and People, Second Edition

    de Paul Born ...
    Communities around the world are entering a new era of community building.Whether improving economic conditions and reducing poverty, re-energizing citizens and social programs, reducing crime, or revitalizing a troubled neighborhood, they are engaging people from all sectors as never before to work together as equals to improve their quality of life.At the heart of this engagement are community ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Cosmopolitan Canopy

    Race and Civility in Everyday Life

    de Elijah Anderson ...
    An acclaimed sociologist illuminates the public life of an American city, offering a major reinterpretation of the racial dynamics in America.Following his award-winning work on inner-city violence, Code of the Street, sociologist Elijah Anderson introduces the concept of the “cosmopolitan canopy”—the urban island of civility that exists amidst the ghettos, suburbs, and ethnic enclaves where ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Planet of Slums

    de Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    THE BEST-SELLING MODERN CLASSIC: The world’s leading urbanist offers a “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize–winning author).According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • More than Just Race

    Being Black and Poor in the Inner City

    de William Julius Wilson ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    A preeminent sociologist of race explains a groundbreaking new framework for understanding racial inequality, challenging both conservative and liberal dogma.In this timely and provocative contribution to the American discourse on race, William Julius Wilson applies an exciting new analytic framework to three politically fraught social problems: the persistence of the inner-city ghetto, the plight ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Amazing Grace

    The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

    de Jonathan Kozol ...
    The author of Savage Inequalities, a New York Times best-seller, and Rachel and Her Children, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet lost their battle with the perils of life in America's most hopeless, helpless, and dangerous neighborhoods. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD