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Nairobi in the making
Examines the making and remaking of Nairobi, one of Africa's most fragmented, vibrant cities, contributing to debates on urban anthropology, the politics of the past and postcolonial materialities.What does it mean to make a life in an African city today? How do ordinary Africans, surrounded by c...
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Narrative in urban planning
This practical field guide makes insights from narrative research accessible to planners through a glossary of key concepts in the field.
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Negotiating identities, language and migration in global london
This book explores the transnational practices of migrant groups in global London, illustrating the complex relations between migrants and the city in the context of globalisation. The chapters offer a starting point to examine migrants and the city from a comparative perspective by bringing toge...
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Neighborhood and life chances
Does the place where you lived as a child affect your health as an adult? To what degree does your neighbor's success influence your own potential? The importance of place is increasingly recognized in urban research as an important variable in understanding individual and household outcomes. Pla...
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Neighbours around the world
Neighbours are a lively topic of everyday conversation and interest. Neighbours Around the World takes a comparative look around the world at our relationships and interactions with the people living next door, analysing the ways in which these relationships are changing in the face of large-scal...
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New developments in urban governance
This book presents the findings of a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project into urban austerity governance in eight cities across the world (Athens, Baltimore, Barcelona, Melbourne, Dublin, Leicester, Montréal and Nantes). It offers comparative reflections on the myriad experi...
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New immigrants in new york
Thoroughly updated to reflect changes in the composition of New York City's immigrant population, this book brings together contributions from leaders in their respective fields to show how new immigrants are transforming the city—and how New York, in turn, has affected the newcomers' lives. The ...
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Nine-tenths of the law
A toolbox for housing justice, a guide to American property law, and the squatter-rebels that dot our landscape.
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Norman m. klein's »bleeding through: layers of los angeles«
A Reissue of Norman M. Klein's Bleeding Through, featuring an interview with Klein and two docufables from Klein's The History of Forgetting.
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Not in my gayborhood
Exploring “gayborhoods” in Washington, DC, Theodore Greene investigates how neighborhoods retain their cultural identities even as their inhabitants change.
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Nurturing the one, supporting the many
Since its establishment in 1978 the Center for Family Life has been an integral source of assistance to immigrant families in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a community struggling with poverty, unemployment, health issues, drug-related problems, youth gang activity, a housing shortage, and oversubscribed...
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On bicycles
Evan Friss traces the colorful and fraught history of bicycles—and bicyclists—in New York City. He uncovers the bicycle’s place in the city over time, showing how the bicycle has served as a mirror of the city’s changing social, economic, infrastructural, and cultural politics.
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On the move
This book explores the impact of migration on the identities, values, worldviews, and social positions of migrant women in contemporary China based on original fieldwork as well as in-depth research in multiple regions of China.
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One out of three
This absorbing anthology features in-depth portraits of diverse ethnic populations, revealing the surprising new realities of immigrant life in twenty-first-century New York City.
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Ottawology
Ottawology offers an original, accessible sociological account of social structures, socialities, ecologies, and everyday life in Ottawa.
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Out to defend ourselves
The book provides a social history of Montreal’s first Haitian street gang and the changing city in which it emerged.
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Parkour, deviance and leisure in the late-capitalist city
This book examines the contradictions surrounding popular lifestyle sports such as parkour and freerunning and their exclusion from our hyper-regulated city centres. The author combines ethnographic data and complex theory to move beyond tropes of resistance and acknowledge and explain the parado...
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Parks for profit
Kevin Loughran explores the High Line in New York, the Bloomingdale Trail/606 in Chicago, and Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston to offer a critical perspective on the rise of the postindustrial park. He reveals how elites deploy the popularity and seemingly benign nature of parks to achieve their cul...
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People get ready
WINNER, COLLEGE THEOLOGY SOCIETY 2024 BEST BOOK AWARDWhat does it mean to be a community of difference?St. Mary of the Angels is a tiny underground Catholic parish in the heart of Boston’s Egleston Square. More than a century of local, national, and international migrations has shaped and reshape...
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People, plans, and policies
The primary theme of this collection of essays is that the cities' basic problems are poverty and racism, and until these concerns are addressed by bringing about racial equality, creating jobs, and instituting other reforms, the generally low quality of urban life will persist.Gans argues that t...
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Peripheral creativities
Peripheral Creativities examines the intersection of urban segregation, creative practices, and public policy in understanding marginalised youth living in peripheral territories.
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Philadelphia
A comprehensive history of Philadelphia from the region’s original Lenape inhabitants to the myriad of residents in the twenty-first centuryPhiladelphia is famous for its colonial and revolutionary buildings and artifacts, which draw tourists from far and wide to gain a better understanding of th...
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Planning in a polycrisis
This report outlines strategies for integrating equity into climate and housing planning in five North American cities: Boston, Denver, Portland, Vancouver, and Washington, DC.
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Platformization of urban life
This book addresses the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.
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Police–community relations in times of crisis
The death of Michael Brown at the hands of a white Ferguson police officer has uncovered an apparent legitimacy crisis at the heart of American policing. Some have claimed that de-policing may have led officers to become less proactive. How exactly has the policing of gangs and violence changed i...
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Policy, planning, and people
The contributors of Policy, Planning, and People argue for the promotion of social equity and quality of life by designing and evaluating urban policies and plans. Edited by Naomi Carmon and Susan S. Fainstein, the volume features original essays by leading authorities in the field of urban plann...
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Poor housing
Across Canada, there is a severe shortage of decent quality housing that is affordable to those with low incomes, and much of the housing that is available is inadequate, even appalling. The poor condition of housing for those below the poverty line adds to the weight of the complex poverty they ...
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Postcards from rio
New Postcards from Rio de Janeiro examines the interconnections between notions of citizenship and space in the works of favela-based cultural producers. It argues that the emphasis on the favela daily life generates an aesthetic of representation involved in the rewriting of the city as part of ...
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Postindustrial diy
WINNER, 2025 CENTER FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOOK PRIZEChronicles grassroots efforts to recover, rebuild, and enjoy architecturally iconic but economically obsolete places in the American Rust Belt.A pioneering Detroit automobile factory. A legendary iron mill at the edge of Pittsburgh. A campu...
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Postmigrant counterpublics
Conflicting dynamics of community and subcultural socialities in racialized and sexually dissident urban contexts in Germany.
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Power, piety, and people
Michael Dumper explores the causes and consequences of contemporary conflicts in holy cities. He offers five case studies of important disputes, beginning with Jerusalem, often seen as the paradigmatic example of a holy city in conflict, and discussing Córdoba, Banaras, Lhasa, and George Town in ...
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Precarious lives
In Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of precarity give rise to a sense of hopelessness, shared visions of a futureless tomorrow, widespread home...
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Preserving neighborhoods
Historic preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. Through rich case studies of Baltimore and Brooklyn, Aaron Passell complicates this story, exploring how community activists and local governments use historic preservation to accelerate or slow down neighborhood change.
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Privileging place
How second homeowners strategically leverage their privilege across multiple spacesIn recent decades, Americans have purchased second homes at unprecedented rates. In Privileging Place, Meaghan Stiman examines the experiences of predominantly upper-middle-class suburbanites who bought second home...
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Property wrongs
Business interests have fought hard against public housing by doing their utmost to limit city democracy.
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Public space in transition
Dahae Lee shows that in such a transitional context, the public sector alone is incapable to provide and manage public space. Hence, it engages private sector entities in the form of privately owned public space/s (POPS).Based on the results this study offers a nmber of policy recommendations for...
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Race and real estate
Through the lens of Harlem real estate transactions from 1890 to 1920, Kevin McGruder reveals the complex interactions between whites and African Americans at a critical time of migration and development. He offers an innovative perspective on Harlem's history and identity as both an African Amer...
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Race capital?
Leading scholars consider crucial aspects of Harlem’s social, political, and intellectual history, its artistic, cultural, and economic life, and its representation across an array of media and genres. Race Capital? models new Harlem scholarship that interrogates exceptionalism while taking serio...
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Rape new york
A true story of sexual violence, a corrupt property market, and the fight for justice.
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Re-imagining spaces and places
The contributors in this edited collection scrutinize the changing dynamics of space and place in relation to current political, social, and environmental urgencies across the globe. The discussions provide a cohesive study for disclosing latent understandings of multiple phenomena characterizing...
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Refiguration of cyberspace
An exploration of the spatial refiguration of the Internet from an interdisciplinary perspective.
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Reforming the city
Ariane Liazos examines the urban reform movement that swept through the country in the early twentieth century and its unintended consequences. Reforming the City offers powerful insights into the relationships between scholarship and reform and between the structures of city government and urban...
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Refugee cities
Situated between the 1970s Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan and the post–2001 War on Terror, Refugee Cities tells the story of how global wars affect everyday life for Afghans who have been living as refugees in Pakistan. This book provides a necessary glimpse of what ordinary life looks li...
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Reimagining the urban commons in italy
Presenting different case studies of urban commons and socially innovative and democratic practices in Italian cities, the chapters analyse the different contexts and specific political and socio-economic needs that are being addressed.
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Reshaping youth participation
Reshaping Youth Participation reframes discussions around youth political, social, civic, and cultural participation. Drawing upon insights on democracy and citizenship, self-organising and protest movements, and arts activism as engaged social activism, chapters consider the spaces in which youn...
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Resisting eviction
This book Meticulously documents how real estate investment firms and government colluded to gentrify a racialized neighborhood and how tenants fought back.
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Resonant fabrics
Marvin Heine explores soundscapes as they shape, and are shaped by urban cultures and particular ways of listening.
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Rhythmanalysis
This collection brings together new and original research on the concept and practice of ‘rhythmanalysis’ in urban sociology as a means to analyse the relationship between the time and space of the city.
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