-
Property wrongs
Business interests have fought hard against public housing by doing their utmost to limit city democracy.
Regular price $28.00Sale price $28.00 Regular price $28.00Unit price per -
Adaptable cities and temporary urbanisms
This book examines temporary urbanisms across varied global contexts, considering their significance for cities and everyday life as well as for policy and practice.
Regular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Human relations commissions
Brian Calfano and Valerie Martinez-Ebers examine the history and current efforts of human relations commissions in promoting positive intergroup outcomes and enforcing antidiscrimination laws. Drawing on a wide range of theories and methods, they assess policy approaches, successes, and failures ...
Read MoreRegular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
The berlin reader
By drawing together widely dispersed yet central writings, the Berlin Reader is an essential resource for everyone interested in urban development in one of the most interesting and important metropolises in Europe. It provides scholars as well as students, journalists and visitors with an overvi...
Read MoreRegular price $40.00Sale price $40.00 Regular price $40.00Unit price per -
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.
Regular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
The cultural infrastructure of cities
This collection of essays offers a fresh perspective on infrastructure, inviting readers to (re)consider the ways that culture is produced and expressed within cities by examining the geographies of its spaces, venues, performances and embodiments.
Regular price $39.95Sale price $39.95 Regular price $39.95Unit price per -
Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge
This issue explores how collaboration impacts the processes, tools, and methods of design by examining the conditions of its integration into architectural practice and discourse.
Regular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
Greening america’s smaller legacy cities
A policy framework and roadmap for regenerating small and midsize legacy cities in an equitable, climate-resilient manner.
Regular price $20.00Sale price $20.00 Regular price $20.00Unit price per -
Not in my gayborhood
Exploring “gayborhoods” in Washington, DC, Theodore Greene investigates how neighborhoods retain their cultural identities even as their inhabitants change.
Regular price $32.00Sale price $32.00 Regular price $32.00Unit price per -
The vatican to vegas
A guided tour through the nuanced politics of architectural illusion, »The Vatican to Vegas« takes the reader from lavish Baroque fantasies of the seventeenth century to the Electronic Baroque of today.
Regular price $57.00Sale price $57.00 Regular price $57.00Unit price per -
Between ocean and city
Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this narrow peninsula between the ocean and the bay became some of New York City's worst slums. A historian who grew up in the community and his wife, a s...
Read MoreRegular price $50.00Sale price $50.00 Regular price $50.00Unit price per -
Black gods of the asphalt
A former streetball player who became an all-star Ivy Leaguer brings the sights and sounds, hopes and dreams of street basketball to life. Through interviews with and observations of urban basketball players, he composes a rare portrait of a passionate, committed, and resilient group of athletes ...
Read MoreRegular price $23.00Sale price $23.00 Regular price $23.00Unit price per -
Indians wear red
With the advent of Aboriginal street gangs such as Indian Posse, Manitoba Warriors, and Native Syndicate, Winnipeg garnered a reputation as the “gang capital of Canada.” Yet beyond the stereotypes of outsiders, little is known about these street gangs and the factors and conditions that have prod...
Read MoreRegular price $19.95Sale price $19.95 Regular price $19.95Unit price per -
Leader communities
Leader Communities is a study of Stockholm's suburb Djursholm and other similar places: privileged communities where elites choose to live, socialize with other elites, and raise their children into future elites. Mikael Holmqvist provides unparalleled insight into today's power elite and the soc...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Fathering from the margins
Aasha M. Abdill draws on fieldwork in Bedford-Stuyvesant to dispel stereotypes of black men as deadbeat dads. She presents qualitative and quantitative evidence of black fathers' presence and shows how supporting black men in their quest to be—and be seen as—family men is key to securing not only...
Read MoreRegular price $65.00Sale price $65.00 Regular price $65.00Unit price per -
Zones of tradition - places of identity
Gerhard Vinken takes readers to twelve cities on three continents and analyses the diverse and contradictory heritage formations that have had a lasting impact on urban life. The vitality of urban heritage, as these vivid and in-depth case studies show, lies in the dynamic and often conflictual p...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Housing and human settlements in a world of change
This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neoliberalism. It explores the outcomes of neoliberal “enabling” ideas, responses to extreme climate events with different housing approaches, and how the d...
Read MoreRegular price $50.00Sale price $50.00 Regular price $50.00Unit price per -
Jerusalem unbound
Jerusalem's formal political borders reveal neither the dynamics of power in the city nor the underlying factors that make an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians so difficult. The lines delineating Israeli authority are frequently different from those delineating segregated housing or a...
Read MoreRegular price $40.00Sale price $40.00 Regular price $40.00Unit price per -
Becoming jewish in berlin
Vanessa Rau provides a captivating portrait and analysis of a new Jewish-Hebrew urban scene.
Regular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
International express
How the New York City subway helps new immigrants assimilate.
Regular price $37.00Sale price $37.00 Regular price $37.00Unit price per -
Informal transactions of low income houses in south africa
Sandile Mbatha explores the concept of informality in relation to how such beneficiaries challenge predominant understandings of property relations.
Regular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
Concepts of urban-environmental history
In history, cities and nature are often treated as two separate fields of research. Concepts of Urban-Environmental History aims to bridge this gap. The contributions to this volume survey major concepts and key issues that have shaped recent debates in the field.
Regular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Senses of the city
The city of Hangzhou symbolized all of the contradictions of the declining Song Empire (960–1279). It was paramount and feeble, awe-inspiring and threatened, the most admired city and a disgrace to its dynastic founders. Rather than debate the merit of these polemical judgments, the contributors ...
Read MoreRegular price $60.00Sale price $60.00 Regular price $60.00Unit price per -
Taking the train
In the 1960s and early 1970s, young people in New York City radically altered the tradition of writing their initials on neighborhood walls. Influenced by the widespread use of famous names on billboards, in neon, in magazines, newspapers, and typographies from advertising and comics, city youth ...
Read MoreRegular price $40.00Sale price $40.00 Regular price $40.00Unit price per -
Townscapes in transition
How did urban Italy come to look the way it does today? This collection assembles recent studies in architectural history and theory exploring the historical paradigms guiding architecture and landscape design in between the world wars.
Regular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
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 ...
Read MoreRegular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
Cities of entanglements
How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply divided.
Regular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
Inner city renovation
Inner City Renovation (ICR) is a much-heralded social enterprise in Winnipeg’s North End which has become an example of the potential for social enterprises to support people living on society’s margins and engage them in a productive livelihood. This book, written by former ICR general manager a...
Read MoreRegular price $18.95Sale price $18.95 Regular price $18.95Unit price per -
Indian architecture in postcards
Focusing on a private collection of 60 postcards this book explores the many dimensions of modern architecture in India from the 1890s to the 1970s.
Regular price $45.00Sale price $45.00 Regular price $45.00Unit price per -
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.
Regular price $30.00Sale price $30.00 Regular price $30.00Unit price per -
What remains
Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from the socialist past continue to circulate and shape the politics of memory. What Remains traces the effects of these artifacts, arguing for a rethinking of the role of the everyday...
Read MoreRegular price $24.00Sale price $24.00 Regular price $24.00Unit price per -
Conflicts in urban future-making
An inquiry into conflictual dynamics arising from imagining, negotiating, and materializing different urban futures in contemporary times of crisis.
Regular price $49.00Sale price $49.00 Regular price $49.00Unit price per -
Metropolitan research
This book provides a scholarly and accessible overview of key methods and approaches in metropolitan research from a uniquely broad range of disciplines.
Regular price $50.00Sale price $50.00 Regular price $50.00Unit price per -
The dream revisited
The Dream Revisited brings together a range of expert viewpoints on the causes and consequences of the nation’s separate and unequal living patterns. Leading scholars and practitioners, including civil rights advocates, affordable housing developers, elected officials, and fair housing lawyers, d...
Read MoreRegular price $37.00Sale price $37.00 Regular price $37.00Unit price per -
Harvard square
Diving into Harvard Square’s past and present, Catherine J. Turco, an economic sociologist and longtime Harvard Square denizen, tells the crazy, complicated love story of one quirky little marketplace and in the process, reveals the hidden love story Americans everywhere have long had with their ...
Read MoreRegular price $20.00Sale price $20.00 Regular price $20.00Unit price per -
Cross-cultural harlem
Drawing on fiction, sociology, political speech, autobiography, and performance, Sandhya Shukla develops a living theory of Harlem, in which peoples of different backgrounds collide, interact, and borrow from each other, even while Blackness remains crucial.
Regular price $35.00Sale price $35.00 Regular price $35.00Unit price per -
The redundant city
Norbert Kling explores the rich body of narrative knowledge about conflict and change provided by architecture and urbanism and confronts this knowledge with an empirically grounded situational analysis of a large housing estate. His concept of the “Redundant City” describes a specific form of co...
Read MoreRegular price $50.00Sale price $50.00 Regular price $50.00Unit price per -
The social life of the mall
In an ethnography of the mall, Franziska Reiffen explores how people create socially meaningful places in cities characterized by diversity, inequality, and mobility.
Regular price $55.00Sale price $55.00 Regular price $55.00Unit price per -
From cotton and smoke
This book considers the history of Łódź, a former textile hub now in central Poland, as one of confrontation with modernity. It presents a multifaceted portrait of twentieth-century urban experience beyond the metropolis.
Regular price $60.00Sale price $60.00 Regular price $60.00Unit price per -
Ottawology
Ottawology offers an original, accessible sociological account of social structures, socialities, ecologies, and everyday life in Ottawa.
Regular price $29.00Sale price $29.00 Regular price $29.00Unit price per -
Migrant friendships in a super-diverse city
This timely book offers an integrative and critical approach to the conceptualization of diversity of social ties in contemporary urban migrant populations. It explores the informal relationships of migrants in London and how the construction and the dynamics of their social ties function as a pa...
Read MoreRegular price $36.00Sale price $36.00 Regular price $36.00Unit price per -
Housing and the democratic ideal
Charles Abrams (1902-1970) stood at the center of the policies, problems, and politics surrounding urban planning, housing reform, and the public and private interests involved in the expansion of the American state. He uniquely combined in one person the often divergent roles of "public" and "po...
Read MoreRegular price $75.00Sale price $75.00 Regular price $75.00Unit price per -
The mereological city
In a positive departure from modernism, the work of the art critic and urbanist Ludwig Hilberseimer offers schemata towards the design for the city itself: its mereological composition.The resonance of parts unfolds to an alternative of a purely contrasting equation of form and content. It remind...
Read MoreRegular price $40.00Sale price $40.00 Regular price $40.00Unit price per -
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 ...
Read MoreRegular price $42.00Sale price $42.00 Regular price $42.00Unit price per -
Exiles in new york city
Exiles in New York City shares untold stories from Ward’s Island, offering a new lens on the city’s past and present from the perspective of the marginalized.
Regular price $27.00Sale price $27.00 Regular price $27.00Unit price per -
Down and out in new orleans
In the years since Hurricane Katrina, modern-day bohemians have flocked to New Orleans but often find themselves skirting poverty. Down and Out in New Orleans follows the lives of those on the fringes as they carve out unique paths in a resilient city. Peter J. Marina provides an original glimpse...
Read MoreRegular price $37.00Sale price $37.00 Regular price $37.00Unit price per
Something went wrong
Please try again
