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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...
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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 ...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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.
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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...
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Gangs and society
Compiled by three leading experts in the psychological, sociological, and criminal justice fields, this volume addresses timely questions from an eclectic range of positions. The product of a landmark conference on gangs, Gangs and Society brings together the work of academics, activists, and com...
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Urban appropriation strategies
In the past years, the transiency of European city-making and dwelling has become increasingly hard to disregard. This urban flux calls for a methodological rethinking for those professionals, social and natural scientists, artists, and activists, with an interest in the processes of remaking and...
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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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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.
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To be mayor of new york
From Tammany Hall to the election of David Dinkins, To Be Mayor of New York offers insights into the effect of ethnic competition on the demise of urban political machines.Beginning with a colorful assessment of New York City's Tammany Hall as it existed in the late nineteenth century, McNickle t...
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Kharkiv is a dream
The authors zoom in on three events over the past decade that reflect how different actors used the cityscape of Kharkiv to make sense of and shape their context.
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Dispatches from the threshold
Tenants narrate their struggles for housing justice as the catastrophes of COVID-19, precarity, and racist police violence converge.
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Co-producing urban spaces
Tools to build communication between architects and urbanists with the community – towards co-producing knowledge and spaces.
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From shelters to dwellings
Can a shelter within a refugee camp ever become a dwelling? Ayham Dalal argues that the transformation from shelter to dwelling is a creative and imaginative process, in which social relations are carved into space while politics, time, and materiality are negotiated.
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How green is the city?
This book deals with practical ways to reach a more sustainable state in urban areas through such tools as strategic environmental assessment, sustainability assessment, direction analysis, baseline setting and progress measurement, sustainability targets, and ecological footprint analysis.
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Topophilia
What are the links between environment and world view? Topophilia, the affective bond between people and place, is the primary theme of this book that examines environmental perceptions and values at different levels: the species, the group, and the individual.Yi-Fu Tuan holds culture and environ...
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Actors and networks in the megacity
This study is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of urban narratives of the 21st century. We encounter well-known psycho-geographers such as Iain Sinclair and Sam Miller, and renowned authors, Patrick Neate and Suketu Mehta. Pr...
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A message to you
Bringing together different ethnographic fieldworks, Ribas-Mateos provides a “Moving Cartography” that consolidates the disparate strands of thought of mobilities in specific global sites.
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Exploring the city
Within a relatively short time, urban anthropology has emerged as one of the most vital fields of anthropology. During its formative period, however, it has lacked intellectual coherence. Exploring the Cityis a bold first attempt to provide just such a coherent and unified theoretical understandi...
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Insurgent planning practice
This book investigates the communicative turn in planning practice, and its potential for insurgent forms of civic engagement and democracy-building, drawing on interviews with urban planners who challenge technocratic spatial planning by incorporating notions of participation, spatial justice an...
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Hispanic new york
Over the past few decades, a wave of immigration has turned New York into a microcosm of the Americas and enhanced its role as the crossroads of the English- and Spanish-speaking worlds. Yet far from being an alien group within a "mainstream" and supposedly pure "Anglo" America, people referred t...
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Interzones
Interzones is an innovative account of how the color line was drawn--and how it was crossed--in twentieth-century American cities. Kevin Mumford chronicles the role of vice districts in New York and Chicago as crucibles for the shaping of racial categories and racial inequalities.Focusing on Chic...
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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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The new metropolis
In one generation, New York was transformed into one of the great cities of the modern world. The causes and results of this change are emphasized by Edward K. Spann in The New Metropolis. This book is a brilliant evocation of the years when a seaport town was lost and a great metropolis gained. ...
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Tangier/gibraltar – a tale of one city
By studying the relationship between the Moroccan city of Tangiers and the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, Dieter Haller shows how cross-boundary experiences, practices, and identifications create a sense of neighborhood beyond official discourses.
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Language city
From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planetHalf of all 7...
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Why face-to-face still matters
What makes a great city? Why do people and businesses still value urban life and buildings over a quiet life in the suburbs or countryside? Now might seem a difficult time to make the case for social contact in urban areas – so why is face-to-face contact still considered crucial to many 21st-ce...
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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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Covid-19 and the challenges of trauma and transformations
Covid-19 has created trauma, death and destruction as well as challenged us for transformation of our existing society, economy and polity. The book deals with it.
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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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Abolish rent
Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice. Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyone fed up with the permanent housing crisis, complicit politicians, and real estate greed, ...
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The significance of chinatown development to a multicultural america
Amidst the growth challenges encountered by numerous Chinatowns across America, this timely work offers insightful perspectives on a sustainable model for urban and community development, as demonstrated by the transformative journey of Houston’s New Chinatown.
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Urban resilience
Taking the Turkish case as a pioneering testing ground, Stefano Salata advocates for the reintroduction of natural areas and biodiverse green spaces within our cities.
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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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White supremacy and racism in progressive america
This book examines the connections between race, place, and space, and sheds light on how they contribute and maintain racial hierarchies. The author focuses on the White residents of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, which, according to the Cooks Political Report Partisan Voting Index, is the most ...
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End of the road
Since the earliest days of civilization, streets have played an important role in shaping society – but what is a street? Is it a living ecosystem, a public space, a social space, an economic space or a combination of these? The focus on automotive travel over the past century has changed the rol...
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