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Literature and the Peripheral City
Jason FinchCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries define them, too: from suburbs to s...
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The Gang and Beyond: Interpreting Violent Street Worlds
S. HallsworthCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This book challenges the widely held conjecture that gangs represent 'the new face of youth crime', repudiating claims which situate the gang at th...
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The Gang and Beyond: Interpreting Violent Street Worlds
S. HallsworthCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99This book challenges the widely held conjecture that gangs represent 'the new face of youth crime', repudiating claims which situate the gang at th...
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Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State: From Social Engineering to Governance?
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Using an analytical framework based on Foucault's concept of governmentality and through unique case-studies, this volume explores the ongoing tran...
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Old New York: Tales of The Big Apple: False Dawn, The Old Maid, The Spark & New Year''s Day
Edith WhartonCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Current price €14.44Original price €16.99Save 15% -
Turbo Detective Stories - From East Los Angeles During the 1960''s''s
Robert NerbovigCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99Current price €13.59Original price €15.99Save 15% -
Le complexe de South Harbour et les communauts environnantes
Ana Paula PiresCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99Current price €39.59Original price €43.99Save 10% -
Der Sdhafenkomplex und die umliegenden Gemeinden
Ana Paula PiresCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99Current price €39.59Original price €43.99Save 10% -
Комплекс Южной гавани и прилегающие насел
Ана Паула ПиресCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99Current price €39.59Original price €43.99Save 10% -
The South Harbour Complex and the surrounding communities
Ana Paula PiresCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99Current price €39.59Original price €43.99Save 10% -
Upscaling Downtown: From Bowery Saloons to Cocktail Bars in New York City
Richard E. OcejoCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Once known for slum-like conditions in its immigrant and working-class neighborhoods, New York City's downtown now features luxury housing, chic bo...
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The Nature of Cities: Ecological Visions and the American Urban Professions, 19201960
Jennifer S. LightCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99In the early twentieth century, America was transformed from a predominantly agricultural nation to one whose population resided mostly in cities. ...
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Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá
Austin ZeidermanCurrent price €99.89Original price €110.99Security and risk have become central to how cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited in the twenty-first century. In Endangered City, Au...
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Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work
Alex RosenblatCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneu...
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Urbanization in Europe: Past Developments and Pathways to a Sustainable Future
David EversCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This open access book comes at an opportune time, with land take high on the EU policy agenda. It shows how over one million hectares in Europe bec...
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Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory
ukasz StanekCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50In this innovative work, Lukasz Stanek frames a uniquely contextual appreciation of Henri Lefebvres idea that space is a social product. Stanek exp...
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Infrastructure for Smart Villages
Hemanta DoloiCurrent price €138.59Original price €153.99This book intends to initiate a fresh articulation of need-based infrastructure provisions in rural contexts. Departing from the conventional theor...
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The Shaping of Us: How Everyday Spaces Structure Our Lives, Behavior, and Well-Being
Lily BernheimerCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The spaces we inhabit from homes and workspaces to city streetsmediate community, creativity, and our very identity. Using insights from environmen...
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Abandoned in the Heartland: Work, Family, and Living in East St. Louis
Jennifer HamerCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Urban poverty, along with all of its poignant manifestations, is moving from city centers to working-class and industrial suburbs in contemporary A...
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Human Relations Commissions: Relieving Racial Tensions in the American City
Prof Valerie Martinez-EbersCurrent price €102.59Original price €113.99During the 1950s, amid increased attention to the problems facing citiessuch as racial disparities in housing, education, and economic conditions; ...
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Gender, Work and Community After De-Industrialisation: A Psychosocial Approach to Affect
L. JimenezCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99How does an industrial community cope when they are told that closure is inevitable? What if this is only the last in a 200 year long line of threa...
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The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia
Guian A. McKeeCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99Contesting claims that postwar American liberalism retreated from fights against unemployment and economic inequality, The Problem of Jobs reveals ...
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Multinational Retailers and Consumers in China: Transferring Organizational Practices from the United Kingdom and Japan
J. GambleCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book investigates the transfer of parent country organizational practices by the retailers to their Chinese subsidiaries, providing insights i...
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Advertising, Commercial Spaces and the Urban
Anne M. CroninCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Providing a detailed account of contemporary outdoor advertising and its relationship with urban space, this book examines what the outdoor adverti...
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Dealing with Urban and Rural Shrinkage: Formal and Informal Strategies Volume 5
Lit VerlagCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99Current price €38.69Original price €42.99Save 10% -
Linguistic Landscape in the City
Channel View Publications LtdCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99This book focuses on linguistic landscapes in present-day urban settings. In a wide-ranging collection of studies of major world cities, the author...
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Piercing Time: Paris After Marville and Atget 1865-2012
Peter SramekCurrent price €56.09Original price €65.99Piercing Time examines the role of photography in documenting urban change by juxtaposing contemporary rephotographs taken by the author with image...
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Filming the City: Urban Documents, Design Practices and Social Criticism through the Lens
Ari MattesCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99Filming the City brings together the work of filmmakers, architects, designers, video artists and media specialists to provide three distinct prism...
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Digital Futures and the City of Today: New Technologies and Physical Spaces
Intellect BooksCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99In the contemporary city, the physical infrastructure and sensorial experiences of two millennia are now inter-woven within an invisible digital ma...
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Piercing Time: Paris After Marville and Atget 1865-2012
Peter SramekCurrent price €135.99Original price €159.99Piercing Time examines the role of photography in documenting urban change by juxtaposing contemporary rephotographs taken by the author with image...
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Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago
Andy ClarnoCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Exposing the carceral webs and weaponized data that shape Chicagos police wars Chicago is a city with extreme concentrations of racialized pover...
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Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur
Derek HyraCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Exposing the roots of racial unrest that consistently harm Black communities In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ...
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The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us
Joel KotkinCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50The Human City presents the most cogent, evidence-based and clear-headed exposition of the pro-suburban argument...enriching our understanding of w...
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Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur
Derek HyraCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Exposing the roots of racial unrest that consistently harm Black communities In Slow and Sudden Violence, Derek Hyra links police violence to an ...
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Imperial Policing: Weaponized Data in Carceral Chicago
Andy ClarnoCurrent price €106.19Original price €117.99Exposing the carceral webs and weaponized data that shape Chicagos police wars Chicago is a city with extreme concentrations of racialized pover...
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A People''s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area
Alexander TarrCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation.A Peoples Guide to the San...
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After the Gig: How the Sharing Economy Got Hijacked and How to Win It Back
Juliet SchorCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Management & Workplace Culture Book of the Year, 2020 Porchlight Business Book AwardsA Publishers Weekly Fall 2020 Big Indie BookThe dark side ...
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