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Hella Town: Oakland''s History of Development and Disruption
Mitchell SchwarzerCurrent price €25.49Original price €29.99Hella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition on Oaklands built environment. O...
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Running the Numbers: Race, Police, and the History of Urban Gambling
Matthew VazCurrent price €26.34Original price €30.99Every day in the United States, people test their luck in numerous lotteries, from state-run games to massive programs like Powerball and Mega Mill...
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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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A People''s Guide to Orange County
Elaine LewinnekCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50One of the Top Urban Planning Books of 2022, PlanetizenThe full and fascinating guidebook that Orange County deserves.A Peoples Guide to Orange Cou...
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Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America
Randy ShawCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing th...
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The Global Edge: Miami in the Twenty-First Century
Ariel C. ArmonyCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Over the last quarter century, no other city like Miami has rapidly transformed into a global city. The Global Edge charts the social tensions and ...
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Leading Equity: Becoming an Advocate for All Students
Sheldon L. EakinsCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Transform your school and your classroom with these best practices in equity That the typical modern classroom lacks equity will come as no surpris...
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The Bastille Effect: Transforming Sites of Political Imprisonment
Michael WelchCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. As conceptualized throughout this richly illustrated book,...
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I''ve Got to Make My Livin'': Black Women''s Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
Cynthia M. BlairCurrent price €27.89Original price €30.99For many years, the interrelated histories of prostitution and cities have perked the ears of urban scholars, but until now the history of urban se...
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On Reflection: Moments, Flight and Nothing New
Adjoa WireduCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99On Reflection: Moments, Flight and Nothing New attempts to grapple with the complexities of our present moment. Personal and imagined stories appea...
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Human Relations Commissions: Relieving Racial Tensions in the American City
Prof Valerie Martinez-EbersCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50During the 1950s, amid increased attention to the problems facing citiessuch as racial disparities in housing, education, and economic conditions; ...
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Coastal Cities and Their Sustainable Future
WIT PressCurrent price €172.79Original price €191.99This book contains papers presented at the International Conference on Coastal Cities and their Sustainable Future. First held in 2015, the confere...
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The City in Urban Poverty
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constit...
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Performance and the Global City
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016 Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, ...
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Undoing Optimization: Civic Action in Smart Cities
Alison B PowellCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99A unique examination of the civic use, regulation, and politics of communication and data technologies City life has been reconfigured by our usean...
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How Ten Global Cities Take On Homelessness: Innovations That Work
Jay BainbridgeCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Creative solutions for global cities addressing their urgent homeless crises. This book takes on perhaps the most formidable issue facing metropoli...
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New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times
AbdouMaliq SimoneCurrent price €62.09Original price €68.99It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What ...
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New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times
AbdouMaliq SimoneCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What ...
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Seeing Like a City
Ash AminCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. C...
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Seeing Like a City
Ash AminCurrent price €57.59Original price €63.99Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. C...
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Cities and Social Movements: Immigrant Rights Activism in the US, France, and the Netherlands, 1970-2015
Justus UitermarkCurrent price €66.59Original price €73.99Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social M...
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Cities and Social Movements: Immigrant Rights Activism in the US, France, and the Netherlands, 1970-2015
Justus UitermarkCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social M...
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Sustainable Community Development: Dilemma of Options in Kenya
C. KilaloCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Community development has lately gained much prominence, but the emphasis has remained on the economic and social welfare of communities, rather th...
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Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin
Alexander VasudevanCurrent price €66.59Original price €73.99In this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practic...
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Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin
Alexander VasudevanCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99In this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practic...
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Harlem Supers: The Social Life of a Community in Transition
Terry WilliamsCurrent price €70.19Original price €77.99Superintendents play a large role in the formation of relationships and networks within their neighborhood; and yet, no study in social science has...
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Crime, Disorder and Symbolic Violence: Governing the Urban Periphery
M. BowdenCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This timely book provides a theoretical and empirical engagement with contemporary understandings of the governance of crime, safety and security. ...
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Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
Joshua Jelly-SchapiroCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99The maps themselves are things of beauty...a document of its time, of our time. -Sadie Stein, New York Times One is invited to fathom the many New ...
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Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
Joshua Jelly-SchapiroCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50The maps themselves are things of beauty...a document of its time, of our time. -Sadie Stein, New York Times One is invited to fathom the many New ...
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Port Cities and Global Legacies: Urban Identity, Waterfront Work, and Radicalism
A. MahCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. Th...
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Diversities Old and New: Migration and Socio-Spatial Patterns in New York, Singapore and Johannesburg
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification,...
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Digital Cities: The Interdisciplinary Future of the Urban Geo-Humanities
Benjamin FraserCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book highlights an interdisciplinary terrain where the humanities and social sciences combine with digital methods. It argues that while disci...
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The Middle Classes and the City: A Study of Paris and London
E. CharmesCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99What does it mean to be middle class in contemporary global cities? What do the middle classes do to these cities and what do these cities do to th...
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Social Urbanism and the Politics of Violence: The Medellín Miracle
K. MacleanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Medellín, Colombia, used to be the most violent city on earth, but in recent years, allegedly thanks to its 'social urbanism' approach to regenerat...
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There Goes the Gayborhood?
Amin GhazianiCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Gay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village, have long provided sexual minorities with ...
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Performance and the Global City
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016 Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, ...
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The Ambiguous Multiplicities: Materials, Episteme and Politics of Cluttered Social Formations
A. Mubi BrighentiCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book proposes a historical-conceptual journey into the cluttered social formations that have remained outside of mainstream sociology. In part...
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Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America, with a New Preface
Randy ShawCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing th...
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Mike DavisCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50No metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, Los Angeles brings it all together. To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortua...
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Washington 101: An Introduction to the Nations Capital
J. YarwoodCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Washington 101 offers a layman's introduction to the richness and diversity of the nation's capital. An exploration of the history, politics, archi...
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Care Professions and Globalization: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This volume presents an extended reflection on human dependency and the need to 'care' and be 'cared for'. Philosophers, theologians, social theori...
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Housing East Asia: Socioeconomic and Demographic Challenges
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Housing policy has been central to the economic success stories of the major East Asian economies as well as a pillar of social and welfare provisi...
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Social Vulnerability in European Cities: The Role of Local Welfare in Times of Crisis
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99What has been the impact on social cohesion of contemporary cities in Europe, of the rise of new social risks and of the recent economic crisis? Fo...
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Homeless Lives in American Cities: Interrogating Myth and Locating Community
P. WebbCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Homeless Lives in American Cities explores how the American discourse on homelessness arose from Victorian social and political anxieties about the...
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A Post-Racial Change Is Gonna Come: Newark, Cory Booker, and the Transformation of Urban America
J. WhartonCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This work offers a political and historical analysis of Newark's modern politics since 1950, culminating with Mayor Cory Booker's rise to power and...
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Deconstructing Youth: Youth Discourses at the Limits of Sense
F. GabrielCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Young people are regularly posited as a threat to social order and Deconstructing Youth explores why. Applying Derridean deconstruction to case stu...
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