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City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
Catie MarronCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50In this important collection, eighteen renowned writers, including David Remnick, Zadie Smith, Rebecca Skloot, Rory Stewart, and Adam Gopnik evoke ...
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Happy Vernday Birthcox: Revolution, Evolution, and an Uncommon Commune - 1970
Robert LoweCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Current price €16.65Original price €18.50Save 10% -
Urban Origins of American Judaism
Deborah Dash MooreCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99The urban origins of American Judaism began with daily experiences of Jews, their responses to opportunities for social and physical mobility as we...
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The Truth About New York: The Long-Term Visitor''s Guide to the City That Never Sleeps
Amir SaidCurrent price €22.09Original price €25.99Current price €22.09Original price €25.99Save 15% -
From Docks to Desktops
Simon StartinCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99Created from dozens of personal testimonies, this is the story of the changing face of work today. This unique approach to exploring a key social t...
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Karachi: Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City
Laurent GayerCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also the most violent. Since the ...
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Dwellbeing: Finding Home in the City
Claire BradburyCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50In recent times, we have all questioned whether we feel truly nurtured by where we live. With 68 per cent of the worlds population predicted to liv...
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Musings: An Urban Design Anthology
Aarhus University PressCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99Current price €30.59Original price €33.99Save 10% -
The Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820
Bob HarrisCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99This is a pioneering study of 18th century Scottish urbanism: dynamic but different. This heavily illustrated and innovative study is founded upon ...
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People of Providence: Housing Estate and Some of Its Inhabitants
Tony ParkerCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Over a period of eighteen months Tony Parker interviewed the residents of an ordinary housing estate in South London. He listened to an assorted mi...
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Play Slum: Everything You Need to Build Your Own Mega Slum
Ben TunstallCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99Current price €14.10Original price €16.99Save 17% -
Serving God in Today''s Cities
Patrick JohnstoneCurrent price €10.79Original price €11.99For the first time ever, more people now live in cities than outside them. Veteran researcher and missiologist Patrick Johnstone explores the faste...
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Ethnicity, Class and Aspiration: Understanding London''''s New East End
Chris HamnettCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Current price €26.99Original price €29.99Save 10% -
Rebel Cities: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution
x Mike RapportCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50London, Paris and New York in the eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce and money, art and intellectual lif...
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Nairn''s Towns
Ian NairnCurrent price €13.91Original price €15.99In this new paperback edition of Britain's Changing Towns (1967), introduced, edited and updated by Owen Hatherley in 2013 these essays show Nairn ...
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Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society
Vernon PressCurrent price €55.35Original price €61.50Current price €55.35Original price €61.50Save 10% -
The Solitary Voice of Dissent: Using Foucault and Giddens to Understand an Existential Moment
Kay MartinCurrent price €20.69Original price €22.99Current price €20.69Original price €22.99Save 10% -
Struggling Giants: City-Region Governance in London, New York, Paris, and Tokyo
Asato SaitoCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Throughout the past thirty years a small number of city-regions have achieved unprecedented global status in the world economy while undergoing rad...
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The Demigod''s City: A Short History of Kassel
Ralph P GuentzelCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Current price €15.75Original price €17.50Save 10% -
From Birdhouses to Tiny Houses: Courage Changes Everything
Linda C PopeCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Current price €17.99Original price €19.99Save 10% -
Cities Perceived: Urban Society in European and American Thought, 1820-1940
Andrew LeesCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Current price €35.09Original price €38.99Save 10% -
Cities Perceived: Urban Society in European and American Thought, 1820-1940
Andrew LeesCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Current price €25.65Original price €28.50Save 10% -
Community Mobilization for Environmental Problems: How a Grassroots Organization Forms and Works
Erin E RobinsonCurrent price €68.39Original price €75.99Current price €68.39Original price €75.99Save 10% -
Working with Communities: Critical Perspectives
Amanda HowardCurrent price €20.83Original price €24.50Current price €20.83Original price €24.50Save 15% -
Rural-Urban Dynamics in the East African Mountains
Mkuki na Nyota PublishersCurrent price €53.09Original price €58.99Current price €53.09Original price €58.99Save 10% -
Indigenous Postgraduate Education: Intercultural Perspectives (hc)
Information Age PublishingCurrent price €88.19Original price €97.99Current price €88.19Original price €97.99Save 10% -
Greenhouse Gardening: How To Grow Amazingly Beautiful Greenhouse Plants To Die For (Organic Gardening, Vegetable Gardening, Hydroponics, Mini Farming)
Eva ClayCurrent price €28.47Original price €31.99Current price €28.47Original price €31.99Save 11% -
Restless Cities
Verso BooksCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50The metropolis is a site of endless making and unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a 'city-symphony' to the cinematic tradition that runs from Wa...
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The Mobile City of Accra. Urban Families, Housing and Residential Practices
Elizabeth Ardayfio-SchandorfCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Current price €44.99Original price €49.99Save 10% -
Indigenous Postgraduate Education: Intercultural Perspectives
Information Age PublishingCurrent price €53.99Original price €59.99Current price €53.99Original price €59.99Save 10% -
Triumph of the City: How Urban Spaces Make Us Human
Edward GlaeserCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Understanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the lifes work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed...
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Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism
Rebecca SolnitCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Surveying the transformation of San Francisco in the early millenium by Silicon Valley, critically acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit and photographer...
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Moving Up, Moving Out: The Rise of the Black Middle Class in Chicago
Will CooleyCurrent price €33.14Original price €38.99In Moving Up, Moving Out, Will Cooley discusses the damage racism and discrimination have exacted on black Chicagoans in the twentieth century, whi...
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Last Subway: The Long Wait for the Next Train in New York City
Philip Mark PlotchCurrent price €25.68Original price €32.50Last Subway is the fascinating and dramatic story behind New York City's struggle to build a new subway line under Second Avenue and improve transi...
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Street Sovereigns: Young Men and the Makeshift State in Urban Haiti
Chelsey L. KivlandCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99How do people improvise political communities in the face of state collapseand at what cost? Street Sovereigns explores the risks and rewards taken...
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The Act of Living: Street Life, Marginality, and Development in Urban Ethiopia
Marco Di NunzioCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99The Act of Living explores the relation between development and marginality in Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Replete wi...
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Becoming Metropolitan: Urban Selfhood and the Making of Modern Cracow
Nathaniel D. WoodCurrent price €47.69Original price €52.99The Age of Great Cities erupted in East Central Europe in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as migrants poured into imperial and regional ...
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Affordable Housing: Inclusive Cities
Shyam KhandekarCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Offers a comprehensive survey of affordable housing across the world. Presents numerous case-studies and best-practices on affordable housing desig...
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Cities That Shaped the Ancient World
Thames & Hudson LtdCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Great cities marked the earliest development of civilization. From the worlds first true cities, in Mesopotamia, to the spectacular urban centres o...
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Metropolis: Mapping the City
Jeremy BlackCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99The city: a place of hopes and dreams, destruction and conflict, vision and order. The first city atlas, the Civitates Orbis Terrarum, was publishe...
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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
Charles MontgomeryCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city livingThis is going to be the ce...
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Urban Climate Politics: Agency and Empowerment
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Since the 1990s, a burgeoning literature has emerged on the politics and governance of urban climate. It is now evident that urban responses to cli...
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Dangerous Games: A gritty, addictive gangland thriller from Gillian Godden
Gillian GoddenCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99'A gritty powerful story. A must read for fans of gangland crime.' Bestselling author Kerry Kaya.Young, blonde, beautiful and bored, Annette Lambri...
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