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Uninsured in Chicago: How the Social Safety Net Leaves Latinos Behind
Robert VargasCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Why millions of Latinx people dont access the healthcare system, even in times of need More than a decade after the passage of the Affordable Care ...
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Building a Better Chicago: Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment
Teresa Irene GonzalesCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99How local Black and Brown communities can resist gentrification and fight for their interests Despite promises from politicians, nonprofits, and go...
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Taking Back the Boulevard: Art, Activism, and Gentrification in Los Angeles
Jan LinCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99The promises and conflicts faced by public figures, artists, and leaders of Northeast Los Angeles as they enliven and defend their neighborhoods L...
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Making Sense of the City: Local Government, Civic Culture, and Community Life in Urban America
Patricia Mooney-MelvinCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99Current price €31.49Original price €34.99Save 10% -
Seeing Trees: A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin
Sonja DumpelmannCurrent price €39.94Original price €46.99A fascinating and beautifully illustrated volume that explains what street trees tell us about humanitys changing relationship with nature and the ...
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Forever Struggle: Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston''s Chinatown, 1880-2018
Michael LiuCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Chinatown has a long history in Boston. Though little documented, it represents the city's most sustained neighborhood effort to survive during era...
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Forever Struggle: Activism, Identity, and Survival in Boston''s Chinatown, 1880-2018
Michael LiuCurrent price €81.89Original price €90.99Chinatown has a long history in Boston. Though little documented, it represents the city's most sustained neighborhood effort to survive during era...
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Rural Origins, City Lives: Class and Place in Contemporary China
Roberta ZavorettiCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99A new understanding of rural-urban migration and inequality in contemporary ChinaMany of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to j...
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The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €206.09Original price €228.99The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thin...
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Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons
Anthony Christian OcampoCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99Co-Winner of the 2023 Latino/a Section Best Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association Honorable Mention, 2024 Best Book Award, giv...
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Outcaste Bombay: City Making and the Politics of the Poor
Juned ShaikhCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolisOver the course of the twentieth century, Bombays population grew twentyfold as the c...
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Design by Fire: Resistance, Co-Creation and Retreat in the Pyrocene
Brett MilliganCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Across the world, the risks of wildfires are increasing and expanding. Due to past and current human actions, we dwell in the age of fire the Pyro...
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Asian Alleyways: An Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization
Amsterdam University PressCurrent price €108.89Original price €120.99Asian Alleyways: An Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization critically explores Global Asia and the metropolization process, specifically from i...
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In Harm''s Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence
Javier AuyeroCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Arquitecto Tucci, a neighborhood in Buenos Aires, is a place where crushing poverty and violent crime are everyday realities. Homicides--often invo...
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The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal
Felix SalmonCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99An award-winning journalist presents a tour-de-force analysisdrawing from history, economics, sociology, and popular cultureof the profound and tra...
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Explorations in Urban Theory
Michael Peter SmithCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99For over three decades, urban theorist Michael Peter Smith has engaged in constructing innovative theories on central research questions in urban s...
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Bloody Savannah: The City''s Most Violent Era as Seen by a Crime Reporter
Derek SmithCurrent price €16.99Original price €19.99Savannah is one of America's most beautiful and historic cities. Yet underneath the mint juleps, oaks bearded with Spanish moss and the splendor...
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Policing the Racial Divide: Urban Growth Politics and the Remaking of Segregation
Daanika GordonCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.992023 Edwin H. Sutherland Book Award Winner A behind-the-scenes account of the harsh realities of policing in a segregated city For thirteen months...
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In the Midst of Things: The Social Lives of Objects in the Public Spaces of New York City
Mike Owen BenediktssonCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50How ordinary urban objects influence our behavior, exacerbate inequality, and encourage social changeAssumptions about human behavior lie hidden in...
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Township Economy: People, Spaces and Practices
Andrew CharmanCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Township Economy provides a unique insight into township informal business and entrepreneurship. It is set in the post-apartheid period, in the thi...
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Mapping Possibility: Finding Purpose and Hope in Community Planning
Leonie SandercockCurrent price €38.69Original price €42.99Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock. With an impressive career spanning ...
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Aspects of Urbanization in China: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou
Gregory BrackenCurrent price €68.39Original price €75.99Chinas rise is one of the transformative events of our time. Aspects of Urbanization in China: Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou examines some of the ...
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