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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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Rural Origins, City Lives: Class and Place in Contemporary China
Roberta ZavorettiCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99A 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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Asian Cities: Colonial to Global
Amsterdam University PressCurrent price €127.79Original price €141.99When people look at success stories among postcolonial nations, the focus almost always turns to Asia, where many cities in former colonies have be...
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Violent Acts and Urban Space in Contemporary Tel Aviv: Revisioning Moments
Tali HatukaCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50Violent acts over the past fifteen years have profoundly altered civil rituals, cultural identity, and the meaning of place in Tel Aviv. Three eve...
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The Global City Debate Reconsidered: Economic Globalization in Contemporary Dutch Cities
Jeroen van der WaalCurrent price €98.99Original price €109.99The idea of the global city, which focuses on globalisation's impact on the social, financial, and political reality of cities in advanced economie...
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The Cinema of Urban Crisis: Seventies Film and the Reinvention of the City
Lawrence WebbCurrent price €71.99Original price €79.99In the 1970s, cities across the United States and Western Europe faced a deep social and political crisis that challenged established principles of...
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A Contest without Winners: How Students Experience Competitive School Choice
Kate PhillippoCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99Seeing the consequences of competitive school choice policy through students eyesWhile policymakers often justify school choice as a means to allev...
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Brilliant Teaching: Using Culture and Artful Thinking to Close Equity Gaps
Adeyemi StembridgeCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Think like an artist and design a classroom that workswellfor everyone In Brilliant Teaching, you will come to understand that equitywhen we view i...
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Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self
Amsterdam University PressCurrent price €114.29Original price €126.99What does it mean to be a good citizen today? What are practices of citizenship? And what can we learn from the past about these practices to bette...
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Justice Seekers: Pursuing Equity in the Details of Teaching and Learning
Lacey RobinsonCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Revolutionary solutions for an American school system that is systemically failing Black and brown children In Justice Seekers, celebrated social j...
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Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form
Allen J. ScottCurrent price €76.49Original price €84.99Here is an extensive and highly original inquiry into the origins, dynamics, and internal order of the modern metropolis. Allen J. Scott demonstrat...
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Metropolis: From the Division of Labor to Urban Form
Allen J. ScottCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99Here is an extensive and highly original inquiry into the origins, dynamics, and internal order of the modern metropolis. Allen J. Scott demonstrat...
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