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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and green sp...
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The City In History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD. A definitive classic, Lewis Mumford's massive historical study brings together a wide array of evidence — from...
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Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020• A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice• California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction • Finalist for...
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The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet ...
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Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /After living in San Francisco for fifteen years, journalist Gordon Young found himself yearning for his Rust Belt hometown: Flint, Michigan, the ...
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Survival of the City: The Future of Urban Life in an Age of Isolation
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existenti...
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The Fall of Public Man
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A landmark study of urban society, reissued for the 40th anniversary of the original publication with a new epilogue by the author. A sweeping, f...
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addicted.pregnant.poor
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /For the addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco's Mission district, life is marked by battles against dru...
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Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /An incisive examination of how growth-at-all-costs planning and policy have exacerbated inequality and racial division in Atlanta. Atlanta, the...
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No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Now updated with a new introduction and afterword, this award-winning examination of the nation’s largest juvenile criminal justice system in Los...
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Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Honorable Mention, 2014 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems2012 Best Book Awar...
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Home Town
PaperbackOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In this fascinating book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tracy Kidder takes us inside the everyday workings of Northampton, Massachusetts -- a pla...
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In his bestselling work of “comic sociology,” David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today’s upper class—those who have wed the bourgeo...
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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /This New York Times bestseller intimately depicts urban life in a gripping book that slips behind cold statistics and sensationalism to reveal th...
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The Works: Anatomy of a City
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city“It's a rare person who won't find something of interest in The Works, whether ...
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Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /For a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last centur...
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011“A masterpiece.” —Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics“...
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Detroit: An American Autopsy
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An explosive exposé of America’s lost prosperity by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Charlie LeDuff“One cannot read Mr. LeDuff's amalgam of mem...
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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz cul...
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Barrio Rising: Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Beginning in the late 1950s political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America’s most stable democracy. But outside the s...
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The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /**One of Buzzfeed's 18 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2016**A lyrical, intelligent, authentic, and necessary look at the intersection of race and class...
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Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China's Rise
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban,...
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Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society, One Zip Code at a Time
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An “essential and engaging ” (Richard Florida) exploration of social decline in America: its true causes and the practical steps each of us can t...
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Report from Engine Co. 82
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /From his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where ...
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