Category - Political Science
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Chicago Is Not Broke. Funding the City We Deserve
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Do you believe Chicago is broke? Me, neither. I set out to prove by assembling a great team of Chicago experts to write short articles on how can...
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New York
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /New York became the world's first megacity in the 1930s. Since then it has remained the largest city in North America but, globally, it has been ...
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Paved A Way: Infrastructure, Policy and Racism in an American City
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Acknowledgement is the first step in the journey of unpacking the ways our cities are built with systems of power and erasure. True reconciliati...
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Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /An exploration of how and why American city governments delegated the responsibility for solving urban inequality to the nonprofit sector. Nonp...
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The City Authentic: How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /One of Dazed's Best Non-Fiction Books of 2023 The first book to explore how our cities gentrify by becoming social media influencers—and why it w...
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City Planning: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and—sometimes utopian—aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of ci...
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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can—and do—make us happier peopleCharles Montgomery's Happy City is revolutionizing the w...
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In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In every major city in the world there is a housing crisis. How did this happen and what can we do about it?Everyone needs and deserves housing. ...
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Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /In an era when many decry the failures of federal housing programs, this book introduces us to appealing but largely forgotten alternatives that ...
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Fixer-Upper: How to Repair America's Broken Housing Systems
PaperbackOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Fixer-Upper is the first book assessing how the broad set of local, state, and national housing policies affect people and communities. It does m...
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The Public Policy Process
PaperbackOriginal price $46.95 - Original price $46.95Original price $46.95$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the...
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Social Housing, Wellbeing and Welfare
PaperbackOriginal price $42.95 - Original price $42.95Original price $42.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The growing demand for social housing is one of the most pressing public issues in the UK today, and this book analyses its role and impact. Anchor...
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Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /How Gentrification is killing our cities, and what we can do about it What does gentrification look like? Can we even agree that it is a process th...
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University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /In twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers increasingly celebrate university-sponsored innovation districts as engines of inclusive gro...
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Lakefront: Public Trust and Private Rights in Chicago
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /How did Chicago, a city known for commerce, come to have such a splendid public waterfront--its most treasured asset? Lakefront reveals a story of ...
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America's Frozen Neighborhoods: The Abuse of Zoning
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /This book examines local zoning policies and suggests reforms that states and the federal government might adopt to counter the negative effects of...
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The Politics of Trash: How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890-1929
HardcoverOriginal price $37.95 - Original price $37.95Original price $37.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /The Politics of Trash explains how municipal trash collection solved odorous urban problems using nongovernmental and often unseemly means. Focusin...
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The Drive for Dollars: How Fiscal Politics Shaped Urban Freeways and Transformed American Cities
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The story of the interplay between finance, freeways, and urban form in the 20th century and their enduring impact on American cities and neighborh...
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Walkable City (Tenth Anniversary Edition): How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONWINNER OF THE GREEN PRIZE FOR SUSTAINABLE LITERATURE Updated with 100+ pages of new material and a foreword by Janette Sad...
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Why Public Space Matters
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Drawing from decades of research, Setha Low shows how public space contributes to a flourishing society through promoting social justice and democr...
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Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In this exhilarating look at cities, past and future, Ben Wilson proposes that, in our world of rising seas and threatening weather, the natural wo...
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Before Central Park
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Winner - 2023 John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize, UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes With more than eight hundred sprawling green acres in the mid...
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Atlas of Cities
HardcoverOriginal price $49.50Original price $49.50 - Original price $49.50Original price $49.50Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A unique, stunningly illustrated look at the origins, development, and future prospects of cities More than half the world's population lives in ci...
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A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Chakrabarti has written a wonderful book about the potential of America's cities. He argues convincingly how the country would benefit economical...
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