Category - Social Science
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Everyday Life in the Spectacular City: Making Home in Dubai
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Everyday Life in the Spectacular City is a groundbreaking urban ethnography that reveals how middle-class citizens and longtime residents of Dubai ...
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Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /In Politics in the Crevices, Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo. In this tran...
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Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples With Its Historical Racial Trauma
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with its Historical Racial Trauma, endorsed by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission ...
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Changing Space, Changing City: Johannesburg After Apartheid - Open Access Selection
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /As the dynamo of South Africa's economy, Johannesburg commands a central position in the nation's imagination, and scholars throughout the world mo...
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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
HardcoverOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow...
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /“A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move ...
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How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /A journey to the front lines of the battle for the future of American cities, uncovering the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification — and...
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Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /What if scrapping one flawed policy could bring US cities closer to addressing debilitating housing shortages, stunted growth and innovation, persi...
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Faith Made Flesh: The Black Child Legacy Campaign for Transformative Justice and Healthy Futures
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /Faith Made Flesh brings together the experience, insight, and stories of those actively addressing societal and educational disadvantages of Black ...
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Faith Made Flesh: The Black Child Legacy Campaign for Transformative Justice and Healthy Futures
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Faith Made Flesh brings together the experience, insight, and stories of those actively addressing societal and educational disadvantages of Black ...
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These Walls: The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future of America's Jails
Library BindingOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /A deeply reported work of narrative nonfiction that takes readers behind the scenes of one of the most consequential decisions of our time--the clo...
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These Walls: The Battle for Rikers Island and the Future of America's Jails
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /“These Walls reframes the debate the country's incarceration crisis, with a compelling focus on architecture as a path forward.” —Tony Messenger,...
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Toward Sustainable Communities, Fifth Edition: Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99Original price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /The go-to guide for sustainable community development, from the neighborhood to the regional level Fully revised and updated, Toward Sustainable Co...
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How to Save the City: A Guide for Emergency Action
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /A call to arms, How to Save the City invites the reader to engage with the challenges of living and working in cities at a time when several conf...
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 50th Anniversary Edition
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs's masterpiece, The Death and Life o...
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Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A revolutionary new study of gentrification ... and how to stop it. Cities around the world are in the midst of a profound transformation as the ...
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Excluded: How Snob Zoning, Nimbyism, and Class Bias Build the Walls We Don't See
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 indictment of America's housing policy that reveals the social engineering underlying our segregation by economic class, the social and politica...
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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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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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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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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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Architect, Verb.: The New Language of Building
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Hidden Rules of Architecture: how to build world-class, award winning, creative, innovative, sustainable, liveable and beautiful spaces that ...
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Dark Agoras: Insurgent Black Social Life and the Politics of Place
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /A history of Black urban placemaking and politics in Philadelphia from the Great Migration to the era of Black PowerIn this book, author J.T. Roa...
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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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