Sociology - Urban
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A Dictionary of Sociology
$25.65 Read moreA consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entries on the terminology, methods, concepts, and thinker
- Series: Oxford Dictionary of Sociology
- Author: Scott, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: October 01, 2014
- ISBN10: 0199683581
- Language: English
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The Death and Life of Gentrification: A New Map of a Persistent Idea
$29.95 Add to cartA provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its own
Sociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrificatio- Series: Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
- Author: Brown-Saracino, Japonica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 0691244359
- Language: English
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The Last House on the Block: Black Homeowners, White Homesteaders, and Failed Gentrification in Detroit
$25.00 Add to cartGentrification is not inevitable, reveals Sharon Cornelissen, in this surprising, close look at the Detroit neighborhood of Brightmoor and the harsh reality of depopulation and urban decline.
In the- Series: Ethnographic Encounters and Discoveries
- Author: Cornelissen, Sharon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: November 19 2025
- ISBN10: 0226844714
- Language: English
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Walking Chicago’s Coast: A 63-Mile Journey to the Indiana Dunes
$19.95 Add to cartBlending travelogue, memoir, and environmental reportage, Walking Chicago’s Coast takes readers on an urban journey. Michael McColly begins his walk at his far-North Side Chicago apartment and proceed
- Author: McColly, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: September 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1501783149
- Language: English
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The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
$20.00 Add to cartEye-opening and thoroughly engaging, this is an indispensible look at American urban/suburban society and its future.
In The Great Inversion, Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanologists, reveals- Author: Ehrenhalt, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0307474372
- Language: English
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Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the hosts of The War on Cars podcast, a searing indictment of how cars ruin everything–and what we can do to fight back
When the very first cars rolled off production lines, they were a technolo- Author: Goodyear, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0593850726
- Language: English
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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
$18.00 Add to cartShortlisted for the Z?calo Book Prize
Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic “Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.” —The New Yorker “Wry and re- Author: Grabar, Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1984881159
- Language: English
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Messy Cities: Why We Can’t Plan Everything
$21.95 Add to cartCan messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive?
Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a po
- Author: Ebrahim, Zahra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1552455033
- Language: English
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Homes for Living: The Fight for Social Housing and a New American Commons
$32.00 Add to cartA tale of 2 NYC affordable housing co-ops’ struggle over privatization, public goods, and the future of American housing
The American Dream of homeownership is becoming an American Delusion. As renter- Author: Tarleton, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0807017809
- Language: English
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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
$30.00 Add to cartThrough the unforgettable stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend–the dramatic rise of the “working homeless” in cities across America
The- Author: Goldstone, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0593237145
- Language: English
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The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago
$19.95 Add to cart“A brief, cogent analysis of gentrification in Chicago … an incisive and useful narrative on the puzzle of urban development.”-Kirkus Reviews
In the years after World War II, a movement began to brin
- Author: Hertz, Daniel Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1948742098
- Language: English
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Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution
$21.00 Read moreLike a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City’s streets to make room for pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change… [more below]
- Author: Sadik-Khan, Janette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0143128973
- Language: English
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The Battle for Boston: How Mayor Ray Flynn and Community Organizers Fought Racism and Downtown Power Brokers
$34.95 Add to cartHow Mayor Ray Flynn’s leadership and a coalition of activists transformed Boston, challenging established powers and setting new precedents for urban governance
The Battle for Boston captures the rema- Series: Polis: Fordham Urban Studies
- Author: Gillis, Don
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1531509835
- Language: English
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Dead Cities: And Other Tales
$24.95 Add to cartFor the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital-and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises-was always a central part of
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
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Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It
$25.00 Read moreMultiple times a day, in cities across the US and beyond, a simple yet powerful message is repeated by the well-meaning, the ill-informed, and the bigoted: “don’t go” – avoid at all costs those Black
- Author: Johnson, Tonika Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1509564446
- Language: English
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Big Mall
$18.95 Read moreA phenomenology of the mall: If the mall makes us feel bad, why do we keep going back? In a world poisoned by capitalism, is shopping what makes life worth living?
Kate Black grew up in West Edmonton M
- Author: Black, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 155245472X
- Language: English
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Imaginary Cities: A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between
$24.00 Read moreFor as long as humans have gathered in cities, those cities have had their shining–or shadowy–counterparts. Imaginary cities, potential cities, future cities, perfect cities. It is as if the city it… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Darran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 06 2017
- ISBN10: 022647030X
- Language: English
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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
$18.95 Read moreInner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten … [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320782
- Language: English
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Street Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence
$22.00 Read moreIn a style that bridges the divide between academia and activism, Street Rebellion develops a broader and more accurate understanding of how people struggle for liberation.
We are living in a time of
- Author: Case, Benjamin S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1849354863
- Language: English
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Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding… Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becomin
$20.00 Add to cartA brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City–a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny, from award-winning journalist Sam Anderson
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY- Author: Anderson, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0804137331
- Language: English
