Sociology - Urban
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Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles
$21.18 Add to cartIn Sidewalking, David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking … [more below]
- Author: Ulin, David L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 520273729
- Language: English
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Community Conversations: Mobilizing the Ideas, Skills, and Passion of Community Organizations, Governments, Businesses, and People
$15.00 Add to cartCommunities around the world are entering a new era of community building. Whether improving economic conditions and reducing poverty, re-energizing citizens and social programs, reducing crime, or re
- Author: Born, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: June 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1927483158
- Language: English
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Survival of the City: The Future of Urban Life in an Age of Isolation
$18.00 Add to cartOne 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 existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated
Cities can- Author: Glaeser, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593297709
- Language: English
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Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul
$19.99 Add to cart“Essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs, Joseph Mitchell, Patti Smith, Luc Sante, and Cheap Pierogi” —Vanity Fair
An unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love l
- Author: Moss, Jeremiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0062439685
- Language: English
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SPIRIT, RHYTHM, and STORY: Community Building and Healing through Song
$13.95 Add to cartUrban communities throughout the United States and the world are in a phase of rebuilding, whether it is economically, socially, spirituality, or culturally. It is important in these times that divers
- Author: Elliott, Terence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: March 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1644713683
- Language: English
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Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
$29.00 Add to cartFor over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regard… [more below]
- Author: Sampson, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: June 14 2013
- ISBN10: 022605568X
- Language: English
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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
$19.99 Add to cartIn recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urba… [more below]
- Author: Florida, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1541644123
- Language: English
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
$19.00 Add to cartIn his bestselling work of “comic sociology,” David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today’s upper class–those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0684853787
- Language: English
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Report from Engine Co. 82
$18.99 Add to cartFrom his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, Dennis Smith tells the story of a brutalising… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0446675520
- Language: English
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Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
$27.95 Add to cartThe pandemic lockdown of 2020 launched an unprecedented urban experiment. Traffic disappeared from the streets. Times Square fell silent. And half a million residents fled the most crowded city in Ame
- Author: Moss, Jeremiah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0393868478
- Language: English
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Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
$46.58 Read moreHow poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurism
Amid increasing hardship a- Author: Stuart, Forrest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0691194432
- Language: English
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
$16.95 Add to cartThousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, i… [more below]
- Author: Toth, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 1995
- ISBN10: 155652241X
- Language: English
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Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
$16.95 Add to cartHow poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurism
Amid increasing hardship a- Author: Stuart, Forrest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 069120649X
- Language: English
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Greetings from New Nashville: How a Sleepy Southern Town Became It City
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1998, roughly 2 million visitors came to see what there was to see in Nashville. By 2018, that number had ballooned to 15.2 million.
In that span of two decades, the boundaries of Nashville did no- Author: Haruch, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0826500277
- Language: English
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Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life
$25.99 Add to cartElijah Anderson, called “one of our best urban ethnographers” by the New York Times Book Review, introduces the concept of the “cosmopolitan canopy” the urban islands of civility amid segregated ghett… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: March 12 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340511
- Language: English
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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
$24.00 Add to cart“Meticulous . . . [Nagle’s] passion for the subject really comes to life.” —The New York Times
New York City produces more than twelve thousand tons of household trash and recyclables a day. As quick- Author: Nagle, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534276
- Language: English
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How the Other Half Lives
$24.95 Add to cartJacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the twentieth century, when as many as 300,000 people per square mile were crowded into the tenements of Ne… [more below]
- Author: Riis, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0486220125
- Language: English
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The Works: Anatomy of a City
$31.00 Read moreA 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 it’s an explanation of how a street-sweeper works or t- Author: Ascher, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143112708
- Language: English
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Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta
$33.68 Add to cartAn incisive examination of how growth-at-all-costs planning and policy have exacerbated inequality and racial division in Atlanta.
Atlanta, the capital of the American South, is at the red-hot core o- Author: Immergluck, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 520387643
- Language: English
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The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
$19.95 Add to cartAn intimate portrait of the Big Apple
As a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called “Last Stop.” They would pick a subway line, ride it to its final destin- Author: Helmreich, William B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169705
- Language: English
