Sociology - Urban
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The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America’s Big Cities
$15.95 Add to cartEach of Siegel’s three urban portraits–New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, — shows the desperate remedies undertaken by cities searching for a lifeline back to the future whose promise they… [more below]
- Author: Siegel, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1893554104
- Language: English
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Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
$26.95 Add to cartA witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles’ urban ecology and the city’s place in America’s cultural fantasies
Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, an- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1786636247
- Language: English
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The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
$21.00 Add to cart**One of Buzzfeed’s 18 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2016**
A lyrical, intelligent, authentic, and necessary look at the intersection of race and class in Chicago, a Great American City In this intelligent- Author: Moore, Natalie Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118336
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
$30.00 Add to cartAcross America, universities have become big businesses–and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow.
Urban universities play an outsized role in America’- Author: Baldwin, Davarian L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1568588925
- Language: English
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Walkable City (Tenth Anniversary Edition): How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
$21.00 Add to cartTENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Updated with 100+ pages of new material and a foreword by Janette Sadik-Khan The bestselling urban planning book of the pa
WINNER OF THE GREEN PRIZE FOR SUSTAINABLE LITERATURE- Author: Speck, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1250857988
- Language: English
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Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
$30.00 Read moreShortlisted for the Z?alo 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 rev- Author: Grabar, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1984881132
- Language: English
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
$20.00 Add to cart“A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move us forward.”–Jon Stewart
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS O- Author: Klinenberg, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1524761176
- Language: English
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War of the Bloods in My Veins: A Street Soldier’s March Toward Redemption
$15.99 Add to cartBy turns harrowing, moving, and ultimately redemptive, this is a war story — a war that rages out of control on the streets of the United States, claiming the lives of our loved ones and neighbors. I
- Author: Morris, Dashaun Jiwe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 08, 2009
- ISBN10: 1416548513
- Language: English
