Demographic Orientation/Urban
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Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence–And a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets
$30.00 Add to cartFrom a Harvard scholar and former Obama official, a powerful proposal for curtailing violent crime in America
Urban violence is one of the most divisive and allegedly intractable issues of our time. B… [more below]- Author: Abt, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1541645723
- Language: English
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The City as a Technical Being: On the Mode of Existence of Architecture
$35.00 Add to cartThe city is the largest human artifact. It is made by us, yet simultaneously it makes us, as well as all other nonhuman entities.
The particular discourse to which this book on the city contributes i- Author: Trummer, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 307
- Publish Date: January 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1957183551
- Language: English
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Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy Volume 59
$31.18 Add to cartThe radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood.
“When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters in this country, I often think of Boyle Heights.”–- Series: American Crossroads
- Author: S?nchez, George J
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 520391640
- Language: English
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Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
$16.95 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – With stark poignancy and political dispassion Tightrope addresses the crisis in working-class America while focusing on solutions to mend a half century of governmental failure. … [more below]
- Author: Kristof, Nicholas D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0525564179
- Language: English
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City on the Edge: Hard Choices in the American Rust Belt
$24.95 Add to cartExplores why people stay in vulnerable cities by looking at Syracuse, New York, through the contemporary experiences of five citizens.
- Series: Excelsior Editions
- Author: Streissguth, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 281
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1438479905
- Language: English
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Sorting Out the New South City, Second Edition: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975
$23.95 Add to cartOne of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming itself fr… [more below]
- Author: Hanchett, Thomas W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: February 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1469656442
- Language: English
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Small-Space Vegetable Gardens: Growing Great Edibles in Containers, Raised Beds, and Small Plots
$19.99 Add to cart“Size matters Andrea Bellamy shares creative ways to grow a wide array of vegetables, fruits, and herbs in diminutive settings, year-round.” –Debra Prinzing, author, speaker, and podcaster
Small-Spa- Author: Bellamy, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: December 31 2014
- ISBN10: 1604695471
- Language: English
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The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy That Shaped an American City
$28.00 Read moreAntero Pietila shows how one man’s wealth shaped and reshaped a city long after his life, from the destruction of neighborhoods to make way for the dominating buildings in Baltimore’s downtown to the … [more below]
- Author: Pietila, Antero
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1538116030
- Language: English
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Rebel Richmond: Life and Death in the Confederate Capital
$37.50 Add to cartIn the spring of 1861, Richmond, Virginia, suddenly became the capital city, military headquarters, and industrial engine of a new nation fighting for its existence. A remarkable drama unfolded in the… [more below]
- Series: Civil War America
- Author: Ash, Stephen V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1469650983
- Language: English
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Finding Your Leadership Soul: What Our Students Can Teach Us about Love, Care, and Vulnerability
$26.95 Add to cartIn this transformative narrative, Carlos R. Moreno explores what it means to develop Leadership Soul by approaching educational leadership with love, care, and vulnerability.
In Finding Your Leadership
- Author: Moreno, Carlos R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: December 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1416632638
- Language: English
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Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities
$30.00 Add to cartSegregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and class segregation. Starting… [more below]
- Author: Trounstine, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: November 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1108454984
- Language: English
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The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs
$17.99 Add to cartElaine Sciolino, the former Paris Bureau Chief of the New York Times, invites us on a tour of her favorite Parisian street, offering an homage to street life and the pleasures of Parisian living. “I c
- Author: Sciolino, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353400
- Language: English
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The Garden Refresh: How to Give Your Yard Big Impact on a Small Budget
$27.95 Read moreGrow more, spend less
So you want a stylish, healthy, and productive garden that is budget and Earth-friendly? Of course you do. Garden designer Kier Holmes shows you how, in this accessible and spun- Author: Holmes, Kier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 07, 2022
- ISBN10: 1643260812
- Language: English
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Names of New York: Discovering the City’s Past, Present, and Future Through Its Place-Names
$24.00 Add to cart“A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” –Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror
In place-names lie stories. That’s the truth that animates this f- Author: Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1524748927
- Language: English
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City of Segregation: 100 Years of Struggle for Housing in Los Angeles
$29.95 Add to cartA majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los Angeles
City of Segregation documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced separation of racial groups through property markets, co
- Author: Gibbons, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1786632705
- Language: English
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AgriHood Baltimore: Community Collaboration and Cleaner, Greener Foods: Community Collaboration
$14.99 Add to cartAgriHood Baltimore: Community Collaboration and Cleaner, Greener Foods includes the first-person stories of seventeen junior farmers, volunteers, elders, and leaders revolutionizing urban farming in B
- Author: Alvarado, Santana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986096179
- 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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Soul City
$30.99 Add to cart“One of the greatest least-told stories in American history. . . . Healy does an excellent job recounting the details.”
In 1969, with America’s inner cities in turmoil
–The New York Times Book Review- Author: Healy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1250811260
- 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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We’re Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City
$32.00 Add to cartThe aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters in American history. The storm caused unprecedented destruction, and a toxic combination of government neglect and socioeconomic inequ… [more below]
- Author: Gratz, Roberta Brandes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1568587449
- Language: English
