Urban
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Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
$16.95 Read moreSan Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been reshaped by
- Author: McClelland, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357430
- Language: English
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Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction
$21.95 Add to cartNorth America is in the grips of a drug epidemic; with the introduction of fentanyl, the chances of a fatal overdose are greater than ever, prompting many to rethink the war on drugs. Public opinion h… [more below]
- Author: Lupick, Travis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 155152712X
- Language: English
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The Six Priorities: How to Find the Resources Your School Community Needs
$29.95 Add to cartIn this provocative and timely book, Luis Eladio Torres challenges a common assumption: that education is the “first priority” for families, including those who are raising their children in low-incom
- Author: Torres, Luis Eladio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 119
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1416631550
- Language: English
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Atlas of Lost Cities: A Travel Guide to Abandoned and Forsaken Destinations
$24.99 Add to cartExplore more than forty forsaken urban destinations around the world in a “highly entertaining read . . . for history buffs, mystery fanatics and travel junkies alike” (GoNomad).
Cities are mortal,- Author: De Tocqueville, Aude
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0316352020
- Language: English
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Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money Into Private Profit
$22.95 Add to cartField of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires wh… [more below]
- Author: Demause, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803260164
- Language: English
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Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance
$34.95 Add to cartCounterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance brings together cartography, essays, illustrations, poetry, and more in order to depict gentrification and resistance strug
- Author: Project, Anti-Eviction Mapping
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1629638285
- Language: English
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The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory
$34.95 Add to cartAnalysis, photography and fiction combine in a bracing portrait of LA.
- Author: Klein, Norman M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 17 2008
- ISBN10: 1844672425
- Language: English
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The Other Idahoans – Regular
$22.99 Add to cartFallen angels in the bawdy houses. Migrants barred from Main Street. Homesteaders driven from homesteads when August rained black storms of dust. The Other Idahoans recovers their hard-luck stories. V… [more below]
- Author: Shallat, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: April 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0990736342
- Language: English
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Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology, and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias
$17.95 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 WRITERS’ TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER BOOK PRIZE
WINNER OF THE PATTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION GLOBAL CITIES BOOK AWARD
Is the ‘smart city’ the utop… [more below]
- Author: Lorinc, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1552454282
- Language: English
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The Commonist Horizon: Futures Beyond Capitalist Urbanization
$20.00 Add to cartHow do we move from defensive tactics that respond to the latest stages of capitalist urbanization, to transformative, strategic revolts, attacking the root causes and putting into practice alternativ… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Mary N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1942173717
- Language: English
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Gentrifier: A Memoir
$16.95 Read moreTaking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood with both intelligence and humor, this memoir brings a new
- Author: Moore, Anne Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221591
- Language: English
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House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World’s Most Powerful Address
$19.99 Add to cart“Michael Gross’s new book…packs [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building. The Jackie Collins of real estate likes to map expressions of power, money and ego… Even more c… [more below]
- Author: Gross, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1451666209
- Language: English
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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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A City Is Not a Computer: Other Urban Intelligences
$19.95 Add to cartA bold reassessment of “smart cities” that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers
Computational models of urbanism–smart cities that use data-driven planning and algor- Series: Places Books #2
- Author: Mattern, Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0691208050
- Language: English
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
$22.00 Add to cartA passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of a city, when baseball and crime reigned supreme, and when several remarkable figures emerged to steer New York clear of one of its most harro
- Author: Mahler, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0312424302
- Language: English
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We Speak for Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the row houses of Baltimore to the stoops of Brooklyn, the New York Times bestselling author of The Cook Up lays bare the voices of the most vulnerable and allows their stories to uncover the sys… [more below]
- Author: Watkins, D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 150118783X
- Language: English
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The Manhattan Nobody Knows: An Urban Walking Guide
$27.95 Read moreA one-of-a-kind walking guide to Manhattan, from the man who walked every block in New York City
Bill Helmreich walked every block of New York City–six-thousand miles in all–to write the award-winni- Author: Helmreich, William B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0691166994
- 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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What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician’s Guide to Rebuilding America’s Communities-One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a
$29.00 Add to cartA beloved folk singer presents an impassioned account of the fall and rise of the small American towns she cherishes.
Dubbed by the New Yorker as “one of America’s very best singer-songwriters,” Dar- Author: Williams, Dar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 0465098967
- Language: English
