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On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy
$12.95 Read moreA rigorously reported anthology on how local politics have fueled a generation-defining national emergency. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contempo
- Series: Atlantic Editions
- Author: Demsas, Jerusalem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1638931968
- Language: English
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The Familiar, Volume 5: Redwood
$27.95 Read moreThe Season One finale of this riveting multisensory masterpiece from the visionary author of House of Leaves.
The Familiar Volume 1 Wherein the cat is found . . .
The Familiar Volume 2 Wherein the ca- Series: Familiar #5
- Author: Danielewski, Mark Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0375715029
- Language: English
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Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier
$19.00 Read moreShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011
“A masterpiece.” –Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics “Bursting with insights.” —The New York Times Book R- Author: Glaeser, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143120549
- Language: English
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The Rogue Hunter
$8.99 Add to cartSamantha Willan is a workaholic lawyer. She’s grateful for some rest and relaxation in cottage country, and after a recent breakup she wants to stay as far away from romance as possible. Then she meet
- Series: Argeneau Vampire #10
- Author: Sands, Lynsay
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0061474290
- Language: English
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Detroit: An American Autopsy
$19.00 Read moreAn explosive expos? of America’s lost prosperity by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Charlie LeDuff
“One cannot read Mr. LeDuff’s amalgam of memoir and reportage and not be shaken by the cold ey- Author: Leduff, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0143124463
- Language: English
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Buried Beneath the City: An Archaeological History of New York
$66.58 Add to cartBits and pieces of the lives led long before the age of skyscrapers are scattered throughout New York City, found in backyards, construction sites, street beds, and parks. Pottery shards dating to 600
- Author: Rothschild, Nan A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0231194951
- Language: English
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Bunker: What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse
$18.00 Add to cartAs seen on 60 Minutes, a thought-provoking, chilling, and eerily prescient look at “prepper” communities around the world that are building bunkers against a possible apocalypse.
Currently, 3.7 milli- Author: Garrett, Bradley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1501188569
- Language: English
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Vertical Urban Factory
$49.95 Add to cartThis revised edition focuses on the spaces of production in cities–both the modernist period and today–and the technologies that have contributed to shifts in factory architecture, manufacturing, an… [more below]
- Author: Rappaport, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1948765144
- Language: English
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A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America
$29.95 Add to cart“Chakrabarti has written a wonderful book about the potential of America’s cities. He argues convincingly how the country would benefit economically and environmentally if the suburbs started to move
- Author: Chakrabarti, Vishaan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 30 2013
- ISBN10: 1935202170
- Language: English
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Ghetto
$24.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book of 2016
On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto–a closed quarter name
Winner of the Z calo Public Square Book Prize- Author: Duneier, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0374536775
- Language: English
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Skateboarding, Power and Change
$44.99 Add to cartThis book explores how cultural, social and political change happens through a unique analysis of the ‘ethical turn’ in skateboarding today. Insights shared by key change-makers and industry insiders
- Author: Willing, Indigo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: June 03 2023
- ISBN10: 9819912334
- Language: English
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Since Dorchester
$16.95 Add to cartJudith Kirwan Kelley is the author of Dorchester Girl (SDP Publishing, 2021). In her second book, Since Dorchester, Kirwan Kelley continues her journey, only persuaded to “get in the car or we’re mov
- Author: Kirwan Kelley, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: June 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a “cultural critic with a poet’s heart” (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through eme… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0684868768
- Language: English
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Freedomland: Co-Op City and the Story of New York
$32.95 Add to cartIn Freedomland, Annemarie H. Sammartino tells Co-op City’s story from the perspectives of those who built it and of the ordinary people who made their homes in this monument to imperfect liberal ideal
- Author: Sammartino, Annemarie H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501716433
- Language: English
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Heaven Helps Those Who Help Themselves
$14.95 Add to cartThere are many issues that affect the African American community that are not being addressed adequately. For a long time now, many African American people have been under the impression or made to fe
- Author: Sams, Markeith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: July 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9798889820024
- Language: English
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Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization
$28.99 Add to cartFlesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life–how women and men moved in public and private spaces, what they saw and heard, the smells that assailed them, where they ate, how they dresse… [more below]
- Author: Sennett, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0393313913
- Language: English
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The Bronx
$30.00 Add to cartHome to the New York Yankees, the Bronx Zoo, and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx was at one time a haven for upwardly mobile second-generation immigrants eager to leave the crowded tenements of Manhatt
- Series: Columbia History of Urban Life
- Author: Gonzalez, Evelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0231121156
- Language: English
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The Everyday Life of Memorials
$37.00 Read moreA timely study, erudite and exciting, about the ordinary–and oftentimes unseen–lives of memorials
Memorials are commonly studied as part of the commemorative infrastructure of modern society. Just a- Author: Shanken, Andrew M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1942130724
- Language: English
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We Live Here: Detroit Eviction Defense and the Battle for Housing Justice
$16.95 Read moreA graphic novel featuring uplifting stories of combatting–and beating–calls for their eviction in Detroit, showing how everyday people are fighting to stay in their homes, organizing with their comm… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1644212420
- Language: English
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Maelstrom: Southwest Faerie Chronicles
$15.99 Add to cartCome along for a tale of love and death in the Arizona desert as you’ve never before seen it, run by The Fae. Teagan McCarthy is a detective, a faerie, and heir to her father’s kingdom, one he created
- Author: Critchley, Maggie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
