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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution
$29.95 Add to cartIt’s closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe–but it’s definitely not the last dance
In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and l- Author: Ghaziani, Amin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0691253854
- 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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Hella Town: Oakland’s History of Development and Disruption
$33.68 Add to cartHella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition on Oakland’s built environment.
Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger and mo- Author: Schwarzer, Mitchell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 520381122
- 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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Atlas of Cities
$49.50 Read moreA unique, stunningly illustrated look at the origins, development, and future prospects of cities
More than half the world’s population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to thre- Author: Knox, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0691157812
- Language: English
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St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street
$19.99 Add to cartSt. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O’Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of mi
- Author: Calhoun, Ada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 0393353303
- Language: English
