Urban
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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 Add to cartA 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 Read moreSt. 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
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Brilliant Teaching: Using Culture and Artful Thinking to Close Equity Gaps
$30.00 Read moreThink like an artist and design a classroom that works–well–for everyone
In Brilliant Teaching, you will come to understand that equity–when we view it from an informed, multi-layered, and artistic
- Author: Stembridge, Adeyemi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 06 2023
- ISBN10: 111990112X
- Language: English
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Rooted in Joy: Creating a Classroom Culture of Equity, Belonging, and Care
$27.00 Read moreHow teachers can unlock the power of inclusivity and joy to transform their classroom and behavior management
In Rooted in Joy: Creating a Classroom Culture of Equity, Belonging, and Care, educational
- Author: Smith, Deonna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 08, 2023
- ISBN10: 111989803X
- Language: English
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
$19.00 Add to cartIn his bestselling work of “comic sociology,” David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today’s upper class–those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values… [more below]
- Author: Brooks, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0684853787
- Language: English
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Cutting School: The Segrenomics of American Education
$28.33 Add to cart2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Nonfiction) Finalist
A timely indictment of the corporate takeover of education and the privatization–and profitability–of separate and unequal sc
- Author: Rooks, Noliwe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 162097598X
- Language: English
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Blighted: A Story of People, Politics, and an American Housing Miracle
$30.95 Add to cartBlighted is a powerful narrative about the decades-long decay and remarkable two-year reinvention of Summerdale, an aging apartment community located in one of Atlanta’s grittiest corridors. From burn
- Author: Stagmeier, Margaret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1588384713
- Language: English
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A Falling-Off Place: The Transformation of Lower Manhattan
$42.95 Read morePhotographer Barbara Mensch’s rediscovered photo archives and interview tapes capture symbolic transformations of Lower Manhattan.
Many of these images are published here for the first time. The photo- Author: Mensch, Barbara G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1531504396
- Language: English
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Transforming Communities: How People Like You Are Healing Their Neighborhoods
$15.99 Add to cartThe world around us is a wreck. When there’s so much conflict around the country and around the corner, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, powerless, and helpless. What can one person do to make a differe
- Author: Jha, Sandhya Rani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0827237154
- Language: English
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The Power of Proximity: Moving Beyond Awareness to Action
$20.99 Add to cartWe can see evidence of injustice all around us, whether in continuing incidents of racial inequality or in the systemic forces that disenfranchise people and perpetuate poverty. It’s important to lear
- Author: Warren, Michelle Ferrigno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 0830843906
- Language: English
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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans
$20.00 Add to cartFrom bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of th… [more below]
- Author: Krist, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0770437087
- Language: English
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Report from Engine Co. 82
$18.99 Add to cartFrom his bawdy and brave fellow firefighters to the hopeful, hateful, beautiful and beleaguered residents of the poverty-stricken district where he works, Dennis Smith tells the story of a brutalising… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Dennis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0446675520
- Language: English
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Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York
$27.95 Read moreThe pandemic lockdown of 2020 launched an unprecedented urban experiment. Traffic disappeared from the streets. Times Square fell silent. And half a million residents fled the most crowded city in Ame
- Author: Moss, Jeremiah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0393868478
- Language: English
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Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
$46.58 Read moreHow poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurism
Amid increasing hardship a- Author: Stuart, Forrest
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 0691194432
- Language: English
