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This timely book provides a theoretical and empirical engagement with contemporary understandings of the governance of c......more

Global Downtowns reconsiders one of the defining features of urban life--the energy and exuberance that characterize dow......more

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This book explores the everyday lives of ’lesbian’ women in urban Russia. It explores changes and continuities by examin......more

This book is about the transformation of the contemporary Peruvian middle class. Scholars interested in Latin American s......more

The federal government and its policies transform Canadian cities in myriad ways. Canada in Cities examines this relatio......more

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This book, published in 1980, is an iconoclastic account of one of the pillars of the welfare state, British town and co......more

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The quadrennial summer Olympic Games produces the world s biggest single-city cultural event. Drawing on ethnographic wo......more

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Community development has lately gained much prominence, but the emphasis has remained on the economic and social welfar......more

Why do some U.S. cities like Seattle and Boston impose social exactions and sustainability targets on private investment......more

Ancient cities served as the actual, worldly landscape populated by "material" sites of memory. Some of these sites were......more

The struggle to create and sustain meaning in our everyday lives is fought using cultural ingredients to spin the webs o......more

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Infrastructural Lives is the first book to describe the everyday experience and politics of urban infrastructures. It fo......more

The link between residential segregation and racial inequality is well established, so it would seem that greater equali......more

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This dog expert guide gives you all the information you will need to provide your German Shorthaired Pointer with the ca......more

Mary Barr thinks a lot about the old photograph hanging on her refrigerator door. In it, she and a dozen or so of her fr......more

Ecological Urbanism: The Nature of the City asks the questions that are important inside and outside the built environme......more

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The confluence of global climate change, growing levels of energy consumption and rapid urbanization has led the interna......more

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More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former G......more

This interdisciplinary anthology contains a collection of materials, including personal accounts, analyses of historical......more

In From the Outside In, Carolyn T. Adams addresses the role of suburban elites in setting development agendas for urban ......more

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The expansion of cities in the late C19th and middle part of the C20th in the developing and the emerging economies of t......more

From headlines to documentaries, urban schools are at the center of current debates about education. From these accounts......more

The single-room occupancy (SRO) tenements and welfare hotels located throughout New York City, but concentrated on the U......more

Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, Wessendorf explores life in a super-diverse urban neighbourhood. The book pr......more

The emergence of a visible commodified leisure culture in the form of cafes, targeted at and appropriated by young adult......more

Himalayan Cities: Settlement Patterns, Public Places and Architecture explores the idea of settlements in different area......more

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In Pakistan, stubborn mountain tribes still lead a largely secluded life, preserving their archaic cultural traditions. ......more

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San Francisco is being eroded by waves of cash flowing north from Silicon Valley. Recent evictions of long-time San Fran......more

A timely and persuasive argument for Higher Education s obligations to our democratic society, Longing for Justice combi......more

Tells the diverse story of four congregations in New York City as they navigated the social and political changes of the......more

Joint Winner of the Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology 2014 Analyses the experiences of exile and return of Nu......more

Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of the cities in Indonesia between 1920 and 1960......more

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As a result of global dynamics--the increasing interconnection of people and places--innovations in global environmental......more

A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can--and do--make us happier people Charles Montgomery’s Happy C......more

Robinson believed that, if he looked at it hard enough, he could cause the surface of the city to reveal to him the mole......more

From Beijing to Boston, cities are deploying smart technology--sensors embedded in streets and subways, Wi-Fi broadcast ......more

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Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The contri......more

A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and con......more

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