Sociology - Urban
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Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It
$25.00 Read moreMultiple times a day, in cities across the US and beyond, a simple yet powerful message is repeated by the well-meaning, the ill-informed, and the bigoted: “don’t go” – avoid at all costs those Black
- Author: Johnson, Tonika Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1509564446
- Language: English
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Big Mall
$18.95 Read moreA phenomenology of the mall: If the mall makes us feel bad, why do we keep going back? In a world poisoned by capitalism, is shopping what makes life worth living?
Kate Black grew up in West Edmonton M
- Author: Black, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 155245472X
- Language: English
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Imaginary Cities: A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between
$24.00 Read moreFor as long as humans have gathered in cities, those cities have had their shining–or shadowy–counterparts. Imaginary cities, potential cities, future cities, perfect cities. It is as if the city it… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Darran
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 06 2017
- ISBN10: 022647030X
- Language: English
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Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
$18.95 Add to cartInner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten … [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 17 2000
- ISBN10: 0393320782
- Language: English
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Street Rebellion: Resistance Beyond Violence and Nonviolence
$22.00 Read moreIn a style that bridges the divide between academia and activism, Street Rebellion develops a broader and more accurate understanding of how people struggle for liberation.
We are living in a time of
- Author: Case, Benjamin S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1849354863
- Language: English
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Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding… Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becomin
$20.00 Add to cartA brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City–a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny, from award-winning journalist Sam Anderson
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY- Author: Anderson, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0804137331
- Language: English
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Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
$29.00 Read moreWelcome to the Suburban Nation
Plunge into the pivotal exploration of America’s car-centric suburban phenomenon that has shaped the landscape of the North American continent over the last century. Sub- Author: Duany, Andres
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0865477507
- Language: English
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Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood
$30.00 Read moreA piercing portrait of the struggles and triumphs of one of America’s renowned Jewish neighborhoods in the wake of unspeakable tragedy that highlights the hopes, fears, and tensions all Americans must… [more below]
- Author: Oppenheimer, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0525657193
- Language: English
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The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods
$22.95 Read moreFind out how to uncover the hidden talents, assets, and abilities in your neighborhood and bring them together to create a vibrant and joyful community. It takes a village!
We may be living longer, bu- Author: Russell, Cormac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1523002522
- Language: English
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Planes Flying Over a Monster: Essays
$26.00 Read moreFrom one of Mexico’s most exciting young writers, a cosmopolitan and candid essay collection exploring life in cities across the world and reflecting on the transformative importance of literature in … [more below]
- Author: Saldaña ParÃs, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1646222318
- Language: English
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Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World
$28.99 Add to cartZoning codes dictate how and where we can build housing, factories, restaurants, and parks. They limit how tall buildings can be and where trees can be planted. They have become the most significant r
- Author: Bronin, Sara C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0393881660
- Language: English
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The Nature of Our Cities: Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet
$29.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Michael Pollan, The Nature of Our Cities is a stirring exploration of how innovators from around the world are combining urban nature with emerging technologi
- Author: Galle, Nadina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0063322617
- Language: English
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Don’t Go: Stories of Segregation and How to Disrupt It
$25.00 Read moreMultiple times a day, in cities across the US and beyond, a simple yet powerful message is repeated by the well-meaning, the ill-informed, and the bigoted: “don’t go” – avoid at all costs those Black
- Author: Johnson, Tonika Lewis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1509564446
- Language: English
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Interrupting Violence: One Man’s Journey to Heal the Streets and Redeem Himself
$47.42 Add to cartPart memoir and part call to action, Interrupting Violence is a blueprint for cities across America looking for a new way to address community violence. Readers will be energized by the book Kirkus Re
- Author: Williams, Cobe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1538166879
- Language: English
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Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B. Calhoun
$32.50 Add to cart
“Entertaining, phenomenally weird . . . Rat City may well be the world’s first-ever work of socio-biographical-scientific pop history. . . .a freaky romp down a peculiar passage in the history of ide… [more below]- Author: Adams, Jon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1685890997
- Language: English
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Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City
$32.00 Add to cartAn unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small city
Newburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of- Author: Ocejo, Richard E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0691211329
- 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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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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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
