Sociology - Urban
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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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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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Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley
$16.95 Read moreSan Francisco is changing at warp speed. Famously home to artists and activists, and known as the birthplace of the Beats, the Black Panthers, and the LGBTQ movement, the Bay Area has been reshaped by
- Author: McClelland, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 0393357430
- Language: English
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Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance
$34.95 Read moreCounterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance brings together cartography, essays, illustrations, poetry, and more in order to depict gentrification and resistance strug
- Author: Project, Anti-Eviction Mapping
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1629638285
- Language: English
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The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory
$34.95 Add to cartAnalysis, photography and fiction combine in a bracing portrait of LA.
- Author: Klein, Norman M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 17 2008
- ISBN10: 1844672425
- Language: English
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Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles
$21.18 Read moreIn Sidewalking, David L. Ulin offers a compelling inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. Part personal narrative, part investigation of the city as both idea and environment, Sidewalking … [more below]
- Author: Ulin, David L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 520273729
- Language: English
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Community Conversations: Mobilizing the Ideas, Skills, and Passion of Community Organizations, Governments, Businesses, and People
$15.00 Add to cartCommunities around the world are entering a new era of community building. Whether improving economic conditions and reducing poverty, re-energizing citizens and social programs, reducing crime, or re
- Author: Born, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: June 21 2012
- ISBN10: 1927483158
- Language: English
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Survival of the City: The Future of Urban Life in an Age of Isolation
$18.00 Add to cartOne of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated
Cities can- Author: Glaeser, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0593297709
- 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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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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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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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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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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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
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The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City
$16.95 Add to cartThousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City and this book is about them, the so-called mole people. They live alone and in communities, i… [more below]
- Author: Toth, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 1995
- ISBN10: 155652241X
- Language: English
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Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
$16.95 Add to cartHow 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 069120649X
- Language: English
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Greetings from New Nashville: How a Sleepy Southern Town Became It City
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1998, roughly 2 million visitors came to see what there was to see in Nashville. By 2018, that number had ballooned to 15.2 million.
In that span of two decades, the boundaries of Nashville did no- Author: Haruch, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0826500277
- Language: English
