Sociology - Urban
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Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life
$25.99 Add to cartElijah Anderson, called “one of our best urban ethnographers” by the New York Times Book Review, introduces the concept of the “cosmopolitan canopy” the urban islands of civility amid segregated ghett… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: March 12 2012
- ISBN10: 0393340511
- Language: English
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Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City
$24.00 Add to cart“Meticulous . . . [Nagle’s] passion for the subject really comes to life.” —The New York Times
New York City produces more than twelve thousand tons of household trash and recyclables a day. As quick- Author: Nagle, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 18 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534276
- Language: English
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How the Other Half Lives
$24.95 Add to cartJacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the twentieth century, when as many as 300,000 people per square mile were crowded into the tenements of Ne… [more below]
- Author: Riis, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0486220125
- Language: English
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The Works: Anatomy of a City
$31.00 Read moreA fascinating guided tour of the ways things work in a modern city
“It’s a rare person who won’t find something of interest in The Works, whether it’s an explanation of how a street-sweeper works or t- Author: Ascher, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143112708
- Language: English
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Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta
$33.68 Add to cartAn incisive examination of how growth-at-all-costs planning and policy have exacerbated inequality and racial division in Atlanta.
Atlanta, the capital of the American South, is at the red-hot core o- Author: Immergluck, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 520387643
- Language: English
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The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City
$19.95 Add to cartAn intimate portrait of the Big Apple
As a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called “Last Stop.” They would pick a subway line, ride it to its final destin- Author: Helmreich, William B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169705
- Language: English
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The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America’s Big Cities
$15.95 Add to cartEach of Siegel’s three urban portraits–New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, — shows the desperate remedies undertaken by cities searching for a lifeline back to the future whose promise they… [more below]
- Author: Siegel, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1893554104
- Language: English
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Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
$26.95 Add to cartA witty and engrossing look at Los Angeles’ urban ecology and the city’s place in America’s cultural fantasies
Earthquakes. Wildfires. Floods. Drought. Tornadoes. Snakes in the sea, mountain lions, an- Series: Essential Mike Davis
- Author: Davis, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1786636247
- Language: English
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The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
$21.00 Read more**One of Buzzfeed’s 18 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2016**
A lyrical, intelligent, authentic, and necessary look at the intersection of race and class in Chicago, a Great American City In this intelligent- Author: Moore, Natalie Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118336
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
$30.00 Add to cartAcross America, universities have become big businesses–and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow.
Urban universities play an outsized role in America’- Author: Baldwin, Davarian L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1568588925
- Language: English
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Walkable City (Tenth Anniversary Edition): How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
$21.00 Add to cartTENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Updated with 100+ pages of new material and a foreword by Janette Sadik-Khan The bestselling urban planning book of the pa
WINNER OF THE GREEN PRIZE FOR SUSTAINABLE LITERATURE- Author: Speck, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1250857988
- Language: English
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
$20.00 Add to cart“A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move us forward.”–Jon Stewart
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS O- Author: Klinenberg, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1524761176
- Language: English
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War of the Bloods in My Veins: A Street Soldier’s March Toward Redemption
$15.99 Add to cartBy turns harrowing, moving, and ultimately redemptive, this is a war story — a war that rages out of control on the streets of the United States, claiming the lives of our loved ones and neighbors. I
- Author: Morris, Dashaun Jiwe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 08, 2009
- ISBN10: 1416548513
- Language: English
