Urban communities books

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InPianos and Flowerswe are invited, through the medium of sepia images, to glimpse a world long departed. In these...  Read More >>

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A literary debut subverting classic sci-fi tropes set in gentrified Chicago, Silicon Valley, and across the vastness...  Read More >>

This book argues that environmentalism in postwar Detroit responded to anxieties over the urban crisis, deindustrialization,...  Read More >>

Policing Suspicion is an innovative examination of policing practices and the impact of these on patterns of arrest...  Read More >>

This book argues that environmentalism in postwar Detroit responded to anxieties over the urban crisis, deindustrialization,...  Read More >>

This book offers a historical assessment of Jakarta’s water management practices from the colonial era through the...  Read More >>

From the acclaimed photographer Warren Kirk comes this charming collection of Christmas as it's celebrated in the...  Read More >>

An international and interdisciplinary group of film, architecture and urban studies scholars examine the relationship...  Read More >>

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A literary history of walking From Dickens to Zizek  Read More >>

North Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop, is surrounded by some of the city's finest...  Read More >>

The story of orphaned Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves and plunged...  Read More >>

A powerful new understanding of cooperation as an antidote to alienation and inequality From the crises of racial...  Read More >>

Fragile, gritty, and vital to an extraordinary degree, St Petersburg is one of the world's most alluring cities...  Read More >>

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This book is a collection of texts on one of China's boldest social experiments in recent years: the rural reconstruction...  Read More >>

To understand current sociopolitical dynamics on a planetary level, we need to have two mental maps in mind: the...  Read More >>

This book addresses the complex relationship between architecture and public life. It’s a study of architecture...  Read More >>

Block, in Kansas, is an ethnic, religion-based community of the rural Midwest. The combination of Block's ethnic...  Read More >>

To understand current sociopolitical dynamics on a planetary level, we need to have two mental maps in mind: the...  Read More >>

This book addresses the complex relationship between architecture and public life. It’s a study of architecture...  Read More >>

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Combining extensive archival research with local fieldwork in the port of Bagamoyo, Tanzania, this first full history...  Read More >>