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Rita Abrahamsen, Michael C Williams
Developing Hegemony

At a time of multiple challenges to the liberal international order, development has become one of the most contentious areas of world politics. Dominant powers have reduced their assistance and overtly f…

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Omar G Encarnación
Framing Equality

The book explains why the struggle over gay marriage differed among democratic countries, especially in the severity of the conservative backlash and the legacy for LGBTQ equality.

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Melissa Teixeira
A Third Path

How Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a "third path" between laissez-faire capitalism and communismFollowing the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic model…

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Jay Pitter
Black Public Joy

From one of North America's most influential public space experts comes a powerful treatise celebrating Black people's audacious, complex, and universally embraced public joy expressions.How much safety, …

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21st-Century Africa

Addressing deep-rooted obstacles, this exploration of Africa's 21st-century development unveils both long-standing challenges and emerging opportunities for progress. It examines policy frameworks that fo…

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Heath Henderson
Poor Relief

It is widely believed that distributing cash to people in poverty is the best way to help them while avoiding paternalism. Heath Henderson pushes back, arguing that a markets-know-best model is itself pat…

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Tony Addison, Alan Roe
Resources Matter

This book explores a central issue of our time: our materials world is simultaneously both part of the problem (especially fossil fuels) as well as part of its solution (the materials necessary for the te…

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Howard A Husock
The Projects

How housing policy failed the people it was designed to help --- and how to fix it As the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Americans live in deteriorating public housing projects, e…

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Bronwen Everill
Africonomics

A bold, concise history of Western economic interventions in Africa, by the former director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of CambridgeFor centuries, Westerners have tried to "fix…

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James Dougherty, Charles C Bohl
The Art of the New Urbanism, Volume 1

The New Urbanism has dramatically transformed the way illustrations are used to advance the dialogue of community planning and place making. New Urbanists have revived and advanced techniques of visual co…

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Evelyn D Ravuri
Displacing the Ordinary City

For decades, gentrification research has predominantly focused on large cities. Arguing that gentrification has occurred throughout the urban hierarchy, Ravuri fills this gap in the literature by analyzin…

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Ashu Taneja
6G Urban Innovation

This book presents the 6G powered integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Twin (DT) technology for sustainable smart cities. In the context of smart cities, 6G, AI and DT hold enormous pot…

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Protagonists of Urban Order from the Middle Ages to the Present

European cities and towns are considered places with a particular order established by their inhabitants. This volume centres on the authorities, groups, and individuals who formed the rules for common li…

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Tanzil Shafique
City of Desire

In this major open access contribution to Global South urban studies, Tanzil Shafique offers a new way of knowing and engaging with the most common urban environment in the Global South - informal settlem…

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Ashu Taneja
Driving Innovation through AI and Digital Twin for 6G Powered Sustainable Ultra Smart Cities

This book presents the 6G powered integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Twin (DT) technology for sustainable smart cities. In the context of smart cities, 6G, AI and DT hold enormous pot…

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Eva Fedderly
These Walls

"A critical intervention in the high stakes debate about the social value of jails and what we could do instead to create safety and justice." ---Alex Vitale, author ofThe End of PolicingIn the …

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George Monbiot, Peter Hutchinson
The Invisible Doctrine

*The #1Sunday Timesbestseller*'Explosive and beautifully told ... these truths can set us free' - Danny Dorling'This book is dynamite - shining a spotlight on the evils of neoliberalism, shattering the my…

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Agustina Paglayan
Raised to Obey

"How the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state's desire to control its citizens. Nearly every country today has universal primary education.…

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Contemporary Models for Pro-Poor Housing in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa

The proportion of the world's urban population is expected to increase to about 57% by 2050, and the share of Africa's urban population is project to increase to 60% by the same year. As a result of this …

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Japonica Brown-Saracino
The Death and Life of Gentrification

A provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its ownSociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification in …

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