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Strategic Framework and Intelligent Solutions for Sustainable Cities and Communities

In developing economies, due to rising population and increasing migration, cities are rapidly growing. By 2050, two-thirds of all humanity (6.5 billion people) will be living in cities. Sustainable devel…

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Bailey A Brown
Kindergarten Panic

How school choice reproduces inequality by creating gendered and socioeconomic decision-making labor for parentsSchool choice policies have proliferated in recent years, with parents forced to navigate co…

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Susanne Rippl, Christian Seipel
Umkämpfte Deutungshoheit

Rechte Narrative durchdringen zunehmend politische, kulturelle und gesellschaftliche Diskurse. Sie werden gezielt genutzt, um rechte Grundüberzeugungen in der Bevölkerung zu verbreiten. Das dies erfolgrei…

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Gautam Bhan, Michael Keith, Susan Parnell, Edgar Pieterse
Cities Rethought

"In a world of disruptions and seemingly endless complexity, cities have become - perhaps more than ever - central to thinking about the future of humanity. Yet rarely has the study of cities been mo…

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Gautam Bhan, Michael Keith, Susan Parnell, Edgar Pieterse
Cities Rethought

"In a world of disruptions and seemingly endless complexity, cities have become - perhaps more than ever - central to thinking about the future of humanity. Yet rarely has the study of cities been mo…

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Loïc Wacquant
The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty

InThe Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty, Loïc Wacquant dissects how sociologists who carry out field studies of the poor write about race, class, and morality in the city's underbelly; the blinders an…

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Loïc Wacquant
The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty

InThe Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty, Loïc Wacquant dissects how sociologists who carry out field studies of the poor write about race, class, and morality in the city's underbelly; the blinders an…

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Informal Cities

An empirically rich reconstruction of how informality became an intrinsic part of urban life across three continents.Over a quarter of the world's urban population lives in informal settlements. While inf…

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Richard J Williams
The Expressway World

In the demonology of the contemporary city, is there anything more toxic than the expressway? Dividing neighbourhoods, depressing land values, concentrating atmospheric pollutants, the mammoth infrastruct…

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Jesse M Keenan
North

Climate change is already influencing how and where people live. In North, Jesse M. Keenan argues that America is entering a new era marked by shifts in population that will transform everything from the …

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Jennifer Baum
Just City

WINNER, 2025 ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PRESSES BOOK, JACKET, AND JOURNAL SHOW IN THE JACKETS & COVERS CATEGORYA captivating memoir of New York's Historic Upper West Side at a time when community and u…

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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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Jesse M Keenan
North

Climate change is already influencing how and where people live. In North, Jesse M. Keenan argues that America is entering a new era marked by shifts in population that will transform everything from the …

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Mike Davis, Kelly Mayhew, Jim Miller
Under the Perfect Sun

Three muckraking essays on the underside of San Diego cover the city's historically recent turn from red to blue while highlighting a new cast of villains and tenacious activists fighting for social justi…

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Messy Cities

Can messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive?Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a poorly…

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Sara C Bronin
Key to the City

Zoning 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 regul…

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Yannis Tzaninis, Lorenzo de Vidovich
A Continent of Suburbs

This book challenges the city-centered view of Europe by highlighting the importance of suburbs and peripheries, where millions live. It argues that Europe has long been shaped by suburbanization, which, …

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National Public Housing Museum
We Are All Family Here

A beautiful, full-color tribute to the story of public housing in America, told through reminiscences about emblematic objects by former and current public housing residentsOver the past century, more tha…

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Stephanie Wakefield
Miami in the Anthropocene

"Miami in the Anthropocene explores the social, environmental, and technical transformations involved in climate adaptation infrastructure in a global city seen as climate change ground zero. Groundi…

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Kim Varma, Kanwal Khokhar
Guardians of the Community

Guardians of the Community chronicles the inception, succession, and eventual decline of the Block Parent® Program of Canada.

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