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Michal Huss
Remaking Urban Heritage

This book follows the perspectives of refugee activists to examine cities shaped by layered histories of war, colonialism, and partition. Challenging the crisis-driven, state-centric frameworks that domin…

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Brian J Miller
Sanctifying Suburbia

The suburbs are home to the majority of Americans, including millions of evangelicals and thousands of evangelical congregations and organizations. This book explains how white evangelicals came to see th…

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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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Samuel Burgum
Squatting London

'Timely and urgent ... challenges how we come to think about property and homeownership while reminding us that there are other ways of inhabiting and transforming the city' Alexander Vasudevan, author of…

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Brian Goldstone
There Is No Place for Us

**ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the "revelatory and gut-wrenching" (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of …

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Gwendolyn Purifoye
Race on the Move

Whether on the bus, subway or train, public transit continues to be a separate and unequal experience for many Black AmericansIn Race on the Move , Gwendolyn Purifoye argues that, whether on the subway, b…

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Growth of a Megacity

Jakarta, one of the largest metropolitan areas in Southeast Asia, has grown from 150,000 residents in the first half of the twentieth century to more than 31 million residents in 2024. This tremendous pop…

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Bruno Carvalho
The Invention of the Future

A kaleidoscopic and original new history of urbanization---from Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires to LagosFor the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have imagine…

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Jooyoung Lee
The Walking Wounded

A sobering encounter with lives transformed by gun violence and an urgent call to build more comprehensive systems of care for wounded people.Gun violence is a plague in the United States; even survivors …

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Neil Gong
Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics

Sociologist Neil Gong explains why mental health treatment in Los Angeles rarely succeeds, for the rich, the poor, and everyone in between.Drawing on the nuanced experiences of patients and care providers…

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Patrick Markee
Placeless

In the tradition of Matthew Desmond's Evicted, a longtime housing activist presents a vivid and myth-breaking account of why homelessness endures in contemporary America...Millions of people are affected …

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Rachel Humphris
Making Sanctuary Cities

"From its development in the 1980s, the sanctuary city movement--municipal protection of people with uncertain migration status from national immigration enforcement--has been a powerful and controve…

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Suzanne Mettler, Trevor E Brown
Rural Versus Urban

How the urban-rural divide drives partisan polarizationWhy have Americans living in different places come to experience politics as a battle between "us" and "them"? In Rural Versus Ur…

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Rachel Humphris
Making Sanctuary Cities

"From its development in the 1980s, the sanctuary city movement--municipal protection of people with uncertain migration status from national immigration enforcement--has been a powerful and controve…

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Anna Zhelnina
Private Life, Public Action

Forthcoming Fall 2025

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Anna Zhelnina
Private Life, Public Action

Forthcoming Fall 2025

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Matthew Beaumont
Nightwalking

In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Matthew Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: the fetid, treacherous streets known to Chaucer and Shakes…

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Jane Jacobs
The Death and Life of Great American Cities

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cit…

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Joshua B Freeman
Garden Apartments

"How a form of multifamily housing with idealistic roots became a ubiquitous model promoted by both public entities and private developers. Eminent historian Joshua Freeman rescues garden apartments-…

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Jinwon Kim
Koreatown, NYC

How Manhattan's Koreatown functions as a new ethnic enclaveIn the past decade, Korean entertainment has gained global recognition, with Korean movies and TV shows winning Oscars and Emmys, and K-Pop group…

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