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Felipe Luciano

Flesh and Spirit

WINNER, AMERICAN BOOK AWARD Chronicles a Black Puerto Rican man's odyssey and transformation from an incarcerated gang member to the Co-Founder of the Young Lords Party. Growing up fatherless and poor, Fe…

Sam Bloch

Shade

An extraordinary investigation into shade, this "compelling . . . conversation-starter draws examples from history, city-planning and social policy" (NPR) to change the way we think about a crit…

Melissa Caruso

The Last Soul Among Wolves

The Last Soul Among Wolvesis the brilliant second installment in Melissa Caruso's Echo Archives series, a whip-smart adventure fantasy featuring cursed relics, sapphic romance, and a magical murder myster…

Damian White, Nicholas Pevzner,

Designing the Just Transition

This book seeks to evaluate the design choices we might make in order to invent, redirect, or repair our existing material and digital cultures, infrastructures, and landscapes towards a post carbon futur…

Lauren E M Everett

Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land

Forthcoming Fall 2025

Gregory F Randolph

Urbanization from Within

Lauren E M Everett

Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land

Forthcoming Fall 2025

Future Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West

Future Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West investigates some of the greatest challenges facing society in the twenty-first century, including the struggle for rights and recognition by indigenou…

Daniella Gandolfo

A Day in the Hole

A single day in a semilegal market in Lima, Peru, reveals a social world that defies conventional economic logic.In the heart of Lima's historic center, the markets of El Hueco ("The Hole") and …

Kala Seetharam Sridhar

Indian Cities or Suburbs?

Despite the focus on urbanization, suburbanization in India has received relatively less research attention. This is the first comprehensive work on this topic, exploring the dynamics, regional variations…

Infrastructuring Assemblies

An investigation into social and political assembly and how urban infrastructure can support pluralism, social resilience, and democracy.Infrastructuring Assemblies investigates the phenomenon of social a…

Alena Kimakova

The Political Economy of Public Policy

This book is a practical toolkit for mastering political economy analysis. It focuses on key economic and political concepts while fostering research skills and teaching frameworks that can be applied in …

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 …

Don Gillis

The Battle for Boston

How Mayor Ray Flynn's leadership and a coalition of activists transformed Boston, challenging established powers and setting new precedents for urban governance The Battle for Boston captures the remarkab…

Kristin Good,

Canadian Urban Governance in Comparative Perspective

What does a comparative approach add to our understanding of Canadian municipal government, city governance, and municipal policy-making? Canadian Urban Governance in Comparative Perspective, brings toget…

Gregory Royal Pratt

The City Is Up for Grabs

"Gregory Pratt hada rare front-row seat to the passions, problems, peculiarities, hopes, disappointments, shenanigans, and pettiness in the drama and farce that was Lori Lightfoot's uneasy tenure on …

Lynn Ellsworth

Wonder City

"In her groundbreaking book Wonder City, Lynn Ellsworth delves deep into the heart of modern urban life, casting a critical eye on the transformative changes sweeping through cities like New York. Th…

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, …

Luke Arnold

Whisper in the Wind

"Fetch is done being a hero. Once a detective, all he wants now is to run his cafe in peace. Sunder City is still recovering from the sudden and violent end of magic, and if one man can't solve all i…