Urban Science – Bücher, Blu-ray Discs, DVDs und mehr, Seite 10

Gareth Brown
The Society of Unknowable Objects

From the author of the internationally bestselling The Book of Doors, another fantastical, stand-alone novel in which a trio of seemingly everyday people are members of a secret society tasked with findin…

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René Esparza
From Vice to Nice

Shifting the focus of AIDS history away from the coasts to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, this impressive book uncovers how homonormative political strategies weaponized the AIDS crisis to f…

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Critical Ecolinguistics Within Singapore, 'The Garden City'

This book offers a critical ecolinguistics case study of an entire city nation, Singapore, and of the stories told about and by it internationally in relation to its efforts of sustainability, response to…

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Rebecca Jo Kinney
Mapping Asiatown Cleveland

Forthcoming Spring 2025This book examines the tensions that emerged between Asian American racial identity formation and the establishment of organized urban community in Cleveland. Moving from 1943 to th…

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Rebecca Jo Kinney
Mapping Asiatown Cleveland

Forthcoming Spring 2025This book examines the tensions that emerged between Asian American racial identity formation and the establishment of organized urban community in Cleveland. Moving from 1943 to th…

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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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Star Trek Beyond (Limited Edition) (Blu-ray)

Auf ihrer Forschungsmission gerät die Enterprise in einen gnadenlosen Hinterhalt. Unter Dauerbeschuss kann die Crew um Captain Kirk nur in letzter Sekunde auf fremdem Terrain notlanden. Doch statt in Sich…

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David Brown Morris
Ten Thousand Central Parks

A visionary look at Central Park's creation as an urban success story inspiring bold climate actionClimate change is the existential crisis of our time. With extreme heatwaves, wildfires, hurricanes, and …

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Amani C Morrison
A Kitchenette to Fit Your Needs

During the twentieth century's Great Migration, kitchenette apartments served as the primary homes for Black migrants to Chicago. These small one- and two-room units were often illegally converted from la…

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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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Lebenswerte und umweltgerechte Stadtentwicklung

Urban Studies

Nicht nur anderswo, sondern auch in deutschen Städten gestaltet sich die soziale Lage in privilegierten Vierteln einerseits und Quartieren mit struktureller Benachteiligung andererseits extrem unterschied…

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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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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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Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung II

Urban Studies

Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung lebt geradezu von komplexen Zugängen, der Vielfalt an Methoden und Techniken und dem daraus resultierenden Pool an (Er-)Forschungsmöglichkeiten. Doch wie arbeiten interdis…

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Sybil Derrible
The Infrastructure Book

"[A] penetrating analysis of urban infrastructure..." --- NatureClean water, paved roads, public transit, electricity and gas, sewers, waste processing, telecommunication, even the Internet -- a…

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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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Joseph Stanhope Cialdella
Motor City Green

Winner, 2021 CCL J. B. Jackson Book Prize Winner, 2020 Jon Gjerde Prize from the Midwestern History AssociationMotor City Green is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the late nineteent…

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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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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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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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