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Geoff Isaac
Rethinking Plastics in Product Design

"This book addresses the urgent need to reduce our use of plastics. Tracing the historical use of plastics through to today, and combining the latest theories and methods from sustainable transition …

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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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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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Pe Moskowitz
How to Kill a City

"An exacting look at gentrification" (New York Times Book Review)---and the lives devastated in the processThe term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighbor…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Carol Anne Hilton
The Rise of Indigenous Economic Power

The Indigenous economy is surging, but full Indigenous economic participation is still lacking, thwarted by the colonial and racist policies of Canada's Indian Act. The Rise of Indigenous Economic Powerde…

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Alva Gotby
Feeling at Home

Housing is more than bricks and mortar. The home is where our hopes and dreams play out, and it lies at the heart of our lives. This is where we rest, eat, and relax. The home we enjoy can determine our h…

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Shiben Banerji
Lineages of the Global City

The forgotten history of the occult foundations of the early twentieth-century global city.

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Richard Sennett
Democracy and Urban Form

If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse?"Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has…

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