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Rita Kesselring
Extraction, Global Commodity Trade, and Urban Development in Zambia's Northwestern Province

**Rita Kesselring provides a compelling ethnographic account of the wildly uneven, deeply interconnected development trajectories of Solwezi, a copper mining town in Zambia, and Zug, an urban hub for meta…

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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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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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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, …

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21st-Century Africa

Reexamines persistent barriers to development and explore emerging opportunities for the continent. It discusses policies that can help countries sustain inclusive green growth.

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Saving Toronto

Once celebrated as the city that works, Toronto is a city on the brink.Strained by urban sprawl, crumbling infrastructure, and outdated governance, Toronto is coming apart at the seams. Its promise -- of …

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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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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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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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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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Bronwen Everill
Africonomics

A bold, concise history of Western economic interventions in Africa, by the former director of the Centre of African Studies at the University of CambridgeFor centuries, Westerners have tried to "fix…

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Erin Heinz,
Concrete Mirage

This book explores how sustainable development is socially constructed and implemented in desert cities.

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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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Ashu Taneja
6G Urban Innovation

This book presents the 6G powered integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Twin (DT) technology for sustainable smart cities. In the context of smart cities, 6G, AI and DT hold enormous pot…

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Ashu Taneja
Driving Innovation through AI and Digital Twin for 6G Powered Sustainable Ultra Smart Cities

This book presents the 6G powered integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Digital Twin (DT) technology for sustainable smart cities. In the context of smart cities, 6G, AI and DT hold enormous pot…

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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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Carrie Levan
Neighborhoods Matter

The unexpected impact of neighborhood design on civic engagementParticipation in official governmental institutions and activities has declined dramatically. Americans are less inclined to express trust i…

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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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