Urban Policy – Bücher, LPs, CDs und mehr, Seite 2

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 …

lieferbar ab 2.12.2025.

Buch

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…

lieferbar ab 24.3.2026.

Buch

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 …

lieferbar ab 13.1.2026.

Buch

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…

lieferbar ab 21.4.2026.

Buch

Paul Kellogg
Austerity and Resistance

From December 1995 to summer 1998, Ontario witnessed eleven one-day general strikes and Days of Action across its major cities. These protests were sparked by the so-called Common Sense Revolution associa…

lieferbar ab 19.12.2025.

Buch

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…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Paul Kellogg
Austerity and Resistance

From December 1995 to summer 1998, Ontario witnessed eleven one-day general strikes and Days of Action across its major cities. These protests were sparked by the so-called Common Sense Revolution associa…

lieferbar ab 19.12.2025.

Buch

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…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Jennifer Baum
Just City

WINNER, 2025 ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PRESSES BOOK, JACKET, AND JOURNAL SHOW IN THE JACKETS & COVERS CATEGORYA captivating memoir of New York's Historic Upper West Side at a time when community and u…

Erscheint bald

Buch

Mason B Williams
City of Fortune

Postwar New York City famously expired in a tableau of burning Bronx tenements, subway graffiti, crushing debt, and the tabloid headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." The city reemerged from the as…

Erscheint bald

Buch

Richard Harris
Rise of the Neighbourhood in Canada, 1880s-2020s

Neighbourhoods matter now more than ever before. They sustain fewer social connections, but in an era of great social inequality and high levels of immigration, they have become vital as places for homeow…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Stephen M Wheeler, Christina D Rosan,
Reimagining Sustainable Cities

ENG:What would it take to make urban places greener, more affordable, more equitable, and healthier for everyone? In recent years, cities have stepped up efforts to address climate and sustainability cris…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Alva Gotby
Feeling at Home

Housing is more than bricks and mortar. Feeling at Homegrapples with the practical and emotional questions of housing -- domestic labour, privacy, security, ownership, and health. Is it possible to imagin…

lieferbar ab 27.1.2026.

Buch

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…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Katie J Wells, Kafui Attoh, Declan Cullen
Disrupting D.C.

A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was def…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Timo Bartholl, Christos Filippidis, Antonis Vradis, Minhocas Urbanas
Favela Resistance

Food is at the heart of well-being, peace, and health. But millions live without access to basic nutrition, and billions live without control or understanding of where their food will come from and how it…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Tom Goodfellow
Politics and the Urban Frontier

This book offers the first full-length comparative analysis of urban development trajectories in Eastern Africa and the political dynamics that underpin them. It offers a multi-scalar, historically-ground…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Brian Goldstone
There Is No Place for Us

A NEW YORK TIMESBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) • Through the "revelatory and gut-wrenching" (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new an…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Protagonists of Urban Order from the Middle Ages to the Present

European cities and towns are considered places with a particular order established by their inhabitants. This volume centres on the authorities, groups, and individuals who formed the rules for common li…

lieferbar innerhalb 1-2 Wochen

Buch

Peter F Burns, Matthew O Thomas, Max R Bieganski
Disneyland Politics

Forthcoming Fall 2025

lieferbar ab 5.12.2025.

Buch