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Chris Moffat
Lahore After Modernism

In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future -- a new world after empire. But the debris of the past could not be so easily swept aside. T…

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David Omotoso Stovall
Engineered Conflict

A hard-hitting exploration of how state policy displaces and isolates Black communities and how collective resistance creates spaces for working-class people of color to identify the true cause of conflic…

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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…

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Critical Futures

Bringing together leading scholars, Critical Futures explores how community-engaged research can address social justice, decolonization, and transformation in response to contemporary crises.

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Matthew D Lassiter
The Suburban Crisis

How the drug war transformed American political cultureSince the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need rehabilita…

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Urban Contact Zones

Habitat-International: Schriften zur internationalen Urbanistik - Band 28

Global trends as well as translocal exchanges and the everyday realities of local communities shape urban transformation. Turning to the idea of ¿contact zones¿, the contributors to this volume explore th…

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Stefanie Mercado Altman, Claire Altman, Stan Altman
Twice Blessed

A deeply moving memoir of love, resilience, and identity, chronicling one family's journey through adoption, caregiving, and the profound connections that define usTwice Blessed is a beautifully written m…

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Maria Foscarinis
And Housing for All

A groundbreaking legal advocate argues that only by recognizing housing as a fundamental human right can we hope to solve America's homelessness crisis.In And Housing for All , founder of the National Hom…

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Yuki Kato
Gardens of Hope

Social changes through urban gardening and farming Gardens are often spaces of hope, expected to solve many problems in a city including food insecurity and climate resilience. In fact, there has been a h…

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Shawn William Miller
Dream Road to Pan America

An expansive and subversive history of the Pan-American Highway.A century after the Pan-American Highway was first conceived, its story remains largely unknown--even to the hundreds of motorists who annua…

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Rudolph Elliot Willis
Echoes of Cabrini-Green

Echoes of Cabrini-Green: Letters to My Motheris a deeply personal memoir that explores the intertwined themes of love, faith, and resilience amidst adversity. The compelling narrative is framed as heartfe…

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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…

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Amanda Tattersall, Kurt Iveson
People Power in Cities

In an era plagued by increasing inequality and intensifying climate change, residents of cities are facing crises on multiple fronts, including housing, transport, healthcare, policing, pollution, and dra…

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Berna Turam
The Geopolitics of Fear

"The intensified securitization of the borderlands between Europe and the Middle East/North Africa over the past decade has turned the Mediterranean Sea into a graveyard. This book delves into the mo…

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Berna Turam
The Geopolitics of Fear

"The intensified securitization of the borderlands between Europe and the Middle East/North Africa over the past decade has turned the Mediterranean Sea into a graveyard. This book delves into the mo…

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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…

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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…

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Paige McClanahan
The New Tourist

"Many travel books tell you where to go. This one tells you howto go." ---Eric Weiner, New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of BlissFor travel enthusiasts and digital nomads who sn…

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Cairo Securitized

"A compendium of profound insights, garnered in all their granularity from varied aspects of Cairo's rich social life, which keeps the reader engrossed to the last page."---Contemporary Sociolog…

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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…

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