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David B Williams, Jennifer Ott
Seattle's Locks and Ship Canal

How one canal reshaped Seattle's history, economy, and environment Seattle's waterways are central to the city's identity, and none more so than the Lake Washington Ship Canal and Ballard (Hiram M. Chitte…

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Salem's Centuries

Salem, MA is best known today for its infamous witch trials in 1692, yet there is much more to this small city. An important trading center since its founding in 1626, Salem was also the scene of dynamic …

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Salem's Centuries

Salem, MA is best known today for its infamous witch trials in 1692, yet there is much more to this small city. An important trading center since its founding in 1626, Salem was also the scene of dynamic …

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Brian E Adams
Activism, Majority Rule, and Local Democracy

Local democracy doesn't work as it should, declares Brian Adams in Activism, Majority Rule, and Local Democracy. Local politics is where citizens have the most opportunity for direct participation, contro…

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Brian E Adams
Activism, Majority Rule, and Local Democracy

Local democracy doesn't work as it should, declares Brian Adams in Activism, Majority Rule, and Local Democracy. Local politics is where citizens have the most opportunity for direct participation, contro…

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Angela Simms
Fighting for a Foothold

Prince George's County, Maryland, is a suburban jurisdiction in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and is home to the highest concentration of Black middle-class residents in the United States. As su…

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After the Fire

On August 8, 2023, a deadly fire fueled by corporate negligence, government failure, and decades of land mismanagement ravaged Lahaina. Born from the ashes of this catastrophic event, After the Fire offer…

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Brandi Thompson Summers
Oakland Afterlives

A powerful account of how Black Oakland survives displacement and erasure--and what its story reveals about the future of Black cities everywhere.What happens to a Black city when its people are displaced…

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John R Tilghman
Jim Crow from the Harbor

How do poor Black communities co-exist with downtown revitalization? How do Black social movements respond to urban renewal to ensure access to better housing and city spaces? John Tilghman investigates t…

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John R Tilghman
Jim Crow from the Harbor

How do poor Black communities co-exist with downtown revitalization? How do Black social movements respond to urban renewal to ensure access to better housing and city spaces? John Tilghman investigates t…

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Julia L Foulkes
Culture City

How New York City became a global arts capital --- and how we can keep it that wayNew York City is a stage, with all New Yorkers as players. For decades, art has occurred on the city's stages and its stre…

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Maurice Jackson
Halfway to Freedom

Halfway to Freedom is a social, political, intellectual, and cultural history of African Americans in Washington, DC, looking at the role that race, gender, color, culture, class, and power have played in…

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Nicole Gelinas
Movement

WINNER, 2025 GOTHAM BOOK PRIZE FINALIST, 2026 PATTIS FAMILY FOUNDATION GLOBAL CITIES BOOK AWARDInsideHook: The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This November A gripping account of how the automobile has fai…

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David W Gobel, Robin B Williams
Learning from Savannah

Learning from Savannah bridges the mostly separate worlds of the history of Savannah's famed urban plan and the history of the city's architecture. The authors analyze the history of the urban plan, how i…

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Despina Stratigakos
Ghost Town Resurrection

The surprising afterlives of ghost towns and the reimagining of the American WestWestern ghost towns are unsettling spaces. Far more than repositories for dusty timbers and old bottles, they are steeped i…

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Ethan Osten
The Capitol Approach

A legendary architect's vision for the grounds in front of the state capitol inspired a city planner to devote his career to making it happen. But bringing the dream to life exacted a heavy toll, displaci…

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Nicholas L Caverly
Demolishing Detroit

Pioneering field work reveals how infrastructural systems-buildings, laws, algorithms, excavators, regulations, toxins-maintain white supremacy within the urban landscapeFor decades, Detroit residents, po…

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John N Robinson
The Big Business of Affordable Housing

Skyrocketing housing costs are at the center of America's affordability crisis, and "affordable housing" has become a political lightning rod. When and how did this system become so broken?The B…

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John Gurda
Milwaukee

Paddle through the watery history of the Midwest's Cream City.The success and survival of Milwaukee lies in the rivers that meander through its streets and the great lake at its eastern boundary. The Indi…

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An Atlantic City Reader

As Atlantic City grew to become one of the largest tourist destinations on the East Coast, it loomed ever larger in the imaginations of American writers. Generation upon generation of novelists, journalis…

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