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Anna Zhelnina
Private Life, Public Action

Renovation, an urban renewal plan in Moscow that was announced in the spring of 2017, proposed to demolish thousands of socialist-era apartment buildings. In a country where it is rare under an authoritar…

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Jane Jacobs
The Death and Life of Great American Cities

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cit…

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Joe Hoover
Living Just Enough for the City

Today, most of us call the city home. The city is also the context in which we come to understand ourselves, build relationships with others, and negotiate our collective lives. Many authors have recognis…

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Anna Zhelnina
Private Life, Public Action

Renovation, an urban renewal plan in Moscow that was announced in the spring of 2017, proposed to demolish thousands of socialist-era apartment buildings. In a country where it is rare under an authoritar…

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Magdalena Chu¿ek
How a Slum is (Re)Produced

How a Slum is (Re)Produced: An Ethnography of Kibera and Korogocho in Nairobioffers an in-depth ethnographic analysis of how slums are produced and reproduced as physical, symbolic, and socio-political fo…

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Joshua B Freeman
Garden Apartments

How a form of multifamily housing with idealistic roots became a ubiquitous model promoted by both public entities and private developers.Eminent historian Joshua Freeman rescues garden apartments--typica…

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The Economies of Violence

The hidden interplay between violence and economies has long eluded public scrutiny, remaining a neglected topic in both academic and policy circles. The Economies of Violence sets out to change this.In t…

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Richard Cimino, Hans Tokke
Micro-City

An on-the-ground study of how faith communities create belonging and build bridges across one of the most diverse urban landscapes in the worldMicro-City follows congregations, clergy, and everyday New Yo…

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Gwendolyn Y. Purifoye
Race on the Move

Whether on the bus, subway or train, public transit continues to be a separate and unequal experience for many Black AmericansIn Race on the Move , Gwendolyn Purifoye argues that, whether on the subway, b…

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Edward M Epstein
Race, Real Estate and Education

Philadelphia's urban renewal efforts in the 1950s, which re-envisioned the city as a residential enclave, were an early example of gentrification. In West Philadelphia in the 1960s, a coalition of univers…

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Mechanisms and Mechanics of Racial Hierarchy

Recent efforts to advance conceptualisations of racial hierarchies have led to the emergence of new debates about the 'why' and 'how' of racism and racial domination. The chapters in this book address the…

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Football, Migration and Racism

Football, Migration and Racism examines the complex intersections of racism, antiracism, football, and migration in contemporary global contexts. Drawing from a themed issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies, …

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Manissa Maharawal
Anti-Eviction

A galvanizing story of how everyday people built a powerful anti-eviction movement in gentrified San Francisco.In the early 2010s, San Francisco experienced a tech boom that created both great wealth and …

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Sharon Cornelissen
The Last House on the Block

"In the minds of many, Detroit is undergoing a renaissance. From mid-50s boom to bankruptcy bust, it is once again calling to urbanites with the promise of cheap housing and thriving culture; indeed,…

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Jason S Spicer
Co-Operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective

Co-operative enterprises, which are democratically owned and governed by their workers, customers, or suppliers, have long captured the imagination of activists and social scientists alike. In centering e…

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Harold Kalman
Eric Arthur

Eric Arthur (1898--1982) was a transformative figure in Canadian architecture. His many contributions extended across design, teaching, preservation, urban planning, criticism, and architectural history. …

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The Politics of Antiracism

The question of antiracism has emerged as a critical dimension of contemporary debates about racial and ethnic relations across the globe. This edited collection brings together scholarship that examines …

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The Routledge Handbook of Southern Urbanism(s)

Cities are at the centre of a contemporary civilisational crisis, marked by displacement, climate breakdown, armed conflict, authoritarianism, and widening inequality. These conditions are not external sh…

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Jinwon Kim
Koreatown, NYC

How Manhattan's Koreatown functions as a new ethnic enclaveIn the past decade, Korean entertainment has gained global recognition, with Korean movies and TV shows winning Oscars and Emmys, and K-Pop group…

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Ebony Reid
Trapped Life

'Vital' Marcel Theroux'I loved this book' Anna Whitwham 'This book will fundamentally alter your mindset . There is no going back for peopledem after reading Trapped Life .' Olivette Otele'This book offer…

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