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  • Owning the Street

    The Everyday Life of Property

    by Amelia Thorpe ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    How local, specific, and personal understandings about belonging, ownership, and agency intersect with law to shape the city.In Owning the Street, Amelia Thorpe examines everyday experiences of and feelings about property and belonging in contemporary cities. She grounds her account in an empirical study of PARK(ing) Day, an annual event that reclaims street space from cars. A popular and highly ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility

    by Neluka Leanage, Deden Rukmana, Harya S Dillon, Nicholas Scott, Quoc Dinh Phuong, Lakshmi Priyara Jendran, Eunice Castro Seixas, João Teixeira Lopes, Lígia Ferro, Alice Corble, Louise Meijering, Arlinde Dul, Tess Osborne, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Setha Low, Peter Massini, Meredith Whitten, Rubén Casas, Anaid Yerena, Conor Wilson, Julian Dobson, Lucas Melgaço, Mattias de Backer, Stijn Oosterlynck, Luce Beeckmans, Amelia Thorpe, Alexandra Flynn, Ute Lehrer, Loren March ...
    Series series Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities
    COVID-19 is an invisible threat that has hugely impacted cities and their inhabitants. Yet its impact is very visible, perhaps most so in urban public spaces and spaces of mobility.This international volume explores the transformations of public space and public transport in response to COVID-19 across the world, both those resulting from official governmental regulations and from everyday ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Infrastructural Times

    Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds

    by Lauren Marino, Timothy Moss, Olivier Coutard, AbdouMaliq Simone, Peter Ekman, Seth Schindler, Juan Miguel Kanai, Dalia Wahdan, Tamer Elshayal, Simon Marvin, Jonathan Rutherford, Jessica DiCarlo, Samantha Biglieri, Roger Keil, Amelia Thorpe ...
    Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders—and depends on—multiple urban temporalities.This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure, and urban society. Conceptually rich and empirically detailed, its interdisciplinary dialogue encompasses infrastructural ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • The Urban Planning Imagination

    A Critical International Introduction

    by Nicholas A. Phelps ...
    Urban planning is not just about applying a suite of systematic principles or plotting out pragmatic designs to satisfy the briefs of private developers or public bodies. Planning is also an activity of imagination, with a stock of wisdom and an array of useful methods for making decisions and getting things done.This critical introduction uncovers and celebrates this imagination and its creative ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Subdivided

    City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity

    by Jay Pitter, John Lorinc ...
    How do we build cities where we aren't just living within the same urban space, but living together?Greater Toronto is now home to a larger proportion of foreign-born residents than any other major global metropolis. Not surprisingly, city officials rarely miss an opportunity to tout the region’s ethno-cultural neighbourhoods. Yet there’s strong evidence that the GTA is experiencing widening socio ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • There Goes the Gayborhood?

    by Amin Ghaziani ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    An in-depth look at America's changing gay neighborhoodsGay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village, have long provided sexual minorities with safe havens in an often unsafe world. But as our society increasingly accepts gays and lesbians into the mainstream, are "gayborhoods" destined to disappear? Amin Ghaziani provides an incisive look ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • IELTS Writing Task 2.What can I write about this question? Globalisation, government and society. Book 3

    by Kristina Rennig ...
    Series Book 3 - IELTS Writing Task 2.What can I write about this question?
    Welcome to book 3. In this book I have concentrated on large world issues. Sometimes these topics can be difficult to find ideas for, so I hope this book helps.In the other two books, I mentioned how to plan your essay, how to structure each paragraph and how to edit the completed work.In this book, I have included some introductions and conclusions to help you understand how to produce them. Once ... Read more

    $4.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Sustainability

    Just Transitions in a Complex World

    by Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting ... Read more

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  • What We Made

    Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation

    by Tom Finkelpearl ...
    In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He suggests social cooperation as a meaningful way to think about this work and provides a framework for understanding its emergence and acceptance. In a series of fifteen conversations, artists comment on their experiences working cooperatively, joined at ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Crisis Response in Higher Education

    How the Pandemic Challenged University Operations and Organisation

    by Mats Benner, Jonathan Grant, Mary O’Kane ...
    This open access book explores the impact of Covid-19 on universities, and how students, staff, faculty and academic leaders have adapted to and dealt with the impact of the pandemic. Drawing on experiences from Britain, Australia and Sweden, it showcases how Covid has challenged routines and procedures in universities, and thrown them into a disarray of ever-changing events and short-term ... Read more

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  • The Return of Inequality

    Social Change and the Weight of the Past

    by Mike Savage ...
    A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions.The economic facts of inequality are clear. The rich have been pulling away from the rest of us for years, and the super-rich have been pulling away from the rich. More and more assets are concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Extra/Ordinary

    Craft and Contemporary Art

    by M. Anna Fariello, Dennis Stevens, Louise Mazanti, Paula Owen ...
    Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer’s monumental stitched paintings to Twomey’s large, ceramics-based installations. Despite the amount of attention that curators and gallery owners have paid to these and many other conceptual artists ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD