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  • Urban Land Rent

    Singapore as a Property State

    by Anne Haila ...
    Series series IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    In Urban Land Rent, Anne Haila uses Singapore as a case study to develop an original theory of urban land rent with important implications for urban studies and urban theory.Provides a comprehensive analysis of land, rent theory, and the modern cityExamines the question of land from a variety of perspectives: as a resource, ideologies, interventions in the land market, actors in the land market, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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    The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building

    by Michael Gross ...
    For seventy-five years, it’s been Manhattan’s richest apartment building, and one of the most lusted-after addresses in the world. One apartment had 37 rooms, 14 bathrooms, 43 closets, 11 working fireplaces, a private elevator, and his-and-hers saunas; another at one time had a live-in service staff of 16. To this day, it is steeped in the purest luxury, the kind most of us could only imagine, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Bird on Fire

    Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

    by Andrew Ross ...
    Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Nightless City

    Or the History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku

    by J.E. De Becker ...
    Organized sex in Japan has always been big business, and nowhere was it more politely offered than in the Yoshiwara Yukwaku (red light district) of Tokyo.The appeal of the Yoshiwara was its women, all the surroundings being a frame for display of their charms. The Nightless City provides us with a fascinating picture of a "floating world" that was as transient as a butterfly. Today its teahouses, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Cities and Consumption

    by Mark Jayne ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    In investigating the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption, this book asks: how are cities moulded by consumption, and how is consumption moulded by cities?Consumption stands at the intersection of different spheres of everyday life: between the public and the private, the political and the personal, the individual and the social. It is considered to be a means ... Read more

    $121.99 CAD

  • Markets of Dispossession

    NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo

    by Julia Adams, George Steinmetz, Julia Elyachar ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    What happens when the market tries to help the poor? In many parts of the world today, neoliberal development programs are offering ordinary people the tools of free enterprise as the means to well-being and empowerment. Schemes to transform the poor into small-scale entrepreneurs promise them the benefits of the market and access to the rewards of globalization. Markets of Dispossession is a ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Buzz

    Urban Beekeeping and the Power of the Bee

    by Lisa Jean Moore, Mary Kosut ...
    Winner, 2014 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Animals & Society section of the American Sociological AssociationBees are essential for human survival—one-third of all food on American dining tables depends on the labor of bees. Beyond pollination, the very idea of the bee is ubiquitous in our culture: we can feel buzzed; we can create buzz; we have worker bees, drones, and Queen ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Immigrants in Prairie Cities

    Ethnic Diversity in Twentieth-Century Canada

    by Royden Loewen, Gerald Friesen ...
    Over the course of the twentieth century, sequential waves of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa settled in the cities of the Canadian Prairies. In Immigrants in Prairie Cities, Royden Loewen and Gerald Friesen analyze the processes of cultural interaction and adaptation that unfolded in these urban centres and describe how this model of diversity has changed over time. The ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Unions and the City

    Negotiating Urban Change

    Edited by Ian Thomas MacDonald ...
    Labor unions remain the largest membership-based organizations in major North American cities, even after years of decline. Labor continues to play a vital role in mobilizing urban residents, shaping urban conflict, and crafting the policies and regulations that are transforming our urban spaces. As unions become more involved in the daily life of the city, they find themselves confronting the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Country of Exiles

    by William R. Leach ...
    In Country of Exiles, William Leach, whose Land of Desire was a finalist for the National Book Award, explores the troubling effects of our national love affair with mobility. He shows us how the impulse to pull up stakes and find a new frontier has always battled with the need to put down roots, and how a new cosmopolitanism has seized our national identity.Leach takes us across a featureless ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Zygmunt Bauman

    by Tony Blackshaw ...
    Series series Key Sociologists
    This timely book provides the definitive concise introduction to the phenomenon of Zygmunt Bauman. After introducing the man, his major influences and his special way of 'thinking sociologically', author Blackshaw traces the development of Bauman's project by identifying and explaining the major shifts of emphasis in his work – the break with Marxism and the postmodern 'turn', and the subsequent ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Site Matters

    Design Concepts, Histories and Strategies

    Edited by Carol Burns, Andrea Kahn ...
    One of the trends in twentieth century architecture and planning has been to denigrate and ignore the site, or larger context (both physical and social), surrounding a building or set of buildings.Focussing on Le Corbusier's designs, Site Matters presents that first considered theory and vocabulary for the inevitable reaction against Modernism in planning, beginning in the 1960s and swelling ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD