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“betsy west”

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  • Margin and Text

    Amplifying Diverse Voices in Architecture

    Edited by Betsy West, José L.S. Gámez, Kelly Carlson-Reddig ...
    A broad range of diverse voices in architecture discuss issues of equity, access, and social justice embedded in and related to the built environment.Margin and Text is a collection of essays, interviews, and personal stories, as well as historical and current writings and lectures, contributed by BIPOC and female practitioners and educators in architecture. Each piece offers reflections on ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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    Universal Basic Income and Social Power

    by David Casassas ...
    Translated by Julie Wark ...
    'A carefully argued case for basic income as central to a democratic transformation of society' Carole Pateman, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, UCLA'This path-breaking work throws new light on how we understand work, freedom, and emancipation in today's highly precariatised and insecure world ... A must-read' Sarath Davala, Chair, Basic Income Earth NetworkAs the rich get richer and take more of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Politics of the Handmade

    Craft, Art and Design

    Edited by Anthea Black, Nicole Burisch ...
    Contemporary craft, art and design are inseparable from the flows of production and consumption under global capitalism. The New Politics of the Handmade features twenty-three voices who critically rethink the handmade in this dramatically shifting economy.The authors examine craft within the conditions of extreme material and economic disparity; a renewed focus on labour and materiality in ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Everyday Revolutions

    Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina

    by Marina A. Sitrin ...
    In the wake of the global financial crisis, new forms of social organization are beginning to take shape. Disparate groups of people are coming together in order to resist corporate globalization and seek a more positive way forward. These movements are not based on hierarchy; rather than looking to those in power to solve their problems, participants are looking to one another. In certain ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Ethics of Global Development

    Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy

    by David A. Crocker ...
    Poverty, inequality, violence, environmental degradation, and tyranny continue to afflict the world. Ethics of Global Development offers a moral reflection on the ends and means of local, national, and global efforts to overcome these five scourges. After emphasizing the role of ethics in development studies, policy-making, and practice, David A. Crocker analyzes and evaluates Amartya Sen's ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Ecosystem of an Open Democracy

    by Mara Balestrini, Matías Bianchi, Pablo Collada, Sabrina Díaz Rato, Tomas Diez, Ricard Espelt, Mònica Garriga, Bernardo Gutiérrez, Cristian León, Eduard Martín Borregón, Antonella Perini, Thamy Pogrebinschi, Valeria Righi, Edgar Rovira, Francesc Badia Dalmases, Antoni Gutiérez Rubí ...
    Within the framework of “political experimentation”, a perspective from which to observe the vibrant development of political innovation in Latin America – and also in Spain -, we have published the serie of The ecosystem of an open democracy article. This is a Democracia Abierta initiative in collaboration with apps4citizens, a Barcelona-based platform that promotes the development of technology ... Read more

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  • Architectures of Spatial Justice

    by Dana Cuff ...
    A field-defining work that demonstrates how architects are breaking with professional conventions to advance spatial justice and design more equitable buildings and cities.As state violence, the pandemic, and environmental collapse have exposed systemic inequities, architects and urbanists have been pushed to confront how their actions contribute to racism and climate crisis—and how they can ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs

    Edited by Sonia Hirt, Diane Zahm ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobs’s legacy. Divided into four parts: I. Jacobs, Urban Philosopher; II. Jacobs, Urban Economist; II. Jacobs, Urban Sociologist; and IV. Jacobs, Urban Designer, the book evaluates the impact of Jacobs’s writings and activism on the city, the professions dedicated to city-building and, more generally, ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Architecture and Social Sustainability

    Understanding the New Paradigm

    Edited by Alexandra Staub ...
    Architecture and Social Sustainability shows how we can better design for stakeholder agency, serve historically marginalized populations, and further our theoretical thinking about sustainability writ large.With chapters exploring both the urban and the building scale, this volume examines the design of buildings and urban settings to illustrate how we can create more inclusive and equitable ... Read more

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  • Transmovimientos

    Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces

    Edited by Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., Magda García, Ellie D. Hernandez ...
    Series series Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
    2022 International Latino Book Award Finalist for Best LGBTQ Studies BookWithin a trans-embodied framework, this anthology identifies transmovimientos as the creative force or social mechanism through which queer, trans, and gender nonconforming Latinx communities navigate their location and calibrate their consciousness. This anthology unveils a critical perspective with the emphasis on queer, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The City Reader

    Edited by Richard T. LeGates, Frederic Stout, Roger W. Caves ...
    Series series Routledge Urban Reader Series
    The eighth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new. The City Reader is the anchor volume in the Routledge Urban Reader Series and is now integrated with all ten other titles in the series. It has been extensively updated and ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Greenwashing Culture

    by Toby Miller ...
    Greenwashing Culture examines the complicity of culture with our environmental crisis. Through its own carbon footprint, the promotion of image-friendly environmental credentials for celebrities, and the mutually beneficial engagement with big industry polluters, Toby Miller argues that culture has become an enabler of environmental criminals to win over local, national, and international ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD