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Asian Arguments eBook Series

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  • China's Urban Billion

    The Story behind the Biggest Migration in Human History

    by Tom Miller ...
    Series series Asian Arguments
    By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people - one in every eight people on earth. What kind of lives will China's urban billion lead? And what will China's cities be like?Over the past thirty years, China's urban population expanded by 500 million people, and is on track to swell by a further 300 million by 2030. Hundreds of millions of these new urban residents are rural migrants, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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  • The New York Nobody Knows

    Walking 6,000 Miles in the City

    by William B. Helmreich ...
    An intimate portrait of the Big AppleAs a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called "Last Stop." They would pick a subway line, ride it to its final destination, and explore the neighborhood. Decades later, his love for exploring the city was as strong as ever.Putting his feet to the test, he decided that the only way to truly understand New York was to ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Gangbusters

    How a Street Tough, Elite Homicide Unit Took Down New York's Most Dangerous Gang

    by Michael Stone ...
    An elite homicide investigation unit takes on one of the most savage and destructive gangs in New York City history in this gritty true-crime narrative.The investigation into the late-night murder of a college student on the West Side Highway leads to the Wild Cowboys, a group of young men who for years terrorized Upper Manhattan and the Bronx while running a $30,000-a-day drug business. What ... Read more

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  • 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

  • The New Blackwell Companion to The City

    Edited by Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
    This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives.The most interdisciplinary collection of its kindProvides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the fieldUses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadlyIncludes ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • A Shot Story

    From Juvie to Ph.D.

    by David Borkowski ...
    The botched robbery didn’t do it. Neither did the three gunshots. It wasn’t until he was administered last rites that David Borkowski realized he was about to die, at age fifteen. A Shot Story: From Juvie to Ph.D. is a riveting account of how being shot saved his life and helped a juvenile delinquent become an esteemed English professor.Growing up in a working-class section of Staten Island, David ... Read more

    $30.99 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

  • Last Project Standing

    Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago

    by Catherine Fennell ...
    Series series A Quadrant Book
    In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago’s Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Horner housing complex ushered in the most ambitious urban housing experiment of its kind: smaller, mixed-income, and partially privatized developments that, the thinking went, would mitigate the insecurity, isolation, and underemployment that plagued ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities

    Resisting a Dangerous Order

    by Shawna Ferris ...
    “Our voices scrubbed out and forgotten. There are those who research and write about sex workers who often forget we are human.” —Amy Lebovitch Shawna Ferris gives a voice to sex workers who are often pushed to the background, even by those who fight for them. In the name of urban safety and orderliness, street sex workers face stigma, racism, and ignorance. Their human rights are ignored, and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies

    Edited by Greg Richards, John A. (Andrew) Hannigan ...
    The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city. The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies offers comprehensive coverage of this modern re-thinking of urban theory, both gathering together the best of what has been achieved so far, and signalling the way to future theoretical insights and empirically grounded research.Featuring many ... Read more

    $147.99 CAD

  • Unsustainable Transport

    City Transport in the New Century

    by David Banister ...
    Series series Transport, Development and Sustainability Series
    This book addresses the links between transport and sustainable urban development, from an analysis of the global picture to issues in transport and energy intensity, public policy and the institutional and organisational constraints on change. The central part of the book explores these links in more detail at city level, covering land use and development, economic measures, and the role that ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Solutions: University–Community Partnerships

    Edited by B.D. Wortham-Galvin, Jennifer H. Allen, Jacob Sherman ...
    What is the role of the university? Current systems may stress research output, but Wortham-Galvin, Allen, and Sherman seek to re-establish the importance of teaching and service in the work of the 21st-century university. The Sustainable Solutions series shares Portland State University’s experience of community-engaged teaching and research. With a focus on sustainability, we see that such ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD