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  • Ecologies of Affect

    Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope

    Collections series Environmental Humanities
    Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects including desire, nostalgia, memory, and hope in forming the identity and tone of places. The critical intervention this collection of essays makes is an active, consistent engagement with the virtualities that produce and refract our ... En savoir plus

    $47.99 CAD

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  • Some Great Idea

    Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto

    par Edward Keenan ...
    Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea traces how post-amalgamation, and under three very different mayors, Toronto managed to so quickly ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Everyday Law on the Street

    City Governance in an Age of Diversity

    Collections series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    Toronto prides itself on being “the world’s most diverse city,” and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies designed to promote social inclusion. Yet this progressive vision of law often falls short in practice, limited by problems inherent in the political culture itself. In Everyday Law on the Street, Mariana Valverde brings to light the often unexpected ways ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • As Bad as They Say?

    Three Decades of Teaching in the Bronx

    Rundown, vermin-infested buildings. Rigid, slow-to-react bureaucratic systems. Children from broken homes and declining communities. How can a teacher succeed? How does a student not only survive but also come to thrive? It can happen, and As Bad as They Say? tells the heroic stories of Janet Mayer’s students during her 33-year tenure as a Bronx high school teacher.In 1995, Janet Mayer’s students ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD

  • Gendered Paradoxes

    Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador

    par Amy Lind ...
    Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country’s poor, including women’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women’s participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Operation Fly Trap

    L. A. Gangs, Drugs, and the Law

    In 2003, an FBI-led task force known as Operation Fly Trap attempted to dismantle a significant drug network in two Bloods-controlled, African American neighborhoods in Los Angeles. The operation would soon be considered an enormous success, noted for the precision with which the task force targeted and removed gang members otherwise entrenched in larger communities. In Operation Fly Trap, Susan A ... En savoir plus

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  • Home in the City

    Urban Aboriginal Housing and Living Conditions

    During the past several decades, the Aboriginal population of Canada has become so urbanized that today, the majority of First Nations and Métis people live in cities. Home in the City provides an in-depth analysis of urban Aboriginal housing, living conditions, issues, and trends. Based on extensive research, including interviews with more than three thousand residents, it allows for the ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Riding with Death

    Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince

    Collections series Caribbean Studies Series
    On the southern end of the Grand Rue, a major thoroughfare that runs through the center of Port-au-Prince, waits the Haitian capital's automobile repair district. This veritable junkyard of steel and rubber, recycled parts, old tires, and scrap metal might seem an unlikely foundry for art. Yet, on the street's opposite end thrives the Grand Rue Galerie, a working studio of assembled art and ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD

  • Urban Ports and Harbor Management

    Responding to Change along U.S. Waterfronts

    Modifié par Marc J. Hershman ...
    Collections series Routledge Library Editions: Urban Studies
    The essays in this book, first published in 1988, explore the changes that have occurred in the modern harbour in the 1970s and 1980s and the many roles of the public port in stimulating or responding to these changes. The goal of this study is to understand the modern harbour and public port and the contemporary pressures on them. The contributors’ disciplines range among geography, law, business ... En savoir plus

    $81.99 CAD

  • There Goes the Neighborhood

    Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America

    From one of America’s most admired sociologists and urban policy advisers, There Goes the Neighborhood is a long-awaited look at how race, class, and ethnicity influence one of Americans’ most personal choices—where we choose to live. The result of a three-year study of four working- and lower-middle class neighborhoods in Chicago, these riveting first-person narratives and the meticulous research ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Making Immigrant Rights Real

    Nonprofits and the Politics of Integration in San Francisco

    par Els de Graauw ...
    More than half of the 41 million foreign-born individuals in the United States today are noncitizens, half have difficulty with English, a quarter are undocumented, and many are poor. As a result, most immigrants have few opportunities to make their voices heard in the political process. Nonprofits in many cities have stepped into this gap to promote the integration of disadvantaged immigrants. ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Democracy Deferred

    Civic Leadership after 9/11

    par D. Woods ...
    Collections series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The day after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, civic leaders began to organize four coalitions that aimed to give ordinary citizens a chance to meet, to heal, and to be heard in rebuilding decisions. This book tells the inside story of the civic renewal movement they founded. ... En savoir plus

    $70.99 CAD