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  • E-Governance in European and South African Cities

    The Cases of Barcelona, Cape Town, Eindhoven, Johannesburg, Manchester, Tampere, The Hague and Venice

    by Leo van den Berg, Andre van der Meer, Willem van Winden, Paulus Woets ...
    Since the late 1990s, city councils have become increasingly aware of the potential for information technologies (ICTs) to improve the management of cities and as an instrument for economic and social policy. This has resulted in a wave of urban ICT strategies and policies, such as the adoption of ICTs within the city administration itself, projects that facilitate access to ICTs by weaker social ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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  • The Sweethearts

    Tales of love, laughter and hardship from the Yorkshire Rowntree's girls

    by Lynn Russell, Neil Hanson ...
    Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire“On a warm Monday morning in 1932, just two days after leaving school, fourteen-year-old Madge was about to join her nine brothers and sisters at Rowntree’s. The smell of chocolate was in the air but as she walked up the road, her footsteps slowed at the daunting thought of what ... Read more

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  • Empire of Sin

    A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans

    by Gary Krist ...
    From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent CityEmpire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city’s elite “better half” against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Made in Detroit

    A South of 8 Mile Memoir

    by Paul Clemens ...
    A New York Times Notable BookA powerfully candid memoir about growing up white in Detroit and the conflicted point of view it produced.Raised in Detroit during the ‘70s, ‘80s, and ‘90s, Paul Clemens saw his family growing steadily isolated from its surroundings: white in a predominately black city, Catholic in an area where churches were closing at a rapid rate, and blue-collar in a steadily ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Indigenous in the City

    Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation

    Edited by Evelyn Peters, Chris Andersen ...
    Research on Indigenous issues rarely focuses on life in major metropolitan centres. Instead, there is a tendency to frame rural locations as emblematic of authentic or "real" Indigeneity. While such a perspective may support Indigenous struggles for territory and recognition, it fails to account for large swaths of contemporary Indigenous realities, including the increased presence of Indigenous ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Neoliberal City

    Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism

    by Jason Hackworth ...
    The shift in the ideological winds toward a "free-market" economy has brought profound effects in urban areas. The Neoliberal City presents an overview of the effect of these changes on today's cities. The term "neoliberalism" was originally used in reference to a set of practices that first-world institutions like the IMF and World Bank impose on third-world countries and cities. The support of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • As Bad as They Say?

    Three Decades of Teaching in the Bronx

    by Janet Grossbach Mayer ...
    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 ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement

    The Rise of "Pro-Woman" Rhetoric in Canada and the United States

    by Paul Saurette, Kelly Gordon ...
    When journalists, academics, and politicians describe the North American anti-abortion movement, they often describe a campaign that is male-dominated, aggressive, and even violent in its tactics, religious in motivation, anti-women in tone, and fetal-centric in arguments and rhetoric. Are they correct?In The Changing Voice of the Anti-Abortion Movement, Paul Saurette and Kelly Gordon suggest that ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

  • Uneasy Peace

    The Great Crime Decline, the Renewal of City Life, and the Next War on Violence

    by Patrick Sharkey ...
    “Admirably connects two stories about the criminal legal system that are usually told separately. One is that the country that Americans live in is safer than it has been for a long time. The other story is that for some citizens, especially African-American men, the country that they live in is not free.” —Paul Butler, New York Times Book ReviewFrom the late ’90s to the mid-2010s, American cities ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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  • Operation Fly Trap

    L. A. Gangs, Drugs, and the Law

    by Susan A. Phillips ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Gentrification in a Global Context

    Edited by Rowland Atkinson, Gary Bridge ...
    Series series Housing and Society Series
    Gentrification, a process of class neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world. This book throws new light and evidence to bear on a subject that deeply divides commentators on its worth and social costs given its ability to physically improve areas but also to displace indigenous inhabitants.Gentrification in a Global Perspective brings ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Peoples Of Las Vegas

    One City, Many Faces

    Edited by Jerry L Simich, Thomas C. Wright ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Beneath the glitzy surface of the resorts and the seemingly cookie-cutter suburban sprawl of Las Vegas lies a vibrant and diverse ethnic life. People of varied origins make up the population of nearly two million and yet, until now, little mention of the city has been made in studies and discussion of ethnicity or immigration. The Peoples of Las Vegas: One City, Many Faces fills this void by ... Read more

    $21.59 USD