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  • Transforming Urban Waterfronts

    Fixity and Flow

    Edición de Gene Desfor, Jennefer Laidley, Quentin Stevens, Dirk Schubert ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Geography
    In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies. Frequently, these mega-projects have been intended to transform derelict docklands into communities of hope with sustainable urban economies—economies intended to both compete in and support globally ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

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  • Prague in Black and Gold

    Scenes from the Life of a European City

    de Peter Demetz ...
    Prague is at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history, but few people truly understand this city's unique culture. In Prague in Black and Gold, Peter Demetz strips away sentimentalities and distortions and shows how Czechs, Germans, Italians, and Jews have lived and worked together for over a thousand years. ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Punished

    Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys

    de Victor M. Rios ...
    Series Libro 7 - New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law
    Honorable Mention, 2014 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award presented by the Society for the Study of Social Problems2012 Best Book Award, Latino/a Sociology Section, presented by the American Sociological Association2012 Finalist, C. Wright Mills Book Award presented by the Study of Social ProblemsA classic ethnography that reveals how urban police criminalize black and Latino boysVictor ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • In Search of Paradise

    Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis

    de Li Zhang ...
    A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Ecotopia 2121

    A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia?in 100 Cities

    de Alan Marshall ...
    **A 2016 Green Book Festival "Future Forecasts" WinnerA stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original Big Idea.**Five hundred years ago a powerful new word was unleashed upon the world when Thomas More published his book Utopia, about an island paradise far away from his troubled land. It was an instant hit, and the literati ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Who Can Stop the Drums?

    Urban Social Movements in Chávez's Venezuela

    de Sujatha Fernandes ...
    In this vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Sujatha Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chávez was elected. Fernandes traces the histories of the barrios, from the guerrilla insurgency, movements against displacement, and cultural resistance of the 1960s and 1970s, through the debt crisis ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Industrial Sunset

    The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984

    de Steven High ...
    Series series Heritage
    Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging industrial decline of the Great Lakes Region. Industrial Sunset offers a comparative regional analysis of the economic and cultural devastation caused by the shutdowns, and provides an insightful examination of how mill and factory workers on both sides of the border made sense of their own ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • The Urban Racial State

    Managing Race Relations in American Cities

    de Noel A. Cazenave ...
    Series series Perspectives on a Multiracial America
    The Urban Racial State introduces a new multi-disciplinary analytical approach to urban racial politics that provides a bridging concept for urban theory, racism theory, and state theory. This perspective, dubbed by Noel A. Cazenave as the Urban Racial State, both names and explains the workings of the political structure whose chief function for cities and other urban governments is the ... Leer más

    $97.99 USD

  • Incivility

    The Rude Stranger in Everyday Life

    de Philip Smith, Timothy L. Phillips, Ryan D. King ...
    Has anyone ever pushed in front of you in a queue? Stolen your parking space? Talked on their mobile phone during a film at the cinema? In our everyday lives we all encounter rude and inconsiderate people. This unique book provides the first ever systematic investigation of typical encounters with rudeness. Through a meticulous analysis of over 500 events, it maps out what people experience as ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Surveillance and Security

    Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life

    de Torin Monahan ...
    This is a volume of original contributions from scholars in eight different humanities and social science disciplines. The aim of the book is to present a range of surveillance technologies used in everyday life and investigate the politics of their use. It is truly an interdisciplinary project that will find purchase in courses on security studies and the sociology of culture and the sociology of ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • What the Eyes Don't See

    A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City

    de Mona Hanna ...
    Series series One World Essentials
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The dramatic story of the Flint water crisis, by a relentless physician who stood up to power.“Stirring . . . [a] blueprint for all those who believe . . . that ‘the world . . . should be full of people raising their voices.’”—The New York Times“Revealing, with the gripping intrigue of a Grisham thriller.”—O: The Oprah MagazineHere is the inspiring story of ... ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Walking in the European City

    Quotidian Mobility and Urban Ethnography

    Edición de Timothy Shortell, Evrick Brown ...
    Sociologists have long noted that dynamism is an essential part of the urban way of life. However, walking as a significant social activity and crucial research method (in spite of its ubiquity as part of urban life) has often been overlooked. This volume considers walking in the city from a variety of perspectives, in a variety of places and with a variety of methods, to engage with the question ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD