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Ghosts of Atlanta
Cultural Gentrification of the Black Mecca
University Press of Mississippi
An interrogation exposing the endangered identity of Black America’s capital city
Broken City
Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis
UBC Press
Broken City argues that skyrocketing urban land prices drive our global housing market failure – so, how did we get here, and what can be done about it?
Breaking the Gender Code
Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States
University of Texas Press
A history of the activism that made public spaces in American cities more accessible to women.
Crossing Paths Crossing Perspectives
Urban Studies in British Columbia and Quebec
Edited by Meg Holden and Sandra Breux
Les Presses de l'Université Laval, Laval University Press
Justice and the Interstates
The Racist Truth about Urban Highways
Island Press
Justice and the Interstates, edited by Ryan Reft, Amanda Phillips de Lucas, and Rebecca Retzlaff, examines the toll that the construction of the U.S. Interstate Highway System has taken on vulnerable communities over the past seven decades, details efforts to restore the same, often segregated communities, and makes recommendations for moving forward.
Justice and the Interstates provides community advocates, transportation planners, engineers, historians, and policymakers with a concise but in-depth examination of the damages wrought by highway construction on the nation’s communities of color—from West Baltimore to Birmingham to the San Gabriel Valley. The authors provide a way forward to both address this history and reconcile it with current practices.
Justice and the Interstates provides community advocates, transportation planners, engineers, historians, and policymakers with a concise but in-depth examination of the damages wrought by highway construction on the nation’s communities of color—from West Baltimore to Birmingham to the San Gabriel Valley. The authors provide a way forward to both address this history and reconcile it with current practices.
Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia
Edited by Max Hirsh and Till Mostowlansky
University of Hawaii Press
The Heart of Toronto
Corporate Power, Civic Activism, and the Remaking of Downtown Yonge Street
By Daniel Ross
UBC Press
From the sidewalk to City Hall, in the corporate boardroom, and around the kitchen table, The Heart of Toronto traces the power dynamics and projects that have transformed downtown Toronto.
Risky Cities
The Physical and Fiscal Nature of Disaster Capitalism
By Albert S. Fu
Rutgers University Press
Over half the world’s population lives in urban regions, and increasingly disasters are of great concern to city dwellers, policymakers, and builders. Risky Cities is a critical examination of global urban development, capitalism, and its relationship with environmental hazards.
Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships
Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti
By Vincent Joos
Rutgers University Press
Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It describes how, in the meantime, people from various backgrounds use, transform, and create vibrant urban spaces and economies that enable them to rebuild their lives. By exploring how the state, international organizations, and everyday people transform the environment,the book reflects on the possibilities of dwelling in post-disaster landscapes.
My Sad Republic
A Novel (Twentieth Anniversary Edition)
Ateneo De Manila, Ateneo De Manila Univ Press
What Kapitan Tiago Served and Padre Damaso Ate
Studies on Jose Rizal, His World, and His Works
Ateneo De Manila, Ateneo De Manila Univ Press
The Street
A Photographic Field Guide to American Inequality
Rutgers University Press
Using MacArthur fellow Camilo José Vergara’s intimate street photographs of Camden, New Jersey as reference points, the essays in this collection address everything from law enforcement to health care in order to analyze these images within the context of troubled histories and misguided policies that have exacerbated racial and economic inequalities.
Quietly Shrinking Cities
Canadian Urban Population Loss in an Age of Growth
UBC Press
The first major study of its kind in Canada, Quietly Shrinking Cities examines the conceptual and empirical evolution of Canadian urban population loss.
Neighbourhood Houses
Building Community in Vancouver
UBC Press
Neighbourhood Houses documents how the neighbourhood house model, a century-old type of community organization, can help overcome isolation in urban neighbourhoods by creating welcoming places.
Gentrification Down the Shore
By Molly Vollman Makris and Mary Gatta
Rutgers University Press
Gentrification in cities in the United States is a hot topic, but this book contributes something new to the ongoing discussion by offering a rich case study of seasonal gentrification and its effects on long time residents. Summer days in Asbury once again mean tourists strolling the boardwalk and dining by the Atlantic Ocean. But just across the railroad tracks from the seasonal crowds, many of Asbury’s long-time residents live below the poverty line and struggle for their share of this prosperity throughout all four seasons of the year.
School is Life
Progressive Education in the Philippines
Edited by Ani Rosa Almario and Tina Zamora
Ateneo De Manila, Ateneo De Manila Univ Press
Making It at Any Cost
Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace
By Matías Dewey
University of Texas Press
An examination of the vast counterfeit clothing marketplace in Buenos Aires known as La Salada, this book is the first ethnographic study to examine how aspirations shape behaviors of workers in an informal and illegal economy.
Navigating Differences
Integration in Singapore
Edited by Terence Chong
ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute
Changing Neighbourhoods
Social and Spatial Polarization in Canadian Cities
UBC Press
Changing Neighbourhoods offers revealing insights into the way that Canadian cities have grown increasingly unequal and polarized since 1980, identifying the causal factors driving neighbourhood change and their troubling implications.
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