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  • Stadium Worlds

    Football, Space and the Built Environment

    Edited by Sybille Frank, Silke Steets ...
    Series series Architext
    Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. Four thematic sections bring together an international multi-disciplinary range of perspectives with particular focus on the stadium.Examples from architectural design, media studies and archaeology are used while studying advertising, economics, migration, fandom, local ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Wrestling with Moses

    How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City

    by Anthony Flint ...
    The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern American history. To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. But consummate power broker Robert Moses, the father of many of New York’s most monumental ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want

    A Book About Noise

    by Garret Keizer ...
    Noise is usually defined as unwanted sound: loud music from a neighbor, the honk of a taxicab, the roar of a supersonic jet. But as Garret Keizer illustrates in this probing examination, noise is as much about what we want as about what we seek to avoid. It has been a byproduct of human striving since ancient times even as it has become a significant cause of disease in our own. At heart, noise ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • From Boom to Bubble

    How Finance Built the New Chicago

    by Rachel Weber ...
    An unprecedented historical, sociological, and geographic look at how property markets change and fail—and how that affects cities.In From Boom to Bubble, Rachel Weber debunks the idea that booms occur only when cities are growing and innovating. Instead, she argues, even in cities experiencing employment and population decline, developers rush to erect new office towers and apartment buildings ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Communities and Networks

    Using Social Network Analysis to Rethink Urban and Community Studies

    by Katherine Giuffre ...
    In Communities and Networks, Katherine Giuffre takes the science of social network analysis and applies it to key issues of living in communities, especially in urban areas, exploring questions such as: How do communities shape our lives and identities? How do they foster either conformity or innovation? What holds communities together and what happens when they fragment or fall apart? How is ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Creative Margins

    Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs

    by Alison L. Bain ...
    Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often underappreciated. In Creative Margins, Alison L. Bain documents the unique role of Canadian artists and cultural workers in suburban place-formation and dismantles mischaracterizations of suburbs as cultural wastelands.Creative Margins interweaves stories of the challenges and opportunities presented by the creation ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • Planetary Gentrification

    by Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin, Ernesto López-Morales ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by 'gentrification' today? How can we compare 'gentrification' in New York and London with that in Shanghai, Johannesburg, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro? This book argues that gentrification is one of the most ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Making Rent in Bed-Stuy

    A Memoir of Trying to Get By in New York City

    by Brandon Harris ...
    A young African American millennial filmmaker’s funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City—a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and cultural forces intertwined with "the serious, life-threatening process" of gentrification.Making Rent in Bed-Stuy explores the history and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Branding Cities

    Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change

    Edited by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Eleonore Kofman, Catherine Kevin ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Geography
    Fierce competitiveness between established and emerging major cities, such as Berlin, London, Shanghai and Sydney, has led to a pressure to excel as desirable locations for business, cultural activities, highly skilled migrants and tourists. At the same time, the transformation of settled and new migrant communities creates complex urban borders and variegated representations (academic, cinematic, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Henri Lefebvre on Space

    Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory

    by Łukasz Stanek ...
    In this innovative work, Lukasz Stanek frames a uniquely contextual appreciation of Henri Lefebvre’s idea that space is a social product. Stanek explicitly confronts both the philosophical and the empirical foundations of Lefebvre’s oeuvre, especially his direct involvement in the fields of urban development, planning, and architecture.Countering the prevailing view, which reduces Lefebvre’s ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Egyptian Peasant

    by Henry Habib Ayrout ...
    Egypt has changed enormously in the last half century, and nowhere more so than in the villages of the Nile Valley. Electrification, radio, and television have brought the larger world into the houses. Government schools have increased educational horizons for the children. Opportunities to work in other areas of the Arab world have been extended to peasants as well as to young artisans from the ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reforming New Orleans

    The Contentious Politics of Change in the Big Easy

    by Peter F. Burns, Matthew O. Thomas ...
    Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, but in the subsequent ten years, the city has demonstrated both remarkable resilience and frustrating stagnation. In Reforming New Orleans, Peter F. Burns and Matthew O. Thomas chart the city's recovery and assess how successfully officials at the local, state, and federal levels transformed the Big Easy in the wake of disaster. Focusing on reforms ... Read more

    $21.89 USD