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Cat Dawson
Monumental

"Monuments have shifted radically; 1st book to trace the shift to the 1960s & 70s to show how Black, feminist, and queer artists laid the groundwork for rethinking what we monumentalize now"…

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Avelardo Valdez
Homeboys Forever

What is the end of the story after a lifetime in gangs?Violence, addiction, imprisonment . . . we don't have to look hard to see the negative consequences of gang involvement. But what does it look like t…

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Land Management in a Changing World

Publication of the European Faculty of Land Use and Development

The peer-reviewed articles in this book from the European Academy of Land Use and Development (EALD) provide comprehensive and multifaceted contributions to the field of sustainable land management. By br…

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Anna Myjak-Pycia
Another Modernism

Filling an important gap in design history, Another Modernism examines how domestic space was conceived by the US home economics movement in the first half of the 20th century.In doing so, it tells the st…

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Rosemary Ndubuizu
The Undesirable Many

Amid a national housing affordability crisis with political and social implications, Washington, DC is notorious for its rapidly rising income inequality, high rates of displacement, and some of the most …

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Chris Fitch
Wild Cities

**'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting'**ISABELLA TREE**'Inspiring and essential'**ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT,¿¿¿¿¿Nature isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. But today th…

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Jeffrey A Kroessler
Rural County, Urban Borough

This book explains how, in less than 100 years, Queens transformed from an agricultural hinterland to a vital urban corridor. This richly illustrated, vital work of history charts the rapid transformation…

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Russell Burge
The Promised Republic

In The Promised Republic, Russell Burge offers a bold new history of South Korea's rapid development. By focusing on the experience of rural-to-urban migrants who built and lived in Seoul's shantytowns, B…

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Alva Gotby
Feeling at Home

Housing is more than bricks and mortar. Feeling at Homegrapples with the practical and emotional questions of housing -- domestic labour, privacy, security, ownership, and health. Is it possible to imagin…

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Nicole C Bourbonnais
The Gospel of Family Planning

"Over the course of the twentieth century, family planning took the world by storm. Starting in the 1930s, activists, international aid organizations, and government agencies embraced the notion that…

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David Omotoso Stovall
Engineered Conflict

A hard-hitting exploration of how state policy displaces and isolates Black communities and how collective resistance creates spaces for working-class people of color to identify the true cause of conflic…

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David Omotoso Stovall
Engineered Conflict

A hard-hitting exploration of how state policy displaces and isolates Black communities and how collective resistance creates spaces for working-class people of color to identify the true cause of conflic…

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Sharon Cornelissen
The Last House on the Block

"In the minds of many, Detroit is undergoing a renaissance. From mid-50s boom to bankruptcy bust, it is once again calling to urbanites with the promise of cheap housing and thriving culture; indeed,…

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Christopher Brown
A Natural History of Empty Lots

An "instant classic", this genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto is a fascinating study for rewilding the city, the self, and society (Jeff VanderMeer, New York Times b…

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Aleksandar Sasha Dundjerovic, María José Martínez Sánchez
Placeness and the Performative Production of Space

"How can performance transform places of urban renewal and regeneration? What does performance contribute to the creation of community? These are some of the questions addressed in this study of the …

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Kai Horstmannshoff
The Loop

American Culture Studies - Band 21

The Loop: Chicago Architecture and the Social Imaginary discusses the social function of architecture. Through close readings of skyscrapers, opera houses and urban parks in Chicago, Kai Horstmannshoff de…

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Jennifer Ott
Where the City Meets the Sound

The powerful story of a place shaped by trade, conflict, and continuous transformationFrom canoes on the beach at Dzidzilalich to steamships and piers, Seattle's waterfront was the center of the city's ec…

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Christopher Brown
A Natural History of Empty Lots

"... a genre-defying work of nature writing, literary nonfiction, and memoir that explores what happens when nature and the city intersect."--Provided by publisher.

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John King
Portal

Conceived in the Gilded Age, the Ferry Building opened in 1898 as San Francisco's portal to the world-the terminus of the transcontinental railway and a showcase of civic ambition. In silent films and Wor…

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James Christen Steward,
Renaissance

A richly illustrated retrospective history of the Princeton University Art Museum A commemorative 2025 edition marking the opening of the university's new museumRenaissance: A New Museum for Princeton ref…

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