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Sam Bloch
Shade

An extraordinary investigation into shade, this "compelling . . . conversation-starter draws examples from history, city-planning and social policy" (NPR) to change the way we think about a crit…

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Philip Parker, Collins Books
History of Cities in Maps

A fascinating cartographic study of urban development, perfect for map and history lovers.

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"The city of Homs, like so many places in Syria, has suffered mass destruction since the war began in 2011. So far, the architectural response to the crisis has focused on 'cultural heritage', ancien…

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Sana Murrani
Rupturing Architecture

This is the first book to critically and visually explore the spatial practices of refuge in response to conditions of war, violence, and displacement experienced in Iraq from 2003 to 2023.Written by an I…

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Sana Murrani
Rupturing Architecture

"This is the first book to critically and visually explore the incidental and improvised approaches that create spaces of protection from conflict and displacement. Written by an Iraqi architect, who…

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Cairo Securitized

"A compendium of profound insights, garnered in all their granularity from varied aspects of Cairo's rich social life, which keeps the reader engrossed to the last page."---Contemporary Sociolog…

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Nadina Galle
The Nature of Our Cities

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Michael Pollan, The Nature of Our Cities is a stirring exploration of how innovators from around the world are combining urban nature with emerging technologies, …

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Tanzil Shafique
City of Desire

In this major open access contribution to Global South urban studies, Tanzil Shafique offers a new way of knowing and engaging with the most common urban environment in the Global South - informal settlem…

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Jan De Vries
Life, Death, and Migration in the Early Modern City

In this rich study of early modern Würzburg, Jan de Vries reconstructs the demographic life of a pre-industrial city. Utilising modern demographic techniques, he analyses data about thousands of families …

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Owen Hatherley
Trans-Europe Express

Owen Hatherley writes regularly on aesthetics and politics for the Architectural Review , The Calvert Journal , Dezeen, the Guardian, Jacobin and the London Review of Books. He is the author of several bo…

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Fran Tonkiss
Urban Inequalities

Urban Inequalities offers a masterful and critical introduction to key issues and processes shaping contemporary cities, drawing on a whole host of economic, social, spatial, legal, environmental, and pla…

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Fran Tonkiss
Urban Inequalities

Urban Inequalities offers a masterful and critical introduction to key issues and processes shaping contemporary cities, drawing on a whole host of economic, social, spatial, legal, environmental, and pla…

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Yu-Shan Tseng
Liquid Democracy

"This timely book carefully interrogates the increasingly fraught intersections of the digital, the city, and democracy. It is a book that will endure, bristling as it is with thoughtful reflection a…

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Joe Kloc
Lost at Sea

"A deeply personal nine-year account of the lives of the "anchor-outs"--an unhoused community living off the California coast on abandoned boats--that explores the struggles and resilience …

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Being Single in the City

What does it mean to be a single woman in India or China? Being single is an advancing trend, also in Asia. There is an ambivalent fascination with the single woman as a new type of empowered, pleasure-se…

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Urban Transitions in Africa

This book provides an invaluable overview of urban transitions in Africa with a focus on innovations that offer alternative development approaches of these areas. The key to a successful transition is the…

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Huda Javaid
Land Commodification, Urbanisation and Social Change in Peri-Urban Villages, Lahore

Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research

This book is the study of socio-ecological change happening in peri-urban villages of Lahore due to urbanization and related processes such as the commodification of arable lands, speculation, role of the…

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Advancing Urban and Local Governance in Western and Transition Europe

Local and Urban Governance

This open access book provides innovative strategies for equitable and sustainable urban governance, with a strong emphasis on the key role of local governments as central actors in shaping urban futures.…

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Seeding Urban Transformation

Seeding Urban Transformation explores opportunities to produce urban life afresh in the fraught presents of ecological fragility, social strain and financial inequity. A collection of case studies across …

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Future of Cities in Asia

One of a series of titles on the Futures of Asia, "Future of Cities in Asia" explores diverse facets of Asia's future city landscape during the transformative 2020s, offering insights into pivot…

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