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Loïc Wacquant
The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty

InThe Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty, Loïc Wacquant dissects how sociologists who carry out field studies of the poor write about race, class, and morality in the city's underbelly; the blinders an…

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Loïc Wacquant
The Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty

InThe Poverty of the Ethnography of Poverty, Loïc Wacquant dissects how sociologists who carry out field studies of the poor write about race, class, and morality in the city's underbelly; the blinders an…

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Informal Cities

An empirically rich reconstruction of how informality became an intrinsic part of urban life across three continents.Over a quarter of the world's urban population lives in informal settlements. While inf…

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Martin Ruef, Angelina Grigoryeva
Micro-Segregation

We often envision segregation by class or caste at a large scale and in objective terms. It seems easy to identify a "slum city" or a "ghetto," particularly when profound differences i…

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Martin Ruef, Angelina Grigoryeva
Micro-Segregation

We often envision segregation by class or caste at a large scale and in objective terms. It seems easy to identify a "slum city" or a "ghetto," particularly when profound differences i…

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National Public Housing Museum
We Are All Family Here

A beautiful, full-color tribute to the story of public housing in America, told through reminiscences about emblematic objects by former and current public housing residentsOver the past century, more tha…

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Natalia Zawiejska, Lukasz Stypula,
Urban Religion and the Post-Socialist City

This open access book rethinks urban religion in the context of the social, economic and political transformations in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe.Grounded in extensive ethnographic studies c…

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Jesse M Keenan
North

Climate change is already influencing how and where people live. In North, Jesse M. Keenan argues that America is entering a new era marked by shifts in population that will transform everything from the …

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Jesse M Keenan
North

Climate change is already influencing how and where people live. In North, Jesse M. Keenan argues that America is entering a new era marked by shifts in population that will transform everything from the …

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Japonica Brown-Saracino
The Death and Life of Gentrification

A provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its ownSociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification in …

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the City, Retail, and Consumption

A comprehensive analysis of urban retail and consumption transformations across diverse global and under-represented contextsIn an era defined by rapid urbanization, technological innovation, and shifting…

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Messy Cities

Can messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive?Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a poorly…

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Yannis Tzaninis, Lorenzo de Vidovich
A Continent of Suburbs

This book challenges the city-centered view of Europe by highlighting the importance of suburbs and peripheries, where millions live. It argues that Europe has long been shaped by suburbanization, which, …

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Sara C Bronin
Key to the City

Zoning codes dictate how and where we can build housing, factories, restaurants, and parks. They limit how tall buildings can be and where trees can be planted. They have become the most significant regul…

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Saila-Maria Saaristo
Transgressive City-Making and Governance

Transgressive City-Making and Governance delves into the pressing global issue of housing exclusion and forced evictions, using Lisbon as a case study.Based on a 15-month engaged ethnography, the book cri…

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Sara C Bronin
Key to the City

Zoning codes have become the most significant regulatory power of local government, determining how citizens experience their cities. Yet zoning remains invisible. In Key to the City , legal scholar and a…

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Dana Kornberg
The Garbage Economy

Winner of the 2025 Joseph W. Elder Book Prize from the American Institute of Indian Studies.In the race to become "world-class," the city of Delhi, India, turned to corporate partnerships and in…

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Dana Kornberg
The Garbage Economy

Winner of the 2025 Joseph W. Elder Book Prize from the American Institute of Indian Studies.In the race to become "world-class," the city of Delhi, India, turned to corporate partnerships and in…

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Gwendolyn Y Purifoye
Race on the Move

Whether on the bus, subway or train, public transit continues to be a separate and unequal experience for many Black AmericansIn Race on the Move , Gwendolyn Purifoye argues that, whether on the subway, b…

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Sam Halvorsen
Territorializing Democracy

Territorializing Democracy argues that the political control of space is key to understanding political participation in the city. Drawing on a decade of research in Buenos Aires, this book shows that par…

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