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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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The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity

"A comprehensive overview of the ancient village and hinterland as related to the expansion of early Christianity, covering both geographical and thematic perspectives"--

lieferbar ab 21.8.2025.

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Richard J Williams
The Expressway World

In the demonology of the contemporary city, is there anything more toxic than the expressway? Dividing neighbourhoods, depressing land values, concentrating atmospheric pollutants, the mammoth infrastruct…

lieferbar ab 22.7.2025.

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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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Stephanie Wakefield
Miami in the Anthropocene

"Miami in the Anthropocene explores the social, environmental, and technical transformations involved in climate adaptation infrastructure in a global city seen as climate change ground zero. Groundi…

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Wohnquartiere der Moderne im Wandel

Urban Studies

Der Wohnungsbau der späten Moderne kann als Blaupause für eine zukunftsfähige Stadtentwicklung dienen. Die Beiträger*innen arbeiten die vielschichtigen Werte der Großwohnsiedlungen als baukulturelles Erbe…

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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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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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Suzanne Mettler, Trevor E Brown
Rural Versus Urban

How the urban-rural divide drives partisan polarizationWhy have Americans living in different places come to experience politics as a battle between "us" and "them"? In Rural Versus Ur…

lieferbar ab 23.9.2025.

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Sara C Bronin
Key to the City

An eye-opening exploration of one of the little-known levers that controls our world--zoning codes--and a call-to-arms for using them to improve American society at every level.

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Eric Klinenberg
2020

A meticulously reported, character-driven, unforgettable investigation of a time when nothing was certain and everything was at stake, by the acclaimed sociologist and best-selling author Eric Klinenberg …

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Kim Varma, Kanwal Khokhar
Guardians of the Community

Guardians of the Community chronicles the inception, succession, and eventual decline of the Block Parent® Program of Canada.

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Digital Twins for Smart Cities and Villages

Digital Twins for Smart Cities and Villages provides a holistic view of digital twin technology and how it can be deployed to develop smart cities and smart villages. Smart manufacturing, smart healthcare…

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Brian J Miller
Sanctifying Suburbia

The suburbs are home to the majority of Americans, including millions of evangelicals and thousands of evangelical congregations and organizations. This book explains how white evangelicals came to see th…

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Samuel Burgum
Squatting London

'Timely and urgent ... challenges how we come to think about property and homeownership while reminding us that there are other ways of inhabiting and transforming the city' Alexander Vasudevan, author of…

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Howard A Husock
The Projects

How housing policy failed the people it was designed to help --- and how to fix it As the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Americans live in deteriorating public housing projects, e…

lieferbar ab 9.9.2025.

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Jon Adams, Edmund Ramsden
Rat City

**A New York Times Editors' Choice "Entertaining, phenomenally weird . . . Rat City may well be the world's first-ever work of socio-biographical-scientific pop history. . . .a freaky romp down a pec…

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Steven Gregory,
Towering Above Harlem

Charts racialized and class-based exclusion in Morningside Heights and its surrounding area by elite institutions New York City's storied diversity has also been a story of racialized class discrimination…

lieferbar ab 16.9.2025.

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Living Disability

Living Disability brings together vibrant perspectives on disability justice and urban systems. A musician and snow removal expert, a queer curator, a public pool aficionado, and a journalist turned city …

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