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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…

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Ulises Bonifacio Zarazúa Villaseñor
Urban Imaginaries of Fear

This investigation seeks to understand how urban imaginaries of fear have led to segregation and fragmentation in the Mexican city of Guadalajara. The distinct socio-economic spaces of Santa Cecilia and P…

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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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Brian Goldstone
There Is No Place for Us

"Through the ... stories of five Atlanta families, this ... work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend--the dramatic rise of the 'working homeless' in cities across America"--

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Bruno Carvalho
The Invention of the Future

A kaleidoscopic and original new history of urbanization---from Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires to LagosFor the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have imagine…

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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…

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Patrick Markee
Placeless

In the tradition of Matthew Desmond's Evicted, a longtime housing activist presents a vivid and myth-breaking account of why homelessness endures in contemporary America...Millions of people are affected …

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Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity

"The city was one of the central and defining features of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill argues that, far from 'declining and falling', cities used memories of the past to …

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David Yee
Informal Metropolis

Informal Metropolis uncovers how a former lake bed on the edge of Mexico City grew into the world's largest shantytown---Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl---and rethinks the relationship between urban space and inequ…

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Rachel Humphris
Making Sanctuary Cities

"From its development in the 1980s, the sanctuary city movement--municipal protection of people with uncertain migration status from national immigration enforcement--has been a powerful and controve…

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Rachel Humphris
Making Sanctuary Cities

"From its development in the 1980s, the sanctuary city movement--municipal protection of people with uncertain migration status from national immigration enforcement--has been a powerful and controve…

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Neil Gong
Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics

Sociologist Neil Gong explains why mental health treatment in Los Angeles rarely succeeds, for the rich, the poor, and everyone in between. In 2022, Los Angeles became the US county with the largest popul…

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Anna Zhelnina
Private Life, Public Action

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Tracy Rosenthal, Leonardo Vilchis
Abolish Rent

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice. Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyo…

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Anna Zhelnina
Private Life, Public Action

Forthcoming Fall 2025

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Tracy Rosenthal, Leonardo Vilchis
Abolish Rent

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice. Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for anyo…

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Matthew Beaumont
Nightwalking

In this brilliant work of literary investigation, Matthew Beaumont shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: the fetid, treacherous streets known to Chaucer and Shakes…

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Jane Jacobs
The Death and Life of Great American Cities

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cit…

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The Economies of Violence

The hidden interplay between violence and economies has long eluded public scrutiny, remaining a neglected topic in both academic and policy circles. The Economies of Violence sets out to change this.In t…

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