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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…

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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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Brian Goldstone
There Is No Place for Us

A NEW YORK TIMESBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) • Through the "revelatory and gut-wrenching" (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new an…

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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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Jooyoung Lee
The Walking Wounded

A sobering encounter with lives transformed by gun violence and an urgent call to build more comprehensive systems to care for wounded people.Gun violence is a plague in the United States; even survivors …

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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.Drawing on the nuanced experiences of patients and care providers…

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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 world of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Challenging the idea that the ancient city 'declined and fell', Andrew Wallace-Hadrill argues that …

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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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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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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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Joshua B Freeman
Garden Apartments

"How a form of multifamily housing with idealistic roots became a ubiquitous model promoted by both public entities and private developers. Eminent historian Joshua Freeman rescues garden apartments-…

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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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Anna Zhelnina
Private Life, Public Action

Forthcoming Fall 2025

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Anna Zhelnina
Private Life, Public Action

Forthcoming Fall 2025

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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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Filip de Boeck, Sammy Baloji
Suturing the City

An ethnographic and photographic investigation into the complex meanings of living in Congo's urban worlds today.Focusing upon the 'urban now', a moment suspended between lingering precolonial references,…

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Johannes Frische
Youth Between Participation and Exclusion

While the role of youth in the Arab Spring is acknowledged, their living conditions remain critical. Johannes Frische offers a fresh perspective on Tunisia's post-revolutionary transition by examining emp…

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