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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…

lieferbar ab 13.1.2026.

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Andy Clarno, Janaé Bonsu-Love, Enrique Alvear Moreno, Lydia Dana
Imperial Policing

"The policing in Chicago Research Group"--Title page.

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Jason M Barr
Cities in the Sky

"Fascinating." ---Daily Mail"Informative." ---Publishers WeeklyFrom one of the world's top experts on the history of skyscrapers---a fascinating account of the ever-growing quest for s…

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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 …

lieferbar ab 2.12.2025.

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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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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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A Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World

A COMPANION TO CITIES IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLDA Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World offers in-depth coverage of the most important topics in the study of Greek and Roman urbanism. Bringing togeth…

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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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Anna Zhelnina
Private Life, Public Action

Forthcoming Fall 2025

lieferbar ab 14.11.2025.

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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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Anna Zhelnina
Private Life, Public Action

Forthcoming Fall 2025

lieferbar ab 14.11.2025.

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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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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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Matthew Beaumont
Nightwalking

A captivating history of the city at night and the people, writers and workers who inhabit the London darkness

lieferbar ab 22.7.2025.

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Ruchira Das
City, Marginality and Education

This book examines the socially segregated Santals, a tribal community that migrated from various parts of Bengal and its neighbouring states of Bihar, Orissa, and Jharkhand to Kolkata, a city currently d…

lieferbar ab 10.1.2026.

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Richard Hodges,
The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Towns

Reconsiders the debate about the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon towns on the occasion of the centennial of Henri Pirenne's celebrated bookMedieval Cities(1925).

lieferbar ab 4.9.2025.

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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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Richard Hodges,
The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Towns

Reconsiders the debate about the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon towns on the occasion of the centennial of Henri Pirenne's celebrated bookMedieval Cities(1925).

lieferbar ab 4.9.2025.

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