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John Zeanah
Today's Comprehensive Plan

A new model of comprehensive planning as a living process rather than a static documentHow does your community map out a long-term vision for the built environment? Most US cities and counties have long u…

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Anand Giridharadas
Man in the Mirror

From acclaimed journalist Anand Giridharadas, a groundbreaking feat of reporting on a tragic encounter in a New York subway car that held up a mirror to a troubled and divided nationIn 2023, New York was …

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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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Jooyoung Lee
The Walking Wounded

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

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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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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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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…

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Anna Zhelnina
Private Life, Public Action

Renovation, an urban renewal plan in Moscow that was announced in the spring of 2017, proposed to demolish thousands of socialist-era apartment buildings. In a country where it is rare under an authoritar…

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Tracy Rosenthal, Leonardo Vilchis,
No Más Renta (Spanish Edition)

No más renta ataca de raíz uno de los principales motores de la desigualdad y la injusticia. Los aumentos de las rentas en la vivienda empujan a millones de personas a la deuda, la desesperación y la ind…

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Anna Zhelnina
Private Life, Public Action

Renovation, an urban renewal plan in Moscow that was announced in the spring of 2017, proposed to demolish thousands of socialist-era apartment buildings. In a country where it is rare under an authoritar…

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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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Tracy Rosenthal, Leonardo Vilchis,
No Más Renta (Spanish Edition)

No más renta ataca de raíz uno de los principales motores de la desigualdad y la injusticia. Los aumentos de las rentas en la vivienda empujan a millones de personas a la deuda, la desesperación y la ind…

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Joe Hoover
Living Just Enough for the City

Today, most of us call the city home. The city is also the context in which we come to understand ourselves, build relationships with others, and negotiate our collective lives. Many authors have recognis…

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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

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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Jinwon Kim
Koreatown, NYC

How Manhattan's Koreatown functions as a new ethnic enclaveIn the past decade, Korean entertainment has gained global recognition, with Korean movies and TV shows winning Oscars and Emmys, and K-Pop group…

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Hun Kim
City Opaque

City Opaque is a book about how cities are produced---not just with plans, money, concrete and cranes, but through grey spaces that operate through erasure, ambiguity, and the overproduction of contradict…

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Richard Cimino, Hans Tokke
Micro-City

An on-the-ground study of how faith communities create belonging and build bridges across one of the most diverse urban landscapes in the worldMicro-City follows congregations, clergy, and everyday New Yo…

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Hun Kim
City Opaque

City Opaque is a book about how cities are produced -- not just with plans, money, concrete and cranes, but through grey spaces that operate through erasure, ambiguity, and the overproduction of contradic…

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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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