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Chandan Gowda
Longing for an Elsewhere

Longing for an Elsewhere is about the colonial ancestry of India's contemporary embrace of economic development. Unlike existing scholarship that traces the emergence of the developmental state to the mid…

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David Omotoso Stovall
Engineered Conflict

A hard-hitting exploration of how state policy displaces and isolates Black communities and how collective resistance creates spaces for working-class people of color to identify the true cause of conflic…

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Walter Zev Feldman
From the Bronx to the Bosphorus

Discover the vibrant journey of music from New York's melting pot to the mystical shores of the BosphorusFrom the Bronx to the Bosphorus explores the vibrant, yet largely concealed, musical culture of New…

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David Omotoso Stovall
Engineered Conflict

A hard-hitting exploration of how state policy displaces and isolates Black communities and how collective resistance creates spaces for working-class people of color to identify the true cause of conflic…

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Mai Thai
Kid Cops

An on-the-ground study of junior police academies--contentious school-police partnerships that provide educational resources, career opportunities, and hope for social mobility.Some might see police offic…

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Nicole E Trujillo-Pagán
Detroit Never Left

A new perspective on the relationship between race and space in DetroitDetroit seemed to experience an explosive rebirth following its bankruptcy, the largest in US municipal history. It was as if the sla…

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Courtney T Wittekind
City of Speculation

In 2018, amidst a celebrated political transition, Myanmar's first democratically elected government since 1962 proposed a built-from-scratch "new city" just outside Yangon, the country's former…

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Charles Bell
No Restraint

A wake-up call on the use and abuse of restraints against disabled children in public schoolsOver 100,000 students are restrained and secluded in locked rooms throughout US public schools; the overwhelmin…

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Mason B Williams
City of Fortune

Postwar New York City famously expired in a 1970s tableau of burning Bronx tenements, subway graffiti, crushing debt, and the tabloid headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." From its ashes the city …

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Kajsa Lundberg
Ordinary and Extraordinary Harms in the City

This book, based on original research in Melbourne, Australia, explores the spatial politics of urban expansion both upwards and outwards as the city continues to colonize non-urban areas around its fring…

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Matthew D Lassiter
The Suburban Crisis

How the drug war transformed American political cultureSince the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need rehabilita…

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Sana Murrani
Rupturing Architecture

This is the first book to critically and visually explore the spatial practices of refuge in response to conditions of war, violence, and displacement experienced in Iraq from 2003 to 2023.Written by an I…

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Yuki Kato
Gardens of Hope

Social changes through urban gardening and farming Gardens are often spaces of hope, expected to solve many problems in a city including food insecurity and climate resilience. In fact, there has been a h…

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Stefanie Mercado Altman, Claire Altman, Stan Altman
Twice Blessed

A deeply moving memoir of love, resilience, and identity, chronicling one family's journey through adoption, caregiving, and the profound connections that define usTwice Blessed is a beautifully written m…

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Angela Simms
Fighting for a Foothold

Prince George's County, Maryland, is a suburban jurisdiction in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area and is home to the highest concentration of Black middle-class residents in the United States. As su…

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Nowtown

Calgary, Mohkinstsis, is a place that resists simple summaries. It's a young city in a constant cycle of renewal and reinvention, an ancient meeting place with history stretching back thousands of years, …

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Katrin B Anacker
Housing in New York City

Exploring all five boroughs, this volume shows how New York has been a national pioneer in developing affordable, equitable, and comprehensive housing policyIn Housing in New York City, Katrin B. Anacker …

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Richard E Ocejo
Sixty Miles Upriver

An unvarnished portrait of gentrification in an underprivileged, majority-minority small cityNewburgh is a small postindustrial city of some twenty-eight thousand people located sixty miles north of New Y…

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Maria Foscarinis
And Housing for All

A groundbreaking legal advocate argues that only by recognizing housing as a fundamental human right can we hope to solve America's homelessness crisis.In And Housing for All , founder of the National Hom…

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Amanda Tattersall, Kurt Iveson
People Power in Cities

With billions now living in cities across an increasingly urban planet, hopes for the future depend on the power of ordinary people to shape urban life. In an era plagued by intensifying inequality, autho…

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