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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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Mauve Perle Tahat,
Spatial Residue

Spatial Residue: Plastic Affects and Configurations of Place explores how places, whether abandoned malls, haunted swamps, or vintage video games, hold residues of history, feeling, and imagination. Mauve…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Shawn William Miller
Dream Road to Pan America

An expansive and subversive history of the Pan-American Highway.A century after the Pan-American Highway was first conceived, its story remains largely unknown--even to the hundreds of motorists who annua…

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Rudolph Elliot Willis
Echoes of Cabrini-Green

A powerful memoir of love, survival, and resilience, told through intimate lettersIn Echoes of Cabrini-Green, Rudolph Elliot Willis tells the story of his journey from Chicago's most notorious public hous…

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Amanda Tattersall, Kurt Iveson
People Power in Cities

In an era plagued by increasing inequality and intensifying climate change, residents of cities are facing crises on multiple fronts, including housing, transport, healthcare, policing, pollution, and dra…

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Amanda Tattersall, Kurt Iveson
People Power in Cities

In an era plagued by increasing inequality and intensifying climate change, residents of cities are facing crises on multiple fronts, including housing, transport, healthcare, policing, pollution, and dra…

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Lynn Ellsworth
Wonder City

"In her groundbreaking book Wonder City, Lynn Ellsworth delves deep into the heart of modern urban life, casting a critical eye on the transformative changes sweeping through cities like New York. Th…

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Guadalupe Rosales
East of the River

From acclaimed artist and Instagram star Guadalupe Rosales comes this moonlit memoir, a visually stunning, poignant account of growing up in '90s Los Angeles that weaves stories with snapshots and social …

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Berna Turam
The Geopolitics of Fear

"The intensified securitization of the borderlands between Europe and the Middle East/North Africa over the past decade has turned the Mediterranean Sea into a graveyard. This book delves into the mo…

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Berna Turam
The Geopolitics of Fear

"The intensified securitization of the borderlands between Europe and the Middle East/North Africa over the past decade has turned the Mediterranean Sea into a graveyard. This book delves into the mo…

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Paige McClanahan
The New Tourist

"Many travel books tell you where to go. This one tells you howto go." ---Eric Weiner, New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of BlissFor travel enthusiasts and digital nomads who sn…

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Felipe Luciano
Flesh and Spirit

WINNER, AMERICAN BOOK AWARD Chronicles a Black Puerto Rican man's odyssey and transformation from an incarcerated gang member to the Co-Founder of the Young Lords Party. Growing up fatherless and poor, Fe…

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Urban Contact Zones

Habitat-International: Schriften zur internationalen Urbanistik - Band 28

Global trends as well as translocal exchanges and the everyday realities of local communities shape urban transformation. Turning to the idea of contact zones, the contributors to this volume explore the …

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Cairo Securitized

"A compendium of profound insights, garnered in all their granularity from varied aspects of Cairo's rich social life, which keeps the reader engrossed to the last page."---Contemporary Sociolog…

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