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Lemir Teron
Unlearn Power

Unlearn Power: Strengthening Communities in the Age of Environmental Crisis examines how environmental inequality undermines ecosystems and the livelihoods of inhabitants while weighing approaches to resi…

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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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Spatial (In) Justice

Explores how spatial justice shapes equitable, empowering, and inclusive experiencesIn an era increasingly defined by questions of equity and inclusion, Spatial (In) Justice: How Does It Manifest in the B…

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Lauren E M Everett
Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land

Rent control and other tenant protections have profound and positive impacts on individuals' and communities' lives. Lauren Everett's Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land shows how rent control impacts th…

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Catalytic Mega-Events

Urban Studies

Mega events are accelerators of urban transformation with lasting effects on urban environments. In the spotlight of the spectacle these crucial factors are often ignored, deliberately underestimated or u…

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Lauren E M Everett
Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land

Rent control and other tenant protections have profound and positive impacts on individuals' and communities' lives. Lauren Everett's Fortunate People in a Fortunate Land shows how rent control impacts th…

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Joseph Mitchell,
The Bottom of the Harbor

A classic of literary reporting from one of The New Yorker's most iconic writers reveals the vibrant world of old New York and the ordinary people who made it great, now with illustrations by renowned art…

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Salem's Centuries

Salem, MA is best known today for its infamous witch trials in 1692, yet there is much more to this small city. An important trading center since its founding in 1626, Salem was also the scene of dynamic …

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Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience

As Canada takes stock of its immigration programs, the factors that promote successful settlement have taken centre stage - for researchers, service providers, policymakers, and for the migrants themselve…

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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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Salem's Centuries

Salem, MA is best known today for its infamous witch trials in 1692, yet there is much more to this small city. An important trading center since its founding in 1626, Salem was also the scene of dynamic …

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James Peacock,
Gentrification in Contemporary Fiction

Focusing on literary representations of gentrification, this book analyses twenty-first century anglophone novels by authors from the United States, Canada, India, the United Kingdom and Australia. Litera…

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Interrogating the Future

Interrogating the Future is a festschrift celebrating the work of David Fasenfest.Fasenfest has conducted research spanning contexts from Detroit to Shanghai, and he is the long-standing editor of a socia…

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Elke Krasny
Urban Curating

Urban Studies

How are art, architecture, critical research, and activism entangled with the politics of urban transformation under the regimes of modern capitalist colonialism and contemporary neoliberalism? Accelerate…

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Jake P Smith
The Ruin Dwellers

Traces the shifting dynamics within leftist activism in 1970s and '80s Europe and its experiments in art, life, and politics.The Ruin Dwellers takes readers into the urban spaces of youth revolts during t…

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Roxana Cuciumeanu
Work, Ideology, and Film Under Socialism in Romania

Work, Ideology, and Film under Socialism in Romania examines the cinematic architecture of work imaginary as developed through films produced between 1960 and 1989.This book provides rich insight into the…

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The Passenger: Thailand

"These books are so rich and engrossing that it is rewarding to read them even when one is stuck at home."-The TLSThe Passenger makes its first stop in Southeast Asia. A journey to one of the wo…

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Reflections on Democracy and Urban Form

Leading scholars explore the connections between democracy and justice, architecture and urban design, the growth of cities, cosmopolitanism, inclusion, and free speech.This book builds on conversations t…

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Nadina Galle
The Nature of Our Cities

In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Michael Pollan, The Nature of Our Cities is a stirring exploration of how innovators from around the world are combining urban nature with emerging technologies, …

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Rosemary Ndubuizu
The Undesirable Many

Amid a national housing affordability crisis with political and social implications, Washington, DC is notorious for its rapidly rising income inequality, high rates of displacement, and some of the most …

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