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Sara C Bronin
Key to the City

Zoning codes dictate how and where we can build housing, factories, restaurants, and parks. They limit how tall buildings can be and where trees can be planted. They have become the most significant regul…

lieferbar ab 24.3.2026.

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Messy Cities

Can messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive?Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a poorly…

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Richard Harris
Rise of the Neighbourhood in Canada, 1880s-2020s

Neighbourhoods matter now more than ever before. They sustain fewer social connections, but in an era of great social inequality and high levels of immigration, they have become vital as places for homeow…

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Christopher Brown
A Natural History of Empty Lots

"... a genre-defying work of nature writing, literary nonfiction, and memoir that explores what happens when nature and the city intersect."--Provided by publisher.

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Evelyn D Ravuri
Displacing the Ordinary City

For decades, gentrification research has predominantly focused on large cities. Arguing that gentrification has occurred throughout the urban hierarchy, Ravuri fills this gap in the literature by analyzin…

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Manissa Maharawal
Anti-Eviction

A galvanizing story of how everyday people built a powerful anti-eviction movement in gentrified San Francisco.In the early 2010s, San Francisco experienced a tech boom that created both great wealth and …

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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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Philip Parker, Collins Books
History of Cities in Maps

A fascinating cartographic study of urban development, perfect for map and history lovers.

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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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Sharon Cornelissen
The Last House on the Block

"In the minds of many, Detroit is undergoing a renaissance. From mid-50s boom to bankruptcy bust, it is once again calling to urbanites with the promise of cheap housing and thriving culture; indeed,…

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City Politics in Canada

Canada's big cities are at the forefront of social and economic change. They account for most of Canada's population growth, they are magnets for immigrants from all parts of the world, and they have led …

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City Politics in Canada

Canada's big cities are at the forefront of social and economic change. They account for most of Canada's population growth, they are magnets for immigrants from all parts of the world, and they have led …

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Sam Bloch
Shade

An extraordinary investigation into shade, this "compelling . . . conversation-starter draws examples from history, city-planning and social policy" (NPR) to change the way we think about a crit…

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Isabel Gutiérrez Sánchez
Infrastructures of Caring Citizenship

Infrastructures of Caring Citizenshipexamines instances of collective struggle and (re)organization of social reproduction against the backdrop of the crisis that followed the international banking crash …

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Ammar Azzouz
Domicide

"The city of Homs, like so many places in Syria, has suffered mass destruction since the war began in 2011. So far, the architectural response to the crisis has focused on 'cultural heritage', ancien…

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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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Sana Murrani
Rupturing Architecture

"This is the first book to critically and visually explore the incidental and improvised approaches that create spaces of protection from conflict and displacement. Written by an Iraqi architect, who…

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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, …

lieferbar ab 10.3.2026.

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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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Joe Kloc
Lost at Sea

"A deeply personal nine-year account of the lives of the "anchor-outs"--an unhoused community living off the California coast on abandoned boats--that explores the struggles and resilience …

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