Urban communities / city life Books

Book Synopsis"A clearly articulated manifesto for those trying to preserve Tokyo’s emergent properties, Emergent Tokyo helps distil lessons for other cities" —Benjamin Bansal, Urban Studies Journal This book examines the urban fabric of contemporary Tokyo as a valuable demonstration of permeable, inclusive, and adaptive urban patterns that required neither extensive master planning nor corporate urbanism to develop. These urban patterns are emergent: that is, they are the combined result of numerous modifications and appropriations of space by small agents interacting within a broader socio-economic ecosystem. Together, they create a degree of urban intensity and liveliness that is the envy of the world's cities. This book examines five of these patterns that appear conspicuously throughout Tokyo: yokocho alleyways, multi-tenant zakkyo buildings, undertrack infills, low-rise dense neighbourhoods, and the river-like ankyo streets. Unlike many of the discussions on Tokyo that emphasise cultural uniqueness, this book aims at transcultural validity, with a focus on empirical analysis of the spatial and social conditions that allow these patterns to emerge. The authors of Emergent Tokyo acknowledge the distinct character of Tokyo without essentialising or fetishising it, offering visitors, architects, and urban policy practitioners an unparalleled understanding of Tokyo's urban landscape.Trade Review"A clearly articulated manifesto for those trying to preserve Tokyo’s emergent properties, Emergent Tokyo helps distil lessons for other cities" - Benjamin Bansal, Urban Studies Journal

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Book SynopsisFor more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use - or could use - the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people. Taking into account changing demographics and changing lifestyles, Gehl emphasizes four human issues that he sees as essential to successful city planning. He explains how to develop cities that are lively, safe, sustainable, and healthy. Focusing on these issues leads Gehl to think of even the largest city on a very small scale. For Gehl, the urban landscape must be considered through the five human senses and experienced at the speed of walking rather than at the speed of riding in a car or bus or train. This small-scale view, he argues, is too frequently neglected in contemporary projects. In a final chapter, Gehl makes a plea for city planning on a human scale in the fast-growing cities of developing countries. A 'Toolbox', presenting key principles, overviews of methods, and keyword lists, concludes the book. The book is extensively illustrated with over 700 photos and drawings of examples from Gehl's work around the globe.

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Book SynopsisChickens are many things: sources of meat and eggs, lovable pets, amusing images on merchandise, and a source of comfort at the end of a hard day. Whether we're considering joining the growing flock of backyard chicken-keepers or simply cheered by leafing through images of gorgeous poultry, our love for chickens is strong.The trend for backyard chickens has surged during the pandemic. Amazon searches for chick supplies are up 758%, with local hatcheries recording a 500% demand increase, as people look to reduce environmental impact, improve food traceability, connect with nature, or simply to relish the pure joy of chicken company.The Collins Backyard Chicken-keeper's Bible is the fourth title in this stunning and engaging series, and the perfect smallholder companion to The Beekeeper's Bible. It is packed with everything you need to fully embrace your new chicken-keeping lifestyle. A sumptuous aesthetic is paired with practical tips on identifying backyard breeds and supporting good cTrade ReviewOn Collins Backyard Birdwatcher’s Bible:‘An exquisitely illustrated book that everyone should be twitching to get their hands on … The information is accessible to beginners and novices, offering insightful tips for even experienced birdwatchers. With this book, educating oneself further about birds needn’t be a flight of fancy’ The Field

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Book SynopsisDiscover hidden gems around Manchester with 20 walking routes. Featuring 20 walks in and around the city, including lesser-known circuits and details on popular walks. Accompanied by guided walking instructions and written by a local expert, A-Z Manchester Hidden Walks is the perfect way to explore the city in a new light.

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of this long-established guide offers an invaluable, authoritative and concise introduction to community development. Fully updated to reflect changes in policy, practice, economics and culture it will equip readers with an understanding of the history and theory of community development, as well as practical guidance.Trade Review"It's an extremely useful publication, which presents some refreshingly straightforward observations, whilst acknowledging the complexity of the politics and the practice. I will recommend it to students". Mae Shaw, Institute of Education, University of Edinburgh "Great book. I really relied on it in class as language was accessible and practical examples connected with the students." Sharon Mallon, Staffordshire University"A great resource — so well written and informative." Sarah Banks, Professor of Community and Youth Work at Durham University"The Short Guide to Community Development is a valuable and concise contemporary account of community development." Community Development Journal"An extremely useful introductory text, which covers all of the essential building blocks for an up-to-date understanding of the practice of community development work in the United Kingdom" Dr Rosemary Moreland, University of UlsterTable of ContentsIntroduction What is community development? The changing context of community development Theoretical concepts Effective and ethical community development: what’s needed? Applying community development in different service areas Challenges for practice Current and future trends

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Book SynopsisMost incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police. Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed of working-class families of immigrant origin or belonging to ethnic minorities. These tragic events have received a great deal of media coverage, but we know very little about the everyday activities of urban policing that lie behind them. Over the course of 15 months, at the time of the 2005 riots, Didier Fassin carried out an ethnographic study in one of the largest precincts in the Paris region, sharing the life of a police station and cruising with the patrols, in particular the dreaded anti-crime squads. Far from the imaginary worlds created by television series and action movies, he uncovers the ordinary aspects of law enforcement, characterized by inactivity and boredom, by eventless days and nights where minor infractions givTrade Review“Enforcing Order is an intriguing read, not least for what it reveals about the politics of law and order, and of policing, in France in recent times” Tim Newburn, LSE, LSE Review of Books "Powerful, distressing and thought-provoking. The book is based on 15 months of fieldwork, an undertaking unprecedented in France and one that, as the difficulties of access Fassin encountered suggest, will not be conducted again for some time." Times Higher Education "Fassin’s book – the most significant contribution to the public anthropology of policing – has opened up space to discuss the unresolved tension underlying the contemporary state, that between providing security and protecting human rights." Social Anthropology "Fassin has written a brilliant example of public anthropology. This ethnography of the anti-crime squads of the French police powerfully captures the institutionalization of racism and violence against poor youth and immigrants. His book must reach the widest possible audience because these paramilitaries operating out of sight of the general public with the complicity of politicians, career bureaucrats and the courts must be dismantled." Philippe Bourgois, University of Pennsylvania "This vivid description of the daily routines of police squads operating in under-privileged Parisian suburbs reinstates ethnography as a powerful tool for revealing how social exclusion works. By bringing to life, from the point of view of its officers, how the police consolidates social hierarchies, Fassin reminds us eloquently that the behavior of its police forces is the best index of the state of a democracy." Philippe Descola, Collège de France "A fascinating read – a brilliant, deep plunge into the lives, routines, racial tensions, sometimes violence, and intricate moral reasoning of the police officers in an anti-crime brigade in the French banlieues during a heated time of rioting in Paris. It blends a subtle analysis of the moral economy of the police with rigorous ethnographic detail and a genuine honesty or transparency on Didier Fassin’s part. It is a very important contribution to our understanding of police practices in this new age of security." Bernard Harcourt, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Preliminary Remarks Preface to the Engish Edition Prologue - Interpellation In which the author comes to understand that it is sometimes dangerous to wait for a bus in the outer city on New Year’s Eve. How policing practice provides the language for a philosophical theory, and how a philosophical theory supplies the meaning of policing practice. That this is not a testimony, and that indignation is not rage. Introduction - Inquiry How the present research was authorized and then forbidden, and that this censorship is revelatory of petty exceptions in a democratic regime. That an ethnography of the police requires resisting the dual temptation of exoticism and culturalism. That a study is often the result of the converging effects of chance and necessity. Chapter 1 - Situation How an imaginary of war came to be established in the relations between the police and the projects. That a brief history of the social question and security issues is essential in order to understand the context in which law enforcement faces classes reputed to be dangerous. That the creation of more aggressive special units was judged necessary to deal with the alleged disorder in the outer cities. Chapter 2 - Ordinary How the daily work of police officers is far removed from the image they had of it when they joined the force, and the illusion they continue to maintain of it. That evaluation of the work of urban patrols yields such unexpected results that it is not taken into account by government. That inaction generates action, and what this phenomenon of spontaneous generation means for the residents of the projects. Chapter 3 - Interactions How stops and frisks serve purposes other than those they are supposed to serve, and prove more effective in perpetuating a social order than in maintaining public order. That the way police officers speak about the individuals with whom they deal throws light on their way of operating in the outer cities. That the theater of police intervention sometimes plays comedies in which not all spectators laugh at the same moment. Chapter 4 - Violence How a criminal court can offer valuable lessons on excessive use of force by the police in the outer cities. That by not reducing violence to its physical aspect and not limiting the definition of it to the legal sense, one can gain a different understanding of it. That there are many ways of preventing police brutality from being prosecuted Chapter 5 - Discrimination How police officers and sociologists challenge the existence of discriminatory practices that the rest of the French population is convinced prevail. That racist ideas do not automatically lead to discriminatory practices, but that the two are far from incompatible. That institutions show more tolerance toward institutional racism than toward its victims. Chapter 6 - Politics How some signs are not deceiving, but may nevertheless be surprising in a democratic regime. That local practices enjoy great autonomy with respect to national guidelines, but that government policy has some influence on the everyday work of law enforcement. That the corollary of the increasing criminalization of behaviors is an unprecedented casting of the police as victims. Chapter 7 - Morality How police officers disappointed by the justice of the courts began to practice street justice. That jokes in the precinct can prove more serious than is customarily maintained. That a code of ethics is not enough to interpret the ethical forces at work in the behavior of police officers and the moral impasse in which the police find themselves. Conclusion - Democracy How the French police preferred the model of the cop in the United States to the style of the British bobby, and what was the result. That the imposition of the rationale of security has a high social cost for contemporary societies. That the interests of ethnography are intimately bound with those of democracy. Epilogue - Time In which the author looks back to a not-so-distant past, observes that the more things change the more they do not stay the same, wonders about the present as it is experienced by certain segments of French society and ignored by the others, and expresses concerns about the future. Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWar on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. The author introduces you to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance.Trade Review"This is a truly wonderful book that identifies the casualties of the war on drugs that extend beyond the prison walls.... The detail is incredible. The research is impeccable. Read it and weep." (Times Higher Education) "Extraordinary.... The best work of ethnography I have read in a very, very long time." (LSE Review of Books) "An exceptional book.... Devastating." (Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker) "A remarkable feat of reporting." (Alex Kotlowitz, New York Times Book Review)

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Book SynopsisAn account of what Stalinism meant to the masses of ordinary people who lived it. It argues that Stalinism offered itself as an opportunity for enlightenment. It depicts a whole range of life: from the blast furnace workers who labored in the iron and steel plant, to the families who struggled with the shortage of housing and services.Trade Review"One of the most influential of the post-Soviet books . . . a study of the steel city of Magnitogorsk, the U.S.S.R.’s answer to Pittsburgh, as it was constructed in the shadow of the Ural Mountains in the early nineteen-thirties. . . . A sharp-elbowed intervention in the decades-old debate between 'totalitarian' historians, who saw in the Soviet Union an omnipotent state imposing its will on a defenseless populace, and 'revisionist' historians, who saw a more dynamic and fluid society, with some portion of the population actually supporting the regime." * New Yorker *Table of ContentsIllustrations and Tables Acknowledgments USSR Organizational Structure, 1930s Note on Translation Introduction: Understanding the Russian Revolution I. BUILDING SOCIALISM: THE GRAND STRATEGIES OF THE STATE 1. On the March for Metal 2. Peopling a Shock Construction Site 3· The Idiocy of Urban Life II. LIVING SOCIALISM: THE LITTLE TACTICS OF THE HABITAT 4· Living Space and the Stranger's Gaze 5· Speaking Bolshevik 6. Bread and a Circus 7· Dizzy with Success Afterword: Stalinism as a Civilization Note on Sources Notes Select Bibliography Photograph Credits Index

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Book SynopsisThe interplay of psychology, design, and politics in experiments with urban open space As suburbanization, racial conflict, and the consequences of urban renewal threatened New York City with “urban crisis,” the administration of Mayor John V. Lindsay (1966–1973) experimented with a broad array of projects in open spaces to affirm the value of city life. Mariana Mogilevich provides a fascinating history of a watershed moment when designers, government administrators, and residents sought to remake the city in the image of a diverse, free, and democratic society.New pedestrian malls, residential plazas, playgrounds in vacant lots, and parks on postindustrial waterfronts promised everyday spaces for play, social interaction, and participation in the life of the city. Whereas designers had long created urban spaces for a broad amorphous public, Mogilevich demonstrates how political pressures and the influence of the psychological sciences led them to a new conception of public space that included diverse publics and encouraged individual flourishing. Drawing on extensive archival research, site work, interviews, and the analysis of film and photographs, The Invention of Public Space considers familiar figures, such as William H. Whyte and Jane Jacobs, in a new light and foregrounds the important work of landscape architects Paul Friedberg and Lawrence Halprin and the architects of New York City’s Urban Design Group.The Invention of Public Space brings together psychology, politics, and design to uncover a critical moment of transformation in our understanding of city life and reveals the emergence of a concept of public space that remains today a powerful, if unrealized, aspiration.Trade Review"Deeply researched and wonderfully written, The Invention of Public Space will inspire a re-thinking of a concept—public space—and a place and time—New York City in the 1960s and ’70s—that we thought we knew well. Mariana Mogilevich captures the unique excitement of that moment when the top-down framework of modernist urban design and planning had collapsed and a new world of open, inclusive, and participatory design seemed to be beginning."—Robert Fishman, Taubman College of Architecture + Planning, University of Michigan"Mariana Mogilevich avoids the expected judgements about the spaces she surveys—how ‘public’ were they, really?—and shows how the idea of ‘public space,’ with all its paradoxes and exclusions, was itself devised as a response to urban crisis in 1960s New York City. Pithy, clever, and wise, The Invention of Public Space is a much-needed reminder that ideas about self and society are at the heart of the cultural history of urbanism."—Samuel Zipp, coeditor of Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs"Thanks to the author's original research and acute analysis, this an important book, not just for the history of 20th-century New York but also for the history of urban America more broadly."—CHOICE"Design and planning of public space play an important role in creating the physical conditions for imagining and experiencing democratic citizenship. But rather than settling on a conclusion whether Lindsay, or later Bloomberg, failed in achieving this goal, Mogilevich leaves us with encouragement to continue the experiment."—Journal of Urban Design"Mogilevich successfully explores how design projects driven by high-minded ideals of spatial politics impacted or even contributed to ongoing racial injustice in the city, and often overlooked the experiences of communities whose lives designers and urbanists were seeking to improve."—ARLIS/NA"This timely book squashes naïveté and inspires, leaving the reader energized and better prepared to pursue spatial justice anew."—The Architect’s NewspaperTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: The Invention of Public Space1. Space and Politics in Lindsay’s New York2. Topographies of Experience: Jacob Riis Plaza3. Strangers and Neighbors: Residential Territories4. Open Space as Interface: Vest-Pocket Parks5. Pedestrian Experiments: Designs on the Street6. Metropolitan Environments: The Waterfront ParkEpilogue: The Deaths and Lives of Urban Public SpaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations for Frequently Cited Archival CollectionsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisCan cities solve the biggest problems of the twenty-first century better than nations? Is the city democracy's best hope?Trade Review"Audacious, . . . ambitious . . . Barber’s book should be required reading for New York’s new mayor, Bill de Blasio."—Sam Roberts, New York Times Book Review"If you like cities you will love this wide-ranging book that captures the energy, excitement and importance of what is going on in the world's great urban centers."—Fareed Zakaria, CNN". . . .Makes the intriguing, provocative, and counter-intuitive argument the . . . cities and the mayors who run them are the last best hope for a safer, more prosperous, and more just future. If Mayors Ruled The World is informative and imaginative."—Glenn C. Altschuler, Huffington Post"Barber argues . . . persuasively, that city governments are closer to their people than national ones and as such are better at winning the trust of citizens – though the same goes for rural forms of local government."—Ben Rogers, Financial Times"In an impassioned love letter to cities and their political leaders, Barber (Jihad vs. McWorld) celebrates the diversity and ferment that embody urban life."—Publishers Weekly"A provocative look at how cities can and do lead from the front in addressing the most pressing issues of our time."—Michael R. Bloomberg, 108th Mayor of New York City and founder of Bloomberg LP"If you care about cities, read If Mayors Ruled the World. It is the most important book on cities, their leadership and how they can make the world a better place to come along in years. Ben Barber has written a tour de force."—Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and The Great Reset"Political theorist Benjamin Barber's latest book is more than just theory. Networked governance by the world's cities is actually happening, and If Mayors Ruled the World is the book of the movement. Once again, Barber is ahead of the curve."—Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper "Benjamin Barber shows us how cities are traversed by networks of all sorts and how inter-city networks traverse the world. Both extremes and all that happens in between are brought to life through empirical details and exciting narratives."—Saskia Sassen, Columbia University and author of Cities in a World Economy

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Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary study of green and its significance from multiple perspectives: aesthetic, architectural, environmental, political, and social. It is centered on the Kingdom of Bahrain, where green has a long and deep history of appearing cooling, productive, and prosperous-a radical contrast to the hot and hostile desert.Trade Review"Doherty is as comfortable reflecting on the aesthetic aspects of colour as he is describing the ecological implications of property development... the portrait Doherty paints is of a fascinating, quickly changing, and - yes - paradoxical place." Environment and Urbanization "Beautifully written." Landscape Architecture MagazineTable of ContentsNotes on Transliteration and Translation Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Two Seas, Many Greens 1. Green Scenery 2. The Blueness of Green 3. How Green Can Become Red 4. The Memory of Date Palm Green 5. The Struggle for the Manama Greenbelt 6. The Promise of Beige 7. Brightening Green 8. The Whiteness of Green Notes Glossary List of Named Participants Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNo metropolis has been more loved or more hated. To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To detractors, LA is a sunlit mortuary where "you can rot without feeling it." To Mike Davis, the author of this fiercely elegant and wide-ranging work of social history, Los Angeles is both utopia and dystopia, a place where the last Joshua trees are being plowed under to make room for model communities in the desert, where the rich have hired their own police to fend off street gangs, as well as armed Beirut militias.In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy. He tells us who has the power and how they hold on to it. He gives us a city of Dickensian extremes, Pynchonesque conspiracies, and a desperation straight out of Nathaniel West - a city in which we may glimpse our own future mirrored with terrifying clarity.Trade ReviewAbsolutely fascinating. -- William GibsonFew books shed as much light on their subjects as this opinionated and original excavation of Los Angeles from the mythical debris of its past and future. * San Francisco Examiner *A history as fascinating as it is instructive. -- Peter Ackroyd * The Times *As central to the L.A. canon as anything that Carey McWilliams wrote in the forties or Joan Didion wrote in the seventies. -- Dana Goodyear * New Yorker *Angelenos, now is the time to lean into Mike Davis's apocalyptic, passionate, radical rants on the sprawling, gorgeous mess that is Los Angeles. -- Stephanie Danler, author of Stray and SweetbitterCity of Quartz deserves to be emancipated from its parochial legacy...[It is] a working theory of global cities writ large, with as much to teach us about multiculturalism as it does racial apartheid in Los Angeles. -- David Helps * Los Angeles Review of Books *A wildly original analysis of the city on the threshold of the new millennium, the book synthesized knowledge about Los Angeles's history, politics, culture, architecture, policing, immigration, and more, painting a dark picture that embodied a kind of American urban dystopia on steroids after the nightmare of Reaganism and the "developers' millennium." -- Micah Uetricht * The Nation *Dazzling * Counterfire *

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Book SynopsisElgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly written by the world’s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.This insightful Advanced Introduction deftly explores urban segregation on an international scale, offering expert analysis on pressing and theoretical debates and key contemporary issues relating to this interdisciplinary field of study. It provides detailed insights into the various dimensions and domains of urban segregation, the range of methods used for measuring segregation, and the effects it can have on neighbourhoods and individuals. Recognising variations in the patterns of segregation from country to country, the book further discusses the different approaches and challenges affecting policy interventions.Key Features: A review of theories of urban segregation A focus on the impacts of urban segregation Critical analysis of classic and new research methods An exploration of urban segregation across all continents Discussion of why so much attention is given to segregation An outline of segregation in various domains and dimensions Composed of informative and engaging chapters, this timely Advanced Introduction will prove to be an essential read for human geography, sociology and social policy, urban and regional studies students, teachers, and established academics.Trade Review‘In this Advanced Introduction, Sako Musterd offers a broad and incisive overview of the now voluminous literature on urban segregation. Musterd successfully navigates through the often contentious explanations for segregation, and offers new thinking about segregation and the links to spatial inequality. In an era when large scale immigration is changing the inner cities, in Europe and the US, it is a timely review of processes which are fundamental forces in urban change.’ -- William Clark, University of California, US‘This magnificent book could only have been written by Sako Musterd, who brilliantly distills the international scholarly and experiential expertise gained during his unparalleled career. It synthesizes in accessible fashion what we know about the conceptual, methodological, theoretical, political and policy issues related to segregation, and why we should care.’ -- George C. Galster, Wayne State University, US‘Urban segregation, whether by race, class, income or religion is a subject of long standing interest to politicians, policy makers and residents alike. It influences who lives where, and why and how and it has impacts on education, crime, housing and health. This is a must-read introduction by an internationally-known and long-established expert on the subject.’ -- Chris Hamnett, King's College London, UK‘Sako Musterd, one of the most eminent experts on urban segregation, presents an extensive and updated approach to this topic in his remarkable book. Through the innovative lens of an urban history perspective, he deals with the complexity and the multidimensional aspects of this crucial urban process, whilst also addressing important societal and policy considerations.’ -- Marco Oberti, Sciences Po Paris, and Centre for Research on Social Inequalities, France‘Advanced Introduction to Urban Segregation is a brilliant and magisterial synthesis of complex and multi-dimensional urban segregation beyond residential differentiation. Sako Musterd, a world authority on urban segregation research, lucidly explains the concept of urban segregation and its measurement, impacts and policy interventions. Based on his lifetime study of segregation, the book combines deep scholarship on the debates and the research agenda with a stimulating and accessible presentation for scholars and students. This is essential reading for many generations of urban studies.’ -- Fulong Wu, University College London, UK

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Book SynopsisStaggering skylines and boastful architecture make Dubai famous—this book traces them back to a twentieth-century plan for survival. In 1959, experts agreed that if Dubai was to become something more than an unruly port, a plan was needed. Specifically, a town plan was prescribed to fortify the city from obscurity and disorder. With the proverbial handshake, Dubai's ruler hired British architect John Harris to design Dubai's strategy for capturing the world's attention—and then its investments. Showpiece City recounts the story of how Harris and other hired professionals planned Dubai's spectacular transformation through the 1970s. Drawing on exclusive interviews, private archives, dog-eared photographs, and previously overlooked government documents, Todd Reisz reveals the braggadocio and persistence that sold Dubai as a profitable business plan. Architecture made that plan something to behold. Reisz highlights initial architectural achievements—including the city's first hospital, national bank, and skyscraper—designed as showpieces to proclaim Dubai's place on the world stage. Reisz explores the overlooked history of a skyline that did not simply rise from the sands. In the city's earliest modern architecture, he finds the foundations of an urban survival strategy of debt-wielding brinkmanship and constant pitch making. Dubai became a testing ground for the global city—and prefigured how urbanization now happens everywhere.Trade Review"Showpiece City is a meticulous reconstruction of the 'creation' of Dubai. With impeccable timing, Todd Reisz presents one of the key stories of the history of globalization—at the moment of its uncertain future."—Rem Koolhaas"Todd Reisz offers a gold mine of new material, giving both historical and contemporary explanation of the dynamics that have shaped Dubai. In its elegant prose, Showpiece City is a major contribution to the history of the region and of global cities in general."—Hashim Sarkis, MIT School of Architecture + Planning"Gripping and insightful, Showpiece City is a much-needed history of the making and remaking of Dubai. Todd Reisz masterfully depicts the complex struggles between local rulers, merchants, colonial administrators, and various consultants that undergirded planning logics. A must-read for anyone interested in architecture and urban planning."—Rosie Bsheer, Harvard University, author of Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia"Dubai has long been catnip for Western journalists, vilified as a metastasizing ahistorical Gomorrah that operates according to the logic of the airport and the amusement park. Finally, Showpiece City offers up a vivid and unusually writerly account of the emirate that gives lie to the unimaginative one-liner. Todd Reisz sensitively takes us back in time, narrating the genesis of delirious Dubai as we know it through the stories of its hodgepodge residents, leaders and, crucially, the first generation of architects and town planners who gave shape to this endlessly interesting strip of land."—Negar Azimi, writer and Senior Editor, Bidoun magazine"With elegant and accessible prose and abundant illustrations, [Reisz] illuminates a complex tale of international business/politics, development, stories-of-place, and nation building."—M. C. Childs, CHOICE"With capering prose and taut storytelling, Reisz begins to rebuild Dubai around the winding Creek, highlighting the successes and failures that shaped the foundations of the city as we know it today."—Razmig Bedirian, The National"Showpiece City is an impressive achievement and contribution to the rapidly growing subfield of Middle East urban studies... This is a ground-breaking book that provides original insight into the minutia of Dubai in the 1950s to the 1970s while simultaneously contributing to larger debates on the urban history of power and space."—Deen Sharp, International Journal of Middle East Studies"[Showpiece City is a tour de force of archival research, and it helps dismantle the common stereotypical assumption that Dubai is a 'fake city,' a 'shallow city,' or that which was created overnight out of nothing. Reisz's meticulous usage of primary sources raises the bar for other architectural historians."—Pamela Karimi, American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsPrologue: Here's a Plan 1. Bustle 2. Landscapes for Production 3. Hardened Edges 4. Taking Measures: 1960 Dubai Town Plan 5. Piecemeal: Al Maktoum Hospital 6. Crispness: National Bank of Dubai 7. Health City: Rashid Hospital 8. Future Flyovers: 1971 Dubai Development Plan 9. All in All: Dubai World Trade Centre Epilogue: Storylines

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Book SynopsisA scathing, provocative novel about contemporary existence by a rising star in Italian literature.One of Europe’s most talented young writers, Latronico has written the great Berlin novel we’ve all been waiting for. —Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker staff journalistAnna and Tom, an expat couple, have fashioned a dream life for themselves in Berlin. They are young digital creatives exploring the excitements of the city, freelancers without too many constraints, who spend their free time cultivating house plants and their images online. At first, they reasonably deduce that they've turned their passion for aesthetics into a viable, even enviable career, but the years go by, and Anna and Tom grow bored. As their friends move back home or move on, so their own work and sex life— and the life of Berlin itself— begin to lose their luster. An attempt to put their politics into action fizzles in embarrassed self-doubt. Edging closer to forty, they try living as digital nomads only to discover that, wherever they go, the brand of oat milk in their flat whites was the same. Perfection — Vincenzo Latronico's first book to be translated into English — is a scathing novel about contemporary existence, a tale of two people gradually waking up to find themselces in various traps, wonddering how it all came to be. Was it a lack of forsight, or were they just born too late?

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Book SynopsisFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city.'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York TimesThe story of the city is the story of civilisation. From Uruk and Babylon to Baghdad and Venice, and on to London, New York, Shanghai and Lagos, Ben Wilson takes us through millennia on a thrilling global tour of the key urban centres of history.Rich with individual characters, scenes and snapshots of daily life, Metropolis is at once the story of these extraordinary places and of the vital role they have played in making us who we are.'Panoramic...entertaining and rich in wondrous detail' Tom Holland'A towering achievement... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time' Wall Street JournalTrade ReviewBrilliant... Enchanting... This is a history of the world told through its most buccaneering units... And it is full of quirky facts about London. -- Arjun Neil Alim * Evening Standard *Compendious and fascinating... Metropolis is crammed with local colour; and what gives the historical schema its real flavour is the deviations it allows... It makes you understand why we opted for cities in the first place, and why, despite the doom and gloom, I doubt we will be quitting them any time soon. -- Tim Smith-Laing * Daily Telegraph *Wilson [is] an erudite, creative guide to the history of civilization through its great urban areas... He broadens the book's focus beyond the usual Western suspects... An excellent account. -- Eben Shapiro * Time Magazine *Wilson sets out to match Mumford's sweep in Metropolis, and he brilliantly synthesises the forces that make cities hum. -- John Gapper * Financial Times *Capacious, entertaining and rich in wondrous detail, this is a work of history that pulls off the startling feat of measuring up to the immensity of its subject matter. -- Tom Holland * Literary Review *

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Book SynopsisIn The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban theory, and decolonial and Islamic thought, Simone centers the surrounds—those urban spaces beyond control and capture that exist as a locus of rebellion and invention. He shows that even in clearly defined city environments, whether industrial, carceral, administrative, or domestic, residents use spaces for purposes they were not designed for: schools become housing, markets turn into classrooms, tax offices transform into repair shops. The surrounds, Simone contends, are where nothing fits according to design. They are where forgotten and marginalized populations invent new relations and ways of living and being, continuously reshaping what individuals and collectives can do. Focusing less on what new worlds may come to be and more on what people are creating now, Simone shows how the suTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Exposing the Surrounds as Urban Infrastructure 1 1. Without Capture: From Extinction to Abolition 21 2. Forgetting Being Forgotten 61 3. Rebellion without Redemption 100 Coda. Extensions beyond Value 134 References 139 Index 153

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Book SynopsisA brilliantly evocative, surprising, and page-turning exploration of how tourism has shaped the world, for better and for worse—essential reading for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of the implications of their wanderlust.Through deep and perceptive dispatches from tourist spots around the globe—from Hawaii to Saudi Arabia, Amsterdam to Angkor Wat—The New Tourist lifts the veil on an industry that accounts for one in ten jobs worldwide and generates nearly ten percent of global GDP. How did a once-niche activity become the world’s most important means of contact across cultures? When does tourism destroy the soul of a city, and when does it offer a place a new lease on life? Is “last chance tourism” prompting a powerful change in perspective, or driving places we love further into the ground? Filled with revelations about an industry that shapes how we view the world, The New Tourist spotlights painful

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Book SynopsisProposing and demonstrating the ways in which we need to rethink urban green spaces as cities, societies and environments evolve, renowned scholar Cecil C. Konijnendijk explores urban green spaces as essential parts of cities. Chapters offer a comprehensive look at how their roles have changed over time and will continue to do so, moving from their conventional purpose as areas for recreation to become spaces contributing to climate adaptation, biodiversity conservation and economic development.This timely and innovative book argues that we need to rethink the ways in which we govern, design, plan and manage green spaces, as well as the funding of different kinds of green spaces and the narratives around what green spaces can and cannot do. Using a diverse range of case studies from across the globe, Konijnendijk offers practical suggestions for change in the future to make cities greener and healthier, and introduces new green space concepts such as urban groves and streetwoods.This is an invigorating read for students and scholars of urban planning, landscape architecture, urban ecology and urban studies. Urban green space planners, designers and managers will also find the wealth of cases and practical suggestions make this an insightful read.Trade Review‘This book offers a pioneering perspective on applying urban forestry as a nature-based solution. Diverse and disparate research findings are skilfully amalgamated and translated into new paradigms marked decidedly by hybridisation vigour. It presents fresh and integrated ideas to foster synergy, symbiosis and sustainable harmony amongst cities, people and trees.’ -- C. Y. Jim, Education University of Hong Kong‘This is a blockbuster book for the future of urban green spaces. An inspiring overview of the opportunities and challenges in green space development, with innovative answers to timely challenges in a changing world. Konijnendijk's personal perspective as a world-leading expert makes the book incredibly worth reading. A must-read for anyone professionally involved with or interested in urban green spaces.’ -- Ingo Kowarik, Technical University Berlin, GermanyTable of ContentsContents: Preface 1 Urban green spaces: why rethinking is needed 2 Urban green spaces until today 3 Urban green space use in transition 4 Design and transformation of green spaces 5 Green space management for today and tomorrow 6 Changing governance of green spaces 7 Planning and integration of urban green spaces 8 Securing and diversifying funding for green spaces 9 Shifts in urban green space narratives 10 Perspective: streetwoods, urban groves and more rethinking of urban green spaces References

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Book SynopsisFinalist for the Gotham Book PrizeShortlisted for the Swansea Dylan Thomas PrizeA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and mindThe Coin’s narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start.In New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags.But America is stifling her—her willfulness, her sexuality, her principles. In an attempt to regain control, she becomes preoccupied with purity, cleanliness, and self-image, all while drawing her students into her obsessions. In an unforgettable denouement, her childhood memories converge with her material and existential statelessness, and the narrator unravels spectacularly.In enthralling, sensory prose, The Coin explores nature and civilization, beauty and justice, class and belonging—all while resisting easy moralizing. Provocative, wry, and inviting, The Coin marks the arrival of a major new literary voice.[A] smart, sneering novel of capital and its consequences . . . In a spiraling, hallucinogenic plot, The Coin draws a dotted line between the narrator’s grandmother’s garden in Palestine and a splatter of excrement on New York City subway tiles; between her grandfather’s birthplace of Bisan—'now a low-income town in Israel, housing mostly Jewish families from Morocco and no Palestinians'—Stokely Carmichael and a Gucci window display appropriating the language of revolution . . . The whiplash feels intentional, funny in an absurdist way, like the narrator’s existential seesawing between jaded American consumerism and the sadness and guilt of displacement . . . The novel’s power is not in cohesion, but in chaos. —Lauren Christensen, The New York Times Book Review

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Book SynopsisSusan Fainstein's concept of the "just city" encourages planners and policymakers to embrace a different approach to urban development, combining progressive city planners' earlier focus on equity and material well-being with considerations of diversity.Trade Review[Fainstein's] work deepens, enriches, and extends deliberative planning theory in complementary rather than antagonistic ways. Like the idea of justice itself, The Just City is not the last word concluding a debate. More important, it is a trenchant, penetrating, and reasoned contribution to precisely that discursive and contested, but necessary and fruitful deliberative process that fuels the hope for progress toward realization of the just city. -- Sarah J. Peterson * Journal of Planning Education and Research *The just city is one in which equity, democracy, and diversity are important considerations. This is in contrast with the city as growth machine. Fainstein examines three cities: New York, London, and Amsterdam. She provides a history of post–World War II planning and then focuses on fairly recent cases of development in each. Her goals, though modest, are important if growing inequality in urban areas is to be reversed. Recommended. * Choice *Susan Fainstein's book is the result of some 20 years of intense research and thinking on the subject of the 'just city,' and it seems likely to me to become something of a classic.... Fainstein's slightly deadpan style serves only to make her accounts more compelling. A recent history of planning in London, written with equality, democracy and diversity in mind, is really useful as a teaching tool. Here the Docklands development, Coin Street and the 2012 Olympics are placed under scrutiny, with the last of those three, perhaps not surprisingly, receiving poor marks on the grounds of equity not least because the 'huge expenditure involved took away resources from other parts of London and the country more widely without providing them any benefits beyond the glory of hosting the Games.'... She notes that there are two possible responses to the injustices illustrated by the book. The first is to recognize the impossibility of achieving even small amounts of justice within the dominant system of global capitalism. The second, which is one that Fainstein herself adheres to, is that much can be achieved through incremental change. The book's final chapter is therefore devoted to a discussion of policies that are conducive to social justice in cities. Her vision is of a world where market forces no longer dominate decisions about city planning and justice drives the world of policy. -- Flora Samuel * Times Higher Education Supplement *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Toward an Urban Theory of Justice 1. Philosophical Approaches to the Problem of Justice 2. Justice and Urban Transformation: Planning in Context 3. New York 4. London 5. Amsterdam: A Just City? 6. Conclusion: Toward the Just City References Index

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Book SynopsisPresents an exploration of the relationships among the rise of urban civilization, the decline of hierarchical, institutional religion, and the place of the secular within society. This book argues that secularity has a positive effect on institutions, and that God is present in both the secular and formal religious realms.Trade Review"[This book] has all the earmarks of a cause celebre... Cox's treatment of 'secularization' is unflinching."--Daniel Callahan, Commonweal "[Cox] has opened up a full-scale debate."--Betty D. Mayo, Christian Science Monitor "Offers some brilliant insights... Fascinating and provocative."--Ronald H. Wolf, Journal of Economic Issues "I can think of few books in the past forty years that so thoroughly broke down so many walls between and among the sects, denominations, and churches that mark the religiously tangled American scene."--Michael Novak, First Things "Fresh, provocative, bold."--Robert J. O'Connell, S.J., Sociological Analysis "Poses significant questions and gives challenging answers."--Fred H. Blum, Ethics "With Pope Francis now in power, who seems more revolutionary than anyone before him, perhaps it is the perfect time for Cox's The Secular City to once again ignite our theological imaginations and continue the process of secularization and social change."--Robert Beghetto, European LegacyTable of ContentsIntroduction to the New Edition xi The Secular City: Twenty-Five Years Later xli Acknowledgments lix Introduction: The Epoch of the Secular City 1 PART ONE: THE COMING OF THE SECULAR CITY 19 1 The Biblical Sources of Secularization 21 * Secularization vs. Secularism 22 * Dimensions of Secularization 26 * Creation as the Disenchantment of Nature 26 * The Exodus as the Desacralization of Politics 30 * The Sinai Covenant as the Deconsecration of Values 37 2 The Shape of the Secular City 46 * Anonymity 47 * The Man at the Giant Switchboard 49 * Anonymity as Deliverance from the Law 56 Mobility 60 * The Man in the Cloverleaf 62 * Yahweh and the Baalim 65 3 The Style of the Secular City 72 * John F. Kennedy and Pragmatism 74 * Albert Camus and Profanity 84 * Tillich, Barth, and the Secular Style 94 4 The Secular City in Cross-Cultural Perspective 102 * New Delhi and India 104 * Rome and Western Europe 107 * Prague and Eastern Europe 110 * Boston and the United States 114 PART TWO: THE CHURCH IN THE SECULAR CITY 123 5 Toward a Theology of Social Change 125 * The Kingdom of God and the Secular City 131 * Anatomy of a Revolutionary Theology 135 6 The Church as God's Avant-garde 148 * The Church's Kerygmatic Function: Broadcasting the Seizure of Power 151 * The Church's Diakonic Function: Healing the Urban Fractures 157 * The Church's Koinoniac Function: Making Visible the City of Man 171 7 The Church as Cultural Exorcist 177 PART THREE: EXCURSIONS IN URBAN EXORCISM 195 8 Work and Play in the Secular City 197 * The Separation of Places of Work and Residence 198 * The Bureaucratic Organization of Work 204 * The Emancipation of Work from Religion 214 9 Sex and Secularization 227 * The Residue of Tribalism 228 * Remnants of Town Virtues 242 10 The Church and the Secular University 257 PART FOUR: GOD AND THE SECULAR MAN 283 11 To Speak in a Secular Fashion of God 285 Speaking of God as a Sociological Problem 288 * Speaking of God as a Political Issue 294 * Speaking of God as a Theological Question 304 Bibliography 321 Index 329

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Book SynopsisIn Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up hundred-dollar bills. In the early eighties, Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54, the world's most glamorous and notorious nightclub, after it was closed down by the State of New York. Ten thousand people showed up that night, ready to restart the party that abruptly ended after the raid in 1978 landed its former owners in jail.Inside Studio 54 invites you to revisit the happening scenes of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, the post-Pill, pre-AIDS era of free love, consequence-free sex, and seemingly endless partying. Following Fleischman as he built connections as a hotel, restaurant, and club owner that lead him to Studio 54. Inside Studio 54 takes the reader from Brazil to the heights of debauchery in the Virgin Islands and finally to New York City. A star-studded thrill ride through decadent and drug-fueled parties at the legendary Studio 54.Trade Review"This unfettered tell-all will prove nostalgic for those who manage to remember being there and engrossing for readers wishing they were."—Kirkus Reviews"Once upon a time in New York City, when the city finally went to sleep, a magical place opened it's doors and invited people in to have the time of their lives. Studio 54 was a magical place that made you forget all about your troubles, trials and tribulations. It was Heaven on Earth."—Gene Simmons, Bass player for KISS"In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled up hundred dollar bills. Mark Fleischman reopened Studio 54 in 1981, after it was closed down by the State of New York. Ten thousand people showed up that night, ready to restart the party that abruptly ended after the raid in 1978, landing Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager, the former owners, in jail. Mark takes you on a star studded thrill ride through the decadent and drug fueled parties at the legendary Studio 54."—Robin Leach, Las Vegas Review Journal, former host of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"Inside Studio 54 takes you to all my favorite spots inside. I spent so much time snorting cocaine in the women's toilet's of Studio 54 that they became known as my office."—Nile Rodgers, Legendary record producer, songwriter, and guitarist for Chic"This is a great bathroom read lots of good shit."—Tom Moulton, record producer of Gloria Gaynor, Grace Jones, and many more"As the original cowboy in Village People, I performed at Studio 54 often and when we would do YMCA, the crowd always went wild. This book truly captures the unique spirit and amazing, sensual energy that was Studio 54."—Randy Jones, original Cowboy in the Village People"An amazing story of all the free-spirited excess of my generation, which also launched joyous Freestyle Skiing, the Olympic Reform and Title IX, thanks to Mark Fleischman believing in women like me."—"Suzy Chapstick" Chaffee, Olympian and Captain of the U.S. Olympic Ski Team"Mark Fleischman has compelling tales to tell and doesn't hold back. This book will introduce you to the strong characters who peopled Nightworld and looks unflinchingly at the drug culture it engendered."—Anthony Haden-Guest, author of The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco and the Culture of the Night, as well as articles in New York, London Sunday Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and many other venues

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Book SynopsisThe 2004 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction returns with a collection of 14 short stories, rife with characters who will stay with you well beyond the last pageTrade ReviewReviews for ‘The Known World’: 'A very moving epic.' Andrea Levy, author of ‘Small Island’ 'Majestic…[its] cumulative effect devastates.' Daily Telegraph 'A moral epic, skilfully and sensitively constructed.' Sunday Times 'A powerful experience…rich in character and plot.' Guardian 'A masterpiece.' Time Magazine

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Book SynopsisExplores, through a pop-culture lens, the many facets of the cowboy life. This book entertains and educates with an insider's look at topics such as ranching, rodeo, chuck wagon cooking, cowboy music, country and western dancing, and most importantly, the cowboy spirit.

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Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning is an authoritative volume on planning, a long-established professional social science discipline in the U.S. and throughout the world.Trade ReviewThis is an 800 page compendium in urban planning. Three pages are required to list the 50 contributing authors and their affiliations, a good many of whom are well known scholars whose accumulated works over the years have helped to define the field implicitly. This, in and of itself, is quite an accomplishment. The editors impose structure on their collection through a series of fundamental questions about urban planning. These form the 3 main pillars that hold the overall structure in place, and each chapter falls in line accordingly, more or less. For instructors teaching such a course for the first time, this compilation provides a viable starting point, and with successive iterations those instructors can begin to drop articles that they deem less pertinent while adding others, thus creating a unique hybrid of their own. It beats starting from scratch. * Journal of Regional Science *Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction ; 1. Contemporary Planning Scholarship: Where we Stand and What We Deliver ; Rachel Weber and Randall Crane ; Part II Why Plan? Institutions and values ; A. Delivering public goods ; 2. Collective Action: Balancing Public and Particularistic Interests ; Tore Sager ; 3. Urban planning and regulation: The challenge of the market ; Yonn Dierwechter & Andrew Thornley ; 4. The Evolution of the Institutional Approach in Planning ; Annette M. Kim ; 5. Varieties of Planning experience: Towards a Globalized Planning Culture? ; John Friedmann ; B. Principles and Goals ; 6. Beauty ; Elizabeth MacDonald ; 7. Sustainability ; Emily Talen ; 8. Justice ; Peter Marcuse ; 9. Access ; Kevin Krizek & David Levinson ; 10. Preservation ; Li Na & Elizabeth M. Hamin ; 11. Cultural Diversity ; Karen Umemoto & Vera Zambonelli ; 12. Urban Resilience ; Thomas J. Campanella & David R. Godshalk ; Part III. How and What Do We Plan? The Means and Modes of Planning ; A. Plan Making ; 13. Making Plans ; Charles Hoch ; 14. Cities, People and Processes as Case Studies for Urban Planning ; Eugenie Birch ; 15. Transforming the Communicative Planning Debate ; John Forester ; 16. Visualizing information ; Ann-Margaret Esnard ; 17. Modeling Urban Systems ; John Landis ; 18. Codes and Standards in Urban Planning and Design ; Eran Ben-Joseph ; B. Frontiers of Persistent and Emergent Questions ; 19. Culture, Place and Development ; Elizabeth Currid-Halkett ; 20. Urban Planning and Public health ; Jason Corburn ; 21. Suburban Sprawl and <"Smart Growth>" ; Yan Song ; 22. Environmental Health and Air Quality ; Lisa Schweitzer & Linsey Marr ; 23. The Local Regulation of Climate Change ; J.R. De Shazo and Juan Matute ; 24. Community and Economic Development ; Karen Chapple ; 25. Shelter: Housing Challenges and Policies ; Lisa K. Bates ; 26. Cities with Slums ; Vinit Mukhija ; 27. The Public Finance of Urban Form ; John I. Carruthers ; 28. City Abandonment ; Margaret Dewar & Matthew Weber ; 29. The Changing Character of Urban Redevelopment ; Norman Fainstein & Susan S. Fainstein ; 30. Gender, Cities, and Planning ; Brenda Parker ; 31. Land Use and Travel Behavior ; Marlon G. Boarnet ; Part IV. Who Plans, How Well, and How Can We Tell? ; A. Planning Agents ; 32. The Civics of Urban Planning ; Carmen Siriani & Jennifer Girourd ; 33. The Real Estate Development Industry ; Igal Charney ; 34. Citizen Planners ; Victoria A. Beard ; 35. Urban Informality ; Ananya Roy ; 36. The Politics of Planning ; J. Phillip Thompson ; B. Making Good Plans ; 37. Reading Through a Plan ; Brent D. Ryan ; 38. Planning and Citizenship ; Faranak Miraftab ; 39. Plan Assessment ; Lewis D. Hopkins ; Index

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Book SynopsisThe New Blackwell Companion to the City provides a guide to the major themes in urban studies. Building on well established debates in the field, this volume provides students and scholars with a contemporary update on urban thinking.Table of ContentsList of Contributors x Preface xiii Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson Acknowledgments xv Part I City Materialities 1 1 Reflections on Materialities 3 Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson 2 Neoliberal Urbanism: Cities and the Rule of Markets 15 Nik Theodore, Jamie Peck, and Neil Brenner 3 The Liquid City of Megalopolis 26 John Rennie Short 4 Ups and Downs in the Global City: London and New York in the Twenty-First Century 38 Susan S. Fainstein, Ian Gordon, and Michael Harloe 5 Ethnography of an Indian City: Ahmedabad 48 Amrita Shah 6 Landscape and Infrastructure in the Late-Modern Metropolis 57 Matthew Gandy 7 Objects and the City 66 Harvey Molotch 8 Ecologies of Dwelling: Maintaining High-Rise Housing in Singapore 79 Jane M. Jacobs and Stephen Cairns 9 The Urbanization of Nature: Great Promises, Impasse, and New Beginnings 96 Maria Kaika and Erik Swyngedouw 10 One Hundred Tons to Armageddon: Cities Combat Carbon 108 Peter Droege 11 The New Military Urbanism 121 Stephen Graham 12 The City’s New “Trinity” in Contemporary Shanghai: A Case Study of the Residential Housing Market 134 Wang Xiaoming, translated by Tyler Rooker 13 Residence Through Revolution and Reform 142 Ray Forrest Part II City Mobilities 155 14 Reflections on Mobilities 157 Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson 15 “Nothing Gained by Overcrowding”: The History and Politics of Urban Population Control 169 Andrew Ross 16 Transnationality and the City 179 Nina Glick Schiller 17 Migrants Making Technology Markets 193 Tyler Rooker 18 Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City 210 Saskia Sassen 19 Nomadic Cities 221 David Pinder 20 Mobility and Civility: Police and the Formation of the Modern City 235 Francis Dodsworth 21 Disease and Infection in the City 245 Simon Carter 22 Urban Choreographies: Dance and the Politics of Space 255 Daniel J. Walkowitz 23 Cities on Wheels: Cars and Public Space 265 Brian Ladd Part III City Affect 275 24 Reflections on Affect 277 Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson 25 Intensities of Feeling: Cloverfield, the Uncanny, and the Always Near Collapse of the City 288 Steve Pile 26 The Future of New York’s Destruction: Fantasies, Fictions, and Premonitions after 9/11 304 Max Page 27 Public Spaces? Branding, Civility, and the Cinema in Twenty-First-Century China 317 Stephanie Hemelryk Donald 28 The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar-Wai’s Cinematic Hong Kong 327 Christoph Lindner 29 Imagining Naples: The Senses of the City 337 Lesley Caldwell 30 City Life and the Senses 347 John Urry 31 The Politics of Urban Intersection: Materials, Affect, Bodies 357 AbdouMaliq Simone 32 The City, the Psyche, and the Visibility of Religious Spaces 367 Andrew Hill Part IV City Publics and Cultures 377 33 Reflections on Publics and Cultures 379 Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson 34 Reflections on the Public Realm 390 Richard Sennett 35 City-zenship in Contemporary China: Shanghai, Capital of the Twenty-First Century? 398 Michael Keith 36 “Just Diversity” in the City of Difference 407 Kurt Iveson and Ruth Fincher 37 The Emergence of Cosmopolitan Soho 419 Judith R. Walkowitz 38 Modernity and Gaslight: Victorian London in the 1950s and 1960s 431 Frank Mort 39 The Doing Undone: Vagrancies for the Acoustic City 442 Rob Stone 40 Sustainable Cultural Spaces in the Global City: Cultural Clusters in Heritage Sites, Hong Kong and Singapore 452 Lily Kong 41 Spatializing Culture: Embodied Space in the City 463 Setha Low 42 The Street Politics of Jackie Smith 476 John Paul Jones III 43 Walking and Performing “the City”: A Melbourne Chronicle 488 Benjamin Rossiter and Katherine Gibson Part V City Divisions and Differences 499 44 Reflections on Division and Difference 501 Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson 45 The Lost Urban Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu 511 Mike Savage 46 Traveling Theory: Embracing Post-Neoliberalism Through Southern Cities 521 Jenny Robinson and Sue Parnell 47 Race, Class, and Inequality in the South African City 532 Jeremy Seekings 48 Oxford Street, Accra: Spatial Logics, Street Life, and the Transnational Imaginary 547 Ato Quayson 49 Harlem Between Ghetto and Renaissance 561 Sharon Zukin 50 Gentrification of the City 571 Tom Slater 51 The Homosexuality of Cities 586 Julie Abraham 52 Gendering Urban Space 596 Jessica Ellen Sewell 53 Nights in the Global City 606 Sophie Body-Gendrot Part VI City Politics and Planning 617 54 Reflections on Politics and Planning 619 Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson 55 Urban Planning in an Uncertain World 631 Ash Amin 56 The Three Historic Currents of City Planning 643 Peter Marcuse 57 Photourbanism: Planning the City from Above and from Below 656 Anthony Vidler 58 Shaping Good Cities and Citizens 667 Evelyn S. Ruppert 59 Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era 679 Edward W. Soja 60 Invisible Architecture: Neighborhood Governance in China’s Cities 690 John Friedmann 61 Retreat from a Totalitarian Society: China’s Urbanism in the Making 701 Fulong Wu 62 Transnational Urban Political Ecology: Health and Infrastructure in the Unbounded City 713 Roger Keil 63 Entrepreneurial Urbanism, Policy Tourism, and the Making Mobile of Policies 726 Kevin Ward 64 Making Up Global Urban Policies 738 Allan Cochrane 65 Urban Governance in Europe: What Is Governed? 747 Patrick Le Galès Index 759

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Book SynopsisPart of a trilogy of atlases, this title conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts, it explores all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey.Trade Review"In orienting oneself in this atlas...one is invited to fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history's eye...thoroughly terrific." -- Maria Popova Brain Pickings "The editors have assembled a remarkable team of artists, geographers and thinkers...The maps themselves are things of beauty...This is a work that, like its predecessors, isn't in the business of rosy nostalgia...Nonstop Metropolis is a document of its time, of our time." -- Sadie Stein New York Times "Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro's collection achieves the trifold purpose that all good cartography does - it's beautiful, it inspires real thought about civic planning, and, most of all, it's functional." The Village Voice "...the New York installment [of the Atlas Trilogy] is eccentric and inspiring, a nimble work of social history told through colorful maps and corresponding essays. Together, Solnit, Jelly-Schapiro and a host of contributors - writers, artists, cartographers and data-crunchers - have come up with dozens of exciting new ways to think about the five boroughs." San Francisco Chronicle "Nonstop Metropolis is an engaging and enlightening read for anyone who loves New York City, creative scholarship, and top-notch graphic design." Foreword Reviews "The sum of it all is, like New York itself, overwhelming, alluring and dazzlingly diverse." Jewish Daily Forward "...the book...contains many beautiful and not-so-beautiful images that document New York's past and the present, and make tangible the social and cultural diversity of this extraordinary place." Times Literary Supplement "26 maps of New York that prioritize bachata over Broadway, pho over pizza." Wired.com One of Publishers Weekly's 20 Big Indie Books of 2016 Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION CENTERS AND EDGES MAP 1. SINGING THE CITY: THE NEW YORK OF DREAMS OUR CITY OF SONGS, BY JOSHUA JELLY-SCHAPIRO, GARNETTE CADOGAN, VALERIA LUISELLI, JOE BOYD, WILL BUTLER, MIRISSA NEFF, TEJU COLE, MARGO JEFFERSON, AND BARRY LOPEZ MAP 2. CAPITAL OF CAPITAL: HOW NEW YORK HAPPENED THE BEST CITY MONEY CAN BUY, BY JOSHUA JELLY-SCHAPIRO MAP 3. CRASH: CRISES AND COLLISIONS IN 21ST-CENTURY LOWER MANHATTAN FALLING AND RISING IN LOWER MANHATTAN, BY ASTRA TAYLOR MAP 4. RIOT! PERIODIC ERUPTIONS IN VOLCANIC NEW YORK THE VIOLENCE OF INEQUALITY, BY LUC SANTE MAP 5. CARBONIFEROUS: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE CITY PETRO GOTHAM, PEOPLE'S GOTHAM, BY DANIEL ALDANA COHEN MAP 6. WATER AND POWER: THE REACH OF THE CITY THIRSTS AND GHOSTS, BY HEATHER SMITH MAP 7. HARPER'S AND HARPOONERS: WHALING AND PUBLISHING IN MELVILLE'S MANHATTAN SAILORS AND SCRIVENERS, BY PAUL LA FARGE MAP 8. WHAT IS A JEW? FROM EMMA GOLDMAN TO GOLDMAN SACHS MY YIDDISHE PAPA, BY SHEERLY AVNI THE LOST WORLD OF JEWISH FLATBUSH, BY JOEL DINERSTEIN MAP 9. ARCHIPELAGO: THE CARIBBEAN'S FAR NORTH OF ISLANDS AND OTHER MOTHERS, BY GAIUTRA BAHADUR MAP 10. CITY OF WOMEN THE POWER OF NAMES, BY REBECCA SOLNIT MAP 11. LOVE AND RAGE MAP 12. CITY OF WALKERS: AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY ROUND AND ROUND, BY GARNETTE CADOGAN MAP 13. WILDLIFE THE OYSTERS IN THE SPIRE, BY REBECCA SOLNIT MAP 14. OUR LATIN THING: NEW YORK CITY RADIO EN ESPANOL THE MEGA MEZCLAPOLIS, BY ALEXANDRA T. VAZQUEZ MAP 15. BURNING DOWN AND RISING UP: THE BRONX IN THE 1970S NEW YORK CITY: SEEING THROUGH THE RUINS, BY MARSHALL BERMAN INTERVIEWS WITH VALERIE CAPERS, GRANDMASTER CAZ, GRANDWIZZARD THEODORE,AND MELLE MEL MAP 16. MAKERS AND BREAKERS: OLMSTED, MOSES, JACOBS SHAPE THE CITY WAYS AND MEANS, BY JONATHAN TARLETON MAP 17. TRASH IN THE CITY: DUMPING ON STATEN ISLAND AND BEYOND COMING CLEAN, BY LUCY R. LIPPARD MAP 18. MYSTERIOUS LAND OF SHAOLIN: THE WU-TANG CLAN'S STATEN ISLAND BREATHING SPACE: AN INTERVIEW WITH RZA, BY JOSHUA JELLY-SCHAPIRO MAP 19. BROWNSTONES AND BASKETBALL: BROOKLYN'S HOME GROUNDS AND GAMES EMPIRE OF BROWNSTONE AND BRICK, BY THOMAS J. CAMPANELLA PRISONERS OF RED HOOK, BY FRANCISCO GOLDMAN MAP 20. BROOKLYN VILLAGES FREED BUT NOT FREE, BY SHARIFA RHODES-PITTS MAP 21. PUBLIC/PRIVATE: A MAP OF CHILDHOODS PLAYGROUNDS I HAVE KNOWN, BY EMILY RABOTEAU MAP 22. THE SUBURBAN THEORY OF THE AVANT-GARDE: NEW JERSEY'S GREATS NORTH STARS AND GOSPEL BATTLES: PETER COYOTE'S JERSEY MEMORIES MAP 23. PLANTING LIBERTY: 350 YEARS OF FREEDOM IN FLUSHING "LAW OF LOVE, PEACE AND LIBERTIE," BY GARNETTE CADOGAN MAP 24. MOTHER TONGUES AND QUEENS: THE WORLD'S LANGUAGES CAPITAL TOWER OF SCRABBLE, BY SUKETU MEHTA MAP 25. BLACK STAR LINES: HARLEM SECULAR AND SACRED HOME TO HARLEM, BY CHRISTINA ZANFAGNA MAP 26. OSCILLATING CITY: MANHATTAN, DAY AND NIGHT SCHLEPTROPOLIS, BY THOMAS J. CAMPANELLA ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CONTRIBUTORS

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Book SynopsisPart of a trilogy of atlases, this title conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six imaginative maps and informative essays. Bringing together the insights of dozens of experts, it explores all five boroughs of New York City and parts of nearby New Jersey.Trade Review"The editors have assembled a remarkable team of artists, geographers and thinkers...The maps themselves are things of beauty...This is a work that, like its predecessors, isn't in the business of rosy nostalgia...Nonstop Metropolis is a document of its time, of our time." -- Sadie Stein New York Times "In orienting oneself in this atlas...one is invited to fathom the many New Yorks hidden from history's eye...thoroughly terrific." -- Maria Popova Brain Pickings "Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro's collection achieves the trifold purpose that all good cartography does - it's beautiful, it inspires real thought about civic planning, and, most of all, it's functional." The Village Voice "Nonstop Metropolis is an engaging and enlightening read for anyone who loves New York City, creative scholarship, and top-notch graphic design." Foreword Reviews "...the New York installment [of the Atlas Trilogy] is eccentric and inspiring, a nimble work of social history told through colorful maps and corresponding essays. Together, Solnit, Jelly-Schapiro and a host of contributors - writers, artists, cartographers and data-crunchers - have come up with dozens of exciting new ways to think about the five boroughs." San Francisco Chronicle "...the book...contains many beautiful and not-so-beautiful images that document New York's past and the present, and make tangible the social and cultural diversity of this extraordinary place." Times Literary Supplement "The sum of it all is, like New York itself, overwhelming, alluring and dazzlingly diverse." Jewish Daily Forward "26 maps of New York that prioritize bachata over Broadway, pho over pizza." Wired.com One of Publishers Weekly's 20 Big Indie Books of 2016 Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION CENTERS AND EDGES MAP 1. SINGING THE CITY: THE NEW YORK OF DREAMS OUR CITY OF SONGS, BY JOSHUA JELLY-SCHAPIRO, GARNETTE CADOGAN, VALERIA LUISELLI, JOE BOYD, WILL BUTLER, MIRISSA NEFF, TEJU COLE, MARGO JEFFERSON, AND BARRY LOPEZ MAP 2. CAPITAL OF CAPITAL: HOW NEW YORK HAPPENED THE BEST CITY MONEY CAN BUY, BY JOSHUA JELLY-SCHAPIRO MAP 3. CRASH: CRISES AND COLLISIONS IN 21ST-CENTURY LOWER MANHATTAN FALLING AND RISING IN LOWER MANHATTAN, BY ASTRA TAYLOR MAP 4. RIOT! PERIODIC ERUPTIONS IN VOLCANIC NEW YORK THE VIOLENCE OF INEQUALITY, BY LUC SANTE MAP 5. CARBONIFEROUS: CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE CITY PETRO GOTHAM, PEOPLE'S GOTHAM, BY DANIEL ALDANA COHEN MAP 6. WATER AND POWER: THE REACH OF THE CITY THIRSTS AND GHOSTS, BY HEATHER SMITH MAP 7. HARPER'S AND HARPOONERS: WHALING AND PUBLISHING IN MELVILLE'S MANHATTAN SAILORS AND SCRIVENERS, BY PAUL LA FARGE MAP 8. WHAT IS A JEW? FROM EMMA GOLDMAN TO GOLDMAN SACHS MY YIDDISHE PAPA, BY SHEERLY AVNI THE LOST WORLD OF JEWISH FLATBUSH, BY JOEL DINERSTEIN MAP 9. ARCHIPELAGO: THE CARIBBEAN'S FAR NORTH OF ISLANDS AND OTHER MOTHERS, BY GAIUTRA BAHADUR MAP 10. CITY OF WOMEN THE POWER OF NAMES, BY REBECCA SOLNIT MAP 11. LOVE AND RAGE MAP 12. CITY OF WALKERS: AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY ROUND AND ROUND, BY GARNETTE CADOGAN MAP 13. WILDLIFE THE OYSTERS IN THE SPIRE, BY REBECCA SOLNIT MAP 14. OUR LATIN THING: NEW YORK CITY RADIO EN ESPANOL THE MEGA MEZCLAPOLIS, BY ALEXANDRA T. VAZQUEZ MAP 15. BURNING DOWN AND RISING UP: THE BRONX IN THE 1970S NEW YORK CITY: SEEING THROUGH THE RUINS, BY MARSHALL BERMAN INTERVIEWS WITH VALERIE CAPERS, GRANDMASTER CAZ, GRANDWIZZARD THEODORE,AND MELLE MEL MAP 16. MAKERS AND BREAKERS: OLMSTED, MOSES, JACOBS SHAPE THE CITY WAYS AND MEANS, BY JONATHAN TARLETON MAP 17. TRASH IN THE CITY: DUMPING ON STATEN ISLAND AND BEYOND COMING CLEAN, BY LUCY R. LIPPARD MAP 18. MYSTERIOUS LAND OF SHAOLIN: THE WU-TANG CLAN'S STATEN ISLAND BREATHING SPACE: AN INTERVIEW WITH RZA, BY JOSHUA JELLY-SCHAPIRO MAP 19. BROWNSTONES AND BASKETBALL: BROOKLYN'S HOME GROUNDS AND GAMES EMPIRE OF BROWNSTONE AND BRICK, BY THOMAS J. CAMPANELLA PRISONERS OF RED HOOK, BY FRANCISCO GOLDMAN MAP 20. BROOKLYN VILLAGES FREED BUT NOT FREE, BY SHARIFA RHODES-PITTS MAP 21. PUBLIC/PRIVATE: A MAP OF CHILDHOODS PLAYGROUNDS I HAVE KNOWN, BY EMILY RABOTEAU MAP 22. THE SUBURBAN THEORY OF THE AVANT-GARDE: NEW JERSEY'S GREATS NORTH STARS AND GOSPEL BATTLES: PETER COYOTE'S JERSEY MEMORIES MAP 23. PLANTING LIBERTY: 350 YEARS OF FREEDOM IN FLUSHING "LAW OF LOVE, PEACE AND LIBERTIE," BY GARNETTE CADOGAN MAP 24. MOTHER TONGUES AND QUEENS: THE WORLD'S LANGUAGES CAPITAL TOWER OF SCRABBLE, BY SUKETU MEHTA MAP 25. BLACK STAR LINES: HARLEM SECULAR AND SACRED HOME TO HARLEM, BY CHRISTINA ZANFAGNA MAP 26. OSCILLATING CITY: MANHATTAN, DAY AND NIGHT SCHLEPTROPOLIS, BY THOMAS J. CAMPANELLA ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CONTRIBUTORS

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Book SynopsisOffers an inquiry into the evolving landscape of Los Angeles. This book offers a pointed look beneath the surface in order to see, and engage with, the city on its own terms.Trade Review"In this brief but engaging book, the author chronicles his wanderings through the streets and his conversations with friends, entrepreneurs, and officials, and he makes it clear that he has read every book and seen every movie on his subject. Those who know the city will have the advantage, but Ulin casts his net widely, so most readers will enjoy his observations of Los Angeles in literary and popular art as well as his thoughtful personal views." Kirkus "In Sidewalking, Los Angeles Times book critic David L. Ulin wanders L.A.-along Wilshire, around Bunker Hill, through the Grove-and as he does, he ponders the city's fading past and emerging future. A self-described 'reluctant Angeleno,' Ulin, who moved here from New York in 1991, brings a sharp eye, a good pair of legs, and a sensitive thoughtfulness to the subject of urban sprawl. Ulin's musings are immediately relevant, covering everything from the Metro Purple Line extension to Rick Caruso's proposed downtown trolley to Councilman Jose Huizar's Bringing Back Broadway campaign." Los Angeles Magazine "The moments of true beauty in this shortest of books are precisely when Ulin reminds us that the everyday texture of Los Angeles ... already functions like a quantum field out of which distant influences, disorienting urban rebirths and half-remembered cinematic cameos are constantly emerging. It is a city of 'seismic existentialism,' he wonderfully suggests, whose ground is shaken not just by earthquakes but by the seemingly endless eruption of alternative urban forms, often successfully breaking through." -- Geoff Manaugh Los Angeles Times "Walking in Los Angeles is not an oxymoron. In this revealing meditation on what it means to pound the pavement in the City of Automobiles, book critic David L. Ulin observes a Los Angeles that many of us didn't even knew existed... Thoughtful and poetic, Ulin's small volume proves there is more to the City of Angels than just beaches, movie stars and abundant sunshine." -- June Sawyers Chicago Tribune "In a series of fascinating, at times impressionistic, disquisitions [Ulin] unlocks some of Los Angeles's "hieroglyphic" secrets. Step right up then for Ulin's tour of Los Angeles, a diffuse city full of 'nonlandmark landmarks.' ... The pleasure of Sidewalking is watching Ulin contextualize each place by considering the way its history is preserved, effaced, or buried under the surface." -- Matt Seidel Los Angeles Review of Books "David Ulin's Sidewalking opens LA up for all of us-locals or not. A quietly stirring book, this should be on your must-read list... I loved it and can't wait to read it again and again." -- Anna March The Rumpus "In Sidewalking, David Ulin brilliantly reflects on the city as experienced by someone with a need to walk, a need to savor streetscapes, registering signage, vistas, vegetation, fellow citizens. And while Ulin walks, he thinks: processing traces of history, architectural styles, street plans, demographics, changes. A longtime L.A. Times book critic, Ulin, intimately familiar with the best that's ever been written about this sprawling, layered city, also artfully folds in the perceptions of others. Memories, observations, bygone L.A., 21st-century L.A.-Ulin's superlative tapestry makes this the latest of great literary takes on the City of Angels." BookishTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Street, Haunting Los Angeles Plays Itself Falling Down Sidewalking Mapping History Miracle Mile A Walker, in the City

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Book SynopsisIn the summer of 2010, the author set out on an ambitious project: to single-handedly create a photographic census of New York City. The result of these efforts was "Humans of New York," a vibrant blog in which he featured his photos alongside quotes and anecdotes. Inspired by the blog, this book features four hundred colour photos.

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Book SynopsisAn internationally renowned architect, urban planner, and scholar describes the major technological forces driving the future of citiesTrade Review"This is different. And it is brilliant. Ratti and Claudel give us a distinctive path to think through technical futures, far removed from the typical exaggerated versions of the present. They start with a fact: we are all enmeshed in distributed sensing ecosystems, and the more complex and intractable those systems, the more technical innovations we can think up. Thus the messy city, not the perfect lab, is ground zero."—Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, author of Expulsions"Ratti and Claudel provide remarkable insights into the city of tomorrow. A book that everyone who is interested in the future—and that is all of us—should explore."—Michael Batty, University College London

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Book SynopsisHow the built environment, understood as spatial capital, governs both everyday life in cities and urban systems more generally.In an age of social and environmental crises, we need to critically rethink the role of the built environment and how best to put it to work. Measures and Meanings of Spatial Capital presents a new theory of spatial capital, arguing that spatial form is essential for building resilience into highly complex urban systems. Lars Marcus argues that the built environment constitutes a form of capital that enhances other forms of capital in cities (such as social, economic, and ecological capital), if designed with those goals in mind. This represents an important and necessary shift in how we approach urban space in the numerous studies of cities that are conducted in a range of disciplines today, such as urban sociology, urban economics, and urban ecology.In contemporary urban studies, land has oddly lost its position alongside labor and capital as one of the three fundamental production factors in economic theory, but as Marcus shows, misconceptions of land are at the root of social and environmental crises worldwide. By defining the challenges and modeling our use of spatial form to enhance/improve land, and then synthesizing data into a unified theory of spatial capital, Marcus provides a crucial reframing of how we can best plan and design our cities for the global challenges we are facing.

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Book SynopsisAn unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.Trade Review"Townsend's interest in smart cities is more than merely technological: he offers an entertaining history of urban planning's visionaries and villains, the technological breakthroughs and the spectacular failures that brought us to this crossroads." -- New Scientist"Anthony Townsend's terrific book looks at the historic relationship of urban and industrial development to new technologies." -- Architecture Today"How tomorrow's open spaces evolve cannot be known but armed with this book, the reader will be bang up to date with who's who in the smart city boom, and what's happening where." -- Engineering & Technology"... fascinating stories of urban renewal and innovation from around the globe and packaged... into lessons that are neat and digestible." -- Slate

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Book SynopsisA work that chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent a series of massive and parallel changes.Trade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1992 "This is brilliant stuff, both in its broadness of sociological scope and its voluminous collection of data from a vast number of sources in the three cities."--Scott Lash, The Times Higher Education Supplement "A very significant book indeed... A systematic detailed analysis of the three largest urban economies in the advanced world."--Peter Hall, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research "[A] high-powered and at times horrific book. Sassen shows how dangerously city life has been affected by the influx of employees of the multinational firms which move into major cities and virtually colonize them, riving even greater wedges between the rich and poor."--The Observer "A landmark study in the political economy of cities."--Anthony King, Newsline "The most detailed and sophisticated anatomy yet published of the functioning of the new producer services sector in the global economy."--Mark Levine, Urban Affairs Quarterly "The implications of Sassen's research ... are sobering."--Rudolf Klein, Times Literary Supplement "An exciting and persuasive work. It incorporates a herculean research effort."--Susan Fainstein, Journal of the American Planning Association "A multi-disciplinary tour de force that should be read not only by regional economists but also by urban geographers, sociologists, and planners."--Development and ChangeTable of ContentsList of Tables xi Preface to the New Edition xvii Acknowledgments xxv One Overview 3 PART ONE: THE GEOGRAPHY AND COMPOSITION OF GLOBALIZATION 17 Two Dispersal and New Forms of Centralization 23 Mobility and Agglomeration 24 Capital Mobility and Labor Market Formation 32 Conclusion 34 Three New Patterns in Foreign Direct Investment 37 Major Patterns 37 International Transactions in Services 44 Conclusion 63 Four Internationalization and Expansion of the Financial Industry 65 Conditions and Components of Growth 66 The Global Capital Market Today 74 Financial Crises 78 Conclusion 83 PART TWO: THE ECONOMIC ORDER OF THE GLOBAL CITY 85 Five The Producer Services 90 The Category Services 92 The Spatial Organization of Finance 110 New Forms of Centrality 122 Conclusion 126 Six Global Cities: Postindustrial Production Sites 127 Location of Producer Services: Nation, Region, and City 130 New Elements in the Urban Hierarchy 140 Conclusion 167 Seven Elements of a Global Urban System: Networks and Hierarchies 171 Towards Networked Systems 172 Expansion and Concentration 175 Leading Currencies in International Transactions 187 The International Property Market 190 Conclusion 195 PART THREE: THE SOCIAL ORDER OF THE GLOBAL CITY 197 Eight Employment and Earnings 201 Three Cities, One Tale? 201 Earnings 221 Conclusion 249 Nine Economic Restructuring as Class and Spatial Polarization 251 Overall Effects of Leading Industries 252 Social Geography 256 Consumption 284 Casual and Informal Labor Markets 289 Race and Nationality in the Labor Market 305 Conclusion 323 IN CONCLUSION 327 Ten A New Urban Regime? 329 Epilogue 345 The Global City Model 346 The Financial Order 355 The Producer Services 359 Social and Spatial Polarization 361 Appendices A Classification of Producer Services by U.S., Japanese, and British SIC 367 B Definitions of Urban Units: Tokyo, London, New York 369 C Population of Selected Prefectures and Major Prefectural Cities 373 D Tokyo's Land Market 374 Bibliography 383 Index 435

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Airport Urbanism dissects issues in infrastructural design and aesthetics, physical mobility and social immobility, and the lived experiences of an emerging Asian urbanism—a remarkable achievement by a scholar who possesses the intellectual virtuosity to bridge realms in every direction."—Helen F. Siu, Yale University "Lucid and entertaining, Max Hirsh’s account of airport infrastructure shatters the fiction of showpiece airports as the acme of international air travel. This highly perceptive reading of cross-border mobility and its role in shaping the urban landscape in Asia is a critical contribution to the emerging scholarship on infrastructure."—Swati Chattopadhyay, University of California, Santa Barbara"A fascinating examination of the many elements, and the countless ways in which societies have grown an infrastructure of air travel parallel to any intended arrangements, and well outside any comprehensive plans."—Urban Land Magazine"A fascinating, well-documented story of a world in transition."—CHOICE"Airport Urbanism’s perceptive and extensive empirical analysis will certainly be of value not only to scholars of East and Southeast Asian cities but also to those who intervene directly in their planning and development."—Urban Studies "Airport Urbanism offers an innovative (re)reading of contemporary cities through the lens of the airport." —Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction: What Is Airport Urbanism?1. Parallel Lines2. Transborder Infrastructure3. Special Zones4. Cheap TicketsConclusion: Mobility, Migration, and the Future Asian CityAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Lisa Uddin’s highly original and compelling argument considers modern zoos as phenomena of urban, suburban, and exurban hopes and fears. The book makes clear that ever-more-ambitious plans to build a finally great zoo are deeply tied to our desires not for a better life for captive animals but for a better life for ourselves."—Nigel Rothfels, author of Savages and Beasts: The Birth of the Modern Zoo"[An] interesting, and perhaps surprising, perspective on urban and racial issues."—Planning Magazine"Zoo history is more than simply that-- it appears to also be a history of the human condition."—CHOICE"An important and thought-provoking contribution to thinking about the place of zoos in modern society."—Environmental History"Zoo Renewal makes an original, important contribution to the scholarship of zoo histories and human-animal studies as well as of the social and cultural history of urbanism, environmentalism and identity politics in twentieth-century American. It is highly recommended."—Humanimalia"Zoo Renewal offers a provocative, original reading of midcentury attempts to reform American zoos, reminding us that how we view animals inevitably reflects and reinforces how we view humans."—Journal of American History"Zoo Renewal is an important contribution to the growing critical historiography of zoos and, more broadly, post–World War II leisure spaces in the United States and around the globe. Uddin's book adds a new dimension to what has become the standard historical understanding of zoos' relationship to race and empire."—Buildings & LandscapesTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: On Feeling Bad at the Zoo 1. Shame and the Naked Cage2. Zoo Slum Clearance in Washington, D.C.3. Mohini’s Bodies4. White Open Spaces in San Diego County5. Looking EndangeredAfterword: Good Feelings in SeattleNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisBuilding on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist. He invites us to explore the city through what he calls the trialectic of symbolic space (the mental categories through which we perceive and organize the world), social space (the distribution of capital in its different forms), and physical space (the built environment). On this reading, Bourdieu's topological sociology gives us the tools both to energize and also to challenge the canon of urban studies and to redraw their theoretical landscape. Compact and incisive, Bourdieu in the City will be of interest to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, geography, urban studies, urban planning, architecture, and social theory.Trade Review"In this captivating book, Loïc Wacquant excavates Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory for insights that might illuminate the neoliberal metropolis and its contentious power relations. In so doing, he produces an incisive, if deeply disturbing, portrait of contemporary urban marginality and neighborhood-level 'taint', a remarkable interpretive synthesis of his own illustrious pathway of urban inquiry, and a brilliantly creative application of Bourdieu's key concepts and methods to the field of urban social science."—Neil Brenner, University of Chicago "Loïc Wacquant dissects carefully the conceptual framework of Bourdieu, provides a differentiated view of social space from Bourdieu's understanding of relational sociology, and reminds us that marginalization continues to be a main concern for urban scholars. A must-read for anyone interested to see how Wacquant eloquently combines Bourdieu’s work with an urban perspective as well as draws on his own influential work from over the years to sharpen our theoretical and methodological lenses on urban inequality."—Professor Talja Blokland, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin“[A] significant milestone in enhancing urban theory by introducing fresh perspectives.”Journal of Urban AffairsTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Taking Bourdieu to Town Prologue 1 Bourdieu in the Urban Crucible 2 The Bitter Taste of Territorial Taint 3 Marginality, Ethnicity and Penality in the Neoliberal Metropolis Epilogue Bourdieu in the City, the City in Bourdieu References

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding the modern city and the powerful forces within it is the life’s work of Harvard urban economist Edward Glaeser, who at forty is hailed as one of the world’s most exciting urban thinkers. Travelling from city to city, speaking to planners and politicians across the world, he uncovers questions large and small whose answers are both counterintuitive and deeply significant. Should New Orleans be rebuilt? Why can’t my nephew afford an apartment in New York? Is London the new financial capital of the world? Is my job headed to Bangalore? In Triumph of the City, Glaeser takes us around the world and into the mind of the modern city - from Mumbai to Paris to Rio to Detroit to Shanghai, and to any number of points in between - to reveal how cities think, why they behave in the manners that they do, and what wisdom they share with the people who inhabit them. 'A masterpiece' Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics 'A brilliant read: persuasive and

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As the world rapidly urbanizes, its cities sink themselves into the ground in sprawling tendons of tunnels - conduits for transport, utility, communication, shelter and storage. The excavation of these spaces, at ever-increasing depths and speed, has changed our lives in ways that we tend to take for granted. For the first time, this book charts the global reach of urban underground spaces, bringing together a collection of 80 stories of subterranean sites around the world. The book draws out the extraordinary range of meanings suggested by urban underground spaces, whether their power as places of hope, fear, memory, labour and resistance, or their capacity to evoke both long histories and futures in the making. Illustrated with often breathtaking photographs, Global Undergrounds creates a new sense of the richness and global diversity of urban underground spaces. Its breadth and depth will appeal to all those who are engaged with these spaces: from urban planners, geographers, architects and engineers to urban explorers, photographers and anyone who encounters underground spaces in their cities.Indeed we inhabit a world where the material stuff beneath our feet is constantly in flux, where layer upon layer of things, people and substances circulate, dream and dwell.

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