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Among the freakishly perverse bankers and investors, she behaves \u003cb\u003elike Orwell in Wigan.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Iain Sinclair * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eAgain and again, Knowles's stories attest to a money machine devoted to nothing but its own perpetuation ... \u003cb\u003eIn the tradition of the great literary walkers\u003c\/b\u003e, from Walter Benjamin to Will Self, her insistence on crossing the city on foot is, in an important sense, \u003cb\u003ean act of resistance\u003c\/b\u003e, an embrace of urban realities in defiance of the sad confinement of extreme wealth, its smoked-glass segregation. -- Nat Segnit * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating investigation of plutocratic London ... \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eas gripping as a pulp detective novel\u003c\/b\u003e in which we glimpse the slimy, far from slummy lives of the morally corrupt. She patrols London's elite enclaves with a sharp eye for telling social and architectural details ... Knowles \u003cb\u003ecombines cunning and charm.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Matthew Beaumont * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003cb\u003eeye-opening, deeply disturbing, fast-moving\u003c\/b\u003e journey through the lives, homes and affairs of the filthy rich of London. -- Danny Dorling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFascinating, punchy, thought-provoking. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSerious Money\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the corrosive impact of London's super rich on our economy, society and politics, and comprehensively busts the myth that their wealth trickles down to the rest of us. -- Frances O’Grady\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003ewonderful and vital\u003c\/b\u003e account of a city ruled by, and for, extreme wealth. -- Anna Minton, author of Big Capital\u003cbr\u003eStartling, spirited ... Knowles is alert to arresting details ... \u003cb\u003ea wry primer to the extravagances of the super rich.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Alex Diggins * The Critic *\u003cbr\u003eYears of footwork through the streets of central London have gone into producing this \u003cb\u003emagnificent but disturbing\u003c\/b\u003e book on the lives and influence of the super-rich. \u003cb\u003eKnowles writes with enviable lightness and pace\u003c\/b\u003e about how money, property, birth, breeding, contacts, secrecy, parasites and servants have created a class that owns and milks London, a world away from the city's ordinary citizens. \u003cb\u003eA powerful ethnography of plutocratic power.\u003c\/b\u003e -- Professor Ash Amin, author of Seeing Like a City\u003cbr\u003eAn \u003cb\u003einnovative and disturbingly entertaining travelogue\u003c\/b\u003e covering one of the most important issues of our time ... could not have been published at a more critical time. -- Matt Reynolds * LSE Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eSociologist Caroline Knowles takes you through the neighborhoods of the capital city telling stories of how the ultra-wealthy live and work; how they spend their money, marry and divorce; and why London is one of the best places for those with nefarious intentions to hide money from authorities. * Investopedia - Best Economics Books of 2022 *\u003cbr\u003eA guided tour of the spaces and lifestyles of London's super-rich. Written in an engaging and accessible manner that draws the reader into spaces and conversations otherwise out of bounds, Knowles subtly exposes the paradoxes inherent within the life and politics of the super-rich in London. -- Sobia Ahmad Kaker * Soundings *","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732515762519,"sku":"9780141994376","price":10.44,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141994376.jpg?v=1719997224"},{"product_id":"the-innovation-complex-cities-tech-and-the-new-economy-9780190083830","title":"The Innovation Complex Cities Tech and the New","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou hear a lot these days about innovation and entrepreneurship and about how good jobs in tech will save our cities. Yet these common tropes hide a stunning reality: local lives and fortunes are tied to global capital. You see this clearly in metropolises such as San Francisco and New York that have emerged as superstar cities. In these cities, startups bloom, jobs of the future multiply, and a meritocracy trained in digital technology, backed by investors who control deep pools of capital, forms a new class: the tech-financial elite. In The Innovation Complex, the eminent urbanist Sharon Zukin shows the way these forces shape the new urban economy through a rich and illuminating account of the rise of the tech sector in New York City. Drawing from original interviews with venture capitalists, tech evangelists, and economic development officials, she shows how the ecosystem forms and reshapes the city from the ground up.Zukin explores the people and plans that have literally rooted digital technology in the city. That in turn has shaped a workforce, molded a mindset, and generated an archipelago of tech spaces, which in combination have produced a now-hegemonic innovation culture and geography. She begins with the subculture of hackathons and meetups, introduces startup founders and venture capitalists, and explores the transformation of the Brooklyn waterfront from industrial wasteland to innovation coastline. She shows how, far beyond Silicon Valley, cities like New York are shaped by an influential triple helix of business, government, and university leaders--an alliance that joins C. Wright Mills''s power elite, real estate developers, and ambitious avatars of academic capitalism. As a result, cities around the world are caught between the demands of the tech economy and communities'' desires for growth--a massive and often--insurmountable challenge for those who hope to reap the rewards of innovation''s success.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZukin's work mainly provides a fascinating insight into a city in transition... Zukin's book can convince us to make cities sustainable, not only physically but also in a social sense. * Wouter J. Verheul, Delft University of Technology, TESG *\u003cbr\u003eThere are many ways agglomeration serves to create value through innovation. However, Zukin goes beyond the typically described positive effects, in particular efficient knowledge diffusion, to recognize the negative social and economic effects. * S. J. Gabriel, CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eI found the book particularly interesting for those scholars dealing with innovation and entrepreneurship in a rather quantitative manner, since it may help them to better comprehend the interesting stories behind innovative entrepreneurship, which too often risk being hidden by the 'cold' numbers of econometrics. * Luca Grilli, Regional Studies *\u003cbr\u003eSharon Zukin's Innovation Complex proves once again that she is one of the most astuteobservers of American cities. For decades, innovation and the tech industry were thought to be the province of the suburbs. But Zukin shows how and why innovation and startup companies have come back to the city en masse and the economic contradictions that the rise of the urban innovation complex brings. * Richard Florida, author ofThe Rise of the Creative Class *\u003cbr\u003eWith a keen eye and a sly sense of irony, Sharon Zukin takes us behind the doors of the startups, venture capital firms, business incubators, co-working spaces, and coding camps that have made New Yorka major hub of what she aptly dubs 'The Innovation Complex.' Beneath the technical wizardry and relentless boosterism of this new world, Zukin sees reasons to be skeptical about its promises to deliver a better life for us all. * Joshua B. Freeman, author of Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World? *\u003cbr\u003eIn The Innovation Complex, Sharon Zukin masterfully reveals how New York City-of all places-pivoted to tech and established an ecosystem rivaling Silicon Valley.In the process, she helps us understand cities, the startup world, and the economic tensions that come with progress. * Steven Levy, author In the Plex and Facebook: TheInside Story *\u003cbr\u003eSharon Zukin deftly argues in The Innovation Complex that tech capitals do not simply bubble up from a primordial soup of young entrepreneurs' inventions. They are made through ideas, norms, and narratives as well as by policies and investments. Zukin takes us on a tour of the specific places and activities that make up the New York City innovation complex-hackathons, meetups, innovation districts, tech campuses, boot camps, and co-working spaces. What we come to see is the political process of innovation itself and how this process reconfigures cities. The result is a nuanced and critical look at the costs that a tech boom exacts on cities and citizens. * Gina Neff, University of Oxford, author of Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Imagining Innovation 2. Hackathons and the Spirit of the New Capitalism 3. Meetups:  Leveraging the Community 4. Accelerators, Startups, and the Circulation of Capital 5. The VC Office and the Concentration of Capital 6. Brooklyn's \"Innovation Coastline\" 7. Pipelines:  Talent, Meritocracy, and Academic Capitalism 8. \"The Address of Innovation\" 9. 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References Index","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732605841751,"sku":"9780192867544","price":81.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780192867544.jpg?v=1719997619"},{"product_id":"greenovation-9780197651421","title":"Greenovation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollectively, cities take up a relatively tiny amount of land on the earth, yet they emit 72 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. Clearly, cities need to be at the center of any broad effort to reduce climate change.In Greenovation, the eminent urban policy scholar Joan Fitzgerald argues that too many cities are only implementing random acts of greenness that will do little to address the climate crisis. She instead calls for greenovation--using the city as a test bed for adopting and perfecting green technologies for more energy--efficient buildings, transportation, and infrastructure more broadly. Fitzgerald contends that while many city mayors cite income inequality as a pressing problem, few cities are connecting climate action and social justice-another aspect of greenovation. 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Schoof, Southern Illinois University, CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eGiven the failure of nations to engage the climate crisis at the speed that physics demands, we're going to need to rely on city governments for a lot of heavy lifting. Joan Fitzgerald shows precisely how to harvest beyond the low-hanging fruit: this is a smart book, filled with enough detail to help any planner, and enough vision to inspire any citizen. * Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? and founder of 350.org *\u003cbr\u003eThe first sentence of the first chapter of this powerful and necessary book immediately establishes the stakes: âCities cover about 3 percent of the land on Earth, yet they produce about 72 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions.â These two data points send a strong message to all urban citizens and the mayors who govern over them: implementing the transformative changes necessary for mitigating climate change should begin with us, the residents of cities. Joan Fitzgerald explains to readers where the potential for green policy innovation lies, and how cities across the world have been putting successful policies in place. * Allan Larsson, former Swedish Social Democratic politician and Minister for Finance *\u003cbr\u003eGreenovation is the definitive account of the paramount role cities must play in the shift to a sustainable economy. Fitzgerald both describes what leading cities are doing to reduce their emissions, particularly in buildings and transportation, and lays out an agenda for what lagging cities need to do-all the while keeping in mind how national governments need to support the urban climate agenda. * Sadhu Aufochs Johnston, City Manager of Vancouver *\u003cbr\u003eWith this meticulously researched and highly readable book, Joan Fitzgerald challenges us to take bolder action on climate justice. It is time to move beyond tokenism to real greenovation that scales up energy efficiency, renewable energy, electric transportation, active mobility, and more. Based on inspirational cases from around the world, Greenovation provides the institutional roadmap that will transform our cities, and thus the planet. * Karen Chapple, Professor and Chair of City \u0026amp; Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley *\u003cbr\u003eHow do North American and European cities lead byÃgreenovatingÃin fast, nimble, and effective ways? In this thoroughly researched and argued book, Fitzgerald issues a clarion call for integrative political action on the linked problems of urban climate change and inequality to create a thriving and more equitable economy. * Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, Tufts University *\u003cbr\u003eThis work provides a broad perspective on the central role of cities in mitigating climate change... One strength of this book is that the essential complexity of solutions is embraced rather than ignored. * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003eGreenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change will be an important read for scholars in urban planning, but it also provides interesting insights for researchers in geography and sustainability transitions. In addition, the book is valuable for policy-makers and planners seeking to find inspiration on how to greenovate their cities... I am confident the book will play an important role in future discussions on solutions for the climate crisis. * Regional Studies Journal *\u003cbr\u003eGreenovation builds upon Fitzgerald's earlier book, Emerald Cities, offering a detailed analysis of green technology to mitigate and perhaps combat rising climate change....Two notable features stand out: her incorporation of racial justice considerations and her targeting of the negative role of China in undercutting North American and European greenovation programs....This is a book that every community activist and city planner concerned to move climate action policies forward should not only have...but should be heavily underlined to highlight its key insights, best practices, and major policy lessons. * Ernest Yanarella, Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Introduction: Cities on the Front Lines. 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The Making of Our Urban Landscape is a triumph. In its lavish detail and encyclopedic scholarship, it is a modern Baedeker for the whole of urban Britain, drawing us to explore this rich urban heritage for ourselves. * Jerry White, Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eWhat a book this is: a survey of the evolution of Britains towns and cities by the great architectural historian, Geoffrey Tyack. It embraces geography, industry, religion, natural resources, royal patron-age, water supply, politics... Everything is here... * Clive Aslet, Country Life *\u003cbr\u003eA brave attempt to encapsulate the idea of Britain's urban history within one modestly sized volume. * James Stevens Curl, The Critic *\u003cbr\u003efascinating... packed with information * Sandra Callard, On: Yorkshire Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eWith such a huge sweep its a god-send that the author shares William Blakes view that art and science cannot exist but in minutely organised particulars. Hes big on details but doesnt lose sight of the generals; and in this volume there are copious photographs to bring prose to life. * Richard Lofthouse, QUAD *\u003cbr\u003eTyacks book...tells a story at once sweeping in scope and nuanced in texture...Building upon a lifetimes study, Professor Tyack has done an invaluable service. He has winnowed from adjacent historical disciplines (demographic, architectural, economic and local) and gathered them into one narrative... If you want to hear the ghosts whispers as you walk round Britains streets and squares, this excellent book is a good place to start. * Nicholas Boys Smith, Catholic Herald *\u003cbr\u003eA remarkable new book...Geoffrey Tyack deftly moves through two millennia of Great Britains towns and cities with an impeccable depth and breadth of knowledge... The book does admirably in examining the exigencies and contingencies that have determined the contours of our urbanismThe greatest strength of Tyacks book is that he understands the vital role played by architecture in shaping and reflecting our society and uses his considerable powers to ponder on the deep history of both. * Matthew Lloyd Roberts, Engelsberg Ideas *\u003cbr\u003e...a valuable contribution in the field of urban history * Geoff Timmins, Local Historian *\u003cbr\u003eThe fruit of a lifetime's study, Geoffrey Tyack's new book offers an expert survey of Britain's urban history from the Romans to the present day. A brilliant example of learning worn lightly, it takes the reader on a fascinating tour of towns across the country. The Making of Our Urban Landscape is entertaining and enlightening in equal measure. 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As they developed over many centuries, these spaces of commerce, communion, and commuting framed daily life. At its heyday in the 1800s, the European street was the place where social worlds connected and collided.    Brian Ladd recounts a rich social and cultural history of the European city street, tracing its transformation from a lively scene of trade and crowds into a thoroughfare for high-speed transportation. Looking closely at four major cities--London, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna--Ladd uncovers both the joys and the struggles of a past world. The story takes us up to the twentieth century, when the life of the street was transformed as wealthier citizens withdrew from the crowds to seek refuge in suburbs and automobiles. As demographics and technologies changed, so did the structure of cities and the design o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Streets of Europe is brimming with information that will cause many readers to think anew about key aspects of urban life and how this has shaped the appearance and functionality of cities of the modern era. Through the frequent use of literary texts, Ladd provides a lively commentary on such gendered acts as leaping on a bus, on city sewage, and on the dangers of getting stuck in traffic (who knew that Franz Ferdinand and King Henry IV were both murdered as a secondary consequence of being held up in traffic!). Ladd is to be commended for his insights that are both place-specific and portable to other sites.\"--Fabrizio Nevola, Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, University of Exeter \"Deeply researched, beautifully-written, and appealingly illustrated, The Streets of Europe makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the European city in the 19th century. This is a sensory history and a sensual story told from street level. Ladd's thinking about the transformations of commerce through the eyes, ears, skin, and nose of the person on the street sheds new light on these spaces. Through its moves across the sources and narrative of strategies of urban and social history, The Streets of Europe offers a clear and powerful account of the transformation of street life in Europe.\"--Leora Auslander, author of Cultural Revolutions: Everyday Life and Politics in Britain, North America, and France\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Form and Use of City Streets\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 Streets in History\u003cbr\u003e 2 Wheeling and Dealing: The Street Economy\u003cbr\u003e 3 Strolling, Mingling, and Lingering: Social Life on the Street\u003cbr\u003e 4 Out of the Muck: The Sanitary City\u003cbr\u003e 5 Transportation: The Acceleration of the Street\u003cbr\u003e 6 Public Order and Public Space: Control and Design\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Looking Down on the Street\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732915630423,"sku":"9780226677941","price":27.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226677941.jpg?v=1719998934"},{"product_id":"after-redlining-the-urban-reinvestment-movement-in-the-era-of-financial-deregulation-9780226723648","title":"After Redlining  The Urban Reinvestment Movement","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on Chicago's West Side, After Redlining illuminates how urban activists were able to change banks' behavior to support investment in communities that they had once abandoned.    American banks, to their eternal discredit, long played a key role in disenfranchising nonwhite urbanites and, through redlining, blighting the very city neighborhoods that needed the most investment. Banks long showed little compunction in aiding and abetting blockbusting, discrimination, and outright theft from nonwhites. They denied funds to entire neighborhoods or actively exploited them, to the benefit of suburban whitesan economic white flight to sharpen the pain caused by the demographic one.    And yet, the dynamic between banks and urban communities was not static, and positive urban development, supported by banks, became possible. In After Redlining, Rebecca K. Marchiel illuminates how, exactly, urban activists were able to change some banks' behavior to support investment in communities tha\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Recommended. This engaging book describes the successes and failures of energetic and committed neighborhood reconstruction activists. . . Marchiel’s compelling story of heroic activists fairly appraises the NPA, making this a useful text for activists and scholars in urban studies and financial market studies.”  * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Deeply researched. . . Marchiel’s narrative paints the picture of a remarkably powerful national reinvestment campaign against an almost unstoppable force of ever more inventive flows of capital. . . . Marchiel has written an important history that not only portends contemporary financialization but also offers a glimpse into the tactics and strategies to challenge it.\" * Public Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Marchiel has written an important history that not only portends contemporary financialization but also offers a glimpse into the tactics and strategies to challenge it.\" * Public Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAfter Redlining\u003c\/i\u003e offers illuminating correctives to falsehoods advanced by the powerful. . . \u003ci\u003eAfter Redlining\u003c\/i\u003e joins the ranks of scholarly histories highlighting Chicago as the imperfect locus of grassroots, multiracial, multiethnic activist organizations that changed the status quo of their time in ways that still ameliorate aspects of our unjust present. What is more, Marchiel’s account of the reinvestment movement’s go-bigger-or-go-home strategy offers a relevant historical perspective to contemporary activists who face, along with the communities for whom they advocate, a treacherously uncertain future.\" * South Side Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e“The role of financial institutions in the segregation of urban America has been the subject of important recent works, but we still have much to learn about how citizens and activists challenged discrimination and exploitation by the banks. \u003ci\u003eAfter Redlining \u003c\/i\u003enot only fills that gap but challenges our understanding of the history of race, finance, and inequality. Marchiel’s compelling story will leave many readers shaking their heads in frustration at the comparative lack of grassroots activism against financial discrimination and predation today, while at the same time inspired by the tenacity, savvy, and ingenuity of the organizers who fill its pages.” * Andrew W. Kahrl, author of The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAfter Redlining \u003c\/i\u003eis a compelling and revelatory history of community activism, American banking, and the politics of inequality. Marchiel details how common-sense ideas about place, power, and economic fairness informed the work of ‘grassroots financial regulators’ who altered the national urban policy landscape, all the while moving seamlessly between rich local stories, Washington, DC, and a seismic restructuring of financial markets that undercut progressive reform. Essential reading on the persistent tension between finance and democracy in American history.” * David Freund, author of Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America *\u003cbr\u003e\"Discusses the relationship between urban community groups and their financial institutions during the last third of the twentieth century, presenting the story of the reinvestment movement’s lead organization in Chicago, the National People’s Action (NPA), and its impact on federal urban and banking policy.\" * Journal of Economic Literature *\u003cbr\u003e\"Marchiel describes the efforts of a Saul Alinsky-inspired multiracial coalition of US low- and moderate-income city residents to combat the effects of redlining... [and finds] that these efforts inspired national action...\"  * Law \u0026amp; Social Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"After Redlining\u003c\/i\u003e stands as a case study of populist activism that remains salient to a twenty-first-century audience because urban majorities still face the same issues and concerns, from access to mortgage credit and local banking services to general ideas about urban equity. It stands as an important if limited focus on the potential local neighborhood activism still has to channel hope for a progressive and egalitarian future in late capitalist America. It should interest scholars and teachers of twentieth-century America as well as urban studies generally.\" * Journal of Illinois State Historical Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction. Neighborhoods First\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Beyond the Backlash: Organizing against Real Estate Abuse in a “Transitional” Urban Neighborhood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. The FHA in the City: Red Lines and the Origins of the Urban Reinvestment Movement\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. It’s Our Money: Defending Financial Common Sense in a Collapsing New Deal Order\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Communities Must Be Vigilant: The Financial Turn in National Urban Policy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Reinvestment for Whom? The Limits of Bank-Led Reinvestment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Let’s Make the Market Work for Us: The Lost Fight for Credit Allocation and the Rise of Community-Bank Partnerships\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e   Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations for Archival Collections\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732917203287,"sku":"9780226723648","price":52.72,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"how-green-became-good-9780226739045","title":"How Green Became Good","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs projects like Manhattan's High Line, Chicago's 606, China's eco-cities, and Ethiopia's tree-planting efforts show, cities around the world are devoting serious resources to urban greening. Formerly neglected urban spaces and new high-end developments draw huge crowds thanks to the considerable efforts of city governments. But why are greening projects so widely taken up, and what good do they do? In How Green Became Good, Hillary Angelo uncovers the origins and meanings of the enduring appeal of urban green space, showing that city planners have long thought that creating green spaces would lead to social improvement. Turning to Germany's Ruhr Valley (a region that, despite its ample open space, was greened with the addition of official parks and gardens), Angelo shows that greening is as much a social process as a physical one. She examines three moments in the Ruhr Valley's urban history that inspired the creation of new green spaces: industrialization in the late nineteenth centu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Angelo risks sacrilege; she takes on nature as a mundane tool of politics, entertainment, and real estate. The ideology of green comes out of its black box, exposed to insightful and historically aware analysis.” -- Harvey Molotch, New York University\u003cbr\u003e“Written with verve and meticulous attention to historical detail, \u003ci\u003eHow Green Became Good\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the hows and whys of the contemporary phenomenon of ‘urbanized nature.’ Angelo convincingly moves from micro-level investigations of moral judgments and responses surrounding pet rabbits to macro-level examinations of top-down globalized urban greening projects. A tour de force, this book will prompt a rethinking of the green-as-good reflex.\" -- Robin Wagner-Pacifici, The New School for Social Research\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHow Green Became Good\u003c\/i\u003e takes the conventional western urban imagination out of Chicago’s Loop and past Los Angeles’s Sixty-Mile-Circle to the expanse of the Ruhr and rewrites urban theory from there. This brilliant book on more than a century of “urbanized nature” in Germany’s former industrial heartland will forever change our views of the industrial city as preceding the green city.  If you are looking for a concept of the urban beyond the \u003ci\u003eZwischenstadt\u003c\/i\u003e, you will find it in Angelo’s magisterial contribution.\" -- Roger Keil, York University\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHow Green Became Good\u003c\/i\u003e is an exceptionally robust work of historical sociology, shown by the fact that Angelo not only provides the reader with the historical specifics of each greening project analyzed in the book, but also uses those details to skillfully build a general theoretical explanation for how urban greening works as a social process. . . .  Angelo’s work serves as a model for other scholars inclined to take a historical approach to answering question sin urban sociology and urban studies.\" * Urban Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eHow Green Became Good\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful work of urban sociology, culture, and historical and comparative methods. In it, Hillary Angelo challenges conventional accounts of why urban greening became a public good.\" * Social Forces *\u003cbr\u003e\"Interested in how planning projects, specifically those sold as 'green,' can exacerbate or ignore existing inequalities. . . Angelo’s more specific question is why have all types of cities taken up 'greening' projects\u003cbr\u003e rather than just large, industrial cities? . . . Taken on their own terms, these projects have been remarkable successes, ecologically and economically, but Angelo’s point is clear: the 'greening' at the core of their\u003cbr\u003e conceptions has blunted social criticism. . .\" * Journal of Urban Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\"These interventions deserve wide reading by all sociologists, not just urban sociologists or environmental sociologists.\" * American Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Urban Greening beyond Cities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1 Green Becomes Good\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 The Imaginative Turn to the City\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2 Building an Urban Future through Nature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2 Contested Social Ideals\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3 The Space-Time of Democracy: Parks as a Bourgeois Public Sphere\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 Proletarian Counterpublics: Reimagining the Colonies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3 The Social Life of Urbanized Nature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 Producing Nature, Projecting Urban Futures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6 Experiencing Nature as a Public Good\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Global Greening Today\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732918415703,"sku":"9780226739045","price":24.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"believing-in-south-central-everyday-islam-in-the-city-of-angels-9780226747286","title":"Believing in South Central Everyday Islam in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe area of Los Angeles known as South Central is often overshadowed by dismal stereotypes, problematic racial stigmas, and its status as the home to some of the city's poorest and most violent neighborhoods. Amid South Central's shifting demographics and its struggles with poverty, sociologist Pamela J. Prickett takes a closer look, focusing on the members of an African American Muslim community and exploring how they help each other combat poverty, job scarcity, violence, and racial injustice. Prickett's engaging ethnography relates how believers in this longstanding religious community see Islam as a way of life, a comprehensive blueprint for individual and collective action, guiding how to interact with others, conduct business, strive for progress, and cultivate faith.  Prickett offers deep insights into the day-to-day lived religion of the Muslims who call this community home, showing how the mosque provides a system of social support and how believers deepen their spiritual prac\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Smart and highly original, Believing in South Central details how a small Muslim community in South Central, Los Angeles, makes meaning of their faith in the midst of a changing racial landscape and a declining community of believers. Prickett brings nuanced analysis, beautiful prose, and seamless narration together in this ethnography that will expand scholars' understanding of how African Americans practice their Islamic faith outside Arab and South Asian Muslim communities.\"--Ula Y. Taylor, author of The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Living a Muslim Way of Life in South Central\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter One: “Our Test Is Living a Community Life”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two: “Don’t Move. Improve”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three: “Money Is Funny”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four: “Why Not Just Use a Cucumber!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five: “That’s What They Think of Us”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: “Allahu Akbar” \u003cbr\u003e Methods Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732919005527,"sku":"9780226747286","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226747286.jpg?v=1719998947"},{"product_id":"vice-patrol-cops-courts-and-the-struggle-over-urban-gay-life-before-stonewall-9780226769783","title":"Vice Patrol  Cops Courts and the Struggle over","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in American cities even as the state repression of queer communities reached its peak. Liquor investigators infiltrated and shut down gay-friendly bars. Plainclothes decoys enticed men in parks and clubs. Vice officers surveilled public bathrooms through peepholes and two-way mirrors.     In Vice Patrol, Anna Lvovsky chronicles this painful story, tracing the tactics used to criminalize, profile, and suppress gay life from the 1930s through the 1960s, and the surprising controversies those tactics often inspired in court. Lvovsky shows that the vice squads' campaigns stood at the center of live debates about not only the law's treatment of queer people, but also the limits of ethical policing, the authority of experts, and the nature of sexual difference itselfdebates that had often unexpected effects on the gay community's rights and freedoms. Examining those battles, Vice Patrol enriches understandings of the regulation of queer life in the twentieth century and disputes about police power that continue today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lvovsky has written an important history of antigay policing in the US between 1930 and 1970. . . . Lvovsky dives into municipal archives, court records, and psychological literature to interrogate queer tropes, taking care to guide readers through this narrative. . . . Lvovsky deftly handles these topics with nuance and compassion. Those studying law, history, gender and sexuality, and political science will benefit from her work in terms of understanding queer life in the 20th century, the professionalization of policing, and how the two intersected to shape (mis)understandings about the other. This is a necessary title for all libraries at all levels. . . . Essential.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Anna Lvovsky’s \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall\u003c\/i\u003e offers an exciting, novel contribution to the fast-growing field of police history in the United States. . . . \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e reshapes our understanding of the state’s regulation of gay life, and it complicates long-held assumptions about the relationship between police knowledge and police power.\" * American Journal of Legal History *\u003cbr\u003e\"With precise details and careful analysis, \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e tells a fascinating story about how the policing of homosexuality from the 1940s to the 1960s was far more contradictory and contested than we might think, and how courts of law played a crucial role in the emerging understanding and visibility of LGBT life.\" * The Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Review Worldwide *\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle Over Urban Gay Life Before Stonewall\u003c\/i\u003e, Anna Lvovsky examines with both precision and breadth a time period during which litigants in queer society encountered considerably greater difficulty in the justice system... This important book casts new light on the legal intricacies and political realities of anti-gay legislation several generations before courts began looking with disfavor on laws stigmatizing or even criminalizing members of the queer community.\" * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"Lvovsky chronicles the tactics used to criminalize, profile, and suppress gay life in the US from the1930s through the 1960s, and the surprising controversies those tactics often inspired in court. She finds that the vice squads’ campaigns stood at the center of debates about not only the law’s treatment of queer people, but also the limits of ethical policing, the authority of experts, and the nature of sexual difference itself—debates that had often unexpected effects on the LGBTQ community’s civil liberties, and that continue to be relevant today.\" * Law \u0026amp; Social Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e\"In her stunning new book, \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e, Anna Lvovsky argues that, in the United States, the criminal justice system was disjointed on the subject of homosexuality and how it should be policed. . . In an elegantly written examination of state liquor boards, courts and police, Lvovsky demonstrates that individual agents and agencies of the criminal justice system, alongside same-sex desiring people and ‘experts’, shaped and reshaped the public and legal concept of the ‘homosexual.'\" * Journal of Urban History *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this sophisticated and original work, Anna Lvovsky interrogates the policing of queer sexual and cultural expression in the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s. . . This textured and innovative study will interest legal and urban historians and scholars of gender and sexuality in the United States.\" * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol: Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall\u003c\/i\u003e, Anna Lvovsky tackles a topic—the history of police abuses of queer people and spaces—that historians have long documented and gives it an impressive new spin. Histories of LGBTQ experience in particular cities, for example, always include significant attention to these anti-LGBTQ policing practices. Lvovsky, however, turns this topic on its head by approaching the issue from the perspective of the state regulatory, police, and judicial systems. . . . Lvovsky has produced a work of impressive and fascinating scholarship. . .\" * Contemporary Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eVice Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e offers powerful lessons for today’s civil rights battles, both in the courts and online. The book uses a case study of state enforcement of anti-vice laws against gay people to tell a larger story about an epistemological struggle over facts and knowledge, as well as the limits, if any, they place on power.\" * Michigan Law Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Visibility is the clarion call of LGBT politics, but \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e scrambles the signal. Lvovsky takes familiar moments of gay visibility as her starting point, showing how media attention hardened stereotypes about gay culture. Those stereotypes had a curious afterlife in the legal system, leading to 'epistemic gaps' between enforcement institutions. . . . By elaborating on this process, Lvovsky reveals the 'regulatory underside' to gay cultural visibility. . . [and] brings new insight to a question that has puzzled scholars across several fields: Why and how does cultural representation lead to increased state repression?\" * The University of Chicago Law Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Lvovsky’s sophisticated approach paints a complex portrait of the state apparatus aimed at regulating queer spaces . . . [\u003ci\u003eVice Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e is] a crucial contribution to the scholarly literatures on LGBT communities and policing more generally. I expect it will be useful in part or in whole in courses for instructors in a wide range of disciplines, including history; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; criminology; and sociology.\" * Journal of the History of Sexuality *\u003cbr\u003e“Lvovsky has done incredible detective work to take us deep inside the machinery of antigay policing during its peak years. Focusing on three distinct sites—the regulation of gay bars by state liquor agencies, the work of plainclothes decoys, and the policing of public restrooms through ‘peepholes’—Lvovsky shows that a legal system we assumed to be monolithically repressive was in fact internally divided about these practices. This subtle and smart book not only illuminates the boundaries around sexual difference but criminal justice as well. Revelatory in every sense of the word.” -- Margot Canaday, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003e\"Lvovsky takes the vice patrolman—the villain who lurks at the edges of virtually every work of the queer communities that flourished in twentieth-century U.S. cities—and insistently pulls him into the spotlight. \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e is ambitious, meticulously researched, exceptionally well-conceived, and startlingly original. It deserves a wide readership among historians of law and legal history, LGBTQ history, urban history, and the history of policing and punishment. It is, in fact, a tour de force that will be read and reread by every scholar in the field and will lead us to ask new questions of our sources in the years to come.\" -- Timothy Stewart-Winter, Rutgers University\u003cbr\u003e“Lvovsky has written a splendid, insightful history of anti-gay policing in mid-twentieth century America. \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol \u003c\/i\u003eshows how investigatory tactics evolved and how they prompted and were in turn shaped by debates about the nature and prevalence of same-sex desire, the appropriate limits on law enforcement, and the kinds of authority and expertise that should matter in answering those questions. It's a gripping read, combining rich, ground-level detail with sober assessments of what those decades-old struggles signified and what lessons they hold for us today.” -- David Sklansky, Stanford Law School\u003cbr\u003e“’The 'police’ and ‘the gay community’ are often portrayed as monolithic entities. In \u003ci\u003eVice Patrol\u003c\/i\u003e, Lvovsky shows how each entity revealed the extraordinary diversity of the other through their interactions in the pre-Stonewall United States. This is the debut of an important new scholar, who can etch a legal world in scrimshaw with strokes that are both bold and sure.” -- Kenji Yoshino, New York University School of Law\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ONE \/ When Anyone Can Tell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e TWO \/ Expert Witnesses on Trial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e THREE \/ Plainclothes Decoys and the Limits of Criminal Justice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e FOUR \/ The Rise of Ethnographic Policing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e FIVE \/ Peepholes and Perverts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SIX \/ The Popular Press and the Gay World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e EPILOGUE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732920250711,"sku":"9780226769783","price":29.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226769783.jpg?v=1719998952"},{"product_id":"street-corner-society-the-social-structure-of-an-italian-slum-9780226895451","title":"Street Corner Society  The Social Structure of an","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1943, this is an account of an Italian-American slum in Boston.","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732935487831,"sku":"9780226895451","price":25.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226895451.jpg?v=1719999014"},{"product_id":"the-truly-disadvantaged-9780226901268","title":"The Truly Disadvantaged","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooks at the social transformation of inner city ghettos, offering an evaluation of the convergence of race and poverty. 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158\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteven Raspa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCelebrate life with immersive community events guided by the principles of Burning Man 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteve Raspa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCreate a unique and visible food culture in every neighborhood 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanine de la Salle, MA, MCIP, RPP\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUse seasonal landscaping to connect humans with nature, and with each other 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteve Nygren\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8: Self-Governing Neighborhoods 172\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTruly great neighborhoods dream, make aspirational plans, and implement them over time 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlicia Daniels Uhlig\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaintain the health of your neighborhood by holding annual planning checkups 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJessica Millman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlan land use changes via a design charrette process that includes robust input and at least three feedback loops 178\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBill Lennertz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConduct an annual “tactical intervention” that re-envisions how underutilized space can promote prosperity 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMike Lydon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMake large on-the-ground changes fast through clear vision, demonstration,and measurement 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJanette Sadik-Khan, Seth Solomonow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFill the gap in neighbourhood governance by creating an innovative business improvement district that includes residences 187\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJamie Simone, AICP, LEED-AP\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuild immunity to gentriication 189\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAntwi Akom, Tessa Cruz, Aekta Shah\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTreat light poles as valuable public assets able to support advanced data in the future 191\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNancy Clanton, P.E.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLet district governance unfold over time 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel Slone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9: A Theater of Life 196\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeople need an identiiable spatial unit to belong to 198\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmily Talen, PhD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaximize contact between communities of interest by designing third places 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAly Andrews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProvide microunit housing in a “two-hour neighborhood,” with a nearby grocery, park, and indoor third place 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatrick Kennedy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTurn strangers into neighbors by diversifying dwelling types in each building 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStefanos Polyzoides, Vinayak Bharne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMix building types within every block 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel Parolek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEach building should have one architectural style 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteve Nygren\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10: Vibrant Density 212\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe “sweet spot” in a sustainable urban fabric is four to eight stories 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJason F. McLennan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuildings should comprise a visible base, a middle no more than seven stories tall, and a top 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSteve Mouzon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMake housing more afordable and proitable by reducing and separating parking 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn G. 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Prisons of Debt shows how these systems work together to create complex entanglementsrather than piling up in men's lives, these entanglements form feedback loops of disadvantage. The prisonchild support pipeline flows in both directions, deepening parents' debt and criminal justice involvement.    Through moving accounts of men struggling to be fathers from behind prison walls and under the weight of support debt, Prisons of Debt exposes how the criminalization of child support undermines the most essential of familial relationships. Haney argues that these state systems can end up producing exactly the kind of parent they fear and loathe: bitter, unreliable, and cyclical fathers. Based on observations of 1,200 child support cases and interviews with 145 indebted fathers in New York, California, and Florida, Prisons of Debt reveals the actual practices of child support adjudication and enforcement alongside the lived realities of fathers trapped in those systems. 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The Impact of China and Other New Economic Powers on African Cities 57\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNEUP-African Relations Today: Key Channels of Impact 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImports 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInfrastructure and Other Productive Investments 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHousing and Built Environments 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMigration, Travel and Knowledge Flows 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntegrating the Channels and Their Impacts 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSino-African Relations in Africa Today: Specific Forms and Regime Impacts 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProduction Regimes 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsumption Regimes 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInfrastructure Regimes 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Fantasy Urbanization in Africa: The Political Economy of Heterotopias 76\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of Fantasy Urbanism in Africa 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeoliberal Planning and Heterotopic Urbanism in Africa 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmerging Heterotopias in Africa 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEko Atlantic (Lagos), Nigeria 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKonza Technopolis (Nairobi), Kenya 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHOPE City (Accra), Ghana 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrica's Neoliberal Heterotopias: Generative or Exclusionary Enclaves? 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. A Generative Urban Informal Sector? 92\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Contours of Africa's Urban Informal Economies 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExplicating the UIS Experience: Agbogbloshie Settlement, Accra 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSituating Africa's UIS in a Sociotechnical Systems Framework 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransforming the UIS? ICTs, the 4IR and Makerspaces 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRealizing a More Generative UIS: Collaborative Pathways for Transition 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. 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Making Cities Livable for All: Infrastructure and Service Provisioning Challenges 131\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Scale and Scope of the Collective Goods Challenge in African Cities 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGovernance of Infrastructure Regimes: Speculation, Resource Constraints and Political Priorities 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSplintered Urbanization and the Challenge of Service Distribution 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStructural and Political Economic Drivers of Infrastructure Deficits in African Cities 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSkyTrain -- Accra's Utopian Mega Infrastructure Project 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bagamoyo Port Project, Tanzania 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKenya's Standard-Gauge Railway (SGR) 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAchieving Infrastructure Transformations: Recentering Use-Value 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. The Wrath of Capital or Nature? Threats to Cities from Climate to COVID-19 150\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Geography of Risk and Riskscapes 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRiskscapes, Cities and Sociotechnical Systems 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClimate Change and Sociotechnical Regimes 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHeat 155\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSea Level Rise and Coastal Erosion 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFlooding 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrought 159\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic Health Threats: Pandemics (Ebola and COVID-19) 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEbola 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCOVID-19 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eManaging Risk and Resilience in African Cities 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. The Green Economy and African Cities 166\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Green Economy and the Global South 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrica's Green Economy Experience to Date 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreen Industrialization through SEZs? South Africa's Atlantis GreenTech Zone 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGreen Economy Transitions and the Urban Informal Sector (UIS) 178\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. 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(African) Cities as Sociotechnical Systems: A Conceptual Approach 18\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Urban (Question) in Africa: A Review of the Literature 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEconomic Geographies of Urban Development 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRadical, Planetary, Comparative and Postcolonial Urbanisms 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban Studies and Theory in\/for Africa 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConceptualizing the Urban Question in Africa 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e(African) Cities as Sociotechnical Systems 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eApplying the Approach 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Urbanization with Industrialization? Manufacturing in African Cities 35\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 35\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistoricizing Africa's Manufacturing Path Dependencies 38\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrica's Present-day Manufacturing Horizon 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe China Factor in African Manufacturing 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransforming Manufacturing? Governance Challenges and Opportunities 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRethinking the Governance of Production Regimes: National Urban Policies 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePathways for Industrialization in African Cities 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. The Impact of China and Other New Economic Powers on African Cities 57\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNEUP-African Relations Today: Key Channels of Impact 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImports 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInfrastructure and Other Productive Investments 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHousing and Built Environments 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMigration, Travel and Knowledge Flows 65\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntegrating the Channels and Their Impacts 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSino-African Relations in Africa Today: Specific Forms and Regime Impacts 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProduction Regimes 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConsumption Regimes 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInfrastructure Regimes 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Fantasy Urbanization in Africa: The Political Economy of Heterotopias 76\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of Fantasy Urbanism in Africa 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNeoliberal Planning and Heterotopic Urbanism in Africa 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmerging Heterotopias in Africa 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEko Atlantic (Lagos), Nigeria 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKonza Technopolis (Nairobi), Kenya 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHOPE City (Accra), Ghana 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfrica's Neoliberal Heterotopias: Generative or Exclusionary Enclaves? 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. A Generative Urban Informal Sector? 92\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 92\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Contours of Africa's Urban Informal Economies 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExplicating the UIS Experience: Agbogbloshie Settlement, Accra 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSituating Africa's UIS in a Sociotechnical Systems Framework 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransforming the UIS? ICTs, the 4IR and Makerspaces 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRealizing a More Generative UIS: Collaborative Pathways for Transition 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. The Rise of the \"Gig Economy\" and the Impacts of Virtual Capital on African Cities (with Alicia Fortuin) 114\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefining the Gig Economy 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Gig Economy in Africa 116\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRide Sharing and the Evolution of Cape Town's Sociotechnical Regimes 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePractices in Cape Town's Ride-sharing Regime 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoverning Ride-sharing: Power Asymmetries, Informal Contracts and Rating Schemes 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrecarious Platforms: Safety Issues in Cape Town's Ride-sharing Economy 124\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRide-sharing and the Evolution of Sociotechnical Regimes in African Cities 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Making Cities Livable for All: Infrastructure and Service Provisioning Challenges 131\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Scale and Scope of the Collective Goods Challenge in African Cities 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGovernance of Infrastructure Regimes: Speculation, Resource Constraints and Political Priorities 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSplintered Urbanization and the Challenge of Service Distribution 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStructural and Political Economic Drivers of Infrastructure Deficits in African Cities 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSkyTrain -- Accra's Utopian Mega Infrastructure Project 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bagamoyo Port Project, Tanzania 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKenya's Standard-Gauge Railway (SGR) 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAchieving Infrastructure Transformations: Recentering Use-Value 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. The Wrath of Capital or Nature? 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It takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces, objects, and landscapes and uses them to narrate the untold stories of the marginalized peoplethe servants, women, children, subalterns, and racialized minoritieswho held up the infrastructure of empire. In so doing it opens up an important new approach to architectural history: an invitation to shift our attention from the large to the small scale.  Taking the British empire in India as its primary focus, this book presents eighteen short, readable chapters to explore an array of overlooked places and spaces. From cook rooms and slave quarters to outhouses, go-downs, and medicine cupboards, each chapter reveals how and why these kinds of minor spaces are so important to understanding colonialism.  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This book unites subalterns with the spatial medium of their agency during colonial rule. It brilliantly reveals the hidden infrastructure of empire through an architectural and social history of service, separation, and subordination. * K. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgments  \u003cb\u003ePart I. Small Spaces \u003c\/b\u003e 1. Of Small Spaces 2. Empire of Small Spaces  \u003cb\u003ePart II: Trade and Labor\u003c\/b\u003e 3. Dependency 4. Locating the Bottlekhana 5. Potable Empire 6. Europe Goods 7. Strange Tongues 8. Making Invisible  \u003cb\u003ePart III: Land Imagination \u003c\/b\u003e 9. Vantage 10. Connective Spaces 11. Anomalous Spaces 12. An Aesthetic Episode 13. Roofscape  \u003cb\u003ePart IV: A Geography of Small Spaces\u003c\/b\u003e 14. Collections and Containment 15. Portable Geographies 16. A Good Shelf 17. A Box of Medicine 18. 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Construction, Daniel Mains demonstrates, is a vital location at which relationships between states and citizens are grounded. While they are powerful gatherings of technology and finance, construction projects are also precarious and full of danger. In exploring the tensions that are intrinsic to construction projects, Mains effortlessly brings together theorizations of historical materialism, vital materialism, and affect theory to produce a dazzling and clear account of how construction is incrementally and yet fundamentally transforming the political landscape of cities of the global South.” -- Nikhil Anand, author of * Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eUnder Construction\u003c\/i\u003e stages urgent interventions into development and governance, citizen and state, Afro-optimism and neoliberal pessimism in order to depict the complexities of infrastructure in Africa. Daniel Mains's work makes clear that the relationships between infrastructure, state, labor, and modernity are variable and contingent—sometimes smooth, often sticky and fraught—while making a compelling case for Ethiopia as a rich site for theoretical and ethnographic attention.” -- Charles Piot, author of * The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles *\u003cbr\u003e\"This study by Mains should be accepted with gratitude, and welcomed as a huge contribution to Ethiopian studies of urban development.\" -- Fasika Gedif * African Studies Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnder Construction\u003c\/i\u003e makes an important contribution not only to the field of the anthropology of development but also to urban development, at a time when many studies in Ethiopia have been placing more emphasis on rural communities. Daniel Mains, while basing his empirical evidence on the selected urban projects which appear to be perpetually under construction, shows that the process of construction has changed the relationship between citizens and the state, and not always for the better.\" -- Gemechu Admassu Abeshu * African Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"The book represents an important contribution to the field of infrastructure within anthropology and beyond. . . . \u003ci\u003eUnder Construction\u003c\/i\u003e represents a seminal contribution to this field of study.\" -- Felipe Fernandez * Anthropologica *\u003cbr\u003e“Offering a much-needed ethnographic investigation into the lives, livelihoods and labour relations that inhabit construction work in contemporary urban Africa, \u003ci\u003eUnder Construction\u003c\/i\u003e contributes significantly to current debates and scholarship in urban studies, infrastructure, international development, and African Studies.” -- Pauline Destrée * Anthropological Notebooks *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. 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In Kids at Work, Emir Estrada shines a light on the surprising labor of these young workers, providing the first ethnography on the participation of Latinx children in street vending. \u003cbr\u003eDrawing on dozens of interviews with children and their undocumented parents, as well as three years spent on the streets shadowing families at work, Estrada brings attention to the unique set of hardships Latinx youth experience in this occupation. S\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmir Estradas insightful ethnography reveals the complexity of the household economy of undocumented and mixed-status families in Los Angeles, from the standpoint of children who work as street vendors. Kids at Work forces a reconsideration of traditional notions of childhood, family relations, and work, by demonstrating how children with their own agency and decision-making capacity enter into mutually supportive and protective family and work arrangements with their parents to make ends meet. In the context of a highly-stratified economy and society, where race, illegality, class, and gender intersect to shape unequal life chances, Estradas ground-breaking book uncovers the central and indispensable role that children play as co-contributors to the household economy of our most vulnerable families. -- Zulema Valdez, author of Entrepreneurs and the Search for the American Dream\u003cbr\u003eEstrada balances methodological rigor with great empathylikely partially rooted in her own experiences as a teen vendorto develop a deeply insightful and nuanced analysis of the lives of immigrant children street vendors in Los Angeles. 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