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ABC-CLIO Urban Mass Transit
Book SynopsisThis volume in the Greenwood Technographies series covers urban mass transit - that is, the technologies that allow cities to move large numbers of people around.Trade Review"Post offers Urban Mass Transit--The Life Story of Technology, a well-written book that traces the development of the trolley and streetcar to today's light rail transit (LRT). The book includes material on urbanization and transit via horsepower; introduction of mechanical means to run cable railways; electrification and the rise of the trolley; motor vehicle developments and trolley use decline; and rapid transit expansion and the revival of mass transit. The book includes a time line, glossary, and list of resources. Post has done an excellent job, using stories, photographs, sketches, and facts to construct a fascinating historical account of innovation. An appealing work for the general public as well as students and others with interests in public transit. Recommended. General readers; lower-division undergraduates through professionals." - Choice"Narrating the life story of urban mass transit in the United States, Post focuses on streetcars, trolleys, light rail, and similar transport and pays significantly less attention to buses and subways. His primary theme as he explores the mass transit developments in the 20th century concerns the ways public and decision makers evaluated the costs and benefits of various transit choices, both in strictly economic terms and in terms of wider societal concerns, including noise, pollution, and even aesthetics." - SciTech Book News
£40.00
Palgrave MacMillan UK Global Crime Connections
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the dynamics and control of organized and corporate crime in their national and international contexts. These articles challenge the simplistic assumption that crime is caused by bad individuals, acting alone or conspiring together, and that crime can be adequately dealt with by increasing conventional police activity.Table of ContentsPreface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - Crime's Global Reach; M.Woodiwiss - All About Eve: The Many Faces of US Drug Policy; B.Bullington - After Mr Bennett and Mr Bush: US Foreign Policy and the Prospects for Drug Control; N.Dorn & N.South - Defending the Mountaintop: Organized Crime and the Disposal of Toxic Waste; A.Block - The Camorra: 'Clean' Capital and Organized Crime; V.Ruggiero - EEC Fraud: A Suitable Case for Treatment; M.Clarke - US Capital versus the Third World: Union Carbide and Bhopal; F.Pearce & S.Tombs - The Politics of Corporate Crime Control; L.Snider - Index
£85.49
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Sidewalk
Book SynopsisAn exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, Sidewalk takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening or unseemly, work day after day on the blocks of one of New York''s most diverse neighborhoods. Sociologist Duneier, author of Slim''s Table, offers an accessible and compelling group portrait of several poor black men who make their livelihoods on the sidewalks of Greenwich Village selling secondhand goods, panhandling, and scavenging books and magazines. Duneier spent five years with these individuals, and in Sidewalk he argues that, contrary to the opinion of various city officials, they actually contribute significantly to the order and well-being of the Village. An important study of the heart and mind of the street, Sidewalk also features an insightful afterword by longtime book vendor Hakim Hasan. This fascinating study reveals today''s urban life in all its complexity: its vitality, i
£18.00
Random House Publishing Group The City
£17.09
Taylor & Francis Ltd Inclusion in the City Selection Schooling and
Book SynopsisInclusion in the City explores inclusion and exclusion in the context of policy and practice in one English city - Birmingham. Here, a commitment to redressing the inequalities experienced by many learners has been inhibited by difficulty in securing agreement to a definite policy for inclusion and, consequently, in sustaining initiatives for strengthening participation in community comprehensive education.Grounded in an understanding of inclusion as a political and moral project, the book presents a range of perspectives from policymakers and practitioners. Detailed case studies, based on research specially undertaken for this book, relate inclusion to key issues in contemporary education such as; the effects of selection by attainment; faith schools and their communities; single sex education and inclusive schools; participation in further education; and social mobility.Insightful, thought provoking and original, Inclusion in the City detaches processes of iTable of Contents1. Understanding Inclusion in the City 2. "A Great Learning City" 3. Perspectives on Inclusion/Exclusion in Birmingham 4. Selection by Attainment 5. Embracing the Faith, Including the Community? 6. Single-sex Education and Inclusive School Communities 7. Student Choice and Participation in Further Education 8. A 'Turbulent' City: Mobility and Social Inclusion 9. Moving Towards Inclusion?
£61.58
Taylor & Francis Ltd Consuming the Entrepreneurial City Image Memory Spectacle
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Random House USA Inc Metropolis
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Random House USA Inc Evicted Poverty and Profit in the American City
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review).In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which noth
£24.00
iUniverse On the Nature of Cities Toward Enduring and Creative Human Environments
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iUniverse SLIPPING INTO THE SHADOWS Junkies Prostitutes Con Artists
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iUniverse Forging A More Perfect Union For a Grand Harmony of Cities Democracy Ecology
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Yun Yin Cai Ingrained
£12.99
Random House Publishing Group The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Book SynopsisPublished to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs?s masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book?s original editor, who provides an intimate perspective on Jacobs herself and unique insights into the creation and lasting influence of this classic. The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as ?perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning. . . . [It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book?s arguments.? Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jane Jacobs?s tour de force is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It remains sensible, knowledgeable, readable, and indispensable.
£18.50
Abingdon Press Urban Ministry
£16.99
Project for Public Spaces, Inc How to Turn a Place Around
£25.00
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Unfair Housing How National Policy Shapes Community Action
Book SynopsisWhy do most neighbourhoods in the United States continue to be racially divided? In this work, author Mara Sidney offers a fresh explanation for the persistent colour lines in America's cities by showing how weak national policy has silenced and splintered grassroots activists.Table of ContentsHousing Discrimination - Problems, Politics, Policies; Crafting Housing Policy In Spotlight And Shadow; Linking Housing Policy To Advocacy; Advocacy For Housing Equality In Minneapolis; Advocacy For Housing Equality In Denver; A Comparative Analysis Of Fair Housing And Community Reinvestment Movements - National And Local Impacts On Advocacy; Advancing The Struggle For Housing Equality - Opportunities And Constraints.
£25.60
Random House USA Inc 740 Park
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Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press Love in the Big City
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MW - Rutgers University Press Time and the Town A Provincetown Chronicle
Table of ContentsForeword Part I. Age of Innocence [1907-1911] Part II. The Onion [1912-1916] Part III. Wartime [1917-1921] Part IV. Days of the Locust [1922-1926] Part V. Depression [1927-1931] Part VI. New Deal [1932-1936] Part VII. A World Ends [1937-1941]
£24.29
John Wiley & Sons Between Good and Ghetto African American Girls and Inner City Violence Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
Book SynopsisShows the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence. This title presents an account of how African American girls negotiate schools and neighborhoods governed by the so-called 'code of the street' - the form of street justice that governs violence in distressed urban areas.Trade Review"This book adds invaluable information and analysis to the growing debate on the violence perpetrated by girls, and the ethnographic method is exactly what is needed to further the question of whether today's girls—particularly those most marginalized due to class, race, and neighborhood—are more violent." -- Joanne Belknap * author of The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime & Justice *"Between Good and Ghetto is an expertly written and fascinating ethnography of the gendered racial dimensions of violence in the inner city. Jones does an excellent job in communicating the strength and sensitivity [of the girls she interviewed] to her readers while, simultaneously, producing a work of tremendous insight and immense sociological imagination." * Contemporary Sociology *"A very compelling account of daily life as experienced by poor, urban, African American adolescent girls. Recommended." * Choice *"Nikki Jones' sharp, detailed investigation of the way fighting, on the street and in school, shapes the lives of young African American women combines shrewd analytical insight and clear evocative language to give readers an understanding of what it costs a 'good girl' to stay good, and what happens to those who 'go for bad.'" -- Howard S. Becker * author of Outsiders and Writing for Social Scientists *"The young women in Between Good and Ghetto compel the reader to consider their lives and the violence they experience in relation to the shifting and dynamic concept of protection. What is perhaps the most significant and disturbing revelation in the book is that there are few contexts, behavioral strategies, institutional spaces, or ways of identifying that fully protect young inner-city African American women's physical well-being, emotional health, and empowered self-perception." * Signs *"Intellectually and emotionally evocative. Jones’s [book] is hard to put down due to her adept use of imagery and obvious passion for her work." * Feminist Formations *"This book adds invaluable information and analysis to the growing debate on the violence perpetrated by girls, and the ethnographic method is exactly what is needed to further the question of whether today's girls—particularly those most marginalized due to class, race, and neighborhood—are more violent." -- Joanne Belknap * author of The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime & Justice *"Between Good and Ghetto is an expertly written and fascinating ethnography of the gendered racial dimensions of violence in the inner city. Jones does an excellent job in communicating the strength and sensitivity [of the girls she interviewed] to her readers while, simultaneously, producing a work of tremendous insight and immense sociological imagination." * Contemporary Sociology *"A very compelling account of daily life as experienced by poor, urban, African American adolescent girls. Recommended." * Choice *"Nikki Jones' sharp, detailed investigation of the way fighting, on the street and in school, shapes the lives of young African American women combines shrewd analytical insight and clear evocative language to give readers an understanding of what it costs a 'good girl' to stay good, and what happens to those who 'go for bad.'" -- Howard S. Becker * author of Outsiders and Writing for Social Scientists *"The young women in Between Good and Ghetto compel the reader to consider their lives and the violence they experience in relation to the shifting and dynamic concept of protection. What is perhaps the most significant and disturbing revelation in the book is that there are few contexts, behavioral strategies, institutional spaces, or ways of identifying that fully protect young inner-city African American women's physical well-being, emotional health, and empowered self-perception." * Signs *"Intellectually and emotionally evocative. Jones’s [book] is hard to put down due to her adept use of imagery and obvious passion for her work." * Feminist Formations *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The Social World of Inner City Girls 2 "It's Not Where You Live, It's How You Live" 3 "Ain't I A Violent Person?" 4 "Love Make You Fight Crazy" Conclusion: The Other Side of the Crisis Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£26.35
MI - New York University The Latinoa Condition A Critical Reader Second Edition
Book SynopsisOffers a broad portrait of Latino/a life in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first centuryTrade Review"The authors of these essays explore the theme of Latino/a identity by presenting popular media images of Latino/as and by examining the issues of representation that these images raise...instructive and useful." * Choice *"A valuable and highly informative discussion of the theoretical questions that underlie the production of popular culture in the twenty-first century." * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionPart I The Shape of the Latino Group: Who Are We and What Are We Talking about Anyway? Part II Conquest and Immigration: How We Got (Get) Here Part III Nativism, Racism, and Our Social Construction as a "Problem" Group: How Once We Were Here, We Were Racialized by the Dominant Culture Part IV Racial Construction and Demonization in Mass Culture: Media Treatment and StereotypesPart V Counterstories: We Begin to Talk Back and "Name Our Own Reality" Part VI Rebellious Lawyering and Resistance Strategies: We Fight Back Part VII Revisionist Law: Does the Legal System Work for Us? Part VIII Assimilation: Maybe Our Best Strategy Is Just to Duck? Part IX Splits and Tensions within the Civil Rights Community Part X Sex, Gender, and Class: Sure I'm a Latino, but I'm Still Different from You - How about It? Part XI English-Only, Bilingualism, Interpreters: You Mean I Can't Speak Spanish? Contributors Index
£92.73
John Wiley & Sons Corrupt Cities A Practical Guide to Cure and Prevention
Book SynopsisDrawing on their experience in battling corruption around the world, the authors of this text offer ways to defeat corruption on the local level. Using case studies, the publication aims to show how seemingly hopeless problems can become the catalysts of successful reform.
£18.00
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Cosmopolis Ii Mongrel Cities of the 21st Century Mongrel Cities of the TwentyFirst Century
Book SynopsisThis text presents a global tour of contemporary cities - from Birmingham to Rotterdam, Frankfurt to Berlin, Sydney to Vancouver, and Chicago to East St.Louis.Trade ReviewCongratulations to Leonie Sandercock on being awarded the 2005 Dale Prize, awarded each year by the Department of Urban & Regional Planning at California State Polytechnic University for excellence in a common field of urban and regional planning."Cosmopolis II captures the radical mood of the early 21st century and turns it into a positive project about living in multi-cultural cities. It will appeal to all those struggling with and studying contemporary cities. Beautifully written, clear, authoritative, and enhanced with evocative imagery, the book brings together new ideas, new literature, new cases and new arguments. It is likely to become a core text in the literature on cities and planning very quickly. No other book achieves the synthesis provided here."--Patsy Healey, University of Newcastle"The most important book on planning practice of the late 20th Century. It will set the terms of debate for years to come"--Robert Beauregard, New School for Social Research, New York"The best contemporary text for teaching planning history and theory."--Edward Soja, Planning, UCLA"An extraordinarily comprehensive investigation."--Blueprint"Sandercock's pervasive commitment and sensitive imagination provide a valuable inspiration to all those concerned with the quality of cities and their governance."--Urban Studies"A book of passion and conviction about how cities are and what they might become. It is a challenge to all those whose professions are bound up with shaping the world's urban future."--CityTable of ContentsPart One Looking Back: Modernist Planning and its Discontents; Modernist Cities and Planning; Rewriting Planning History; Who Knows? -Exploring Planning's Knowledges. Part Two Looking Forward: Mongrel Cities and the 21st Century Multicultural project; Mongrel Cities - How Can We Live Together?; Home, Nation and Stranger - Fear in the City; There is No Hiding Place - Integrating Immigrants. Part Three Towards a New Planning Imagination: Transfomative Planning Practices; How and Why Cities Change; The Power of Story Planning; City Songlines.
£42.99
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Project for Public Spaces, Inc The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces
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LEGARE STREET PR Asgaardsrejen
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LEGARE STREET PR Asgaardsrejen
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LEGARE STREET PR The City That Was
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LEGARE STREET PR The City That Was
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LEGARE STREET PR No Thoroughfare
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LEGARE STREET PR The Metropolis
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LEGARE STREET PR The The Social Settlement Movement in Chicago
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LEGARE STREET PR The The Improvement Of The Dwellings Of The Labouring Classes Through The Operation Of Government Measures c.
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LEGARE STREET PR An An Essay On The Population Of Dublin
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Legare Street Press Street Life In London. By J. Thomson And Adolphe Smith
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Legare Street Press London And Its Teeming Toilers
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Legare Street Press Usque Ad Coelum
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Legare Street Press Building a Community
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Legare Street Press The The Mechanism of the City
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Legare Street Press Cities are Abnormal
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Legare Street Press The Present Position of the Housing Problem in and Around London
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Legare Street Press The The Growth of Cities a Study in Statistics
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Legare Street Press Substitutes for the Saloon
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Legare Street Press Report of the New York City Commission On Congestion of Population
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Legare Street Press First And Second Report S of the Commissioners for Inquiring Into the State of Large Towns and Populous Districts Issue 2
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Legare Street Press Settlements And Their Outlook
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