Urban communities / city life Books

Book SynopsisCurrency and culture in a European border zoneTrade ReviewPeebles adopts an anthropological approach to the question of how the roll-out of the euro has influenced the emergence of transnational regions in Europe, such as the Oresund region encompassing Copenhagen, Denmark, and Malmo, Sweden. * Survival *Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction1. Imagining Utopia, Constructing Øresund: From the Nation-State to the Region2. The Arts of 'Scientific' Money: Monetary Policy as Moral Policy3. Receipts and Deceits: Currency Regulation, Black Markets and Borders4. The Mark of Money: Regulating the Flow of Subjects5. Indebted CommunitiesNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe history of a city and the evolution of a nationTrade Review[T]his is a story well told, a lucid and readable book about an interesting and complex city. * The Hindu *Lucidly written, beautifully illustrated and meticulously supported with facts and figures, this is an important addition to the academic literature on Gujarat. * Contemporary South Asia *[A]n important contribution to the urban histories of Asia and a must-read for anyone interested in the history of Ahmedabad and Gujarat [T]his is a compelling account of Ahmedabad, ably written by a historian whose long engagement with and affection for the city shine through without clouding his intellectual insights. Putting a human face on the city's leading figures who built the city and its institutions, caused or led movements, maintained calm or provoked violence, Spodek takes us on an engrossing rollercoaster ride through Ahmedabad's turbulent and complicated history in the twentieth century.... * H-Asia *Ahmedabad . . . provides an important contribution to the field as both an examination of a place conspicuously underrepresented in the urban history of the region and as an excellent piece of urban history that not only greatly informs our understanding of South Asian development, but also has application to a number of cities globally. * H-Urban *Because it is written in such a lucid and lively manner and because it treats so many of the critical themes of twentieth-century Indian history, Ahmedabad is also one of the books I would most strongly recommend to anyone who wants to understand South Asia's recent past. * Business History Review *Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century India is an important and timely history of a city that has re-emerged at the forefront of debates around India's model of economic growth. * Urban History *[This book] will be of interest to scholars of urban history, local and national politics, and popular movements in South Asia.Feb. 2014 * JRNL ASIAN STUDIES *A city of extraordinary economic growth and innovation, horrendous communal violence and appalling poverty; Howard Spodek justifiably calls Ahmedabad a 'shock city' in his . . . book Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth Century India.Winter 2012 * IIAS Newsletter (Intnl Inst Asian Studies) *The strength of this first-rate, well-illustrated study is its thorough grounding in source material, an intimate knowledge of people and places, and its connections between Ahmedabad and such personalities as Gandhi, Vallabbhai Patel, and Anasuyaben Sarabhia . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *This excellent study is the culmination of a half-century of research on a city in which Spodek first lived in 1964 and to which he continues to return. Spodek's lovingly told yet critical assessment of Ahmedabad reflects his deep affection for the place and many of its prominent twentieth-century residents. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. The Gandhian Era, 1915–1950 1. Gandhi Chooses Ahmedabad 2. Gandhi Assembles New Leadership 3. Vallabhbhai Patel Builds the Congress Political Machine 4. Anasuyaben Sarabhai Engages Ahmedabad's Working ClassesPart 2. The Westernizing City, 1950–1980 5. Ambalal Sarabhai and Kasturbhai Lalbhai Build an Industrialized, Westernized, Prosperous, Cultured, World-Class Company Town 6. Indulal Yagnik Challenges the Gandhian ConsensusPart 3. Creativity and Chaos: Economic Restructuring—Political Violence—Culture Conflict, 1969– 7. Communal Violence, 1969 8. Chimanbhai Patel Provokes the Nav Nirman Movement, 1974 9. The Mills Close, the TLA Falters, and the Municipal Corporation Goes Broke 10. Madhavsinh Solanki Invokes the Politics of Caste and Class 11. Ahmedabad 2000: The Capitalist City Out of Control 12. Godhra, the Gujarat Pogrom, and the ConsequencesGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe first in-depth study of Los Angeles through the lens of its original core at the old city Plaza.Trade Review"This is a much needed, much anticipated book. The entire history of Los Angeles can be told, as William Estrada has done in this superb study, through careful investigation of the city's historic Plaza. The city and its countless stories of human drama, significance, and meaning come alive in this careful, exacting investigation. The very heart of Los Angeles at last has its biographer." William Deverell, Director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the WestTable of Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Cultural and Historical Origins Chapter 2. The Rise and Decline of the Mexican Plaza Chapter 3. From Ciudad to City Chapter 4. Homelands Remembered Chapter 5. Revolution and Public Space Chapter 6. Reforming Culture and Community Chapter 7. Parades, Murals, and Bulldozers Chapter 8. Politics and Preservation Chapter 9. The Persistence of Memory Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the effects of violence on an urban center and how it shapes both the physical and cultural landscape of a city.Table of Contents Foreword by Diane E. Davis Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Political Violence and the City 1. Violent Acts and Revisioning Moments 2. Absence, Urban Space, and Civil Participation in Rabin Square: The Assassination of Prime Minister Rabin, November 4, 1995 Ideology: Urban Space and Civil Participation Memory: Everyday Life versus Traumatic Practices 3. Borders, Urban Order, and State-City Relationships along the Shoreline: The Suicide Bombing at the Dolphinarium Discothèque, June 1, 2001 Boundaries: The Role of Planning and Architecture in Constructing Urban Borders Order: State-City Relationships and Their Effect on Urban Order 4. Urbanity, Immigration, and Everyday Life in Neve Shaanan: The Suicide Bombings at the Central Bus Station, January 5, 2003 Center and Periphery: Economic Production and Urban Representation Everyday: Visibility and Temporary Urban Coalitions Conclusion: The Routine of Violence Appendix A: Key Dates and Events Appendix B: Tel Aviv in Numbers Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisStephanie Merrim offers a dynamic interdisciplinary approach to colonial Hispanic writing based on the spectacular city, a model that encompasses three driving forces of New World literary culture: cities, festivals, and wonder.Table of Contents Preface Introduction. Road Map Chapter 1. Agile Platforms of the Spectacular City: The New World and the Old Chapter 2. Order and Concert Chapter 3. Balbuena's "La grandeza mexicana" and the Advent of the Spectacular City Chapter 4. Balbuena's Spectacular City and the Creole Cause Chapter 5. Engaging Plurality: Baroque Plenitude and the Spectacular City in Mexico Chapter 6. "To Know the All": The Spectacular Esoteric City in Mexico Chapter 7. Babel: Wild Work of the New World Baroque Appendix. Chronology of Principal Works Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThe award-winning author of Texas, a Modern History and Galveston: A History presents the first comprehensive narrative of urban development in Texas from the Spanish Conquest to the present.Trade Review"Individuals interested in knowing more about the various pathways to modern Texas cities will find much worthy of exploration in McComb’s new book." * Texas Books in Review *"After finishing the book the reader will no longer be able to ignore the many contributions that the cities of Texas have made to the state...a valuable addition to the scholarship of the urban Southwest and should be read by those interested in Texas and its transformation from a rural to an urban state." * Annals of Wyoming: The Wyoming History Journal *"[An] intriguing synthesis." * Pacific Historical Review *"The broad, efficient sweep of McComb's writing style is remarkable...The book represents a major accomplishment in Texas historiography and is highly readable. If you read one work in 2017 that examines the entire state, McComb's study would make a fine choice." * Central Texas Studies *"Military towns, railroad outposts, lumbering centers, river communities, and port cities all get coverage in The City in Texas . . . [A] solid introduction to Texas urban history." * The Journal of Southern History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Theories, Definitions, HistoriansPart One: First Things1. The Lay of the Land2. The Influence of the Native Americans3. The Towns of the Spanish Empire in Texas4. The Coming of the Americans5. The Towns of the Texas RevolutionPart Two: The Dirt Road Frontier, 1836–19006. Major Events7. The Dirt Road8. Migration: Gone to Texas9. The Evolution of San Antonio10. The German Towns of Texas11. The Coastal Ports12. The River Ports13. The Political Towns14. The Military Towns15. The Railroad Towns16. The Lumber Towns17. The End of the Dirt Road FrontierPart Three: The Amenities of City Life, 1900–195018. The Rural to Urban Shift19. The Great Galveston Storm20. Spindletop and Beaumont21. The Oil Towns22. The Elite Rule of the Cities23. The World War I Era24. The Entrancement of the City25. The Great Depression26. World War II27. The Immediate Postwar YearsPart Four: Great Texas Cities, 1950–201228. Population and Urban Expansion29. Suburbs and Subdivisions30. Segregation and Integration31. The Hispanic Identity32. John F. Kennedy and Dallas33. The Voting Rights Act and the Cities34. Land Transportation35. Airlines and Airports36. Urban Excellence in Texas37. Houston, a Renaissance City38. The Infrastructure for Excellence39. The City and the State: A ConundrumNotesSuggestions for Further ReadingIndex

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Book SynopsisCompany town. The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip good only at price-gouging company stores of paternalistic employers. But these stereotypes are outdated, especially for those company towns that flourished well into the twentieth century. This new edition updates the status of the surviving towns and how they have changed in the fifteen years since the original edition, and what new life has been created on the sites of the ones that were razed. In the preface, Linda Carlson reflects on how wonderful it has been to meet people who lived in these towns, or had parents who did, and to hear about their memorable experiences.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Corey’s masterful monograph will be a must-read not only for Documenta visitors but also for anyone interested in global contemporary art and South East Asia." * South East Asia Research *"It is valuable asset to any syllabus of Southeast Asian contemporary art history to inspire new writings." * Art & Market *"This book invites a reflection on the affective shaping of our spatiotemporal experience of living in cities, thereby appealing to scholars in landscape studies as well as art researchers who will enjoy the original and eloquent critique of a very gratifying selection of artworks." * Journal of Vietnamese Studies *

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Book SynopsisExamines the historical processes that transformed Ottoman Algiers, the 'Bulwark of Islam', into 'Alger la blanche', the colonial urban showpiece - and, after the outbreak of revolution in 1954 - counter-model of France's global empire. This title offers a look at the social use of urban space in a North African city.Trade Review"The collection does an excellent job of demonstrating the richness of visual and material sources for urban and colonial history and will provide a valuable resource to scholars." -- Victoria E. Thompson * Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East *"The picture of Algiers that emerges from the Walls of Algiers is one that fulfills the ambitions of its authors and the book and the different contributions that are made offer much to both the casual reader and the specialist. It is a fascinating collection that should be read by anyone interested in Algeria and the multivariate processes of Algeria's colonization." * Reviews in History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction / Zeynep Celik, Julia Clancy-Smith, and Frances Terpak Part One | Peoples 1. Eroticism, Erasures, and Absence: The Peopling of Algiers, 1830-1900 / Julia Clancy-Smith 2. Medina and Modernity: The Emergence of Muslim Civil Society in Algiers between the Two World Wars / Omar Carlier Part Two | Images 3. The Promise and Power of New Technologies: Nineteenth-Century Algiers / Frances Terpak 4. A Lingering Obsession: The Houses of Algiers in French Colonial Discourse / Zeynep Celik 5. The Invisible Prison: Representing Algiers on Film / Eric Breitbart Part Three | Places 6. Masking and Unmasking the Historic Quarters of Algiers: The Reassessment of an Archive / Isabelle Grangaud 7. Historic Intersections: The Center of Algiers / Zeynep Celik Historiographies of Algiers: Critical Reflections / Patricia M. E. Lorcin Selected Bibliography Index Contributors

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Dümpelmann tracks the history of the modern street tree . . . A deep, scholarly dive into urban society’s need for—and relationship with—trees that sought to return the natural world to the concrete jungle.”—Adrian Higgins, Washington Post"The book makes a convincing alternative case from the more traditional approach of "nature versus culture" dichotomy. Instead, Dümpelmann portrays street trees as an integral part of the urban fabric. Professionals in forestry, urban development, and landscape architecture, as well as readers with a strong interest in the history of the urban landscape, will find this book enlightening as we move towards resilient cities of tomorrow."—Lumi Kirk, Garten + LandschaftSeeing Trees has won the 2019 John Brinckerhoff Jackson prize, sponsored by the Foundation for Landscape Studies Winner of the 2022 Elisabeth Blair MacDougall Book Award sponsored by the Society of Architectural HistoriansFinalist for the 2019 Julia Ward Howe award for non-fiction, sponsored by The Boston Authors Club“In this imaginative and deeply researched work, Sonja Dümpelmann truly helps us to ‘see trees’ in the careful chronologies she develops and the political messages that these trees represented within their times and places.”—Keith Morgan, Boston University"In Seeing Trees the distinguished scholar Sonja Dümpelmann employs her linguistic ability, knowledge, and imaginative use of the archival resources in both Berlin and New York to extend the boundaries of landscape history.”—Kenneth Helphand, University of Oregon, author of Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime“Sonja Dümpelmann distills a rich and textured history of street trees—the people involved, technical approaches employed, and the way street trees served as both a polemic and as a point of unification for people.”—Susan Herrington, author of Landscape Theory in Design“This meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated book chronicles the multifaceted identities of trees—as food, fuel, shelter, and defense—and offers us new ways of reading social history into the natural world.”—Jennifer S. Light, Massachusetts Institute of Technology“A signal contribution to the history of landscape design and city planning. Writing with narrative verve, Sonja Dümpelmann turns rigorous scholarship into a fascinating story of time and place for both the academic and general reader.”—Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, President, Foundation for Landscape Studies

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Book Synopsis“[B[oth these fine novellas unfurl the kind of complicated family tapestries that every generation ends up weaving from money and love.” —Wall Street Journal Fate is explored in the fall and rise of two twentieth-century American families.Trade Review"What links the Perkinses and the Whites, apart from the fact that their trajectories are meeting “midair”? For starters, there’s Shorr’s eye for telling detail as she unreels the families’ varied experiences. And then there’s her insightful acknowledgment that those experiences are transformed as they sink into the past, that their subtle shadings will inevitably be lost." -- Alida Becker - New York Times Book Review"[An] inventive excavation of the past, this one in the form of two novellas whose themes are family and class, one an account of patrician decline and the other a tale of rags to riches. Each is a minor masterpiece.....Together they form a witty and moving portrait of American life going back a half-century or more....Ms. Shorr excels at capturing the arc of a relationship as well as of a life." -- Daniel Akst - Wall Street Journal"Victoria Shorr is a conjurer of the highest order, artfully creating apposite tales of family ruin and family success in her wry, insightful, and elegant prose." -- Lily Tuck, National Book Award–winning author of The News from Paraguay and Sisters"The two novellas in Victoria Shorr's book Mid-Air are intimate portraits of inclusion and exclusion, as well as the dangers implicit in nostalgia. Rich with an acerbic skepticism and abetted by the unexpected detail that renders something humorous, Shorr writes with a tolerance of ambiguity that is provocative as well as enlightening." -- Susanna Moore, author of Miss Aluminum"Shorr proves herself a literary mimic of the first order with these two pitch-perfect stories…[She] cleverly juxtaposes how one aspect of American society falls as another rises, and both novellas have a novellike density of detail and depth of characterization. Together, they offer rich rewards." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)"Shorr’s prose is fluid and supple….her insights are so keen, and her storytelling so elegant and natural….this book is a quiet accomplishment." -- Kirkus Reviews"In style and substance, Shorr summons the works of Anne Tyler as she rejoices in her characters’ day-to-day experiences, dropping pearls of insight into crystalline vignettes." -- Booklist (starred)

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Book SynopsisThe bestselling guide to forward-looking urban planning and design Sustainable Urbanism explores and celebrates innovation in sustainable living, and calls for leadership in the design and development of urban spaces. Written by the former chair of the U.S.Table of ContentsForeword xiJanette Sadik-Khan Preface xiii Acknowledgments xviii PART ONE: Our Default World 1: Where We Are 5 Civilization Timeline 5 Global hreats 6 National hreats 8 Global Barriers 10 National Barriers 12 Global Progress 14 National Progress 16 2: Case Studies: The Future Ahead of Schedule 24 PART TWO: Our Preferred Future 3: Where We Want to Go 68 A World Advancing Together 69 India 74 China 75 Nigeria 76 United States 77 PART THREE: Theory of Change 4: Igniting Community 82 Making “More Perfect” Communities 83 Are We here Yet? 84 5: Time 92 An Urgent Pivot that Falls on Our Watch 93 Mature Changelines 100 Emergent Changelines 102 6: Acceleration Strategies 116 How We Can Attain Our Preferred Future in Four Generations 117 How We Perceive Change 118 How Markets Inluence Change 124 Campaigns 125 Communities and Networks of Practice 128 Pilgrimage Sites 135 Professional Ethics and Liability 136 PART FOUR: The Practice of Change Why patterns? 146 7: Collective Effervescence 148 Build strong relationships between people and place through hope and hard work 150Mary Nelson, PhD Use participatory art to connect to your neighbor’s humanity 152Kareeshma Ali Every neighborhood needs an anchor house, magnetized to attract assets and demonstrate possibility 154Isis Ferguson Transform every public space into a welcoming place 156Fred Kent Increase “expressive surface area” in cities and make a place for creative ecology to lourish! 158Steven Raspa Celebrate life with immersive community events guided by the principles of Burning Man 160Steve Raspa Create a unique and visible food culture in every neighborhood 162Janine de la Salle, MA, MCIP, RPP Use seasonal landscaping to connect humans with nature, and with each other 168Steve Nygren 8: Self-Governing Neighborhoods 172 Truly great neighborhoods dream, make aspirational plans, and implement them over time 174Alicia Daniels Uhlig Maintain the health of your neighborhood by holding annual planning checkups 176Jessica Millman Plan land use changes via a design charrette process that includes robust input and at least three feedback loops 178Bill Lennertz Conduct an annual “tactical intervention” that re-envisions how underutilized space can promote prosperity 180Mike Lydon Make large on-the-ground changes fast through clear vision, demonstration,and measurement 184Janette Sadik-Khan, Seth Solomonow Fill the gap in neighbourhood governance by creating an innovative business improvement district that includes residences 187Jamie Simone, AICP, LEED-AP Build immunity to gentriication 189Antwi Akom, Tessa Cruz, Aekta Shah Treat light poles as valuable public assets able to support advanced data in the future 191Nancy Clanton, P.E. Let district governance unfold over time 192Daniel Slone 9: A Theater of Life 196 People need an identiiable spatial unit to belong to 198Emily Talen, PhD Maximize contact between communities of interest by designing third places 202Aly Andrews Provide microunit housing in a “two-hour neighborhood,” with a nearby grocery, park, and indoor third place 204Patrick Kennedy Turn strangers into neighbors by diversifying dwelling types in each building 206Stefanos Polyzoides, Vinayak Bharne Mix building types within every block 208Daniel Parolek Each building should have one architectural style 210Steve Nygren 10: Vibrant Density 212 The “sweet spot” in a sustainable urban fabric is four to eight stories 214Jason F. McLennan Buildings should comprise a visible base, a middle no more than seven stories tall, and a top 216Steve Mouzon Make housing more afordable and proitable by reducing and separating parking 218John G. Ellis, AIA, RIBA, Mohammad Momin Urban parking should be considered temporary and designed to be redevelopment-ready 222Douglas Farr Build higher-density housing consistent with the average market potential: 100% in downtowns; 80% in in-towns; and 46% in outskirts 224Todd Zimmerman, Laurie Volk, Christopher Volk-Zimmerman Meet the demand for walkable living by permitting house-scale, multi-unit buildings 226Daniel Parolek Grant single-family homeowners the flexibility to add dwelling units on their lots 228Brent Toderian Welcome singles and small families by creating a market for coach houses 230Tim Kirkby, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, ND Become a developer, build incrementally, all small buildings 232R. John Anderson 11: Mobility in Walkable Places 236 Create a bikesharing network with depots located at key destinations approximately 1,000 feet apart 238Susan A. Shaheen, PhD Respect that the current carsharing market is dynamic and varies place by place 240Susan A. Shaheen, PhD Dramatically reduce residential vehicle trips by up to 90% through land use and transportation design 242David Fields, AICP Save money and reduce nonresidential car trips by up to 32% by investing in demand management rather than parking supply 244David Fields, AICP Stop inducing vehicular demand by eliminating Level of Service 246David Fields, AICP, Joshua Karlin-Resnick Urban highways should be considered temporary and only remain in use through a periodic justiication of their existence 248Andrew Faulkner, Chris Sensenig Urban highways that cannot justify their existence should be removed via the following strategies 250Andrew Faulkner, Chris Sensenig 12: Neighborhood Economy 258 Provide housing attainable by working singles and couples 260Douglas Farr Grow an economy of walk-to jobs by providing lower rent space for small-scale manufacturers 264Ilana Preuss Support neighborhood retail by scouting and cultivating entrepreneurial talent 268Daryl Rose Davis All retail should be accessible on foot 270Robert J. Gibbs Always delight pedestrians with storefront design, day and night 274Robert J. Gibbs Minimize landills by encouraging zero waste through social norms and pricing 276Gail Vittori 13: Urban Waters 280 Treat every project as an opportunity to process rainwater and stormwater 282Thomas H. Price, P.E. Demand beauty when engineering rainwater and stormwater facilities 284Thomas H. Price, P.E. Design urban waters to delight the senses 288Herbert Dreiseitl Allow private stormwater to be processed on nearby streets and lands through a local management structure 292Daniel Slone Reduce freshwater demand by 36-75% by equipping neighborhoods to use nonpotable water 294John Leys Provide enough space to select low energy-consuming wastewater treatment technologies 298John Leys Pursue the vision of clean waters for all by choosing wastewater technologies that clean more than they pollute 300Thomas E. Ennis, PE, LEED AP Design wastewater treatment plants to be resource recovery and power centers 302Debra Shore Recapture the waste heat in wastewater and use it to offset heating demand 304Brent Shraiberg 14: Stranded Carbon 310 Design all buildings for the future by designing them to be net-zero energy ready 312Matthew Mcgrane, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP Optimal glazing for buildings is a window-to-wall ratio of approximately 40% 314Sachin Anand, Sameer Divekar Build larger buildings, preferably thin,don’t sweat orientation 316Sachin Anand, Sameer Divekar Approach every project as though PHIUS+, the building energy code of the future, were in effect today 318Katrin Klingenberg Plan systems only at effective scales 320Cole Roberts, PE Reduce waste 3-27% by providing timely, relevant, and actionable data 322Clare Butterield 15: The New Health, Safety, and Welfare 324 Design the built environment to guarantee that the easy choice is the healthy choice 326Richard J. Jackson, MD Improve community health and reduce costs by investing in local, people centered wellness 328Larry Morrissey For pedestrian safety, use street design to limit vehicle speeds to no more than 20 mph 330Dan Burden, Samantha Thomas Increase both property values and time spent outdoors by illing the gaps between walk-to parks 334Grant M. Hromas In legacy cities, ensure the future of every block through landscape reuse 336Maurice Cox, James Macmillen, Erin Kelly, Alexa Bush, Omar Davis, Dan Rieden To improve public health, safety, and welfare in buildings, make at least one required ire stair open and inviting and start it in the lobby 340Scott Bernstein End the race to build the world’s tallest building 342Douglas Farr Stay connected to the night sky through minimal adjustable street-level lighting 344Nancy Clanton, PE Respect circadian rhythms for all species by eliminating blue outdoor light 346Nancy Clanton, PE Make public outdoor lighting beautiful from every angle 348Nancy Clanton, PE Epilogue 353 Glossary 355 Index 361

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Book SynopsisThis Second Edition arms real estate professionals with a comprehensive approach to the economic factors that both define and affect modern urban areas. The text considers the economics of cities as a whole, instead of separating them. Emphasis is placed on economic theory and empirical studies that are based in economic theory.Table of ContentsPart I: Economics and Urban Areas. Chapter 1. Introduction to Urban Economics. Chapter 2. Schools of Thought in Urban Economics. Chapter 3. Location Decisions, Agglomeration Economies, and the Origins of Cities. Chapter 4. The Economic Functions of Cities. Part II: Location Patterns in Urban Areas. Chapter 5. Introduction to Urban Location Patterns: Static Analysis. Chapter 6. Using the Monocentric City Model. Chapter 7. Empirical Testing of the Moncentric City Model. Part III: Urban Housing and Real Estate. Chapter 8. Housing in Urban Areas. Chapter 9. Housing Policy in the United States. Chapter 10. Real Estate Law and Institutions. Chapter 11. Real Estate Markets. Chapter 12. Real Estate Development and Investment. Part IV: Government in Urban Areas. Chapter 13. The Public Sector in Urban Areas. Chapter 14. Urban Transportation. Part V: Urban Social Problems. Chapter 15. An Overview of Urban Social Problems. Chapter 16. Urban Poverty and Its Spatial Concentration. Chapter 17. Crime in Urban Areas. Chapter 18. Education, Labor Markets, and Migration. Part VI: Urban Growth. Chapter 19. Models of Metropolitan Economic Growth. Chapter 20. Agglomeration Economies, Technical Change, and Urban Growth. Chapter 21. Economic Development Policies for Urban Areas. Appendix: A Review of Some Mathematics and Microeconomic Theory. Answers to Selected Exercises. Index.

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Book SynopsisUrban policy makers are increasingly striving to strengthen the economic competitiveness of their cities. Currently, they do that mainly in the field of the creative knowledge economy - arts, media, entertainment, creative business services, architecture, publishing, design; and ICT, R&D, finance, and law.Table of ContentsContributors xi Foreword by Professor Allen J. Scott, University of California – Los Angeles xv Preface xvii PART I INTRODUCTION 1 1 Policies and Place-making for Competitive Cities 3 Sako Musterd and Zoltán Kovács Policy progress 3 Economic sectors 7 Questions and approaches 8 References 10 2 Prevailing Policies versus New Tailored Policies 11 Sako Musterd and Zoltán Kovács Introduction 11 Infrastructure, communication, tax and cluster policies 14 Creative class debates and policy hypes related to technology, tolerance and talent (3Ts) 16 New tailored policies linked to pathways, place and personal networks (3Ps) 18 Three parts 19 References 22 PART II PATHWAYS 25 3 Policies Built upon Pathways 27 Sako Musterd and Zoltán Kovács Pathways and urban development 27 Capitalising on layers of development 30 Power centres with sustained positions 31 Post-socialist policies and the struggle with the past 32 References 33 4 Policies towards Multi-Layered Cities and Cluster Development 35 Tamás Egedy, Anne von Streit and Marco Bontje Introduction 35 Multi-layered cities 37 Path dependence of cluster development and the role of policies 39 Multi-layered cities in Western Europe and in Eastern and Central Europe 43 Conclusions 54 References 55 5 Capitalising on Position: Policies for Competitive Capital and non-Capital Cities 59 Julie Brown, Declan Redmond and Marc Pradel i Miquel Introduction 60 The function of capital versus non-capital cities 61 Selected capital and non-capital cities in the ACRE study 63 Capital cities: development pathways and policies 64 Development pathways of non-capital cities 67 Policies for competitive non-capital cities 69 Conclusions 72 References 74 6 Addressing the Legacy of Post-Socialist Cities in East Central Europe 77 Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz, Olga Gritsai, Evgenii Dainov and Tamás Egedy Introduction 78 Key features of post-socialist cities affecting urban policies 79 The role and structure of the creative and knowledge-intensive sectors 81 Challenges and policy responses 84 Policy recommendations 90 Concluding remarks 92 References 93 PART III PLACE 95 7 The Importance of Places and Place Branding 97 Zoltán Kovács and Sako Musterd Introduction 97 Sense of place and placelessness 98 Place-making, place marketing and place branding 100 Shifting focus of place-making in competitive cities 101 References 103 8 Policies towards Place Attraction and Policies for Place Retention 105 Philip Lawton, Micha³ Mêczyñski and Austin Barber Introduction: place-making and the creative knowledge economy 106 The evolution of ‘place-making’ 107 Developing policies oriented towards the retention of creative and knowledge workers 114 Policy reorientation: a focus on place retention 115 Conclusion: place-making policy formation 122 References 123 9 Urban Regeneration and Housing as Potential Tools for Enhancing the Creative Economy 127 Tamás Egedy, Declan Redmond and Kornelia Ehrlich Introduction 128 Links between urban regeneration and the creative economy 129 Housing for everyone and housing for creative people 132 How can regeneration and housing support the creative economy? 135 Conclusions 144 References 145 10 Successes and Failures in City Branding Policies 149 Montserrat Pareja-Eastaway, Caroline Chapain and Silvia Mugnano Introduction 149 Theories on place branding: the role played by cultural and creative industries 152 Some empirical evidence 154 Conclusions: evaluating city branding processes 166 Acknowledgements 169 References 169 11 Policies for Small and Large Cities 173 Marc Pradel i Miquel, Anders Paalzow and Hélène Martin-Brelot Introduction 173 City size and the creative knowledge economy 174 Does size influence the decisions of skilled employees in the creative and knowledge economy? 178 City size, governance and policy-making 183 Conclusion: different dimensions, different challenges 186 References 189 12 Creative Knowledge Strategies for Polycentric City-Regions 191 Marco Bontje and Kaisa Kepsu Introduction 191 The city-region concept 193 From mono- to polycentric city-regions 195 Geographies of creative knowledge companies 197 Geographies of creative knowledge workers 200 Towards competitive creative knowledge regions? Examples of city-regional collaboration 202 Conclusions and policy implications: the added value of city-regional collaboration 205 References 206 PART IV PERSONAL NETWORKS 209 13 Personal Networks 211 Zoltán Kovács and Sako Musterd The personal touch 211 From networks of firms to networks of people: the role of personal networks in the creative knowledge economy 212 Possible policy interventions focusing on personal networks 215 References 218 14 Networks and Mobility: the Policy Context 219 Olga Gritsai, Michel Grossetti and Denis Eckert Introduction 219 The importance of personal trajectories and personal networks 222 Cultural and institutional constraints on mobility 227 Challenges for policy-makers 229 Conclusions 235 References 236 15 Internationalisation and Policies towards Transnational Migration 239 Heike Pethe and Sabine Hafner Transnational migration of the highly skilled 239 Transnational migration of highly skilled professionals 241 Identifying and monitoring target groups for effective policies 243 Developing effective measures for highly skilled migrants – good practices 255 Conclusions 258 References 259 16 Policies Aimed at Strengthening Ties between Universities and Cities 263 Krzysztof Stachowiak, Rómulo Pinheiro, Carla Sedini and Mari Vaattovaara Introduction 263 The changing nature of university–city relations 265 From university in, to the university of or for, the city: tensions and dilemmas in university–city relations 266 The university as an enabler of the creative economy 274 Case studies 277 Challenges and bottlenecks surrounding university–city relations 282 Conclusions 284 Acknowledgements 286 References 286 17 Governance of Creative Industries: the Role of Social and Professional Networks 293 Anne von Streit and Bastian Lange Introduction 293 The creative industries: definitions and characteristics 295 Important strands of policies 297 Governance of the creative industries 299 Networks in the creative industries: theoretical approaches and empirical findings 302 Examples of promoting networks in the creative industries 304 Conclusions and suggestions 308 References 309 PART V CONCLUSIONS 313 18 Tailored – Context-Sensitive – Urban Policies for Creative Knowledge Cities 315 Sako Musterd and Zoltán Kovács Three building blocks for new urban economic policies 315 New urban policies put in context: ‘PPP-CC-T’ 318 Building on the past? 319 Tailored policies to create smart places 321 Policies building on personal networks 323 Conclusions 325 References 326 Index 329

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Book SynopsisMuch recent literature dealing with the formation of modern cities, particularly in developing countries has not adequately conveyed the complexity of the issues. Using a selection of examples from around the world and from the past two centuries, this book explores the transfers of models that seek to shape urban environments.Trade Review“…an interesting read…well worth reading about…” (Building Engineer, January 04)Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction: Transporting Planning xiJOE NASR AND MERCEDES VOLAIT Chapter 1 Writing Transnational Planning Histories 1ANTHONY D. KING PART 1 THE LATEST MODELS 15 Chapter 2 Making Cairo Modern (1870–1950): Multiple Models for a ‘European-style’ Urbanism 17MERCEDES VOLAIT Chapter 3 The Transformation of Planning Ideas in Japan and its Colonies 51CAROLA HEIN Chapter 4 Learning from the US: the Americanisation of Western Urban Planning 83STEPHEN V. WARD PART 2 CITY-BUILDING, STATE-BUILDING AND NATION-BUILDING 107 Chapter 5 Urbanism as Social Engineering in the Balkans: Reform Prospects and Implementation Problems inThessaloniki 109ALEXANDRA YEROLYMPOS Chapter 6 From ‘Cosmopolitan Fantasies’ to ‘National Traditions’: Socialist Realism in East Berlin 128ROLAND W. STROBEL Chapter 7 The Preservation of Egyptian Cultural Heritage through Egyptian Eyes: The Case of the Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l’Art Arabe 155ALAA EL-HABASHI PART 3 POWERFUL SUBJECTS 185 Chapter 8 From Europe to Tripoli in Barbary, via Istanbul: Municipal Reforms in an Outpost of the OttomanEmpire around 1870 187NORA LAFI Chapter 9 Beirut and the Étoile Area: An Exclusively French Project? 206MAY DAVIE Chapter 10 Local Wishes and National Commands: Planning Continuity in French Provincial Towns in the 1940s 230JOE NASR PART 4 FOREIGN EXPERTS, LOCAL PROFESSIONALS 263 Chapter 11 Foreign Hires: French Experts and the Urbanism of Buenos Aires, 1907–32 265ALICIA NOVICK Chapter 12 Politics, Ideology and Professional Interests: Foreign versus Local Planners in Lebanon under President Chehab 290ERIC VERDEIL Chapter 13 Towards Global Human Settlements: Constantinos Doxiadis as Entrepreneur, Coalition-Builder and Visionary 316RAY BROMLEY Contributors Biographies 341 Index 345

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Book SynopsisThe Second Edition has been rewritten to provide additional coverage of topics such as urban development and third world cities as well as social issues including homelessness, jobs/housing mismatch and transportation disadvantages. It has also been updated with 1990 Census data.Table of ContentsUrban Geography Today. The Origin and Growth of Cities. The Third World City. The North American City. Metropolitan Dominance and Movement. The Urban Physical Environment. City Development: Theory and Practice. Central Place Theory. Transportation Processes. Perception and Quality of Life Issues. Land Use Dynamics. Housing and Neighborhoods. Ethnicity in the City. Intraurban Migration and Household Change. Central Business District Dynamics. Metropolitan Retail Structure. The Office Function. Intrametropolitan Industrial and Wholesale Space. Planning, Regulation and the Future. Author Index. Subject Index.

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Book SynopsisA detailed account of police misconduct and violations of protected freedoms over the past century. In an examination of undercover work in cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Philadephia, Donner reveals the underside of American law enforcement.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive history of Republican Beijing, this text examines how the capital acquired its identity as a consummately "traditional" Chinese city. The author argues that nostalgia directed towards the living Republic city is an essential characteristic of Chinese modernity.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Preface Introduction PART I. THE CITY OF PLANNERS Chapter 1. From Imperial Capital to Republican City Chapter 2. Power: The City and Its People Chapter 3. Tradition: The City and the Nation PART II. THE CITY OF EXPERIENCE Chapter 4. Production: Beijing in a New Economic System Chapter 5. Consumption: Spatial and Temporal Hierarchies Chapter 6. Recycling: The Tianqiao District PART III. THE LETTERED CITY Chapter 7. Sociology: Examining Urban Ills Chapter 8. History: Recording Old Beijing Chapter 9. Literature: Writing New Beijing Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA history of San Francisco, this work traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent families - the Hearsts, de Youngs, Spreckelses, and others - who gained power through mining, ranching, water and energy, transportation, real estate, weapons, and the mass media.Trade Review"One of the very best books I have ever read about a place is Imperial San Francisco, by Gray Brechin.... With its tales of skullduggery, brilliant enterprise, racist arrogance, environmental ruin, and ruthless competition, it will be an astonishment to anyone who knows modern San Francisco only as the gentlest of American cities." - Jan Morris, Independent (UK) "Books of the Year," November 2000" Included in the Los Angeles Times Book Review's "Best Nonfiction of 2000", Named a "Book of the Year" in the Independent (UK) San Francisco Chronicle Best-Seller List, December 1999, Honorable Mention for the Pacific Coast Branch Award, American Historical Association.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface to the 2006 Edition Preface to the First Edition: The Urban Maelstrom Introduction: New Romes for a New World Part I: Foundations of Dominion 1. The Pyramid of Mining 2. Water Mains and Bloodlines Part II: The Thought Shapers 3. The Scott Brothers: Arms and the Overland Mutiny 4. The De Youngs: Society Invents Itself 5. The Hearsts: Racial Supremacy and the Digestion of "All Mexico" Part III: Remote Control 6. Toward Limitless Energy 7. The University, the Gate, and "the Gadget" Notes A Note on Sources Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTalks about the reformers and radicals who have struggled for alternative visions of social and economic justice. This book reflects on the momentum of LA's progressive movement, including the 2005 landslide victory of Antonio Villaraigosa as mayor.Trade Review"With this rich account of its community and labor struggles, the city of angels - and apocalypse - becomes the city of hope." - Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed "This wonderful book is proof that the American Left is alive and well, especially in Southern California." - Mike Davis, author of Dead Cities "An intelligent insider's account of the construction of the Progressive Los Angeles Network, or PLAN, and the emergence of a powerful labor-Latino bloc that provides progressive L.A. with much of its heart and soul.... A good starting point for any serious student of forward-looking municipal politics." - James Goodno, San Francisco Chronicle "Far and away the best single book for understanding the politics of Los Angeles." - Randy Shaw, Beyondchron.org"

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Book SynopsisIncludes preface by the authors looking at developments in the study of urban planning during the twenty-year life of this influential work.Trade Review"Among a rare breed." Journal Of Regional ScienceTable of ContentsPreface to the 20th Anniversary Edition Preface to the First Edition 1 The Social Construction of Cities 2 Places as Commodities 3 The City as a Growth Machine 4 Homes: Exchange and Sentiment in the Neighborhood 5 How Government Matters 6 Overcoming Resistance to Value-free Development 7 The Dependent Future References Name Index Subject lndex

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Book SynopsisSet in a New Jersey suburb outside New York City, the author takes us into people's homes; their community meetings, where they debate security gates and school redistricting; and even their cars, to offer an intimate view of the tensions and uncertainties of being middle class at that time.Trade Review"Rachel Heiman displays great talent for squeezing ingenious and often compelling meanings out of everyday events. This, of course, is precisely the stuff of anthropology, the study of the ordinary... Heiman has done signal service by showing us how neoliberal sensibilities are inculcated and enacted in the banalities of daily life, an analysis that can give us clues about where to work for change." American Ethnologist "There is much to like about this book. What Heiman does particularly well is write with compassion and respect while maintaining her critical voice... Heiman takes the worries of the people of Danboro seriously and shows us their world as they see it. The book is better for it." American Journal of Sociology "Historically informed and attentive to local specificity, Heiman's book stands as a valuable exemplar of what native ethnography can look like and illustrates the value of turning the anthropological lens on a population often regarded as normative or against which others are created." North American Dialogue "We want these voices to matter because Heiman has engaged the most recent iteration of a central debate in U.S. history" Journal of the American Ethnological Society "One of the strengths of Driving after Class is Heiman's development of the vivid term "rugged entitlement." In many ways, rugged entitlement is the classed extension of the "American spirit," a structure of feeling that is pervasive in middle-class suburbs like Danboro." Contemporary Sociology "Clearly written and argued, this ethnography explores what it was like to be a middle-class American in the 1990s." Anthropologica "Heiman adopts a unique approach: she seeks to unearth the middle-class subjectivities produced out of, and fueling, these competing trends." American Sociological AssociationTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv 1. Introduction: Common Sense in Anxious Times 1 2. Being Post-Brooklyn 33 3. Gate Expectations 70 4. Driving after Class 104 5. Vehicles for Rugged Entitlement 141 6. From White Flight to Community Might 171 7. A Conclusion, or Rather, a Commencement 219 Notes 233 References 233 Index 275

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Book SynopsisUrban slum dwellers - especially in emerging-economy countries - are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. This book exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy and reveals that not all slums are equal in terms of the hazards and health issues faced by residents.Trade Review"Ultimately, the editors’ conviction in convening Slum Health: From the Cell to the Street is resoundingly clear: Scholars of all stripes have a responsibility “to recognize the human right of the urban poor to lead a healthy life and to offer some strategies toward this goal”. This volume moves us forward on both counts." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Refreshing and new, ... the volume offers an extremely helpful opening to a realm of medical science literature relating to informal settlements." * Latin America Research Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Prelude: Memoirs of a Kenya Slum Dweller Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Jason Corburn and Lee Riley Part One. Slum Health: Framing Research, Practice, and Policy 1. From the Cell to the Street: Coproducing Slum Health Jason Corburn and Lee Riley 2. Slum Health: Research to Action Alon Unger and Lee Riley 3. Frameworks for Slum Health Equity Jason Corburn 4. Urban Poverty: An Urgent Public Health Issue Susan Mercado, Kirsten Havemann, Mojgan Sami, and Hiroshi Ueda 5. Urban Informal Settlement Upgrading and Health Equity Jason Corburn and Alice Sverdlik Part Two. From The Cell to the Street: Slum Health in Brazil 101 6. Favela Health in Pau da Lima, Salvador, Brazil Alon Unger, Albert Ko, and Guillermo Douglass-Jaime 7. Impact of Environment and Social Gradient on Leptospira Infection in Urban Slums Renato B. Reis, Guilherme S. Ribeiro, Ridalva D. M. Felzemburgh, Francisco S. Santana, Sharif Mohr, Astrid X. T. O. Melendez, Adriano Queiroz, Andréia C. Santos, Romy R. Ravines, Wagner S. Tassinari, Marília S. Carvalho, Mitermayer G. Reis, and Albert I. Ko 8. Factors Associated with Group A Streptococcus emm Type Diversification in a Large Urban Setting in Brazil: A Cross-Sectional Study Sara Y. Tartof, Joice N. Reis, Aurelio N. Andrade, Regina T. Ramos, Mitermayer G. Reis, and Lee W. Riley Part Three. urban upgrading and health in nairobi, kenya 149 9. Coproducing Slum Health in Nairobi, Kenya Jason Corburn and Jack Makau 10. Sanitation and Women’s Health in Nairobi’s Slums Jason Corburn and Irene Karanja 11. Microsavings and Well-Being in a Nairobi Informal Settlement Jason Corburn, Jane Wairutu, Joseph Kimani, Benson Osumba, and Heena Shah Part Four. Understanding Slum Health in Urban India 12. Health Disparities in Urban India Siddharth Agarwal 13. Improved Health Outcomes in Urban Slums through Infrastructure Upgrading Neel M. Butala, Michael J. Van Rooyen, and Ronak Bhailal Patel Part Five. Knowledge Gaps and Future Considerations 14. Toward Slum Health Equity: Research, Action, and Training Jason Corburn and Lee Riley 275 List of Contributors Index 301

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Book SynopsisAt once informative and entertaining, inspiring and challenging, this book provides an understanding of urban development and change over the past forty years in Los Angeles and other city regions of the world.Trade Review"An accessible, informative and often entertaining intellectual memoir and tour of the city as seen through the L.A. School, which has contributed some of the most provocative and productive ideas to our understanding of cities in recent history." -- Jon Christensen Los Angeles TimesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 * When It First Came Together in Los Angeles 2 * Taking Los Angeles Apart 3 * Inside Exopolis: Views of Orange County 4 * Comparing Los Angeles 5 * On the Postmetropolitan Transition 6 * A Look Beyond Los Angeles 7 * Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era 8 * Seeking Spatial Justice in Los Angeles 9 * Occupy Los Angeles: A Very Contemporary Conclusion Appendix 1: Source Texts by the Author Appendix 2: Complementary Video Sources Index

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Book SynopsisAcross the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. This book looks at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as deadbeat dads. It helps you examine how couples in challenging straits come together and get pregnant so quickly - without planning.Trade Review"An essential book." -- Harold Pollack The Washington Post/WonkBlogTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. One Thing Leads to Another 2. Thank You, Jesus 3. The Stupid Shit 4. Ward Cleaver 5. Sesame Street Mornings 6. Fight or Flight 7. Try, Try Again 8. The New Package Deal Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThe rise of China and its status as a leading global factory are altering the way people live and consume. This book probes Chinese, European, and American eco-desire and eco-technological dreams, and examines the solutions they offer to environmental degradation in this age of global economic change.Trade Review"Julie Sze has written a perceptive and engaging account of the hopes and dreams embodied in Dongtan and why the project was such an abysmal failure. A mix of critique and reportage, the weaving of a theoretical approach with that of a traveler whose father coincidentally grew up on Chongming, Sze masterfully unpicks the strands of what was intended as the world's largest new environmental city... An impressive achievement in looking through new eyes at China's efforts to deal with its environmental challenges." -- Mark L. Clifford Asian Review of Books "Sze's exploration of the official self-delusion and public eco-desires that sustain fantasies such as Dongtan is compelling... What Sze's exploration of the narratives of eco-modernism shows well is how flexible the creed of environmentalism can be - and how that quality can be manipulated." -- Fred Pearce New Scientist "Recommended reading for both those trying to get to grips with green purchasing in developing countries, as well as those interested in what the people on the street think of planning green and thinking huge. It is also a refreshing read compared to media coverage on the issue, which tends to label developments as 'hilarous' or 'bizarre', or just interview the big names involved, without providing much on-the-ground insight." -- Michael Veale LSE Review of Books "Carbon-neutral, zero-waste and home to 500,000 people: the Chinese eco-city of Dongtan seemed a radical urban dream. But the city, to be sited near Shanghai on Chongming - the world's biggest alluvial island - remains a blueprint. As Julie Sze argues in this thoughtful ... analysis of Chinese "eco-desire", the culprit could be irreconcilable beliefs in harmony with nature, and the ability of autocratic political structures to enact radical change." -- Barbara Kiser Nature "A fascinating story for readers interested in modern China, urban history, and global studies of ecology and the environment!" -- Carla Nappi New Books Network/New Books in East Asian Studies "A thought-provoking new book." -- Jan McGirk China Dialogue "It is easy to paint a black-and-white picture of China's environmental policies. But in Fantasy Islands, Julie Sze is able to bring a more nuanced view... In Fantasy Islands, the author raises some excellent questions about global efforts to deal with climate change through technological solutions." -- Joan Mooney Urbanland "Fantasy Islands accessibly introduces paradoxes of greening China's future." -- G. W. McDonogh CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Fear, Loathing, Eco-Desire: Chinese Pollution in a Transnational World 2. Changing Chongming 3. Dreaming Green: Engineering the Eco-City 4. It's a Green World After All? Marketing Nature and Nation in Suburban Shanghai 5. Imagining Ecological Urbanism at the World Expo Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation. Lavishly produced, with beautiful images and crystal clear prose, A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area is for readers and activists who have taken part in protests and demonstrations for decades, and from Berkeley and Oakland to San Francisco, Sonoma and beyond.CounterPunchA People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area looks beyond the mythologized image of San Francisco to the places where collective struggle has built the region. Countering romanticized commercial narratives about the Bay Area, geographers Rachel Brahinsky and Alexander Tarr highlight the cultural and economic landscape of indigenous resistance to colonial rule, radical interracial and cross-class organizing against housing discrimination and police violence, young people demanding economically and ecologically sustainable futures, and the often-unrecognized labor of farmworkers and eTrade Review"Lavishly produced, with beautiful images and crystal clear prose, A People’s Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area is for readers and activists who have taken part in protests and demonstrations for decades, and from Berkeley and Oakland to San Francisco, Sonoma and beyond. It’s probably worth saying that while Brahinsky and Tarr deserve major credit for this book, they had tremendous help from fellow authors, photographers, designers, colleagues in academia and from librarians and researchers. It takes a collective to bake bread, scones and pizza at Arizmendi. It also takes a collective to write and publish a book of this magnitude, beauty and truth." * CounterPunch *"If you’ve been staring into the soul-sucking abyss of cable news or doomscrolling through the implosion of American democracy, delving into the stories of anti-eviction battles, Ohlone resistance, strikes, and resilient celebration featured in A People's Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area will provide a welcome glimmer of hope. Not naive optimism, but the kind of tempered determination that comes when you remember how bad things have been before–and how people successfully fought to keep them from getting worse." * East Bay Yesterday *Table of ContentsList of Maps INTRODUCTION 1 THE EAST BAY 1.1 1500 Block of Adeline Street | 1.2 924 Gilman | 1.3 Albany Bulb | 1.4 Berkeley High School | 1.5 Black Cultural Zone | 1.6 “Black Panther Park” (Dover Park) | 1.7 Black.Seed Demonstration, one expression of #BlackLivesMatter | 1.8 Emeryville Shellmound Memorial | 1.9 “Fossil Fuel” Corridor | 1.10 Frances Albrier Community Center | 1.11 Intertribal Friendship House | 1.12 Jingletown | 1.13 Kaiser Convention Center | 1.14 Lake Merritt | 1.15 Latham Square | 1.16 Mandela Grocery Cooperative | 1.17 Marcus Books | 1.18 Middle Harbor Shoreline Park | 1.19 Ogawa / Grant Plaza | 1.20 Pacific Center, Front Steps | 1.21 Parchester Village | 1.22 Peralta Hacienda Historical Park | 1.23 Piedmont-Oakland Border | 1.24 Rosie the Riveter Monument and National Park | 1.25 South Berkeley Social Justice Corridor | 1.26 Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley 2 THE SOUTH BAY AND PENINSULA 2.1 Boyer Home | 2.2 Chùa Đu’ c Viên | 2.3 Daly City Teen Center | 2.4 Drew Center Pharmacy | 2.5 Eastridge Shopping Center | 2.6 Facebook HQ | 2.7 Fairchild Semiconductor | 2.8 Gold Street Bridge | 2.9 Heinlenville (San-Doy-Say Tong Yun Fow) | 2.10 Hellyer Park | 2.11 Keyhole | 2.12 Lawrence Tract | 2.13 May Day 2006 March | 2.14 McDonnell Hall | 2.15 Mission San Jose | 2.16 Nairobi School System | 2.17 New Almaden Mine Area | 2.18 NUMMI Auto Plant | 2.19 San Jose Labor Council | 2.20 San Mateo Fairgrounds | 2.21 Silicon Valley De-Bug | 2.22 Saint James Park | 2.23 “Victory Salute” Statue 3 SAN FRANCISCO 3.1 829 Fell Street | 3.2 Alex Nieto Park | 3.3 “An Injury to One . . .” Sculpture | 3.4 Bank of America Building | 3.5 Buchanan Mall | 3.6 Buddhist-Oriented Hospice Projects | 3.7 Castro Commons Parklet | 3.8 Cesar Chavez Student Center, San Francisco State University | 3.9 Civic Center and United Nations Plazas | 3.10 Critical Mass | 3.11 Ghadar Memorial | 3.12 Hotel Whitcomb | 3.13 Hunter’s Point Shipyard | 3.14 International Hotel | 3.15 Japan Center, Nihonmachi | 3.16 KPOO Radio, 89.5 FM | 3.17 Lexington Club | 3.18 Media Moguls Corner | 3.19 Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts | 3.20 Mission Dolores Cemetery | 3.21 Monkey Block | 3.22 Other Avenues Food Store Cooperative | 3.23 Panhandle of Golden Gate Park | 3.24 “Peoples Temple” Post Office | 3.25 Redstone Labor Temple | 3.26 Room 641A | 3.27 SOMA Pilipinas Streets | 3.28 South Park | 3.29 The Farm | 3.30 Trans March | 3.31 “Twitter Tax Break” Zone | 3.32 Westbrook Court and Hunter’s Point Hill Street Names | 3.33 Women’s Building 4 THE NORTH BAY AND ISLANDS 4.1 Alcatraz Island | 4.2 Angel Island Immigration Station | 4.3 China Camp | 4.4 Cuttings Wharf Housing | 4.5 Farallon Islands | 4.6 Golden Gate Village | 4.7 Greystone Cellars | 4.8 Jewish Community Center | 4.9 Lucas Valley Eichler Development | 4.10 Mission San Rafael Archangel | 4.11 Pierce Point Ranch | 4.12 Port Chicago Sailors’ Strike | 4.13 Prince Hall Masons Firma Lodge No. 27 | 4.14 San Quentin Prison | 4.15 Sausalito BART Stop | 4.16 Sonoma Plaza | 4.17 Tomales Bay Trailhead | 4.18 US Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model 5 THEMATIC TOURS The Intertribal Bay | Capital and Its Discontents | Ecological Imagination | Youth in Revolt | Militarized States Acknowledgments Appendix A. 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Book SynopsisTells the tale of two cities in Ho Chi Minh City. This book portrays the human costs of urban reorganization as the author explores the complex and sometimes contradictory experiences of individuals grappling with the forces of privatization in a socialist country.Trade Review"Erik Harms's Luxury and Rubble is a work of fine-grained thick description that patiently walks readers through the rapid economic, cultural, and socio-spatial shifts that remade Ho Chi Minh City... superb, even-handed." Cross-CurrentsTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Luxury and Rubble Part I. Luxury 1. Civilizing the Wastelands: A Short History of Urban Development in Phu M? Hung 2. Civilization City 3. Exercising Consciousness: Self and Society in a Privatizing Space of Exclusion Part II. Rubble 4. Th? Thiem Futures Past: A Short History of Seeing without Seeing 5. Building a Civilized, Modern, and Sentimental City 6. From the Rubble Conclusion: Civility and Dispossession Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe expansion of the Black American middle class and the unprecedented increase in the number of Black immigrants since the 1960s have transformed the cultural landscape of New York. InThe New Noir, Orly Clerge explores the richly complex worlds of an extraordinary generation of Black middle class adults who have migrated from different corners of the African diaspora to suburbia. The Black middle class today consists of diverse groups whose ongoing cultural, political, and material ties to the American South and Global South shape their cultural interactions at work, in their suburban neighborhoods, and at their kitchen tables. Clerge compellingly analyzes the making of a new multinational Black middle class and how they create a spectrum of Black identities that help them carve out places of their own in a changing 21st-century global city. Paying particular attention to the largest Black ethnic groups in the country, Black Americans, Jamaicans, and Haitians, Clerge's ethnography draws on over 80 interviews with residents to examine the overlooked places where New York's middle class resides in Queens and Long Island. This book reveals that region and nationality shape how the Black middle class negotiates the everyday politics of race and class. Trade Review"Drawing on the black ethnographic tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois and Zora Neale Hurston, Clergé focuses on black middle-class residents of two New York City suburbs—Cascades, a majority black in-city suburb, and Great Park, a multiethnic, multiracial community in predominantly white Nassau County—to demonstrate the complexity of their lives. The book traces migrants from the US South, Haiti, and Jamaica, recounting their specific cultures, social classes, and experiences with slavery and white supremacy. . . . This well-researched and well-written book is an important study, accessible to general and academic audiences. Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface: Aperitif 1. Village Market: Encounters in Black Diasporic Suburbs 2. Children of the Yam: From Enslaved African to the Black Middle Class in the United States, Haiti, and Jamaica 3. Blood Pudding: Forbidden Neighbors on Jim Crow Long Island 4. Callaloo: Cultural Economies of our Backyards 5. Fish Soup: Class Journey across Time and Place 6. Vanilla Black: The Spectrum of Racial Consciousness 7. Green Juice Fast: Skinfolk Distinction Making Conclusion: Mustard Seeds Appendix: Digestif Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Wherever this historiography [of education] moves next, scholars will do well to engage with the work of García." * History of Education *"Delves into political tensions within Oxnard, California, and illustrates the board of education’s decisions enacting segregation and thereby shaping the education of Mexicans and blacks . . . The work uncovers hidden histories of Mexican American and black struggles to end segregation, and it results in a very rich study." * American Historical Review *"Provides a meticulous, nuanced, and brilliant study of the complex layers behind the historical connections of educational and residential segregation." * Latino Studies *"Amid the racial reckoning and protests that have swept this country, Strategies of Segregation is a timely and invaluable contribution to California history, Chicano/a studies, and ethnic studies." * California History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 • The White Architects of Mexican American Education 12 2 • Pernicious Deeds: Restrictive Covenants and Schools 39 3 • “Obsessed” with Segregating Mexican Students 55 4 • Ramona School and the Undereducation of Children in La Colonia 79 5 • A Common Cause Emerges for Mexican American and Black Organizers 100 6 • Challenging “a Systematic Scheme of Racial Segregation”: Soria v. Oxnard School Board of Trustees 129 Epilogue 162 Appendix: List of Interviews Conducted and Consulted 167 Notes 169 Bibliography 247

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Book SynopsisA profound portrait of the hidden injustices that trap fathers in a cycle of punishment and debt. In the first study of its kind, sociologist Lynne Haney travels into state institutions across the country to document the experiences of the millions of fathers cycling through the criminal justice and child support systems. 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, andTrade Review"Haney shows how state bureaucracies seem to conspire against historically marginalized individuals, leaving indebted fathers beholden to the state and distanced from their children. She illustrates how systems of social exclusion and punishment operate by sharing the haunting stories of men who face the daunting task of navigating debt and a lack of gainful employment while under close surveillance by police. . . . This book uncovers structural inequalities and offers potential solutions. Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"A fantastic ethnography. . . .Lynne Haney has navigated readers through the institutional bureaucracy that leaves these fathers’ lives in shambles and bleeds into their lived experiences far beyond their incarcerations. Her intention to give voice to these fathers and center their experiences is remarkably done." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"Drawing on years of research in the New York, Florida, and California family court and prison systems, Haney weaves these men’s stories into a disturbing portrait of the U.S. child support enforcement regime as a modern form of debtors’ prison. The result is by far the most comprehensive and illuminating account of the interplay between child support enforcement and incarceration in the contemporary United States." * Boston Review *"Lynne Haney provides the first large-scale and rigorous accounting of the mutually reinforcing linkages between the criminal legal system and the child support system. This book is a thoughtful and careful accounting of how these two institutions influence one another to create compounding disadvantages for the vulnerable men who become entangled in these systems." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: From Deadbeat to Dead Broke Part I Accumulation 1. Making Men Pay 2. The Debt of Imprisonment Part II Enforcement  3. Punishing Parents, Creating Criminals 4. The Imprisonment of Debt Part III Indebted Fatherhood 5. The Good, the Bad, and the Dead Broke 6. Cyclical Parenting Conclusion: Reforming Debt, Reimagining Fatherhood Appendix: About the Research Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWhile some books present ideal ethnographic field methods, Inside Ethnography shares the realities of fieldwork in action. With a focus on strategies employed with populations at society's margins, twenty-one contemporary ethnographers examine their cutting-edge work with honesty and introspection, drawing readers into the field to reveal the challenges they have faced. Representing disciplinary approaches from criminology, sociology, anthropology, public health, business, and social work, and designed explicitly for courses on ethnographic and qualitative methods, crime, deviance, drugs, and urban sociology, the authors portray an evolving methodology that adapts to the conditions of the field while tackling emerging controversies with perceptive sensitivity. Their judicious advice on how to avoid pitfalls and remedy missteps provides unusual insights for practitioners, academics, and undergraduate and graduate students. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction Miriam Boeri and Rashi K. Shukla PART ONE BECOMING AN ETHNOGRAPHER 1 • Going Native with Evil Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard 2 • Lost in the Park: Learning to Navigate the Unpredictability of Fieldwork Elizabeth Bonomo and Scott Jacques 3 • Unearthing Aggressive Advocacy: Challenges and Strategies in Social Service Ethnography Curtis Smith and Leon Anderson 4 • Going into the Gray: Conducting Fieldwork on Corporate Misconduct Eugene Soltes PART TWO TEAM ETHNOGRAPHY 5 • Hide-and-Seek: Challenges in the Ethnography of Street Drug Users Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page 6 • Into the Epistemic Void: Using Rapid Assessment to Investigate the Opioid Crisis Jason N. Fessel, Sarah G. Mars, Philippe Bourgois, and Daniel Ciccarone 7 • Conducting International Reflexive Ethnography: Theoretical and Methodological Struggles Avelardo Valdez, Alice Cepeda, and Charles Kaplan PART THREE NAVIGATING THE UNUSUAL 8 • Hidden: Accessing Narratives of Parental Drug Dealing and Misuse Ana Lilia Campos-Manzo 9 • Navigating Stigma: Researching Opioid and Injection Drug Use among Young Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in New York City Honoria Guarino and Anastasia Teper PART FOUR THE EMOTIONAL IMPACT OF DOING ETHNOGRAPHY 10 • Dangerous Liaisons: Reflections on a Serial Ethnography Robert Gay 11 • The Emotional Labor of Fieldwork with People Who Use Methamphetamine Heith Copes 12 • Ethnography of Injustice: Death at a County Jail Joshua Price Conclusion: Looking Back, Moving Forward Rashi K. Shukla and Miriam Boeri List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“A timely, accessible analysis of a Silicon Valley innovator that disrupted an industry.” * GeekWire *“This jargon-free and intriguing exposé offers food for thought for anyone interested in worker protections or societal changes driven by technology.” * Publishers Weekly *"Functions as an examination of both how Uber’s algorithms are changing the way companies operate and exert control over their workers and how those workers are experiencing these changes.” * Slate *"A timely look at the tensions between technology and the future of employment, and how ambitious startups might be changing the way we see and value work.” * Mother Jones *“If you care about the future of work, read Uberland by Alex Rosenblat.” -- Theodore Kinni, Strategy + Business“Rosenblat’s book is a combination of sociological analysis, excerpts from Uber-driver online forums, communications with Uber executives and employees, and an avalanche of in-person interviews with drivers from all over the United States and Canada. Her analysis isn’t a polemic; it is balanced and measured.” * Los Angeles Review of Books *“A fine work of technology ethnography. . . As someone who believes that technology is a positive force for driving change, I’ll admit to being deeply disturbed by reading Uberland." * Inside Higher Education *"The most important recent book written about Uber is undoubtedly Alex Rosenblat’s Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work, which unflinchingly exposes how Uber takes ruthless advantage of its drivers.” * Medium/The Startup *"Uberland will be of interest for anyone who cares about the future of work, the realities of working in the ‘gig’ economy and the consequences of decoupling work from existing employment relations systems." * Journal of Industrial Relations *"The book paints a complicated picture of the uneven realities of the gig economy set against the glossy sales pitch of Uber as the future of work." * Allegra Lab *"Uberland is a timely book as technology increasingly intensifies in our daily lives. It reads like book‐length investigative journalism, refreshingly jargon‐free. It stays truthful to the stories that drivers tell and is readable and engaging. It is suitable for undergraduate classes in sociology of work; science, technology, and society; and consumption." * Sociological Forum *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Using an App to Go to Work—Uber as a Symbol of the New Economy 1. Driving as Glamorous Labor: How Uber Uses the Myths of the Sharing Economy 2. Motivations to Drive: How Uber’s System Rewards Full-Time and Recreational Drivers Differently 3. The Technology Pitch: How Uber Creates Entrepreneurship for the Masses 4. The Shady Middleman: How Uber Manages Money 5. Behind the Curtain: How Uber Manages Drivers with Algorithms 6. In the Big Leagues: How Uber Plays Ball Conclusion: The New Age of Uber—How Technology Consumption Rewrote the Rules of Work Appendix 1. Methodology: How I Studied Uber Appendix 2. Ridehailing beyond Uber: Meet Lyft, the Younger Twin Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Stunning analysis of the Emergency Medical System (EMS), its frontline workers, and patients . . . . A great source for highlighting how well-intentioned labor processes within seemingly benevolent occupations can further marginalize people and reproduce social inequalities." * British Medical Journal, Medical Humanities *"An exemplar of a kind of ethnographic work that reinvigorates the sociological imagination, connecting the deeply felt personal troubles of patients and the daily joys and frustrations of ambulance crews with the stratification of suffering in urban America." * Symbolic Interaction *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Author’s Note Acknowledgments Introduction PART I BANDAGING BODIES: INSIDE THE AMBULANCE 1. People Work 2. Ditch Doctors and Taxi Drivers 3. Feeling the Ambulance PART II SORTING BODIES: THE AMBULANCE BETWEEN HOSPITALS AND SQUAD CARS 4. The Fix-Up Workers 5. The Cleanup Workers 6. Burden Shuffling PART III HUSTING BODIES: THE AMBULANCE UNDERNEATH BUREAUCRACY AND CAPITAL 7. The Barn 8. Supervision 9. Payback Conclusion Appendix: Notes on Data and Methods Notes Reference List Index

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Book SynopsisDetroit, Michigan, has long been recognized as a center of musical innovation and social change. Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and social pressures at the heart of Detroit's ongoing renewal and development project. Focusing on the Foundation, a women-centered hip hop collective,Women Rapping Revolutionargues that the hip hop underground is a crucial site where Black women shape subjectivity and claim self-care as a principle of community organizing. Through interviews and sustained critical engagement with artists and activists, this study also articulates the substantial role of cultural production in social, racial, and economic justice efforts.Trade Review"Women Rapping Revolution covers a lot of ground in a relatively condensed space, but it doesn’t lack for information or thoughtful analysis. On top of all this, they also manage to make it a very accessible book. Farrugia and Hay do an excellent job of not only getting you to understand all of the different factors in play within the hip hop scene in Detroit, but they’ll get the wheels spinning in your head as you consider all of the factors in play in your own city." * Scratched Vinyl *Table of ContentsForeword By Piper Carter Foreword By Mahogany Jones Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Intersections of Detroit, Women, and Hip Hop 1 Detroit Hip Hop and the Rise of the Foundation 2 Hip Hop Sounds and Sensibilities in Post-Bankruptcy Detroit 3 Negotiating Genderqueer Identity Formation 4 Vulnerable Mavericks Wreck Rap’s Conventions 5 “Legendary,” Environmental Justice, and Collaborative Cultural Production 6 Hip Hop Activism in Action Conclusion: Women, Hip Hop, and Cultural Organizing Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local and federal laws prohibiting both their presence and their work on street corners. Known as fruteros, they sell fruit salads out of pushcarts throughout Los Angeles and are part of the urban landscape. Drawing on six years of fieldwork, Rocío Rosales offers a compelling portrait of their day-to-day struggles. In the process, she examines how their paisano (hometown compatriot) social networks both help and exploit them. Much of the work on newly arrived Latino immigrants focuses on the ways in which their social networks allow them to survive. Rosales argues that this understanding of ethnic community simplifies the complicated ways in which social networks and social capital work. Fruteros sheds light on those complexities and offers the concept of the ethnic cage to explain both the promise and pain of community.Trade Review"Intimately and beautifully captures the lives of street vendors in Los Angeles." * Ethnic and Racial Studies * "Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles makes a great contribution to the literature of ethnic economies, social networks, labor movements, immigrant communities, transnational studies, and other fields of study." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Introduction 2. Becoming a Frutero 3. Managing Risk on the Street 4. Personal and Professional Entanglements 5. Ethnic Ties in Crisis 6. Dos Mundos Transformed 7. Conclusion Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix: A Personal Note on Research Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Intimately and beautifully captures the lives of street vendors in Los Angeles." * Ethnic and Racial Studies * "Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles makes a great contribution to the literature of ethnic economies, social networks, labor movements, immigrant communities, transnational studies, and other fields of study." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Introduction 2. Becoming a Frutero 3. Managing Risk on the Street 4. Personal and Professional Entanglements 5. Ethnic Ties in Crisis 6. Dos Mundos Transformed 7. Conclusion Afterword Acknowledgments Appendix: A Personal Note on Research Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn his exciting new book, based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Magaña considers how urban and migrant youth in Oaxaca embrace subcultures from hip-hop to punk and adopt creative organizing practices to create meaningful channels of participation in local social and political life. In the process, young people remake urban space and construct new identities in ways that directly challenge elite visions of their city and essentialist notions of what it means to be indigenous in the contemporary era. Cartographies of Youth Resistance is essential reading for students and scholars interested in youth politics and culture in Mexico, social movements, urban studies, and migration.Trade Review"The book is an ethnographic treasure-trove. Rich in information, it sheds light on the complexity of local politics and social movements. More than anything else, it is the depth of Magaña’s analysis, capturing the youth’s interconnected understanding of race, politics, and subcultures, that makes this book a must-read for researchers of social movements in the Americas, and beyond." * Anthropology Book Forum *"In short, Cartographies of Youth Resistance provides a compelling take on the role of Indigenous young people in the spatial construction of social movements. The insights developed in the book are not only useful for understanding social movements in Mexico; they can also be adapted for thinking about youth activism in many contexts throughout Latin America and elsewhere." * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“The book’s wealth of ethnographic data on a too-little studied corner of the world opens the door for others to join and extend the valuable dialogues that Magaña and his collaborators in Oaxaca established.” * Anthropological Forum *"Magaña’s greatest contribution is his ethnographic work about punk culture in Oaxaca. . . . The punk scene is often regarded as the rebel kid of white privilege. Magaña shows us another point of view regarding the deep complexities of this group. . . . This book serves to benefit anyone studying globalization, transculturation, multiculturalism, hybrid cultures, and interculturalism in Latin America." * Mobilizations *"Within the context of the enduring afterlife of the renowned 2006 Oaxaca teacher's strike, Magaña (Univ. of Arizona) presents an extraordinarily well-informed ethnographic account . . .Magaña portrays and corroborates Oaxacan youth as "agents of change" and "dreamers of liberatory and dignified futures," offering a counter-reality to the prevalent negative stereotypes of the Mexican underclass. This is an excellent book for both its methodology and content." * CHOICE *“No doubt that Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico is a book that expands our understanding of 2006 Oaxaca and especially of the contemporary social movements there that continue to be led by the youth, echoing the struggles of the 2006 Generation. The book also provides a great contribution to the area of hip hop and punk studies within Latin America, and can be placed as an excellent addition to current scholarship in anthropology of the arts and youth studies.” * Latin American Literary Review *"The book’s wealth of ethnographic data on a too-little studied corner of the world opens the door for others to join and extend the valuable dialogues that Magaña and his collaborators in Oaxaca established." * Anthropological Forum *"Cartographies of Youth Resistance would appeal to readers involved or interested in social movements, as well as young people because of its study of political protests and revolution, and the important role that urban youth had in changing the social climate in Oaxaca city." * Space and Culture *"Magaña’s book is an accessible read for both undergraduate and graduate students. Like the historical agents in his book, students and scholars of radical politics will undoubtedly build on the ideas and analyses contained in Cartographies of Youth Resistance." * New Mexico Historical Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments List of Acronyms and Organizations Introduction • Rethinking Social Movement Temporality and Spatiality through Counterspace and Urban Youth Culture 1 • Building Youth Counterspaces, Horizontal Political Cultures, and Emergent Identities in the Oaxacan Social Movement of 2006 2 • Urban Autonomy, Indigenous Anarchisms, and Other Political Genealogies for the 2006 Generation 3 • Urban Youth Collectives as Laboratories for Constructing and Spatializing Horizontal Politics in Post-2006 Oaxaca 4 • Networking Counterspaces, Constellations of Resistance, and the Politics of Rebel Aesthetics 5 • Rebel Aesthetics: Giving Form to the 2006 Generation’s Liberationist Imagination through Street Art, Punk, and Hip-Hop Conclusion • Shifting Cartographies of (Youth) Resistance Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

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Book SynopsisFew would disagree that neighborhood and place are important dimensions of reentry from prison, but we have a less clear sense of why or how they matterand we rarely get a view of the lived social-interactional dynamics between people returning from incarceration and receiving communities. Intersecting Lives focuses on the processes by which neighborhood and place influence reentry experiences and how these shape community life. Through interviews and ethnographic observations, Andrea M. Leverentz brings readers into three very different Boston communities. These places and the interactions they foster shape reentry outcomes, including reoffending, surveillance, relationship formation, and access to opportunities. This book sheds crucial new light on the processes of reentry and desistance, tying them intimately to space and community, including dynamics around race, gender, gentrification, homelessness, and transportation.Trade Review"This book will hold great value not just for scholars focused on neighborhood and mobility outcomes after incarceration, but more broadly for scholars of stratification and inequality." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1 • Criminalizing Disadvantage: Race, Class, Gender, and Reentry in Boston 2 • Bouncing and the Black Box of Reentry’s Neighborhood Effects 3 • Dorchester: Returning to a “High-Crime” Neighborhood 4 • The South End: Returning to a “Gentrified” Neighborhood 5 • South Boston: Returning to a “White” Neighborhood 6 • Small Towns, Poverty, and Addiction Conclusion Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Research Participants Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFew would disagree that neighborhood and place are important dimensions of reentry from prison, but we have a less clear sense of why or how they matterand we rarely get a view of the lived social-interactional dynamics between people returning from incarceration and receiving communities. Intersecting Lives focuses on the processes by which neighborhood and place influence reentry experiences and how these shape community life. Through interviews and ethnographic observations, Andrea M. Leverentz brings readers into three very different Boston communities. These places and the interactions they foster shape reentry outcomes, including reoffending, surveillance, relationship formation, and access to opportunities. This book sheds crucial new light on the processes of reentry and desistance, tying them intimately to space and community, including dynamics around race, gender, gentrification, homelessness, and transportation.Trade Review"This book will hold great value not just for scholars focused on neighborhood and mobility outcomes after incarceration, but more broadly for scholars of stratification and inequality." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Preface Introduction 1 • Criminalizing Disadvantage: Race, Class, Gender, and Reentry in Boston 2 • Bouncing and the Black Box of Reentry’s Neighborhood Effects 3 • Dorchester: Returning to a “High-Crime” Neighborhood 4 • The South End: Returning to a “Gentrified” Neighborhood 5 • South Boston: Returning to a “White” Neighborhood 6 • Small Towns, Poverty, and Addiction Conclusion Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Research Participants Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisCities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of writing, fragments are signatures of urban worlds and provocations for change. InFragments of the City, Colin McFarlane examines such fragments, what they are and how they come to matter in the experience, politics, and expression of cities. How does the city appear when we look at it through its fragments? For those living on the economic margins, the city is often experienced as a set of fragments. Much of what low-income residents deal with on a daily basis is fragments of stuff, made and remade with and through urban density, social infrastructure, and political practice.In this book, McFarlane exploresinfrastructure in Mumbai, Kampala, and Cape Town; artistic montages in Los Angeles and Dakar; refugee struggles in Berlin; and the repurposing of fragments in Hong Kong and New York. Fragments surface as material things, as forms of knowledge, as writing strategies. They are used in efforts to politicize the city and in urban writing to capture life and change in the world's major cities. Fragments of the City surveys the role of fragments in how urban worlds are understood, revealed, written, and changed.Trade Review"Fragments of the City is a beautifully written book, and it reads as if one listens to music – the pieces enter the senses, reach the soul, do their subconscious working, and bring out the listener/reader enriched, enlightened, inspired." * Planning Theory *Table of ContentsList of Figures Prologue Reading Fragments Pursuing Fragments Routes On the Margins An Urban World Pulling Together, Falling Apart Materializing the City Urban Life Support Volumetric Urbanism Fragmenting Cities Social Infrastructure Care and Consolidation Knowing Fragments In the Relation Presence-Absence The Gap Knowledge Fragments Writing in Fragments Montaging Urban Modernity Without Closure Points of Departure Fragments and Possibility Political Framings Attending to Fragments Maintaining In-Between Generative Translation Reformation Junk Art Relocating Surveying Wholes Political Becoming Occupation Being Present Provisioning Value Exhibiting Stories Walking Cities Encountering the City Intersecting Writings Routes and Their Limits Remnants Space and Time In Completion An Exploded View Experimenting Connective Devices Excursions Notes Bibliography Index

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