Urban communities / city life Books
Princeton University Press Uneasy Street
Book SynopsisTrade Review“We don’t know as much about affluent people as we think we do. Caricatures abound, but the socioeconomically lucky don’t often offer themselves up for study. That all changed with Rachel Sherman’s Uneasy Street. . . . With each reading, I’m a little more unsettled, in the best possible way.”—Ron Lieber, New York Times“There have been many cogent analyses of income inequality. Sociologist Rachel Sherman’s welcome addition probes the psychology and socio-economics of affluence.”—Barb Kiser, Nature“Sherman takes a dispassionate approach to find out how those who are `benefitting from rising economic inequality’ experience `their own social advantages.’ She elicits her subjects’ thoughts about work and productivity, charitable giving, marital discord and more. Worthwhile humanizing ensues, as do plenty of squirm-inducing moments.”—John Williams, New York Times Book Review“Sherman offers something new and surprising: a look inside the 1 per cent’s minds. . . . She shifts our understanding of today’s dominant class.”—Simon Kuper, Financial Times
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University of Toronto Press Streetlife
Book SynopsisOur street-level economy is undergoing dramatic change. Retailers are reeling from the rise of e-commerce, rising rents, and increasing storefront vacancies, along with a cultural shift from material to experiential consumerism. Today, the COVID-19 pandemic is contributing to economic upheaval as commercial corridors and the small businesses they house face sweeping closures, bankruptcy, and job losses. Streetlife brings together scholars who have been trying to make sense of the changing retail landscape at street level and what it means for urbanism’s future. Streetlife pays special attention to the varied responses and policies that have emerged to address the competing realities of small business loss and neighbourhood needs. With case studies from the United States, as well as contributions covering Canada and Europe, this book demystifies the logic behind street-level urban retail and calls for better plans, designs, policies, and innovations to bolTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Urban Retail Predicament Conrad Kickert and Emily Talen Retail Trends and Transformations The Life and Death of Retail: Insights from Firm Demography Luc Anselin and Irene Farah The Ups and Downs of Retail, 2000–2015 Kevin Credit, Irene Farah, and Luc Anselin Commercial Gentrification: What Happens to Businesses and Services when the Neighborhood Changes? Rachel Meltzer The Case of E-Commerce Bricks and Clicks Liz Mack The Changing Demand for Urban Retail Space: Evidence from Canada Christopher Daniel and Tony Hernandez Online Sales and the British Urban Retail Hierarchy Colin Jones The Survival of Mom-and-Pops Small Business Survival: How and Why? Vikas Mehta Can Mom and Pop Stores Survive? A Survey of Small Retailers in Chicago Emily Talen What’s in a Chain?: On Hipness, Corporate Stores, and False Dichotomies in Urban Life Jeffrey Nathaniel Parker Retail, Place, and Place-Making Retail Scenes Hyesun Jeong and Terry Clark Main Street Morphology, Adaptability, and Resilience Rosa Danenberg Retail in the Mix Matthew Carmona Toward Solutions Curating Main Streets: The Factors of Success Michael W. Mehaffy and Tigran Haas The Spatial Logic of Urban Retail Conrad Kickert The Future of American Urban Retail Real Estate Heather Arnold Conclusion: Urban Retail Redefined Conrad Kickert and Emily Talen
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Cornell University Press Unfinished Utopia
Book SynopsisUnfinished Utopia is a social and cultural history of Nowa Huta, dubbed Poland''s first socialist city by Communist propaganda of the 1950s. Work began on the new town, located on the banks of the Vistula River just a few miles from the historic city of Kraków, in 1949. By contrast to its older neighbor, Nowa Huta was intended to model a new kind of socialist modernity and to be peopled with new men, themselves both the builders and the beneficiaries of this project of socialist construction. Nowa Huta was the largest and politically most significant of the socialist cities built in East Central Europe after World War II; home to the massive Lenin Steelworks, it epitomized the Stalinist program of forced industrialization that opened the cities to rural migrants and sought fundamentally to transform the structures of Polish society.Focusing on Nowa Huta''s construction and steel workers, youth brigade volunteers, housewives, activists, and architects, Katherine Lebow exploresTrade ReviewUnfinished Utopia is an extremely interesting and beautifully executed book.... This book will appeal to a very wide audience. It will of course interest historians of the Polish postwar first and foremost, but beyond that it will appeal to Eastern Europeanists and, notably, to historians of the Western European postwar as well. The book succeeds on many levels: as Polish history, as a history of postwar European recovery, as a history of Stalinism and of Communist identity formation, and, lastly, as a history of twentieth-century political and social transformations. -- Eva Plach * The Journal of Modern History *Each chapter provides the reader with fascinating material that ultimately illuminates the problems at the heart of the most recent discussions in Polish historiography. This includes the nature of Polish Stalinism, which Lebow sees as much more than mere ideology, but rather as a set of practices that individuals creatively appropriated. -- Anna Muller * Austrian History Yearbook *In this richly researched book, Lebow explores how Poland's socialistregime and the residents of Nowa Huta built the city and forged a new way oflife.... It is remarkable that Lebow is able to tell the story of Nowa Huta anddevelop these provocative arguments in such a short book. -- Steven E. Harris * East Central Europe *Katherine Lebow has redirected the study of Stalinism in scholarly debates. Unlike practitioners of traditional sovietology—now morphing into victimologyfor popular consumption—she seeks out the complexities and ambiguities of Stalinism in eastern Europe... This book will appeal to a wide readership across many disciplines. The range is extensive: urban geography, political mobilization, social structure, gender, youth culture, and film studies. It crosses boundaries within Poland and beyond. -- Anthony Kemp-Welch, University of East Anglia * Slavic Review *With its monumental architecture and bold layout, Nowa Huta appears to be the quintessence of Communist urban planning. Yet, as Katherine Lebow's rich yet concise study demonstrates, underneath the regimented spaces and ubiquitous concrete lie more complex and nuanced stories.... [Unfinished Utopia] also provides important general insights into the intricate processes by which modernist urban spaces, despite their aspiration to control, become powerful sites of negotiation and resistance. -- Uilleam Blacker * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Unplanned CityChapter 2: New MenChapter 3: The Poor Worker Breaks His LegChapter 4: Women of SteelChapter 5: The Enlightenment of KaszaChapter 6: Spaces of Solidarity, 1956–89ConclusionNotes Bibliography Index
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Benediction Classics Down and Out in Paris and London
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Oro Editions Landscape Architecture Frontiers 044: Children
Book SynopsisUrban environments (including built, natural, and social environments) crucially impact children's physical and psychological health, particularly in cities. Now children's mentality and safety, and the freedom of travelling and playing have raised concerns in society. In this issue, trans-disciplinary discussions between scholars and practitioners in landscape architecture and environmental psychology, environmental behaviours, human engineering, public health, etc., as well as city managers, are encouraged to explore the ways to improve urban environments for children's outdoor activities. With such a multi-disciplinary coverage, this issue aims to update landscape architects' theoretical and methodological approaches to issues of children and urban environments, with a deeper understanding of their disciplinary competences, limitations, and challenges thus to find out their irreplaceable role in guaranteeing children's well-beings.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Why Cities Look the Way They Do
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fascinating."—The Guardian "Williams is an affable guide, breezy and smart. And brave. 'I hate Venice,' he declares in the first sentence."—The Spectator "Why Cities Look the Way They Do is a great read. It's comfortable in voice but provocative in uncovering harsh truths and filled with fascinating visuals. To walk the city and travel the world with Williams is to journey to the brutal core of the power of image and to understand its sway over bodies and minds."—Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places "Using our eyes to understand the social and psychological DNA of cities is the refreshing and important contribution of Richard J. Williams's new book. Read it and look around you with heightened vision!"—Richard Burdett, London School of Economics and Political Science "Nicely spiky... Very enjoyable."—Diane Coyle, The Enlightened Economist "I enjoyed Williams' insightful observations, his use of quirky sources [...], the introduction of fascinating off-piste examples and his beautiful writing. The book opens up questions rather than closing them down and, being relatively short and accessible, is likely to be on reading lists for some time."—Times Higher Education "The conclusion is remarkable for its honesty."—Swarajya "The originality of Williams' argument makes for a riveting read, in which everything from the gay village to the shopping mall is explored. Essential for anyone is with an interest in the buildings around them."—SpearsTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Money 3. Power 4. Sex 5. Work 6. War 7. Culture 8. Conclusion
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Cornell University Press The Act of Living
Book SynopsisThe Act of Living explores the relation between development and marginality in Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Replete with richly depicted characters and multi-layered narratives on history, everyday life and visions of the future, Marco Di Nunzio''s ethnography of hustling and street life is an investigation of what is to live, hope and act in the face of the failing promises of development and change. Di Nunzio follows the life trajectories of two men, Haile and Ibrahim, as they grow up in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, enter street life to get by, and turn to the city''s expanding economies of work and entrepreneurship to search for a better life. Apparently favourable circumstances of development have not helped them achieve social improvement. As their condition of marginality endures, the two men embark in restless attempts to transform living into a site for hope and possibility.By narrating Haile and Ibrahim''s lives, Trade Review[A]s a people-focused analysis of certain hardscrabble lives in Addis Ababa, The Act of Living is an interesting work of urban anthropology. * Environment and Urbanization *
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State University of New York Press The Caribbeanization of Black Politics Race Group
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Equinox Publishing Ltd The Geography of Urbanism in Roman Asia Minor
Book SynopsisThe Geography of Urbanism in Roman Asia Minor investigates how Roman urbanism manifested itself in Asia Minor during the first three centuries CE, particularly with regards to its spatial patterning over the landscape and the administrative, economic and cultural functions cities fulfilled, and how cities developed in terms of size and monumentality. It also addresses to what extent this was a result of political and socio-cultural and economic context and to what extent 'structural determinants', such as the physical topography, agricultural potential and climate (including the shifts/changes therein) influenced the observed patterns. As Asia Minor was already dotted by cities long before the Romans got a hold on this area during the second century BCE, this work compares urbanism of the first three centuries CE with the patterns of cities during the first millennium BCE (Classical and Hellenistic period particularly) and the Byzantine and Ottoman patterns, creating a long term perspective. The book contains an appendix with the information for the 500 cities and 1000 villages in Asia Minor.Trade Review"A work of remarkable originality and scholarship... a brilliant landmark study that is a game changer in urban history and urban archaeology of the ancient world." John Bintliff, Honorary Professor in Classical Archaeology, Edinburgh University
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Cornell University Press Crossing Broadway
Book SynopsisRobert W. Snyder''s Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed Frankfurt on the Hudson for its large population of German Jews became Quisqueya Heightsthe home of the nation''s largest Dominican community.The story of Washington Heights illuminates New York City''s long passage from the Great Depression and World War II through the urban crisis to the globalization and economic inequality of the twenty-first century. Washington Heights residents played crucial roles in saving their neighborhood, but its future as a home for working-class and middle-class people is by no means assured. The growing gap between rich and poor in contemporary New York puts new pressure on the Heights as more affluent newcomers move into buildings that once sustained generations oTrade ReviewDrawing on research studies, oral histories, and contemporaneous reporting, Snyder'swell-paced narrative projects the neighborhood's serial make-overs against the backdrop of Gotham's turn from postwar industrial and corporate colossus to a place where manufacturing jobs, white people, and corporations seemed to depart all at once. Historians of the city will find much to think about in this stylish, well-researched, and balanced popular history. * Journal of American History *Crossing Broadway is a traditional community study and also a beautiful narrative. It will be of interest not only to professionals who engage with the urban landscape but also to those who work with oral histories on many levels.... At once both comprehensive and compelling, Crossing Broadway gains much of its traction by illuminating the individual ways in which residents developed their devotion to their community, demonstrating successful methods for improving public life. Hearing directly from the immigrants and their children makes them real; it touches our hearts and makes them open, truly a great measure of the success of any book. * Oral History Review *Robert Snyder provides an intimate portrait of the urban experience. And like all urban histories of the twentieth century, we know that this will end in crisis. Yet Washington Heights lets Snyder move block by block as this transformation comes. Perhaps most telling is Snyder's own backstory; Washington Heights was the neighborhood of his parents who, though they left the neighborhood for the suburbs, still spoke highly of the place. * Reviews in American History *Snyder's deftly handled descriptions of upper Manhattan are so richly embroidered, and so well researched, that he circumvents the hazards of a mere parochial accounting of his subject. Clearly, he looks kindly on the tenacity with which residents and others have fought crime, poor schools, gangs, landlord neglect, and myriad other urban travails. * Journal of Urban Affairs *Crossing Broadway is an engaging, compelling, insightful study.... There is a good deal here about pride of place, how people struggle and get along and get by day to day in sometimes adverse circumstances, and about how communities are built, and rebuilt, by determined individuals. The book sets a high standard for sensitivity, depth, and excellence in urban community studies. * New York History *
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Island Press Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building
Book SynopsisToday, there is a tremendous mismatch between the available housing stock in the US and the housing options that people want and need. The post-WWII, auto-centric, single-family-development model no longer meets the needs of residents. Urban areas in the US are experiencing dramatically shifting household and cultural demographics and a growing demand for walkable urban living. Missing Middle Housing, a term coined by Daniel Parolek, describes the walkable, desirable, yet attainable housing that many people across the country are struggling to find. Missing Middle Housing types, such as duplexes, fourplexes, and bungalow courts, can provide options along a spectrum of affordability. In Missing Middle Housing, Parolek, an architect and urban designer, illustrates the power of these housing types to meet today’s diverse housing needs. With the benefit of beautiful full-colour graphics, Parolek goes into depth about the benefits and qualities of Missing Middle Housing. The book demonstrates why more developers should be building Missing Middle Housing and defines the barriers cities need to remove to enable it to be built. Case studies of built projects show what is possible, from the Prairie Queen Neighborhood in Omaha, Nebraska to the Sonoma Wildfire Cottages, in California. A chapter from urban scholar Arthur C. Nelson uses data analysis to highlight the urgency to deliver Missing Middle Housing. Parolek proves that density is too blunt of an instrument to effectively regulate for twenty-first-century housing needs. Complete industries and systems will have to be rethought to help deliver the broad range of Missing Middle Housing needed to meet the demand, as this book shows. Whether you are a planner, architect, builder, or city leader, Missing Middle Housing will help you think differently about how to address housing needs for today’s communities.
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The University of Chicago Press The Gold Coast and the Slum A Sociological Study
Book SynopsisThis is a book about Chicago. It is also, and for that very reason, a book about every other American city which has lived long enough and grown large enough to experience the transformation of neighborhoods and the contact of cultures and the tension between different types of individual and community behavior. . . . Here is a type of sociological investigation which is equally marked by human interest and scientific method.Christian Century
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One More Chapter The Lonely Fajita LibE
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The WellTempered City
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Rose's non-stop tour of the cityan in depth account of its history, theory, and practice-is exhilarating and complete, wherein compassion, Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, and contemporary scientific thinking finally come to rest together. This is a hugely satisfying poem-rich in history, thought and deeply felt throughout." -- Philip Glass, composer "Huge in ambition, grand in scope, dazzling in accomplishment. You will never look at your city, yourself or your neighbors the same way again." -- Andrew Zolli, author of Resilience "Gathering a lifetime of learning, discovery, and understanding, Jonathan Rose has written an astonishing book: a treasure trove of knowledge about how our urban lives have evolved, interwoven with a compellingly pragmatic case for what they can be in the future. The Well-Tempered City is essential and exciting reading -- Jeremy Newsum, Executive Trustee of the Grosvenor Estate Jeremy Newsum, Executive Trustee of the Grosvenor Estate Jeremy Newsum, Executive Trustee of the Grosvenor Estate "The pragmatic and the visionary rarely integrate this harmoniously into the re-imagination of what a city is and could be." -- Paul Hawken, author of Blessed Unrest "The Well-Tempered City reveals a fresh understanding of inequality, urbanization, housing and public health. Rose weaves rigorous cognitive neuroscience research with powerful, authentic stories of people who often live at the margins of society. This book should be mandatory reading for anyone committed to the idea of successful and inclusive cities." -- Darren Walker, President, the Ford Foundation Darren Walker, President, the Ford Foundation Darren Walker, President, the Ford Foundation "This provocative, important, and majestically composed book about the future of cities should be essential reading for our times. An urban planner, environmentalist, and musician, Rose takes us on a rollicking centuries-long journey through the history of cities, never forgetting to marvel at their resilience and human core. What does Bach tell us about the complexity and organization of our urban environments? What is the 'metabolism of the city'? By the time I had finished Rose's book, I began to see the city and the world around me in an entirely new light. I could not put this book down." -- Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of The Emperor of All Maladies, The Gene "This provocative, important, and majestically composed book about the future of cities should be essential reading for our times. An urban planner, environmentalist, and musician, Rose takes us on a rollicking centuries-long journey through the history of cities, never forgetting to marvel at their resilience and human core. What does Bach tell us about the complexity and organization of our urban environments? What is the 'metabolism of the city'? By the time I had finished Rose's book, I began to see the city and the world around me in an entirely new light. I could not put this book down." -- Laurie Anderson, artist "Jonathan Rose shares his brilliant vision in this fascinating look at cities past and present. The Well-Tempered City offers a plan for urban-and ecological and social-thriving into the future. Anyone who lives in a city or cares about them will find this a rewarding read." -- Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence "A comprehensive primer for how to contemplate urban spaces as they evolve for the future." -- Kirkus Reviews "A thought-provoking introduction to the future of cities." -- Publishers Weekly "In an age where nobody believes anything, this book offers a rich vein of facts. It is essential reading for all those who live in cities, but perhaps more importantly those who don't and may have to." -- Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, CBE, PPRA, RIBA, AIA, Founder Grimshaw Architects "The Well-Tempered City stands alongside works by Jane Jacobs, Lewis Mumford, and Christopher Alexander, deserving influence and implementation." -- The Architect's Newspaper
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Reading List
Book SynopsisA BEST OF SUMMER READ ACCORDING TO NEWSWEEK, PARADE MAGAZINE, NBC NEWS, LITHUB, AND POPSUGAR!The most heartfelt read of the summer...a surprising delight of a novel.--ShondalandAn unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb.Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries.Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a list of novels that she’s never heard of before. Intrigued, and a litt
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Reading List
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Real Mrs. Tobias
Book Synopsis“Sally Koslow channels Nora Ephron in this lively tale of obligation versus desire and the politics of family power. Deftly written with equal parts intelligence, pathos, and humor, The Real Mrs. Tobias is a pure pleasure to read.”—Therese Anne Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of It All Comes Down to ThisA sharply funny and big-hearted multi-generational story about the deeply complicated relationships between mothers- and daughters-in-law, told through three women who marry into the same family, a treat for fans of The Nest and Fleischmann Is in Trouble. It’s 2015 in New York City, and three women all known as Mrs. Tobias—Veronika, the matriarch, her daughter-in-law Mel, and Mel’s daughter-in-law Birdie—are trying to navigate personal difficulties, some of which are with one another.Veronika and Mel, despi
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Emerald Publishing Limited Japanese Urban Environment
Book SynopsisJapan has led the world in urban innovation, design and planning, successfully combining high population with functionality, cleanliness and low levels of crime. This book addresses the social, cultural and physical determinants of the Japanese urban environment, showing how cultural values have influenced the historical evolution of cities.Trade ReviewProfessor Shigeru Itoh Japanese Urban Environment is the book of its kind in English literature and...should attract the worldwide interest of scholars, researchers, and urban designers. Professor Norman Pressman Sch of Urban and Regional Planning, Univ of Waterloo ...this must be considered a landmark book. In fact, it constitutes the most comprehensive analysis ever undertaken that is currently available. This work is...indispensable to anyone concerned about the future of large-scale human settlements building upon the lessons of Japan. It...will be an invaluable resource for scholars and practitioners. It is impressive in scope and very important, thus making a unique international contribution to the existing literature on urban development. Professor Daniel Jones The Pennsylvania State University ...The breadth and depth of the view provided by this book is impressive and convincing in demonstrating the qualities that distinguish Japan's urban centers from their Western counterparts. This well-organized book is written by leading Japanese professionals and scholars and it offers many lessons worthy of the attention of those who are concerned with the urban quality of life. Kuniko Fujita ... will be extremely helpful to urban practitioners, providing detailed social and technical knowledge of Japan's urban environment as well as an examination of the historical and cultural factors that have helped to develop the distinctiveness of the Japanese urban environment. Urban Studies Sir Peter Hall Ranging over a wide range of subject matter, from air and water quality to energy use, transportation and telematics, Japanese Urban Environment is an important collection for any worker in the field. Town Planning ReviewTable of ContentsChapter headings: Preface. Introduction. Social, Cultural, and Physical Determinants of the Japanese Urban Environment. Japanese Urban Environment and Human Comfort. Infrastructure of the Japanese Cityscape. Urban Planning and Design: The Present and Future in Japan. Japanese Urban Environment Bibliography (1990 and After).
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Emerald Group Publishing Limited City Logistics Network Modelling and Intelligent
Book SynopsisThis text presents fundamental concepts and general approaches to City Logistics. City Logistics is the process of totally optimizing urban logistics activities by considering the social, environmental, economic, financial and energy impacts of urban freight movement.Trade ReviewMarkus Hesse an early contribution to an undoubtedly relevant field of research. Journal of Transport Geography David Stewart-David ...theoretical, but it does benefit from empirical evidence from city traffic policies. It ought to be within the capablities of a numerate undergraduate specialising in logistics...give a lucid explanation of simulation and meta-heuristic techniques, and makes helpful reference to the issue of modelling across perceptions...interesting concluding chapter on future perspectives...this book will be useful. Logistics and Transport FocusTable of ContentsIntroductionModelling city logistics City logistics with ITS Demand and supply models Impact models Vehicle routing and scheduling Vehicle routing and scheduling with ITS Location of logistics terminals Future perspectives References
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Vintage Publishing The Human Zoo
Book SynopsisA must-read for anyone who has ever wondered why people do what they do, from the popular author of The Naked Ape.This study concerns the city dweller. Morris finds remarkable similarities with captive zoo animals and looks closely at the aggressive, sexual and parental behaviour of the human species under the stresses and pressures of urban living.Compelling and absorbing...Morris is concerned with the tension between our biology and our culture, as it is expressed in power, sex, status and war games' New York Times Trade ReviewCompelling and absorbing...Morris is concerned with the tension between our biology and our culture, as it is expressed in power, sex, status and war games * New York Times *Having startled, amused, and in some cases infuriated his fellow-men by his bestseller The Naked Ape, Desmond Morris now proceeds to contemplate Homo sapiens as he has transformed his environment. He has offended some people with entrenched views, but he has made millions wonder about themselves. Exceedingly well written, with never a dull moment * Observer *I defy you to stop reading it * Liverpool Daily Post *
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Random House Waking Up in Toytown
Book SynopsisJohn Burnside was among the most acclaimed writers of his generation. His novels, short stories, poetry and memoirs won numerous awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial, Saltire Scottish Book of the Year and, in 2023, he received the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in literature. In 2011 Black Cat Bone won both the Forward and the T.S. Eliot Prizes for poetry.Trade ReviewThere is no truer writer than John Burnside...[A] searching enquiry into a life: bruised, filled with grace and as plangent and haunting as any plainsong -- Catherine Lockerbie * Scotsman *Burnside's memoir deserves to become a classic. Has anyone written about the direct experience of mental illness with such scrupulous observation and wit? * Daily Express *A brilliant portrait of isolation... This sophisticated study of the human mind argues for our right "to continue in the pursuit of whole-heartedness. To be not-normal after all" -- Fiona Sampson * Independent *Beautifully written and observed memoir ... an affecting book from a writer of manifest talent; a compellingly readable memoir possessed of a genuine spiritual and intellectual depth -- Adam O'Riordan * Sunday Telegraph *This is an extraordinary book and one so honest it scorches -- Carlo Gebler * Irish Times *
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Vintage Publishing Ackroyd P London
Book SynopsisAn abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd''s magisterial biography of the city of London.Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcaster, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey - historical, geographical and imaginative - through the city of London. Moving back and forth through time, Ackroyd is an effortless, exuberant guide to times of plague and pestilence, fire and floods, crime and punishment, and sex and theatre. He brings the ever changing streets alive for the reader and shows us what lies beneath our feet and above our heads. His biography is as rich in detail and fizzing with vitality as the city itself.Trade ReviewPeter Ackroyd is the greatest living chronicler of London * Independent *Peter Ackroyd was born to write the biography of London...a brilliant book * Sunday Telegraph *It would be no exaggeration to say that Peter Ackroyd's 'biography' of our captial is the book about London -- A N Wilson * Daily Mail *You will not find a better, more visionary book about a place we take for granted * Observer *[London] may be several years old but it remains one of the leading narratives as he cleverly weaves through centuries of history to reveal to us the hundreds of different cities within a city. -- Fiona Hamilton * The Times *
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Vintage Publishing Hungry City
Book Synopsis*According to the Trussell Trust, food bank use between April and Sept 2018 was up 13% on the same period in 2017.* *Every year in the UK 18 million tonnes of food end up in landfill.*Why is this the case and what can we do about it?The relationship between food and cities is fundamental to our everyday lives. Food shapes cities and through them it moulds us - along with the countryside that feeds us. Yet few of us are conscious of the process and we rarely stop to wonder how food reaches our plates.Hungry City examines the way in which modern food production has damaged the balance of human existence, and reveals that we have yet to resolve a centuries-old dilemma - one which holds the key to a host of current problems, from obesity and the inexorable rise of the supermarkets, to the destruction of the natural world.Original, inspiring and written with infectious enthusiasm and belief, Hungry City illuminates an issue that is fundamental to us all.Trade ReviewExuberant, provocative... her desire that we understand better and think more about our food, how much we waste, how much energy it consumes and how we dispose of it... It is - in the real sense of the word - vital -- David Aaronovitch * The Times *Hungry City is a sinister real-life sequel to Animal Farm with the plot turned upside down by time in ways even George Orwell could not have foreseen * Observer *Lively, wide-ranging, endlessly inquisitive... Hungry City is a smorgasbord of a book: dip into it and you will emerge with something fascinating * Independent *Absolutely crammed with eye-opening facts and figures, a hugely readable account of the part we individually play in a global problem. Highly Recommended * Publishing News *She can précis her specialist sources briskly, and her own direct research (e.g. a mega kitchen for cooking ready meals) is lively -- Vera Rule * Guardian *
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Vintage Publishing Queer City
Book SynopsisPeter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.Trade ReviewAfter his mammoth, shamanic aria London: the Biography, the remarkable writer Peter Ackroyd has produced a nimble, uproarious pocket history of sex in his beloved metropolis -- Alasdair Lees * Independent *Ackroyd has an encyclopaedic knowledge of London, and a poet's instinct for its strange, mesmerising drives and urges ... Queer City contains something to alarm or fascinate on every page -- Craig Brown * The Mail on Sunday *Droll, provocative and crammed to busting with startling facts -- Simon Callow * The Guardian *If there was a prize for the most evocative or salacious chapter headings, then Peter Ackroyd's new book, Queer City, would be the undisputed victor. They capture the rudery and naughtiness, although not the erudition of this entertaining history of the 'queer' experience in London -- Robbie Millen * The Times *Succinct, perceptive and robust -- Rupert Christiansen * Daily Telegraph *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Classic Slum Salford Life in the First
Book SynopsisA study which combines personal reminiscences with careful historical research, the myth of the ''good old days'' is summarily dispensed with; Robert Roberts describes the period of his childhood, when the main affect of poverty in Edwardian Salford was degredation, and, despite great resources of human courage, few could escape such a prison.Table of Contents1 Class Structure2 Possessions3 Manners and Morals4 Governors, Pastors and Masters5 The Common Scene6 Food, Drink and Physic7 Alma Mater8 Culture9 The Great Release10 High Days and AfterAppendices1 Conducted Tour2 Snuffy3 Bronze MushroomsSelect BibliographyIndexIllustrationsThe photographs, which have not been published before, were taken around the early 1900s by a Worsley man, Samuel Coulthurst, who went about Salford dressed as a rag and bone merchant with his camera concealed on a handcart.1. Corner shop2. A muffler–white, if possible, for the Lord's day3. Some were too poor to buy at the old clothes shops4. General dealer5. The clothiers6. Women of the time I7. Women of the time II8. Water for the wheel: a knife and scissors grinder9. Hawkers at rest10. 'The short way out of Manchester'11. A barrel organ called Tuesdays and Saturdays12. Theatre by the market13. Boys haggling at the hen market
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Penguin Books Ltd Paris
Book Synopsis''Paris is the World, the rest of the Earth is nothing but its suburbs'' - MarivauxIn this intelligently-written and supremely entertaining new history, Colin Jones seeks to give a sense of the city of Paris as it was lived in and experienced over time. The focal point of generation upon generation of admirers and detractors, a source of attraction or repulsion even for those who have never been there, Paris has witnessed more extraordinary events than any other major city. No spot on earth has been more walked around, written about, discussed, painted and photographed. With an eye for the revealing, startling and (sometimes) horrible detail, Colin Jones takes the reader from Roman Paris to the present, recreating the ups and downs in the history of the city and its inhabitants. Attentive to both the urban environment and to the experience of those who lived within it, PARIS: BIOGRAPHY OF A CITY will be hugely enjoyed by habitual Paris obsessives, by first-time visitors, and by
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Penguin Publishing Group London Labour and the London Poor Penguin
Book SynopsisUnflinching reports of London’s poor from a prolific and influential English writerLondon Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of articles, later published in four volumes, written for the Morning Chronicle in 1849 and 1850 when journalist Henry Mayhew was at the height of his career. Mayhew aimed simply to report the realities of the poor from a compassionate and practical outlook. This penetrating selection shows how well he succeeded: the underprivileged of London become extraordinarily and often shockingly alive.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-
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Penguin Books Ltd How the Other Half Lives
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1890, Jacob Riis''s remarkable study of the horrendous living conditions of the poor in New York City had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that affected the lives of millions of people.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction by Luc SanteSuggestions for Further ReadingA Note on the TextHow the Other Half LivesPrefaceIntroduction1 Genesis of the Tenement2 The Awakening3 The Mixed Crowd4 The Down Town Back-alleys5 The Italian in New York6 The Bend7 A Raid on the Stale-beer Dives8 The Cheap Lodging-houses9 Chinatown10 Jewtown11 The Sweaters of Jewtown12 The Bohemians–Tenement-house Cigarmaking13 The Color Line in New York14 The Common Herd15 The Problem of the Children16 Waifs of the City's Slums17 The Street Arab18 The Reign of Rum19 The Harvest of Tares20 The Working Girls of New York21 Pauperism in the Tenements22 The Wrecks and the Waste23 The Man with the Knife24 What Has Been Done25 How the Case StandsAppendixExplanatory Notes
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Penguin Books Ltd Building and Dwelling
Book Synopsis''Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city'' Anna Minton, Prospect''Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking'' Jonathan Meades, GuardianIn Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a lifetime''s thinking and practical experience to explore the relationship between the good built environment and the good life. He argues for, and describes in rich detail, the idea of an open city, one in which people learn to manage complexity. He shows how the design of cities can enrich or diminish the everyday experience of those who dwell in them.The book ranges widely - from London, Paris and Barcelona to Shanghai, Mumbai and Medellin in Colombia - and draws on classic thinkers such as Tocqueville, Heidegger, Max Weber, and Walter Benjamin. It also draws on Sennett''s many decades as a practical planner himself, testing what works, what doesn''t, and why. He shows what wTrade ReviewA lateish-life appraisal of what Richard Sennett has read, written and, most vitally, witnessed on the street or in the marketplace in the tradition of the sharp-eyed, sharp-nosed flâneur taking in every sensation -- Jonathan Meades * Guardian *Sennett leavens the big ideas with snapshots of real life. ... It reads like a summation of a life lived in cities and is, ultimately, a paean to their unpredictability, a call for tolerance and a celebration of difference. -- Edwin Heathcote * Financial Times *He has brought to the study of urban life a perception that includes literature, philosophy, art, sociology and economics, as well as his personal experiences -- Rowan Moore * Observer *Distils into a single volume his thoughts on how urban design shapes the ways in which we relate to one another ... Typically idealistic, typically urbane, it is well-timed for the disputes of our day -- Justin McGuirk * New Yorker *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Language of Cities
Book SynopsisThe director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the cityWe live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-first century? Drawing examples from across the globe, Deyan Sudjic decodes the underlying forces that shape our cities, such as resources and land, to the ideas that shape conscious elements of design, whether of buildings or of space. Erudite and entertaining, he considers the differences between capital cities and the rest to understand why it is that we often feel more comfortable in our identities as Londoners, Muscovites, or Mumbaikars than in our national identities.Trade ReviewA deeply original and necessary book—Alain de BottonAn indispensable guide to what makes a city a city—Robert Bevan, Evening StandardDeyan Sudjic remains one of our most insightful commentators—Royal Academy magazineA small, readable guide to what cities are and how they work—Edwin Heathcote, Financial TimesA memoir and a master class in musing on modern design . . . It's a collection of thoughtful, absorbing essays about many aspects of modern design, a subject nobody writes better about than Sudjic—Evening Standard on B Is for Bauhaus
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Penguin Books Ltd Building Jerusalem
Book Synopsis''History writing at its compulsive best'' A. N. WilsonThis is a history of the ideas that shaped not only London, but Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, Sheffield and other power-houses of 19th-century Britain. It charts the controversies and visions that fostered Britain''s greatest civic renaissance.Tristram Hunt explores the horrors of the Victorian city, as seen by Dickens, Engels and Carlyle; the influence of the medieval Gothic ideal of faith, community and order espoused by Pugin and Ruskin; the pride in self-government, identified with the Saxons as opposed to the Normans; the identification with the city republics of the Italian renaissance - commerce, trade and patronage; the change from the civic to the municipal, and greater powers over health, education and housing; and finally at the end of the century, the retreat from the urban to the rural ideal, led by William Morris and the garden-city movement of Ebenezer Howard.Trade ReviewA key text which should be read by all politicians and by anyone interested in the way we live now. It is deeply researched, but written in an highly accessible way, and the reader never loses sight of the vitally relevant and interesting story Tristram Hunt has to tell. It is history writing at its compulsive best. -- A. N. WilsonWhat matters is his book's prodigious range and passionate enthusiasm, and his skill in showing how ideas, however foolish, can take over minds, change landscapes and mould the future. It is a rich, nutritious read. -- John Carey * Sunday Times *
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Penguin Books Ltd Serious Money
Book Synopsis''A latter-day Canterbury Tales ... Serious Money has a serious mission'' The Times''Eye-opening ... part guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap'' Misha Glenny, Financial TimesLondon is a plutocrat''s paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong Kong or Moscow. Far from trickling down, their wealth is burning up the environment and swallowing up the city. But what do we really know about London''s super rich, and the lives they lead?To find out more about this secretive elite, sociologist Caroline Knowles walks the streets of London from the City to suburban Surrey. Her walks reveal how the wealthy shape the capital in their image, creating a new world of gated communities and luxury developments. Along the way we meet a wide and wickedly entertaining cast of millionaires, billionaires and those who serve them: bankers, tech tycoons, Conservative party donors, butlers, bodyguards, divorce lawyers and many more.By turns jaw-dropping, enraging and enlightening, Serious Money explodes the fiction that wealth is a condition to aspire to, revealing the isolation and paranoia which accompany it when the plutocrat''s recompense - a life of unlimited luxury - ultimately proves hollow. It is a powerful reminder that it is not just the super-rich who get to make the city: we make it too, and could demand something different. Because serious money is good for no one - not even the rich.''An eye-opening, deeply disturbing, fast-moving journey through the lives, homes and affairs of the filthy rich of London'' Danny Dorling, author of All That Is Solid''A wonderful and vital account of a city ruled by, and for, extreme wealth'' Anna Minton, author of Big CapitalTrade ReviewPart guide, part indictment of a yawning wealth gap, Caroline Knowles's eye-opening book reveals how the capital has changed over the decades ... the author's gentle, yet shrewd observations quickly accumulate when seeking out a wide variety of individuals to reveal the quotidian culture of plutocracy. -- Misha Glenny * Financial Times *Knowles' book helps readers to see [London's super-rich] as less secretive, more troubling and a great deal sadder ... Serious Money has a serious mission. These vast fortunes, Knowles argues, do not just make people miserable. They are rotting the ties that hold our society together. -- Edward Lucas * The Times *Knowles's book acted on me like a goad, a stone in the shoe ... The questing sociologist has an agenda. She is our nominated surrogate in occupied territory. And she is persistent ... Among the freakishly perverse bankers and investors, she behaves like Orwell in Wigan. -- Iain Sinclair * London Review of Books *Again and again, Knowles's stories attest to a money machine devoted to nothing but its own perpetuation ... In the tradition of the great literary walkers, from Walter Benjamin to Will Self, her insistence on crossing the city on foot is, in an important sense, an act of resistance, an embrace of urban realities in defiance of the sad confinement of extreme wealth, its smoked-glass segregation. -- Nat Segnit * Times Literary Supplement *A fascinating investigation of plutocratic London ... as gripping as a pulp detective novel in which we glimpse the slimy, far from slummy lives of the morally corrupt. She patrols London's elite enclaves with a sharp eye for telling social and architectural details ... Knowles combines cunning and charm. -- Matthew Beaumont * New Statesman *An eye-opening, deeply disturbing, fast-moving journey through the lives, homes and affairs of the filthy rich of London. -- Danny DorlingFascinating, punchy, thought-provoking. Serious Money exposes the corrosive impact of London's super rich on our economy, society and politics, and comprehensively busts the myth that their wealth trickles down to the rest of us. -- Frances O’GradyA wonderful and vital account of a city ruled by, and for, extreme wealth. -- Anna Minton, author of Big CapitalStartling, spirited ... Knowles is alert to arresting details ... a wry primer to the extravagances of the super rich. -- Alex Diggins * The Critic *Years of footwork through the streets of central London have gone into producing this magnificent but disturbing book on the lives and influence of the super-rich. Knowles writes with enviable lightness and pace about how money, property, birth, breeding, contacts, secrecy, parasites and servants have created a class that owns and milks London, a world away from the city's ordinary citizens. A powerful ethnography of plutocratic power. -- Professor Ash Amin, author of Seeing Like a CityAn innovative and disturbingly entertaining travelogue covering one of the most important issues of our time ... could not have been published at a more critical time. -- Matt Reynolds * LSE Review of Books *Sociologist Caroline Knowles takes you through the neighborhoods of the capital city telling stories of how the ultra-wealthy live and work; how they spend their money, marry and divorce; and why London is one of the best places for those with nefarious intentions to hide money from authorities. * Investopedia - Best Economics Books of 2022 *A guided tour of the spaces and lifestyles of London's super-rich. Written in an engaging and accessible manner that draws the reader into spaces and conversations otherwise out of bounds, Knowles subtly exposes the paradoxes inherent within the life and politics of the super-rich in London. -- Sobia Ahmad Kaker * Soundings *
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Penguin Putnam Inc Scale
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Penguin Putnam Inc Triumph of the City
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Oxford University Press Inc Us versus Them Race Crime and Gentrification in
Book SynopsisCrime and gentrification are hot button issues that easily polarize racially diverse neighborhoods. How do residents, activists, and politicians navigate the thorny politics of race as they fight crime or resist gentrification? And do conflicts over competing visions of neighborhood change necessarily divide activists into racially homogeneous camps, or can they produce more complex alliances and divisions? In Us versus Them, Jan Doering answers these questions through an in-depth study of two Chicago neighborhoods. Drawing on three and a half years of ethnographic fieldwork, Doering examines how activists and community leaders clashed and collaborated as they launched new initiatives, built coalitions, appeased critics, and discredited opponents. At the heart of these political maneuvers, he uncovers a ceaseless battle over racial meanings that unfolded as residents strove to make local initiatives and urban change appear racially benign or malignant. A thoughtful and clear-eyed contribution to the field, Us versus Them reveals the deep impact that competing racial meanings have on the fabric of community and the direction of neighborhood change.Trade ReviewThis is an intriguing study of community conflicts about crime, race, and gentrification, based on an analysis of Chicago's Rogers Park and Uptown neighborhoods. Doering makes two broad contributions to the sociological literature. * Federico Camerin, Journal of Urban Affairs *Altogether, Us versus Them offers a timely, readable, and thoughtful addition to urban sociology and the sociology of race. * Jackelyn Hwang, American Journal of Sociology *The work is particularly compelling as a very readable contemporary update * M. E. Pfeifer, State University of New York Polytechnic Insitute, CHOICE *Building on both new and enduring questions about place and culture, Us versus Them explores how neighborhood context shapes residents' approaches to racialized policing and community safety initiatives. Relying on detailed ethnographic evidence and engaging with timely questions related to gentrification, concentrated poverty, and micro-segregation, the author provides a vivid portrait of residents' racialized boundary-making projects in two Chicago neighborhoods. Doering's detailed attention to the work of small groups in neighborhood safety initiatives provides a rich account that generates an important set of questions for students and scholars of policing, neighborhood effects, and diversity and integration to pursue. * Japonica Brown-Saracino, Boston University *InUs vs Them, Jan Doering takes the reader inside street-level contestation over race, crime, and gentrification in Chicago neighborhoods. Built on rich ethnographic and interview data, the end result is a deeply researched book that provides theoretical and empirical insight into how local politics shape the way residents talk about and understand neighborhood crime. Doering convincingly shows that the racial meanings attached to crime are partly a function of the political environment in which that meaning-making occurs. This engrossing read makes an original contribution to scholarship on race and politics and should be read by anyone interested in the politics of gentrification. * Corey D. Fields, Georgetown University *This important book puts some of the most divisive issues of our day - crime, gentrification, political polarization, and racial identity - under the microscope. It unpacks divisions within already racially integrated Chicago neighborhoods over strategies to address significant crime problems. Ensuing chapters document how well-meaning prevention efforts splintered communities and racial tensions spilled over into electoral politics, creating a minefield for politicians trying to build majority coalitions. Some succeeded, and the study illuminates how good leadership can lower the temperature around debates involving race and class, and find paths toward community solidarity around common problems. * Wesley Skogan, Northwestern University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: The Battle over Race, Crime, and Gentrification Chapter 2: A Brief History of Living Together Chapter 3: Racial Displacement in Action? Safety Activism and Its Racial Entanglements Chapter 4: "You've got reason to be afraid": Crime and Race in Electoral Campaigning Chapter 5: Resisting Gentrification and Criminalization Chapter 6: "White Vigilantes?" Two Case Studies of Positive Loitering Chapter 7: Racial Identities and Political Standpoints: Expected and Unexpected Alignments Chapter 8: Crime and Gentrification Beyond Black and White Chapter 9: Conclusion Appendix: About the Fieldwork Notes References Index
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Oxford University Press Inc The Innovation Complex Cities Tech and the New
Book SynopsisYou hear a lot these days about innovation and entrepreneurship and about how good jobs in tech will save our cities. Yet these common tropes hide a stunning reality: local lives and fortunes are tied to global capital. You see this clearly in metropolises such as San Francisco and New York that have emerged as superstar cities. In these cities, startups bloom, jobs of the future multiply, and a meritocracy trained in digital technology, backed by investors who control deep pools of capital, forms a new class: the tech-financial elite. In The Innovation Complex, the eminent urbanist Sharon Zukin shows the way these forces shape the new urban economy through a rich and illuminating account of the rise of the tech sector in New York City. Drawing from original interviews with venture capitalists, tech evangelists, and economic development officials, she shows how the ecosystem forms and reshapes the city from the ground up.Zukin explores the people and plans that have literally rooted digital technology in the city. That in turn has shaped a workforce, molded a mindset, and generated an archipelago of tech spaces, which in combination have produced a now-hegemonic innovation culture and geography. She begins with the subculture of hackathons and meetups, introduces startup founders and venture capitalists, and explores the transformation of the Brooklyn waterfront from industrial wasteland to innovation coastline. She shows how, far beyond Silicon Valley, cities like New York are shaped by an influential triple helix of business, government, and university leaders--an alliance that joins C. Wright Mills''s power elite, real estate developers, and ambitious avatars of academic capitalism. As a result, cities around the world are caught between the demands of the tech economy and communities'' desires for growth--a massive and often--insurmountable challenge for those who hope to reap the rewards of innovation''s success.Trade ReviewZukin's work mainly provides a fascinating insight into a city in transition... Zukin's book can convince us to make cities sustainable, not only physically but also in a social sense. * Wouter J. Verheul, Delft University of Technology, TESG *There are many ways agglomeration serves to create value through innovation. However, Zukin goes beyond the typically described positive effects, in particular efficient knowledge diffusion, to recognize the negative social and economic effects. * S. J. Gabriel, CHOICE *I found the book particularly interesting for those scholars dealing with innovation and entrepreneurship in a rather quantitative manner, since it may help them to better comprehend the interesting stories behind innovative entrepreneurship, which too often risk being hidden by the 'cold' numbers of econometrics. * Luca Grilli, Regional Studies *Sharon Zukin's Innovation Complex proves once again that she is one of the most astuteobservers of American cities. For decades, innovation and the tech industry were thought to be the province of the suburbs. But Zukin shows how and why innovation and startup companies have come back to the city en masse and the economic contradictions that the rise of the urban innovation complex brings. * Richard Florida, author ofThe Rise of the Creative Class *With a keen eye and a sly sense of irony, Sharon Zukin takes us behind the doors of the startups, venture capital firms, business incubators, co-working spaces, and coding camps that have made New Yorka major hub of what she aptly dubs 'The Innovation Complex.' Beneath the technical wizardry and relentless boosterism of this new world, Zukin sees reasons to be skeptical about its promises to deliver a better life for us all. * Joshua B. Freeman, author of Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World? *In The Innovation Complex, Sharon Zukin masterfully reveals how New York City-of all places-pivoted to tech and established an ecosystem rivaling Silicon Valley.In the process, she helps us understand cities, the startup world, and the economic tensions that come with progress. * Steven Levy, author In the Plex and Facebook: TheInside Story *Sharon Zukin deftly argues in The Innovation Complex that tech capitals do not simply bubble up from a primordial soup of young entrepreneurs' inventions. They are made through ideas, norms, and narratives as well as by policies and investments. Zukin takes us on a tour of the specific places and activities that make up the New York City innovation complex-hackathons, meetups, innovation districts, tech campuses, boot camps, and co-working spaces. What we come to see is the political process of innovation itself and how this process reconfigures cities. The result is a nuanced and critical look at the costs that a tech boom exacts on cities and citizens. * Gina Neff, University of Oxford, author of Venture Labor: Work and the Burden of Risk in Innovative Industries *Table of Contents1. Imagining Innovation 2. Hackathons and the Spirit of the New Capitalism 3. Meetups: Leveraging the Community 4. Accelerators, Startups, and the Circulation of Capital 5. The VC Office and the Concentration of Capital 6. Brooklyn's "Innovation Coastline" 7. Pipelines: Talent, Meritocracy, and Academic Capitalism 8. "The Address of Innovation" 9. Author's Note: On Methods and Journeys
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Oxford University Press Violence at the Urban Margins
Book SynopsisIn the Americas, debates around issues of citizen''s public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and upper-middle classes. However, a cursory count of the victims of urban violence in the Americas reveals that the people suffering the most from violence live, and die, at the lowest of the socio-symbolic order, at the margins of urban societies. However, the inhabitants of the urban margins are hardly ever heard in discussions about public safety. They live in danger but the discourse about violence and risk belongs to, is manufactured and manipulated by, others--others who are prone to view violence at the urban margins as evidence of a cultural, or racial, defect, rather than question violence''s relationship to economic and political marginalization. As a result, the experience of interpersonal viTrade ReviewViolence at the Urban Margins is an excellent collection of cutting-edge ethnography on the brutality of everyday life in impoverished areas across the Americas. Auyero, Bourgois, and Scheper-Hughes are among the greatest contemporary scholars of violence, and here they've assembled work from the most important new voices in the field. It's an excellent resource for students, faculty, and anyone else interested in understanding the lived experience of urban outcasts in an increasingly unequal world * Eric Klinenberg, Professor of Sociology, New York University *This esteemed group of international scholars brings 'the margins' into the core of contemporary research. A compelling tour de force, Violence at the Margins takes us into the homes, streets, institutions and personal lives of those wielding, suffering, and combatting violence to shed light on power/lessness across global expressions. Weaving together multidisciplinary perspectives, this book adds compelling depth and dimensionality to the literature working to understand violence and its alternatives in the world today. * Carolyn Nordstrom, Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame *Violence at the Margins sets the tone for powerful anthropological interpretations of brutality, fear, and suffering among the poor and marginalised populations of North and South America. * Howard Campbell, Anthropological Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; Kristine Kilanski and Javier Auyero ; Section 1: Shared Understandings ; Chapter One: The Moral Economy of Murder: Violence, Death, and Social Order in Nicaragua ; Dennis Rodgers ; Chapter Two: The Moral Economy of Violence in the US Inner City ; George Karandinos, Laurie Hart, Fernando Montero Castrillo, and Philippe Bourgois ; Chapter Three: On the Importance of Having a Positive Attitude ; Kevin Lewis O'Neill and Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela ; Section 2: Gender and Masculinities ; Chapter Four: 'Es que para ellos el deporte es matar': Rethinking the scripts of violent men in El Salvador and Brazil ; Mo Hume and Polly Wilding ; Chapter Five: Duros and Gangland Girlfriends: Male Identity, Gang Socialisation and Rape in Medellin ; Adam Baird ; Section 3: Being in danger, what do people do? ; Chapter Six: Fear and Spectacular Drug Violence in Monterrey ; Ana Villarreal ; Chapter Seven: Chismosas and Alcahuetas: Being the mother of an empistolado within the everyday armed violence of a Caracas barrio ; Veronica Zubillaga, Manuel Llorens, and John Souto ; Chapter Eight: Managing in the Midst of Social Disaster: Poor People's Responses to Urban Violence ; Javier Auyero and Kristine Kilanski ; Chapter Nine: When the Police Knock Your Door In ; Alice Goffman ; Section 4: Ethnographic positions and the politics of violence ; Chapter Ten: Standpoint Purgatorio: Liminal Fear and Danger in Studying the "Black and Brown" Tension in Los Angeles ; Randol Contreras ; Chapter Eleven: When the Rule of Law is Irrelevant: Death Squads and Vigilante Politics in Democratic North East Brazil ; Nancy Scheper-Hughes ; Postface ; Philippe Bourgois ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Greenovation Urban Leadership on Climate Change
Book SynopsisCollectively, cities take up a relatively tiny amount of land on the earth, yet emit 72 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. Clearly, cities need to be at the center of any broad effort to reduce climate change.In Greenovation, the eminent urban policy scholar Joan Fitzgerald argues that too many cities are only implementing random acts of greenness that will do little to address the climate crisis. She instead calls for greenovation--using the city as a test bed for adopting and perfecting green technologies for more energy--efficient buildings, transportation, and infrastructure more broadly. Further, Fitzgerald contends that while many city mayors cite income inequality as a pressing problem, few cities are connecting climate action and social justice-another aspect of greenovation. Focusing on the biggest producers of greenhouse gases in cities, buildings, energy and transportation, Fitzgerald examines how greenovating cities are reducing emissions overall and lays out an agenda for fostering and implementing urban innovations that can help reverse the path toward irrevocable climate damage. Drawing on interviews with practitioners in more than 20 North American and European cities, she identifies the strategies and policies they are employing and how support from state, provincial and national governments has supported or thwarted their efforts. A uniquely urban-focused appraisal of the economic, political, and social debates that underpin the drive to go green, Greenovation helps us understand what is arguably the toughest policy problem of our era: the increasing impact of anthropocentric climate change on modern social life.Trade ReviewA timely, focused, insightfully informative, and unique contribution to our on-going national conversation about dealing with our climate-changing environment, Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change is an extraordinary and inspiring read...unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and academic Contemporary Environmental Policy collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. * Midwest Book Review *A timely, focused, insightfully informative, and unique contribution to our on going national conversation about dealing with our climate-changing environment, Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change is an extraordinary and inspiring read...unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and academic Contemporary Environmental Policy collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. * Environmental Studies Shelf *One strength of this book is that the essential complexity of solutions is embraced rather than ignored, making it clear that (1) national and state policies impact what cities are able to do, but cities also retain much control over their own infrastructure, and (2) reducing emissions from urban areas is consistent with, and can be accomplished alongside, other sustainable development goals. * J. Schoof, Southern Illinois University, CHOICE *Given the failure of nations to engage the climate crisis at the speed that physics demands, we're going to need to rely on city governments for a lot of heavy lifting. Joan Fitzgerald shows precisely how to harvest beyond the low-hanging fruit: this is a smart book, filled with enough detail to help any planner, and enough vision to inspire any citizen. * Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? and founder of 350.org *The first sentence of the first chapter of this powerful and necessary book immediately establishes the stakes: Cities cover about 3 percent of the land on Earth, yet they produce about 72 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions. These two data points send a strong message to all urban citizens and the mayors who govern over them: implementing the transformative changes necessary for mitigating climate change should begin with us, the residents of cities. Joan Fitzgerald explains to readers where the potential for green policy innovation lies, and how cities across the world have been putting successful policies in place. * Allan Larsson, former Swedish Social Democratic politician and Minister for Finance *Greenovation is the definitive account of the paramount role cities must play in the shift to a sustainable economy. Fitzgerald both describes what leading cities are doing to reduce their emissions, particularly in buildings and transportation, and lays out an agenda for what lagging cities need to doall the while keeping in mind how national governments need to support the urban climate agenda. * Sadhu Aufochs Johnston, City Manager of Vancouver *With this meticulously researched and highly readable book, Joan Fitzgerald challenges us to take bolder action on climate justice. It is time to move beyond tokenism to real greenovation that scales up energy efficiency, renewable energy, electric transportation, active mobility, and more. Based on inspirational cases from around the world, Greenovation provides the institutional roadmap that will transform our cities, and thus the planet. * Karen Chapple, Professor and Chair of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley *How do North American and European cities lead bygreenovatingin fast, nimble, and effective ways? In this thoroughly researched and argued book, Fitzgerald issues a clarion call for integrative political action on the linked problems of urban climate change and inequality to create a thriving and more equitable economy. * Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, Tufts University *This work provides a broad perspective on the central role of cities in mitigating climate change... One strength of this book is that the essential complexity of solutions is embraced rather than ignored. * CHOICE *Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change will be an important read for scholars in urban planning, but it also provides interesting insights for researchers in geography and sustainability transitions. In addition, the book is valuable for policy-makers and planners seeking to find inspiration on how to greenovate their cities... I am confident the book will play an important role in future discussions on solutions for the climate crisis. * Regional Studies Journal *Greenovation builds upon Fitzgerald's earlier book, Emerald Cities, offering a detailed analysis of green technology to mitigate and perhaps combat rising climate change....Two notable features stand out: her incorporation of racial justice considerations and her targeting of the negative role of China in undercutting North American and European greenovation programs....This is a book that every community activist and city planner concerned to move climate action policies forward should not only have...but should be heavily underlined to highlight its key insights, best practices, and major policy lessons. * Ernest Yanarella, Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Cities on the Front Lines. Chapter 2: Building the Energy Efficient City Chapter 3: Beyond the Building: District Heating and Cooling Chapter 4: Completely Renewable Cities Chapter 5: Electrifying Transportation Chapter 6: Deprioritizing Cars Chapter 7: Eco-Districts: Integration and Experimentation Chapter 8: Cities and the Green Economy Chapter 9: Climate Just Cities Chapter 10: Connecting the Dots
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Oxford University Press Statistics and Dynamics of Urban Populations
Book SynopsisUrbanization is a fundamental process in human history and is increasingly affecting our environment and society. Although cities have existed for centuries, describing and controlling urbanization has always been difficult and still is: cities are continuously changing over time in a non-homogeneous fashion that has puzzled historians, geographers, philosophers, economists, urbanists, engineers, mathematicians and physicists. In particular, one of the most debated issues of urban studies has been the question of urban population growth. How do cities appear and disappear, grow or decline? Why do we observe a hierarchy of cities from small to large and not a typical city size ? These questions are not only relevant for census purposes. The population size of the city is an important determinant for most of urban issues: land management, congestion, public transport planning, economic growth, innovation incentives, food and good supply and climate-change adaptation. A sound understanding of population growth processes is an inescapable path for a good monitoring of city planning.This book describes all aspects of quantitative approaches to urban population growth, ranging from measures and empirical results to the mathematical description of their evolution. It will be of interest to researchers working on quantitative aspect of cities and from many different disciplines such as quantitative geography, spatial economics, geomatics, urbanism and transportation, physics, or applied mathematics. This book will also be of interest to graduate students and researchers entering the field or interested in quantitative studies of urban systems.Table of ContentsPART I COUNTING PEOPLE 1: Urban population 1.1 Defining the city 1.2 An historical example: Paris 1.3 Functional and morphological denitions 1.4 Gridded population of the world 2: Why does population matter? 2.1 Population is a good start 2.2 Scaling in cities PART II RANKING CITIES 3: The distribution of urban populations 3.1 Power-laws 3.2 Zipf's law for cities 3.3 How to t a power-law? 3.4 Revisiting Zipf's law for cities 4: Dynamics of ranking 4.1 Stable versus unstable ranking 4.2 Modelling the ranking dynamics 4.3: Rank variations of cities PART III MODELS OF URBAN GROWTH 5: Stochastic calculus 5.1 Brownian motion 5.2 Itô and Stratonovich prescriptions 5.3 Fokker-Planck equation 6: Stochastic models of growth 6.1 Yule-Simon's model of growth 6.2 Gibrat's law for cities 6.3 Gabaix's mode 7: Models with migration 7.1 A modied Yule-Simon model 7.2 A master equation approach 7.3 Diusion with noise: the Bouchaud-Mezard model PART IV HOW CITIES TRULY GROW 8: The generalized central limit theorem and Levy stable laws 8.1 The central limit theorem and its generalization 8.2 Levy stable laws 8.3 The generalized central limit theorem 9: From First principles to the growth equation 9.1 Building a bottom-up equation 9.2 Gravitational model 9.3 Minimal model for the inter-urban migration flows 10: About city dynamics 10.1 Solving a new kind of equation 10.2 Analysis and scaling of the solution 10.3 Rank dynamics 11: Outlook: Beyond Zipf's law 11.1 Zipf's law: the end? 11.2 And space? References Index
£81.00
Oxford University Press Crabgrass Frontier
Book SynopsisThe winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize, this book is the first detailed history of suburban life in America from its origins to the drive-in culture of today.Trade Review"A compelling narrative.... Jackson traces the consequences of the predominantly North American process [of suburbanization] through three centuries of technological, economic and social innovation."--Philadelphia Inquirer "During the days following the Rodney King riot, this study provides essential analysis of the historic roots for the racial divide between the black city and the white suburbs."--T.C. DeLaney, Washinton and Lee University "Popular with my students. As many readers know, Jackson's book is well-written and engrossing which makes it a useful choice for an introductory course (required) with a less than enthusiastic audience."--Sullivan L. Huntoon, Indiana University "A delightful book that sheds light on American history and society from unexpected vantage points. Very stimulating."--Clifford H. Scott, Indiana University "Beautifully written and organized; a mine of insights on a broad range of urban and suburban problems."--Stanley B. Winters, New Jersy Institute of Technology "Excellent for advanced undergraduates not only in urban history, but in American social history, too."--Louis Kyriakoudes, University of North Carolina-Wilmington "The best study in American urban development to appear in the last few years. This work will long remain one of the most important in its field."--Pacific Historical Review "The most important book on the history of American suburbs to appear since the publication of Sam Bass Warner's Streetcar Suburbs in 1962."--American Historical Review "An excellent work. Clear, well-presented and very readable."--Joseph M. Hawes, Memphis State University "A model history."--American Studies International "A superb achievement that will set the standard for American social and urban history for a long time to come."--Roger W. Lotchin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Simply the best book on the subject. A 'tour de force.'"--D. Booth, University of Massachusetts "A lucid and in-depth study of one of the most significant developments in the post-World War II era, the suburbs. A much-needed account, Crabgrass Frontier examines the transformation of the suburbs from haunt of the social pariah to haven for the yuppie."--A.J. Scopino, Jr., Central Connecticut State University "The first really comprehensive and satisfactory history of suburbanization to have appeared."--The Public Historian "Jackson, who coined the term 'crabgrass frontier' in 1973 to describe suburbanization, has written the first comprehensive, scholarly history of this peculiarly American phenomenon."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History "A history of authoritative scope.... Among the many interpretations, attacks, sociological reviews and other accounts of suburbia's spread since 1945, Mr. Jackson's stands out as the most comprehensive."--Grady Clay, The New York Times Book Review "Providing the first comprehensive treatment of the suburban process, Jackson places the movement in both a historical and an international context.... A milestone for both urban and American history."--New England Quarterly "This is the definitive work on a topic of great importance."--Reviews in American History "One could hardly ask for more on the American phenomenon of suburbanization than this book offers."--Myron A. Marty, St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Jackson's critique should be heard by all who care about the future of urban America."--J. Anthony Lukas, The New Republic "Brilliant and incisive.... Its premise is deeply humanistic without over-simplifying forces."--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times "A model history with fascinating detail on America's various urban patterns."--American Studies International "Excellent."--Robert E. Smith, Missouri Southern State College "A compelling narrative.... Jackson traces the consequences of the predominantly North American process [of suburbanization] through three centuries of technological, economic and social innovation."--Philadelphia Inquirer "A wide-ranging, sensitive look at the whole of U.S. development in the past century and at the linkages with thechnology, enterprise, and public policy."--Stanley B. Winters, New Jersey Institute of TechnologyTable of Contents1.: Suburbs as Slums 2.: The Transportation Revolution and the Erosion of the Walking City 3.: Home Sweet Home: The House and the Yard 4.: Romantic Suburbs 5.: The Main Line: Elite Suburbs and Commuter Railroads 6.: The Time of the Trolley 7.: Affordable Homes for the Common Man 8.: Suburbs into Neighborhoods: The Rise and Fall of Municipal Annexation 9.: The New Age of Automobility 10.: Suburban Development Between the Wars 11.: Federal Subsidy and the Suburban Dream: How Washington Changed the American Housing Market 12.: The Cost of Good Intentions: The Ghettoization of Public Housing in the United States 13.: The Baby Boom and the Age of the Subdivision 14.: The Drive-in Culture of Contemporary America 15.: The Loss of Community in Metropolitan America 16.: Retrospect and Prospect
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Oxford University Press, USA The Moral Order of a Suburb
Book SynopsisThis landmark study examines how the residents of an affluent suburb of New York City deal with conflict in their families, neighbourhoods, and community. Drawing on research, observation, and hundreds of in-depth interviews conducted over a twelve month period, the author provides a vivid portrait and atomized world in which open conflict is avoided and disputes are confined to families and, whenever possible, to individuals. This revealing portrait of an increasingly prevalent type of community is a disturbing insight that goes straight to the heart of modern America. The author looks at Hampton, a community where residents deal with family or communal stress primarily through resigned acceptance of short-term or permanent avoidance. Other responses include seeking professional help, anonymous complaints, mental illness, and suicide.Trade ReviewA very stimulating and well-written monography, which should be appreciated by many undergraduate and graduate students. * Contemporary Sociology *
£96.75
Oxford University Press Inc Norman Street
Book SynopsisNorman Street is the first serious examination of a scenario that appears likely to be played out again and again as federal budget policies result in reduced services for urban areas across the country. Based on a three-year study conducted in Brooklyn''s Greenpoint/Williamsburg section, the book is an in-depth, detailed description of life in a multi-ethnic working class neighborhood during New York City''s fiscal crisis of 1975-78. Now updated with a new introduction to address the changes and events of the thirty years since the book''s original publication, its lessons continue to demonstrate the impact of political and economic changes on everyday lives.Relating local events to national policy, Susser deals directly with issues and problems that face industrial cities nationwide: ethnic and race relations are analyzed within the context of community organization and local politics; the impact of landlord/tenant relations, housing discrimination, and red-lining are examined; and tTrade ReviewThe original edition of Norman Street painted a gripping and moving portrait of a mid-1970s NYC neighborhood under assault. At that time, neither Susser nor the residents of Greenpoint-Williamsburg could imagine that the combination of regulation and neglect they were enduring was a precursor of the much larger and more devastating global project of neoliberalism. This reissued and updated edition, with Susser's compelling new introduction, offers a moving and instructive time-trip, transporting us back to a key moment in the struggle for livable urban neighborhoods. * Jane Collins, University of Wisconsin-Madison *Blending fine-grain ethnography with superb political economic analysis, Susser's Norman Street is a classic of urban social science. It gives a vivid picture of the economic ingredients, social struggles, and demographic change that set the stage for a hipsterized Williamsburg and transformed Greenpoint. A paradigm of neighborhood ethnography in a global context. * Neil Smith, author of New Urban Frontier *Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Updated Edition ; 1. Introduction ; 2. A Changing Neighborhood ; 3. A Changing Workplace and Its Consequences ; 4. The Welfare System: Interaction Between Officials and Clients ; 5. The Welfare System: Regulations and the Life of a Welfare Recipient ; 6. Landlord-Tenant Relations ; 7. Cooperation and Conflict in a Block Association ; 8. Making Things Work ; 9. Kinship, Friendship, and Support ; 10. Save the Firehouse! ; 11. The Sources of Political Control ; 12. Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index ; Index of Pseudonyms
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Oxford University Press Inc On Display
Book SynopsisTwo billion people around the world use Instagram, but so far social scientists have done little research on the platform. Despite Instagram''s reputation for shallowness, the ongoing self-presentation it demands confronts users with profound dilemmas. Who are we? What do we want to show of ourselves? What do we aspire to be?On Display is a book about how people remake their worlds through social media. John D. Boy and Justus Uitermark provide an encompassing account of how a platform that is unfailingly polished and ruthlessly judgmental shapes us and our environments. They examine how personalities, relations, social movements, urban subcultures, and city streets change as they are represented on Instagram. Interviews and ethnographic vignettes render an intimate account of the desires and anxieties that animate the platform. Just as importantly, Boy and Uitermark reveal how Instagram is implicated in social inequalities.While previous accounts have argued that social media promote pTrade ReviewBy drawing together granular stories of everyday life and extrapolating visual trends via computational data, Boy and Uitermark uncover how users navigate their social status, social lives, and social spaces through the delicate inter-weaving of social ties on Instagram. On Display's focus on Amsterdam on Instagram is central reading for understanding how digital life worlds, mediatized realities, and networked socio-geographies become integral for reflexive contradictions and productive tensions arising from life on the 'gram.' * Crystal Abidin, co-author of Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures *This fascinating book takes a snapshot of how Amsterdam is represented on Instagram to explore provocative questions of class, status, and hierarchy. Rather than functioning as a public square or fostering activism, Boy and Uitermark find that Instagram encourages feel-good aesthetics and conformity, privileging the viewpoints of the city's most privileged residents. Meticulously researched and full of lively accounts from a range of Instagram users, On Display asks us to consider how our social lives and very sense of self are impacted by the social platforms we use. * Alice E. Marwick, author of The Private Is Political: Networked Privacy and Social Media *In this groundbreaking study, Boy and Uitermark focus on Instagram as a mediator of everyday life. Their emphasis on the importance of social status in social media is especially productive, and so too are the connections they make to a specific urban context. All this makes the book essential reading for anyone interested in cities, digital media, and social life. * Gillian Rose, co-author of The New Urban Aesthetic: Digital Experiences of Urban Change *Boy and Uitermark offer a remarkably innovative interrogation of Instagram's everyday users that underlines the perplexing ambiguity of all visual social media. Their nuanced interpretation reveals Instagram's confounding capacity to enable both the competitive display of social status and the sincere performance of the authentic self. This book deserves our deep attention. * Sharon Zukin, author of The Innovation Complex: Cities, Tech, and the New Economy *On Display is a superlative contribution to our understanding of social media and urban life. Not only does it draw on sustained data collection, analysis, and re-analysis, but it is written in the tradition of the best ethnographic work: richly descriptive, and frankly enjoyable to read. More concerned with how social media and social status intersect in the city than a narrow study of one platform, Boy and Uitermark's book will remain relevant long after Instagram's influence and importance wanes. * Scott Rodgers, Birkbeck, University of London, and Editor of Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Status and Social Media Chapter 3: Selves and Others Chapter 4: Curating Contention Chapter 5: Integration and Conformity Chapter 6: Staging Status Chapter 7: Conclusion Appendix: A Note on Methods Notes References Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Greenovation
Book SynopsisCollectively, cities take up a relatively tiny amount of land on the earth, yet they emit 72 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. Clearly, cities need to be at the center of any broad effort to reduce climate change.In Greenovation, the eminent urban policy scholar Joan Fitzgerald argues that too many cities are only implementing random acts of greenness that will do little to address the climate crisis. She instead calls for greenovation--using the city as a test bed for adopting and perfecting green technologies for more energy--efficient buildings, transportation, and infrastructure more broadly. Fitzgerald contends that while many city mayors cite income inequality as a pressing problem, few cities are connecting climate action and social justice-another aspect of greenovation. Focusing on the biggest producers of greenhouse gases in cities, buildings, energy and transportation, Fitzgerald examines how greenovating cities are reducing emissions overall and lays out an agenda for foTrade ReviewA timely, focused, insightfully informative, and unique contribution to our on-going national conversation about dealing with our climate-changing environment, Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change is an extraordinary and inspiring read...unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and academic Contemporary Environmental Policy collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. * Midwest Book Review *One strength of this book is that the essential complexity of solutions is embraced rather than ignored, making it clear that (1) national and state policies impact what cities are able to do, but cities also retain much control over their own infrastructure, and (2) reducing emissions from urban areas is consistent with, and can be accomplished alongside, other sustainable development goals. * J. Schoof, Southern Illinois University, CHOICE *Given the failure of nations to engage the climate crisis at the speed that physics demands, we're going to need to rely on city governments for a lot of heavy lifting. Joan Fitzgerald shows precisely how to harvest beyond the low-hanging fruit: this is a smart book, filled with enough detail to help any planner, and enough vision to inspire any citizen. * Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? and founder of 350.org *The first sentence of the first chapter of this powerful and necessary book immediately establishes the stakes: âCities cover about 3 percent of the land on Earth, yet they produce about 72 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions.â These two data points send a strong message to all urban citizens and the mayors who govern over them: implementing the transformative changes necessary for mitigating climate change should begin with us, the residents of cities. Joan Fitzgerald explains to readers where the potential for green policy innovation lies, and how cities across the world have been putting successful policies in place. * Allan Larsson, former Swedish Social Democratic politician and Minister for Finance *Greenovation is the definitive account of the paramount role cities must play in the shift to a sustainable economy. Fitzgerald both describes what leading cities are doing to reduce their emissions, particularly in buildings and transportation, and lays out an agenda for what lagging cities need to do-all the while keeping in mind how national governments need to support the urban climate agenda. * Sadhu Aufochs Johnston, City Manager of Vancouver *With this meticulously researched and highly readable book, Joan Fitzgerald challenges us to take bolder action on climate justice. It is time to move beyond tokenism to real greenovation that scales up energy efficiency, renewable energy, electric transportation, active mobility, and more. Based on inspirational cases from around the world, Greenovation provides the institutional roadmap that will transform our cities, and thus the planet. * Karen Chapple, Professor and Chair of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley *How do North American and European cities lead byÃgreenovatingÃin fast, nimble, and effective ways? In this thoroughly researched and argued book, Fitzgerald issues a clarion call for integrative political action on the linked problems of urban climate change and inequality to create a thriving and more equitable economy. * Julian Agyeman, Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, Tufts University *This work provides a broad perspective on the central role of cities in mitigating climate change... One strength of this book is that the essential complexity of solutions is embraced rather than ignored. * CHOICE *Greenovation: Urban Leadership on Climate Change will be an important read for scholars in urban planning, but it also provides interesting insights for researchers in geography and sustainability transitions. In addition, the book is valuable for policy-makers and planners seeking to find inspiration on how to greenovate their cities... I am confident the book will play an important role in future discussions on solutions for the climate crisis. * Regional Studies Journal *Greenovation builds upon Fitzgerald's earlier book, Emerald Cities, offering a detailed analysis of green technology to mitigate and perhaps combat rising climate change....Two notable features stand out: her incorporation of racial justice considerations and her targeting of the negative role of China in undercutting North American and European greenovation programs....This is a book that every community activist and city planner concerned to move climate action policies forward should not only have...but should be heavily underlined to highlight its key insights, best practices, and major policy lessons. * Ernest Yanarella, Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Cities on the Front Lines. Chapter 2: Building the Energy Efficient City Chapter 3: Beyond the Building: District Heating and Cooling Chapter 4: Completely Renewable Cities Chapter 5: Electrifying Transportation Chapter 6: Deprioritizing Cars Chapter 7: Eco-Districts: Integration and Experimentation Chapter 8: Cities and the Green Economy Chapter 9: Climate Just Cities Chapter 10: Connecting the Dots
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