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An Eminent Sociologist--and Coauthor, With Aziz Ansari, Of The #1 New York Times Bestseller Modern Romance--makes The Provocative Case That The Future Of De...

From Water to Wine explores how Angola has changed since the end of its civil war in 2002. Its focus is on the middle class—defined as those with a house,...

The Lower East Side of Manhattan is rich in stories -- of poor immigrants who flocked there in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; of beatni...

“A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move us forwa...

based On Over A Decade Of Field Research, Righteous Dopefiend Is A Searing Portrait Of The Lives Of Homeless Injection Drug Users In San Francisco And An ...

Details The History Of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood, The Ward, Bordered By College And Queen, University And Yonge. Introduction / John Lorinc --...

"Save Your City is an inspired and powerful must-read. Our democracy is in peril and this book delivers the right message, by the right person, at the right...

Based On The Blog With More Than A Million Loyal Fans, A Beautiful, Heartfelt, Funny, And Inspiring Collection Of Photographs Capturing The Spirit Of A City...

The first volume of #HipHopEd: The Compilation on Hip-hop Education brings together veteran and emerging scholars, practitioners and students from a variety...

this New Edition Brings This Study Of Inner-city Life Up To Date. publishers Weekly anthropologist Bourgois Chose Addicts, Thieves, And [drug] Dealers To ...

Community shapes our identity, quenches our thirst for belonging, and bolsters our physical, mental, emotional, and economic health. But in the chaos of mod...

From the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country. A birder s...

Community shapes our identity, quenches our thirst for belonging, and bolsters our physical, mental, emotional, and economic health. But in the chaos of mod...

Introduction To Los Angeles : City And Region / Edward W. Soja And Allen J. Scott -- The First American City / Richard S. Weinstein -- Hetero-architecture A...

Globally renowned architect Tye Farrow bridges the gap in knowledge between the therapeutic medical world and the design community to reveal how the intenti...

The fourth edition of Canadian Cities in Transition: New Directions in the Twenty-First Century has been completely revised and updated to reflect the most ...

Explore The Vestiges Of The Hamlets And Villages That Have Been Swallowed Up By Toronto’s Relentless Growth. Over More Than Two Centuries, Toronto Has Bal...

Toronto prides itself on being “the world’s most diverse city,” and its officials seek to support this diversity through programs and policies design...

Across the country, white ethnics have fled cities for suburbs. But many have stayed in their old neighborhoods. When the busing crisis erupted in Boston i...

Today's news media is full of references to 'globalization' - a buzz word that is quickly becoming ubiquitous. But what exactly is globalization? What are ...

“Michael Gross’s new book…packs [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building. The Jackie Collins of real estate likes to map ex...

America's cities are being rapidly transformed by a sinister and homogenous design. A new Kind of urbanism—manipulative, dispersed, and hostile to traditi...

Visionary thinker Jane Jacobs uses her authoritative work on urban life and economies to show us how we can protect and strengthen our culture and communiti...