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  • Mobilizing Food Vending

    Gourmet Food Trucks in the American City

    by Ginette Wessel ...
    Mobilizing Food Vending investigates the gourmet food truck movement in the United States and provides a clearer understanding of the social and economic factors that shape vendor autonomy and industry growth. The book features case studies in a variety of American cities and uses top-down and bottom-up urban theory to frame a discussion of food trucks’ rights, displacement, and resiliency. Using ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Social Media and the Contemporary City

    by Eric Sauda, Ginette Wessel, Alireza Karduni ...
    The widespread adoption of smartphones has led to an explosion of mobile social media data, more than a billion messages per day that continuously track location, content, and time. Social Media in the Contemporary City focuses on the effects of social media on local communities and urban space in a variety of political and economic settings related to social activism, informal economic activity, ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

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    The End of Restaurants as We Knew Them, and What Comes After

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    A searing expose of the restaurant industry, and a path to a better, safer, happier meal.In the years before the pandemic, the restaurant business was booming. Americans spent more than half of their annual food budgets dining out. In a generation, chefs had gone from behind-the-scenes laborers to TV stars. The arrival of Uber Eats, DoorDash, and other meal delivery apps was overtaking home ... Read more

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  • Becoming a Landscape Architect

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  • Future Perfect

    The Case For Progress In A Networked Age

    by Steven Johnson ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of How We Got To Now, Farsighted, and Extra LifeCombining the deft social analysis of Where Good Ideas Come From with the optimistic arguments of Everything Bad Is Good For You, New York Times bestselling author Steven Johnson’s Future Perfect makes the case that a new model of political change is on the rise, transforming everything from local governm... ... Read more

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  • Wal-Mart

    The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism

    Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein ...
    A collection of essays that "do an incredible job of balancing the wonders and horrors of the force that is Wal-Mart " ( Booklist , starred review).Edited by one of the nation's preeminent labor historians, this book marks an ambitious effort to dissect the full extent of Wal-Mart's business operations, its social effects, and its role in the United States and world economy. Wal-Mart is based on a ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tactical Urbanism

    Short-term Action for Long-term Change

    by Mike Lydon, Anthony Garcia ...
    In the twenty-first century, cities worldwide must respond to a growing and diverse population, ever-shifting economic conditions, new technologies, and a changing climate. Short-term, community-based projects—from pop-up parks to open streets initiatives—have become a powerful and adaptable new tool of urban activists, planners, and policy-makers seeking to drive lasting improvements in their ... Read more

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  • The Promise of Access

    Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope

    by Daniel Greene ...
    Why simple technological solutions to complex social issues continue to appeal to politicians and professionals who should (and often do) know better.Why do we keep trying to solve poverty with technology? What makes us feel that we need to learn to code--or else? In The Promise of Access, Daniel Greene argues that the problem of poverty became a problem of technology in order to manage the ... Read more

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  • The City Authentic

    How the Attention Economy Builds Urban America

    by David A. Banks ...
    **One of Dazed's Best Non-Fiction Books of 2023The first book to explore how our cities gentrify by becoming social media influencers—and why it works.**Cities, like the people that live in them, are subject to the attention economy. In The City Authentic, author David A. Banks shows how cities are transforming themselves to appeal to modern desires for authentic urban living through the attention ... Read more

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  • Pictures of a Gone City

    Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area

    by Richard A. Walker ...
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  • Everything but the Coffee

    Learning about America from Starbucks

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    Everything but the Coffee casts a fresh eye on the world's most famous coffee company, looking beyond baristas, movie cameos, and Paul McCartney CDs to understand what Starbucks can tell us about America. Bryant Simon visited hundreds of Starbucks around the world to ask, Why did Starbucks take hold so quickly with consumers? What did it seem to provide over and above a decent cup of coffee? Why ... Read more

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  • The Creative Community Builder's Handbook

    How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture

    by Tom Borrup ...
    Put the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driven community development and explains key underlying principles. You'll understand the arts impact on community well-being and have the rationale for engaging others. Find inspiration and ideas from twenty case studies Part 2 gives you ten concrete ... Read more

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