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  • Diálogos: Placemaking in Latino Communities

    Edited by Michael Rios, Leonardo Vazquez ...
    Latinos are one of the largest and fastest growing social groups in the United States, and their increased presence is profoundly shaping the character of urban, suburban, and rural places. This is a response to these developments and is the first book written for readers seeking to learn about, engage and plan with Latino communities. It considers how placemaking in marginalized communities sheds ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Community Development and Democratic Practice

    Edited by Paul Lachapelle, Michael Rios ...
    Series series Community Development – Current Issues Series
    This book is the outcome of a multiyear process of participatory meetings, individual and collective writings, and insightful criticisms sponsored by the Kettering Foundation regarding the intersection of community development and democratic practice. The collective outcome from these processes is a wide range of innovative articles at the forefront of thinking about the intersections of power, ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Proteomics of Peroxisomes

    Identifying Novel Functions and Regulatory Networks

    Edited by Luis A. del Río, Michael Schrader ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This new edited volume in the Springer Subcellular Biochemistry Series presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the proteomics of peroxisomes derived from mammalian, Drosophila, fungal, and plant origin, and contains contributions from leading experts in the field.The development of sensitive proteomics and mass spectrometry technologies, combined with bioinformatics approaches now ... Read more

    $306.99 CAD

  • Powerhouse Voices

    Amazing Experiences on Clubhouse

    by Naleighna Kai, Mary B. Morrison, J. L. Woodson, Ehryck Gilmore, Stephanie M. Freeman, La Ammitai, Darryl Benally, Chi Love,, Matt Sandy, Jacquie Branagan, Glen Rudin, Jeremy Burright, Dan Eisen, Bobby Del Rio, Sir Marco Robinson, Michael Montgomery ...
    Series series Volume 2
    The second book of Powerhouse Voices: Amazing Experiences on Clubhouse continues with more success stories that happened on an audio-only app that changed the world and helped people connect on a deeper level.Celebrities, influencers, life coaches, CEOs, authors, artists, and leading entrepreneurs share the best advice to level up on all platforms, expand visibility and reach, increase your client ... Read more

    $1.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Microdystopias

    Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment

    by Lene M. Johannessen, Janne Stigen Drangsholt, Henrik Gustafsson, Anders Lysne, Holger Pötzsch, Michael J. Prince, Knut Rio, Øyvind Vågnes, Nahum N. Welang, Dr. Asbjørn Skarsvåg Grønstad0 ...
    This edited collection examines the effects that macrosystems have on the figuration of our everyday—of microdystopias—and argues that microdystopic narratives are part of a genre that has emerged in contrast to classic dystopic manifestations of world-shattering events. From different methodological and theoretical positions in fieldworks ranging from literary works and young adult series to ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

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  • Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

    Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

    by Anthony M. Townsend ...
    An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside.In Smart Cities, urbanist and technology expert Anthony Townsend takes a broad ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Just City

    by Susan S. Fainstein ...
    "The just city is one in which equity, democracy, and diversity are important considerations. This is in contrast with the city as growth machine. Fainstein examines three cities: New York, London, and Amsterdam. She provides a history of post–World War II planning and then focuses on fairly recent cases of development in each. Her goals, though modest, are important if growing inequality in urban ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • In Search of Paradise

    Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis

    by Li Zhang ...
    A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Spirit of Cities

    Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age

    by Daniel A. Bell, Avner de-Shalit ...
    A lively and personal book that returns the city to political thoughtCities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom. The Spirit of Cities revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or values. In the ancient world, ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Vanishing New York

    How a Great City Lost Its Soul

    by Jeremiah Moss ...
    "Essential reading for fans of Jane Jacobs, Joseph Mitchell, Patti Smith, Luc Sante, and Cheap Pierogi" —Vanity FairAn unflinching chronicle of gentrification in the twenty-first century and a love letter to lost New York by the creator of the popular and incendiary blog Vanishing New York.For generations, New York City has been a mecca for artists, writers, and other hopefuls longing to be part ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Writing the Modern City

    Literature, Architecture, Modernity

    Edited by Sarah Edwards, Jonathan Charley ...
    Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have represented cultural modernity, political idealism and architectural innovation. Writing the Modern City explores the diverse and fascinating relationships between literature, ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • City

    Rediscovering the Center

    by William H. Whyte, Paco Underhill ...
    Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time."For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City: Rediscovering the Center is the result of that research, a humane, often amusing view of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD