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  • Land Fictions

    The Commodification of Land in City and Country

    Edited by D. Asher Ghertner, Robert W. Lake ...
    Series series Cornell Series on Land: New Perspectives on Territory, Development, and Environment
    Land Fictions explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity. It interrogates global patterns of property formation, the dispossessions property markets enact, and the popular movements to halt the growing waves of evictions and land grabs.This collection brings together original research on urban, rural, and peri-urban India; ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • The New Suburbanites

    Race and Housing in the Suburbs

    by Robert W. Lake ...
    National data indicates a surge in African-American suburbanization during the 1970s. What are the barriers that have slowed this process for so long? Is black entry to the suburbs synonymous with integration? To what extent does it contribute to convergence in the residential distributions of whites and blacks? This careful and thorough study marshals evidence that black suburbanization offers ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Readings in Urban Analysis

    Perspectives on Urban Form and Structure

    by Robert W. Lake ...
    This important work brings together a range of perspectives in contemporary urban analysis. The field of urban analysis is characterized by the multiplicity of approaches, philosophies, and methodologies employed in the examination of urban structure and urban problems. This fragmentation of perspectives is not simply a reflection of the multifaceted and complex nature of the city as subject ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Rebuilding America's Cities

    Edited by Paul R. Porter, Robert W. Lake ...
    A growing cooperation between the public and private sectors indicates that the tasks of redevelopment are too large and complex for either sector to accomplish alone. Some people maintain that government can do few things right; others are equally distrustful of the private sector. As used here, the private sector is considered to be all that is not government. Each of the success stories ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

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    Changing Planning Culture in China

    by Chiu-Yuan Wang ...
    The aim of this thesis is to provide an outline to address questions with regard to the transformation of planning in China that has occurred after the 1980s. The research is using “planning evolution” as the main research skeleton. The starting point is to investigate to what extent Chinese urban planning has developed after the opening up and other reforms under the state-led and market-driven ... Read more

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  • A Modest Proposal

    For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick.

    by Jonathan Swift ...
    A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick,[1] commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The essay suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their ... Read more

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  • Radical Cities

    Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture

    by Justin McGuirk ...
    What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city?In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving.Ever since the mid ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Radical Technologies

    The Design of Everyday Life

    by Adam Greenfield ...
    A “tremendously intelligent and stylish” guide to the new technologies that are transforming our everyday lives, in ways both good and bad (Guardian)Everywhere we turn, a startling new device promises to transfigure our lives. But at what cost? In this urgent and revelatory excavation of our Information Age, leading technology thinker Adam Greenfield forces us to reconsider our relationship with ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Hollow Land

    Israel's Architecture of Occupation

    by Eyal Weizman ...
    Acclaimed exploration of the political space created by Israel’s colonial occupationThis new edition of the classic work on the politics of architecture—and the architecture of politics—appears on the fiftieth anniversary of the Six-Day War, which expanded Israel’s domination over Palestinian lands.From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarized airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Devil's Night

    And Other True Tales of Detroit

    by Ze'ev Chafets ...
    A New York Times Notable BookOn Devil’s Night, the night before Halloween, some citizens of Detroit try to burn down their neighborhoods for an international audience of fire buffs. This gripping and often heartbreaking tour of the “Murder Capital of America” often seems lit by those same fires. But as a native Detroiter, Ze’ev Chafets also shows us the city beneath the crime statistics—its ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Marisol and Other Plays

    by José Rivera ...
    The first collection of plays by one of the most moving and astonishing writers of the last 15 years. Though critics reflexively class his work as magical realism,” Rivera’s extravagant, original imagery always serves to illuminate the gritty realities and touching longings of our daily lives. Also includes: Each Day Dies with Sleep and Cloud Tectonics. ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Dead End

    Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism

    by Benjamin Ross ...
    More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason. As an activist and a scholar, Benjamin Ross is uniquely placed to diagnose why this is so. Dead End traces ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD