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  • Shaking Up the City

    Ignorance, Inequality, and the Urban Question

    by Tom Slater ...
    Shaking Up the City critically examines many of the concepts and categories within mainstream urban studies that serve dubious policy agendas. Through a combination of theory and empirical evidence, Tom Slater “shakes up” mainstream urban studies in a concise and pointed fashion by turning on its head much of the prevailing wisdom in the field. To this end, he explores the themes of data-driven ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Planetary Gentrification Reader

    Edited by Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, Elvin Wyly ...
    Gentrification is a global process that the United Nations now sees as a human rights issue. This new Planetary Gentrification Reader follows on from the editors’ 2010 volume, The Gentrification Reader,and provides a more longitudinal (backward and forward in time) and broader (turning away from Anglo-/Euro-American hegemony) sense of developments in gentrification studies over time and space, ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Japan Copes with Calamity

    Edited by Tom Gill, Brigitte Steger, David H. Slater ...
    Four years after the 3.11 disaster in Japan, this acclaimed collection of ethnographies in English on the Japanese communities affected by the giant Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters continues to be the only one of its kind. With a new preface offering an update on the affected communities, this volume brings together studies by experienced researchers of Japan from field sites ... Read more

    $45.79 CAD

  • Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality

    Interdisciplinary and Comparative Dialogues

    Edited by Tom Slater, Julie Cupples ...
    Series series Transforming Capitalism
    In Mexico City, as in many other large cities worldwide, contemporary modes of urban governance have overwhelmingly benefited affluent populations and widened social inequalities. Disinvestment from social housing and rent-seeking developments by real estate companies and land speculators have resulted in the displacement of low-income populations to the urban periphery. Public social spaces have ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Vampire’s Vow

    A MM Paranormal Fated-Mates Romance

    by Sable Mercier, Matilda Mistry ...
    He was sent to end me. The estate opened its gate for him anyway.Cassius Vane has kept the Vow Rites — six centuries of unbreakable blood-bonds — for longer than the modern world has had a name for what he is. He has buried forty-one people he loved. Thirty years ago he made himself a quiet promise: keep what remains, and want nothing new. Then a Registry contractor walks up his drive with a ... Read more

    $6.96 CAD

  • Gentrification

    by Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, Elvin Wyly ...
    This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for upper-level undergraduates in geography, sociology, and planning. The gentrification of urban areas has accelerated across the globe to become a central engine of urban development, and it is a topic that has attracted a great deal of interest in both academia and the popular press. Gentrification presents major theoretical ideas ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

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  • Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Latin America

    Edited by Pedro López-Roldán, Sandra Fachelli ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries, along 11 thematic axes: inequalities in the labour market and labour trajectories; asymmetries in the ... Read more

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  • Active Hope (revised)

    How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience and Creative Power

    by Joanna Macy, Chris Johnstone ...
    The challenges we face can be difficult even to think about. Climate change, war, political polarization, economic upheaval, and the dying back of nature together create a planetary emergency of overwhelming proportions. This revised, tenth anniversary edition of Active Hope shows us how to strengthen our capacity to face these crises so that we can respond with unexpected resilience and creative ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Planetary Gentrification

    by Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin, Ernesto López-Morales ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by 'gentrification' today? How can we compare 'gentrification' in New York and London with that in Shanghai, Johannesburg, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro? This book argues that gentrification is one of the most ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Bending Adversity

    Japan and the Art of Survival

    by David Pilling ...
    “[A]n excellent book...” —The EconomistFinancial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan, drawing on his own deep experience, as well as observations from a cross section of Japanese citizenry, including novelist Haruki Murakami, former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, industrialists and bankers, activists and artists, teenagers and octogenarians. Through their voices, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Encyclopedia of the City

    Edited by Roger W. Caves ...
    The Encyclopedia of the City focuses on the key topics encountered by undergraduates and scholars in urban studies and allied fields. Contributors include major theoreticians and practitioners, and on other individuals, groups, and organizations which study the city or practice in a field that directly or indirectly affects the city, the Encyclopedia necessarily adopts an interdisciplinary and ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Strong in the Rain

    Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

    by Lucy Birmingham, David McNeill ...
    "A harrowing story of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster that turned Japan upside down . . . contemporary journalism and history at its finest." —Douglas Brinkley, New York Times– bestselling authorBlending history, science, and gripping storytelling, Strong in the Rain brings the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan in 2011 and its immediate aftermath to life through the eyes of the men ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD