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  • Exiled in America

    Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel

    par Christopher Dum ...
    Collections series Studies in Transgression
    Residential motels have long been places of last resort for many vulnerable Americans—released prisoners, people with disabilities or mental illness, struggling addicts, the recently homeless, and the working poor. Cast aside by their families and mainstream society, they survive in squalid, unsafe, and demeaning circumstances that few of us can imagine.For a year, the sociologist Christopher P. ... En savoir plus

    $67.99 CAD

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  • Streetfight

    Handbook for an Urban Revolution

    par Janette Sadik-Khan, Seth Solomonow ...
    Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change, Streetfight imparts wisdom and practical advice that other cities can follow to make their own streets safer and more vibrant.As New York City’s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $20.99 CAD Maintenant $15.99 CAD

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  • Subdivided

    City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity

    par Jay Pitter, John Lorinc ...
    How do we build cities where we aren't just living within the same urban space, but living together?Greater Toronto is now home to a larger proportion of foreign-born residents than any other major global metropolis. Not surprisingly, city officials rarely miss an opportunity to tout the region’s ethno-cultural neighbourhoods. Yet there’s strong evidence that the GTA is experiencing widening socio ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Punishing the Poor

    The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity

    par Loïc Wacquant, George Steinmetz ...
    Collections series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction of the state wedding restrictive “workfare” and expansive “prisonfare” under a philosophy of moral ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Gloucestershire 300 Years Ago

    par Alan Pilbeam ...
    Sir Robert Atkyns's Ancient and Present State of Glostershire, which appeared in 1712, was the first published survey of the county. Alan Pilbeam's Gloucestershire 300 Years Ago is written to celebrate Atkyns's achievement and to present his information in a more accessible form. Atkyns's work is critically assessed with reference to other sources and used as a basis for comparison with today's ... En savoir plus

    $14.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Land of Strangers

    par Ash Amin ...
    The impersonality of social relationships in the society of strangers is making majorities increasingly nostalgic for a time of closer personal ties and strong community moorings. The constitutive pluralism and hybridity of modern living in the West is being rejected in an age of heightened anxiety over the future and drummed up aversion towards the stranger. Minorities, migrants and dissidents ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Buyways

    Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape

    par Catherine Gudis ...
    Collections series Cultural Spaces
    The highway has become the buyway. Along the millions of miles the public travels, advertisers spend billions on images of cola, cars, vodka, fast food, and swimming pools that blur past us, catching our fleeting attention and turning the landscape into a corridor of commerce. A smart, succinct, and visually compelling history of the billboard in America, Buyways traces how the outdoor advertising ... En savoir plus

    $97.55 CAD

  • Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality

    Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age

    par Edward O'Donnell ...
    Collections series Columbia History of Urban Life
    America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839–1897) published a radical critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its threat to the nation's republican traditions. Progress and Poverty ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Manhattan Projects

    The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York

    par Samuel Zipp ...
    Moving beyond the usual good-versus-evil story that pits master-planner Robert Moses against the plucky neighborhood advocate Jane Jacobs, Samuel Zipp sheds new light on the rise and fall of New York's urban renewal in the decades after World War II. Focusing on four iconic "Manhattan projects"--the United Nations building, Stuyvesant Town, Lincoln Center, and the great swaths of public housing in ... En savoir plus

    $36.79 CAD

  • THE DEATH OF HOMO SAPIENS

    THE ACTION IRRATIONAL AS SOCIAL VALUE

    par CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA ...
    Segundo Karl Marx[1], “para que o homem possa ser capaz de transformar (a sociedade ou a sua condição sócio-existencial) é preciso, antes, que ele seja capaz de transformar-se”.Nesse sentido, para poder transformar-se é preciso também poder pensar: libertar-se das ideologias que, embrutecendo o pensamento, fazem com que os homens deixem de ser seres racionais, “homo sapiens” e/ou homo intelectos, ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Our Schools Suck

    Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education

    par Jeanne Theoharis, Gaston Alonso, Noel S. Anderson, Celina Su ...
    Shares the voices of students speaking out against the failures of urban education"Our schools suck." This is how many young people of color call attention to the kind of public education they are receiving. In cities across the nation, many students are trapped in under-funded, mismanaged and unsafe schools. Yet, a number of scholars and of public figures have shifted attention away from the ... En savoir plus

    $35.19 CAD

  • Invention and Reinvention

    The Evolution of San Diego’s Innovation Economy

    par Mary Lindenstein Walshok, Abraham J. Shragge ...
    Collections series Innovation and Technology in the World Economy
    Formerly prosperous cities across the United States, struggling to keep up with an increasingly global economy and the continued decline of post-war industries like manufacturing, face the issue of how to adapt to today's knowledge economy. In Invention and Reinvention, authors Mary Walshok and Abraham Shragge chronicle San Diego's transformation from a small West Coast settlement to a booming ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD