Urban Ecologies: City Space, Material Agency, and Environmental Politics in Contemporary Culture
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The term "urban ecology" has become a buzzword in various disciplines, including the social and...
Marriage, Love, Caste and Kinship Support: Lived Experiences of the Urban Poor in India
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This book makes use of interesting case studies and photographs to describe everyday life in a...
Urban Growth in Ethiopia, 1887-1974: From the Foundation of Finfinnee to the Demise of the First Imperial Era
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This book highlights the positive achievements that Imperial Ethiopia made in its journey towards...
Growing Urban Economies: Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions
David A. Wolfe and Meric S. Gertler
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Even in a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, cities remain engines of growth, innovation, and...
The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures
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WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of...
Urban Planning's Philosophical Entanglements: The Rugged, Dialectical Path from Knowledge to Action
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Urban Planning's Philosophical Entanglements explores the long-held idea that urban planning is the...
Loose Fit City: The Contribution of Bottom-Up Architecture to Urban Design and Planning
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Drawn from a lifetime's experience of shared city-making from the bottom up, within rapidly...
New York's New Edge: Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side
David Halle and Elisabeth Tiso
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The story of New York's west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. Instead it's a story of...
The New Urban Crisis: Gentrification, Housing Bubbles, Growing Inequality, and What We Can Do About it
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Our cities drive innovation and growth, but they also propel us into housing crises and give rise to...