Housing and the City, Paperback - ***

Housing and the City provides essential reading for students, academics and practitioners interested in the history, theory or current design of ho...

A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as p...

Sean Damer provides a sustained critique of the Corporation of Glasgow's council housing policy and argues that it had the unintended consequence o...

Reducere. When it comes to large-scale public housing in the United States, the consensus for the past decades has been to let the wrecking balls fly. The de...

A richly illustrated history of below-market housing in New York, from the 1920s to today that is essential reading for understanding and advancing...

Reducere. Not in my backyard -- that's the refrain commonly invoked by property owners who oppose unwanted development. Such words assume a special ferocity ...

Reducere. Sick City is a call to action prompted by the crisis that crippled our cities, the pandemic. But the pandemic has brought the issues of race, inequ...

Reducere. Homelessness is one of the monsters that haunts our society. Thousands of people are trying to address the challenge but fail to come up with a sol...

A story about baseball, family, the American Dream, and the fight to turn Los Angeles into a big league city.Dodger Stadium is an American icon. Bu...

DescriptionIn a time when an estimated 1.2 billion people across the world lack access to secure housing, how are cities working to empower and pro...

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Reducere. Modello is the true story from beginning to end of how Dr. Roger Mills and staff accomplished the "miracle" in the Modello and Homestead Gardens Ho...

Reducere. Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Rise...

DescriptionFor forty years, as New York's Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the nei...

Reducere. In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, wat...

Reducere. Can the cinema imagine a different way of developing, using, and living in the city? Is it possible to do so using images of the extant city? Seein...

Reducere. This alternative guidebook for one of the world's most popular tourist destinations explores all five boroughs to reveal a people's New York City. ...

Reducere. New York City History is essential reading not only for fans of regional history, but for readers who wish to understand the American experience th...

Reducere. Ocean City Lowdown introduces Eastern Shore Maryland reporter Jamie August, who has a talent for unearthing more than her editor wants and a weakne...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David HarveyThroughout his distinguished and influential career, David Harvey has defined and redefined the relationship be...

A majestic one-hundred-year study of segregation in Los AngelesCity of Segregation documents one hundred years of struggle against the enforced sep...

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Reducere. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYBy the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban ...

DescriptionBy the turn of the twentieth century Small Heath and Sparkbrook, two adjacent inner city districts of Birmingham, had been transformed f...

Reducere. The postwar United States has experienced many forms of populist politics, none more consequential than that of the blue-collar white ethnics who b...

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The conversation about zoning has meandered its way through issues ranging from housing affordability to economic growth to segregation, expanding ...

Reducere. A how-to guide on setting up a squat, from the perspective of living in New York City and in response to the housing situation there. The contents ...

In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the ...

Donald Shoup brilliantly overcame the challenge of writing about parking without being boring in his iconoclastic 800-page book The High Cost of Fr...

DescriptionFrom the author of the acclaimed The Dry Grass of August comes a richly researched yet lyrical Southern-set novel that explores the conf...

Reducere. Binga is the definitive full-length biography of Jesse Binga, the first black banker in Chicago. Born into a large family in Detroit, Binga arrived...

Reducere. DescriptionMayor Joe Curtatone Stealing from Somerville: Death of an Urban City is an expose of abuses, a compilation of articles from Somerville N...

Reducere. Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing th...

Reducere. The history of Charlotte is inseparable from the history of its neighborhoods. From the city s founding until the late 1890s, the four wards create...

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A polemical history of municipal socialism in London - and an argument for turning this capitalist capital red again. A polemical history of munici...

DescriptionGo beyond the facade of the palazzi and take a turn down the cobblestone side streets of Florence to discover vintage stores housing des...

DescriptionThere are many holy cities in India, but Mumbai is not usually considered one of them. More popular images of the city capture the world...

Reducere. This exploration begins by tracing the concentration of IT in Greater Silicon Valley and the resulting growth in start-ups, jobs, and wealth. This ...

Reducere. The inspiring true story of a remarkable coach whose superb undefeated high-school basketball team in 1980s Baltimore produced four NBA players and...

Reducere. Kate Walter loved her life as a single gay woman and writer living in New York City's famous Westbeth Artists Housing in Greenwich Village. In earl...

Reducere. In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, ...

Reducere. In 1998, roughly 2 million visitors came to see what there was to see in Nashville. By 2018, that number had ballooned to 15.2 million. In that spa...

DescriptionOver the past 20 years European cities have become the envy of the world: a Kraftwerk Utopia of historic centers, supermodernist concert...

Reducere. For thirty years starting in the mid-1970s, the byline of Jim Dooley appeared on riveting investigative stories of organized crime and political co...

Reducere. As the world realises the benefits of education, more and more people move to cities; in search of a better future. A future which includes afforda...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Miguel PerezNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 18Cover type: Paperbac...

Reducere. Perhaps no other American city is so defined by an indigenous architectural style as Baltimore is by the rowhouse, whose brick facades march up and...

Reducere. Over the past 150 years, the boundaries and demographics of South Nashville have changed dramatically. Starting out as an industrial and blue-colla...

Recovering from the fight and furious for revenge, Triple Threats member Tokuga solidifies his ties with the duplicitous Wonyong. Meanwhile, when R...

Reducere. More than any other city in America, New York in the years after the Second World War carved out an idealistic and equitable path to the future. La...

DescriptionThe Great Chicago Fire in October 1871 destroyed 2, 600 acres and left tens of thousands without housing, food, fuel, or clothing. In th...

A journey to the front lines of the battle for the future of American cities, uncovering the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification--and th...

Reducere. DescriptionBefore Opie lived in Mayberry, Beaver and Wally in Mayfield, and Betty, Bud and Kathy in Springfield, there were thousands of little Bla...

Reducere. "Ewe Osain" takes an in-depth look at 221 plants, herbs and trees utilized within the Lucumi tradition as well as their uses, Odu of origin, Pataki...

DescriptionAlmost fifty years ago, America's industrial cities--Detroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and others--began shedding people and ...

DescriptionThe story of two men who almost single-handedly saved their football club from extinction. In the 80s David Kilpatrick and Graham Morris...

A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban development Who makes decisions that shape the housin...

DescriptionThe current blockbuster German TV series Babylon Berlin introduces viewers to the tumultuous period in German history known as the Weima...

Reducere. The Mexican architect offers new ideas about real-estate development in underrepresented areas, promoting inclusivity and community participation C...

Reducere. Congregation Beth Abraham expected their newest rabbi to "sing some songs and go to an environmental rally." But Vivian Green has other ideas. She ...

TOMORROW BELONGS TO...WHO? The Future. Ultra-modern megacities reward millions of their citizens with a completely funded life, with every need met...

Reducere. Houston was Boomtown USA in the 1970s, growing through tremendous immigration of people and through frequent annexation of outlying areas. But in t...

Reducere. A Sentimental Journey is a social history of the life and culture of the World War II home front in Wilmington and Southeastern North Carolina. "Th...

Drawing on a decade of ethnographic research in the Indian city of Mumbai, Waiting Town is an unconventional little book - experimental in form - a...

Reducere. "Needy, " "high-risk, " "vulnerable, " "slow." When the words people use to describe themselves are the same as the labels in their case files, wha...

Reducere. Emma Thornton is back in The Redemption, C.L. Tolbert's second novel in the Thornton Mystery Series. When two men are murdered one muggy September ...

Reducere. The acclaimed work that debunks our myths and false assumptions about race in AmericaMaurice Berger grew up hypersensitized to race in the charged ...