Urban Press

DescriptionLightening darkness with humor, Velya Jancz-Urban and her 25-year-old daughter, Ehris, introduce readers to their offbeat Connecticut fa...

Reducere. DescriptionNorth Lawndale, a neighborhood that lies in the shadows of Chicago's Loop, is surrounded by some of the city's finest medical facilities...

Contributor(s): Editor: Clifton EllisEditor: Rebecca GinsburgCountering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and ...

Reducere. How local Black and Brown communities can resist gentrification and fight for their interests Despite promises from politicians, nonprofits, and go...

This book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Mu...

This book takes a new look at the 'spatial turn' in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. It examines how key thinkers (inc. Henri Lefebv...

Reducere. Little gardens for little spaces--learn to grow fresh food at home Do you ever wish you could make tea with fresh mint from your windowsill? Or mak...

Reducere. In The Globally Familiar Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan traces how the rapid development of information and communication technologies in India has cr...

Bringing to the fore a wealth of original research, A Detroit Story examines how the informal reclamation of abandoned property has been shaping De...

Publisher: UCL PressIllustration(s): 110 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 165 x 242 x 19Cover type: Hardba...

Early industrial Merthyr is synonymous with the darker side of the British urban experience. This work considers the efforts of dedicated civic "bo...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Shannon MatternIllustration(s): 67 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 288Publication ...

Explores the ways in which educated, professional women experience living in Port Moresby, the burgeoning capital of Papua New Guinea. Drawing on p...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Claire DunningIllustration(s): 23 halftonesNumber of pages: 336Collection: Historical Studies ...

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

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Claire DunningIllustration(s): 23 halftonesNumber of pages: 336Collection: Historical Studies ...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Daanika GordonNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 20Cover type: Paperb...

uses this noteworthy branch of the National Urban League to provide new insights into an organization that has often faced criticism for its social...

Reducere. DescriptionMixed-blood urban Native peoples in Canada are profoundly affected by federal legislation that divides Aboriginal peoples into different...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Luis M. A. BettencourtIllustration(s): 156 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 568Publication date: 20...

Explores the impact of the National Urban League in Pittsburgh.Illustrations: 8 b&w photos, 2 maps, 1 table

The history of domestic labor markets in 19th century America From the era of Irish Famine migration to the passage of quota restrictions in the 19...

Description"Carole Rawcliffe continues with her mission to clean up the Middle Ages. In earlier work she has already given us scholarly yet sympath...

Evaluates the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco d...

The history of the women who travelled through Liverpool in search of work and adventure, and the women who tried to stop them. Save the Womanhood ...

This volume addresses the relationship between the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor (Cambodia), and the nearby town of Siem Reap, assessing the...

In his exciting new book, based on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Maurice Maga a considers how urban and migrant youth in Oaxaca embrace subcu...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Sanjeev RoutrayNumber of pages: 368Collection: South Asia in MotionPublication date: 2022Dimensions:...

Reducere. Awards🏆Honorable Mention (2010) - Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) - (Adult Nonfiction)Contributor(s): Author: Sudhir Alladi VenkateshLis...

Reducere. More than just a niche concern of a few activists, urban agriculture is a global movement that cuts across the private and public sectors, economic...

Reducere. When Americans think of modern warfare, what comes to mind is the US army skirmishing with terrorists and insurgents in the mountains of Afghanista...

Reducere. When American and British forces invaded Iraq in March 2003, select teams of special forces and intelligence operatives got to work looking for the...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Following the creation of the viceroyalty of R o de la Plata in 1776, the elites of Buenos Aires, C rdoba, and Montevideo turned time and again to ...

An archaeological analysis of Asia Minor, the area equated with much of modern-day Turkey, often perceived as a bridge between Europe and Asia, fro...

The site of medieval Euchaïta, on the northern edge of the central Anatolian plateau, was the centre of the cult of St Theodore Tiro ('the Recruit'...

World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected...

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...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): James Nguyen H. SpencerNumber of pages: 226Collection: Science Diplomacy: Managing Food, Energy and Water Sustain...

Drawing on an extensive range of sources, from newspapers and institutional records to oral histories and autobiography, Dangerous amusements explo...

DescriptionThe Act of Living explores the relation between development and marginality in Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing economies in Africa....

Reducere. The number of bicyclists is increasing in the United States, especially among the working class and people of color. In contrast to the demographic...

DescriptionCities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanization The fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf are, what...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 2006 Abu Dhabi launched an ambitious project to construct the world's first zero-carbon city: Masdar City. In Spaceship in the Desert...

DescriptionGlossy magazines write about them, celebrities give their names to them, and you'd better believe there's an app (or ten) committed to f...

The Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. This book investigates...

Through the example of Baltimore, Maryland, David Taft Terry explores the historical importance of African American resistance to Jim Crow laws in ...

As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, they 'hated the c...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Urban experts consider the future of night-time economies' governance during the pandemic and beyond in this scholarly and accessible guide. They u...

DescriptionIn the 1800s, urban development efforts modernized Paris and encouraged the creation of brothels, boulevards, caf s, dancehalls, and eve...

Reducere. The complete guide to survival in the concrete jungle. The modern urban environment is rife with dangers. Crime, violence, natural disasters, wars,...

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...

How we design our cities over the next four decades will be critical for our planet. If we continue to spill excessive greenhouse gas into the atmo...

This book describes the vision of a "Green Revolution" proposed by Peter Maurin, co-founder with Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker Movement. Peter...

'I was 11 years old. I witnessed the mindless cruelty of human beings. The only peace was when I was surrounded by the dead.'Publisher: The History...

Reducere. A New York Times Best Seller Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and le...

A New York Times Best Seller Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and le...

Reducere. One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth ...

As immigrants settle in new places, they are faced with endless uncertainties that prevent them from feeling that they belong. From language barrie...

Reducere. Provocative, moving, powerful, explicit, strong, unapologetic. These are a few words that have been used to describe the groundbreaking Brooklyn-ba...

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...