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Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview
and Other Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
“Jane Jacobs is the kind of writer who produces in her readers such changed ways of looking at the world that she becomes an oracle, or final authority.” —The New York Sun
Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “perhaps the single most influential work in the history of town planning,”...
Extrastatecraft
The Power of Infrastructure Space
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-trade zones, the standardized dimensions of credit cards, and hyper-consumerist shopping malls. It is all this and more. Infrastructure sets the invisible...
by Marcus Westbury
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
In 2008, Marcus Westbury returned to his hometown of Newcastle, Australia, and found more than 150 empty buildings lining its two main streets. Three years later, the world's largest travel publisher named Newcastle one of the top ten cities in the world to visit. Creating Cities is about the unlikely...
The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited
Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
A provocative new way to think about why we live as we do today-and where we might be headed.
Initially published in 2002, The Rise of the Creative Class quickly achieved classic status for its identification of forces then only beginning to reshape our economy, geography, and workplace. Weaving...
Aerotropolis
The Way We'll Live Next
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
This brilliant and eye-opening look at the new phenomenon called the aerotropolis gives us a glimpse of the way we will live in the near future—and the way we will do business too.
Not so long ago, airports were built near cities, and roads connected the one to the other. This pattern—the...
by Daniel Brook
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
A pioneering exploration of four cities where East meets West and past becomes future: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai, and Dubai.
Every month, five million people move from the past to the future. Pouring into developing-world “instant cities” like Dubai and Shenzhen, these urban newcomers...
Makeshift Metropolis
Ideas About Cities
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn...
Wrestling with Moses
How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern American history. To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be....
by Witold Rybczynski
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
In City Life, Witold Rybczynski, bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, looks at what we want from cities, how they have evolved, and what accounts for their unique identities. In this vivid description of everything from the early colonial settlements to the advent of the skyscraper to the changes...
by Richard Rothstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2017
Longlisted for the National Book Award
This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review).
Widely heralded as...
Ours to Lose
When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Though New York’s Lower East Side today is home to high-end condos and hip restaurants, it was for decades an infamous site of blight, open-air drug dealing, and class conflict—an emblematic example of the tattered state of 1970s and ’80s Manhattan.
Those decades of strife, however, also...
Savage Inequalities
Children in America's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impassioned book, laced with anger and indignation, about how our public education system scorns so many of our children.”—The New York Times Book Review
In 1988, Jonathan Kozol set off to spend time with children in the American public education system....
Mission High
One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
This book is a godsend
a moving portrait for anyone wanting to go beyond the simplified labels and metrics and really understand an urban high school, and its highly individual, resilient, eager and brilliant students and educators.” -Dave Eggers, co-founder, 826 National and ScholarMatch
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São Paulo in the Twenty-First Century
Spaces, Heterogeneities, Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This book analyzes in detail the main social, economic and special transformation of the city of São Paulo. In the last 30 years, São Paulo has become a more heterogeneous and less unequal city. Contrary to some expectations, the recent economic transformations did not produce social polarization,...