Urban category: 4425 books
The Metropolitan Revolution
How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists are stepping up and powering the...
Hollow City
The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
Reporting from the front lines of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg sound a warning bell to all urban residents. Wealth is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty.
Despite the Best Intentions
How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
On the surface, Riverview High School looks like the post-racial ideal. Serving an enviably affluent, diverse, and liberal district, the school is well-funded, its teachers are well-trained, and many of its students are high achieving. Yet Riverview has not escaped the same unrelenting question that...
Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh
A Secular Theology for the Global City
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Drawing on philosophical reflection, spiritual and religious values, and somatic practice, Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh offers guidance for moving amidst the affective dynamics that animate the streets of the global cities now amassing around our planet.
Here theology turns decidedly...
L.A. Exposed
Strange Myths and Curious Legends in the City of Angels
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Every city has its urban legends, its tall tales, and even its outright lies, and Hollywood and Los Angeles have enough to fill a book--and Paul Young has done just that.
L.A. Exposed includes the facts behind the myths surrounding everything from the tall tales of tinsel town, to the legend...
by Valerie Steiker, Chris Knutsen
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2008
A tribute to New York City's most literary borough-featuring original nonfiction pieces by today's most celebrated writers.
Of all the urban landscapes in America, perhaps none has so thoroughly infused and nurtured modern literature as Brooklyn. Though its literary history runs deep-Walt Whitman,...
The Secular City
Secularization and Urbanization in Theological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
Since its initial publication in 1965, The Secular City has been hailed as a classic for its nuanced exploration of the relationships among the rise of urban civilization, the decline of hierarchical, institutional religion, and the place of the secular within society. Now, half a century later, this...
Concrete Reveries
Consciousness and the City
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
In Concrete Reveries, acclaimed philosopher and cultural critic Mark Kingwell offers a thoughtful answer to Socrates’ injunction about the life worth living, using the urban experience to illustrate the dynamic between concreteness and abstraction that operates within us.Witty and authoritative, the book is an exhilarating journey through unexpected terrain.
by Jane Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities are constantly evolving to replace imported...
Istanbul
Living with Difference in a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Istanbul explores how to live with difference through the prism of an age-old, cutting-edge city whose people have long confronted the challenge of sharing space with the Other. Located at the intersection of trade networks connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, Istanbul is western and eastern, northern...
Norman Street
Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood, Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Based on a three-year study conducted in Brooklyn's Greenpoint/Williamsburg section, Norman Street is an in-depth, detailed description of life in a multi-ethnic working class neighborhood during New York City's fiscal crisis of 1975-1978. Now updated with a new introduction to address the changes...
White Flight/Black Flight
The Dynamics of Racial Change in an American Neighborhood
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Urban residential integration is often fleeting—a brief snapshot that belies a complex process of racial turnover in many U.S. cities. White Flight/Black Flight takes readers inside a neighborhood that has shifted rapidly and dramatically in race composition over the last two decades. The book presents...
Diaspora and Class Consciousness
Chinese Immigrant Workers in Multiracial Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
This book is an ethnographic study of the multi-linear process of racial knowledge formation among a relatively invisible population in the Chinese American community in Chicago, namely the working class. Shanshan Lan defines "Chinese immigrant workers" as Chinese immigrants with limited...
The Argentine Republic
Its Development and Progress
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
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In the following chapters I have endeavoured to indicate the essential aspects of colonization in modern Argentina: the conquest of the soil by man, the exploitation of its natural resources, the development of agriculture and cattle-breeding, and the growth...