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John D Fairfield
Crossing Great Divides

"Argues that the habit of thinking of the city and the country as opposites is at the root of our environmental and political disorder, and suggests approaches to bridge this social, political, and ecolog…

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Jon Adams, Edmund Ramsden
Rat City

A New York Times Editors' Choice "Entertaining, phenomenally weird . . . Rat City may well be the world’s first-ever work of socio-biographical-scientific pop history. . . .a freaky romp down a peculiar …

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Sara Martucci
There Was Nothing There

"There Was Nothing There: Williamsburg, The Gentrification of a Brooklyn Neighborhood explores the daily, lived-effects of gentrification for neighborhood residents- those who are newcomers and those who …

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Brian Goldstone
There Is No Place for Us

"Through the ... stories of five Atlanta families, this ... work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend--the dramatic rise of the 'working homeless' in cities across America"--

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Jason M Barr
Cities in the Sky

"Fascinating." —Daily Mail “Informative.” —Publishers Weekly From one of the world’s top experts on the history of skyscrapers—a fascinating account of the ever-growing quest for supertall buildings.

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Patrick Condon
Broken City

Broken City argues that skyrocketing urban land prices drive our global housing market failure - so, how did we get here, and what can be done about it?

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Tracy Rosenthal, Leonardo Vilchis
Abolish Rent

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice. Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for any…

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Jason M Barr
Cities in the Sky

From one of the world’s foremost experts on the economics of skyscrapers comes the story of the global quest for skyscrapers in the 21st century.

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Patrick Markee
Placeless

In the tradition of Matthew Desmond's Evicted, a longtime housing activist presents a vivid and myth-breaking account of why homelessness endures in contemporary America... Millions of people are affecte…

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David Yee
Informal Metropolis

Informal Metropolis uncovers how a former lake bed on the edge of Mexico City grew into the world’s largest shantytown—Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl—and rethinks the relationship between urban space and inequalit…

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A Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World

A COMPANION TO CITIES IN THE GRECO-ROMAN WORLD A Companion to Cities in the Greco-Roman World offers in-depth coverage of the most important topics in the study of Greek and Roman urbanism. Bringing toget…

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Andrew Wallace-Hadrill
The Idea of the City in Late Antiquity

"The city was one of the central and defining features of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Andrew Wallace-Hadrill argues that, far from 'declining and falling', cities used memories of the past to adapt…

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Rachel Humphris
Making Sanctuary Cities

"From its development in the 1980s, the sanctuary city movement--municipal protection of people with uncertain migration status from national immigration enforcement--has been a powerful and controversial…

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Tracy Rosenthal, Leonardo Vilchis
Abolish Rent

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice. Rent drives millions into debt, despair, and onto the streets. The social cost of rent is too damn high. Written for any…

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William J Glover
Reformatting Agrarian Life

"Reformatting Agrarian Life presents a stealth urban history from the countryside that foregrounds the mutual entanglements of agrarian and urban expertise. Will Glover traces an essential genealogy for u…

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Richard White
The Beaches

Drawing on extensive research from a multiplicity of sources, this book offers a new, original history of the founding and evolution of an iconic Toronto neighbourhood: the Beaches.

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Richard Hodges,
The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Towns

Through a reconsideration of the debate about the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon towns, Richard Hodges focuses on the origins and history of the four Middle-Saxon emporia - London, Ipswich, Southampton and Yo…

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Jane Jacobs
The Death and Life of Great American Cities

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cit…

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Richard White
The Beaches

Drawing on extensive research from a multiplicity of sources, this book offers a new, original history of the founding and evolution of an iconic Toronto neighbourhood: the Beaches.

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Meaghan Stiman
Privileging Place

"Over the past several decades and increasingly since the beginning of the pandemic, second homeowners have left a distinctive mark across both rural and urban America. As wealthy elites reallocate capita…

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