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The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time by David Wilson Publisher Comments After decades studying creatures great and small, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson had an epiphany: Darwin's theory won't fully prove itself until it improves the quality of human life in a practical sense. And what better place to begin than... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time by Jeff Speck Publisher Comments Jeff Speck has spent his career determining what makes a city work, and he has boiled it down to one essential factor: walkability. For urban life to thrive, cities must prioritize pedestrians over cars. Six-lane highways tearing through downtown must... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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The Community Economic Development Handbook by Mihailo Temali Publisher Comments The step-by-step guide to turning any neighborhood around A weak local economy can be strengthened. A run-down neighborhood of boarded-up storefronts, litter-strewn sidewalks, high unemployment, and poorly-maintained housing can be transformed. An entire... (read more) List Price $41.95 Your price: $26.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities by Richard Sennett Publisher Comments From the assembly halls of Athens to the Turkish baths of New York's Lower East Side, from eighteenth-century English gardens to the housing projects of Harlem--a study of the physical fabric of the city as a mirror of Western society and culture.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect by Robert J. Sampson Publisher Comments For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories place... (read more) Available June 2013 Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Crabgrass Frontier : the Suburbanization of the United States (85 Edition) by Kenneth T. Jackson Publisher Comments This first full-scale history of the development of the American suburb examines how "the good life" in America came to be equated with the a home of one's own surrounded by a grassy yard and located far from the urban workplace. Integrating social... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Highway Robbery : Transportation Racism and New Routes To Equity (04 Edition) by Robert D. Bullard Publisher Comments Transportation Racism: New Routes to Equity dispels a major myth that conceals enduring divisions in American life. While many people view the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as the end of government-sponsored discrimination in the United States... (read more) List Price $22.75 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Texas A & M Southwestern Studies #8: Urban Texas: Politics and Development by Char Miller Publisher Comments The major cities of Texas have developed through a complex web of politics, society, and economics. To describe and explain the state's urban evolution, the contributors to Urban Texas use comparative and multidisciplinary perspectives that explore the... (read more) Your price: $22.50 New - Trade Paper
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Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis by Mark Binelli Publisher Comments Once Americas capitalist dream town, Detroit is our countrys greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the citys worst crisis yet (and thats saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Unequal Fortunes: Snapshots from the Bronx by Arthur Levine Publisher Comments In this powerful book, Arthur Levine (president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation) and coauthor Laura Scheiber revisit the South Bronx, where Levine grew up in the 1960s, and compare his experiences with those of a group of teenagers coming of age in the... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $11.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles by Mike Davis Publisher Comments To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere." No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ethnography and City (12 Edition) by Richard E. Ocejo Publisher Comments The only collection of its kind on the market, this reader gathers the work of some of the most esteemed urban ethnographers in sociology and anthropology. Broken down into sections that cover key aspects of ethnographic research, Ethnography and the... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $45.95 New - Trade Paper
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Cities of the World: World Regional Urban Development by Stanley D Brunn Publisher Comments The only text to offer a regional survey of world urban development, this third edition has been fully revised and updated to include new chapter authors, new cities and regions, and an expanded art program. Focusing on the eleven major culture realms of... (read more) List Price $84.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities by Jeff Mapes Staff Pick Mapes's fantastic and inspiring Pedaling Revolution deserves to be read by everyone, from the cycle-curious to the cycle-phobic. Love it or hate it, the pedaling revolution is upon us — read all about it!... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Death and Life of Main Street: Small Towns in American Memory, Space, and Community by Miles Orvell Publisher Comments For more than a century, the term "Main Street" has conjured up nostalgic images of American small-town life. Representations exist all around us, from fiction and film to the architecture of shopping malls and Disneyland. All the while, the nation has... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Hardcover
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A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture (Globalization and Community) by John M. Hagedorn Publisher Comments For the more than a billion people who now live in urban slums, gangs are ubiquitous features of daily life. Though still most closely associated with American cities, gangs are an entrenched, worldwide phenomenon that play a significant role in a wide... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Flesh and Stone (94 Edition) by Richard Sennett Publisher Comments Flesh and Stone is the story of the deepest parts of life--how women and men moved in public and private spaces, what they saw and heard, the smells that assailed them, where they ate, how they dressed, the mores of bathing and of making love--all in the... (read more) Your price: $19.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Death and Life of Great American Cities (11 Edition) by Jane Jacobs Publisher Comments Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs’s masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book’s original... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price: $12.00 Used - Hardcover
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Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Lawrence J Vale Publisher Comments The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging the Poorest, Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to... (read more) Your price: $27.50 New - Trade Paper
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The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup Publisher Comments One of APA's most popular and influential books is finally in PAPE, with a new preface from the author on how thinking about parking has changed since this book was first published. In this no-holds-barred treatise, Shoup argues that free parking has... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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