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Unions and the city: Negotiating urban change

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Labor unions remain the largest membership-based organizations in major North American cities, even after years of decline. Labor continues to play a vital role in mobilizing urban residents, shaping urban conflict, and crafting the policies and regulations that are transforming…

Home spaces, street styles: contesting power and identity in a South African …

by Bank, Leslie J.

fromAnthropology, culture, and society

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This book revisits and updates some classic Anthropology - the Xhosa in Town series - based on research in the South African city of East London conducted during the 1950s. The original studies concluded that there were two opposed responses to urbanisation in East London's Afri…

Children, youth and the city

by Van Blerk, Lorraine, Hörschelmann, Kathrin

fromRoutledge critical introductions to urbanism and the city

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More than half of the global and around eighty per cent of the western population grow up in cities. Here, Horschelmann and van Blerk provide a vivid picture of children and youths in the city, how they make sense of it and how they appropriate it through their social actions. C…

Rethinking the American city: an international dialogue

fromArchitecture, technology, culture

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Utilizing an innovative framework as an international, interdisciplinary dialogue, the volume provides an inventory of contemporary thought about the American city across a wide range of topics, including the design of transportation systems, workplaces, and housing to public ar…

Making cities work: prospects and policies for urban America

by Inman, Robert P.

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"Making Cities Work" brings together leading writers and scholars on urban America to offer critical perspectives on how to sustain prosperous, livable cities in today's fast-evolving economy. Successful cities provide jobs, quality schools, safe and clean neighborhoods, effecti…

City logistics: Mapping the future

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City Logistics: Mapping The Future examines the key concepts of city logistics along with the associated implementation issues, methodologies, and policy measures. Chronicling the growth of city logistics as a discipline and how planning and policy have improved practice over th…

Triumph of the city: How our greatest invention makes us richer, smart…

by Glaeser, Edward L.

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A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope for the future

Bird on Fire: Lessons from the world's least sustainable city

by Ross, Andrew

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Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained gr…