Security in the Bubble

Christine Hentschel

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 24
• Focusing on the South African city of Durban, Security in the Bubble looks at spatialized security practices, engaging with strategies and dilemmas of... Lees meer

Renew Orleans?

Aaron Schneider

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 27
• Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification Like no other American city, New Orleans since ... Lees meer

Political Space

Warren Magnusson

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 11
• An innovative look at the convergence of global trends and local struggles in this out-of-the-way place. On the remote outer coast of Vancouver Island... Lees meer

Work of Cities

Susan E Clarke

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 1
• Examines the new role of cities in a global economy. Are cities obsolete relics of an earlier era? In this pathbreaking book, Susan E. Clarke and Gary... Lees meer

A World of Gangs

John M M Hagedorn

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 14
• 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... Lees meer

Political Space, Volume 11

Warren Magnusson

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 11
• On the remote outer coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Clayoquot Sound might seem to be situated at the periphery of contemporary power an... Lees meer

Gringolandia

Matthew Hayes

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and Community
• A telling look at today's "reverse" migration of white, middle-class expats from north to south, through the lens of one South American city Even as t... Lees meer

Regions That Work

Manuel Pastor Jr

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 6
• "A remarkable and timely book. . . . Must reading." William Julius Wilson Offering a new vision of community-based regionalism, this book arrives just... Lees meer

Globalized Authoritarianism

Koenraad Bogaert

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 27
• A rich investigation into Morocco's urban politics Over the past thirty years, Morocco's cities have transformed dramatically. To take just one exampl... Lees meer

The End of the Village

Nick R Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and Community
• How China's expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, Ch... Lees meer

Mobile Urbanism

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community
• Mobile Urbanism provides a unique set of perspectives on the current global-urban condition. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, leading geograp... Lees meer

Renew Orleans?

Aaron Schneider

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 27
• Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification Like no other American city, New Orleans since ... Lees meer

Second Tier Cities

Ann Markusen

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 3
• Analyzes and compares the rapid growth of medium-sized cities. Over the past thirty years, transnational investment, trade, and government policies ha... Lees meer

Private Metropolis

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and Community
• Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fisca... Lees meer

Seeking Spatial Justice

Edward W Soja

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 16
• In 1996, the Los Angeles Bus Riders Union, a grassroots advocacy organization, won a historic legal victory against the city's Metropolitan Transit Au... Lees meer

Does Local Government Matter?

Elaine B Sharp

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community
• Until recently, policy evaluation has mostly meant assessing whether government programs raise reading levels, decrease teen pregnancy rates, improve ... Lees meer

Mobile Urbanism

• Hardcover | Globalization and Community
• How knowledge and power flow between places and impact cities worldwide. Lees meer

El Paso

Victor M Ortiz-Gonzalez

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 13
• A grounded and instructive analysis of the ways globalization affects a border city Every marker of social difference can be easily interpreted in the... Lees meer

The Durable Slum

Liza Weinstein

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 23
• In the center of Mumbai, next to the city's newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia's largest slums, where as many as one ... Lees meer

Selling the Lower East Side

Christopher Mele

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 5
• Tracks the shifting views of the Lower East Side from ghetto to desirable urban niche. The Lower East Side of Manhattan is rich in stories-of poor imm... Lees meer

The Migrant's Paradox

Suzanne M Hall

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and Community
• Connects global migration with urban marginalization, exploring how "race" maps onto place across the globe, state, and street In this richly observed... Lees meer

The Servant Class City

David J Karjanen

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 25
• San Diego, California, is frequently viewed as a model for American urban revitalization. It looks like a success story, with blight and poverty repla... Lees meer

Latino Metropolis

Victor M Valle

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 7
• A readable look at culture and politics in Los Angeles through a Latino lens. Los Angeles: scratch the surface of the city's image as a rich mosaic of... Lees meer

Betting on Macau

Tim Simpson

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community
• A comprehensive look into how Macau's recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planet Betting on Ma... Lees meer