Fin de Millenaire Budapest

Judit Bodnar

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 8
• Considers what this central European metropolis tells us about the changing nature of urban life. With the collapse of state socialism, the people of ... 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

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

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

City Requiem, Calcutta

Ananya Roy

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 10
• Housing developments emerge amid the paddy fields on the fringes of Calcutta; overflowing trains carry peasant women to informal urban labor markets i... Lees meer

Justice and the American Metropolis

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community
• Today's American cities and suburbs are the sites of "thick injustice"--unjust power relations that are deeply and densely concentrated as well as opa... 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

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

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

Struggling Giants

Paul Kantor

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community
• Throughout the past thirty years a small number of city-regions have achieved unprecedented global status in the world economy while undergoing radica... 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

Mobile Urbanism

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

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

Landscapes of Urban Memory

Smriti Srinivas

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community
• A rich analysis of religion, civic life, and global transformation in India. Established in the middle of the sixteenth century, Bangalore has today b... 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

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

Showroom City

John Joe Schlichtman

• Hardcover | Engels | Globalization and Community
• A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world High Point, North Carolina, is known as the "Furniture Capit... Lees meer

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

Urban Policy in the Time of Obama

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community | nr. 26
• With his background as a community organizer and as a state legislator representing Chicago's South Side, Barack Obama became America's most "urban" p... Lees meer

The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation

Yue Zhang

• Paperback | Engels | Globalization and Community
• While urban preservation is almost as old as cities themselves, it has become increasingly controversial in modern cities. In this book, Yue Zhang pre... 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

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

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