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Jasmine Walt,Debbie Cassidy
Adopted by Brahma Corp’s Assassin Guild and raised as one of their own, Malina Hayes is about to make her fiftieth kill. After bringing down forty-nine of London’s worst criminals…
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By drawing on fresh original research by a new generation of urban researchers located in research institutions across the global South and North, this book addresses old debates in new…
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Timothy J. Dixon, Mark Tewdwr-Jones
Winner of the 2022 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award. City visions represent shared, and often desirable, expectations about our urban futures. This book explores the history and evolution of…
Mark Vanhoenacker
A pilot’s world travels, from the author of Skyfaring –
Mark McLaughlin
URBAN MONSTERS presents three stories of monsters out of mythology, including a tale inspired by H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. All are set in the present day, showing that creatures of…
A work on urban agriculture that examines strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape. Drawing on original field work in cities across the rapidly urbanizing global south, it…
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Mark McEntire
The Hebrew Bible displays a complicated attitude toward cities. Much of the story tells of a rural, agrarian society, yet those stories were written by people living in urban environments…
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Mark Pendergrast
What we can learn from Atlanta’s struggle to reinvent itself in the 21st Century
Mark Purcell
Offers a synoptic introduction to urban democracy in the era of political neoliberalism and economic globalization. This book assesses ‘substantive democracy’. It looks at case studies where this has occurred…
Mark Locicero
This study opens a dialogue between first and twenty-first century successes and failures in our urban relationship with water. This publication examines the archaeological evidence from three city blocks in…
Mark Johnston
First comprehensive study on the history of trees in Britain’s towns and cities and the people who have planted and cared for them
Rev. Mark Whittall
In these days of declining membership in mainline congregations, a new church plant is a rarity. Even more so, perhaps, when the church plant involves an existing 145-year-old building, and…
Peter Hall,Mark Tewdwr-Jones,Mark Tewdwr-Jones
This is the sixth edition of the classic text for students of urban and regional planning. It gives a historical overview of the developments and changes in the theory and…
A critical exploration of global, contemporary urban politics in a geographical context.
Mark Clapson,Mark Clapson
Bad architecture. Soulless. Destructive of communities. The suburbs are much-maligned places. We see this time and again in films like American Beauty and novels like The Ice Storm . This…
Mark Swislocki
This book argues that regional food culture is intrinsic to how Chinese connect to the past, live in the present, and imagine their future. It focuses on Shanghai-a food lover’s…
Mark Ovenden
Using colourful graphics, this book traces the history of urban transport systems, including rare and historic maps, diagrams, and photographs.
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Mark Laurence Jackson,Mark Hanlen
This book is concerned with developing an in-depth understanding of contemporary political and spatial analyses of cities. In the three-part development of the book’s overall argument or premise, the reader…
Mark T Mulder
Since World War II, historians have analysed a phenomenon of white flight plaguing the urban areas of the northern US. One of the most interesting cases of white flight occurred…
Mark D. Hardt
This book examines the evolution of urban social patterns and infectious diseases. Tracing the historical record, it explores the human struggle to contain infectious disease and the adaption of microbes…
Mark R. Beissinger
How and why cities have become the predominant sites for revolutionary upheavals in the contemporary world.
Examining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City focuses on…
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Mark Gottdiener,Randolph Hohle,Colby King
Widely recognized as a groundbreaking text, The New Urban Sociology is a broad and expert introduction to urban sociology that is both relevant and accessible to students.
A unique book featuring a multitude of topics covering all aspects of emergency medicine as practiced in the urban setting. Clinical chapters explore a range of conditions through case studies…
Offers a critical and original evaluation of American influences on urban reconstruction and regeneration in post-war Britain. This book investigates a crucial post-World War II period, when both the USA…
J. Parkinson,O. Mark
Disseminates contemporary knowledge and practical experiences concerning problems and solutions related to urban hydrology and drainage. This book covers a wide range of methods and approaches to improve the understanding…
Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies. Chapters offer easily accessible and digestible reviews, and as a reference text…
I Ritchie
Given the rapid evolution of concepts such as smart cities, who are the architects riding the wave of new possibilities for urban design? How do contemporary agencies find pathways to…
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Vita Ayala,Mark Russell
Batman and his allies shine across multiple tales in Batman: Urban Legends Vol.3. From a magical journey with Zatanna to an emotional story with the Ace The Bat-Hound and the…
Mark D. Szuchman
An examination of the occupational, residential, educational, and economic patterns of mobility of some four thousand men, women, and children who resided in Cordoba, Argentina’s most important interior city, between…
Mark S. Rosentraub
Mark Jayne
This collection of essays explores the increasingly ubiquitous presence of distinct social and spatial areas - urban villages, cultural and ethnic quarters - in cities throughout the world. These spaces…
Since the late eighteenth century academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural, and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a…
Kevin Fitzpatrick,Mark LaGory
This book focuses on issues of health in today’s cities. By arguing that “place matters’ in relation to the population’s health, the authors make a convincing argument about the general…
Mark B. Smith
A study of one of the major social reforms of 20th-century European history that presents an analysis built on hundreds of sources that include papers from state and municipal archives…
Mark K. Watson
Japan’s Ainu minority live mainly in the northern island of Hokkaido, where their distinctive identity and cultural practices are recognised and protected. A significant proportion of the Ainu, however, live…