Naked City

The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
$27.95
Hardback, Nov 2009
ISBN13: 9780195382853ISBN10: 0195382854
A highly original account of gentrification in New York City, filled with insightful portraits of key neighborhoods and how they are changing on the ground


Double Trouble

Black Mayors, Black Communities, and the Call for a Deep Democracy
$40.00
Hardback, Nov 2005
ISBN13: 9780195177336ISBN10: 0195177339
Uses the first in-depth study of the Dinkins administration--by an insider--and of black mayoral politics, to address larger systematic conflicts between black mayors and their constituents, the black poor


Banished

The New Social Control In Urban America
$19.95
Paperback, Jul 2011
ISBN13: 9780199830008ISBN10: 0199830002
An in-depth examination of new and largely-ignored policing tactics that enforce zones of exclusion in many American cities


Moving to Opportunity

The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty
$19.95
Paperback, Mar 2010
ISBN13: 9780195392845ISBN10: 0195392841
Provides a unique account of one of the largest housing experiments in history and its effects on lives of the children and families who participated


At War with Ourselves

Why America Is Squandering Its Chance to Build a Better World
$29.95
Paperback, Aug 2004
ISBN13: 9780195176025ISBN10: 0195176022
A Newsweek journalist argues that America must embrace the international system it has created


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