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Stagnant dreamers: How the inner city shapes the integration of second-generation Latinos, by María G. Rendón

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•February 5, 2022
Design, Control, Predict

Design, control, predict: Logistical governance in the smart city, by Aaron Shapiro

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•February 5, 2022
Reframing the Urban Challenge in Africa

Reframing the urban challenge in Africa: Knowledge co-production from the South, by Ntombini Marrengane and Sylvia Croese

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•February 5, 2022

Gray to green communities: A call to action on the housing and climate crises, by Dana L. Bourland

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•February 5, 2022
Immigrant Crossroads

Immigrant crossroads: Globalization, incorporation, and placemaking in Queens, New York, edited by Tarry Hum, Ron Hayduk, Francois Pierre-Louis Jr. and Michael Alan Krasner

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•February 5, 2022

Advanced introduction to cities, by Peter Taylor

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•February 5, 2022

Scenario planning for cities and regions: Managing and envisioning uncertain futures, by Robert Goodspeed

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•February 5, 2022

The ecology of homicide: Race, place, and space in postwar Philadelphia

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•November 22, 2021

A research agenda for new urbanism, edited by Emily Talen

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•October 28, 2021

America’s Johannesburg: Industrialization and racial transformation in Birmingham, by Bobby M. Wilson

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•October 28, 2021

Philadelphia battlefields: Disruptive campaigns and upset elections in a changing city, by John Kromer

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•October 28, 2021

Transit life: How commuting is transforming our cities

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•July 27, 2021

The misunderstood history of gentrification: People, planning, preservation, and urban renewal, 1915–2020

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•June 30, 2021

Furthering fair housing: Prospects for racial justice in America’s neighborhoods

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•June 30, 2021

Airbnb, short-term rentals and the future of housing, by Lily M. Hoffman and Barbara Schimitter Heisler

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•June 30, 2021

Urban lowlands: A history of neighborhoods, poverty, and planning

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•June 23, 2021

The new noir: Race, identity, and diaspora in Black suburbia

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•June 22, 2021

Preserving neighborhoods, by Aaron Passell

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•June 17, 2021

The urban archetypes of Jane Jacobs and Ebenezer Howard: Contradiction and meaning in city form, by Abraham Akkerman

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•June 4, 2021

Know your price: Valuing Black lives and property in America’s Black cities, by Andre M. Perry

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•June 1, 2021

Changing places: The science and art of new urban planning, by John MacDonald, Charles Branas, and Robert Stokes

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•May 17, 2021

South Central is home: Race and the power of community investment in Los Angeles, by Abigail Rosas

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•May 12, 2021

The man in the dog park: Coming up close to homelessness, by Cathy A. Small with Jason Kordosky and Ross Moore

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•May 12, 2021

The Routledge handbook of street culture, edited by Jeffrey Ian Ross

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•May 7, 2021

The Great Migration and the Democratic Party: Black voters and the realignment of American politics in the 20th century, by Keneshia N. Grant

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•April 28, 2021

Creating the suburban school advantage: Race, localism, and inequality in an American metropolis, by John L. Rury

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•April 16, 2021

Planning Australia’s healthy built environments, by Jennifer L. Kent and Susan Thompson

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•April 14, 2021

DIY city: The collective power of small actions, by Hank Dittmar

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•April 13, 2021

Handbook of human geography, by Tim Schwanen and Ronald van Kempen

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•April 12, 2021

Urban food sharing: Rules, tools and networks, by Anna R. Davies

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•April 8, 2021

The land bank revolution: How Ohio’s communities fought back against the foreclosure crisis, by Jim Rokakis and Gus Frangos

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•April 8, 2021

Transnational architecture and urbanism: Rethinking how cities plan, transform and learn, by Davide Ponzini

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•April 8, 2021

Blue Metros, Red States: The shifting urban-rural divide in America’s swing states, by David F. Damore, Robert E. Lang and Karen A. Danielsen

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•April 7, 2021

Brave new home: Our future in smarter, simpler, happier housing, by Diana Lind

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•April 7, 2021

Designing the megaregion: Meeting urban challenges at a new scale, by Jonathan Barnett

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•March 29, 2021

Toward freedom: The case against race reductionism, by Touré Reed

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•March 1, 2021

Chinese urban transformation: A tale of six cities, by Chen Yuanzhi, Alan Hudson and He Lisheng

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•March 1, 2021

Amsterdam’s Canal District: Origins, evolution, and future prospects, by Jan Nijman (ed.)

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•February 9, 2021

Constructing metropolitan space: Actors, policies and processes of rescaling in world metropolises, by Jill Simone Gross, Enrico Gualini, and Lin Ye (eds.)

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•February 9, 2021

Tax increment financing and economic development: Uses, structures, and impact (2nd ed.), by Craig L. Johnson and Kenneth A. Kriz (eds.)

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•February 3, 2021

Perspectives on fair housing, by Vincent J. Reina, Wendell E. Pritchett and Susan M. Wachter (eds.)

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•January 27, 2021

Race for profit: How banks and the real estate industry undermined black homeownership, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

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•January 27, 2021

Your guide to downtown Denise Scott Brown, by Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum and Denise Scott Brown

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•January 26, 2021

Views from the streets: The transformation of gangs and violence on Chicago’s South Side, by Roberto R. Aspholm

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•January 25, 2021

Threatening property: Race, class and campaigns to legislate Jim Crow neighborhoods, by Elizabeth A. Herbin-Triant

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•January 25, 2021

Resisting redevelopment: Protest in aspiring global cities, by Eleonora Pasotti

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•December 17, 2020

The medical metropolis: Health care and economic transformation in Pittsburgh and Houston, by Andrew T. Simpson

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•December 7, 2020
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