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Cover of Loïc Wacquant: Bourdieu in the City

Loïc Wacquant: Bourdieu in the City

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban …

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Creighton Connolly & S. Harris Ali: Pandemic Urbanism

Emerging infectious disease outbreaks have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are shaped by the planetary urban condition. Pandemic …

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Myria Georgiou: Being Human in Digital Cities

How is life in digital cities changing what it means to be human? In this perceptive book, Myria Georgiou sets out to investigate the new configuration of social order that is taking shape in …

Cover of Ross Beveridge & Philippe Koch: How Cities Can Transform Democracy

Ross Beveridge & Philippe Koch: How Cities Can Transform Democracy

We live in an urban age. It is well known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and everyday lives across the globe. But urbanization is also changing …

Cover of Javier Ruiz-Tagle & Serena Vicari Haddock: Companion to Urban and Regional Studies

Javier Ruiz-Tagle & Serena Vicari Haddock: Companion to Urban and Regional Studies

COMPANION TO URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES Indispensable overview and timely coverage of the major issues, debates, and research topics in urban and regional studies Companion to Urban and …

Cover of Gregory Andrusz & Michael Harloe: Cities After Socialism

Gregory Andrusz & Michael Harloe: Cities After Socialism

Cities After Socialism is the first substantial and authoritative analysis of the role of cities in the transition to capitalism that is occurring in the former communist states of Easter Europe …

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Loretta Lees & Hyun Bang Shin: Planetary Gentrification

This is the first book in Polity’s new ‘Urban Futures’ series. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by …

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Katherine Giuffre: Communities and Networks

In Communities and Networks, Katherine Giuffre takes the science of social network analysis and applies it to key issues of living in communities, especially in urban areas, exploring questions such …

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Julie-Anne Boudreau: Global Urban Politics

In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal …

Cover of AbdouMaliq Simone & Edgar Pieterse: New Urban Worlds

AbdouMaliq Simone & Edgar Pieterse: New Urban Worlds

It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and …