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The Delta Girls

The Delta Girls

How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job

How to Enjoy Your Life and Your Job

Power of Global Community Media

Power of Global Community Media

Linda K. Fuller

Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein

Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein

Category: Urban

Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization

Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization

Richard Sennett

Sleepers

Sleepers

Lorenzo Carcaterra

Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster

Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City

Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of ...

Elijah Anderson

Redesigning the American Dream Revised and Updated: Gender Housing and Family Life

Redesigning the American Dream Revised and Updated: Gender Housing ...

Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series

Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius ...

David Pietrusza

Death in the Haymarket: a story of Chicago, the first labor movement, and the bombing that divided gilded age America

Death in the Haymarket: a story of Chicago, the first labor ...

Inventing Great Neck: Jewish Identity and the American Dream

Inventing Great Neck: Jewish Identity and the American Dream

Judith S. Goldstein

Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London

Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

The City: A Global History

The City: A Global History

Gang leader for a day: a rogue sociologist takes to the streets

Gang leader for a day: a rogue sociologist takes to the streets

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Hunting in Harlem

Hunting in Harlem

Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto

Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto

Once the American Dream: Inner-Ring Suburbs of the Metropolitan United States

Once the American Dream: Inner-Ring Suburbs of the Metropolitan ...

Bernadette Hanlon

The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs

The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses ...

Roberta Brandes Gratz

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American ...

Andres Duany & Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk & Jeff Speck

Alphaville: 1988, Crime, Punishment, and the Battle for New York City's Lower East Side

Alphaville: 1988, Crime, Punishment, and the Battle for New ...

Michael Codella & Bruce Bennett

Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World

Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping ...

Unorthodox

Unorthodox

Deborah Feldman

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Made Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier

Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Made Us Richer, ...

Spy Story

Spy Story

Harry Palmer (5)

The Expendable Man

The Expendable Man

Dorothy B. Hughes

NYRB Classics (1)

Loose Change: The Case Files of a Homeless Investigator

Loose Change: The Case Files of a Homeless Investigator

Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the Making of an Edible Garden Oasis in the City

Paradise Lot: Two Plant Geeks, One-Tenth of an Acre, and the ...

Eric Toensmeier & Jonathan Bates

San Diego in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to America's Finest City

San Diego in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to America's Finest City

Federal Writers Project

California in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the Golden State

California in the 1930s: The WPA Guide to the Golden State

Federal Writers Project

Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere

Class A: Baseball in the Middle of Everywhere

Browsing Nature's Aisles: A Year of Foraging for Wild Food in the Suburbs

Browsing Nature's Aisles: A Year of Foraging for Wild Food in ...

Wendy Brown & Eric Brown

Odyssey

Odyssey

A Dictionary of Sociology

A Dictionary of Sociology

American School Reform: What Works, What Fails, and Why

American School Reform: What Works, What Fails, and Why

Joseph P. McDonald & Cities & Schools Research Group

The Skin Collector

The Skin Collector

Lincoln Rhyme (11)

The Waterfront Journals

The Waterfront Journals

David Wojnarowicz

Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans

Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle ...

The American Dream and the Power of Wealth: Choosing Schools and Inheriting Inequality in the Land of Opportunity

The American Dream and the Power of Wealth: Choosing Schools ...

Heather Beth Johnson

The Story of Junk

The Story of Junk

Linda Yablonsky

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer

The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich ...

The New York Nobody Knows

The New York Nobody Knows

William B. Helmreich

Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of Transportation

Door to Door: The Magnificent, Maddening, Mysterious World of ...

Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter

Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives ...

Jordan T. Camp & Christina Heatherton

Loving Day: A Novel

Loving Day: A Novel

The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification in the 21st Century

The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification ...

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

The Burial Hour

The Burial Hour

Lincoln Rhyme (13)

Studs Terkel's Chicago

Studs Terkel's Chicago

Greater Than Ever: New York's Big Comeback

Greater Than Ever: New York's Big Comeback

Daniel Doctoroff

City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right

City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for ...

Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, Cities, and Companies

Scale: The Universal Laws of Life, Growth, and Death in Organisms, ...

Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding... Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolis

Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic ...

Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work

Uberland: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work

Dark Sacred Night

Dark Sacred Night

Michael Connelly

Harry Bosch (21)

Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism

Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American ...

We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the ...

Bettina L. Love

In Search of Deeper Learning: Inside the Effort to Remake the American High School

In Search of Deeper Learning: Inside the Effort to Remake the ...

Jal Mehta & Sarah Fine

Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City

Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American ...

Amanda Kolson Hurley

Veg in One Bed: How to Grow an Abundance of Food in One Raised Bed, Month by Month

Veg in One Bed: How to Grow an Abundance of Food in One Raised ...

The Spatial Contract: A New Politics of Provision for an Urbanized Planet

The Spatial Contract: A New Politics of Provision for an Urbanized ...

Alex Schafran & Matthew Noah Smith & Stephen Hall