International Studies Sale: Urban Studies
Virtual space for conference attendees and those interested in the International Studies Association. Books on sale, info on University of Minnesota Press, and more.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS: 40% OFF BOOKS
All books below are 40% off using code MN89010. Code expires June 1, 2022.
BROWSE BOOKS:
GEOGRAPHY // ANTHROPOLOGY // SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
RACE // SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY // ENVIRONMENT
PHILOSOPHY // POLITICAL SCIENCE // THEORY
ETHNOGRAPHY // NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES // GLOBALIZATION
HEALTH AND MEDICINE // URBAN STUDIES // HUMAN RIGHTS
GLBT AND GENDER STUDIES // ECONOMY
ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN // GLOBALIZATION AND COMMUNITY SERIES
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Lively Cities Reconfiguring Urban Ecology Maan Barua 2023 Spring
- A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban
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Betting on Macau Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution Tim Simpson 2023 Spring
- A comprehensive look into how Macau’s recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planet
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Health Colonialism Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers Shiloh R. Krupar 2023 Spring
- The role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheid
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The Architecture of Disability Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes beyond Access David Gissen 2022 Fall
- A radical critique of architecture that places disability at the heart of the built environment
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All through the Town The School Bus as Educational Technology Antero Garcia 2023 Spring
- The role of the humble school bus in transforming education in America
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Afro-Sweden Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country Ryan Thomas Skinner 2022 Fall
- A compelling examination of Sweden’s African and Black diaspora
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Against the Commons A Radical History of Urban Planning Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago 2022 Fall
- An alternative history of capitalist urbanization through the lens of the commons
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Fearing the Immigrant Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto Parastou Saberi 2022 Fall
- A fascinating deep dive into one city’s urban policy—and the anxiety over immigrants that informs it
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Showroom City Real Estate and Resistance in the Furniture Capital of the World John Joe Schlichtman 2021 Fall
- A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world
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Justice at Work The Rise of Economic and Racial Justice Coalitions in Cities Marc Doussard and Greg Schrock 2022 Spring
- A pathbreaking look at how progressive policy change for economic justice has swept U.S. cities
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Cacaphonies The Excremental Canon of French Literature Annabel L. Kim 2022 Spring
- Exploring why there is so much fecal matter in literary works that matter
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Accumulation The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch, Daniel A. Barber and Anton Vidokle, Editors 2022 Spring
- Examines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization
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Spent behind the Wheel Drivers' Labor in the Uber Economy Julietta Hua and Kasturi Ray 2021 Fall
- Exploring professional passenger driving and the gig economy through feminist theories of labor
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Building on Borrowed Time Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang Lukas Ley 2021 Fall
- A timely ethnography of how Indonesia’s coastal dwellers inhabit the “chronic present” of a slow-motion natural disaster
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Settler Colonial City Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis David Hugill 2021 Fall
- Revealing the enduring link between settler colonization and the making of modern Minneapolis
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Practicing Cooperation Mutual Aid beyond Capitalism Andrew Zitcer 2021 Fall
- A powerful new understanding of cooperation as an antidote to alienation and inequality
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Private Metropolis The Eclipse of Local Democratic Governance Dennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie and Alba Alexander, Editors 2021 Spring
- Examines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regions
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The End of the Village Planning the Urbanization of Rural China Nick R. Smith 2021 Spring
- How China’s expansive new era of urbanization threatens to undermine the foundations of rural life
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The Speculative City Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles Susanna Phillips Newbury 2021 Spring
- A forensic examination of the mutual relationship between art and real estate in a transforming Los Angeles
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The Migrant’s Paradox Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain Suzanne M. Hall 2021 Spring
- Connects global migration with urban marginalization, exploring how “race” maps onto place across the globe, state, and street
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The Radical Bookstore Counterspace for Social Movements Kimberley Kinder 2021 Spring
- Examines how radical bookstores and similar spaces serve as launching pads for social movements
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Nuclear Suburbs Cold War Technoscience and the Pittsburgh Renaissance Patrick Vitale 2021 Spring
- From submarines to the suburbs—the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War
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Design, Control, Predict Logistical Governance in the Smart City Aaron Shapiro 2020 Fall
- An in-depth look at life in the “smart” city
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The Invention of Public Space Designing for Inclusion in Lindsay’s New York Mariana Mogilevich 2020 Spring
- The interplay of psychology, design, and politics in experiments with urban open space
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Chasing World-Class Urbanism Global Policy versus Everyday Survival in Buenos Aires Jacob Lederman 2020 Fall
- Questions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve everyday city dwellers
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Modern Housing Catherine Bauer 2020 Spring
- The original guide on modern housing from the premier expert and activist in the public housing movement
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Digitize and Punish Racial Criminalization in the Digital Age Brian Jefferson 2020 Spring
- Tracing the rise of digital computing in policing and punishment and its harmful impact on criminalized communities of color
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Urbanism without Guarantees The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood Christian M. Anderson 2020 Spring
- A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics
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Cyclescapes of the Unequal City Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development John G. Stehlin 2019 Spring
- A critical look at the political economy of urban bicycle infrastructure in the United States
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Everyday Equalities Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities Ruth Fincher, Kurt Iveson, Helga Leitner and Valerie Preston 2019 Fall
- A timely new look at coexisting without assimilating in multicultural cities
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The Decorated Tenement How Immigrant Builders and Architects Transformed the Slum in the Gilded Age Zachary J. Violette 2019 Spring
- A reexamination of working-class architecture in late nineteenth-century urban America
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The Rent of Form Architecture and Labor in the Digital Age Pedro Fiori Arantes 2018 Fall
- A critique of prominent architects’ approach to digitally driven design and labor practices over the past two decades
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Constructing Imperial Berlin Photography and the Metropolis Miriam Paeslack 2018 Fall
- How photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image—and one another—in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
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Modernism’s Visible Hand Architecture and Regulation in America Michael Osman 2018 Spring
- A groundbreaking history of the confluence of regulatory thinking and building design in the United States
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Renew Orleans? Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Katrina Aaron Schneider 2018 Spring
- Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification
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Globalized Authoritarianism Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco Koenraad Bogaert 2018 Spring
- A rich investigation into Morocco’s urban politics
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Carving Out the Commons Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C. Amanda Huron 2018 Spring
- An investigation of the practice of “commoning” in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities
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The Anti-Black City Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil Jaime Amparo Alves 2018 Spring
- An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas reveals the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil
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Historic Capital Preservation, Race, and Real Estate in Washington, D.C. Cameron Logan 2017 Fall
- A chronicle of historic preservation’s profound impact on Washington, D.C., highlighting the major changes urban revitalization has made on American cities
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Code and Clay, Data and Dirt Five Thousand Years of Urban Media Shannon Mattern 2017 Fall
- A breathtaking tour through thousands of years of urban life and its attendant technologies, rewriting the history of our cities
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The Construction of Equality Syriac Immigration and the Swedish City Jennifer Mack 2017 Fall
- A compelling case study that traces the transformation of a Swedish city by an active and engaged immigrant community
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Seizing Jerusalem The Architectures of Unilateral Unification Alona Nitzan-Shiftan 2017 Spring
- Reveals the ways architectural modernism and Zionism have intertwined to imagine and reshape the city
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Shopping Town Designing the City in Suburban America Victor Gruen Anette Baldauf, Editor 2017 Spring
- For the first time in English, the “father of the shopping mall” tells his life story
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From Light to Dark Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom Tim Edensor 2017 Spring
- A fascinating and unprecedented look at how illumination and darkness shape our experiences across history and space
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Marxist Thought and the City Henri Lefebvre 2016 Fall
- For the first time in English, Lefebvre’s essential work on how Marx and Engels conceptualized the development of the city
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Beautiful Wasteland The Rise of Detroit as America’s Postindustrial Frontier Rebecca J. Kinney 2016 Fall
- What is the “new Detroit” that everyone keeps talking about?
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The Rule of Logistics Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment Jesse LeCavalier 2016 Spring
- How the world’s largest retailer is redefining architecture by organizing flows of merchandise and information across space and time
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DIY Detroit Making Do in a City without Services Kimberley Kinder 2016 Spring
- When public services fail, neighbors step in to keep a city alive
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Last Project Standing Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago Catherine Fennell 2015 Fall
- How the aftermath of public housing became an education in the rights and duties of belonging to the city
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Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment Henri Lefebvre Lukasz Stanek, Editor 2014 Spring
- The relationship between bodily pleasure, space, and architecture—from one of the twentieth century’s most important urban theorists
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Health Rights Are Civil Rights Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963–1978 Jenna M. Loyd 2014 Spring
- How demands for dignified medical care and healthy living conditions brought together social justice advocates
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Degraded Work The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labor Market Marc Doussard 2013 Fall
- Why service-sector jobs have gotten worse—and what can be done to improve pay and working conditions for low-wage workers
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Everyday Environmentalism Creating an Urban Political Ecology Alex Loftus 2012 Spring
- A bold rethinking of urban political ecology
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Henri Lefebvre on Space Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory Łukasz Stanek 2011 Spring
- Shows how Lefebvre’s theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology
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Seeking Spatial Justice Edward W. Soja 2010 Spring
- An innovative new way of understanding and changing the unjust geographies in which we live
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State, Space, World Selected Essays Henri Lefebvre Edited by Neil Brenner and Stuart Elden 2009 Spring
- Leading intellectual Henri Lefebvre on political and state theory
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The Urban Revolution Henri Lefebvre 2003 Spring
- The first English translation of Lefebvre’s groundbreaking work on the urban experience