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This book deftly extends previous research on post-1965 immigration to the United States in order to examine the cultural, socioeconomic, structural, and political adaptation of Eastern European immigrants after 1991.

Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices.

Empire's Tracksboldly reframes the history of the transcontinentalrailroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants whotoiled on its path.

This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.

"e;Caste"e;, a word normally used in relation to the Indian subcontinent, is rarely associated with Japan in contemporary scholarship.

Economic developments in irrigation, agriculture, and hydroelectric power generation in western Canada at the turn of the last century challenged the way Native peoples had traditionally managed the watershed environment.

This book provides an up-to-date, critical review of theoretical concepts connecting artists and urban development.

Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America explores how urban planning can be used as a tool for social equity.

In this book Arturo Almandoz places the major episodes of Latin America's twentieth and early twenty-first century urban history within the changing relationship between industrialization and urbanization, modernization and development.

This book provides an analysis of race and education through the lens of the work of Judith Butler.

This Element examines the early-twentieth century rare book trade from the perspectives of British and American collectors and dealers.

The truth about America's elite colleges and universities-who gets in, who succeeds, and whyAgainst the backdrop of today's increasingly multicultural society, are America's elite colleges admitting and successfully educating a diverse student body?

In Reproducing the French Race, Elisa Camiscioli argues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France, and she examines the political, cultural, and social issues implicated in public debates about immigration and national identity at the time.

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Patrolling the Border focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians.

This book takes a hemispheric approach to contemporary urban intervention, examining urban ecologies, communication technologies, and cultural practices in the twenty-first century.

In this brilliant reworking of Lewis Spence's seminal Myths and Legends of the North American Indians, Jon E.

In the twenty-first century, housing has become a site of ecological experimentation and environmental remediation.

First published in 2006.

This book combines autoethnographic reflections, poetry, and photography with the aim to bridge the gap between creative practice and scholarly research.

The lineage of American schoolbooks, like that of our educational system, goes back to Europe and, particularly, to England.

Incorporating archeology, anthropology, cartography, and Indigenous studies into military history, Wayne E.

There is a growing recognition of the contact we need with nature to be happy, healthy and to lead meaningful lives.

Explores the evolving human rights of Roma in Eastern Europe''s recent history, and the complex politics of Roma rights today.

This book deals with adoption laws and practices in small island developing states in the Pacific.

'one of the best contemporary statements of what is occurring in the growth of urban places in the Third World' Environment and Planning 'a book that should enjoy a wide appeal: as a plea for adoption of the 'popular approach'; as a text for student use; and as an accessible and stimulating guide to the urban problems of developing countries' Progress in Human Geography 'a very readable book, containing a lot of well documented information The book is especially relevant for interested lay people but many professionals will benefit from having a copy on the bookshelf' Third World Planning Review The true planners and builders of Third World cities are the poor.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current housing practices across Asian cities based on facts and trends in the market.

This powerful book on racism in the United States argues that a threatening narrative originating in slavery continues to link Black people to inferiority, dangerousness, and crime, causing them to be presumed guilty by society and U.

The book explores the claim that English local government exists in one of the most centralised relationships with national government.

This is the first analysis of periodicals' key role in U.

Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years.

This book traces the feminine soul of Afrobeat from tumultuous colonial (her)stories through to the vibrant heterotopias of the urban spaces and times of Black British youths of African racial heritage.

In Building Materials, Health and Indoor Air Quality: Volume 2 Tom Woolley uses new research to continue to advocate for limiting the use of hazardous materials in construction and raise awareness of the links between pollutants found in building materials, poor indoor air quality and health problems.

Implementing Data-Driven Strategies in Smart Cities is a guidebook and roadmap for practitioners seeking to operationalize data-driven urban interventions.

First Published in 2015.

This book examines smart growth entrepreneurs-innovators in government, development companies, architectural firms, and other organizations, who coalesce to shift policies and markets toward green planning and building practices.

A Brookings Institution Press and Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies publicationRental housing is increasingly recognized as a vital housing option in the United States.

Due diligence is the bedrock of real estate deals, regardless of the volume of transaction.

Adaptation Urbanism and Resilient Communities outlines and explains adaptation urbanism as a theoretical framework for understanding and evaluating resilience projects in cities and relates it to pressing contemporary policy issues related to urban climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Cities of Light is the first global overview of modern urban illumination, a development that allows human wakefulness to colonize the night, doubling the hours available for purposeful and industrious activities.

Emphasizing the global nature of racism, this volume brings together historians from various regional specializations to explore this phenomenon from comparative and transnational perspectives.

This book explores the effects of covid-19 crisis on cities and urban areas and proposes approaches and solutions to invert the pandemic's negative impact.

Building Strong Communities is an introductory textbook that contains practical tools, down-to-earth frameworks and useful methods, a valuable resource for working with communities.

The Settler Colonial Present explores the ways in which settler colonialism as a specific mode of domination informs the global present.

Over the past half-century, El Salvador has transformed dramatically.

In this, the first book-length study of the cultural and political geography of squatting in Berlin, Alexander Vasudevan links the everyday practices of squatters in the city to wider and enduring questions about the relationship between space, culture, and protest.

This volume presents selected papers from the International Conference on Urban Intelligence and Applications (ICUIA), which took place on May 10-12, 2019 in Wuhan, China.

This is a book about cities or, more precisely, about the physical form of cities.