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Housing for the Elderly: Planning and Policy Formulation in Western Europe and North America

Housing for the Elderly: Planning and Policy Formulation...

Author: Leonard Heumann ,  Duncan Boldy
ISBN: 9781032696928
Format: Hardback
$189.00

First published in 1982, this book defines sheltered housing, traces its development in Western society and analyses...  Read More >>

Inhabitation in Nature: Houses, People and Practices

Inhabitation in Nature: Houses, People and Practices...

Author: David Clapham (Glasgow University)
ISBN: 9781447367819
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Rejecting the assumption that housing and cities are separate from nature, David Clapham advances a new research...  Read More >>

Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American Cinema

Unhomed: Cycles of Mobility and Placelessness in American...

Author: Pamela Robertson Wojcik
ISBN: 9780520390362
Format: Paperback
$49.95

"In this rich cultural history, Pamela Roberston Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward...  Read More >>

Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City

Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City

Author: Yousuf Al-Bulushi
ISBN: 9783031424328
Format: Hardback
$343.17

How are poor people in South Africa confronting the persistent legacy of apartheid spatial segregation and anti-blackness?...  Read More >>

Dark and Light

Dark and Light

Author: Dave Kinnaman
ISBN: 9798350939910
Format: Paperback
$26.37

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Poverty, by America

Poverty, by America

Author: Matthew Desmond
ISBN: 9780593239933
Format: Paperback
$52.80

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making...  Read More >>

Housing the Nation: Affordability and Social Equity

Housing the Nation: Affordability and Social Equity...

Author: Victoria Newhouse ,  Alex Gorlin 
ISBN: 9780847873982
Format: Hardback
$100.00

Scholars, advocates, and architects assess America s affordable housing crisis and suggest various strategies to...  Read More >>

Displaced: Refugees, Trauma, and Integration Within Nations

Displaced: Refugees, Trauma, and Integration Within...

Author: Shaifali Sandhya (Director, Director, Care Family Consultation, Chicago, IL)
ISBN: 9780197579886
Format: Hardback
$87.95

Armed conflicts, natural disasters, poverty, and the pandemic have forced over 117 million people to abandon their...  Read More >>

Making Room: Three Decades of Fighting for Beds, Belonging, and a Safe Place for LGBTQ Youth

Making Room: Three Decades of Fighting for Beds, Belonging,...

Author: Carl Siciliano
ISBN: 9780593444245
Format: Paperback
$47.52

From a pioneering advocate for LGBTQ youth, a gripping, impassioned account of how an unhoused queer youth's murder...  Read More >>

In the Balance: The Case for a Universal Basic Income in South Africa and Beyond

In the Balance: The Case for a Universal Basic Income...

Author: Hein Marais
ISBN: 9781776146932
Format: Hardback
$234.96

Examines the need and prospects for a UBI As jobs disappear and wages flat-line, paid work is an increasingly...  Read More >>

Les Mis�rables de l'An Deux Mille...: La maraude tend la main

Les Mis�rables de l'An Deux Mille...: La maraude tend...

Author: Djamal Hamadache
ISBN: 9782954423210
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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Urban Social Housing: Global Health and Climate Change Mitigation and Redress

Urban Social Housing: Global Health and Climate Change...

Author: Patrick Wakely
ISBN: 9781032737065
Format: Hardback
$103.00

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This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers

This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers

Author: Jeff Sharlet (Dartmouth College)
ISBN: 9781324075196
Format: Paperback
$52.77

“A luminous, moving and visual record of fleeting moments of connection.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors’...  Read More >>

How to Adopt a Village in Africa: A Story of Joy, Pain, and Purpose

How to Adopt a Village in Africa: A Story of Joy, Pain,...

Author: Sheena Ashdown
ISBN: 9781039174764
Format: Hardback
$129.33

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Housing India: Programmes, Policies and Governance

Housing India: Programmes, Policies and Governance

Author: Urmi Sengupta (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) ,  Annapurna Shaw
ISBN: 9781032599380
Format: Hardback
$273.00

In this unique book on housing in India, 11 leading scholars come together to offer a critical appraisal of current...  Read More >>

Work and the Well-Being of Poor Families with Children: When Work is Not Enough

Work and the Well-Being of Poor Families with Children:...

Author: Andrea L. Ziegert ,  Dennis H. Sullivan
ISBN: 9781498556798
Format: Paperback
$67.99

This book evaluates the effectiveness of multiple policy proposals—including those of the Biden Administration—in...  Read More >>

Creating Mixed Communities through Housing Policies: Global Perspectives

Creating Mixed Communities through Housing Policies:...

Author: Anna Maria Santiago (Michigan State University, USA) ,  Iris Levin
ISBN: 9781032625300
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book focuses on socially mixed (e.g. by income, tenure, ethnicity or any other characteristic) communities...  Read More >>

Community Green: Rediscovering the Enclosed Spaces of the Garden Suburb Tradition

Community Green: Rediscovering the Enclosed Spaces of...

Author: David Nichols ,  Robert Freestone
ISBN: 9780367462475
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Neighbourhood open space ranks highly as a key component in suburban liveability assessments. This book uniquely...  Read More >>

Resisting Eviction: Domicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing

Resisting Eviction: Domicide and the Financialization...

Author: Andrew Crosby
ISBN: 9781773636375
Format: Paperback
$46.95

This book Meticulously documents how real estate investment firms and government colluded to gentrify a racialized...  Read More >>

Kindness Rocks

Kindness Rocks

Author: Sheryl Webster ,  Robert García
ISBN: 9781953458636
Format: Hardback
$50.13

A heartwarming self-discovery journey where a rock star learns that the path to true fulfillment is paved with acts...  Read More >>

Trash: A Poor White Journey

Trash: A Poor White Journey

Author: Cedar Monroe ,  Liz Theoharis
ISBN: 9781506486277
Format: Hardback
$65.99

Daily, 66 million poor white people pay the price for failing whiteness. In Trash, activist and chaplain Cedar Monroe...  Read More >>

Equity in Education: Bridging the Gap Between Poverty and Learning

Equity in Education: Bridging the Gap Between Poverty...

Author: Siddharth Joshi
ISBN: 9798869172372
Format: Paperback
$66.00

Education Equality: Why It Is Important in Today's Society Education equality is not just an ideal, but an essential...  Read More >>

Blighted: A Story of People, Politics, and an American Housing Miracle

Blighted: A Story of People, Politics, and an American...

Author: Margaret Stagmeier
ISBN: 9781588385277
Format: Paperback
$71.15

Presents a powerful narrative about the decades-long decay and remarkable two-year reinvention of Summerdale, an...  Read More >>

Designing Networks Cities: Inclusive, Hyper-Connected, Emergent, and Sustainable Urbanism

Designing Networks Cities: Inclusive, Hyper-Connected,...

Author: Steve Whitford ,  James Brearley
ISBN: 9781032546582
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Designing networks cities presents a multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban design. Emerging...  Read More >>

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