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1	The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City more books like this by Jennifer Toth add to wishlist This book is about the thousands of people who live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels of New York City. see all copies from £2.37! new only from £8.27! \| first editions
2	In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio more books like this by Professor Philippe Bourgois add to wishlist In Search of Respect, Philippe Bourgois's now-classic, ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim after it was first published in 1995 and in 1997 was awarded the Margaret Mead Award. For the first time, an anthropologist had managed to gain the trust and long-term friendship of street-level drug ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.23! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City more books like this by Elijah Anderson add to wishlist Inner-city black America is often defined by random, senseless street violence. In fact, although violence is a salient feature, its use is far from random; it is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. How you dress, how you talk, whether you make eye-contact, your understanding of the pecking order - such crucial details ... see all copies from £7.14! new only from £8.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	The City Reader more books like this by Richard T LeGates (Editor), Frederic Stout (Editor) add to wishlist The fourth edition of the highly successful "The City Reader" brings together the very best of publications on the city. It includes classic writings by such authors as Lewis Mumford, Ernest W. Burgess, LeCorbusier, Lewis Wirth, Jane Jacobs, and Kevin Lynch meet the best contemporary writings of, among others, Sir Peter Hall, Richard Florida, Mike ... see all copies from £5.92! new only from £29.48! \| first editions
5	The Works: Anatomy of a City more books like this by Kate Ascher add to wishlist Offering a cross section of hidden infrastructure, this title uses innovative graphic images and clear text explanations to answer all the questions about the way things work in a modern city and the people who support them. see all copies from £8.13! new only from £10.37! \| first editions
6	When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor more books like this by William Julius Wilson add to wishlist This long-awaited study, by one of America's leading sociologists, analyzes the disappearance of work and its impact on the inner city of Chicago. Wilson explores the current erosion of blue-collar jobs; the movement of business to the suburbs, which excludes the poor of the inner cities; and the gradual flight of all but the very poorest from ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life more books like this by Richard Florida add to wishlist From the best-selling author of "The Rise of the Creative Class", a brilliant new book on the surprising importance of place, with advice on how to find the right place for you.It's a mantra of the age of globalization that where we live doesn't matter. We can innovate just as easily from a ski chalet in the Alps or a cottage in Provence as in the ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £5.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist A chilling report from Kozol on the status of the "poorest of the poor" children, focusing on New York City's South Bronx. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.30! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations and Its Prospects more books like this by Lewis Mumford add to wishlist An examination of Cities of the Western world tracing their development from Egypt through the Middle Ages to the present. see all copies from £6.86! new only from £9.94! \| first editions
10	Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States more books like this by Professor Kenneth T Jackson add to wishlist The winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize, this book is the first detailed history of suburban life in America from its origin to the drive-in culture of today. see all copies from £5.80! new only from £9.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist "Important and compelling . . .cking facts and figures with the affecting, even tragic stories and voices of homeless families . . . read this book".--USA Today. see all copies from £4.98! new only from £5.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood more books like this by David Simon, Edward Burns add to wishlist A yearlong portrait of everyday lives that intersect at the corner of West Fayette and Monroe streets, a notoriously crime-ridden intersection in Baltimore. Through the lens of one family in an inner-city neighborhood, this incisive piece of investigative journalism has much to say about hope and hopelessness on an individual and group level. The ... see all copies from £7.00! new only from £9.29!
13 view cover	The death and life of great American cities more books like this by Jane Jacobs add to wishlist Jane Jacobs sets out to produce an attack on current city-planning and rebuilding in America and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsympathetic to cities have been let loose on the urban environment. Inspired by the ideals of the Garden City or Le Corbusier's ... see all copies from £7.89! new only from £9.67! \| first editions
14 view cover	How the Other Half Lives more books like this by Jacob A Riis add to wishlist Published in 1890, "How The Other Half Lives" was an instant best seller in the United States. This critical edition is based on the 1901 edition of the work, provided by The Jacob A. Riis Collection of the Museum of the City of New York. 'Contexts' includes a section on Riis in his own words in addition to his contemporaries' reaction to the ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.66! \| first editions
15 view cover	Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century more books like this by James Howard Kunstler add to wishlist In "Home from Nowhere", the author of the landmark book "Geography of Nowhere" not only shows that the original American dream--the desire for peaceful, pleasant places in which to work and live--still has a strong hold on our imaginations, but offers innovative, eminently practical ways to make that dream a reality. Photos & line drawings. see all copies from £1.26! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
16 view cover	Tally's corner a study of Negro streetcorner men more books like this by Elliot Liebow add to wishlist This is a reponse to the culture of poverty thesis - that the poor are different and, according to conservatives, morally inferior - and alternative explanations that many African Americans are caught in a tangle of pathology owing to the absence of black men in families. Liebow's shadow theory of values - especially the values of poor, urban, ... see all copies from £1.44! new only from £12.43! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	The Urban World more books like this by J John Palen add to wishlist Long the leading text in urban sociology, "The Urban World" continues to provide a comprehensive, balanced, up-to-date, cross-cultural look at cities and suburbs around the world. Offering a 21st century view of the changing urban scene, the text covers evolving urban patterns and the changing nature of urban life. Combining expert scholarship ... see all copies from £4.48! new only from £5.62! \| first editions
18 view cover	No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City more books like this by Katherine S Newman add to wishlist An anthropologist examines the lives of the working poor in Harlem, New York City. Katherine Newman spent two years on her project, and got to know many individuals and groups. In the best social science, she unravels layers of society in the community and shows how they interrelate. She is perceptive on issues of self-esteem and status. The ... see all copies from £7.28! new only from £7.38! \| first editions
19 view cover	Cities and Urban Life more books like this by John J Macionis, Dr. Vincent N Parrillo add to wishlist For Urban Sociology, Urban Political Economy, Urban Anthropology, and Urban Studies courses taught out of the sociology, political science and urban studies departments. Cities and Urban Life, authored by two of the best-known textbook writers in the field, provides a comprehensive introduction to urban sociology, urban anthropology, and urban ... see all copies from £5.60! new only from £6.24! \| first editions
20 view cover	Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor more books like this by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh add to wishlist In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighbourhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate, dangerous and remarkable ways in which a community survives. We find there an entire world of unregulated, unreported, and untaxed work, a system of living off the books that is daily life in the ghetto. ... see all copies from £9.14! new only from £9.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America more books like this by Leon Dash add to wishlist Based on a series that first appeared in the "Washington Post" which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. It is the story of one woman, Rosa Lee, and her family living in the projects in Washington, DC. Leon Dash spent four years following the fortune of this family in an effort to understand--on a human level, ... see all copies from £1.59! new only from £8.82! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York more books like this by Luc Sante add to wishlist This acclaimed history of New York concentrates on the city's dark underside, particularly in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A gifted writer with a lucid yet lyrical style, Sante brings an incredible secret history to life. He writes of saloons frequented only by street urchins under the age of twelve, of waterfront hotels with ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.22! \| first editions
23 view cover	Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope more books like this by Jonathan Kozol add to wishlist This book tells stories about the lives of several inner-city school children growing up in the South Bronx. see all copies from £4.06! new only from £5.61! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit more books like this by Thomas J Sugrue add to wishlist Once America's "arsenal of democracy," Detroit over the last fifty years has become the symbol of the American urban crisis. In this reappraisal of racial and economic inequality in modern America, Thomas Sugrue explains how Detroit and many other once prosperous industrial cities have become the sites of persistent racialized poverty. He ... see all copies from £9.24! new only from £19.43!
25 view cover	Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League more books like this by Ron Suskind add to wishlist A Wall Street Journal reporter follows a young man from Washington D.C.'s inner-city through his first year at Brown University, where much growth and change takes place. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £8.14! \| signed copies \| first editions

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