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EDITION AXEL MENGES 9

IBEROAMERICANA 10

IBIDEM PRESS 10

AALBORG UNIVERSITY PRESS 11

AARHUS UNIVERSITY PRESS 12

FINNISH LITERATURE SOCIETY 13

MUSEUM TUSCULANUM PRESS 14

NORDIC ACADEMIC PRESS 15

CANADIAN SCHOLARS' PRESS 17

NOVA SCIENCE 17

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MONASH UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING 23

OTAGO UNIVERSITY PRESS 25


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THE BERLIN READERA Compendium on Urban Change & ActivismEdited by Matthias Bernt, Britta Grell, Andrej Holm

By drawing together widely dispersed yet central writings, the Berlin Reader is an essentialresource for everyone interested in urban development in one of the most interesting andimportant metropolises in Europe. It provides scholars as well as students, journalists and visitorswith an overview of the most central discussions on the tremendous changes Berlin experiencedsince the fall of the wall. It covers a wide range of issues, including inner city renewal, housingand the local economy, gentrification and other urban conflicts. The book breaks ground in twodimensions: first, by offering also non-German speakers an insight into the very controversialdebates after reunification, and, second, by highlighting the ambivalent consequences of Berlin'surban transformation in the past decades.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Matthias Bernt works as a Senior Researcher at the Leibniz

Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS) in Erkner. He has publishedwidely on matters of gentrification, urban shrinkage, and local politics.Britta Grell is a political scientist, lecturer and author, based in Berlin and focused on socialpolicies and urban movements. She is an active member of INURA (International Network forUrban Research and Action).Andrej Holm works at the Department of Urban and Regional Sociology at Berlin's HumboldtUniversity. He is a well-known expert on the topic of housing and gentrification, and haspublished various books on the Right to the City.

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NEW TITLECITY OF CRISISThe Multiple Contestation of Southern European CitiesEdited by Frank Eckardt, Alvaro Buitrago Sevilla, Javier Ruiz Sanchez

The on-going crisis in Europe has dramatic impact on the life in many Southern European cities:Unemployment, social deprivation, poverty, political instability, severe cuts in the welfare statebudgets and a wide spread feeling of despair have eroded much of the social foundation of thecities. In this book, contributors from Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy provide an insight into thecomplex interference between the different aspects of the crisis. They show that the recenturban crisis is not purely a result of the budgetary problems of the nation state ("austerityurbanism") but needs to be seen as multiple contestations. It is therefore regarded in connectionto the conditions of a changing nation state, cultural diversity, challenged urban planning andpolitics and a globalised economy.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Frank Eckardt holds a professorship for urban studies and social

research at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany.Alvarro Buitrago Sevilla is an associate Professor of Town and Regional Planning at theUniversidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.Javier Ruiz Sanchez is a professor for urban planning at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,Spain.

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CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN SOUTH KOREAEnvironmental Politics in the Agricultural SectorSusann Schafer

Climate change will impact ecosystems and production processes. Thus, adaptation to climatechange has become a prevalent concept in environmental politics worldwide. In South Korea,climate change is expected to be above the global average. As response, the South Koreangovernment has initiated climate change adaptation in diverse sectors. In this book, the entireprocess, from formulation and development, implementation and reaction of involved people isexamined in a particular sector, agriculture. Theoretically framed as an Actor-Network, this studyhighlights current developments of South Korean politics, the tensions of urban-peripherydevelopment, and the status of agriculture.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Susann Schäfer is research and teaching associate in the

Department of Economic Geography at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena. Her research focusis climate and energy politics in East Asia, mobility of knowledge, and network theories.

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CREATIVE NETWORKS & THE CITYTowards a Cultural Political Economy of Aesthetic ProductionBas van Heur

This book offers a fundamental contribution to the literature on the creative industries and theknowledge-based economy by focusing on three aspects: urban spaces as key sites of capitalistrestructuring, creative industries' policies as state technologies aimed at economic exploitation,and the role of networks of aesthetic production in inflecting these tendencies. It simultaneouslygoes beyond these debates by integrating a concern with the cultural and aesthetic dimensionsof the creative industries. As such, the book is relevant to researchers interested in thetransdisciplinary project of a cultural political economy of creativity and urban change.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Bas van Heur is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty

of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University in the Netherlands. His research focuses onthe creative/cultural industries, urban studies, and science and technology studies.

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NEW TITLEENTERPRISING MIGRANTS IN BERLINBaris Ülker

How has 'ethnic entrepreneurship' emerged and developed since the late eighties in Berlin? Inhis study, Baris Ülker answers this question by relying on the experiences of immigrants fromTurkey. Most academic studies on 'ethnic entrepreneurship' have focused either on the 'mostunitary' structure available in the 'natural flow of history' or on the pre-given 'cultural'characteristics of immigrants. This book instead sets historical ruptures, conditions of possibilityand individual practices in context. It analyses how human beings have been turned into 'ethnicentrepreneurs' and explains the ways of governing the self and others in the neoliberal urbancontext.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Baris Ülker is researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies

at TU Berlin. His research focuses on the formation of governmental subjectivities, everydaypractices of migrants and urban restructuring.

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NEW TITLEGLEISDREIECK / PARKLIFE BERLINAndra Lichtenstein

Text in English & German.

East Park / Gleisdreieck. A summer evening. Mothers ask their children to come home for supper.Bottle collectors are on their beat while an English-speaking guide illuminates a group of touristson the significance of intercultural gardens. A crowd of mostly grey-haired Kreuzberg nativesequipped with picnic baskets meets for their weekly game of bowls. The soft evening light shinesthrough the treetops of the small birch wood.

Gleisdreieck paradigmatically evokes questions about the right of partaking and participating indecision-making, ownership of urban space and about planning procedures for a city centrewasteland in a time of increasing demands for housing.

This book addresses the changeful history of the site, showing in vivid images the contrasts ofBerlin park life in the 21st century. Numerous interviews with activists, the creative communityand planning experts allow sensitive insights into a complex microcosmos of views on »our city«.Six essays give inspiring statements on the current urban development debate.

With photographs by Hans W. Mende, Lorenzo Pesce and Mario Ziegler

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Andra Lichtenstein, landscape architect, and Flavia Alice Mameli,

product designer, are two urban strollers with a passion for Berlin.

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GRINDING CALIFORNIACulture & Corporeality in American Skate PunkKonstantin Butz

This book provides the first academic analysis of the subculture of skate punk at book-length. Itestablishes highly critical evaluations of the discourses that influenced early skateboarding andpunk cultures. Based on an examination of songs, flyers, magazines, and videos, Konstantin Butzrevisits American popular cultures of the 1980s and approaches them from a variety oftheoretical and methodological angles. He introduces contemplations of the rebellious potentialthat can be located within skate punk's material and corporeal contestations of the site-specificlocale of suburban Southern California. Theoretical recourses to thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze,Félix Guattari, Jean Baudrillard and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht are topped off with excerpts frominterviews with some of the most influential protagonists of the 1980s skate punk scene.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Konstantin Butz has studied American Studies and Cultural

Studies at the University of Bremen and at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Hecompleted his dissertation as a scholarship holder of the a.r.t.e.s. Research School at theUniversity of Cologne in 2011. His research interests include (Un-)popular Music and Literature.

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IMAGINEERING CULTURAL VIENNAOn the Semiotic Regulation of Vienna's Culture-Led Urban TransformationJohannes Suitner

Media and public discourses often consider Vienna as a "cultural city". This study of Vienna'srecent planning practice and discourses shows how this perception is skilfully shaped by politicalconstructions of cultural imaginaries in and of the city. The book unveils how simplistic cognitiveinterpretations of culture not only define an unquestioned, reductionist idea of the city's culturalcharacter -- it also explains how they influence the recent urban development practice in one ofEurope's globalising cities.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Johannes Suitner teaches urban planning at Vienna University of

Technology. His research interests are planning cultures, urban imaginaries, urban politics, andEuropean spatial development.


THE INTELLIGIBLE METROPOLISUrban Mentality in Contemporary London NovelsNora Pleßke

Writings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urbanultimately remains both illegible and unintelligible. Instead, the purpose of this interdisciplinarystudy is to demonstrate that mentality as a tool offers orientation in the urban realm. NoraPleßke develops a model of urban mentality to be employed for cities worldwide. Against thebackground of the Spatial Turn, she identifies dominant urban-specific structures of Londonmentality in contemporary London novels, such as Monica Ali's 'Brick Lane', J.G. Ballard's"Millennium People", Nick Hornby's 'A Long Way Down', and Ian McEwan's 'Saturday'.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Nora Pleßke teaches English studies at the University of Passau.

Her research interests include London literature, material culture, mentality, spatial andpostcolonial theory.


METAPHORS IN ARCHITECTURE & URBANISMAn IntroductionEdited by Andri Gerber, Brent Patterson

Architecture and urbanism seem to be "weak" disciplines, constantly struggling for a betterunderstanding of their nature and disciplinary borders. The huge amount of metaphorsappearing in the discourse of both not only reference to their creative nature but also indicatetheir weakness and the missing piece strengthening their own understanding: a definition ofspace for architecture and of city for urbanism. But using metaphors in this field implies aproblem -- though metaphors achieve to bring opposites together, there remains the questionhow literal they can actually become in order to relate to these subjects properly. In this volume,several authors from various fields using different approaches discuss this question.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Andri Gerber is Senior lecturer in history of urbanism at Zurich

University of Applied Sciences (Switzerland). From 2000-2002 he worked for Peter Eisenman inNew York, from 2008-2011 he was Associate professor at Ecole Spéciale d`Architecture in Parisand head of the postgraduate programme »Mutations urbaines« with Ghorayeb and Sautereau.Brent Patterson, architect, is working on a PhD in philosophy at Paris 8. He teaches history andtheory courses at architecture schools in Paris including the Ecole Spéciale d`Architecture (ESA),where he is an associate professor.



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PORT CITIES AS AREAS OF TRANSITIONEthnographic PerspectivesEdited by Waltraud Kokot, Mijal Gandelsman-Trier, Kathrin Wildner, Astrid Wonneberger

In the past decades, international port cities have been strongly affected by globaltransformation processes, dramatically altering life and work around the ports, the builtenvironment and public imagery of urban waterfronts. Based on recent theories of city-portdevelopment, the ethnographic studies in this volume focus on local stakeholders' perceptionsand strategies in port cities in Europe and Latin America. This book covers a wide variety of urbanfields, from traditional dockland communities, inland waterway sailors and new forms ofmigration and exile, to active agents of urban transformation.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Waltraud Kokot is professor of social anthropology at Hamburg

University. Her teaching and research areas include diaspora, urban anthropology, refugeestudies, urban poverty and homelessness. She has conducted field research in Thessaloniki, Sofiaand Hamburg.Mijal Gandelsman-Trier completed her M.A. in social anthropology at Hamburg University. Sheis currently a doctoral candidate and lectures social anthropology in Bremen and Hamburg. Herkey areas of interest are diaspora, space and place and urban anthropology.Kathrin Wildner is lecturer of social anthropology at Viadrina University (Frankfurt/Oder) andHamburg University. She is an accomplished researcher of urban anthropology, space and place.She has conducted field work in New York City, Mexico City, Hamburg and Istanbul.Astrid Wonneberger is currently a lecturer of social anthropology at Hamburg University. Hermajor academic interests include diaspora, ethnicity and urban anthropology. She has completedfield research in Western Ireland, New York, Boston and Dublin (Ireland).


PRAYER IN THE CITYThe Making of Muslim Sacred Places & Urban LifeEdited by Patrick A. Desplat, Dorothea E. Schulz

This volume envisions social practices surrounding mosques, shrines and public spaces in urbancontexts as a window on the diverse ways in which Muslims in different regional and historicalsettings imagine, experience, and inhabit places and spaces as "sacred". Unlike most studies onMuslim communities, this volume focuses on cultural, material and sensuous practices and urbaneveryday experience. Drawing on a range of analytical perspectives, the contributions examinespatial practices in Muslim societies from an interdisciplinary perspective, an approach which hasbeen widely neglected both in Islamic studies and social sciences.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Patrick A. Desplat is lecturer at the Department of Social

Anthropology in Cologne. He is interested in Muslim religious practices, migration, translocality,urban life and has been doing fieldwork in Ethiopia, Kenya and currently Madagascar.Dorothea E. Schulz is professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cologne. Her researchinterests include Muslim religious practices and everyday life, gender, media and public culturein Mali and Uganda.

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SOUNDSCAPES OF THE URBAN PASTStaged Sound as Mediated Cultural HeritageEdited by Karin Bijsterveld

We cannot simply listen to our urban past. Yet we encounter a rich cultural heritage of citysounds presented in text, radio and film. How can such 'staged sounds' express the changingidentities of cities? This volume presents a collection of studies on the staging of Amsterdam,Berlin and London soundscapes in historical documents, radio plays and films, and offers insightsinto themes such as film sound theory and museum audio guides. In doing so, this book putscontemporary controversies on urban sound in historical perspective, and contextualises iconicpresentations of cities. It addresses academics, students, and museum workers alike. Withcontributions by Jasper Aalbers, Karin Bijsterveld, Carolyn Birdsall, Ross Brown, Andrew Crisell,Andreas Fickers, Annelies Jacobs, Evi Karathanasopoulou, Patricia Pisters, Holger Schulze, MarkM. Smith and Jonathan Sterne.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Karin Bijsterveld is a historian and Professor of Science,

Technology and Modern Culture at Maastricht University, Netherlands.

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SPACE (RE)SOLUTIONSIntervention & Research in Visual CultureEdited by Peter Mortenbock, Helge Mooshammer

The rapid changes currently taking place in our urban, political and institutional environmentshave shifted spatial practice to centre stage both in civic life and academic research. Socialnetworking, political projects, cross-border movements, artistic interventions, urban andenvironmental initiatives, self-organised educational practices -- all articulate the challengesinvolved in organising the spaces we share.

In this volume, visual culture scholars from around the world discuss the "practical turn" indifferent fields of critical engagement, proposing fresh ways to assert an interpenetrated spaceof research and intervention.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer teach Visual Culture

at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and at the Vienna University of Technology. Theircurrent research is concerned with new forms of urban sociality arising from processes oftransnationalisation, transient and informal land use, and newly emerging regimes ofgovernance.


SPACES OF THE POORPerspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas & Their InhabitantsEdited by Hans-Christian Petersen

What do we know about the urban impoverished areas of the world and the living environmentof its inhabitants? How did the urban poor cope with their surroundings? How did they interpretand adopt urban space in order to fight against their position at the periphery of society? Thisvolume takes up these questions and investigates how far approaches of cultural sciences cancontribute to overcome the "exoticisation of the ghetto" (Loïc Wacquant) and instead to look atthe heterogeneity and individuality behind the facades. It opens new perspectives for theresearch of poverty and inequalities that do not stop at collective categories.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Hans-Christian Petersen teaches East European History at the

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.



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FORTHCOMING TITLETARGET MARKETSInternational Terrorism Meets Global CapitalismSuzi Mirgani

This ground-breaking book explores the points of convergence between corporate capitalism andterrorist practice. Assessing the increase in the number of terrorist attacks directed againstcommercial entities in urban areas, such as the Westgate mall in Nairobi or the Charlie Hebdooffices in Paris, Suzi Mirgani offers a fascinating and disturbing perspective on the spaces wheresupposedly oppositional ends of the spectrum meet on common ground. How is it that theseurban commercial spaces provide ground zero for a conference between the most powerfulforces of contemporary culture: the most mainstream and the most extreme?

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Suzi Mirgani is Manager and Editor for Publications at the Center

for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar.


THICK SPACEApproaches to MetropolitanismEdited by Dorothee Brantz, Sasha Disko, Georg Wagner-Kyora

Could the concepts of "metropolitanism" and "thick space" aid our understanding of historicaland contemporary urban change? Essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provideinterdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanisation. The bookopens with conceptual questions regarding the development of metropoles and metropolitanstudies. The following sections provide analyses of the social, environmental, and culturaldimensions of metropolitan spaces from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective, such asthe role of planning and urban parks, the impact of ethnic diversity and segregation, the place ofcinematic visions or the centrality of infrastructures and architecture.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Dorothee Brantz is director of the Center for Metropolitan

Studies (CMS) and head of the international graduate research programme »The World in theCity: Metropolitanism and Globalization from the 19th Century to the Present«.Sasha Disko and Georg Wagner-Kyora are urban historians who are affiliated with the CMS.


URBAN HACKINGCultural Jamming Strategies in the Risky Spaces of ModernityEdited by Gunther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Thomas Ballhausen

Urban spaces became battlefields, signifiers have been invaded, new structures have beenestablished: Netculture replaced counterculture in most parts and also focused on the ever-changing environments of the modern city. Important questions have been brought up to dateand re-asked, taking current positions and discourses into account. The major question stillremains, namely how to create culturally based resistance under the influence of capitalisticpressure and conservative politics. This collection of essays and contributions attempts toaddress this question and its implications for different scientific and artistic fields.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Günther Friesinger lives in Vienna and Graz as a philosopher,

artist, writer, curator and producer.Johannes Grenzfurthner is an artist, writer, curator, and director. He is the founder ofmonochrom. He teaches art theory and aesthetical practice at the University of Applied Sciencesin Graz, Austria.Thomas Ballhausen studied Comparative Literature and German at the University of Vienna.

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URBAN LIFE-WORLDS IN MOTIONAfrican PerspectivesEdited by Hans Peter Hahn, Kristin Kastner

Urban agglomerations host the most vital and creative societies. This applies particularly toAfrica, where cities have the highest growth rates world-wide and where the urban populationis younger than anywhere else. Urban life-worlds are the basis for the development of newlifestyles and new cultural phenomena. Based on empirical ethnographic research, this bookpresents case studies that enhance our understanding of the dynamics of urbanity in Africa andbeyond – by envisioning cities as crossroads where cultures, biographies and networks meet.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Hans Peter Hahn teaches Anthropology at the Goethe-University

Frankfurt am Main (Germany).

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NEW TITLEURBAN TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE U.S.A.Spaces, Communities, RepresentationsJulia Sattler

How did American cities change throughout the 20th and early 21st century? This timelypublication integrates research from American Literary and Cultural Studies, Urban Studies andHistory. The essays range from negotiations of the "ethnic city" in US literature and media, tostudies of recent urban phenomena and their representations: gentrification, re-appropriationand conversion of urban spaces in the USA. These interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectiveson American cities provide unique points of access for studying the complex narratives of urbantransformation.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Julia Sattler teaches American Studies at TU Dortmund University

(Germany). Her research focuses on the intersection of American Cultural Studies and UrbanStudies, including a comparative study of the Ruhr region and Detroit.

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EDITION AXEL MENGES

URBAN FICTIONStrolling through Ideal Cities from Antiquity to the Present DayGunther Feuerstein

Dissatisfied with the world we live in, we have been longing since time immemorial for twoopposing topoi: the peaceful garden -- a carefree paradise -- the New City -- a harmoniouscommunity. Utopia has long been sought after by urban architects since the time of ThomasMore. Other fictional cities followed, some of which were brought to fruition such as Brasilia andPalmanova. Yet these cities too have turned out to be imperfect, deeply rooted in their ownperiod. For the author, all these places, though only fictitious, have long since been built and hestrolls through them in company with the architects, planners, writers and philosophers, just asThomas More and many others once led us through their cities.

PB 9783930698264 £69.00 June 2008 Edition Axel Menges 416 pages


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IBEROAMERICANA

CONSTRUCTING AND RESISTING MODERNITYMadrid 1900-1936Susan Larson

This book studies the urban spaces imagined by the technocrats who had the power to shapeMadrid between 1900 and 1936 and relates them to the fiction of authors who responded bycreating utopian and dystopian narratives.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Susan Larson is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the

University of Kentucky. Her research and teaching focus on issues of modernity, narration andintermediality in twentieth-century Spanish literature and film.

PB 9788484895572 £25.50 January 2011 Iberoamericana 204 pages

IBIDEM PRESS

DEVELOPMENT-INDUCED DISPLACEMENT & RESETTLEMENTCauses, Consequences & Socio-Legal ContextBogumil Terminski

This book explores the issue of development-induced resettlement, with a particular emphasison the humanitarian, legal, and social aspects of this problem. Today, so-called development-induced displacement and resettlement` (DIDR) is one of the dominant causes of internal spatialmobility worldwide. Each year over 15 million people are forced to abandon their homes to makespace for economic development infrastructure. The construction of dams and irrigationprojects, the expansion of communication networks, urbanization and re-urbanization, theextraction and transportation of mineral resources, forced evictions in urban areas, andpopulation redistribution schemes count among the many possible causes. Terminski aims topresent the issue of development-caused displacement as a highly diverse, global social problemoccurring in all regions of the world. As a human rights issue it poses a challenge to publicinternational law and to institutions providing humanitarian assistance. A significant part of thisbook is devoted to the current dynamics of development-caused resettlement in Europe, whichhas been neglected in the academic literature so far.

PB 9783838206936 £39.90 May 2015 Ibidem Press 611 pages

NEW TITLEMIGRANT FRIENDSHIPS IN A SUPER-DIVERSE CITYRussian-Speakers and their Social Relationships in London in the 21st CenturyDarya Malyutina, Claire Dwyer

This timely book offers an integrative and critical approach to the conceptualization of diversityof social ties in contemporary urban migrant populations. It explores the informal relationshipsof migrants in London and how the construction and the dynamics of their social ties function asa part of urban sociality within the super-diversity of London. Based on the results of a qualitativestudy of Russian-speaking migrants, it targets the four main themes of transnationalism,ethnicity, cosmopolitanization, and friendship. Acknowledging the complexity of the ways inwhich contemporary migrants rely on social relationships, the author argues that this complexitycannot be fully grasped by theories of transnationalism or explanations of ethnic communitiesalone. Instead, one can gather a closer understanding of migrant sociality when adding theanalysis of informal relationships in different locations and with different subjects.

PB 9783838206523 £22.90 October 2015 Ibidem Press 159 pages


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NON-VISUAL LANDSCAPELandscape Planning for People with Vision ProblemsNikolas Hasanagas, Angeliki Koskina

Landscape is the impression given by a place. The five senses construct five landscapes: there isnot only the visual landscape but also non-visual landscapes such as smell, touch, sound ("sound-scape"), and taste landscapes. The visual landscape is experienced by most people, while theremaining four non-visual landscapes mainly construct the non-visual world of the blind.

In their innovative study, Angeliki Koskina and Nikolas Hasanagas explore this non-visual worldon an empirical basis. What land-scapes do blind people prefer? Is the natural or builtenvironment most attractive for them? How differently do blind people perceive the “landscape“compared to sighted people? Which feelings does the landscape evoke in blind people, andwhich values do they attach to these feelings? How satisfied do they feel with the urban ornatural landscapes where they live? Spatial Planning and Land-scape Design for handicappedpeople constitute a much-discussed academic and social issue.

PB 9783838201962 £23.90 January 2011 Ibidem Press 104 pages

NEW TITLEVARIATIONS OF SUBURBANISMApproaching a Global PhenomenonEdited by Barbara Schönig

Considered to be sub-ordinated and sub-prime to the city, sub-urban areas receive littleattention by researchers and designers. However, it´s the rapidly growing areas outside thecentral cities that pose the biggest questions of the urban millennium: How can the scatteredpatchwork of urban areas and social spaces linked by networks of highways and publictransportation function as a sustainable and livable urban environment? Answering this questionrequires understanding suburban spaces as heterogeneous urban areas with distinct localcharacteristics, qualities, and problems. Following this path, Variations of Suburbanism exploresformation, characteristics, and trends of suburban areas all over the world. It provides insightson common features and differences of suburban governance, design, and infrastructure anddiscusses strategies to understand and design suburban areas in an increasingly sub-urbanizingworld.

PB 9783838206196 £30.90 October 2015 Ibidem Press 288 pages

AALBORG UNIVERSITY PRESS

DESIGNING MOBILITIESOle B. Jensen

How is the width of the pavement shaping the urban experience? How is the material design oftransport infrastructure and mobile technology affording social interaction in everyday lifespaces? How are people inhabiting these spaces with their bodies and in accordance to socialand cultural norms? These are some of the questions that this book raises in order to explorehow the design of mobile sites and situations affect people’s everyday life. The book takes pointof departure in the author’s book "Staging Mobilities" (Routledge, 2013) in which it is argued thatmobility is much more than simple movements of people, goods, and information ‘from A to B’.Accordingly, the way people, goods, and information moves shapes the way we understand ourbuilt environment, other consociates, and ourselves. The book contributes with a new andcritical-creative gaze on what might seem to be trivial and mundane acts of moving in the city.

HB 9788771120981 £37.00 February 2014 Aalborg University Press 295 pages


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AARHUS UNIVERSITY PRESS

DAMASCUSOttoman Modernity & Urban Transformation (1808-1918)Dr Stefan Weber

2 Volume SetDamascus, capital of the Ottoman province in Syria and one of the most important centres of theclassical Muslim World, underwent some of the same developments in the 19th century as otherurban centres in the Mediterranean area and beyond. In the course of the industrial revolutionin Europe and the radical expansion of a worldwide network of traffic and communication, newideas, techniques, material goods and architectural forms spread and challenged locallyestablished patterns of urban and social organisation. This expansion and integration led to anincrease in orientation of urban and social structures towards supra-regional models seen, forexample, in architecture of houses, public buildings and bazaars or urban organization andclothing. Yet Damascus never became a "European city", but modernised in its own, unique ways.

This study examines the society, architecture and urban planning, including the documentationof over one thousand buildings and public spaces, of the endangered UNESCO World HeritageSite of Damascus. The history of these buildings and their transformation are discussed, andmany unpublished historical photographs provide an insight into lost and unknown privateworlds and urban textures. From a micro-historical approach, this book unfolds the spaces of theeveryday life of local actors and agents to unearth and relate the complexity and nonlinearquality of the processes, which transpired as an integral turning point in the history of the MiddleEast with its entry into modernity.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Dr Stefan Weber is the Director of the Museum of Islamic Art at

the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Germany. He has served as Assistant Professor at Aga KhanUniversity in London, and he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Orient-Institute Beirut(OIB), and he was a Junior Research Fellow at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) inDamascus for the History of Islamic Art and Architecture.

HB 9788779344242 £150.00 February 2010 Aarhus University Press 1200 pages

DANISH TOWNS DURING ABSOLUTISMUrbanisation & Urban Life, 1660-1848Edited by Søren Bitsch

All too often, Denmark has been conspicuous by its absence from international urban historicalliterature. The most important reason for this was the lack of literature on Danish urbandevelopment published in an international language. The principal aim of this book, therefore, isto rectify this situation by presenting - in English - recent significant research on Denmark's urbandevelopment.

This anthology, no. 4 in the Urban Studies series, examines the development of the urban systemand urban life in Denmark during the age of Absolutism, 1660-1848. It features 13 articles writtenby leading Danish urban historians. Many articles provide an overview of urbanisation in boththe Kingdom of Denmark and the Duchy of Schleswig, while the other articles focus on economicand cultural urban functions.

The Danish Urban Studies series are published by Aarhus University Press in cooperation withthe Danish Centre for Urban History. The first three studies in the Danish Urban Studies seriesare written in Danish, but are accessible to international readers with the help of Englishsummaries.

HB 9788779341524 £24.95 April 2008 Aarhus University Press 509 pages


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FINNISH LITERATURE SOCIETY

THE LANDSCAPE OF FOODThe Food Relationships of Town & Country in Modern TimesEdited by Marjatta Hietala, Tanja Vahtikari

This book introduces new perspectives on the social history of food by focusing on the foodrelationships between urban and rural areas in Europe from the late eighteenth century to thepresent day. The theme is approached by historians, ethnologists and geographers through aseries of studies of the Netherlands, Germany, Slovenia, Switzerland, Britain, Finland, Italy,Greece and Norway. The volume examines a multitude of aspects of the urban-rural interface,such as provisioning of cities and towns with fresh foodstuffs, urban food production, andchanges in the diet. The Landscape of Food takes readers back to the nineteenth-century townwith its commercial cowsheds, cattle markets, piggeries, and market gardens and its self-provisioning from allotments and backyard chicken coops and rabbit hutches. The environmentalproblems associated with these activities presented targets for veterinary surgeons and publichealth reformers. The emergence in the twentieth century of industrial provisioning of the townsand the preservation of food, with its branded and heavily advertised goods and increasinglystandardised recipes and restaurants is discussed, as is the changing role of the countryside.During the second half of the twentieth century, the provision of meals in the home is shown tohave developed from the rationing and privation of the Second World War up to the heating ofsupermarket products in a microwave oven, while cooking, in some urban societies at least, hasbeen reduced to a form of television entertainment. The reaction to this industrialisation of thediet is also discussed, particularly in terms of the utilisation of 'foods from nature'.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Marjatta Hieltala is Professor of General History at the University

of Tampere, currently holding a position as an Academy Professor. She has written many booksand articles on European and Finnish history, and is a member of the bureau of the InternationalCommission for the History of Towns and has played a prominent role in the work of the Academyof Finland.

PB 9789517464789 £23.99 May 2003 Finnish Literature Society 232 pages

MEMORIES OF MY TOWNThe Identities of Town Dwellers & their Places in Three Finnish TownsEdited by Anna-Maria Astrom

This is an exploration into how town dwellers experience their environment in a complicatedway. As people in urban milieus relate themselves to the environment, this takes place on manylevels, where especially the time level becomes problematic. The urban buildings and settingscan be looked upon as a kind of collective history, as carriers or witnesses of times past. But it isonly the town dwellers that experience urban time itself, the time they live in, but through theirmemories also times past. In this past some elements take symbolically dense expressions.Through reliving and narrating their experiences the symbolically important factors in this urbanrelationship will be outlined for investigations concerning three towns, Helsinki, the capital,Viborg, the ceded and lost Carelian town, and Jyväskylä, a town with dense commercial andcivilisatory dimensions in the middle of Finland. The symbolic aspects are the kern in all thearticles of the book Memories of my Town. The aim of the book and its articles has been to usedifferent theoretical concepts as guidelines in analysing the different narrative texts. Thus thearticles are to be seen as independent contributions to the scientific discussion about places,urbanism, memories and narratives. The ethnological outlook is on the other hand an outcomeof the joint project Town Dwellers and their Places., whereby the articles substantially relate toone another. Thus the book can also be seen as a joint result of this urban project, which wassponsored by the Finnish Academy.

PB 9789517464338 £23.99 May 2004 Finnish Literature Society 249 pages


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RECLAIMING THE CITYInnovation, Culture, ExperienceEdited by Marjaana Niemi, Ville Vuolanto

This book provides historical and comparative perspectives on topical questions, examining inparticular the impact of global and local forces on urban development in the long term, the cities'capacity to rise to the challenge and their continuous needs to both enhance and containdiversity. These themes are developed by exploring different aspects of urban development suchas counter-urbanisation, cultural innovations, changes in spatial form, migration and identityformation.

PB 9789517465267 £23.99 January 2003 Finnish Literature Society 240 pages

MUSEUM TUSCULANUM PRESS

THE CHICAGO LITERARY EXPERIENCEWriting the City, 1893-1953Frederik Byrn Køhlert

This is a concise literary history of the city of Chicago. Taking as its thematic starting point thecity's famous World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the book provides an account of the city'srapid and in many ways unprecedented development from trading post to metropolis, andexamines the many literary responses to this new urban environment. By contextualisingliterature written about the city in these formative years, the book shows not only how the cityinfluenced its writers, but also how these writers struggled to transform their urban environmentinto literary forms. Covering such aspect as the emergence of the novel of the businessman ascultural hero, the humorous newspaper columns of the late nineteenth century, and theDepression-era revitalisation of Chicago literature from its ethnic neighbourhoods, the bookmoves beyond the obvious "classics" and rediscovers a vibrant literary tradition that restoresalmost-forgotten writers such as Eugene Field and Floyd Dell to their place in American literaryhistory. Given the historical approach and the breadth of material covered, the book will bevaluable to anyone wanting to understand how American literature in this defining period movedfrom the farm to the city-and what happened to it once it had arrived.

Authors discussed include Jane Addams, George Ade, Nelson Algren, Sherwood Anderson, SaulBellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Willa Cather, Floyd Dell, Theodore Dreiser, James T Farrell, EugeneField, Henry B Fuller, Hamlin Garland, Robert Herrick, Jack London, Frank Norris, Carl Sandburg,Upton Sinclair and Richard Wright.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Frederik Byrn Køhlert has an MA in English and Scandinavian

literature from the University of Aarhus as well as an M.A. in English from the University ofOregon, where he studied for two years on a Fulbright scholarship.

PB 9788763536721 £26.99 June 2011 Museum Tusculanum Press 189 pages


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NORDIC ACADEMIC PRESS

BALTIC CITIESPerspectives on Urban & Regional Change in the Baltic Sea AreaEdited by Martin Aberg, Martin Peterson

What are the processes that transfigures the Baltic area's urban landscape, one of the mostdynamic macro-regions in contemporary Europe?

This anthology is approaching the issues of the Baltic cities and the urban transformation froma number of perspectives. Reviews of the economy, infrastructure, and historical aspects of thearea is presented. The emphasis is on the "post-socialist" cities in the eastern part of the Balticregion, and in a series of in-depth studies goose St. Petersburg, Tallinn and Riga in detail.

The book is intended for geographers, historians and those who have a genuine interest in thedevelopment in Eastern Europe and especially for the Baltic countries. The authors arehistorians, geographers and scientists from the Baltic states, Sweden and Poland.

PB 9789189116030 £17.95 January 1997 Nordic Academic Press 253 pages

NEW TITLEDIVIDED CITIESGoverning DiversityEdited by Annika Björkdahl, Lisa Strombom

Very rarely has Peace and Conflict Studies been combined with public administration research.Divided Cities - Governing Diversity brings together theories from conflict resolution, publicadministration and urban studies to present new theoretical and empirical insights from nine in-depth case studies.

The authors employ the city as a prism to shed light on the complex, multidimensional processesof conflict, segregation, democratization, and governance. They use the city as a diagnostic sitefor exploring the role of Public Administration and Civil Servants in resolving contested issues inDivided Societies.

The researchers analyzed nine cases multifaceted: Toronto, Copenhagen, Malmo, Mostar, CapeTown, Belfast, Jerusalem, Nicosia and Mitrovica - all cities at different stages of conflict andstability and with disparate legacies. The contributors map the tools, strategies, andunderstandings of conflict resolution to be found in each city, and in so doing break newempirical and theoretical background.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Annika Björkdahl is Associate Professor at the Department of

Political Science, Lund University.

REVIEWS: "This collection of essays provides a fascinating empirical and theoretical

contribution to peacebuilding by bringing together researchers in conflict studies, public policyand urban governance. It creates a transdisciplinary framework to offer a new understanding ofmulti-scalar governance, policy processes and professional ideologies as necessary componentsin transformative politics. The book is a unique resource for scholars and practitioners in conflictstudies, International Relations, urban management and public administration."Dr Brendan Murtagh, Queen’s University, Belfast. Author of Belfast: Segregation,Violence andthe City

HB 9789187675454 £30.95 March 2015 Nordic Academic Press 275 pages


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NEW TITLESOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN SCANDINAVIAN CITIESNordic Perspectives on Urban Marginalisation & Social SustainabilityEdited by Erica Righard, Magnus Johansson, Tapio Salonen

Scandinavian countries are Generally Associated with Extensive public services and low levels ofpoverty. However, the reality has changed Dramatically Over the last three decades, andScandinavia's cities now share many of the problems and challenges familiar from other Westerncities. How do the welfare states handle These global societal transformation?

In Social Transformations in Scandinavian Cities, researchers highlight the changing face of socialsustainability and social disintegration in Scandinavian cities. They offer Theoretical andEmpirical Analyses of how migration, inequality, and residential segregation intersect withshifting national and local policies, charting Their Impact on urban landscapes in Denmark,Norway, and Sweden.

The authors challenge the standard view of Scandinavia as a haven of equality and peace.Unemployment, criminality, and poor school performance in ethnically and socio-economicallysegregated residential areas have finally been-recognized and tackled through urban policiessince the 1990s. In Social Transformations in Scandinavian Cities we learn why and In which waysprogress is being made.

HB 9789187675737 £31.95 November 2015 Nordic Academic Press 296 pages

NEW TITLEURBAN SQUARESSpatio-Temporal Studies of Design & Everyday Life in the Oresund RegionEdited by Mattias Karrholm

Urban Squares Suggests a specified and fresh take on agorology - The study of urban squares.The approach is one of the recording everyday life and the focusing on different ways to describeand investigate the public life and space of urban squares. The book comprises four empiricalcase studies of squares Focusing especially on the urban material culture and spatio-temporalchanges of These squares. The squares are all located in the metropolitan and transnationalOresund region in between Denmark and Sweden, a region That has gone through Extensivetransformations During The last couple of decades.

The four cases Written by Initiated scholars represent different images of how urban life and thespace of These squares has changed. They include studies of changing day-to-day uses overtime(Great Square, Malmo), of changing rhythms of Public Eating and Its Consequences on how toaddress questions of urban design (Värnhemstorget, Malmo), of changing planning tools and itsimplementation in an urban renewal process (Slussplan, Malmo), and of New designerly ways ofaddressing community and spatial appropriation (at Superkilen, Copenhagen).

The compilation of cases suggest different ways of addressing spatial and temporal aspects ofthe everyday life of urban squares, and Helps us to see how the everyday life of squares plays anImportant part in the production of public space. The authors hope That Their discussions mightopen up for new perspectives on urban design and public life, as well as point to the possibledevelopment of a more Extensive agorology of everyday life.

HB 9789187675492 £28.95 December 2015 Nordic Academic Press 142 pages


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CANADIAN SCHOLARS' PRESS

IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCES IN NORTH AMERICAUnderstanding Settlement and IntegrationEdited by Harald Bauder, John Shields

Immigration, settlement, and integration are vital issues in the twenty-first century—they propeleconomic development, transform cities and towns, shape political debate, and challengeestablished national identities. This original collection provides the first comprehensiveintroduction to the contemporary immigrant experience in both the United States and Canadaby exploring national, regional, and metropolitan contexts.

With essays by an interdisciplinary team of American and Canadian scholars, this volumeexplores major themes such as immigration policy; labour markets and the economy; gender;demographic and settlement patterns; health, well-being, and food security; education; andmedia. Each chapter includes instructive case examples, recommended further readings, links toweb-based resources, and questions for critical thought.

Engaging and accessible, Immigrant Experiences in North America will appeal to students andinstructors across the social sciences, including geography, political science, sociology, policystudies, and urban and regional planning.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Harald Bauder is a Professor in the Graduate Program in

Immigration and Settlement Studies and the Department of Geography at Ryerson University.John Shields is a Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration and a facultymember of the Graduate Program in Immigration and Settlement Studies at Ryerson University.

PB 9781551307145 £46.50 May 2015 Canadian Scholars' Press 306 pages

NOVA SCIENCE

POVERTY, URBANITY & SOCIAL POLICYCentral & Eastern Europe ComparedJolanta Aldukaite

The aim of this book is to provide the reader with the broad spectrum of poverty and social policyissues in Central and Eastern Europe, and address the most urgent topics of welfare stateresearch, namely poverty, children and social policy; gender, social policy and poverty; urbanpolicy, renewal and poverty, and overall challenges to social policy reform. The bookdemonstrates that despite an increase in poverty and inequalities in many Central and EasternEuropean countries during the last 18 years, the social policy systems have not experienced aradical dismantlement throughout the entire region. The post-Communist welfare state stillshows more comprehensive solutions to social problems than residual ones. Nevertheless, thedeteriorated fiscal capacities of the state in some cases hinder the successful poverty solutionsas well as the expansion of the welfare programmes. Yet, the Central and Eastern Europeanregion is very diverse regarding the scope and depth of social problems encountered and somecountries have implemented more successful policy solutions than other ones. Furthermore, thefindings of this volume demonstrate that Central and Eastern European countries are not sodramatically distinct from Western Europe, neither in their social problems encountered, nor intheir solutions. Nevertheless, the experience of the socialist regime, the relatively lower wagesand lower social benefits as well as the higher share of GDP produced in a shadow economy allowthe CEE countries to group into the distinct post-Communist regime.

HB 9781607411000 £91.99 May 2009 Nova Science 211 pages


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PUBLIC HOUSING & THE MOVING TO WORK PROGRAMEdited by Martin A. Robertson, Ronald G. Harper

The Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration program was created by Congress to give the U.S.Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and local Public Housing Authorities(PHAs) the flexibility to test alternative policies for providing housing assistance through thenation's two largest housing assistance programs: the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher programand the public housing program. The alternative policies are meant to increase the cost-effectiveness of assisted housing programs, promote the self-sufficiency of assisted families, andincrease housing choices for low-income families. This book provides an overview of the historyand purpose of the MTW demonstration program, followed by a description of some of thepolicies adopted by participating PHAs, and policy options for the future.

HB 9781622576876 £91.99 February 2013 Nova Science 153 pages

REGIONAL & URBAN DEVELOPMENTS IN PORTUGUESE-SPEAKING COUNTRIESJose Alberto Rio Fernandes Edited by Márcio Moraes Valença, Fernanda Cravidão

In this book, a number of concepts and understandings about ‘development’ intertwine. Scales,times and human activities are projected onto territories, as to interpret realities. The future ofpopulation, the territorial (in)balances and complexity of managing spaces are recurring themes.Regional, sustainable, tourism and historical developments are the major headings under whichchapters are organized. Under these headings and in the chapters, a number of themes aretreated, including those of economic integration; flows of foreign investments; regionalintegration; border areas; urbanization; infrastructure provision; mobility; transports; urbansprawl; deprivation and health; poverty; environmental degradation; quality of life; housing;second homes; land use management and heritage.

HB 9781614708766 £179.50 January 2013 Nova Science 473 pages

URBAN DEVELOPMENTS IN BRAZIL & PORTUGALEdited by Márcio Moraes Valença, Fernanda Cravidão, José Alberto Rio Fernandes

Several themes and perspectives are reunited under this collection of texts about urbandevelopments in the Portuguese-speaking worlds of Brazil and Portugal. As each analyst tends tohave a particular view on what the concept should refer to, the meaning attributed to the word'development' in this book is also diverse. This is one of the reasons why it is written in its pluralform: 'developments'. The concept (or the word) is here used openly so that all efforts to defineit are provisory, partial and elusive, considering the various national, regional, linguistic andscientific meanings pertaining to correlated facts and processes and according to the geo-historical context in which the term is used. In the title, the idea of ‘urban developments’ is alsoused to indicate evolution or novelty. The book is dedicated to discussing state-of-the-art urbanresearch in Brazil and Portugal.

HB 9781614708926 £179.50 February 2012 Nova Science 452 pagesPB 9781629481500 £65.99 January 2014 Nova Science 452 pages


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URBAN SLUMS & THE SOCIAL PRODUCTION OF INFANT MORTALITY RATES INTHE LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIESA Macro-Comparative, Quantitative AnalysisJames Rice

This book utilises the first-difference panel regression analysis to assess the direct effect of urbanslum prevalence or the proportion of the total population living in urban slum conditions onnational level measures of infant mortality rates over the period 1990 to 2005. Utilising data on81 less developed countries, the results illustrate increasing urban slum prevalence over theperiod is a robust predictor of increasing infant mortality rates. This effect obtains net thestatistically significant influence of gross domestic product per capita, fertility rate, and femalesecondary school enrolment. The results confirm urban slum prevalence growth is an importantcontextual dynamic whereby the social production of infant mortality is enacted in the lessdeveloped countries.

PB 9781617613142 £39.50 February 2011 Nova Science 49 pages

SUSSEX ACADEMIC PRESS

RIGHTS OF WAY TO BRASÍLIA TEIMOSAThe Politics of Squatter SettlementCharles J. Fortin

The site of Recife’s Brasília Teimosa favela emerged as a flash point of economic and politicalinterests in the 1930s and the scene of subsequent strife into the 1980s. The name of this districtis a contemptuous allusion to the new capital of Brazil, with its forward-thinking planning policiesand urban design, in stark contrast to the favela. This concise account unearths events surfacingthrough periods of revolution, dictatorship, populism, Cuban Communism, the 1964 militarycoup d’état and crackdown to the amplified reverberation of civil society voices and engagementdecades later. Shifting ideologies and jolting transitions between regimes directly affected whatoccurred on this 110-acre parcel of urban land. Between 1934 and 1984 competing groups andindividuals came to covet this space because of its strategic location and political consequence.Brasilia Teimosa is about the politics of ouster and the power of resistance. What took placethere still resonates in squatter settlements throughout Brazil; deplorable living conditionsprevalent in favelas are the result of deprivation of access to market resources.

This work examines the interactions between the state and neighborhood associations regardingthe allocation of public goods and services in the context of urban resources and their system ofsupply. In particular it focuses on the political struggles of shanty residents of Brasília Teimosathat are pertinent to the provision of and access to urban land tenure. Control and use of publiclands have functioned as instruments of the state to pursue political projects in coalition withprivate real estate partners, to undermine the strength of opposing factions, or to seal populistpacts with the urban poor who, as illegal occupants of public land, are locked into a dependencyrelationship with the state. As will be shown, the residents of Brasília Teimosa discovered andexploited “space” for political maneuvers in order to secure permanence on a centrally located,publicly-owned site.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Charles J. Fortin is former Professor and Coordinator of the

Graduate Program of Urban and Regional Development, Federal University of Pernambuco inRecife, Brazil; Evaluation Officer with the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C.;and Peace Corps Volunteer in a favela in the State of Bahia, Brazil.

HB 9781845196264 £55.00 March 2014 Sussex Academic Press 240 pagesPB 9781845196868 £27.50 July 2014 Sussex Academic Press 240 pages


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SHANGHAI, PAST & PRESENTA Concise Socio-Economic History, 1842-2012Niv Horesh

This book sets out to explain how Shanghai emerged from relative obscurity in 1842 to becomeone of the world’s best-known finance and industry hubs. As China’s largest city, Shanghai todayplays a central economic role, much as it did in the 1920s. The author provides a concisediachronic survey of the economic history of modern Shanghai, setting out how the city’s urbaninfrastructure, municipal institutions, consumer culture and industry have shaped, and havebeen shaped by, this economic power house. The work is aimed at a broad readership of all whoare interested in Asian history, and tackles a range of themes including: the city’s millionaires,then and now; racial tensions and quotidian liaisons between Europeans and Asians beforeWorld War II; and the gambling and prostitution industry.

The post-war era is portrayed in comparative discussions on Shanghai under Mao Zedong, andduring the reform era. These discussions bring the narrative up to date to cover important eventssuch as the designation of the Pudong precinct as the city’s new engine of growth in 1991. Thecity’s illustrious pre-war past is compared with its present ambitions to become Asia’s leadingfinancial centre.

The book employs insights from studies frameworks of new institutional economics as well asfrom the development trajectory of other world cities by way of better understanding Shanghai’shistoric distinctness, its relative weaknesses and contemporary strengths.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Niv Horesh is Senior Fellow at the University of Nottingham’s

China Policy Institute (UK) and Associate Professor in China Studies at the University of WesternSydney (Australia). Horesh has worked in the past as a Business Development Manager in China,and as a civil servant in Israel and Australia.

HB 9781845196318 £29.95 March 2014 Sussex Academic Press 120 pagesPB 9781845196998 £19.95 December 2014 Sussex Academic Press 120 pages

WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY PRESS

CLAIMING SPACERacialization in Canadian CitiesEdited by Cheryl Teelucksingh

Claiming Space: Racialization in Canadian Cities critically examines the various ways in whichCanadian cities continue to be racialized despite objective evidence of racial diversity and thedominant ideology of multiculturalism. Contributors consider how spatial conditions in Canadiancities are simultaneously part of, and influenced by, racial domination and racial resistance.

Reflecting on the ways in which race is systematically hidden within the workings of Canadiancities, the book also explores the ways in which racialized people attempt to claim space. Theseessays cover a diverse range of Canadian urban spaces and various racial groups, as well as theintersection of ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. Linking themes include issues related tosubjectivity and space; the importance of new space that arises by challenging the dominantideology of multiculturalism; and the relationship between diasporic identities and claims tospace.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Cheryl Teelucksingh is an assistant professor in the Department

of Sociology at Ryerson University.

PB 9780889204997 £27.99 May 2006 Wilfrid Laurier University Press 210 pages


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WHEN TECHNOCULTURES COLLIDEInnovation from Below and the Struggle for AutonomyGary Genosko

When Technocultures Collide provides rich and diverse studies of collision courses betweentechnologically inspired subcultures and the corporate and governmental entities they seek toundermine. The adventures and exploits of computer hackers, phone phreaks, urban explorers,calculator and computer collectors, “CrackBerry” users, whistle-blowers, Yippies, zinsters,roulette cheats, chess geeks, and a range of losers and tinkerers feature prominently in thisvolume. Gary Genosko analyzes these practices for their remarkable diversity and theirinnovation and leaps of imagination. He assesses the results of a number of operations, includingthe Canadian stories of Mafiaboy, Jeff Chapman of Infiltration, and BlackBerry users.

The author provides critical accounts of highly specialized attributes, such as the prospects ofdeterritorialized computer mice and big toe computing, the role of electrical grid hacks in urbantechnopolitics, and whether info-addiction and depression contribute to tactical resistance.Beyond resistance, however, the goal of this work is to find examples of technocultural autonomyin the minor and marginal cultural productions of small cultures, ethico-poetic diversions, andsustainable withdrawals with genuine therapeutic potential to surpass accumulation, debt, andcompetition. The dangers and joys of these struggles for autonomy are underlined in studies ofRIM’s BlackBerry and Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks website.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Gary Genosko is a professor in and director of the

Communication Program at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. He held a CanadaResearch Chair in Technoculture from 2002 to 2012. He is the author of RemodellingCommunication: From WWII to the WWW (2012), Félix Guattari: A Critical Introduction (2009),and co-author, with Scott Thompson, of Punched Drunk: Alcohol, Surveillance and the LCBO(2009).

PB 9781554588978 £21.50 October 2013 Wilfrid Laurier University Press 222 pages

ABORIGINAL PEOPLES IN CANADIAN CITIESTransformations and ContinuitiesIndigenous StudiesEdited by Heather A. Howard, Craig Proulx

Since the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than onreserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rural-to-urban migration and the development of urbanAboriginal communities represent one of the most significant shifts in the histories and culturesof Aboriginal peoples in Canada. The essays in Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Cities:Transformations and Continuities are from contributors directly engaged in urban Aboriginalcommunities; they draw on extensive ethnographic research on and by Aboriginal people andtheir own lived experiences.

The interdisciplinary studies of urban Aboriginal community and identity collected in this volumeoffer narratives of unique experiences and aspects of urban Aboriginal life. They provideinnovative perspectives on cultural transformation and continuity and demonstrate howcomparative examinations of the diversity within and across urban Aboriginal experiencescontribute to broader understandings of the relationship between Aboriginal peoples and theCanadian state and to theoretical debates about power dynamics in the production ofcommunity and in processes of identity formation.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Heather A. Howard is an assistant professor in the Department

of Anthropology at Michigan State University and is affiliated faculty with the Centre forAboriginal Initiatives at the University of Toronto.Craig Proulx is an associate professor in anthropology at St. Thomas University in Fredericton,New Brunswick.

PB 9781554582600 £27.99 April 2011 Wilfrid Laurier University Press 264 pages


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RITES OF WAYThe Politics and Poetics of Public SpaceEdited by Mark Kingwell, Patrick Turmel

There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it bysurveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymityand transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic politics. But public spaceremains an evanescent and multidimensional concept that too often escapes scrutiny.

The essays in Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space open up multiple dimensionsof the concept from architectural, political, philosophical, and technological points of view. Thereis some historical analysis here, but the contributors are more focused on the future of publicspace under conditions of growing urbanization and democratic confusion. The added interestoffered by non-academic work—visual art, fiction, poetry, and drama—is in part an admissionthat this is a topic too important to be left only to theorists. It also makes an implicit argumentfor the crucial role that art, not just public art, plays in a thriving public realm.

Throughout this work contributors are guided by the conviction, not pious but steely, thathealthy public space is one of the best, living parts of a just society. The paths of desire we followin public trace and speak our convictions and needs, our interests and foibles. They are thevectors and walkways of the social, the public dimension of life lying at the heart of all politics.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Mark Kingwell is a professor of philosophy at the University of

Toronto and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine. He is the author of eleven books ofpolitical and cultural theory, including most recently, Concrete Reveries: Consciousness and theCity (2008) and Opening Gambits: Essays on Art and Philosophy (2008). He is the recipient of theSpitz Prize in political theory, National Magazine Awards for both essays and columns, and in2000 was awarded an honorary DFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design forcontributions to theory and criticism.Patrick Turmel is an assistant professor of philosophy at Université Laval. His main researchinterests are in moral and political philosophy. He has published articles in ethics and on issuespertaining to cities and justice. He is also co-editor of Penser les institutions (Presses del’Université Laval).

PB 9781554581535 £23.99 September 2009 Wilfrid Laurier University Press 210 pages


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MONASH UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING

NO WAY TO GOTransport & Social Disadvantage in Australian CommunitiesGraham Currie, Janet Stanley, John Stanley

Urban sprawl and sparse living are pervasive in Australia. Despite high levels of car ownership,many Australians do not have access to a private car for their travel needs. These people, oftenfrom marginalised groups in society such as young people, those on low incomes, older people,indigenous Australians and those with disabilities, face difficulties accessing services, facilitiesand activities. What are the personal and social costs of lack of access to transport on individualand community well-being? How, and to what extent, do poor transport options contribute todisadvantage?

No Way to Go is an edited collection of papers that discuss the links between transportdisadvantage and social exclusion in Australia. The book begins by exploring the global contextfor the Australian experience, with a series of papers from international contributors. In thesecond section, case studies based on recent empirical research examine the situation from theperspectives of different marginalised groups in Australian society. The book concludes byexamining the implications for Australian social and transport policy.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Graham Currie holds Australias first professorship in Public

Transport at Monash University's Institute of Transport Studies. He has more than 25 yearsexperience managing studies of transport disadvantage throughout Australasia and is directingseveral current research projects in this field including the Social Research in Transportclearinghouse at Monash University.Janet Stanley is senior manager of research and policy at the Brotherhood of St Laurence inMelbourne, where her research focuses on social disadvantage and social exclusion and is closelyintegrated with service provision and policy development.John Stanley is CEO of the Bus Association of Victoria, where he focuses on the development ofsustainable transport systems. He is a former deputy chairman of the National Road TransportCommission and he chaired the Victorian Recycling and Resource Recovery Council.

PB 9780980361629 £21.99 September 2007 Monash University Publishing 184 pages


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TRENDYVILLEThe Battle for Australia's Inner CitiesGraeme Davison, Renate Howe, David Nicholls

Australia's inner cities experienced an upheaval in the 1960s and 70s which left them changedforever. People from all walks of life who valued their suburbs places like Balmain, Battery Point,Carlton, Indooropilly, North Adelaide or Subiaco resisted large-scale development projects forfreeways, slum clearance and mass-produced high-rise. Unlikely alliances of post-war migrants,university students and staff, construction workers and their unions, long-term residents and cityworkers, challenged land-grabs and inappropriate development.

When the dust settled, Australian cities were different. Many suburbs kept their village qualities.Shopping strips were revived and cultures celebrated. While areas like Fitzroy or Redcliff werederided as Trendyville, the fate many American cities suffered a hollow core had been avoided.In the process, heritage conservation, party politics, and Australian assumptions about domesticlife, education and lifestyle had all been transformed.

This book is an in-depth examination of the causes and consequences of urban protest in ademocracy. It shows how it changed the built environment as well as its participants, andresonated in many of our institutions including politics, media and multiculturalism.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: Graeme Davison is Emeritus Professor of History at Monash

University. His previous books include The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne, The Use andAbuse of Australian History, Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Citiesand, as co-editor, The Oxford Companion to Australian History. His most recent book, UniversityUnlimited: The Monash Story (with Kate Murphy) appeared in 2012.Renate Howe is an urban historian with publications on Melbourne's inner city, public housingand heritage. She has actively particpated in Victoria's planning system as a member of PlanningPanels Victoria and the Heritage Council. She is currently an Honorary Associate Professor atDeakin University and Adjunct Research Associate at Monash University.

PB 9781921867422 £21.99 October 2014 Monash University Publishing 200 pages


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OTAGO UNIVERSITY PRESS

AN ACCIDENTAL UTOPIA?Social Mobility and the Foundations of an Eglitarian Society, 1880-1940Erik Olssen, Clyde Griffen

An Accidental Utopia? investigates a more egalitarian past at a time when New Zealand rankedfourth in the developed world for social inequality. It is our first systematic analysis of urbansocial structure, focusing on three major forms of mobility – marital, worklife andintergenerational. This enables it to identify the distinctive forms taken by the capitalist classstructure in urban New Zealand during a formative historical period, 1890–1940.

By placing the analysis deep within a particular community – one of the two most densely settledurban areas at the time – the book also demonstrates how colonists and their children madeclass less central to social organisation than it had been in Britain and also how people created aclass-based politics to protect and advance equality. The intimate account of political changeacross the period reinstates the importance of contextual analysis, showing the need to analysethe social and political together in order to explain Liberal decline and the rise of Labour.

In a comparative discussion, the authors demonstrate the importance of size and scale not onlyto this topic but to sociology and history in general, as these helped to make southern Dunedincritical in creating New Zealand as one of the world's most egalitarian societies. While class istheir central focus, the authors also show how religious and ethnic divisions were rendered moremarginal than in urban Britain or the US.

The final chapter asks to what extent the remarkably fluid social patterns identified resulted fromdeliberate choices made by the first settlers and their descendants. By interweaving class andculture, structure and agency, the authors provide new insights into the making of modern NewZealand.

AUTHOR INFORMATION: ERIK OLSSEN and CLYDE GRIFFEN, an historian of mobility in the

United States, have worked on mobility in southern Dunedin for the best part of fifteen years;FRANK JONES, one of the pioneers of log-linear modelling in the social sciences, undertook thelog linear analyses.

PB 9781877372643 £17.95 January 2011 Otago University Press 334 pages

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