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  • One Less Car

    Bicycling and the Politics of Automobility

    by Zack Furness ...
    Series series Sporting
    Although millions of people in the United States love to ride bicycles for exercise or leisure, statistics show that only 1% of the total U.S. population ride bicycles for transportation—and barely half as many use bikes to commute to work. In his original and exciting book, One Less Car, Zack Furness examines what it means historically, culturally, socioeconomically, and politically to be a ... Read more

    $29.51 CAD

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  • Who's Your City?

    How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

    by Richard Florida ...
    International BestsellerAll places are not created equal.In this groundbreaking book, Richard Florida shows that where we live is increasingly a crucial factor in our lives, one that fundamentally affects our professional and personal prospects. As well as explaining why place matters now more than ever, Who’s Your City? provides indispensable tools to help you choose the right place for you.It’s ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Next Hundred Million

    America in 2050

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    Visionary social thinker Joel Kotkin looks ahead to America in 2050, revealing how the addition of one hundred million Americans by midcentury will transform how we all live, work, and prosper.In stark contrast to the rest of the world's advanced nations, the United States is growing at a record rate and, according to census projections, will be home to four hundred million Americans by 2050. This ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Canada - Culture Smart!

    The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

    by Diane Lemieux, Culture Smart! ...
    Series series Culture Smart!
    Canada is the second-largest country in the world, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific and spanning six time zones. From coast to coast lie vast forests, breathtaking mountains, flat, open plains, and thousands of lakes and rivers. It is also the world's second-most sparsely populated country. The Canadian psyche is deeply influenced by the size of the territory and the extremes of ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City

    by Alan Ehrenhalt ...
    In The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City we travel the nation with Alan Ehrenhalt, one of our leading urbanists, as he explains how America’s cities are changing, what makes them succeed or fail, and what this means for our future.Just a couple of decades ago, we took it for granted that inner cities were the preserve of immigrants and the poor, and that suburbs were the chosen ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • Vancouver Special

    by Charles Demers ...
    Vancouver is at a crossroads in its history—host to the 2010 Winter Olympics and home to the poorest neighborhood in Canada, it is a young, multicultural city with a vibrant surface and a violent undercoat. In Vancouver Special, an alternative guidebook, writer and performer Charles Demers digs deep to examine the past, present, and future of Vancouver, shedding light on the various strategies and ... Read more

    $15.83 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cosmopolitan Canopy

    Race and Civility in Everyday Life

    by Elijah Anderson ...
    An acclaimed sociologist illuminates the public life of an American city, offering a major reinterpretation of the racial dynamics in America.Following his award-winning work on inner-city violence, Code of the Street, sociologist Elijah Anderson introduces the concept of the “cosmopolitan canopy”—the urban island of civility that exists amidst the ghettos, suburbs, and ethnic enclaves where ... Read more

    $16.37 CAD

  • There Goes the Gayborhood?

    by Amin Ghaziani ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology
    An in-depth look at America's changing gay neighborhoodsGay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village, have long provided sexual minorities with safe havens in an often unsafe world. But as our society increasingly accepts gays and lesbians into the mainstream, are "gayborhoods" destined to disappear? Amin Ghaziani provides an incisive look ... Read more

    $17.27 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reinventing Brantford

    A University Comes Downtown

    by Leo Groarke ...
    Short-listed for the 2012 Speaker’s AwardOne hundred years ago, the City of Brantford advertised itself as the most important manufacturing centre in Canada. During the century that followed, its industrial economy boomed, faltered, and finally collapsed. By the end of the twentieth century, Brantford was known for unemployment, hard luck, and the infamy of having "the worst downtown in Canada." ... Read more

    $7.82 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A New Generation of Homosexuality: Modern Trends in Gay & Lesbian Communities

    by Bill Palmer ...
    Series series The Gallup's Guide to Modern Gay, Lesbia
    Young people "coming out" as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LBGT) in the twenty-first century are being welcomed into a community that is proud, diverse, and vibrant! This book examines the history of the LGBT community in America from its roots in the free-thinking seaport cities of the 1800s, through the social revolution of World War II, the early activists of the 1950s, the "gay ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Edge City

    Life on the New Frontier

    by Joel Garreau ...
    First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City. ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • A Neighborhood That Never Changes

    Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for Authenticity

    by Japonica Brown-Saracino ...
    Series series Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
    Newcomers to older neighborhoods are usually perceived as destructive, tearing down everything that made the place special and attractive. But as A Neighborhood That Never Changes demonstrates, many gentrifiers seek to preserve the authentic local flavor of their new homes, rather than ruthlessly remake them. Drawing on ethnographic research in four distinct communities—the Chicago neighborhoods ... Read more

    $39.41 CAD