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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 9 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Fortress London: Why We Need to Save the Country from its Capital by Sam Bright
    Fortress London: Why We Need to Save the Country from its Capital - by Sam Bright

    £9.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780008474256 | ISBN 10: 0008474257

    A vividly written and timely polemic tackling the burning injustices shaping British society today.  ‘Intelligently written and powerfully argued.’ Paul Mason  ‘Witty, scathing, and entertaining.’ Danny Dorling  Journa ... more

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  • Cover image of book Another City is Possible with Participartory Budgeting: Alternatives to the City as Commodity by Yves Cabannes
    Another City is Possible with Participartory Budgeting: Alternatives to the City as Commodity - by Yves Cabannes

    £19.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781551646404 | ISBN 10: 1551646404

    Though participatory budgeting was only born in 1989, it has since been manifested over 2000 times in over 45 countries around the world - groundbreaking success for a process that is one of the rare authentic democratic innovations in the past 30 ye ... more

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  • Cover image of book Something City by Ellice Weaver
    Something City - by Ellice Weaver

    £10.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781910395271 | ISBN 10: 1910395277

    Something City is an exploration of modern day living through representations of the lives of different groups of people in an imagined place. Segregated communities of young people, elders, fanatics, techies and the religious live side by side, inte ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Country and the City by Raymond Williams
    The Country and the City - by Raymond Williams

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784870829 | ISBN 10: 178487082x

    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TRISTRAM HUNT   Our collective notion of the city and country is irresistibly powerful. The city as the seat of enlightenment, sophistication, power and greed is in profound contrast with an innocent, peaceful, backward ... more

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  • Cover image of book Off the Map: Lost Spaces, Invisible Cities, Forgotten Islands, Feral Places... by Alastair Bonnett
    Off the Map: Lost Spaces, Invisible Cities, Forgotten Islands, Feral Places... - by Alastair Bonnett

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781313619 | ISBN 10: 178131361x

    In a world of Google Earth, in which it is easy to believe that every discovery has been made and every adventure already had, Off the Map is a stunning testament to how mysterious our planet still is.   From forgotten enclaves to floating is ... more

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  • Cover image of book How to Save Our Town Centres: A Radical Agenda for the Future of High Streets by Julian Dobson
    How to Save Our Town Centres: A Radical Agenda for the Future of High Streets - by Julian Dobson

    £23.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447323938 | ISBN 10: 1447323939

    Has the age of the internet killed our high streets? Have our town and city centres become obsolete? How to Save Our Town Centres delves below the surface of empty buildings and ‘shop local’ campaigns to focus on the real issues: how the relationship ... more

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  • Cover image of book Chris Packham
    Chris Packham's Wild Side of Town: Getting to Know the Wildlife in Our Towns and Cities - by Chris Packham

    £16.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472916051 | ISBN 10: 1472916050

    This new edition is suitable for anybody with an interest in urban wildlife and conservation and is written by the renowned TV presenter Chris Packham.  It is an educational and striking guide to the full range of wildlife that can be found in a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Istanbul: Memories of a City by Orhan Pamuk
    Istanbul: Memories of a City - by Orhan Pamuk

    £10.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780571218332 | ISBN 10: 0571218334

    Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination."An extraordinary and transcendentally be ... more

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  • Cover image of book Belong: A TV Journalist by Jennifer Morton
    Belong: A TV Journalist - by Jennifer Morton

    £12.99   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781894663786 | ISBN 10: 1894663780

    Belong is a search for urban culture: knocking on doors, walking the streets and taking risks along the way. From the sophisticated corridors of artsy Stockholm to the dirt roads of Bamako to the people-littered streets of Mumbai, this is a collectio ... more

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