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Breaking the Gender Code
Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States
University of Texas Press
A history of the activism that made public spaces in American cities more accessible to women.
Making It at Any Cost
Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace
By Matías Dewey
University of Texas Press
An examination of the vast counterfeit clothing marketplace in Buenos Aires known as La Salada, this book is the first ethnographic study to examine how aspirations shape behaviors of workers in an informal and illegal economy.
Recovering Inequality
Hurricane Katrina, the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906, and the Aftermath of Disaster
University of Texas Press
This comparative case study of the recovery outcomes from two of the most devastating urban catastrophes in American history lays bare the social inequality inherent in racially arranged, capital-based economies.
Invisible in Austin
Life and Labor in an American City
Edited by Javier Auyero; Afterword by Loïc Wacquant
University of Texas Press
In the tradition of Pierre Bourdieu’s The Weight of the World, an award-winning sociologist and his students explore the lives of people working at the bottom of the social order in one of America’s most economically segregated cities.
Weird City
Sense of Place and Creative Resistance in Austin, Texas
By Joshua Long
University of Texas Press
A cultural geographic exploration of the many avenues of resistance that Austinites have taken to maintain their sense of cultural identity.
Violent Acts and Urban Space in Contemporary Tel Aviv
Revisioning Moments
By Tali Hatuka; Introduction by Diane E. Davis
University of Texas Press
An examination of the effects of violence on an urban center and how it shapes both the physical and cultural landscape of a city.
Reconstructing Beirut
Memory and Space in a Postwar Arab City
University of Texas Press
Reconstructing Beirut contributes to a new approach to Middle East studies that applies recent theories of memory and space/place, bringing a fresh framework for analyzing contemporary Arab cultures and post-conflict cities.
Invisible City
Poverty, Housing, and New Urbanism
University of Texas Press
A provocative look at the true forces that shape housing markets, challenging mainstream theories of supply and demand and calling for a new way to provide shelter to our cities’ most overlooked inhabitants—the elderly, the disabled, and the poor.
The Projects
Gang and Non-Gang Families in East Los Angeles
University of Texas Press
A closer look into the reality of life in an East Los Angeles housing project where gangs have a longstanding presence.
Watching the Traffic Go By
Transportation and Isolation in Urban America
University of Texas Press
A timely, interdisciplinary look at the politics of transportation history through the lens of popular culture.
Return to the Center
Culture, Public Space, and City Building in a Global Era
University of Texas Press
A groundbreaking look at what cities built in the Hispanic tradition can teach us about effectively using central public spaces to foster civic interaction, neighborhood identity, and a sense of place.
The Social Production of Urban Space
University of Texas Press
A landmark work in urban studies.
Sunbelt Cities
Politics and Growth since World War II
Edited by Richard M. Bernard and Bradley Robert Rice
University of Texas Press
Sunbelt Cities is the first full-scale scholarly examination of the region popularly conceived as the Sunbelt.
Growing Up Suburban
By Edward A. Wynne; Introduction by James S. Coleman
University of Texas Press
This provocative volume argues that the total environment of the suburban youth—the school, the community, the family, and the workplace—is in need of drastic reform.
Organizing Strangers
Poor Families in Guatemala City
University of Texas Press
How poor people cope with an unstable and mobile urban environment in Central America.
Men in a Developing Society
Geographic and Social Mobility in Monterrey, Mexico
University of Texas Press
How men experience a period of rapid economic development, particularly in the areas of migration, occupational mobility, and status attainment.