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1	Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools more books like this by Jonathan Kozol A searing, eye-opening expose of the inequality built into America's public education system, written by the National Book Award-winning author of Death at an Early Age and Rachel and Her Children. Kozol blames the disparity among public school systems on the local funding structure that ensures a direct connection between affluence of a community ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation more books like this by Jonathan Kozol 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 $1.99! new only from $2.21! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The death and life of great American cities more books like this by Jane Jacobs This book is an attack on current methods of city planning and re-building. It is also an explanation of new principles and an argument for different methods from those now in use. It is the first real alternative to conventional city planning that we have had in this century. Its author, herself a city dweller and an editor of Architectural ... see all copies from $4.48! new only from $8.81! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Hope in the Unseen more books like this by Ron Suskind As an honor student walking the gauntlet of sneers and threats at his crime-infested high school in Washington, D.C., Cedric Jennings achieved the impossible: a 4.02 grade-point average and acceptance into Brown University. Suskind won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his stories about Jennings and now expands them into this full-length, nonfiction ... see all copies from $3.62! new only from $8.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio more books like this by Professor Philippe Bourgois In this compelling study of the crack business in East Harlem, Bourgois argues that a cultural struggle for respect has led some residents of "El Barrio" away from the legal job market, and into a downward spiral of crime and poverty. 14 halftones. Map. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	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 From the bestselling author of "The Rise of the Creative Class" comes a brilliant new book on the surprising importance of place. "Who's Your City?" offers the first available city rankings by life-stage, rating the best places for singles, families, and empty-nesters to reside. see all copies from $13.60! new only from $15.27! \| first editions \| SVS
7	City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles more books like this by Mike Davis To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together". To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere". No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work of social criticism and prophecy which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations and Its Prospects more books like this by Lewis Mumford The classic study of the city -- its origins, its transformations, and its prospects. Winner of the National Book Award. see all copies from $7.95! new only from $21.08! \| first editions \| SVS
9	How the Other Half Lives more books like this by Jacob August Riis Published in 1890, Jacob Riis's remarkable study of the horrendous living conditions of the poor in New York City had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that affected the lives of millions of people. Riis's reliance on specific, hard facts as weapons of social criticism pioneered the style of crusading journalism ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.74! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx more books like this by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc The result of over ten years of immersion reporting, "Random Family" charts a tumultuous decade in which girls become mothers, mothers become grandmothers, boys become criminals, and hope struggles against deprivation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software more books like this by Steven Johnson In EMERGENCE, Steven Johnson, editor-in-chief of Feed, speaks lucidly about the organizational gravity of emergence theory, historic and natural examples of complex communities like those of ants, and how interconnectivity is reflected on the Web. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. see all copies from $3.75! new only from $4.62! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	What's wrong with the world more books like this by G K Chesterton This social and political critique defends the role of the common man in society. see all copies from $5.83! new only from $5.83! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City more books like this by Jennifer Toth Thousands of people live in the subway, railroad, and sewage tunnels that form the bowels of New York City. This book is about them, the so-called "mole people," living alone and in communities, in subway tunnels and below subway platforms. it is about how and why people move underground, who they are, and what they have to say about their lives ... see all copies from $4.45! new only from $10.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City more books like this by Elijah Anderson This incisive book examines the code of decency, violence, and moral life of the inner city, and how it is a response to the lack of jobs, stigma of race, and rampant drug use. Winner of the Komarovsky Book Award. see all copies from $5.92! new only from $9.91! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets more books like this by Sudhir Venkatesh First introduced in "Freakonomics," here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology graduate student who infiltrated one of Chicagos most notorious gangs. see all copies from $13.00! new only from $13.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope more books like this by Jonathan Kozol This book tells stories about the lives of several inner-city school children growing up in the South Bronx. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream more books like this by Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck Three urban planners offer bold alternatives to the worst problems of suburban life, most specifically the problem of sprawl. see all copies from $8.10! new only from $10.48! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster more books like this by Mike Davis The secret political history of disasters in Los Angeles, including the earthquakes of Santa Monica, the burning of Koreatown, and the invention of "man-eating" mountain lions. Davis maintains that social injustice and the perception of natural disorder are closely related, and he attempts to show that the floods, fires, and earthquakes that the ... see all copies from $3.33! new only from $7.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor more books like this by William Julius Wilson 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 $1.99! new only from $6.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Sidewalk more books like this by Mitchell Duneier, Ovie Carter (Photographer) One of the most original books in years about contemporary urban life. For the last decade a dozen people have worked as street vendors on the Avenue of the Americas in Greenwich Village. All but one are black men. Hakim sells "Black Books" and mentors young men who come to his table. Marvin, who sells recycled magazines, gave up drinking and ... see all copies from $4.15! new only from $9.38! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Dark Age Ahead more books like this by Jane Jacobs Jane Jacobs looks at our society, and sees many areas of concern, among them the breakdown of family and community, the money being taken away from state and city governments by Washington, and even the sorry state of public transportation. Putting it all together, Jacobs sees the eventual downfall of Western civilization as an imminent--but still ... see all copies from $2.85! new only from $8.19! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Report from Engine Co. 82 more books like this by Dennis Smith (Introduction by) A former fireman in the world's busiest firehouse gives a vivid day-to-day account of the challenging events, including the raging fires and fighting a fire in the freezing cold, that he faced during his years of service. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.08! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America more books like this by Leon Dash 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 $1.99! new only from $4.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York more books like this by Luc Sante 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 $2.25! new only from $9.38! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Home Town more books like this by Tracy Kidder In this portrait of the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, by a master of expository prose, Tracy Kidder, who lives there, exposes layers of history and society through sketches of several of its citizens. A New York Times Notable Book of 1999. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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