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Winner of the 2020 Robert E. Park Award for Best Book from the Community and Urban Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

From a dive bar in New Orleans to a leafy residential street in Minneapolis, many establishments and homes in cities across the nation share a troubling and…

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1 author picked Sites Unseen as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The authors examine urban environmental harm in three US cities and the environmental and social cost of growth.

The powerful takeaway is their explanation of why this harm remains largely hidden – the “churning” of industry and residential areas and the political incentives to reward short-term gain and ignore long-term costs.

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