Urban communities books

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Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization

Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization...

Author: Carol Bailey
ISBN: 9781978829671
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Theorizes the city as a generative, ‘semicircular’ social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly...  Read More >>

Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore

Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of...

Author: Nicole Fabricant
ISBN: 9780520379329
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the...  Read More >>

We Built a Village: Cohousing and the Commons

We Built a Village: Cohousing and the Commons

Author: Diane Rothbard Margolis ,  David Bollier
ISBN: 9781613321782
Format: Paperback
$43.99

Describes the development of one of the first cohousing communities in the U.S. offering a social understanding...  Read More >>

Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore

Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of...

Author: Nicole Fabricant
ISBN: 9780520379312
Format: Hardback
$157.95

Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the...  Read More >>

Smoking Environments in China: Challenges for Tobacco Control

Smoking Environments in China: Challenges for Tobacco...

Author: Ross Barnett ,  Tingzhong Yang
ISBN: 9783030761455
Format: Paperback
$318.26

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Historic Black Neighborhoods of Raleigh

Historic Black Neighborhoods of Raleigh

Author: Carmen Cauthen
ISBN: 9781467150880
Format: Paperback
$63.33

The story of Raleigh's African American communities begins before the Civil War. Towns like Oberlin Village were...  Read More >>

Ghost Music

Ghost Music

Author: An Yu
ISBN: 9780802159625
Format: Hardback
$68.64

"From the author of the ""original and electric"" Braised Pork (Time), An Yu's enchanting and contemplative novel...  Read More >>

The Spatial Scale of Crime: How Physical and Social Distance Drive the Spatial Location of Crime

The Spatial Scale of Crime: How Physical and Social...

Author: John R. Hipp
ISBN: 9781032202365
Format: Paperback
$75.99

Combining insights from two distinct research traditions—the communities and crime tradition that focuses on why...  Read More >>

Resilient and Sustainable Cities: Research, Policy and Practice

Resilient and Sustainable Cities: Research, Policy and...

Author: Zaheer Allam (Deakin University, Victoria, Australia) ,  Didier Chabaud (IAE PARIS Sorbonne Business School, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris, France)
ISBN: 9780323917186
Format: Paperback
$330.00

The role of Cities in driving global economies has been well covered, and their impact on the larger ecosystem is...  Read More >>

The Hidden Side of the Creative City: Culture Instrumentalization, Political Control and Social Reproduction in Valencia

The Hidden Side of the Creative City: Culture Instrumentalization,...

Author: Joaquim Rius-Ulldemolins ,  Juan Arturo Rubio-Arostegui
ISBN: 9783030812515
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book analyses issues related to the political use and economical misappropriation of urban cultural events,...  Read More >>

Urban Popular Culture and Entertainment: Experiences from Northern, East-Central, and Southern Europe, 1870s–1930s

Urban Popular Culture and Entertainment: Experiences...

Author: Antje Dietze (University of Leipzig, Germany) ,  Alexander Vari (Marywood University, USA)
ISBN: 9781032161839
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book is part of an ongoing transnational turn in cultural history.  Read More >>

The Spatial Scale of Crime: How Physical and Social Distance Drive the Spatial Location of Crime

The Spatial Scale of Crime: How Physical and Social...

Author: John R. Hipp
ISBN: 9781032202389
Format: Hardback
$263.00

Combining insights from two distinct research traditions—the communities and crime tradition that focuses on why...  Read More >>

Hella Town: Oakland's History of Development and Disruption

Hella Town: Oakland's History of Development and Disruption...

Author: Mitchell Schwarzer ,  Tom Beyer
ISBN: 9798212399753
Format: Audio
$65.97

Hella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition...  Read More >>

Hella Town: Oakland's History of Development and Disruption

Hella Town: Oakland's History of Development and Disruption...

Author: Mitchell Schwarzer ,  Tom Beyer
ISBN: 9798212399746
Format: Audio
$65.97

Hella Town reveals the profound impact of transportation improvements, systemic racism, and regional competition...  Read More >>

Beauty and Brutality: Manila and Its Global Discontents

Beauty and Brutality: Manila and Its Global Discontents...

Author: Martin F. Manalansan IV ,  Robert Diaz
ISBN: 9781439922286
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Diverse perspectives on Manila that suggest the city’s exhilarating sights and sounds broaden how Philippine histories...  Read More >>

Peter and the Serpent

Peter and the Serpent

Author: Ralph Osgood
ISBN: 9798201353360
Format: Paperback
$31.65

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility

Author: Nagesh M
ISBN: 9781805454878
Format: Paperback
$110.88

The industrial growth especially, in the recent past, has improved the economy of the countries that have liberalized...  Read More >>

A Biophilic Pattern Language for Cities: Creating Healthy Urban Environments

A Biophilic Pattern Language for Cities: Creating Healthy...

Author: Phillip B. Roӧs
ISBN: 9783031190704
Format: Hardback
$103.47

This book presents a holistic integral sustainable design and planning method embedded in the hypothesis of biophilia,...  Read More >>

Medicine at the Margins: EMS Workers in Urban America

Medicine at the Margins: EMS Workers in Urban America...

Author: Christopher Prener
ISBN: 9781531501082
Format: Paperback
$66.00

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Beauty and Brutality: Manila and Its Global Discontents

Beauty and Brutality: Manila and Its Global Discontents...

Author: Martin F. Manalansan IV ,  Robert Diaz
ISBN: 9781439922279
Format: Hardback
$331.32

Diverse perspectives on Manila that suggest the city’s exhilarating sights and sounds broaden how Philippine histories...  Read More >>

Medicine at the Margins: EMS Workers in Urban America

Medicine at the Margins: EMS Workers in Urban America...

Author: Christopher Prener
ISBN: 9781531501075
Format: Hardback
$246.50

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Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity, Waste, and Urban Life in Phnom Penh

Recycling Infrastructures in Cambodia: Circularity,...

Author: Kathrin Eitel
ISBN: 9781032154664
Format: Hardback
$263.00

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