Urban communities books

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Defiant Geographies: Race and Urban Space in 1920s Rio de Janeiro

Defiant Geographies: Race and Urban Space in 1920s Rio...

Author: Lorraine Leu
ISBN: 9780822946007
Format: Hardback
$110.88

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Socially Engaged Art and the Neoliberal City

Socially Engaged Art and the Neoliberal City

Author: Cecilie Sachs Olsen (Royal Holloway University of London,UK)
ISBN: 9780367634865
Format: Paperback
$88.99

What are the social functions of art in the age of neoliberal urbanism? This book discusses the potential of artistic...  Read More >>

Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis: Putting Wacquant to Work

Class, Ethnicity and State in the Polarized Metropolis:...

Author: John Flint ,  Ryan Powell
ISBN: 9783030162245
Format: Paperback
$194.04

Heeding Wacquant’s call for constant theoretical critique and development in understanding dynamic urban relations...  Read More >>

Misplacing Ogden, Utah: Race, Class, Immigration, and the Construction of Urban Reputations

Misplacing Ogden, Utah: Race, Class, Immigration, and...

Author: Pepper Glass
ISBN: 9781607817598
Format: Hardback
$158.40

"How do we draw the lines between """"good"""" and """"bad"""" neighbourhoods? How do we know’ghettos'? Using Ogden,...  Read More >>

London Dream, The: Migration and the Mythology of the City

London Dream, The: Migration and the Mythology of the...

Author: Chris McMillan
ISBN: 9781789044201
Format: Paperback
$51.72

The London Dream is about the mythology of London as a place of opportunity, excitement and the possibility of prosperity....  Read More >>

Along the Path of Torment

Along the Path of Torment

Author: Chandler Morrison
ISBN: 9781941918692
Format: Paperback
$31.02

Ty Seward is a sick man. Anorexic, sexually aberrant, and haunted by a ghostly apparition residing in his closet....  Read More >>

Closure

Closure

Author: Lindsey Todd
ISBN: 9781513663449
Format: Paperback
$44.85

From ordering cookies at a food truck at 2 a.m., to wading barefoot in a fountain near the famous Rocky statue,...  Read More >>

The Venerable Vincent Beattie

The Venerable Vincent Beattie

Author: Wil Glavin
ISBN: 9780578712154
Format: Paperback
$39.56

Vincent is a privileged introvert navigating his formative years at two elite Manhattan private schools in the late-2000s....  Read More >>

Introduction to Urban Development and Planning

Introduction to Urban Development and Planning

Author: B. K. Pattanaik
ISBN: 9789353883225
Format: Paperback
$62.99

Comprehensive textbook on issues and challenges of urban administration, development, governance and planning  Read More >>

Urbane Zukünfte im Science-Fiction-Film: Was wir vom Kino für die Stadt von morgen lernen können

Urbane Zukünfte im Science-Fiction-Film: Was wir vom...

Author: Anke Steinborn ,  Denis Newiak
ISBN: 9783662610367
Format: Paperback
$118.77

Dieses Buch bietet eine außergewöhnliche Perspektive auf die nachhaltige, lebenswerte und humane Gestaltung urbaner...  Read More >>

Inequality and the City in the Low Countries (1200-2020)

Inequality and the City in the Low Countries (1200-2020)...

Author: B Blonde ,  S Geens
ISBN: 9782503588681
Format: Hardback
$348.48

Social inequality is one of the most pressing global challenges at the start of the 21st century. Meanwhile, across...  Read More >>

Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt

Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern...

Author: Ziad Fahmy
ISBN: 9781503613034
Format: Paperback
$52.95

As the twentieth century roared on, transformative technologies-from trains, trams, and automobiles to radios and...  Read More >>

Neoliberal Cities: The Remaking of Postwar Urban America

Neoliberal Cities: The Remaking of Postwar Urban America...

Author: Andrew J. Diamond ,  Thomas J. Sugrue
ISBN: 9781479832378
Format: Paperback
$64.99

""'Neoliberal cities' is a critical exploration of the process of remaking of postwar urban America""--  Read More >>

Downtown Dynamics

Downtown Dynamics

Author: Toshiyuki Kaneda
ISBN: 9784431549000
Format: Hardback
$258.72

In urban analytics, ‘crowding’ implies the spatiotemporal distributional unevenness of people’s stays and flows...  Read More >>

Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt

Street Sounds: Listening to Everyday Life in Modern...

Author: Ziad Fahmy
ISBN: 9781503612013
Format: Hardback
$180.95

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The Economy of Chinese Rural Households

The Economy of Chinese Rural Households

Author: Wenrong Qian
ISBN: 9789811385933
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book provides a broad survey of Chinese rural households at a time of rapid change in China’s rural economy,...  Read More >>

Surviving City Life

Surviving City Life

Author: Jimmie English Jones
ISBN: 9781937400903
Format: Paperback
$38.81

This book chronicles the life of a Southern woman who spent her adult years in a large, industrial city. After graduating...  Read More >>

Unseen City

Unseen City

Author: Amy Shearn ,  Kimberly Wetherell
ISBN: 9781662031854
Format: Audio
$60.69

In a city teeming with stories, how do lost souls find one another?  Read More >>

Unseen City

Unseen City

Author: Amy Shearn ,  Kimberly Wetherell
ISBN: 9781662028106
Format: Audio
$158.37

In a city teeming with stories, how do lost souls find one another?  Read More >>

Without Her A Novel

Without Her A Novel

Author: Rosiland Brackenbury
ISBN: 9781883285913
Format: Paperback
$27.99

In this probing, Ferrante-esque novel, a disappearance of a life long friend becomes urgent and bewildering. When...  Read More >>

Labour and the Poor Volume II: The Metropolitan Districts

Labour and the Poor Volume II: The Metropolitan Districts...

Author: Henry Mayhew
ISBN: 9781913515126
Format: Paperback
$46.55

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Labour and the Poor Volume IX: Birmingham

Labour and the Poor Volume IX: Birmingham

Author: Charles Mackay
ISBN: 9781913515195
Format: Paperback
$41.37

"The investigation into the living and working conditions of the people of Birmingham, printed by The Morning Chronicle...  Read More >>

Labour and the Poor Volume IV: The Metropolitan Districts

Labour and the Poor Volume IV: The Metropolitan Districts...

Author: Henry Mayhew
ISBN: 9781913515140
Format: Paperback
$46.55

"Henry Mayhew's original investigation into the London poor, printed by The Morning Chronicle in 1850 as part of...  Read More >>

Labour and the Poor Volume III: The Metropolitan Districts

Labour and the Poor Volume III: The Metropolitan Districts...

Author: Henry Mayhew
ISBN: 9781913515133
Format: Paperback
$46.55

"Henry Mayhew's original investigation into the London poor, printed by The Morning Chronicle in 1850 as part of...  Read More >>

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