Urban communities books

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City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water

City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements...

Author: Sophie Watson
ISBN: 9789811378911
Format: Hardback
$155.22

Water is one of the most pressing concerns of our time. This book argues for the importance of water as a cultural...  Read More >>

China's Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development

China's Urban Champions: The Politics of Spatial Development...

Author: Kyle A. Jaros
ISBN: 9780691190723
Format: Hardback
$170.00

An exploration of how key provinces in China shape urban and regional development The rise of major metropolises...  Read More >>

What's Your Community Like? Rural, Suburban, Urban Regions 3rd Grade Social Studies Children's Geography & Cultures Books

What's Your Community Like? Rural, Suburban, Urban Regions...

Author: Baby Professor
ISBN: 9781541974661
Format: Hardback
$54.31

A nation has three types of regions: the rural, suburban and urban. Each of these types of communities will be discussed...  Read More >>

Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad

Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors...

Author: Walter D. Ward
ISBN: 9781138185708
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad compares the evolution of several cities in the...  Read More >>

A Novel Bookstore

A Novel Bookstore

Author: Laurence Coss� ,  Alison Anderson
ISBN: 9781609455781
Format: Paperback
$47.52

This Europa classic blends book love and bookstore love with a brilliantly conceived and entertaining mystery and...  Read More >>

Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society

Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society...

Author: Matthew Jones ,  Louis Rice
ISBN: 9781622737901
Format: Paperback
$176.88

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The People of the Abyss

The People of the Abyss

Author: Jack London
ISBN: 9781686953798
Format: Paperback
$60.69

The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902. He wrote this...  Read More >>

Tourism and Gentrification in Contemporary Metropolises: International Perspectives

Tourism and Gentrification in Contemporary Metropolises:...

Author: Maria Gravari-Barbas ,  Sandra Guinand
ISBN: 9780367368982
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book is the first substantive text to explain the multiple and complex relationships between tourism and gentrification...  Read More >>

Livability and Sustainability of Urbanism: An Interdisciplinary Study on History and Theory of Urban Settlement

Livability and Sustainability of Urbanism: An Interdisciplinary...

Author: Bagoes Wiryomartono
ISBN: 9789811389719
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This book is a fascinating, wide-reaching interdisciplinary examination of urbanism in the context of humanities...  Read More >>

The City In China: New Perspectives On Contemporary Urbanism

The City In China: New Perspectives On Contemporary...

Author: Ray Forrest ,  Julie Ren
ISBN: 9781529205473
Format: Hardback
$169.99

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Greening Post-Industrial Cities: Growth, Equity, and Environmental Governance

Greening Post-Industrial Cities: Growth, Equity, and...

Author: Corina McKendry
ISBN: 9780367372019
Format: Paperback
$96.99

City greening has been heralded for contributing to environmental governance and critiqued for exacerbating displacement...  Read More >>

Kids at Work: Latinx Families Selling Food on the Streets of Los Angeles

Kids at Work: Latinx Families Selling Food on the Streets...

Author: Emir Estrada
ISBN: 9781479873708
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Winner, 2020 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, given by the Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological...  Read More >>

The Papaya King

The Papaya King

Author: Adam Pelzman
ISBN: 9781733258531
Format: Paperback
$25.85

An anachronistic young New Yorker, haunted by a tragic past, seeks solace in romantic letters from a woman he's...  Read More >>

Living in a World Heritage Site: Ethnography of Houses and Daily Life in the Fez Medina

Living in a World Heritage Site: Ethnography of Houses...

Author: Manon Istasse
ISBN: 9783030174507
Format: Hardback
$168.16

Through a thick ethnography of the Fez medina in Morocco, a World Heritage site since 1981, Manon Istasse interrogates...  Read More >>

Common Spaces of Urban Emancipation

Common Spaces of Urban Emancipation

Author: Stavros Stavrides
ISBN: 9781526135599
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This is an exciting book, which explores the cultural meaning and politics of common spaces in conjunction with...  Read More >>

Kids at Work: Latinx Families Selling Food on the Streets of Los Angeles

Kids at Work: Latinx Families Selling Food on the Streets...

Author: Emir Estrada
ISBN: 9781479811519
Format: Hardback
$193.00

Winner, 2020 Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award, given by the Children and Youth Section of the American Sociological...  Read More >>

Salvaging Community: How American Cities Rebuild Closed Military Bases

Salvaging Community: How American Cities Rebuild Closed...

Author: Michael Touchton ,  Amanda J. Ashley
ISBN: 9781501700064
Format: Paperback
$62.07

American communities face serious challenges when military bases close. But affected municipalities and metro regions...  Read More >>

Violence in the Barrios of Caracas: Social Capital and the Political Economy of Venezuela

Violence in the Barrios of Caracas: Social Capital and...

Author: Daniel S. Leon
ISBN: 9783030229399
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book presents an overview of the problem of urban violence in Caracas, and specifically in its barrios. It...  Read More >>

Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin

Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin

Author: Karin Bauer ,  Jennifer Ruth Hosek
ISBN: 9781789205220
Format: Paperback
$82.67

Transformed by the Wall's opening in 1989 and the concomitant shift in global relations of power, Berlin continues...  Read More >>

Gender and Gentrification

Gender and Gentrification

Author: Winifred Curran
ISBN: 9780367362027
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book engages the gentrification literature and the literature on the gendered effects of urban policy in order...  Read More >>

Sustainable Pathways for our Cities and Regions: Planning within Planetary Boundaries

Sustainable Pathways for our Cities and Regions: Planning...

Author: Barbara Norman
ISBN: 9780367374419
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book builds on recent publications on cities and climate change and looks at the ways in which current planning...  Read More >>

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