Urban communities books

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Between Bohemia and Suburbia: Boburbia in the USA

Between Bohemia and Suburbia: Boburbia in the USA

Author: William J. Weston
ISBN: 9781138614567
Format: Hardback
$284.00

"This book identifies a distinctive kind of urban neighbourhood that is on the rise throughout the US, the bourgeois-bohemian...  Read More >>

Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut

Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices...

Author: Mohamad Hafeda
ISBN: 9781788312530
Format: Hardback
$160.00

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Capitals of Punk: DC, Paris, and Circulation in the Urban Underground

Capitals of Punk: DC, Paris, and Circulation in the...

Author: Tyler Sonnichsen
ISBN: 9789811359675
Format: Hardback
$155.22

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The City

The City

Author: Robert E Park ,  Ernest W Burgess
ISBN: 9780226636504
Format: Paperback
$47.95

First published in 1925, The City is a trailblazing text in the fields of urban history, urban sociology, and urban...  Read More >>

Urban Food Sharing: Rules, Tools and Networks

Urban Food Sharing: Rules, Tools and Networks

Author: Anna Davies
ISBN: 9781447349822
Format: Hardback
$109.99

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Illustrated by global case studies and empirical data, this book explores...  Read More >>

The Human Rights City: New York, San Francisco, Barcelona

The Human Rights City: New York, San Francisco, Barcelona...

Author: Michele Grigolo (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138644892
Format: Hardback
$221.00

In this volume Grigolo borrows the concept of ‘the human rights city’ to invite us to think about a new urban utopia:...  Read More >>

Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City, 1880s to 1950s

Becoming Taiwanese: Ethnogenesis in a Colonial City,...

Author: Evan N. Dawley
ISBN: 9780674237209
Format: Hardback
$139.00

Part colonial urban social history, part exploration of the relationship between modern ethnicity and nationalism,...  Read More >>

A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America

A Haven and a Hell: The Ghetto in Black America

Author: Lance Freeman
ISBN: 9780231184601
Format: Hardback
$52.95

Lance Freeman traces the evolving role of predominantly black neighborhoods in northern cities from the late nineteenth...  Read More >>

The Act of Living: Street Life, Marginality, and Development in Urban Ethiopia

The Act of Living: Street Life, Marginality, and Development...

Author: Marco Di Nunzio
ISBN: 9781501736261
Format: Paperback
$75.01

The Act of Living explores the relation between development and marginality in Ethiopia, one of the fastest growing...  Read More >>

Greatest Hits

Greatest Hits

Author: Laura Barnett
ISBN: 9781609455231
Format: Paperback
$50.16

Contains discography for fictional character book is based on.  Read More >>

Permanent Removal

Permanent Removal

Author: Alan S Cowell
ISBN: 9781947856936
Format: Paperback
$47.52

"''They will use the flashing patrol light to force the sky-blue Honda to pull over--an old trick, but it often...  Read More >>

State of Slum: Precarity and Informal Governance at the Margins in Accra

State of Slum: Precarity and Informal Governance at...

Author: Paul Stacey (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781786992048
Format: Hardback
$160.00

A study of Ghana’s largest illegal slum, revealing how such communities are able to govern themselves in the absence...  Read More >>

Tanzania's Informal Economy: The Micro-politics of Street Vending

Tanzania's Informal Economy: The Micro-politics of Street...

Author: Alexis Malefakis (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9781786994509
Format: Hardback
$160.00

An in-depth study of street trading in Dar es Salaam, revealing the hidden dimensions of the city’s thriving informal...  Read More >>

How States Shaped Postwar America: State Government and Urban Power

How States Shaped Postwar America: State Government...

Author: Nicholas Dagen Bloom
ISBN: 9780226498317
Format: Hardback
$62.95

The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking...  Read More >>

The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles

The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention...

Author: Gary Krist
ISBN: 9780451496393
Format: Paperback
$47.52

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Making an Urban Public: Popular Claims to the City in Mexico, 1879-1932

Making an Urban Public: Popular Claims to the City in...

Author: Christina Jiménez
ISBN: 9780822945505
Format: Hardback
$145.20

A Social History of Urbanization and Popular Politics in the Turn of the Century Mexico  Read More >>

New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question

New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question...

Author: Neil Brenner (New York University)
ISBN: 9780190627201
Format: Undefined
$277.20

The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces...  Read More >>

The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide

The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross...

Author: Lawrence Lanahan ,  Walter Dixon
ISBN: 9781974955718
Format: Audio
$79.17

A masterful narrative with echoes of Evicted that brings to life the structures, policies, and beliefs that divide...  Read More >>

The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross Baltimore's Racial Divide

The Lines Between Us: Two Families and a Quest to Cross...

Author: Lawrence Lanahan ,  Walter Dixon
ISBN: 9781974955671
Format: Audio
$131.97

Deeply reported and deftly told, this riveting work from a DuPont AwardDwinning journalist brings to life the structures,...  Read More >>

February's Son

February's Son

Author: Alan Parks ,  Andrew McIntosh
ISBN: 9781665122733
Format: Audio
$105.57

The second dark and grimy Harry McCoy thriller from the most exciting new voice in Scottish noir.  Read More >>

Reimagining Rural: Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural Life

Reimagining Rural: Urbanormative Portrayals of Rural...

Author: Gregory M. Fulkerson ,  Alexander R. Thomas
ISBN: 9781498534086
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This collection offers a combination of insightful media analyses and examinations of knowledge construction that...  Read More >>

Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting

Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an...

Author: Jenny Banh ,  Maryann Aguirre
ISBN: 9781498528559
Format: Paperback
$105.00

The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations...  Read More >>

Urbanization and Its Impact in Contemporary China

Urbanization and Its Impact in Contemporary China

Author: Peilin Li
ISBN: 9789811323416
Format: Hardback
$168.16

This book addresses a wide range of social issues in connection with urbanization, which is providing new momentum...  Read More >>

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