Urban communities books

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Understanding Mobilities for Designing Contemporary Cities

Understanding Mobilities for Designing Contemporary...

Author: Paola Pucci ,  Matteo Colleoni
ISBN: 9783319794129
Format: Paperback
$310.47

This book explores mobilities as a key to understanding the practices that both frame and generate contemporary...  Read More >>

Trends and Issues in Housing in Asia: Coming of an Age

Trends and Issues in Housing in Asia: Coming of an Age...

Author: Urmi Sengupta (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) ,  Annapurna Shaw
ISBN: 9780367277611
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current housing practices across Asian cities based on facts and trends...  Read More >>

Spatial Diversity and Dynamics in Resources and Urban Development: Volume II: Urban Development

Spatial Diversity and Dynamics in Resources and Urban...

Author: Ashok K. Dutt ,  Allen G. Noble
ISBN: 9789402414097
Format: Paperback
$465.72

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Agonistic Articulations in the 'Creative' City: On New Actors and Activism in Berlin’s Cultural Politics

Agonistic Articulations in the 'Creative' City: On New...

Author: Friederike Landau (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
ISBN: 9781138364639
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book offers an empirically-grounded account of the emergence and political activities of a new collective actor...  Read More >>

Sustainable Ho Chi Minh City: Climate Policies for Emerging Mega Cities

Sustainable Ho Chi Minh City: Climate Policies for Emerging...

Author: Antje Katzschner ,  Michael Waibel
ISBN: 9783319791456
Format: Paperback
$232.88

As climate change and urban development are closely interlinked and often interact negatively, this edited volume...  Read More >>

French Urbanism in Foreign Lands

French Urbanism in Foreign Lands

Author: Ambe J. Njoh
ISBN: 9783319797625
Format: Paperback
$310.47

French urban planning ideology, principles and practice were not exported exclusively to territories under French...  Read More >>

Urban Change in Iran: Stories of Rooted Histories and Ever-accelerating Developments

Urban Change in Iran: Stories of Rooted Histories and...

Author: Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian ,  Seyed Hossein Iradj Moeini
ISBN: 9783319798967
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book, based on conference excerpts, investigates various aspects of contemporary Iranian urbanism. The topics...  Read More >>

Shrinking Cities in China: The Other Facet of Urbanization

Shrinking Cities in China: The Other Facet of Urbanization...

Author: Ying Long ,  Shuqi Gao
ISBN: 9789811326455
Format: Hardback
$336.35

Richly illustrated with photographs for a better visual understanding of the topic, the book will benefit a broad...  Read More >>

Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

Author: Richard Sennett
ISBN: 9780374538217
Format: Paperback
$52.80

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Hauptstadt Berlin: Von der Hauptstadtsuche zur Hauptstadtfindung

Hauptstadt Berlin: Von der Hauptstadtsuche zur Hauptstadtfindung...

Author: Klaus von Beyme
ISBN: 9783658252571
Format: Paperback
$98.30

Berlin ist seit der Wiedervereinigung Hauptstadt des vereinten Deutschlands, die alten Zentren Ost und West wachsen...  Read More >>

Enciclopedia Illustrata Liberty a Milano: Zona Piemonte - Vol. 2: SAR-Z

Enciclopedia Illustrata Liberty a Milano: Zona Piemonte...

Author: Maurizio Om Ongaro
ISBN: 9781095507032
Format: Paperback
$343.20

"Per quanto riguarda la prefazione generale del Liberty rimando al volume 0, dal titolo: Enciclopedia Illustrata...  Read More >>

Enciclopedia Illustrata Liberty a Milano: Zona Piemonte - Vol. 1: A-SANT

Enciclopedia Illustrata Liberty a Milano: Zona Piemonte...

Author: Maurizio Om Ongaro
ISBN: 9781095436653
Format: Paperback
$330.00

"Per quanto riguarda la prefazione generale del Liberty rimando al volume 0, dal titolo: Enciclopedia Illustrata...  Read More >>

Community Health Equity: A Chicago Reader

Community Health Equity: A Chicago Reader

Author: Fernando de Maio ,  Raj C Shah MD
ISBN: 9780226614625
Format: Paperback
$79.95

Perhaps more than any other American city, Chicago has been a center for the study of both urban history and economic...  Read More >>

Senses in Cities: Experiences of Urban Settings

Senses in Cities: Experiences of Urban Settings

Author: Kelvin Low ,  Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
ISBN: 9780367273019
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book examines how qualities of place and their sensuous reorganisation elucidate particular sociocultural expressions...  Read More >>

Safe as Houses: Private Greed, Political Negligence and Housing Policy After Grenfell

Safe as Houses: Private Greed, Political Negligence...

Author: Stuart Hodkinson
ISBN: 9781526141866
Format: Hardback
$183.99

As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance...  Read More >>

Waste Matters: Urban margins in contemporary literature

Waste Matters: Urban margins in contemporary literature...

Author: Sarah Harrison
ISBN: 9780367271220
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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Grundlagen, Bausteine und Aufgaben des Städtebaus: Schnelleinstieg für Architekten und Planer

Grundlagen, Bausteine und Aufgaben des Städtebaus: Schnelleinstieg...

Author: Christa Reicher
ISBN: 9783658256586
Format: Paperback
$25.85

Eine Aufbereitung der aktuellen Aufgabenfelder illustriert die Relevanz von Städtebau in der Planungspraxis, der...  Read More >>

Community Health Equity: A Chicago Reader

Community Health Equity: A Chicago Reader

Author: Fernando de Maio ,  Raj C Shah MD
ISBN: 9780226614595
Format: Hardback
$240.95

Perhaps more than any other American city, Chicago has been a center for the study of both urban history and economic...  Read More >>

Race, Religion, and the ‘Indian Muslim’ Predicament in Singapore

Race, Religion, and the ‘Indian Muslim’ Predicament...

Author: Torsten Tschacher (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
ISBN: 9780367273033
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book traces the negotiations and contestations over Indian Muslim difference in Singapore and examines the...  Read More >>

SPIRIT, RHYTHM, and STORY: Community Building and Healing through Song

SPIRIT, RHYTHM, and STORY: Community Building and Healing...

Author: Terence Elliott
ISBN: 9781644713686
Format: Paperback
$30.92

Urban communities throughout the world are in a phase of rebuilding. In the work to build community, it will be...  Read More >>

African Markets and the Utu-Buntu Business Model: A Perspective in Economic Informality in Nairobi

African Markets and the Utu-Buntu Business Model: A...

Author: Mary Njeri Kinyanjui
ISBN: 9781928331780
Format: Paperback
$54.34

African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model sheds light on the ethics and values that underpin the work of...  Read More >>

Food Security in Africa's Secondary Cities: No. 2.: The Oshakati-Ongwediva-Ondangwa Corridor, Namibia

Food Security in Africa's Secondary Cities: No. 2.:...

Author: Ndeyapo Nickanor ,  Lawrence Kazembe
ISBN: 9781920597399
Format: Paperback
$49.16

This is the first research report to examine the nature and drivers of food insecurity in the northern Namibian...  Read More >>

A Contest without Winners: How Students Experience Competitive School Choice

A Contest without Winners: How Students Experience Competitive...

Author: Kate Phillippo ,  Kate Phillippo
ISBN: 9781517904340
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A Contest without Winners challenges meritocratic and market-driven notions of opportunity creation for young people...  Read More >>

Chapatis for Breakfast

Chapatis for Breakfast

Author: Lavan S. Nathan
ISBN: 9781645467281
Format: Paperback
$58.05

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