Urban communities books

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Songs for the Street: Compositions Geared for God's People in Street Contexts

Songs for the Street: Compositions Geared for God's...

Author: Robert C Hepburn
ISBN: 9781795360524
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates About Housing, Segregation, and Opportunity

The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates About Housing,...

Author: Ingrid Ellen ,  Justin Steil
ISBN: 9780231183628
Format: Hardback
$198.95

The Dream Revisited brings together a range of expert viewpoints on the causes and consequences of the nation’s...  Read More >>

Taking Back the Boulevard: Art, Activism, and Gentrification in Los Angeles

Taking Back the Boulevard: Art, Activism, and Gentrification...

Author: Jan Lin
ISBN: 9781479809806
Format: Hardback
$193.00

The promises and conflicts faced by public figures, artists, and leaders of Northeast Los Angeles as they enliven...  Read More >>

The New Normal

The New Normal

Author: K N Crighton
ISBN: 9780998034317
Format: Paperback
$35.91

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans journalist Maggie McBride and her longtime housekeeper Eloise Jackson...  Read More >>

Transnational Lives in Global Cities: A Multi-Sited Study of Chinese Singaporean Migrants

Transnational Lives in Global Cities: A Multi-Sited...

Author: Caroline Plüss
ISBN: 9783319963303
Format: Hardback
$194.04

This book investigates the transnational experiences of Chinese Singaporeans who lived in one of four global cities:...  Read More >>

Political Culture and Participation in Urban China

Political Culture and Participation in Urban China

Author: Yang Zhong
ISBN: 9789811348440
Format: Paperback
$232.85

The book covers various aspects of political culture such as political regime support, political interest, democratic...  Read More >>

Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature

Urban Spaces in Contemporary Latin American Literature...

Author: José Eduardo González ,  Timothy R. Robbins
ISBN: 9783030064303
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This collection of essays studies the depiction of contemporary urban space in twenty-first century Latin American...  Read More >>

The Urban Garden City: Shaping the City with Gardens Through History

The Urban Garden City: Shaping the City with Gardens...

Author: Sandrine Glatron ,  Laurence Granchamp
ISBN: 9783030102579
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of the role of gardens in cities throughout different historical...  Read More >>

Urbanization and Climate Co-Benefits: Implementation of win-win interventions in cities

Urbanization and Climate Co-Benefits: Implementation...

Author: Christopher Doll ,  Jose Puppim de Oliveira
ISBN: 9780367026905
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book examines the main opportunities and challenges to the implementation of environmental co-benefits in urban...  Read More >>

Human Geographies Within the Pale of Settlement: Order and Disorder During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Human Geographies Within the Pale of Settlement: Order...

Author: Robert E. Mitchell
ISBN: 9783030075699
Format: Paperback
$194.04

This study suggests how traditional language-rich narrative histories of the Pale of Settlement can benefit from...  Read More >>

Unlearning Failure: Can Urban Schools Be Transformed in the New Millennium?

Unlearning Failure: Can Urban Schools Be Transformed...

Author: Dierdre G. Paul
ISBN: 9781475835571
Format: Paperback
$65.99

Rather than simply recite problems, Unlearning Failure seeks to explore credible solutions to the urban education...  Read More >>

Marginality in the Urban Center: The Costs and Challenges of Continued Whiteness in the Americas and Beyond

Marginality in the Urban Center: The Costs and Challenges...

Author: Peary Brug ,  Zachary S. Ritter
ISBN: 9783319964652
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book examines the increasing marginalization of and response by people living in urban areas throughout the...  Read More >>

Die Sendschreiben Des Apostels Paulus: UEbersezt Und Erklart (Classic Reprint)

Die Sendschreiben Des Apostels Paulus: UEbersezt Und...

Author: Heinrich Ewald
ISBN: 9781334567001
Format: Paperback
$33.25

Excerpt from Die Sendschreiben des Apostels Paulus: UEbersezt und Erklart Aus so vielerlei hoechst verschiedenen...  Read More >>

Ecosystem Services for Spatial Planning: Innovative Approaches and Challenges for Practical Applications

Ecosystem Services for Spatial Planning: Innovative...

Author: Silvia Ronchi
ISBN: 9783030079550
Format: Paperback
$284.60

The book investigates the relationship between ecosystem services (ES) and spatial planning, and explores potential...  Read More >>

From Urban National Parks to Natured Cities in the Global South: The Quest for Naturbanity

From Urban National Parks to Natured Cities in the Global...

Author: Frédéric Landy
ISBN: 9789811341588
Format: Paperback
$263.97

This important volume focuses on the sensitive issue of interrelationships between national parks situated near...  Read More >>

Urban Planning and Development in China and Other East Asian Countries

Urban Planning and Development in China and Other East...

Author: Guanzeng Zhang ,  Lan Wang
ISBN: 9789811345241
Format: Paperback
$116.41

This book examines urban development and its role in planning in China and other Asian cities. As a textbook for...  Read More >>

After the Projects: Public Housing Redevelopment and the Governance of the Poorest Americans

After the Projects: Public Housing Redevelopment and...

Author: Lawrence J. Vale (Professor, Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
ISBN: 9780190624330
Format: Hardback
$209.00

After the Projects explores the contested politics of American public housing development and redevelopment. Drawing...  Read More >>

Gridded Worlds: An Urban Anthology

Gridded Worlds: An Urban Anthology

Author: Reuben Rose-Redwood ,  Liora Bigon
ISBN: 9783030095017
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book is the first edited collection to bring together classic and contemporary writings on the urban grid in...  Read More >>

New Cities and Community Extensions in Egypt and the Middle East: Visions and Challenges

New Cities and Community Extensions in Egypt and the...

Author: Sahar Attia ,  Zeinab Shafik
ISBN: 9783030085629
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book seeks to push forward the boundaries of current practices and knowledge to embrace innovative solutions,...  Read More >>

Friendship and Diversity: Class, Ethnicity and Social Relationships in the City

Friendship and Diversity: Class, Ethnicity and Social...

Author: Carol Vincent ,  Sarah Neal
ISBN: 9783030102999
Format: Paperback
$284.60

Do people make friends with those who are culturally and socially different to themselves? Friendship and Diversity...  Read More >>

Architecture, Urban Space and War: The Destruction and Reconstruction of Sarajevo

Architecture, Urban Space and War: The Destruction and...

Author: Mirjana Ristic
ISBN: 9783030095796
Format: Paperback
$258.72

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Sustainable Communities and Green Lifestyles: Consumption and Environmentalism

Sustainable Communities and Green Lifestyles: Consumption...

Author: Tendai Chitewere
ISBN: 9780367192921
Format: Paperback
$92.99

By exploring the everyday life of ecovillage residents through extensive participant observation and in-depth interviews,...  Read More >>

Population Persistence and Migration in Rural New York, 1855-1860

Population Persistence and Migration in Rural New York,...

Author: David Paul Davenport
ISBN: 9781138045743
Format: Paperback
$54.99

This title, first published in 1989, explores the population change in America during the 1800s by closely examining...  Read More >>

Community Resilience under the Impact of Urbanisation and Climate Change: Cases and Experiences from Zimbabwe

Community Resilience under the Impact of Urbanisation...

Author: Innocent Chirisa ,  Christopher Mabeza
ISBN: 9789956550050
Format: Paperback
$69.86

As the world today faces messy problems, what in some circles has been called global weirding, the term resilience...  Read More >>

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