Urban communities books

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Cities Network Along the Silk Road: The Global Urban Competitiveness Report 2017

Cities Network Along the Silk Road: The Global Urban...

Author: Pengfei Ni ,  Marco Kamiya
ISBN: 9789811352430
Format: Paperback
$284.60

By empirically assessing the competitiveness of 505 cities around the world from regional, national and other perspectives,...  Read More >>

Participatory Design and Self-building in Shared Urban Open Spaces: Community Gardens and Casitas in New York City

Participatory Design and Self-building in Shared Urban...

Author: Carolin Mees
ISBN: 9783030092511
Format: Paperback
$284.60

The book investigates the development of community gardens with self-built structures, which have existed as a shared...  Read More >>

Global Perspectives in Urban Law: The Legal Power of Cities

Global Perspectives in Urban Law: The Legal Power of...

Author: Nestor M. Davidson ,  Geeta Tewari
ISBN: 9780815372271
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This volume offers diverse insights into urban law, with emerging theories and analyses of topics ranging from criminal...  Read More >>

China’s Urbanization and Socioeconomic Impact

China’s Urbanization and Socioeconomic Impact

Author: Zongli Tang
ISBN: 9789811352423
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This book examines the impacts of China’s urbanization on the country’s economic development, clan culture, rural...  Read More >>

Cultural Heritage and Peripheral Spaces in Singapore

Cultural Heritage and Peripheral Spaces in Singapore...

Author: Tai Wei Lim
ISBN: 9789811352195
Format: Paperback
$232.85

Offering a unique study of nostalgia in Singaporean heritage, it discusses the subjective nostalgic meanings and...  Read More >>

Citizen’s Right to the Digital City: Urban Interfaces, Activism, and Placemaking

Citizen’s Right to the Digital City: Urban Interfaces,...

Author: Marcus Foth ,  Martin Brynskov
ISBN: 9789811357275
Format: Paperback
$336.35

Edited by thought leaders in the fields of urban informatics and urban interaction design, this book brings together...  Read More >>

How Ruins Acquire Aesthetic Value: Modern Ruins, Ruin Porn, and the Ruin Tradition

How Ruins Acquire Aesthetic Value: Modern Ruins, Ruin...

Author: Tanya Whitehouse
ISBN: 9783030030643
Format: Hardback
$129.35

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Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi: Africa’s Sanctuary City

Refugee Spaces and Urban Citizenship in Nairobi: Africa’s...

Author: Derese G. Kassa
ISBN: 9781498570992
Format: Hardback
$228.00

This book sheds light on Africa’s urban refugee spaces and is an expose and critical analysis of state–refugee relations...  Read More >>

Delirious Naples: A Cultural History of the City of the Sun

Delirious Naples: A Cultural History of the City of...

Author: Pellegrino D'Acierno ,  Stanislao G. Pugliese
ISBN: 9780823279999
Format: Paperback
$67.95

An encounter with historic and contemporary Naples, in which it presents itself as an irresolvable paradox: acity...  Read More >>

Filtered: Coffee, the Café and the 21st-Century City

Filtered: Coffee, the Café and the 21st-Century City...

Author: Emma Felton (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138367920
Format: Paperback
$79.99

The unparalleled growth of café culture in 21st century cities is synonymous with profound social, cultural and...  Read More >>

No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future

No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of...

Author: Samuel I Schwartz
ISBN: 9781549149443
Format: Pre-recorded MP3 player
$171.57

The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways,...  Read More >>

Social Justice and the City

Social Justice and the City

Author: Nik Heynen
ISBN: 9781138322745
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book looks at the influence and evolution of the concept of Social Justice and the City. This book originally...  Read More >>

Disassembled Cities: Social and Spatial Strategies to Reassemble Communities

Disassembled Cities: Social and Spatial Strategies to...

Author: Elizabeth L. Sweet (Temple University, USA) ,  Tim Imeokparia (The University of Chicago at Illinois, USA)
ISBN: 9781138097988
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book’s analysis is not only focused on the urban, political, and economic effects of contemporary capitalism,...  Read More >>

Urban Studies: Border and Mobility: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017), December 8-9, 2017, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia

Urban Studies: Border and Mobility: Proceedings of the...

Author: Thor Kerr (Curtin University, Perth, Australia) ,  Bekisizwe Ndimande (The University at Texas at San Antonio, USA)
ISBN: 9781138580343
Format: Hardback
$326.00

ICUS is a bi-annual periodical publication containing articles on urban cultural studies. This publication contains...  Read More >>

Delirious Naples: A Cultural History of the City of the Sun

Delirious Naples: A Cultural History of the City of...

Author: Pellegrino D'Acierno ,  Stanislao G. Pugliese
ISBN: 9780823279982
Format: Hardback
$250.95

An encounter with historic and contemporary Naples, in which it presents itself as an irresolvable paradox: acity...  Read More >>

Filtered: Coffee, the Café and the 21st-Century City

Filtered: Coffee, the Café and the 21st-Century City...

Author: Emma Felton (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415787574
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The unparalleled growth of café culture in 21st century cities is synonymous with profound social, cultural and...  Read More >>

The Globalisation of Urban Governance

The Globalisation of Urban Governance

Author: Helmut Philipp Aust ,  Anél du Plessis
ISBN: 9781138485495
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Fifteen original contributions collectively examine how this global vision has been developed on a conceptual level,...  Read More >>

The Overworked Consumer: Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets, and the Do-It-Yourself Economy

The Overworked Consumer: Self-Checkouts, Supermarkets,...

Author: Christopher K. Andrews
ISBN: 9781498543781
Format: Hardback
$240.00

This book uses empirical data to qualify contemporary social concerns regarding automation and jobs, while raising...  Read More >>

Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Society

Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Society

Author: Sun-Kee Hong ,  Nobukazu Nakagoshi
ISBN: 9783030089658
Format: Paperback
$258.72

The research category of the landscape ecology, which researches the structure, functions, and the spatio-temporal...  Read More >>

Global Research of Cities: A Case of Chengdu

Global Research of Cities: A Case of Chengdu

Author: Peter Taylor ,  Pengfei Ni
ISBN: 9789811357374
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book, written by the national think tank of China, presents a comprehensive analysis of the key elements and...  Read More >>

Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature and Culture

Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure,...

Author: Elleke Boehmer ,  Dominic Davies
ISBN: 9783319913872
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book brings the insights of social geographers and cultural historians into a critical dialogue with literary...  Read More >>

Smart Cities, Smart Future: Showcasing Tomorrow

Smart Cities, Smart Future: Showcasing Tomorrow

Author: Mike Barlow ,  Cornelia Levy-Bencheton
ISBN: 9781119516187
Format: Hardback
$82.95

Are you curious about smart cities? You should be! By mid-century, two-thirds of us will live in cities. The world...  Read More >>

Cuz: An American Tragedy

Cuz: An American Tragedy

Author: Danielle Allen (Harvard University)
ISBN: 9781631494949
Format: Paperback
$42.11

Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Booklist, and Shelf Awareness...  Read More >>

Market Versus Society: Anthropological Insights

Market Versus Society: Anthropological Insights

Author: Manos Spyridakis
ISBN: 9783030089313
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This volume addresses the fraught relationship between market and society in times of social and economic crisis,...  Read More >>

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