Urban communities books

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Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism

Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis...

Author: Rebecca Solnit
ISBN: 9781788731348
Format: Paperback
$22.99

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Sounds and the City: Volume 2

Sounds and the City: Volume 2

Author: Brett Lashua ,  Stephen Wagg
ISBN: 9783319940809
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book draws from a rich history of scholarship about the relations between music and cities, and the global...  Read More >>

Residency, Class, and Community in the Contemporary Chinese City

Residency, Class, and Community in the Contemporary...

Author: William Hurst
ISBN: 9789004392328
Format: Hardback
$419.76

This book presents exciting new research from a diverse group of China-based social scientists. Each chapter offers...  Read More >>

Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America

Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban...

Author: Randy Shaw
ISBN: 9780520299122
Format: Hardback
$49.95

Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents...  Read More >>

A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort: Post-Katrina New Orleans and the Right to the City

A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort: Post-Katrina...

Author: Stephen Danley ,  Stephen Danley
ISBN: 9780773554894
Format: Paperback
$59.49

The fragility of social justice and democracy within place-based movements.  Read More >>

The Social Order of Collective Action: The Wisconsin Uprising of 2011

The Social Order of Collective Action: The Wisconsin...

Author: Matthew Kearney
ISBN: 9781498568975
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book uses ethnographic observation and extensive interviewing to sociologically analyze the Wisconsin Uprising...  Read More >>

The City as a Global Political Actor

The City as a Global Political Actor

Author: Stijn Oosterlynck ,  Luce Beeckmans
ISBN: 9781138573574
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book engages with the thorny question of global urban political agency. It critically assesses the now popular...  Read More >>

A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort: Post-Katrina New Orleans and the Right to the City

A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort: Post-Katrina...

Author: Stephen Danley ,  Stephen Danley
ISBN: 9780773554887
Format: Hardback
$266.51

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Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South

Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South...

Author: AbdouMaliq Simone
ISBN: 9781509523368
Format: Paperback
$30.95

The poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed...  Read More >>

The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy that Shaped an American City

The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy that...

Author: Antero Pietila
ISBN: 9781538116036
Format: Hardback
$56.99

Antero Pietila shows how one man’s wealth shaped and reshaped a city long after his life, from the destruction of...  Read More >>

Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South

Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South...

Author: AbdouMaliq Simone
ISBN: 9781509523351
Format: Hardback
$93.95

The poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed...  Read More >>

Listening, Religion, and Democracy in Contemporary Boston: God’s Ears

Listening, Religion, and Democracy in Contemporary Boston:...

Author: William W. Young, III
ISBN: 9781498576086
Format: Hardback
$228.00

This book explores the world of religious listening in Boston and its implications for democracy in the United States....  Read More >>

Urban Multiculture: Youth, Politics and Cultural Transformation in a Global City

Urban Multiculture: Youth, Politics and Cultural Transformation...

Author: Malcolm James
ISBN: 9781349579877
Format: Paperback
$49.99

This book explores the transformation of youth and urban culture in neoliberal Britain. Focusing on the reconfiguration...  Read More >>

Meeting Development Goals in Small Urban Centers

Meeting Development Goals in Small Urban Centers

Author: Sudha Menon
ISBN: 9781773614724
Format: Hardback
$411.41

Global urbanisation has prompted a focus on megacities that overlooks the needs and vulnerabilities of smaller settlements....  Read More >>

The Real Fake: Authenticity and the Production of Space

The Real Fake: Authenticity and the Production of Space...

Author: Maria Francesca Piazzoni
ISBN: 9780823280926
Format: Paperback
$20.95

The Real Fake explores how the users of Thames Town—an English-like village built in Songjiang New Town near Shanghai—negotiate...  Read More >>

Data Analytics for Smart Cities

Data Analytics for Smart Cities

Author: Amir Alavi ,  William G. Buttlar
ISBN: 9781138308770
Format: Hardback
$284.63

This book is a reference for researchers and engineers in domains of advanced computation, optimization and data...  Read More >>

Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Metis Community, 1901-1961

Rooster Town: The History of an Urban Metis Community,...

Author: Evelyn Peters ,  Matthew Stock
ISBN: 9780887552380
Format: Hardback
$184.80

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Streets Reconsidered: Inclusive Design for the Public Realm

Streets Reconsidered: Inclusive Design for the Public...

Author: Daniel Iacofano (Moore, Iacofano & Goltzman, California, USA) ,  Mukul Malhotra
ISBN: 9781138900431
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Streets Reconsidered is the essential resource for city planners, urban designers, developers, architects, landscape...  Read More >>

Henry Ford’s Plan for the American Suburb: Dearborn and Detroit

Henry Ford’s Plan for the American Suburb: Dearborn...

Author: Heather Barrow
ISBN: 9780875807959
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Around Detroit, suburbanization was led by Henry Ford, who not only located a massive factory over the city's border...  Read More >>

The Political Economy of City Branding

The Political Economy of City Branding

Author: Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko
ISBN: 9780367109707
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Common Worlds: Paths Toward Sustainable Urbanism

Common Worlds: Paths Toward Sustainable Urbanism

Author: Carl A. Maida
ISBN: 9781442271142
Format: Paperback
$115.00

Common Worlds: Paths Toward Sustainable Urbanism explores how both expert and lay members of urban and suburban...  Read More >>

Micro-residential Dynamics: A Case Study of Whitechapel, London

Micro-residential Dynamics: A Case Study of Whitechapel,...

Author: Shlomit Flint Ashery
ISBN: 9783030006013
Format: Hardback
$284.60

"This book examines how non-economic inter- and intra-group relationships were reflected in residential patterns...  Read More >>

Common Worlds: Paths Toward Sustainable Urbanism

Common Worlds: Paths Toward Sustainable Urbanism

Author: Carl A. Maida
ISBN: 9781442271135
Format: Hardback
$253.00

Common Worlds: Paths Toward Sustainable Urbanism explores how both expert and lay members of urban and suburban...  Read More >>

Innovation Capacity and the City: The Enabling Role of Design

Innovation Capacity and the City: The Enabling Role...

Author: Grazia Concilio ,  Ilaria Tosoni
ISBN: 9783030001223
Format: Paperback
$46.55

This open access book represents one of the key milestones of DESIGNSCAPES, an H2020 CSA (Coordination and Support...  Read More >>

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