Urban communities books

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Cities in Asia by and for the People

Cities in Asia by and for the People

Author: Yves Cabannes ,  Mike Douglass
ISBN: 9789462985223
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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African Immigrant Traders in Inner City Johannesburg: Deconstructing the Threatening ‘Other’

African Immigrant Traders in Inner City Johannesburg:...

Author: Inocent Moyo
ISBN: 9783319860862
Format: Paperback
$206.97

This book contests the negative portrayal of African immigrants as people who are not valuable members of South...  Read More >>

Urban Politics of a Sporting Mega Event: Legitimacy and Legacy of Euro 2012 in Anthropological Perspective

Urban Politics of a Sporting Mega Event: Legitimacy...

Author: Małgorzata Zofia Kowalska
ISBN: 9783319848211
Format: Paperback
$194.04

This book looks at the UEFA European Championship (Euro 2012) as both a crowning achievement of, and a way to sustain,...  Read More >>

Diversity and Local Contexts: Urban Space, Borders, and Migration

Diversity and Local Contexts: Urban Space, Borders,...

Author: Jerome Krase ,  Zdeněk Uherek
ISBN: 9783319852836
Format: Paperback
$175.92

In this book, an international team of urban anthropologists, sociologists, and ethnographers argue that politics,...  Read More >>

Mass for Shut-Ins

Mass for Shut-Ins

Author: Todd Robinson
ISBN: 9781935218487
Format: Paperback
$42.24

The poems in Mass for Shut-Ins are galloping and all-at-once pensive. There's always risk with a touch of ego and...  Read More >>

Intelligent City Evaluation System

Intelligent City Evaluation System

Author: Zhiqiang Wu
ISBN: 9789811059384
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book assesses various intelligent-city evaluation systems around the globe, and subsequently combines that...  Read More >>

Urbanization in China: The Path to Harmony and Prosperity

Urbanization in China: The Path to Harmony and Prosperity...

Author: Houkai Wei
ISBN: 9789811314070
Format: Hardback
$194.04

This book traces the history of urbanization in China and discusses major problems and challenges the country is...  Read More >>

Delhi's Meatscapes: Muslim Butchers in a Transforming Mega City

Delhi's Meatscapes: Muslim Butchers in a Transforming...

Author: Zarin Ahmad (Affiliated Research Fellow, Affiliated Research Fellow, Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities)
ISBN: 9780199477807
Format: Hardback
$80.00

Delhi's Meatscapes brings together rare archival documents, vernacular sources, and ethnographic insights gleaned...  Read More >>

Transport, Transgression and Politics in African Cities: The Rhythm of Chaos

Transport, Transgression and Politics in African Cities:...

Author: Daniel Agbiboa (George Mason University, USA)
ISBN: 9780815377375
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This collection of field-based case-studies examines the role and contributions of Africa’s informal public transport...  Read More >>

Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia

Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South...

Author: Tereza Kuldova ,  Mathew A. Varghese
ISBN: 9783319837840
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book brings anthropologists and critical theorists together in order to investigate utopian visions of the...  Read More >>

New Chinese Migrants in New Zealand: Becoming Cosmopolitan? Roots, Emotions, and Everyday Diversity

New Chinese Migrants in New Zealand: Becoming Cosmopolitan?...

Author: Bingyu Wang
ISBN: 9780815368205
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Wang attempts to close a gap in contemporary research by relating cosmopolitanism to migration, particularly in...  Read More >>

A Guide to European Town Directories: Volume One - Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Scandinavia.

A Guide to European Town Directories: Volume One - Germany,...

Author: Gareth Shaw ,  Tim Coles
ISBN: 9781138610033
Format: Hardback
$252.00

First published in 1997, European Directories is a major resource guide for urban historians and historical geographers....  Read More >>

Cities as Spatial and Social Networks

Cities as Spatial and Social Networks

Author: Xinyue Ye ,  Xingjian Liu
ISBN: 9783319953502
Format: Hardback
$232.85

As such this book will be a valuable resource for scholars focusing on city-related networks in a number of ‘urban’...  Read More >>

Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City

Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing...

Author: Albert Samaha
ISBN: 9781610398688
Format: Hardback
$105.60

This uplifting story of a boys' football team shines light on the under-appreciated virtues that can bloom in impoverished...  Read More >>

Towards Green Cities: Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in China and Germany

Towards Green Cities: Urban Biodiversity and Ecosystem...

Author: Karsten Grunewald ,  Junxiang Li
ISBN: 9783319863535
Format: Paperback
$284.60

The book aims to capture, describe and convey the current significance, the values and potentials of urban biodiversity...  Read More >>

Low-Carbon Smart Cities: Tools for Climate Resilience Planning

Low-Carbon Smart Cities: Tools for Climate Resilience...

Author: Kwi-Gon Kim
ISBN: 9783319866642
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book aims to integrate climate mitigation and adaptation tools into conventional urban planning. It emphasizes...  Read More >>

The Providence of Neighboring Bodies

The Providence of Neighboring Bodies

Author: Jean Ann Douglass
ISBN: 9781786825902
Format: Paperback
$19.99

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Creative Industries in Europe: Drivers of New Sectoral and Spatial Dynamics

Creative Industries in Europe: Drivers of New Sectoral...

Author: Caroline Chapain ,  Tadeusz Stryjakiewicz
ISBN: 9783319859279
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book demonstrates how the creative industries are driving new sectoral and spatial dynamics in European cities,...  Read More >>

Food Roofs of Rio de Janeiro: The Pavao-Pavaozinho and Cantagalo Case Study

Food Roofs of Rio de Janeiro: The Pavao-Pavaozinho and...

Author: Rob Roggema
ISBN: 9783319859880
Format: Paperback
$310.47

Secondly, the discourse in urban agriculture shifts from the early stage in which every initiative is interesting,...  Read More >>

Transdisciplinary Urbanism and Culture: From Pedagogy to Praxis

Transdisciplinary Urbanism and Culture: From Pedagogy...

Author: Quazi Mahtab Zaman ,  Igea Troiani
ISBN: 9783319857657
Format: Paperback
$310.47

This book presents a collection of critical, multi-disciplinary essays on urban research by established and early...  Read More >>

The Cities on the Hill: How Urban Insitutions Transform National Politics

The Cities on the Hill: How Urban Insitutions Transform...

Author: Thomas K. Ogorzalek (Assistant Professor of Political Science, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University)
ISBN: 9780190668884
Format: Paperback
$86.95

In The Cities on the Hill, Thomas Ogorzalek argues that the answer lies not in the sectional divide, but in the...  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: 9789811084614
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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

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