Urban communities books

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Architecture and the Social Sciences: Inter- and Multidisciplinary Approaches between Society and Space

Architecture and the Social Sciences: Inter- and Multidisciplinary...

Author: Maria Manuela Mendes ,  Teresa Sá
ISBN: 9783319851631
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book contributes to current debates on the relationship between architecture and the social sciences, highlighting...  Read More >>

Insight Philadelphia: Historical Essays Illustrated

Insight Philadelphia: Historical Essays Illustrated...

Author: Kenneth Finkel
ISBN: 9780813597430
Format: Paperback
$123.95

Each of the nearly 100 essays in Insight Philadelphia tells a succinct, compelling, and little-known tale of the...  Read More >>

Insight Philadelphia: Historical Essays Illustrated

Insight Philadelphia: Historical Essays Illustrated...

Author: Kenneth Finkel
ISBN: 9780813597447
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Each of the nearly 100 essays in Insight Philadelphia tells a succinct, compelling, and little-known tale of the...  Read More >>

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles

City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles...

Author: Mike Davis
ISBN: 9781786635891
Format: Paperback
$24.99

In City of Quartz, Davis reconstructs LA's shadow history and dissects its ethereal economy.  Read More >>

Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China: Urbanized Interface

Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary...

Author: Minna Valjakka ,  Meiqin Wang
ISBN: 9789462982239
Format: Hardback
$292.39

This book offers a multifaceted investigation of the dynamic interrelations between visual arts and representation...  Read More >>

The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism

The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of...

Author: Bruce Katz ,  Jeremy Nowak
ISBN: 9798200414390
Format: Audio
$52.77

Finding local solutions when the nation cannot, or will not. This book cites many positive examples of how cities...  Read More >>

The New Localism Lib/E: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism

The New Localism Lib/E: How Cities Can Thrive in the...

Author: Bruce Katz ,  Jeremy Nowak
ISBN: 9798200414383
Format: Audio
$52.77

In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create...  Read More >>

The Vanishing Hitchhiker

The Vanishing Hitchhiker

Author: Jan Harold Brunvand
ISBN: 9787807682509
Format: Paperback
$107.71

Simplified Chinese edition of The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings  Read More >>

Little Yellow House: Finding Community in a Changing Neighbourhood

Little Yellow House: Finding Community in a Changing...

Author: Carissa Halton
ISBN: 9781772123753
Format: Paperback
$56.90

After moving her family to a neighbourhood with a tough reputation, Halton meets a cast of diverse characters and...  Read More >>

Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth: Intercurrence, Planning, and Geographies of Regional Development across Greater Seattle

Urban Sustainability through Smart Growth: Intercurrence,...

Author: Yonn Dierwechter
ISBN: 9783319853956
Format: Paperback
$336.35

"This book investigates the new urban geographies of “smart” metropolitan regionalism across the Greater Seattle...  Read More >>

The Impact of Artists on Contemporary Urban Development in Europe

The Impact of Artists on Contemporary Urban Development...

Author: Monika Murzyn-Kupisz ,  Jarosław Działek
ISBN: 9783319850924
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This book provides an up-to-date, critical review of theoretical concepts connecting artists and urban development....  Read More >>

Challenges in Health and Development: From Global to Community Perspectives

Challenges in Health and Development: From Global to...

Author: Sandy A. Johnson
ISBN: 9783319850894
Format: Paperback
$181.10

This textbook examines strategies of investing in human health and investing in economic growth as distinct approaches...  Read More >>

Sustainable Development and Renovation in Architecture, Urbanism and Engineering

Sustainable Development and Renovation in Architecture,...

Author: Pilar Mercader-Moyano
ISBN: 9783319846521
Format: Paperback
$475.17

This book provides an overview of the environmental problems that arise from construction activity, focusing on...  Read More >>

Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space: Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland

Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space: Place-Making...

Author: Milena Komarova ,  Maruska Svasek
ISBN: 9781785339370
Format: Hardback
$256.16

Exploring the complex dynamics of twenty-first century spatial sociality, physical movement and placemaking in Northern...  Read More >>

Planning for AuthentiCITIES

Planning for AuthentiCITIES

Author: Laura Tate ,  Brettany Shannon
ISBN: 9780815384922
Format: Paperback
$88.99

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The education triple cocktail: System-wide instructional reform in South Africa

The education triple cocktail: System-wide instructional...

Author: Brahm Fleisch
ISBN: 9781775822462
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Although informative books on the challenges of South African education have been published, there is no text that...  Read More >>

Planning for AuthentiCITIES

Planning for AuthentiCITIES

Author: Laura Tate ,  Brettany Shannon
ISBN: 9780815384908
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book sheds new light in considering the role of community planning in addressing community and neighbourhood...  Read More >>

Urban Transformations in Rio de Janeiro: Development, Segregation, and Governance

Urban Transformations in Rio de Janeiro: Development,...

Author: Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro
ISBN: 9783319847733
Format: Paperback
$336.35

This book provides an overview of urban transformations taking place in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the...  Read More >>

Sustainable Smart Cities in India: Challenges and Future Perspectives

Sustainable Smart Cities in India: Challenges and Future...

Author: Poonam Sharma ,  Swati Rajput
ISBN: 9783319836669
Format: Paperback
$569.22

The book suggests directions and agendas for smart city research and outlines practical implications for government...  Read More >>

Revitalizing City Districts: Transformation Partnership for Urban Design and Architecture in Historic City Districts

Revitalizing City Districts: Transformation Partnership...

Author: Hebatalla Abouelfadl ,  Dalila ElKerdany
ISBN: 9783319834856
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book explores the consequences of change in the urban form, the amalgam of the urban space and buildings and...  Read More >>

Urban Design and Representation: A Multidisciplinary and Multisensory Approach

Urban Design and Representation: A Multidisciplinary...

Author: Barbara E.A. Piga ,  Rossella Salerno
ISBN: 9783319847467
Format: Paperback
$422.37

This book explores how environmental urban design can benefit from established and emerging representation and simulation...  Read More >>

Tourism Policy and Planning: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Tourism Policy and Planning: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow...

Author: David L. Edgell, Sr. ,  Jason R. Swanson
ISBN: 9781138491212
Format: Hardback
$326.00

The revised and updated third edition of this book offers an introduction to the Tourism policy process and how...  Read More >>

Living Displacement: The Loss and Making of Place in Colombia

Living Displacement: The Loss and Making of Place in...

Author: Mateja Celestina
ISBN: 9781526108739
Format: Hardback
$183.99

Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos...  Read More >>

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