Urban communities books

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Collaborative Capitalism in American Cities: Reforming Urban Market Regulations

Collaborative Capitalism in American Cities: Reforming...

Author: Rashmi Dyal-Chand
ISBN: 9781107133532
Format: Hardback
$258.75

As cities in the USA continue to suffer from the effects of the economic crisis, this book offers real solutions...  Read More >>

Zwischen Mobilität und Sesshaftigkeit: Sozialräumliche Verortung hochqualifizierter Migranten in Hamburg

Zwischen Mobilität und Sesshaftigkeit: Sozialräumliche...

Author: Anna Becker
ISBN: 9783658221157
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Anna Becker untersucht anhand der Lebensführung hochqualifizierter Migrantinnen und Migranten idealtypisch die Herausforderungen,...  Read More >>

Urbanization, Regional Development and Governance in China

Urbanization, Regional Development and Governance in...

Author: Jianfa Shen
ISBN: 9781138309043
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book explores the course of urbanization and development in China over recent decades. It considers a range...  Read More >>

Transforming Cities: Contested Governance and New Spatial Divisions

Transforming Cities: Contested Governance and New Spatial...

Author: Nick Jewson ,  Susanne Macgregor
ISBN: 9780815347194
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Transforming Cities examines the profound changes that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist societies...  Read More >>

Chinese Urbanism: Critical Perspectives

Chinese Urbanism: Critical Perspectives

Author: Mark Jayne (Cardiff University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138201712
Format: Hardback
$231.00

This book provides a definitive overview of contemporary developments in our understanding of urban life in China....  Read More >>

Crazy Rich Asians: (Film Tie-in)

Crazy Rich Asians: (Film Tie-in)

Author: Kevin Kwan
ISBN: 9781786495808
Format: Paperback
$18.09

The acclaimed international bestseller now a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle...  Read More >>

Cities' Identity Through Architecture and Arts: Proceedings of the International Conference on Cities' Identity through Architecture and Arts (CITAA 2017), May 11-13, 2017, Cairo, Egypt

Cities' Identity Through Architecture and Arts: Proceedings...

Author: Anna Catalani ,  Zeinab Nour
ISBN: 9781138054097
Format: Hardback
$420.00

Every city has its unique and valuable identity, this identity is revealed through its physical and visual form,...  Read More >>

Teaching Urban Morphology

Teaching Urban Morphology

Author: Vítor Oliveira
ISBN: 9783319761251
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book brings together contributions from some of the foremost international experts in the field of urban morphology...  Read More >>

Himalayan Quality of Life: A Study of Aizawl City

Himalayan Quality of Life: A Study of Aizawl City

Author: Benjamin L. Saitluanga
ISBN: 9783319852423
Format: Paperback
$284.60

The main objectives of the study include analysis of processes and patterns of social differentiation along the...  Read More >>

Sustainable Building and Built Environments to Mitigate Climate Change in the Tropics: Conceptual and Practical Approaches

Sustainable Building and Built Environments to Mitigate...

Author: Tri Harso Karyono ,  Robert Vale
ISBN: 9783319841960
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book offers a selection of the best papers presented during the International conference on Mitigating and...  Read More >>

Understanding Complex Urban Systems: Integrating Multidisciplinary Data in Urban Models

Understanding Complex Urban Systems: Integrating Multidisciplinary...

Author: Christian Walloth ,  Ernst Gebetsroither-Geringer
ISBN: 9783319807409
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book is devoted to the modeling and understanding of complex urban systems. This second volume of Understanding...  Read More >>

Gender in the Post-Fordist Urban: The Gender Revolution in Planning and Public Policy

Gender in the Post-Fordist Urban: The Gender Revolution...

Author: Marguerite van den Berg
ISBN: 9783319849270
Format: Paperback
$129.35

It traces the changes in western urban gender relations, arguing that in the post-Fordist urban landscape gender...  Read More >>

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing...

Author: Eliza Griswold ,  Tavia Gilbert
ISBN: 9781427298188
Format: Audio
$121.41

A literary page-turner about the costs of fracking - and one woman's quest to protect her family.  Read More >>

Livable Cities from a Global Perspective

Livable Cities from a Global Perspective

Author: Roger Caves ,  Fritz Wagner
ISBN: 9781138696754
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Livable Cities from a Global Perspective offers case studies from around the world on how cities approach livability....  Read More >>

Shrinking Cities: Understanding urban decline in the United States

Shrinking Cities: Understanding urban decline in the...

Author: Russell Weaver ,  Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.)
ISBN: 9781138601154
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns...  Read More >>

Housing Policy, Wellbeing and Social Development in Asia

Housing Policy, Wellbeing and Social Development in...

Author: Rebecca Lai Har Chiu ,  Seong-Kyu Ha
ISBN: 9781138208186
Format: Hardback
$326.00

This book investigates how housing policy changes in Asia since the late 1990s have impacted on housing affordability,...  Read More >>

Where Will We Live?

Where Will We Live?

Author: Dawn Foster
ISBN: 9781912248162
Format: Paperback
$23.26

Housing in the UK is in crisis. But how did we get here? Where did the housing crisis start, and why has it...  Read More >>

Chinese Urbanism: Critical Perspectives

Chinese Urbanism: Critical Perspectives

Author: Mark Jayne (Cardiff University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138201729
Format: Paperback
$62.99

This book provides a definitive overview of contemporary developments in our understanding of urban life in China....  Read More >>

Moralising Space: The Utopian Urbanism of the British Positivists, 1855-1920

Moralising Space: The Utopian Urbanism of the British...

Author: Matthew Wilson (College of Architecture and Planning, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, USA)
ISBN: 9781138213128
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Moralising Space examines how from the 1850s Comte’s British followers practised this science and religion with...  Read More >>

Neighborhood Success Stories: Creating and Sustaining Affordable Housing in New York

Neighborhood Success Stories: Creating and Sustaining...

Author: Carol Lamberg ,  Gale A. Brewer
ISBN: 9780823279203
Format: Paperback
$47.95

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Cities in the Urban Age: A Dissent

Cities in the Urban Age: A Dissent

Author: Robert A. Beauregard
ISBN: 9780226535388
Format: Paperback
$52.95

A case for and against cities: they’re the best thing we have going (environmentally, socially, in terms of tolerance)...  Read More >>

Cities in Global Transition: Creating Sustainable Communities in Australia

Cities in Global Transition: Creating Sustainable Communities...

Author: Raymond Charles Rauscher ,  Salim Momtaz
ISBN: 9783319819822
Format: Paperback
$336.35

This book examines the planning of cities in global transition, looking at Australia’s Greater Sydney as a case...  Read More >>

All the Dreams We've Dreamed: A Story of Hoops and Handguns on Chicago's West Side

All the Dreams We've Dreamed: A Story of Hoops and Handguns...

Author: Rus Bradburd
ISBN: 9781613739310
Format: Hardback
$47.99

Marshall High School coach Shawn Harrington's career comes crashing to a halt when he is caught in a drive-by shooting....  Read More >>

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