Urban communities books

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Renew Orleans?: Globalized Development and Worker Resistance after Katrina

Renew Orleans?: Globalized Development and Worker Resistance...

Author: Aaron Schneider
ISBN: 9781517901653
Format: Hardback
$162.00

Urban development after disaster, the fading of black political clout, and the onset of gentrification Like no...  Read More >>

Back to the Postindustrial Future: An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest-Shrinking City

Back to the Postindustrial Future: An Ethnography of...

Author: Felix Ringel
ISBN: 9781785337987
Format: Hardback
$256.16

Back to the Postindustrial Future is the first comprehensive ethnography of the future, approaching Hoyerswerda,...  Read More >>

Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn: A View from the Street

Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn: A View...

Author: Jerome Krase ,  Judith N. DeSena
ISBN: 9781498512572
Format: Paperback
$111.00

Krase and DeSena offer a comprehensive view from the street of two iconic Brooklyn neighborhoods, Crown Heights-Prospect-Lefferts...  Read More >>

The History of Street Gangs in the United States: Their Origins and Transformations

The History of Street Gangs in the United States: Their...

Author: James C. Howell
ISBN: 9781498511346
Format: Paperback
$111.00

This book contains a history of the origins of youth gangs and the transformation of these into street gangs that...  Read More >>

China’s Rural–Urban Inequality in the Countryside

China’s Rural–Urban Inequality in the Countryside

Author: Yan Gao ,  Shailaja Fennell
ISBN: 9789811082726
Format: Hardback
$261.34

This book approaches the issue of rural-urban inequality through fieldwork conducted in a specific township (Zuogang)...  Read More >>

Urban Redevelopment and Modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939

Urban Redevelopment and Modernity in Liverpool and Manchester,...

Author: Dr Charlotte Wildman (University of Manchester, UK)
ISBN: 9781350063839
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Manchester University....  Read More >>

Constructing the Patriarchal City: Gender and the Built Environments of London, Dublin, Toronto, and Chicago, 1870s into the 1940s

Constructing the Patriarchal City: Gender and the Built...

Author: Maureen A. Flanagan
ISBN: 9781439915707
Format: Paperback
$100.19

In the Anglo-Atlantic world of the late nineteenth century, groups of urban residents struggled to reconstruct their...  Read More >>

Advocacy for Social Change: Coalitions and the Organizations That Lead Them

Advocacy for Social Change: Coalitions and the Organizations...

Author: Herbert J. Rubin (Northern Illinois University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138563797
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book portrays how small, geographically dispersed, and progressive social change and social service organizations...  Read More >>

Rethinking Urban Transitions: Politics in the Low Carbon City

Rethinking Urban Transitions: Politics in the Low Carbon...

Author: Andrés Luque-Ayala (University of Durham, UK) ,  Simon Marvin
ISBN: 9781138057357
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The book provides critical insight for societal and policy debates about the potential and limits of low carbon...  Read More >>

Urban Economics

Urban Economics

Author: Arthur O'Sullivan
ISBN: 9780078021787
Format: Hardback
$369.00

Covers urban economics as the discipline that lies at the intersection of geography and economics. Divided into...  Read More >>

Urban Ecology, Water Quality and Climate Change

Urban Ecology, Water Quality and Climate Change

Author: Arup K. Sarma ,  Vijay P. Singh
ISBN: 9783319744933
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This unique book brings together high-quality research contributions on ecological aspects of urbanization, water...  Read More >>

Re-imagining Contested Communities: Connecting Rotherham through Research

Re-imagining Contested Communities: Connecting Rotherham...

Author: Elizabeth Campbell ,  Kate Pahl
ISBN: 9781447333326
Format: Paperback
$72.99

Using history, artistic practice, writing, poetry, autobiography and collaborative ethnography, this book literally...  Read More >>

Constructing the Patriarchal City: Gender and the Built Environments of London, Dublin, Toronto, and Chicago, 1870s into the 1940s

Constructing the Patriarchal City: Gender and the Built...

Author: Maureen A. Flanagan
ISBN: 9781439915691
Format: Hardback
$275.88

In the Anglo-Atlantic world of the late nineteenth century, groups of urban residents struggled to reconstruct their...  Read More >>

A Research Agenda for Cities

A Research Agenda for Cities

Author: John R. Short
ISBN: 9781785363979
Format: Paperback
$93.02

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Re-imagining Contested Communities: Connecting Rotherham through Research

Re-imagining Contested Communities: Connecting Rotherham...

Author: Elizabeth Campbell ,  Kate Pahl
ISBN: 9781447333302
Format: Hardback
$179.99

Using history, artistic practice, writing, poetry, autobiography and collaborative ethnography, this book literally...  Read More >>

Globalized Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco

Globalized Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums, and...

Author: Koenraad Bogaert
ISBN: 9781517900816
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Over the past thirtyyears, mega-projects have transformed Morocco's urban centers into laboratoriesof capital accumulation,...  Read More >>

Practising Rhythmanalysis: Theories and Methodologies

Practising Rhythmanalysis: Theories and Methodologies...

Author: Yi Chen
ISBN: 9781783487783
Format: Paperback
$109.00

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Globalized Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums, and Class Relations in Urban Morocco

Globalized Authoritarianism: Megaprojects, Slums, and...

Author: Koenraad Bogaert
ISBN: 9781517900809
Format: Hardback
$168.00

A rich investigation into Morocco's urban politics Over the past thirty years, Morocco's cities have transformed...  Read More >>

Urban development and climate change: Lessons from the City of Cape Town

Urban development and climate change: Lessons from the...

Author: M. New ,  D. Scott
ISBN: 9781775822172
Format: Paperback
$102.83

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Market Versus Society: Anthropological Insights

Market Versus Society: Anthropological Insights

Author: Manos Spyridakis
ISBN: 9783319741888
Format: Hardback
$258.72

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

Porous City: From Metaphor to Urban Agenda

Porous City: From Metaphor to Urban Agenda

Author: Sophie Wolfrum
ISBN: 9783035616019
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Some time ago, Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis used the term ""porosity"" with reference to Naples’ urban characteristics...  Read More >>

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