Urban communities books

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Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective

Gentrification: A Working-Class Perspective

Author: Kirsteen Paton
ISBN: 9781138546622
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book reconnects class and the urban through an ethnographically detailed analysis of a neighbourhood undergoing...  Read More >>

Markets, Places, Cities

Markets, Places, Cities

Author: Kirsten Seale
ISBN: 9781138546431
Format: Paperback
$101.00

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Modernization, Urbanization and Development in Latin America, 1900s - 2000s

Modernization, Urbanization and Development in Latin...

Author: Arturo Almandoz
ISBN: 9781138490505
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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Cities at Risk: Planning for and Recovering from Natural Disasters

Cities at Risk: Planning for and Recovering from Natural...

Author: Pierre Filion ,  Gary Sands
ISBN: 9781138547278
Format: Paperback
$96.99

As levels of urbanization increase around the world, the growing concentrations of population and economic activity...  Read More >>

Changing Landscapes of Urban Citizenship: Southern Europe in Times of Crisis

Changing Landscapes of Urban Citizenship: Southern Europe...

Author: Alexandra Zavos ,  Penny Koutrolikou
ISBN: 9780815359197
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In this edited volume on urban citizenship, contributors from different Southern European countries discuss how...  Read More >>

Order and Conflict in Public Space

Order and Conflict in Public Space

Author: Mattias De Backer (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) ,  Lucas Melgaço (Free University of Brussels, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781138499416
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Bringing together international contributions, this interdisciplinary book focuses on order and conflict in public...  Read More >>

The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil

The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life...

Author: Jaime Amparo Alves
ISBN: 9781517901554
Format: Hardback
$162.00

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Small towns in the strategic region of Altillanura, Colombia

Small towns in the strategic region of Altillanura,...

Author: María Fernanda Romero Aguirre
ISBN: 9786202104500
Format: Paperback
$90.02

The region of Altillanura a low tableland between the departments of Meta and Vichada, in Colombia. This area has...  Read More >>

Space Oddities: Difference and Identity in the American City Volume 16

Space Oddities: Difference and Identity in the American...

Author: Stefan L Brandt ,  Michael Fuchs (University of Graz Austria)
ISBN: 9783643507976
Format: Paperback
$118.67

"""Space Oddities: Difference and Identity in the American City"" approaches a space (and place) central to the...  Read More >>

2018 State of Black Louisville

2018 State of Black Louisville

Author: Ashli Findley ,  Sadiqa N Reynolds
ISBN: 9780999883105
Format: Paperback
$58.22

The State of Black Louisville report is a collection of essays from engaged community members around Louisville,...  Read More >>

Prekäre Arbeitsräume: Soziale Konflikte und Gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindlichkeit in aufgewerteten Stadtquartieren

Prekäre Arbeitsräume: Soziale Konflikte und Gruppenbezogene...

Author: Kristina Seidelsohn
ISBN: 9783658208639
Format: Paperback
$142.29

Kristina Seidelsohn stellt in diesem Buch die zentrale Frage, welchen Einfluss die sich wandelnden und zunehmend...  Read More >>

Living In Smart Cities: Innovation And Sustainability

Living In Smart Cities: Innovation And Sustainability...

Author: Thomas Menkhoff (S'pore Management Univ, S'pore) ,  Siew Ning Kan (S'pore Management Univ, S'pore)
ISBN: 9789811203114
Format: Paperback
$155.25

Cities around the world are becoming increasingly popular as economic powerhouses and magnets for migrants from...  Read More >>

Making News in Global India: Media, Publics, Politics

Making News in Global India: Media, Publics, Politics...

Author: Sahana Udupa
ISBN: 9781107492134
Format: Paperback
$80.19

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Children, Nature, Cities

Children, Nature, Cities

Author: Ann Marie F. Murnaghan ,  Laura J. Shillington
ISBN: 9781138546882
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Why does the way we think about urban children and urban nature matter? This volume explores how dichotomies between...  Read More >>

Measuring Public Space: The Star Model

Measuring Public Space: The Star Model

Author: Georgiana Varna
ISBN: 9781138547216
Format: Paperback
$101.00

In the rapidly expanding public space debate of the past few years, a recurring theme is the ’loss of publicness’...  Read More >>

Urban Transformations: Centres, Peripheries and Systems

Urban Transformations: Centres, Peripheries and Systems...

Author: Daniel P. O'Donoghue
ISBN: 9781138547223
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This book explores the role of cities, their influence and the transformations they have undertaken in the recent...  Read More >>

Urban Refugees: Challenges in Protection, Services and Policy

Urban Refugees: Challenges in Protection, Services and...

Author: Koichi Koizumi (Daito Bunka University, Tokyo) ,  Gerhard Hoffstaedter (University of Queensland, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138546448
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Urban refugees now account for over half the total number of refugees worldwide. Yet to date, far more research...  Read More >>

Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature: Writing Architecture and the Body

Spatial Politics in Contemporary London Literature:...

Author: Laura Colombino (University of Genoa, Italy)
ISBN: 9781138547506
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book analyses the spatial politics of a range of British novelists writing on London since the1950s, emphasizing...  Read More >>

Asian American Literature and the Environment

Asian American Literature and the Environment

Author: Lorna Fitzsimmons (California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA) ,  Youngsuk Chae (University of North Carolina, Pembroke, USA)
ISBN: 9781138547841
Format: Paperback
$96.99

"This book is a ground-breaking transnational study of representations of the environment in Asian American literature....  Read More >>

Sinking Chicago: Climate Change and the Remaking of a Flood-Prone Environment

Sinking Chicago: Climate Change and the Remaking of...

Author: Harold L Platt
ISBN: 9781439915486
Format: Hardback
$262.68

In Sinking Chicago, Harold Platt shows how people responded to climate change in one American city over a hundred-and-fifty-year...  Read More >>

Global Port Cities in North America: Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks

Global Port Cities in North America: Urbanization Processes...

Author: Boris Vormann (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
ISBN: 9781138547131
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This book explores globalization processes under neoliberalism and their impacts on sociospatial dynamics in North...  Read More >>

Global Garbage: Urban imaginaries of waste, excess, and abandonment

Global Garbage: Urban imaginaries of waste, excess,...

Author: Christoph Lindner ,  Miriam Meissner
ISBN: 9781138546455
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced,...  Read More >>

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