Urban communities books

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Managing the Sustainable City

Managing the Sustainable City

Author: Genie N. L. Stowers (San Francisco State University, USA) ,  Albert C. Hyde (Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USA)
ISBN: 9781138102521
Format: Hardback
$326.00

This text provides an overview of urban administration, from the unique demographics of cities, local government...  Read More >>

City

City

Author: Phil Hubbard (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138203631
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Locates the concept of 'the city' within the traditions of social thought, providing a basis for understanding its...  Read More >>

Left Bank of the Hudson: Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street

Left Bank of the Hudson: Jersey City and the Artists...

Author: David J. Goodwin ,  D. W. Gibson
ISBN: 9780823278022
Format: Hardback
$180.95

""For nearly twenty years, a small, dedicated band of artists rented studio space at 111 1st Street, a former tobacco...  Read More >>

Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space: Lasting Legacies?

Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban...

Author: Robert Oliver ,  John Lauermann
ISBN: 9781137598226
Format: Hardback
$113.95

This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit...  Read More >>

Urban Sociology: An Introduction to the Study of Urban Communities

Urban Sociology: An Introduction to the Study of Urban...

Author: Sudha Menon
ISBN: 9781773613338
Format: Hardback
$398.48

Provides an account of the development of urban communities to help understand these communities. The book provides...  Read More >>

Contested Landscapes of Poverty and Homelessness In Southern Europe: Reflections from Athens

Contested Landscapes of Poverty and Homelessness In...

Author: Vassilis P. Arapoglou ,  Kostas Gounis
ISBN: 9783319624518
Format: Hardback
$129.35

The book uses Athens as a case study to identify the key features of urban anti-poverty policies in Greece and to...  Read More >>

Comparing Refugees and South Africans in the Urban Informal Sector

Comparing Refugees and South Africans in the Urban Informal...

Author: Jonathan Crush (Wilfrid Laurier University Canada) ,  Godfrey Tawodzera
ISBN: 9781920596385
Format: Paperback
$49.16

This report compares the business operations of over 2,000 South Africans and refugees in the urban informal economy...  Read More >>

Ritualizing the City: Collective Performances as Aspects of Urban Construction from Constantine to Mao

Ritualizing the City: Collective Performances as Aspects...

Author: Zeynep Akture ,  Maria Axenti
ISBN: 9788867288946
Format: Paperback
$126.72

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Cityscapes of New Orleans

Cityscapes of New Orleans

Author: Richard Campanella
ISBN: 9780807168332
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Exploring the Crescent City from the ground up, Richard Campanella takes us on a winding journey toward explaining...  Read More >>

Greater than Ever: New York's Ultimate Comeback Story

Greater than Ever: New York's Ultimate Comeback Story...

Author: Daniel L. Doctoroff
ISBN: 9781610396073
Format: Hardback
$49.99

The former deputy mayor of New York City tells the story of the city's comeback after 9/11, offering lessons in...  Read More >>

What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician's Guide to Rebuilding America's Communities—One Coffee Shop, Dog Run, and Open-Mike Night at a Time

What I Found in a Thousand Towns: A Traveling Musician's...

Author: Dar Williams
ISBN: 9780465098965
Format: Hardback
$49.99

From singer-songwriter and activist Dar Williams, an examination of the fall and rise of the small American towns...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: Jerome Krase ,  Zdenek Uherek
ISBN: 9783319539515
Format: Hardback
$175.92

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

Relational Planning: Tracing Artefacts, Agency and Practices

Relational Planning: Tracing Artefacts, Agency and Practices...

Author: Monika Kurath ,  Marko Marskamp
ISBN: 9783319604619
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This volume introduces the notion of ‘relational planning’ through a collection of theoretical and empirical contributions...  Read More >>

Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions: Delivering on the UNESCO 2013, Beijing Declaration on Building Learning Cities

Entrepreneurial Learning City Regions: Delivering on...

Author: Judith James ,  Jean Preece
ISBN: 9783319611297
Format: Hardback
$181.10

This book proposes an alternative strategy to improve and sustain prosperity, through the creation of an entrepreneurial...  Read More >>

Greening Post-Industrial Cities: Growth, Equity, and Environmental Governance

Greening Post-Industrial Cities: Growth, Equity, and...

Author: Corina McKendry
ISBN: 9781138776135
Format: Hardback
$284.00

City greening has been heralded for contributing to environmental governance and critiqued for exacerbating displacement...  Read More >>

Rethinking, Reinterpreting and Restructuring Composite Cities

Rethinking, Reinterpreting and Restructuring Composite...

Author: Meltem Aksoy ,  Gulsun Saglamer
ISBN: 9781443898577
Format: Hardback
$290.27

Developments in science and technology, demand-driven education and practices, climate change, the gradual decrease...  Read More >>

City

City

Author: Phil Hubbard (King's College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138203594
Format: Hardback
$378.00

Locates the concept of 'the city' within the traditions of social thought, providing a basis for understanding its...  Read More >>

The New Suburbanites: Race and Housing in the Suburbs

The New Suburbanites: Race and Housing in the Suburbs...

Author: Robert W. Lake
ISBN: 9781138537118
Format: Hardback
$284.00

National data indicates a surge in African-American suburbanization during the 1970s  Read More >>

La Tirania de las Elites Segunda Edicion: Psicopolitica y Poder

La Tirania de las Elites Segunda Edicion: Psicopolitica...

Author: Angel Alemany
ISBN: 9781979067850
Format: Paperback
$29.04

La continuacion de La Piel de Dios. Una vision analitica a la mentalidad extractiva ejercida por el capitalismo...  Read More >>

Studien Zum Spatklassischen Und Fruhhellenistischen Stadtebau in Arkadien, Der Dodekanes Und Makedonien

Studien Zum Spatklassischen Und Fruhhellenistischen...

Author: Martin Tombragel
ISBN: 9783447109024
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Im 4. Jahrhundert v.Chr. werden drei Regionen der ostlichen Mittelmeerwelt durch urbanistische Massnahmen tiefgreifend...  Read More >>

Rsf: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: The Underground Gun Market: Implications for Regulation and Enforcement

Rsf: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social...

Author: Philip J Cook ,  Harold A Pollack
ISBN: 9780871547422
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Each year, gun homicides kill over ten thousand people in the United States. While most guns are initially purchased...  Read More >>

Signs of Hope: Messages from Subway Therapy

Signs of Hope: Messages from Subway Therapy

Author: Matthew Levee Chavez
ISBN: 9781635570809
Format: Hardback
$63.36

A deeply moving and inspiring collection of notes from the most expressive wall in the world.  Read More >>

Urban Shalom and the Cities We Need

Urban Shalom and the Cities We Need

Author: Andre Van Eymeren ,  Ash Barker
ISBN: 9781999779894
Format: Paperback
$25.88

What does it mean to create shalom in the urban environment? Practitioners, leaders & academics offer insights and...  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: 9783319521046
Format: Hardback
$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 >>

Landschaftsarchitekturtheorie: Aktuelle Zugänge, Perspektiven und Positionen

Landschaftsarchitekturtheorie: Aktuelle Zugänge, Perspektiven...

Author: Karsten Berr
ISBN: 9783658188375
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen den Sinn und Zweck der Praxis von Landschaftsarchitekten, die bei der Gestaltung...  Read More >>

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