Urban communities books

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Cultural Heritage and Peripheral Spaces in Singapore

Cultural Heritage and Peripheral Spaces in Singapore...

Author: Tai Wei Lim
ISBN: 9789811047466
Format: Hardback
$232.85

Offering a unique study of nostalgia in Singaporean heritage, it discusses the subjective nostalgic meanings and...  Read More >>

The Small Community: Foundation of Democratic Life

The Small Community: Foundation of Democratic Life

Author: Arthur E. Morgan ,  Baker Brownell
ISBN: 9781138538542
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In this age of large cities, mass culture, and ever more massive events, people must struggle against an overwhelming...  Read More >>

Mapping Urbanities: Morphologies, Flows, Possibilities

Mapping Urbanities: Morphologies, Flows, Possibilities...

Author: Kim Dovey ,  Elek Pafka
ISBN: 9781138233614
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Mapping Urbanities explores the potency of mapping as a research method that opens new horizons in our exploration...  Read More >>

Mapping Urbanities: Morphologies, Flows, Possibilities

Mapping Urbanities: Morphologies, Flows, Possibilities...

Author: Kim Dovey ,  Elek Pafka
ISBN: 9781138233607
Format: Hardback
$368.00

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Decentring Urban Governance: Narratives, Resistance and Contestation

Decentring Urban Governance: Narratives, Resistance...

Author: Mark Bevir (University of California, Berkeley, USA.) ,  Kim McKee
ISBN: 9781138229372
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book seeks to rethink governance not as a particular state formation, but as the diverse policies emerging...  Read More >>

here / still / now

here / still / now

Author: Paul D'Amato
ISBN: 9783868287820
Format: Hardback
$118.80

D'Amato's portraits give individual faces to the ongoing crisis in African-American communities.  Read More >>

Stadt, Region, Migration - Zum Wandel Urbaner Und Regionaler Raume: 53. Arbeitstagung in Munchen, 14.-16. November 2014

Stadt, Region, Migration - Zum Wandel Urbaner Und Regionaler...

Author: Hans-Joachim Hecker ,  Andreas Heusler
ISBN: 9783799564427
Format: Paperback
$129.36

Stadt, Region und Migration sind die fur die Beitrage in diesem Band bestimmenden Faktoren. Drei Themenkomplexe...  Read More >>

Transformations: Art and the City

Transformations: Art and the City

Author: Elizabeth Grierson (RMIT University) ,  Graham Cairns
ISBN: 9781783207725
Format: Paperback
$82.95

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Cities for Profit: The Real Estate Turn in Asia’s Urban Politics

Cities for Profit: The Real Estate Turn in Asia’s Urban...

Author: Gavin Shatkin
ISBN: 9781501711138
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Cities for Profit examines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asia—massive, privately built planned...  Read More >>

The Political Economy of Capital Cities

The Political Economy of Capital Cities

Author: Heike Mayer ,  Fritz Sager
ISBN: 9781138681439
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Capital cities that are not the dominant economic centers of their nations – so-called ‘secondary capital cities’...  Read More >>

Cities for Profit: The Real Estate Turn in Asia’s Urban Politics

Cities for Profit: The Real Estate Turn in Asia’s Urban...

Author: Gavin Shatkin
ISBN: 9781501709906
Format: Hardback
$279.45

Cities for Profit examines the phenomenon of urban real estate megaprojects in Asia—massive, privately built planned...  Read More >>

The Changing Middle Eastern City

The Changing Middle Eastern City

Author: G.H. Blake ,  R.I. Lawless
ISBN: 9781138642263
Format: Paperback
$77.99

The Middle East, defined here as extending from Morocco to Iran and Turkey to Sudan, lies at the crossroads of three...  Read More >>

Cities and Creativity from the Renaissance to the Present

Cities and Creativity from the Renaissance to the Present...

Author: Ilja Van Damme ,  Bert De Munck
ISBN: 9781138054066
Format: Hardback
$231.00

Urban studies has been engulfed by a creative city narrative in which concepts like the creative economy, the creative...  Read More >>

Information and Communications Technology as Potential Catalyst for Sustainable Urban Development: Experiences in Eindhoven, Helsinki, Manchester, Marseilles and The Hague

Information and Communications Technology as Potential...

Author: Leo van den Berg ,  Willem van Winden
ISBN: 9781138723559
Format: Hardback
$141.00

This title was first published in 2002: The information revolution has deeply influenced the development of Europe’s...  Read More >>

Suburbanizing the Masses: Public Transport and Urban Development in Historical Perspective

Suburbanizing the Masses: Public Transport and Urban...

Author: Colin Divall ,  Winstan Bond
ISBN: 9781138711563
Format: Hardback
$389.00

This title was first published in 2003. Suburbanizing the Masses examines how collective forms of transport have...  Read More >>

The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering the City for the Elite

The Creative Destruction of New York City: Engineering...

Author: Alessandro Busà (, Urban Reinventors Journal)
ISBN: 9780190610098
Format: Hardback
$48.95

The Creative Destruction of New York City tells the story of fifteen years of shocking urban changes in New York...  Read More >>

Love: A Philadelphia Affair

Love: A Philadelphia Affair

Author: Beth Kephart
ISBN: 9781439913161
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Philadelphia has been at the heart of many books by award-winning author Beth Kephart, but none more so than the...  Read More >>

Identity, Justice and Resistance in the Neoliberal City

Identity, Justice and Resistance in the Neoliberal City...

Author: Gülçin Erdi ,  Yıldırım Şentürk
ISBN: 9781137586315
Format: Hardback
$204.95

This book details the current neoliberal restructuring of cities and its impact on the rise and spread of resistance...  Read More >>

Die Verdammten der Stadt: Eine vergleichende Soziologie fortgeschrittener Marginalität

Die Verdammten der Stadt: Eine vergleichende Soziologie...

Author: Loïc Wacquant
ISBN: 9783658026790
Format: Paperback
$98.30

Die Verdammten der Stadt führt uns mitten ins schwarze Ghetto im Inneren Chicagos und in die sich deindustrialisierende...  Read More >>

Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice: From Loncheras to Lobsta Love

Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice:...

Author: Julian Agyeman (Associate Professor, Tufts University) ,  Caitlin Matthews
ISBN: 9780262534079
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Aspects of the urban food truck phenomenon, including community economic development, regulatory issues, and clashes...  Read More >>

Connecting Places, Connecting People: A Paradigm for Urban Living in the 21st Century

Connecting Places, Connecting People: A Paradigm for...

Author: Reena Tiwari (Professor Reena Tiwari, Curtin University, Perth Western Australia) ,  Reena Tiwari
ISBN: 9781138213050
Format: Hardback
$368.00

Connecting Places, Connecting People offers a new paradigm for place making, by reordering urban planning principles...  Read More >>

The Global Cultural Capital: Addressing the Citizen and Producing the City in Barcelona

The Global Cultural Capital: Addressing the Citizen...

Author: Mari Paz Balibrea
ISBN: 9781137535955
Format: Hardback
$249.95

This book argues the crucial role of culture and cultural policies in defining the notion of urban citizenship in...  Read More >>

Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge: 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the History of Cartography, 2016

Dissemination of Cartographic Knowledge: 6th International...

Author: Mirela Altic ,  Imre Josef Demhardt
ISBN: 9783319615141
Format: Hardback
$465.72

This book gathers 22 papers which were presented at the 6th International Symposium of the ICA Commission on the...  Read More >>

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