Urban communities books

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Housing Urban America

Housing Urban America

Author: E. Jay Howenstine ,  Robert Schafer
ISBN: 9781138525344
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer

Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer

Author: Stephanie Chambers ,  Jane Farrow
ISBN: 9781552453483
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The story of how Toronto came out as one of North America's leading hubs of queer activism and culture.  Read More >>

The City is Our Farm

The City is Our Farm

Author: Matthew Holden
ISBN: 9781138534711
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Cinematic Urban Geographies

Cinematic Urban Geographies

Author: François Penz ,  Richard Koeck
ISBN: 9781137468307
Format: Hardback
$204.95

This book proposes new methodological tools and approaches in order to tease out and elicit the different facets...  Read More >>

The American City: A Sourcebook of Urban Imagery

The American City: A Sourcebook of Urban Imagery

Author: David Riesman ,  Anselm L. Strauss
ISBN: 9781138534193
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This set of readings presents useful insights into urbanization and provides a fresh perspective on American cities...  Read More >>

La Parisienne in Cinema: Between Art and Life

La Parisienne in Cinema: Between Art and Life

Author: Felicity Chaplin
ISBN: 9781526109538
Format: Hardback
$183.99

The first book-length work on the Parisienne, this study combines scholarship in the fields of art history, literature...  Read More >>

Key Thinkers on Cities

Key Thinkers on Cities

Author: Regan Koch ,  Dr. Alan Latham
ISBN: 9781473907751
Format: Paperback
$81.75

The work of 40 innovative and influential thinkers are profiled in this text to provide students with an engaging...  Read More >>

Neighborhood Decline

Neighborhood Decline

Author: Ronald van Kempen ,  Gideon Bolt
ISBN: 9781138744707
Format: Hardback
$252.00

The authors of this this book show that the 2018 economic crisis has affected poor neighborhoods more severely than...  Read More >>

Toward a Criminology of Disaster: What We Know and What We Need to Find Out

Toward a Criminology of Disaster: What We Know and What...

Author: Kelly Frailing ,  Dee Wood Harper
ISBN: 9781137469137
Format: Hardback
$272.95

This book puts forward a comprehensive criminology of disaster by drawing - and building - upon existing theories...  Read More >>

Embodying Cape Town: Engaging the City through its Built Edges and Contact Zones

Embodying Cape Town: Engaging the City through its Built...

Author: Shannon M. Jackson
ISBN: 9781137587107
Format: Hardback
$179.00

Each chapter attends to different groups, social practices, and historical periods, but all share the fundamental...  Read More >>

The Scottish Economy: A Living Book

The Scottish Economy: A Living Book

Author: Kenneth Gibb (University of Glasgow, UK) ,  Duncan Maclennan (University of St. Andrews, UK)
ISBN: 9781138960916
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book looks at the economy of Scotland from every angle – from the oil and gas sector to the labour market and...  Read More >>

The Scottish Economy: A Living Book

The Scottish Economy: A Living Book

Author: Kenneth Gibb (University of Glasgow, UK) ,  Duncan Maclennan (University of St. Andrews, UK)
ISBN: 9781138960923
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This book looks at the economy of Scotland from every angle – from the oil and gas sector to the labour market and...  Read More >>

Key Thinkers on Cities

Key Thinkers on Cities

Author: Regan Koch ,  Dr. Alan Latham
ISBN: 9781473907744
Format: Hardback
$254.50

The work of 40 innovative and influential thinkers are profiled in this text to provide students with an engaging...  Read More >>

Trends and Issues in Housing in Asia: Coming of an Age

Trends and Issues in Housing in Asia: Coming of an Age...

Author: Urmi Sengupta (Queen’s University Belfast, UK) ,  Annapurna Shaw
ISBN: 9781138696044
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book offers a comprehensive overview of current housing practices across Asian cities based on facts and trends...  Read More >>

Universities and Their Cities: Urban Higher Education in America

Universities and Their Cities: Urban Higher Education...

Author: Steven J. Diner (Rutgers University-Newark)
ISBN: 9781421422411
Format: Hardback
$102.00

Ultimately, this book is a considered and long overdue look at the symbiotic impact of these two great American...  Read More >>

The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City

The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in...

Author: Laura Tillman
ISBN: 9781472152145
Format: Paperback
$26.99

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The Language of Cities

The Language of Cities

Author: Deyan Sudjic
ISBN: 9780141980591
Format: Paperback
$26.99

The latest addition to the Design series, from the Director of the Design Museum We live in a world that is now...  Read More >>

Household Recycling and Consumption Work: Social and Moral Economies

Household Recycling and Consumption Work: Social and...

Author: Kathryn Wheeler ,  Miriam Glucksmann
ISBN: 9781349562886
Format: Paperback
$79.95

Consumers are not usually incorporated into the sociological concept of 'division of labour', but using the case...  Read More >>

The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes: Naming, Politics, and Place

The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes: Naming, Politics,...

Author: Reuben Rose-Redwood (University of Victoria, Canada) ,  Derek Alderman (University of Tennessee, USA)
ISBN: 9781472475091
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday urban life, yet they are also contested arenas...  Read More >>

Docklands: Urban Change And Conflict In A Community In Transition

Docklands: Urban Change And Conflict In A Community...

Author: Janet Foster
ISBN: 9781138424029
Format: Hardback
$378.00

A sociological study of a community in transition and the impact of urban regeneration. Change on the Isle of Dogs...  Read More >>

The Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition

The Sociable City: An American Intellectual Tradition...

Author: Jamin Creed Rowan
ISBN: 9780812249293
Format: Hardback
$131.87

The Sociable City chronicles how, as the city's physical and social landscapes evolved over the course of the late...  Read More >>

New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times

New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times

Author: AbdouMaliq Simone ,  Edgar Pieterse
ISBN: 9780745691565
Format: Paperback
$39.95

It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the...  Read More >>

I Know Places Around Town

I Know Places Around Town

Author: Trisha James
ISBN: 9781482463057
Format: Paperback
$24.16

The zoo, school, town library, and the police station. These are just a few of the places that are visited in this...  Read More >>

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