Urban communities books

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African Americans in White Suburbia: Social Networks and Political Behavior

African Americans in White Suburbia: Social Networks...

Author: Ernest McGowen III
ISBN: 9780700624171
Format: Paperback
$79.17

With Philadelphia as his primary case, McGowen uses a combination of surveys to understand the attitudes of affluent...  Read More >>

Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World: From the Early Modern to Modernism

Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic...

Author: Leonard von Morzé
ISBN: 9781137541291
Format: Hardback
$158.95

This book provides a much-needed comparative approach to the history of cities by investigating the dissemination...  Read More >>

Urban Flow: Bike Messengers and the City

Urban Flow: Bike Messengers and the City

Author: Jeffrey L. Kidder
ISBN: 9781501713590
Format: Paperback
$54.31

In Urban Flow, Jeffrey L. Kidder introduces readers to the fascinating subculture of bike messengers, exploring...  Read More >>

Green Gentrification: Urban sustainability and the struggle for environmental justice

Green Gentrification: Urban sustainability and the struggle...

Author: Kenneth Gould (City University of New York, USA) ,  Tammy Lewis (City University of New York, USA)
ISBN: 9781138309135
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban ""greening"" from an environmental justice and sustainable...  Read More >>

The Dead City: Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay

The Dead City: Urban Ruins and the Spectacle of Decay...

Author: Paul Dobraszczyk
ISBN: 9781784537166
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Cities are imagined not just as utopias, but also as ruins. In literature, film, art and popular culture, urban...  Read More >>

I Know Places Around Town

I Know Places Around Town

Author: Trisha James
ISBN: 9781482463071
Format: Hardback
$64.07

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

Urban Studies and Development

Urban Studies and Development

Author: Chayma Hamdani
ISBN: 9781682853580
Format: Hardback
$403.92

Urban studies and development is an interdisciplinary field. A primary aspect of this field is the development and...  Read More >>

Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability

Growing Compact: Urban Form, Density and Sustainability...

Author: Joo Hwa P. Bay ,  Steffen Lehmann
ISBN: 9781138680401
Format: Paperback
$105.00

The book presents contributions from internationally well-known scholars, thinkers and practitioners whose theoretical...  Read More >>

African Americans in White Suburbia: Social Networks and Political Behavior

African Americans in White Suburbia: Social Networks...

Author: Ernest McGowen III
ISBN: 9780700624164
Format: Hardback
$184.77

With Philadelphia as his primary case, McGowen uses a combination of surveys to understand the attitudes of affluent...  Read More >>

New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times

New Urban Worlds: Inhabiting Dissonant Times

Author: AbdouMaliq Simone ,  Edgar Pieterse
ISBN: 9780745691558
Format: Hardback
$113.95

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

Srey: Tales of Urban Girlhood

Srey: Tales of Urban Girlhood

Author: Evelina Fredricksson ,  Johanna Hallin
ISBN: 9789185639977
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Srey, the Cambodian word for girl, is used as a prefix to the girls' first names. Srey: Tales of Urban Girlhood...  Read More >>

Urban Flood Mitigation and Stormwater Management

Urban Flood Mitigation and Stormwater Management

Author: James C Y Guo
ISBN: 9781138198142
Format: Hardback
$326.00

This new text covers the principles of hydrology and drainage, low-impact-development designs, computer modelling...  Read More >>

Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility: Global Report on Human Settlements 2013

Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility:...

Author: Un-Habitat
ISBN: 9781138458222
Format: Hardback
$378.00

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Smog Alert: Managing Urban Air Quality

Smog Alert: Managing Urban Air Quality

Author: Derek Elsom
ISBN: 9781138410817
Format: Hardback
$378.00

The world's cities are choking on pollution from traffic and industry. This book examines the causes and scale of...  Read More >>

Religion and the Global City

Religion and the Global City

Author: Dr David Garbin (University of Kent, UK) ,  Anna Strhan (University of Kent, UK)
ISBN: 9781474272421
Format: Hardback
$260.00

This is the first book to explore how religious movements and actors shape and are shaped by aspects of global city...  Read More >>

Racial Profiling and the NYPD: The Who, What, When, and Why of Stop and Frisk

Racial Profiling and the NYPD: The Who, What, When,...

Author: Jay L. Newberry
ISBN: 9783319580906
Format: Hardback
$129.35

Specifically, this research will adds a spatial element to the numbers by analyzing the determinants of stop location...  Read More >>

Teaching and Learning Building Design and Construction

Teaching and Learning Building Design and Construction...

Author: David Dowdle ,  Vian Ahmed
ISBN: 9781138409132
Format: Hardback
$378.00

Innovation in building design and construction depends on innovative strategies being developed by teachers and...  Read More >>

Place, Policy and Politics: Do Localities Matter?

Place, Policy and Politics: Do Localities Matter?

Author: Michael Harloe ,  C.G. Pickvance
ISBN: 9781138424043
Format: Hardback
$378.00

Examines local political initiatives seeking to influence economic and social development in seven sharply contrasting...  Read More >>

Advances in Social & Occupational Ergonomics: Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on Social & Occupational Ergonomics, July 17-21, 2017, The Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA

Advances in Social & Occupational Ergonomics: Proceedings...

Author: Richard H.M. Goossens
ISBN: 9783319608273
Format: Paperback
$465.72

This book reports on cutting-edge research related to social and occupational factors. It presents innovative contributions...  Read More >>

Ghosts of Seattle Past

Ghosts of Seattle Past

Author: Jaimee Garbacik ,  Joshua Powell
ISBN: 9781634059640
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Place and politics collide in a multimedia free-for-all-a ghost tour of a boom city trying to find its soul.  Read More >>

Children's Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments

Children's Health and Wellbeing in Urban Environments...

Author: Christina R. Ergler (University of Otago, New Zealand) ,  Robin Kearns (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781472446015
Format: Hardback
$284.00

How children experience, negotiate and connect with - or resist - their physical and social environment impacts...  Read More >>

Transformations: Art and the City

Transformations: Art and the City

Author: Elizabeth Grierson (RMIT University) ,  Graham Cairns
ISBN: 9781783207732
Format: Electronic book text
$132.00

Transformations explores the interactions between people and their urban surroundings through site-specific art...  Read More >>

Community and the Human Spirit: Oral Histories from Montreal's Point St. Charles, Griffintown and Goose Village

Community and the Human Spirit: Oral Histories from...

Author: David J Flavell
ISBN: 9781927032787
Format: Hardback
$75.04

Montreal, Quebec Canada, oral histories from the Irish, Italian and French groups, late 20th century.  Read More >>

The Unequal City: Urban Resurgence, Displacement and the Making of Inequality in Global Cities

The Unequal City: Urban Resurgence, Displacement and...

Author: John Rennie Short
ISBN: 9781138280373
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Cities around the world have seen: an increase in population and capital investments in land and building; a shift...  Read More >>

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