Urban communities books

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Urban Studies and Planning

Urban Studies and Planning

Author: Dominque Craft
ISBN: 9781632405791
Format: Hardback
$382.67

Urban studies and planning deals with the allocation and management of land as a public resource and the regulation...  Read More >>

Innovative Community Change Practices

Innovative Community Change Practices

Author: Norman Walzer (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA; Purdue University, USA) ,  Sam Cordes (Purdue University, Indiana, USA)
ISBN: 9781138085589
Format: Paperback
$101.00

The national recession forced many communities to examine new and innovative ways to promote local economic development,...  Read More >>

Innovative Measurement and Evaluation of Community Development Practices

Innovative Measurement and Evaluation of Community Development...

Author: Norman Walzer (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA; Purdue University, USA) ,  Jane Leonard (Minnesota Office of Broadband Development, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA)
ISBN: 9781138085527
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This book focuses on new ways to measure impacts on communities resulting from development practices and provides...  Read More >>

Frontiers of Land and Water Governance in Urban Areas

Frontiers of Land and Water Governance in Urban Areas...

Author: Thomas Hartmann (Utrecht University, Netherlands) ,  Tejo Spit (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781138086180
Format: Paperback
$69.99

At the physical boundaries between land and water in urban areas, frontiers of governance emerge. This publication...  Read More >>

Making Rent In Bed-Stuy: A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City

Making Rent In Bed-Stuy: A Memoir of Trying to Make...

Author: Brandon Harris
ISBN: 9780062415646
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Humorous memoir by a young filmmaker about his experience living in the historically black neighborhood, Bedford-Stuyvesant,...  Read More >>

Costs of Sprawl

Costs of Sprawl

Author: Reid Ewing ,  Shima Hamidi
ISBN: 9781138081369
Format: Hardback
$368.00

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Understanding India's New Approach to Spatial Planning and Development: A Salient Shift?

Understanding India's New Approach to Spatial Planning...

Author: Sanjeev Vidyarthi (Associate professor, Associate professor, University of Illinois, Chicago.) ,  Shishir Mathur (Associate Dean (Research), Associate Dean (Research), San Jose State University)
ISBN: 9780199472642
Format: Hardback
$87.95

Is there a political and economic struggle when it comes to spatial development and planning of India's urban and...  Read More >>

The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart

The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America...

Author: Bill Bishop ,  Paul Brion
ISBN: 9781541457508
Format: Audio
$79.17

In The Big Sort, Bill Bishop has taken his analysis to a new level. He begins with stories about how we live today...  Read More >>

The Rise Of Cities

The Rise Of Cities

Author: Dimitri Roussopoulos
ISBN: 9781551643342
Format: Paperback
$52.77

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Crossing the divide: Precarious work and the future of labour

Crossing the divide: Precarious work and the future...

Author: Edward Webster ,  Akua O. Britwum
ISBN: 9781869143534
Format: Paperback
$34.10

While work-related insecurities and worker vulnerability induced by neoliberal globalisation are undeniably affecting...  Read More >>

Urban Transformations: Geographies of Renewal and Creative Change

Urban Transformations: Geographies of Renewal and Creative...

Author: Nicholas Wise ,  Julie Clark
ISBN: 9781138652095
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book tells the story of how urban transformation impacts on people’s lives and everyday interactions—to question...  Read More >>

Ostdeutsche Großwohnsiedlungen: Entwicklung und Perspektiven

Ostdeutsche Großwohnsiedlungen: Entwicklung und Perspektiven...

Author: Nico Grunze
ISBN: 9783658185398
Format: Paperback
$98.30

Nico Grunze untersucht die vielgestaltigen Entwicklungen der ostdeutschen Großwohnsiedlungen, die die Städte seit...  Read More >>

Philadelphia: A Brief History

Philadelphia: A Brief History

Author: Roger D. Simon
ISBN: 9781932304268
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Understanding Philadelphia's history requires that we understand that nothing is inevitable; history is not made...  Read More >>

Manhattan: Rectangular Grid for Ordering an Island

Manhattan: Rectangular Grid for Ordering an Island

Author: Joan Busquets ,  Nikos Katsikis
ISBN: 9781939621511
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Part of the Redesigning Gridded Cities series of four titles, exploring the grid as a design tool.  Read More >>

Hangzhou: Grids from Canal to Maxi-Block

Hangzhou: Grids from Canal to Maxi-Block

Author: Joan Busquets ,  Dingliang Yang
ISBN: 9781939621542
Format: Paperback
$52.95

Part of the Redesigning Gridded Cities series of four titles, exploring the grid as a design tool.  Read More >>

The Rise Of Cities

The Rise Of Cities

Author: Dimitri Roussopoulos
ISBN: 9781551643359
Format: Hardback
$129.33

Examining key issues such as the parasitic relationships cities have with Nature, the webs of trade and immigration...  Read More >>

Urban Spaces and Lifestyles in Central Asia and Beyond

Urban Spaces and Lifestyles in Central Asia and Beyond...

Author: Philipp Schröder (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)
ISBN: 9781138743199
Format: Hardback
$183.00

This book assembles original ethnographic research into urban spaces and lifestyles in Central Asia, the Caucasus...  Read More >>

Urban Sustainability Transitions

Urban Sustainability Transitions

Author: Niki Frantzeskaki (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) ,  Vanesa Castán Broto (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415784184
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book provides new insights into how sustainability transitions unfold in different types of cities across the...  Read More >>

Locating Right to the City in the Global South

Locating Right to the City in the Global South

Author: Tony Samara (George Mason University, USA) ,  Shenjing He (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)
ISBN: 9781138108103
Format: Paperback
$110.00

Despite the fact that virtually all urban growth is occurring, and will continue to occur, in the cities of the...  Read More >>

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