Urban communities books

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City Status in the British Isles, 1830–2002

City Status in the British Isles, 1830–2002

Author: John Beckett
ISBN: 9781138252127
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Based on a wide variety of government and civic records, this book traces the evolution of the changing nature of...  Read More >>

Colonizing, Decolonizing, and Globalizing Kolkata: From a Colonial to a Post-Marxist City

Colonizing, Decolonizing, and Globalizing Kolkata: From...

Author: Siddhartha Sen
ISBN: 9789462981119
Format: Hardback
$390.72

The richly illustrated bookk carefully situates architecture, design, and urban planning within Kolkata's political...  Read More >>

Within Walking Distance: Creating Livable Communities for All

Within Walking Distance: Creating Livable Communities...

Author: Philip Langdon
ISBN: 9781610917711
Format: Paperback
$97.99

Draws on the successes of six diverse U.S. communities for creating compact, walkable neighbourhoods.  Read More >>

Savannah Then and Now®

Savannah Then and Now®

Author: Polly Cooper ,  Ted Eldridge
ISBN: 9781910496565
Format: Hardback
$38.79

Putting archive and contemporary photographs of the same landmark side-by-side, Savannah Then and Now (R) is a visual...  Read More >>

Milton Santos: A Pioneer in Critical Geography from the Global South

Milton Santos: A Pioneer in Critical Geography from...

Author: Lucas Melgaço ,  Carolyn Prouse
ISBN: 9783319538259
Format: Hardback
$181.10

For decades, Milton Santos (1926-2001) has been considered one of the most influential thinkers in Brazilian and...  Read More >>

Griffintown: Identity and Memory in an Irish Diaspora Neighbourhood

Griffintown: Identity and Memory in an Irish Diaspora...

Author: Matthew Barlow
ISBN: 9780774834339
Format: Hardback
$181.13

This vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Irish Catholic...  Read More >>

Water vs. Urban Scape: Exploring Integrated Water-Urban Arrangements

Water vs. Urban Scape: Exploring Integrated Water-Urban...

Author: Marco Ranzato
ISBN: 9783868594751
Format: Hardback
$75.00

Water vs. Urban Scape presents promising new approaches to integrate water into the urban landscape.  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: 9781315167046
Format: Undefined
$131.87

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

Planning Support Science for Smarter Urban Futures

Planning Support Science for Smarter Urban Futures

Author: Stan Geertman ,  Andrew Allan
ISBN: 9783319578187
Format: Hardback
$517.47

This book offers a selection of the best articles presented at the CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban...  Read More >>

Education in America

Education in America

Author: Kimberly A. Goyette
ISBN: 9780520285118
Format: Paperback
$49.95

"Provides an introduction to education in the U.S., from its origins to its contemporary manifestations. Focusing...  Read More >>

Reanimating Regions: Culture, Politics, and Performance

Reanimating Regions: Culture, Politics, and Performance...

Author: James Riding (University of Sheffield, UK) ,  Martin Jones (University of Sheffield, UK)
ISBN: 9781138931534
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Writing regions, undertaking a regional study, was once a standard form of geographic communication and critique....  Read More >>

Deconstructing the High Line: Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevated Park

Deconstructing the High Line: Postindustrial Urbanism...

Author: Christoph Lindner ,  Brian Rosa
ISBN: 9780813576459
Format: Paperback
$97.55

The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world's...  Read More >>

Education in America

Education in America

Author: Kimberly A. Goyette
ISBN: 9780520285101
Format: Hardback
$157.95

"Provides an introduction to education in the U.S., from its origins to its contemporary manifestations. Focusing...  Read More >>

Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy

Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy...

Author: Richard E. Ocejo
ISBN: 9780691165493
Format: Hardback
$54.99

How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into...  Read More >>

Deconstructing the High Line: Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevated Park

Deconstructing the High Line: Postindustrial Urbanism...

Author: Christoph Lindner ,  Brian Rosa
ISBN: 9780813576466
Format: Hardback
$396.00

The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world's...  Read More >>

The Story of Sherwood Forest: One Hundred Years a Detroit Neighborhood

The Story of Sherwood Forest: One Hundred Years a Detroit...

Author: Gail Rodwan
ISBN: 9780692843581
Format: Hardback
$79.17

History of Sherwood Forest community in Detroit.  Read More >>

Climate Justice: Frontline Stories from Groundbreaking Coalitions in California

Climate Justice: Frontline Stories from Groundbreaking...

Author: Carl Anthony ,  M Paloma Pavel, PhD
ISBN: 9781546593652
Format: Paperback
$224.40

In the face of global crisis and in response to California's leadership in the field of global warming, climate...  Read More >>

Rebel Cities: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution

Rebel Cities: Paris, London and New York in the Age...

Author: x Mike Rapport
ISBN: 9781408705230
Format: Paperback
$37.99

A brilliant historical narrative of London, Paris and New York in the Age of Revolution, just as they were transforming...  Read More >>

Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 5: Urban Geology, Sustainable Planning and Landscape Exploitation

Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume...

Author: Giorgio Lollino ,  Andrea Manconi
ISBN: 9783319384207
Format: Paperback
$1034.97

This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the theme of urban geology.  Read More >>

There Are Other Black Sons to Save: Making Black Lives Matter by Overcoming the N-Word

There Are Other Black Sons to Save: Making Black Lives...

Author: Jan Lightfoot Phd
ISBN: 9781539347781
Format: Paperback
$37.83

EVERYTHING BLACK IS NOT A N-WORD There Are Other Black Sons to Save is, at its core, a how-to manual for all parents,...  Read More >>

Rebel Cities: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution

Rebel Cities: Paris, London and New York in the Age...

Author: x Mike Rapport
ISBN: 9781408702918
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A brilliant historical narrative of London, Paris and New York in the Age of Revolution, just as they were transforming...  Read More >>

Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities

Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities

Author: Youqin Huang (State University of New York, USA) ,  Si-ming Li (Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781138069220
Format: Paperback
$62.99

In recent decades, Chinese cities have experienced profound social, economic and spatial transformations. In particular,...  Read More >>

Unravelling Complexities: Understanding Public Spaces

Unravelling Complexities: Understanding Public Spaces...

Author: Yvonne Franz (Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Austria) ,  Christiane Hintermann
ISBN: 9783700181330
Format: Paperback
$79.20

Public spaces are important places in city and urban life. The functions ascribed to public space are broad, ranging...  Read More >>

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