Urban communities books

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Connected Lands: New Perspectives on Ecological Networks Planning

Connected Lands: New Perspectives on Ecological Networks...

Author: Filippo Schilleci ,  Vincenzo Todaro
ISBN: 9783319552323
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book explores and outlines the reference theoretical basis of ecological networks within the international...  Read More >>

Mega-Events and Globalization: Capital and Spectacle in a Changing World Order

Mega-Events and Globalization: Capital and Spectacle...

Author: Richard Gruneau (Simon Fraser University, Canada) ,  John Horne (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
ISBN: 9781138067882
Format: Paperback
$79.99

"Since the turn of the twenty first century, there has been a trend for urban ""mega events"" to be awarded to cities...  Read More >>

The UK Regional-National Economic Problem: Geography, globalisation and governance

The UK Regional-National Economic Problem: Geography,...

Author: Philip McCann (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781138895089
Format: Paperback
$75.99

In recent years, the United Kingdom has become a more and more divided society with inequality between the regions...  Read More >>

(Sub)Urban Sexscapes: Geographies and Regulation of the Sex Industry

(Sub)Urban Sexscapes: Geographies and Regulation of...

Author: Paul Maginn (The University of Western Australia, Australia) ,  Christine Steinmetz (University of New South Wales, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138060258
Format: Paperback
$96.99

(Sub)Urban Sexscapes presents a mix of geographical, sociological, urban planning and legal viewpoints of the commercial...  Read More >>

Squatting in Rio de Janeiro: Constructing Citizenship and Gender from Below

Squatting in Rio de Janeiro: Constructing Citizenship...

Author: Bea Wittger
ISBN: 9783837635478
Format: Paperback
$74.95

The Brazilian Constitution provides a remarkable set of social rights, including the right to housing. Despite this...  Read More >>

Himalayan Quality of Life: A Study of Aizawl City

Himalayan Quality of Life: A Study of Aizawl City

Author: Benjamin L. Saitluanga
ISBN: 9783319537795
Format: Hardback
$284.60

The main objectives of the study include analysis of processes and patterns of social differentiation along the...  Read More >>

All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island

All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated...

Author: Liza Jessie Peterson
ISBN: 9781455570911
Format: Hardback
$49.99

ALL DAY is a behind-the-bars, personal glimpse into the issue of mass incarceration via an unpredictable, insightful...  Read More >>

Integral City Inquiry & Action: Designing Impact for the Human Hive

Integral City Inquiry & Action: Designing Impact for...

Author: Marilyn Hamilton ,  Diana Claire Douglas
ISBN: 9781495187766
Format: Paperback
$56.54

This is a book of burning questions that deepen your reflective capacity for, with and as the city. This is a book...  Read More >>

A Guide to Local Environmental Auditing

A Guide to Local Environmental Auditing

Author: Hugh Barton ,  Noel Bruder
ISBN: 9781138180642
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained: Rethinking City-River Relations

Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained: Rethinking City-River...

Author: Martin Knoll ,  Uwe Lubken
ISBN: 9780822944591
Format: Hardback
$145.20

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Urban Transformations in Rio de Janeiro: Development, Segregation, and Governance

Urban Transformations in Rio de Janeiro: Development,...

Author: Luiz Cesar de Queiroz Ribeiro
ISBN: 9783319518985
Format: Hardback
$336.35

This book provides an overview of urban transformations taking place in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the...  Read More >>

The Many Rooms of this House: Diversity in Toronto's Places of Worship Since 1840

The Many Rooms of this House: Diversity in Toronto's...

Author: Roberto Perin
ISBN: 9781487500276
Format: Hardback
$175.00

The Many Rooms of this House is a story about the rise and decline of religion in Toronto over the past 160 years....  Read More >>

Debating the Neoliberal City

Debating the Neoliberal City

Author: Gilles Pinson ,  Christelle Morel Journel
ISBN: 9781472459572
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The neoliberal city thesis has become a key structuring analytical framework in the field of urban studies. It helps...  Read More >>

Guide Me to College: 10 Vital Steps Every Urban Youth Need for College

Guide Me to College: 10 Vital Steps Every Urban Youth...

Author: Starr Essence
ISBN: 9781546900764
Format: Paperback
$52.77

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Far and Away: How Travel Can Change the World

Far and Away: How Travel Can Change the World

Author: Andrew Solomon
ISBN: 9781476795058
Format: Paperback
$52.80

In 1991 Andrew Solomon rode a tank into Red Square in Moscow with a band of Russian artists protesting the coup...  Read More >>

Global Urban Agriculture

Global Urban Agriculture

Author: Antoinette WinklerPrins (Johns Hopkins University, USA) ,  Susan Algert (University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Cooperative Extension, USA)
ISBN: 9781780647326
Format: Hardback
$248.66

Urban agriculture is crucial to the environmental sustainability of cities, but the issues facing cities in the...  Read More >>

U-days. Ungulati a Bologna

U-days. Ungulati a Bologna

Author: Sergio Angeli
ISBN: 9788897589686
Format: Paperback
$50.16

� una tranquilla - o almeno cos� di primo acchito potrebbe sembrare...  Read More >>

Parkour and the City: Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport

Parkour and the City: Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning...

Author: Jeffrey L. Kidder
ISBN: 9780813571959
Format: Paperback
$108.11

In the increasingly popular sport of parkour, athletes run, jump, climb, flip, and vault through city streetscapes,...  Read More >>

The Collected Oz: Volume 3

The Collected Oz: Volume 3

Author: Richard Neville
ISBN: 9781908728647
Format: Paperback
$38.79

OZ was an underground alternative magazine. First published in Sydney, Australia, in 1963, a second version appeared...  Read More >>

The Icon Project: Architecture, Cities, and Capitalist Globalization

The Icon Project: Architecture, Cities, and Capitalist...

Author: Leslie Sklair (Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science)
ISBN: 9780190464189
Format: Hardback
$91.95

The Icon Project argues that the transnational capitalist class mobilizes two forms of iconic architecture--unique...  Read More >>

Architecture and the Social Sciences: Inter- and Multidisciplinary Approaches between Society and Space

Architecture and the Social Sciences: Inter- and Multidisciplinary...

Author: Maria Manuela Mendes ,  Teresa Sá
ISBN: 9783319534763
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book contributes to current debates on the relationship between architecture and the social sciences, highlighting...  Read More >>

The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class--And What We Can Do about It

The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing...

Author: Richard Florida (Carnegie-Mellon University) ,  Traber Burns
ISBN: 9781538451212
Format: Audio
$79.07

In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight...  Read More >>

The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class--And What We Can Do about It

The New Urban Crisis: How Our Cities Are Increasing...

Author: Richard Florida (Carnegie-Mellon University) ,  Traber Burns
ISBN: 9781538451205
Format: Audio
$92.27

In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight...  Read More >>

The New Urban Crisis Lib/E: How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-And What We Can Do about It

The New Urban Crisis Lib/E: How Our Cities Are Increasing...

Author: Richard Florida (Carnegie-Mellon University) ,  Traber Burns
ISBN: 9781538451199
Format: Audio
$200.64

In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight...  Read More >>

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