Urban communities books

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Who Cleans the Park?: Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City

Who Cleans the Park?: Public Work and Urban Governance...

Author: John Krinsky ,  Maud Simonet
ISBN: 9780226435589
Format: Paperback
$62.95

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Cities as Multiple Landscapes: Investigating the Sister Cities Innsbruck and New Orleans

Cities as Multiple Landscapes: Investigating the Sister...

Author: Christina Antenhofer ,  Gunter Bischof
ISBN: 9783593506470
Format: Paperback
$112.95

Cities are composed of a combination of urban and rural spaces, buildings and boundaries, and human bodies engaged...  Read More >>

Who Cleans the Park?: Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City

Who Cleans the Park?: Public Work and Urban Governance...

Author: John Krinsky ,  Maud Simonet
ISBN: 9780226435442
Format: Hardback
$187.95

America’s public parks are in a golden age. Hundreds of millions of dollars—both public and private—fund urban jewels...  Read More >>

Community Organization and Development: from its history towards a model for the future

Community Organization and Development: from its history...

Author: Steve Clarke
ISBN: 9781786830500
Format: Paperback
$124.95

Community development describes a professional intervention technique for building and strengthening communities....  Read More >>

Sustainable Development and Renovation in Architecture, Urbanism and Engineering

Sustainable Development and Renovation in Architecture,...

Author: Pilar Mercader-Moyano
ISBN: 9783319514413
Format: Hardback
$475.17

This book provides an overview of the environmental problems that arise from construction activity, focusing on...  Read More >>

Space, Difference, Everyday Life

Space, Difference, Everyday Life

Author: Justin Hudson
ISBN: 9781977731098
Format: Paperback
$106.18

In the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvre's reputation has catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered...  Read More >>

Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea

Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an...

Author: Professor of Sociology Mitchell Duneier (Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780374536770
Format: Paperback
$35.75

A New York Times Notable Book of 2016 Winner of the Zócalo Public Square Book Prize On March 29, 1516, the city...  Read More >>

Padres E Hijos

Padres E Hijos

Author: Roberto Merino
ISBN: 9789568935450
Format: Paperback
$36.93

No creo que entendamos cabalmente ni a nuestros padres ni a nuestros hijos. De hecho, estas personas -las m s cercanas...  Read More >>

The Suburban Apartment Boom: Case Study of a Land Use Problem

The Suburban Apartment Boom: Case Study of a Land Use...

Author: Max Neutze
ISBN: 9781138955325
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia

Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South...

Author: Tereza Kuldova ,  Mathew A. Varghese
ISBN: 9783319476223
Format: Hardback
$232.85

This book brings anthropologists and critical theorists together in order to investigate utopian visions of the...  Read More >>

Twelve Pillars of Correctness

Twelve Pillars of Correctness

Author: Tommy Hammer
ISBN: 9781545359167
Format: Paperback
$23.73

The twelve chapters of this book are mostly independent scenarios, presented in dialog form, that take a lighthearted...  Read More >>

Imagining Sustainability: Creative urban environmental governance in Chicago and Melbourne

Imagining Sustainability: Creative urban environmental...

Author: Julie Cidell
ISBN: 9781138926073
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Cities, rather than nations, have become the key sites for enacting environmental policies. This is due to the combination...  Read More >>

Shanghai Regeneration: Five Paradigms

Shanghai Regeneration: Five Paradigms

Author: Dingliang Yang ,  Xiangning Li
ISBN: 9781939621610
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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The Urban Climate Challenge: Rethinking the Role of Cities in the Global Climate Regime

The Urban Climate Challenge: Rethinking the Role of...

Author: Craig Johnson (University of Guelph, Canada) ,  Noah Toly
ISBN: 9781138066571
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Drawing upon a variety of empirical and theoretical perspectives, The Urban Climate Challenge provides a hands-on...  Read More >>

Supersizing Urban America: How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help

Supersizing Urban America: How Inner Cities Got Fast...

Author: Chin Jou
ISBN: 9780226921921
Format: Hardback
$47.95

More than one-third of adults in the United States are obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates...  Read More >>

Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

Author: Anne Garrels
ISBN: 9781250118110
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A revealing look into the lives of ordinary Russians.  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: 9781501104275
Format: Paperback
$44.88

A harrowing, profoundly personal investigation of the causes, effects, and communal toll of a deeply troubling crime...  Read More >>

Raising A Black Scholar: A Curriculum

Raising A Black Scholar: A Curriculum

Author: M Ed III Roosevelt Mitchell
ISBN: 9780990885047
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Raising A Black Scholar bridges that gap between being just a student and becoming a black scholar with requisite...  Read More >>

Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling

Curated Stories: The Uses and Misuses of Storytelling...

Author: Professor Sujatha Fernandes (University of Sydney)
ISBN: 9780190618087
Format: Undefined
$303.60

Storytelling has proliferated today, from TED Talks and Humans of New York to a plethora of story-coaching agencies...  Read More >>

Claiming the City and Contesting the State: Squatting, Community Formation and Democratization in Spain (1955–1986)

Claiming the City and Contesting the State: Squatting,...

Author: Inbal Ofer (The Open University of Israel, Israel.)
ISBN: 9781138237711
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The present book analyzes the relationship between internal migration, urbanization and democratization in Spain...  Read More >>

Shrinking Cities and First Suburbs: The Case of Detroit and Warren, Michigan

Shrinking Cities and First Suburbs: The Case of Detroit...

Author: Anirban Adhya
ISBN: 9783319517087
Format: Hardback
$129.35

This book examines Warren, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, as a shrinking city facing a crisis of economic downturn,...  Read More >>

Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century

Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century

Author: Rowan Moore
ISBN: 9781447270201
Format: Paperback
$28.44

‘A political book in the best sense – helping us to imagine a better world, reminding us that ideas shape how we...  Read More >>

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