Urban communities books

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The Urbanism of Exception: The Dynamics of Global City Building in the Twenty-First Century

The Urbanism of Exception: The Dynamics of Global City...

Author: Martin J. Murray (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
ISBN: 9781107169241
Format: Hardback
$284.63

This book challenges the conventional understanding of cities not only as bounded spaces with a coherence all of...  Read More >>

Design Governance: The CABE Experiment

Design Governance: The CABE Experiment

Author: Matthew Carmona ,  Claudio De Magalhaes
ISBN: 9781138812154
Format: Paperback
$137.00

Design Governance reflects on the experience of CABE (the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment),...  Read More >>

Paradox of Growth: Laws of global development of humanity

Paradox of Growth: Laws of global development of humanity...

Author: Sergei Kapitsa
ISBN: 9781782671213
Format: Paperback
$40.75

In this book, the famous scientist, Sergei Kapitsa, explains complicated theories in an uncomplicated manner that...  Read More >>

Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth

Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization...

Author: Victor M. Rios ,  James Diego Vigil
ISBN: 9780226090993
Format: Paperback
$37.95

This book is a powerful look at how authority figures succeed-and fail-at seeing the multi-faceted identities of...  Read More >>

Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and New York

Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in Paris and...

Author: Cathy Lisa Schneider
ISBN: 9780812223903
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Cathy Lisa Schneider looks at the relationship between racialized police violence and urban upheaval in impoverished...  Read More >>

Hold on to Your Dreams: A Youth Program

Hold on to Your Dreams: A Youth Program

Author: Jonas Brinkley ,  Katrina Breier
ISBN: 9781545175651
Format: Paperback
$18.48

VOMA Publications Supporting our nation's youth.  Read More >>

Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution

Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution

Author: Janette Sadik-Khan ,  Seth Solomonow
ISBN: 9780143128977
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Janette Sadik-Khan radically redesigned New York s streets. In Streetwise imparts wisdom and practical advice that...  Read More >>

Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran

Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran

Author: Shahram Khosravi
ISBN: 9780812248876
Format: Hardback
$171.47

Drawing on extensive ethnographic engagement with youth in Tehran and Isfahan as well as with migrant workers in...  Read More >>

Beyond Rust: Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America

Beyond Rust: Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of...

Author: Allen Dieterich-Ward
ISBN: 9780812223927
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Beyond Rust is among the first books of its kind to continue past the collapse of American manufacturing in the...  Read More >>

Suburb: Planning Politics and the Public Interest

Suburb: Planning Politics and the Public Interest

Author: Royce Hanson
ISBN: 9781501705250
Format: Hardback
$111.26

Land-use policy is at the center of suburban political economies because everything has to happen somewhere but...  Read More >>

Transport Infrastructure and Systems: Proceedings of the AIIT International Congress on Transport Infrastructure and Systems (Rome, Italy, 10-12 April 2017)

Transport Infrastructure and Systems: Proceedings of...

Author: Gianluca Dell'Acqua (Federico II University of Napoli, Italy) ,  Fred Wegman (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781138030091
Format: Hardback
$683.00

Transport Infrastructure and Systems comprises the proceedings of the International Congress on Transport Infrastructure...  Read More >>

Phoenix Then and Now®

Phoenix Then and Now®

Author: Paul Scharbach ,  John Akers
ISBN: 9781911216469
Format: Hardback
$38.79

Phoenix Then and Now takes 70 vintage photos of the city sustained by the Salt River and compares them with the...  Read More >>

City Riffs Urbanism, Ecology, Place

City Riffs Urbanism, Ecology, Place

Author: Richard Plunz
ISBN: 9783037785003
Format: Paperback
$52.99

A journey around the world of sustainable urban design.  Read More >>

The Grinch Who Stole Hip Hop: : Graphic Study and Depiction of the Musical and Artistic Homicide of Urban Culture

The Grinch Who Stole Hip Hop: : Graphic Study and Depiction...

Author: R K Lemmons-Weber
ISBN: 9781537295381
Format: Paperback
$39.57

This study will explore how the Harlem Renaissance gave birth to the current genre called, Hip Hop yet, due to...  Read More >>

Rowing Inland

Rowing Inland

Author: Jim Daniels
ISBN: 9780814342183
Format: Paperback
$47.49

Charts the emotional, political, and economic landscapes of the working-class Metro Detroit community and its residents....  Read More >>

Working Together: Enhancing Urban Educator Quality Through School-Univsersity Partnerships

Working Together: Enhancing Urban Educator Quality Through...

Author: Diane Yendol-Hoppey ,  Deborah A. Shanley
ISBN: 9781681237305
Format: Paperback
$146.89

Provides illustrations of urban school-university partnerships recognised by the Shirley Schwartz Award of Council...  Read More >>

Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780-1830

Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early...

Author: Bernard L. Herman
ISBN: 9781469633527
Format: Paperback
$85.80

Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780-1830  Read More >>

Finance for City Leaders Handbook

Finance for City Leaders Handbook

Author: UN-HABITAT ,  United Nations Publications
ISBN: 9789211327212
Format: Paperback
$132.00

Presents an up-to-date, comprehensive, and in-depth analysis of the challenges posed by rapid urbanization and the...  Read More >>

Städtische Mobilitätskulturen und Wohnumzüge

Städtische Mobilitätskulturen und Wohnumzüge

Author: Thomas Klinger
ISBN: 9783658172305
Format: Paperback
$98.30

Thomas Klinger analysiert das Verhalten von Menschen, die nach einem Wohnumzug mit einer andersartigen Mobilitätskultur...  Read More >>

Rebel Streets and the Informal Economy: Street Trade and the Law

Rebel Streets and the Informal Economy: Street Trade...

Author: Alison Brown (Cardiff University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138189744
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Street trade is a critical and highly visible component of the informal economy, linked to global systems of exchange....  Read More >>

Bhaktapur  Nepal: Urban Space and Ritual

Bhaktapur Nepal: Urban Space and Ritual

Author: Niels Gutschow
ISBN: 9783869225227
Format: Hardback
$473.57

As one of the three royal centres of the Kathmandu Valley in the Nepalese Himalayas, Bhaktapur is a thriving city...  Read More >>

Intelligent Infrastructure: Zip Cars, Invisible Networks, and Urban Transformation

Intelligent Infrastructure: Zip Cars, Invisible Networks,...

Author: T.F. Tierney
ISBN: 9780813939483
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Urban infrastructure is undergoing a fascinating and necessary transformation in the wake of new information and...  Read More >>

Central America urbanization review: making cities work for Central America

Central America urbanization review: making cities work...

Author: World Bank ,  Augustin Maria
ISBN: 9781464809859
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Central America is in the midst of an important transformation. Central America Urbanization Review: Making Cities...  Read More >>

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