Urban communities books

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Masculinities and Markets: Raced and Gendered Urban Politics in Milwaukee

Masculinities and Markets: Raced and Gendered Urban...

Author: Brenda Parker
ISBN: 9780820350325
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Studies of urban neoliberalism have been surprisingly inattentive to gender. Brenda Parker begins to remedy this...  Read More >>

San Francisco Bay Area Sports: Golden Gate Athletics, Recreation, and Community

San Francisco Bay Area Sports: Golden Gate Athletics,...

Author: Rita Liberti ,  Maureen Smith
ISBN: 9781682260203
Format: Paperback
$74.91

Brings together fifteen essays covering the issues, controversies, and personalities that have emerged as northern...  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: 9781681237312
Format: Hardback
$263.31

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

The Social Impacts of Urban Containment

The Social Impacts of Urban Containment

Author: Arthur C. Nelson ,  Casey J. Dawkins
ISBN: 9781138262270
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Examines the effects of urban containment policies of social issues, such as housing, wealth creation, and racial...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: T.F. Tierney
ISBN: 9780813939414
Format: Hardback
$184.80

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

The Public Economy of Urban Communities

The Public Economy of Urban Communities

Author: Julius Margoli
ISBN: 9781138946422
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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Cities and the Super-Rich: Real Estate, Elite Practices and Urban Political Economies

Cities and the Super-Rich: Real Estate, Elite Practices...

Author: Ray Forrest ,  Sin Yee Koh
ISBN: 9781137557155
Format: Hardback
$192.95

"""This book grew out of a two-day workshop hosted by the Urban Research Group at the City University of Hong Kong...  Read More >>

Masculinities and Markets: Raced and Gendered Urban Politics in Milwaukee

Masculinities and Markets: Raced and Gendered Urban...

Author: Brenda Parker
ISBN: 9780820335117
Format: Hardback
$234.83

Studies of urban neoliberalism have been surprisingly inattentive to gender. Brenda Parker begins to remedy this...  Read More >>

Medieval Urban Planning: The Monastery and Beyond

Medieval Urban Planning: The Monastery and Beyond

Author: Mickey Abel
ISBN: 9781443843171
Format: Hardback
$240.11

Broadly defined, urban planning today is a process one might describe as half design and half social engineering....  Read More >>

Racial Cities: Governance and the Segregation of Romani People in Urban Europe

Racial Cities: Governance and the Segregation of Romani...

Author: Giovanni Picker (Central European University, Hungary)
ISBN: 9781138808782
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Going beyond race-blind and conventional approaches to spatial segregation, Racial Cities uncovers the multiple...  Read More >>

City Life in Japan

City Life in Japan

Author: Ron P. Dore
ISBN: 9781138164642
Format: Hardback
$75.99

The continuing relevance of Ron Dore's classic study of Japanese urban life and social structures is widely accepted...  Read More >>

Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The Lure of the Local Film Economy

Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The Lure of the...

Author: Vicki Mayer
ISBN: 9780520293816
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Early in the twenty-first century, Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United States, redirected millions...  Read More >>

The Marriage Ultimatum

The Marriage Ultimatum

Author: Christine Glover
ISBN: 9798215068724
Format: Paperback
$26.37

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The Sandwich Generation: Caring for Oneself and Others at Home and at Work

The Sandwich Generation: Caring for Oneself and Others...

Author: Ronald J. Burke ,  Lisa M. Calvano
ISBN: 9781785364952
Format: Hardback
$285.00

Rising life expectancy has led to the growth of the ‘Sandwich Generation’ – men and women who are caregivers to...  Read More >>

Immigration and the City

Immigration and the City

Author: Eric Fong ,  Brent Berry
ISBN: 9780745690025
Format: Paperback
$32.95

The majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few can deny the dynamic influence migration has...  Read More >>

The Role of Computer Education in the Social Empowerment of Muslim Minority Women in Greek Thrace

The Role of Computer Education in the Social Empowerment...

Author: Keratso Georgiadou
ISBN: 9783631714447
Format: Hardback
$123.68

This book explores the Muslim minority women’s perceptions of how computer education can lead them to social participation....  Read More >>

Immigration and the City

Immigration and the City

Author: Eric Fong ,  Brent Berry
ISBN: 9780745690018
Format: Hardback
$103.95

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The World’s Urban Forests: History, Composition, Design, Function and Management

The World’s Urban Forests: History, Composition, Design,...

Author: Joe R. McBride
ISBN: 9783319521077
Format: Hardback
$181.10

The purpose of this book is to examine urban forests in cities around the world. Constraints and opportunities imposed...  Read More >>

Arts in Place: The Arts, the Urban and Social Practice

Arts in Place: The Arts, the Urban and Social Practice...

Author: Cara Courage (University of Brighton, UK)
ISBN: 9781138962637
Format: Hardback
$242.00

This interdisciplinary book explores the role of art in placemaking in urban environments, analysing how artists...  Read More >>

Rsf: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences: Spatial Foundations of Inequality

Rsf: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social...

Author: George Galster (Wayne State University USA) ,  Patrick Sharkey
ISBN: 9780871547392
Format: Paperback
$79.07

From school and residential segregation to increased pollution and aggressive policing in low-income neighborhoods,...  Read More >>

Berlin Verwahrlost!

Berlin Verwahrlost!

Author: Anette R
ISBN: 9783743102408
Format: Paperback
$39.34

BERLIN VERWAHRLOST! Ignorant - Dreckig - Arm Das heutige Berlin ist arm, dreckig, kalt, abweisend, anstrengend,...  Read More >>

Race and Ethnicity in America

Race and Ethnicity in America

Author: John Iceland
ISBN: 9780520286924
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Do human capital differences explain black-white inequality, or are other factors more important? Are we seeing...  Read More >>

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