Urban communities books

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Leadership in America's Best Urban Schools

Leadership in America's Best Urban Schools

Author: Joseph F. Johnson, Jr. (San Diego State University, USA) ,  Cynthia L. Uline (San Diego State University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138922815
Format: Hardback
$179.00

Leadership in America’s Best Urban Schools describes and demystifies the qualities that successful leaders rely...  Read More >>

Mission with: Something Out of the Ordinary

Mission with: Something Out of the Ordinary

Author: Paul Keeble
ISBN: 9781909728608
Format: Paperback
$23.26

Paul Keeble shares his story of living long term in an inner-city community as resident and neighbour who is a follower...  Read More >>

Race and Ethnicity in America

Race and Ethnicity in America

Author: John Iceland
ISBN: 9780520286900
Format: Hardback
$157.95

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

Latino City: Urban Planning, Politics, and the Grassroots

Latino City: Urban Planning, Politics, and the Grassroots...

Author: Erualdo R. Gonzalez (California State University, Fullerton, USA)
ISBN: 9781138820548
Format: Hardback
$284.00

American cities are increasingly turning to revitalization strategies that embrace the ideas of new urbanism and...  Read More >>

Policing European Metropolises: The Politics of Security in City-Regions

Policing European Metropolises: The Politics of Security...

Author: Elke Devroe (University of Leiden, Netherlands) ,  Adam Edwards
ISBN: 9781138951556
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book focuses on policing in city-regions in Europe bringing together experts from across the continent to develop...  Read More >>

The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience

The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban...

Author: Deborah Simonton
ISBN: 9781138815940
Format: Hardback
$546.00

Challenging current perspectives of urbanisation, this volume discusses gender in an urban context in European,...  Read More >>

Pigeon Hill: Then + Now

Pigeon Hill: Then + Now

Author: Jeffrey Wolin ,  Keith F. Davis
ISBN: 9783868287219
Format: Hardback
$92.40

The residents of a housing project in Indiana were re-photographed with a time gap up to thirty years.  Read More >>

Cities as International Actors: Urban and Regional Governance Beyond the Nation State

Cities as International Actors: Urban and Regional Governance...

Author: Tassilo Herrschel ,  Peter Newman
ISBN: 9781137396167
Format: Hardback
$260.95

The authors challenge academic debate that is reluctant to cross disciplinary boundaries and thus offer more relevant...  Read More >>

Revitalizing City Districts: Transformation Partnership for Urban Design and Architecture in Historic City Districts

Revitalizing City Districts: Transformation Partnership...

Author: Hebatalla Abouelfadl ,  Dalila ElKerdany
ISBN: 9783319462882
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book explores the consequences of change in the urban form, the amalgam of the urban space and buildings and...  Read More >>

The Battle for the High Street: Retail Gentrification, Class and Disgust

The Battle for the High Street: Retail Gentrification,...

Author: Phil Hubbard
ISBN: 9781137521521
Format: Hardback
$204.95

This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity.  Read More >>

Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State

Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State

Author: Gareth Doherty
ISBN: 9780520285026
Format: Paperback
$49.95

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Learning from Shenzhen: China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City

Learning from Shenzhen: China's Post-Mao Experiment...

Author: Mary Ann O'Donnell ,  Winnie Wong
ISBN: 9780226401126
Format: Paperback
$62.95

"""This volume developed out of two conferences: 'Shenzhen+China, Utopias+Dystopias', held at the Massachusetts...  Read More >>

Urban Animals: Crowding in zoocities

Urban Animals: Crowding in zoocities

Author: Tora Holmberg (Uppsala University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781138635050
Format: Paperback
$114.00

"The city includes opportunities as well as constraints for humans and other animals alike. Urban animals are often...  Read More >>

Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State

Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State

Author: Gareth Doherty
ISBN: 9780520285019
Format: Hardback
$157.95

A multidisciplinary study of green and its significance from multiple perspectives: aesthetic, architectural, environmental,...  Read More >>

Planning for a Sustainable Environment

Planning for a Sustainable Environment

Author: Andrew Blowers
ISBN: 9781138181434
Format: Hardback
$284.00

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Routes and Rites to the City: Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg

Routes and Rites to the City: Mobility, Diversity and...

Author: Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon ,  Lorena Núñez
ISBN: 9781137588890
Format: Hardback
$249.95

This thought-provoking book is an exploration of the ways religion and diverse forms of mobility have shaped post-apartheid...  Read More >>

Learning from Shenzhen: China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City

Learning from Shenzhen: China's Post-Mao Experiment...

Author: Mary Ann O'Donnell ,  Winnie Wong
ISBN: 9780226401096
Format: Hardback
$178.95

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Design Governance: The CABE Experiment

Design Governance: The CABE Experiment

Author: Matthew Carmona ,  Claudio De Magalhaes
ISBN: 9781138812147
Format: Hardback
$378.00

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

Rise Up!: Life and Literacy in an Urban First Grade

Rise Up!: Life and Literacy in an Urban First Grade...

Author: Linda Katz Msw
ISBN: 9781564745927
Format: Paperback
$39.47

This is an account of an ethnically and racially diverse classroom of funny, endearing, and often poignant six-year-olds...  Read More >>

Urban Logistics

Urban Logistics

Author: Loïc Delaïtre
ISBN: 9781848213708
Format: Hardback
$216.06

Urban logistics is a complex field that can be difficult to understand. Even though the issues involved have been...  Read More >>

Young and Homeless In Hollywood: Mapping the Social Imaginary

Young and Homeless In Hollywood: Mapping the Social...

Author: Susan M. Ruddick
ISBN: 9781138162099
Format: Hardback
$284.00

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Squatter Citizen: Life in the Urban Third World

Squatter Citizen: Life in the Urban Third World

Author: Jorge E. Hardoy ,  David Satterthwaite
ISBN: 9781138167230
Format: Hardback
$284.00

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba

Sustainable Urban Agriculture in Cuba

Author: Sinan Koont
ISBN: 9780813054032
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Sinan Koont has spent the last several years researching urban agriculture in Cuba, including field work at many...  Read More >>

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