Urban communities books

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Tales of a Drunken Shopping Cart: (and other shopping cart adventures)

Tales of a Drunken Shopping Cart: (and other shopping...

Author: Adrienne Veronese ,  Bradley Wind
ISBN: 9780692822012
Format: Paperback
$34.29

"Originally envisioned as a coffee table book, it became evident Tales of a Drunken Shopping Cart was more suited...  Read More >>

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Author: Matthew Desmond
ISBN: 9781531184629
Format: Hardback
$80.78

Simplified Chinese edition of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City  Read More >>

City Visions

City Visions

Author: David Bell (University of Leeds, UK) ,  Azzedine Haddour
ISBN: 9781138156470
Format: Hardback
$347.00

City Visions focuses on contemporary issues in city cultures and urban politics. The book ranges from discussions...  Read More >>

Social Exclusion in European Cities: Processes, Experiences and Responses

Social Exclusion in European Cities: Processes, Experiences...

Author: Judith Allen ,  Goran Cars
ISBN: 9781138156944
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book provides a definition of social exclusion and looks at both the processes which cause it and the dimensions...  Read More >>

Mall City: Hong Kong’s Dreamworlds of Consumption

Mall City: Hong Kong’s Dreamworlds of Consumption

Author: Stefan Al
ISBN: 9780824855413
Format: Paperback
$92.40

Hong Kong is the twenty-first-century century paradigmatic capital of consumerism. Of all cities, it has the densest...  Read More >>

Urban Morphology and Housing Market

Urban Morphology and Housing Market

Author: Yang Xiao ,  Chris Webster
ISBN: 9789811027611
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book is devoted to fill the ‘urban economics niche’ and conceptualize a framework for valuing the urban configuration...  Read More >>

Encountering Urban Places: Visual and Material Performances in the City

Encountering Urban Places: Visual and Material Performances...

Author: Lars Frers ,  Lars Meier
ISBN: 9781138254947
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Manual for Undertaking National Urban Assessments

Manual for Undertaking National Urban Assessments

Author: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9789292574918
Format: Paperback
$63.39

Urbanization in Asia is expected to reach 64% by 2050. It will account for more than half of the world’s urban population...  Read More >>

China's Urban Christians: A Light that Cannot be Hidden

China's Urban Christians: A Light that Cannot be Hidden...

Author: Brent Fulton
ISBN: 9780718894474
Format: Paperback
$68.64

Based on close contact with Chinese Christians, this is an enlightening exploration of how the rapid urbanisation...  Read More >>

Spectacular Cities: Religion, Landscape, and the Dialectics of Globalization

Spectacular Cities: Religion, Landscape, and the Dialectics...

Author: Ipsita Chatterjee (, Ipsita Chatterjee is Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of North Texas)
ISBN: 9780199465132
Format: Hardback
$70.95

Plenty has been written on globalization to understand what it is. However, scholarship on globalization tends to...  Read More >>

Disciplinary Dialogues on Social Change: Gender, Early Childhood and Theatre

Disciplinary Dialogues on Social Change: Gender, Early...

Author: Nitya Rao
ISBN: 9789332703483
Format: Hardback
$134.55

Celebrates the long, varied and distinguished career of Mina Swaminathan, a leading practitioner, trainer and writer...  Read More >>

Detroit Is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City of the Industrial Age

Detroit Is No Dry Bones: The Eternal City of the Industrial...

Author: Camilo José Vergara
ISBN: 9780472130115
Format: Hardback
$145.20

A photographic record of almost three decades of Detroit's changing urban fabric  Read More >>

Smart Cities: Transforming India

Smart Cities: Transforming India

Author: Omji Gupta ,  Devesh Ranjan Tripathi
ISBN: 9788182748934
Format: Hardback
$81.00

The government of India has decided to develop 100 “Smart Cities”. This book highlights the various issues, challenges...  Read More >>

Global Cities: A Short History

Global Cities: A Short History

Author: Greg Clark
ISBN: 9780815728917
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Examines the enduring forces - such as trade, migration, war and technology - that have enabled some cities to emerge...  Read More >>

Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt

Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social...

Author: Hanan Hammad
ISBN: 9781477310724
Format: Paperback
$53.95

With fascinating glimpses into the lives of working-class men and women, this study of the urbanization of a provincial...  Read More >>

Live and Let Live: Diversity, Conflict, and Community in an Integrated Neighborhood

Live and Let Live: Diversity, Conflict, and Community...

Author: Evelyn M. Perry
ISBN: 9781469631387
Format: Paperback
$79.07

While conventional wisdom asserts that residential racial and economic integration holds great promise for reducing...  Read More >>

The Truth About New York: The Long-Term Visitor's Guide to the City That Never Sleeps

The Truth About New York: The Long-Term Visitor's Guide...

Author: Amir Said (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California)
ISBN: 9780974970424
Format: Hardback
$90.56

Containing a detailed examination of everything from the New York mentality to dating and sex in NYC, 'The Truth...  Read More >>

Social Formation in Dhaka, 1985-2005: A Longitudinal Study of Society in a Third World Megacity

Social Formation in Dhaka, 1985-2005: A Longitudinal...

Author: Kamal Siddiqui ,  Jamshed Ahmed
ISBN: 9781138278776
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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Urban Transformation in China

Urban Transformation in China

Author: Gordon G. Liu ,  Aimin Chen
ISBN: 9781138277564
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This book provides a general description and evaluation of the process of urbanization in China and the urgent challenges...  Read More >>

London After Recession: A Fictitious Capital?

London After Recession: A Fictitious Capital?

Author: Iain MacRury ,  Gavin Poynter
ISBN: 9781138278950
Format: Paperback
$105.00

The City has long been the main generator of London's wealth and, needless to say, the impact of the Economic Crisis...  Read More >>

Urban Informalities: Reflections on the Formal and Informal

Urban Informalities: Reflections on the Formal and Informal...

Author: Michael Waibel ,  Colin McFarlane
ISBN: 9781138274730
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international group of researchers working on a wide variety of cities...  Read More >>

Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt

Industrial Sexuality: Gender, Urbanization, and Social...

Author: Hanan Hammad
ISBN: 9781477310656
Format: Hardback
$161.95

With fascinating glimpses into the lives of working-class men and women, this study of the urbanization of a provincial...  Read More >>

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