Urban communities books

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Street Teaching in the Tenderloin: Jumpin’ Down the Rabbit Hole

Street Teaching in the Tenderloin: Jumpin’ Down the...

Author: Don Stannard-Friel
ISBN: 9781137564368
Format: Hardback
$204.95

This book is an ethnographic account of San Francisco’s most inner city neighborhood, the Tenderloin. Using its...  Read More >>

Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860

Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York...

Author: Kyle B. Roberts
ISBN: 9780226388144
Format: Hardback
$89.95

At first glance, evangelical and Gotham seem like an odd pair. What does a movement of pious converts and reformers...  Read More >>

Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New York City

Ours to Lose: When Squatters Became Homeowners in New...

Author: Amy Starecheski
ISBN: 9780226399805
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Though New York’s Lower East Side today is home to high-end condos and hip restaurants, it was for decades an infamous...  Read More >>

Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City

Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City

Author: Robert Biel
ISBN: 9781911307082
Format: Paperback
$25.88

This book, by a leading expert in urban agriculture, offers a genuine solution to today's global food crisis. By...  Read More >>

Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City

Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City

Author: Robert Biel
ISBN: 9781911307075
Format: Hardback
$64.69

This book, by a leading expert in urban agriculture, offers a genuine solution to today's global food crisis. By...  Read More >>

Domestic Fortress: Fear and the New Home Front

Domestic Fortress: Fear and the New Home Front

Author: Rowland Atkinson ,  Sarah Blandy
ISBN: 9781784995300
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This book critically analyses the contemporary home and its close relationship to fear and security, a relationship...  Read More >>

Mega-Urbanization in the Global South: Fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state

Mega-Urbanization in the Global South: Fast cities and...

Author: Ayona Datta (University of Leeds, UK.) ,  Abdul Shaban (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India)
ISBN: 9780415745512
Format: Hardback
$305.00

With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples,...  Read More >>

The Politics of Crime in Turkey: Neoliberalism, Police and the Urban Poor

The Politics of Crime in Turkey: Neoliberalism, Police...

Author: Zeynep Gönen
ISBN: 9781784535438
Format: Hardback
$240.00

During the 2013 Gezi Park Uprisings, the role and behaviour of the Turkish Police made headlines across the world....  Read More >>

AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City: Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition

AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City: Phase 3: Civilian...

Author: Jean-Paul Close
ISBN: 9783319456195
Format: Paperback
$46.55

"This volume describes phase 3 of the AiREAS multidisciplinary cocreation effort to produce a Healthy City. Phase...  Read More >>

The Rhetoric of Hindu India: Language and Urban Nationalism

The Rhetoric of Hindu India: Language and Urban Nationalism...

Author: Manisha Basu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
ISBN: 9781107149878
Format: Hardback
$183.69

This book examines the late twentieth-century rise of the urban, right-wing Hindu nationalist ideology known as...  Read More >>

Unequal Cities: The Challenge of Post-Industrial Transition in Times of Austerity

Unequal Cities: The Challenge of Post-Industrial Transition...

Author: Roberta Cucca ,  Costanzo Ranci (Polytechnic of Milan, Italy)
ISBN: 9781138919464
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This seminal edited collection examines the impact of austerity and economic crisis on European cities. Whilst on...  Read More >>

The Price of Paradise: The Costs of Inequality and a Vision for a More Equitable America

The Price of Paradise: The Costs of Inequality and a...

Author: David Dante Troutt
ISBN: 9781479828807
Format: Paperback
$64.99

A multilayered exploration of the legal, economic, and cultural forces that contribute to the squeeze on the middle...  Read More >>

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts...

Author: Mindy Thompson Fullilove ,  Carlos F. Peterson
ISBN: 9781613320198
Format: Paperback
$50.99

Originally published 2004 by Random House, Inc.  Read More >>

Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities: Resource Politics, Migration, and Climate Change

Sustaining Russia's Arctic Cities: Resource Politics,...

Author: Robert W. Orttung
ISBN: 9781785333156
Format: Hardback
$256.16

Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines...  Read More >>

The Ancient City

The Ancient City

Author: Arjan Zuiderhoek (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)
ISBN: 9780521166010
Format: Paperback
$59.49

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Street Level: Los Angeles in the Twenty-First Century

Street Level: Los Angeles in the Twenty-First Century...

Author: Rob Sullivan
ISBN: 9781138274594
Format: Paperback
$79.99

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Postcolonial Urban Outcasts: City Margins in South Asian Literature

Postcolonial Urban Outcasts: City Margins in South Asian...

Author: Madhurima Chakraborty ,  Umme Al-wazedi
ISBN: 9781138677234
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Extending current scholarship on South Asian Urban and Literary Studies, this volume examines the role of the discontents...  Read More >>

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts...

Author: Mindy Thompson Fullilove ,  Carlos F. Peterson
ISBN: 9781613320402
Format: Hardback
$193.00

Originally published 2004 by Random House, Inc.  Read More >>

The World's Cities in 2016

The World's Cities in 2016

Author: United Nations
ISBN: 9789211515497
Format: Paperback
$21.95

Understanding the key trends in urbanization likely to unfold over the coming years is crucial to the implementation...  Read More >>

No Compromise: An Urban Guide to Urban Youth Ministry

No Compromise: An Urban Guide to Urban Youth Ministry...

Author: Bobby Hampton Jr
ISBN: 9780998252346
Format: Paperback
$39.60

The Urban Guide to Youth Ministry is a holistic leadership guide to equip you with the inspiration, information,...  Read More >>

The Politics of Urban and Regional Development and the American Exception

The Politics of Urban and Regional Development and the...

Author: Kevin R. Cox
ISBN: 9780815634560
Format: Hardback
$198.00

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Cities and Sustainability: Issues and Strategic Pathways

Cities and Sustainability: Issues and Strategic Pathways...

Author: S. Mahendra Dev ,  Sudhakar Yedla
ISBN: 9788132235446
Format: Paperback
$232.88

The book addresses the sustainability of cities in the context of sustainability science and its application to...  Read More >>

Domestic Fortress: Fear and the New Home Front

Domestic Fortress: Fear and the New Home Front

Author: Rowland Atkinson ,  Sarah Blandy
ISBN: 9781784995317
Format: Paperback
$33.99

This book critically analyses the contemporary home and its close relationship to fear and security, a relationship...  Read More >>

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making...

Author: Elizabeth Hinton ,  Josh Bloomberg
ISBN: 9781515964667
Format: Audio
$79.17

How did the land of the free become the home of the world's largest prison system? Elizabeth Hinton traces the rise...  Read More >>

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