Urban communities books

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Civil Engineering and Urban Planning IV: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Urban Planning, Beijing, China, 25-27 July 2015

Civil Engineering and Urban Planning IV: Proceedings...

Author: Yuan-Ming Liu (Shanghai Jianke Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China) ,  Dong Fu (China First Metallurgical Group, Wuhan, China)
ISBN: 9781138029033
Format: Hardback
$525.00

Covering a wide variety of topics (Civil engineering; Architecture and urban planning; Transportation engineering;...  Read More >>

Negotiating the Mediated City: Everyday Encounters with Public Screens

Negotiating the Mediated City: Everyday Encounters with...

Author: Zlatan Krajina (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
ISBN: 9781138400320
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book is an interdisciplinary empirical investigation of how people interact with public screens in their daily...  Read More >>

The Urban Caribbean in an Era of Global Change

The Urban Caribbean in an Era of Global Change

Author: Robert B. Potter
ISBN: 9781138273047
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Based on the author’s first-hand field research, this book addresses the twin processes of urbanization and globalization...  Read More >>

Sustainable Cities in Europe

Sustainable Cities in Europe

Author: Peter Nijkamp ,  Adriaan Perrels
ISBN: 9781138996649
Format: Paperback
$92.99

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Engaged Urbanism: Cities and Methodologies

Engaged Urbanism: Cities and Methodologies

Author: Prof. Ben Campkin ,  Ger Duijzings
ISBN: 9781784534592
Format: Paperback
$82.77

How can we understand the variety and dynamism of contemporary cities and urban experience across the globe?  Read More >>

Building the City of Spectacle: Mayor Richard M. Daley and the Remaking of Chicago

Building the City of Spectacle: Mayor Richard M. Daley...

Author: Costas Spirou ,  Dennis R. Judd
ISBN: 9781501700477
Format: Hardback
$72.42

Richard M. Daley led a period of economic restructuring after that difficult era by building a vibrant tourist economy....  Read More >>

Life Lessons From the Frontlines

Life Lessons From the Frontlines

Author: Emma Stoker
ISBN: 9781518868825
Format: Paperback
$33.92

The author worked with at-risk students in urban schools for thirty years. Her knowledge and experience is shown...  Read More >>

Learning the City: Cultural Approaches to Civic Learning in Urban Spaces

Learning the City: Cultural Approaches to Civic Learning...

Author: Hari Sacré ,  Sven De Visscher
ISBN: 9783319462295
Format: Paperback
$129.35

This book explores a cultural understanding of cities and processes of civic learning by scrutinizing urban educational...  Read More >>

Places, Towns and Townships 2016

Places, Towns and Townships 2016

Author: Deirdre A. Gaquin ,  Mary Meghan Ryan
ISBN: 9781598888560
Format: Hardback
$269.10

Places, Towns and Townships is an excellent resource for anyone in need of data for all of the nation's cities,...  Read More >>

The Women Who Made New York

The Women Who Made New York

Author: Hallie Heald ,  Julie Scelfo
ISBN: 9781580056533
Format: Hardback
$79.20

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Cultural Landscapes of South Asia: Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management

Cultural Landscapes of South Asia: Studies in Heritage...

Author: Kapila Silva (University of Kansas, USA) ,  Amita Sinha (University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, USA)
ISBN: 9781138947573
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This volume focuses on the notion of cultural landscape as a medium integrating multiple forms of heritage and points...  Read More >>

The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City

The Urban Apparatus: Mediapolitics and the City

Author: Reinhold Martin
ISBN: 9781517901189
Format: Hardback
$130.99

Portions previously published in various sources.  Read More >>

Middle India and Urban-Rural Development: Four Decades of Change

Middle India and Urban-Rural Development: Four Decades...

Author: Barbara Harriss-White
ISBN: 9788132229872
Format: Paperback
$206.97

A strong feature of the book is its analysis of how government policies that fail to take into account the realities...  Read More >>

Urban Transportation and the Environment: Issues, Alternatives and Policy Analysis

Urban Transportation and the Environment: Issues, Alternatives...

Author: Sudhakar Yedla
ISBN: 9788132229766
Format: Paperback
$186.30

The book deals with urban transportation planning in light of environmental sustainability and social equity.  Read More >>

The New Urban Area Development: A Case Study in China

The New Urban Area Development: A Case Study in China...

Author: Zisheng Shao
ISBN: 9783662516027
Format: Paperback
$258.72

​This book examines the formation trajectory and development path of China’s newly formed urban areas, which was...  Read More >>

Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon

Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the...

Author: Erik Harms
ISBN: 9780520292512
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Tells the tale of two cities in Ho Chi Minh City. This book portrays the human costs of urban reorganization as...  Read More >>

Stadt und Charisma: Eine akteurszentrierte Studie in Zeiten der Schrumpfung

Stadt und Charisma: Eine akteurszentrierte Studie in...

Author: Inga Haese
ISBN: 9783658160067
Format: Paperback
$98.30

Inga Haese erweitert die stadtsoziologische Forschung um die Perspektive des Charismas. Auf der Grundlage einer...  Read More >>

Practising Rhythmanalysis: Theories and Methodologies

Practising Rhythmanalysis: Theories and Methodologies...

Author: Yi Chen
ISBN: 9781783487776
Format: Hardback
$349.00

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Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the Impacts of an Urban Visionary

Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing...

Author: Dirk Schubert
ISBN: 9781138253124
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Based on cross-disciplinary and transnational approaches, this book offers new insights into Jane Jacobs's complex...  Read More >>

Ecotopia 2121: A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia?in 100 Cities

Ecotopia 2121: A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia?in...

Author: Alan Marshall
ISBN: 9781628726008
Format: Hardback
$62.99

A stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original...  Read More >>

Testimonies of the City: Identity, Community and Change in a Contemporary Urban World

Testimonies of the City: Identity, Community and Change...

Author: Joanna Herbert ,  Richard Rodger
ISBN: 9781138259324
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Oral testimony is one of the most valuable but challenging sources for the study of modern history, providing access...  Read More >>

Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas

Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas

Author: Rebecca Solnit ,  Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
ISBN: 9780520285958
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Part of a trilogy of atlases, this title conveys innumerable unbound experiences of New York City through twenty-six...  Read More >>

Governing Society In Contemporary China

Governing Society In Contemporary China

Author: Wei Shan (Nus, S'pore) ,  Lijun Yang (South China Univ Of Technology, China)
ISBN: 9789814618588
Format: Hardback
$227.70

This book examines how the Chinese state responds to the increasingly diverse civil society and maintains regime...  Read More >>

A History of Housing in New York City

A History of Housing in New York City

Author: Richard Plunz ,  Kenneth T. Jackson
ISBN: 9780231178358
Format: Paperback
$69.95

Originally published as: A history of housing in New York City: dwelling type and social change in the American...  Read More >>

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