Urban communities books

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Creativity

Creativity

Author: Harriet Hawkins (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138813434
Format: Hardback
$378.00

Creativity, whether lauded as the oil of the 21st century, touted as a driver of international policy, or mobilised...  Read More >>

Closer Together: This is the Future of Cities

Closer Together: This is the Future of Cities

Author: Alexander Stahle
ISBN: 9789185639786
Format: Hardback
$63.50

Cities are growing faster than ever before, but why? Because they foster proximity. Nearness to work, friends and...  Read More >>

Geomedia: Networked Cities and the Future of Public Space

Geomedia: Networked Cities and the Future of Public...

Author: Scott McQuire
ISBN: 9780745660752
Format: Hardback
$93.95

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Urban Poverty in Turkey: Development and Modernisation in Low-Income Communities

Urban Poverty in Turkey: Development and Modernisation...

Author: Burcu Sentürk
ISBN: 9781784536534
Format: Hardback
$336.38

"Gecekondu settlements-or shanty towns-in large Turkish cities are mostly populated by low-income families, many...  Read More >>

Housing for Older People in Singapore: An Annotated Bibliography

Housing for Older People in Singapore: An Annotated...

Author: Belinda Yuen ,  Emily Soh
ISBN: 9783319447537
Format: Paperback
$129.35

This bibliography offers valuable annotated references on housing for older population for those interested in these...  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: 9781613320204
Format: Electronic book text
$52.77

Root Shock examines three different U.S. cities to unmask the destructive and crippling results of decades-old urban...  Read More >>

Family Systems Application to Social Work: Training and Clinical Practice

Family Systems Application to Social Work: Training...

Author: Karen Gail Lewis
ISBN: 9781138901247
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Originally published in 1991, this title is a valuable social work text which demonstrated how to apply family system...  Read More >>

Urban Redevelopment and Modernity in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939

Urban Redevelopment and Modernity in Liverpool and Manchester,...

Author: Dr Charlotte Wildman (University of Manchester, UK)
ISBN: 9781474257367
Format: Hardback
$260.00

"""Uses Liverpool and Manchester as case studies to uncover the programmes of urban regeneration that transformed...  Read More >>

From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region

From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Inequality...

Author: Diane Sicotte
ISBN: 9780813574196
Format: Paperback
$100.19

Like many industrialized regions, the Philadelphia metro area contains pockets of environmental degradation. However,...  Read More >>

From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region

From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Inequality...

Author: Diane Sicotte
ISBN: 9780813574202
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Like many industrialized regions, the Philadelphia metro area contains pockets of environmental degradation. However,...  Read More >>

Food Consumption in the City: Practices and patterns in urban Asia and the Pacific

Food Consumption in the City: Practices and patterns...

Author: Marlyne Sahakian ,  Czarina Saloma
ISBN: 9781138120617
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book brings together scholars from anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, tourism, architecture and...  Read More >>

Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction

Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American...

Author: Pamela Robertson Wojcik
ISBN: 9780813564470
Format: Paperback
$102.83

From the early twentieth century to the present day, countless books and films have portrayed the solitary exploration...  Read More >>

Water Policy Reform in Southern Alberta: An Advocacy Coalition Approach

Water Policy Reform in Southern Alberta: An Advocacy...

Author: B. Timothy Heinmiller
ISBN: 9781487500535
Format: Hardback
$115.00

In Water Policy Reform in Southern Alberta, B. Timothy Heinmiller looks at how and why these (and other) reforms...  Read More >>

You Can't Teach Us if You Don't Know Us and Care About Us: Becoming an Ubuntu, Responsive and Responsible Urban Teacher

You Can't Teach Us if You Don't Know Us and Care About...

Author: Rochelle Brock ,  Richard Gregory Johnson III
ISBN: 9781433125706
Format: Hardback
$316.27

This book addresses the needs of diverse urban students for a new kind of teacher, classroom learning context, curriculum,...  Read More >>

Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American Film and Fiction

Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child in American...

Author: Pamela Robertson Wojcik
ISBN: 9780813564487
Format: Hardback
$396.00

From the early twentieth century to the present day, countless books and films have portrayed the solitary exploration...  Read More >>

Shanghai Urbanism at the Medium Scale

Shanghai Urbanism at the Medium Scale

Author: Yongjie Sha ,  Jiang Wu
ISBN: 9783662524916
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book focuses on observing and understanding the urban planning and relevant development patterns applied to...  Read More >>

Urban Environment: Proceedings of the 11th Urban Environment Symposium (UES), held in Karlsruhe, Germany, 16-19 September 2012

Urban Environment: Proceedings of the 11th Urban Environment...

Author: Sébastien Rauch ,  Gregory Morrison
ISBN: 9789402400236
Format: Paperback
$517.47

Papers by leading experts are presented in sections on Urban Management and Spatial Planning, Green Cities and Urban...  Read More >>

Urbanisation, unlimited: A Thematic Journey

Urbanisation, unlimited: A Thematic Journey

Author: Johannes Fiedler
ISBN: 9783319377964
Format: Paperback
$219.91

In a series of essays, the process of urbanisation – a human mega-trend acquiring unprecedented scale and speed...  Read More >>

Smart City: How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space

Smart City: How to Create Public and Economic Value...

Author: Renata Paola Dameri ,  Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux
ISBN: 9783319383156
Format: Paperback
$232.88

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the various aspects for the development of smart cities from a European...  Read More >>

Brooklyn’s Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA: Community, Planning and Sustainable Environments

Brooklyn’s Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA:...

Author: Raymond Charles Rauscher ,  Salim Momtaz
ISBN: 9783319381213
Format: Paperback
$181.10

This book offers an extended case study of the urban community of Bushwick, located in the Brooklyn borough of New...  Read More >>

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest of Y'All Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education

For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood...and the Rest...

Author: Christopher Emdin ,  J. D. Jackson
ISBN: 9781536617818
Format: Audio
$42.21

A New York Times Best Seller Featured in: MotherJones.com, Education Week, Weekend All Things Considered with...  Read More >>

Always Something Else: Urban Asia and Africa as Experiment

Always Something Else: Urban Asia and Africa as Experiment...

Author: AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths College University of London UK)
ISBN: 9783905758818
Format: Paperback
$49.16

The most extensive urban demographic transitions ahead will take place in Africa and Asia. These transitions occur...  Read More >>

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