Urban communities books

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Green Gentrification: Urban sustainability and the struggle for environmental justice

Green Gentrification: Urban sustainability and the struggle...

Author: Kenneth Gould ,  Tammy Lewis
ISBN: 9781138920163
Format: Hardback
$315.00

"Green Gentrification looks at the social consequences of urban ""greening"" from an environmental justice and sustainable...  Read More >>

Living Class in Urban India

Living Class in Urban India

Author: Sara Dickey
ISBN: 9780813583921
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Many people still envision India as rigidly caste-bound, locked in traditions that inhibit social mobility. In reality,...  Read More >>

Politics, Planning and Housing Supply in Australia, England and Hong Kong

Politics, Planning and Housing Supply in Australia,...

Author: Nicole Gurran (University of Sydney, Australia) ,  Nick Gallent (University College London, United Kingdom)
ISBN: 9781138937147
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Politics, Planning and Housing Supply in Australia, England and Hong Kong examines the politics and planning of...  Read More >>

Negotiated Landscape, A: The Transformation of San Francisco's Waterfront since 1950

Negotiated Landscape, A: The Transformation of San Francisco's...

Author: Jasper Rubin
ISBN: 9780822964179
Format: Paperback
$145.20

A Negotiated Landscape examines the transformation of San Francisco's iconic waterfront from the eve of its decline...  Read More >>

Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities

Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities

Author: Carl H. Nightingale
ISBN: 9780226379715
Format: Paperback
$52.95

When we think of segregation, what often comes to mind is apartheid South Africa, or the American South in the age...  Read More >>

Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded: Volume One

Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded:...

Author: Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī ,  Humphrey Davies
ISBN: 9781479882342
Format: Hardback
$86.99

Originally published in hardback in 2016.  Read More >>

Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded, with Risible Rhymes: Volume Two

Brains Confounded by the Ode of Abū Shādūf Expounded,...

Author: Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī ,  Muḥammad ibn Maḥfūẓ al-Sanhūrī
ISBN: 9781479838905
Format: Hardback
$86.99

Witty, bawdy, and vicious, Yūsuf al-Shirbīnī’s Brains Confounded pits the “coarse” rural masses against the “refined”...  Read More >>

Managing Transboundary Waters of Latin America

Managing Transboundary Waters of Latin America

Author: Asit Biswas (National University of Singapore)
ISBN: 9781138692671
Format: Paperback
$58.99

The book provides detailed analyses of several Latin American transboundary water bodies in terms of their current...  Read More >>

Städtische Visualität und Materialität: Untersuchung stadtteilpolitischer Diskurse am Beispiel von Hamburg-St. Pauli

Städtische Visualität und Materialität: Untersuchung...

Author: Katharina Wischmann
ISBN: 9783658145538
Format: Paperback
$103.47

Da die Komplexität gegenwärtiger Stadtentwicklungskonflikte in Quartieren wie Hamburg-St. Pauli etablierte diskurstheoretische...  Read More >>

Caracas muerde: Cronicas de una guerra no declarada

Caracas muerde: Cronicas de una guerra no declarada...

Author: Hector Torres
ISBN: 9789807312158
Format: Paperback
$42.21

El crecimiento imparable de los indices de criminalidad en Caracas, la situa a la cabeza de uno de los ranking mas...  Read More >>

The Integral Nature of Things: Critical Reflections on the Present

The Integral Nature of Things: Critical Reflections...

Author: Lata Mani
ISBN: 9781138148543
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Urban Forests: Ecosystem Services and Management

Urban Forests: Ecosystem Services and Management

Author: J. Blum
ISBN: 9781771884259
Format: Hardback
$256.14

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. This new research compendium focuses on urban forestry...  Read More >>

Nemesis: The Hunt for Brazil’s Most Wanted Criminal

Nemesis: The Hunt for Brazil’s Most Wanted Criminal...

Author: Misha Glenny
ISBN: 9780099584650
Format: Paperback
$35.00

This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and...  Read More >>

Bildung für Newcomer: Wie Schule und Quartier mit Einwanderung aus Südosteuropa umgehen

Bildung für Newcomer: Wie Schule und Quartier mit Einwanderung...

Author: Karin Cudak
ISBN: 9783658147181
Format: Paperback
$142.29

Karin Cudak untersucht in diesem Buch die unterschiedlichen Strategien von Schulen und Kommunen in ihrem Umgang...  Read More >>

Private Communities and Urban Governance: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives

Private Communities and Urban Governance: Theoretical...

Author: Amnon Lehavi
ISBN: 9783319332093
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This book offers an interdisciplinary and comparative study of the complex interplay between private versus public...  Read More >>

Transformation of Resource Towns and Peripheries: Political economy perspectives

Transformation of Resource Towns and Peripheries: Political...

Author: Greg Halseth
ISBN: 9781138960893
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Most developed economies, including single-industry and resource dependent rural or small town regions, are transforming...  Read More >>

Protest and Resistance in the Tourist City

Protest and Resistance in the Tourist City

Author: Claire Colomb (University College London, UK) ,  Johannes Novy (Cardiff University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138856714
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book looks at urban tourism as a source of contention and analyses conflicts that have emerged in cities of...  Read More >>

Stickmen's Guide to Cities in Layers

Stickmen's Guide to Cities in Layers

Author: Catherine Chambers ,  John Paul de Quay
ISBN: 9781512411782
Format: Paperback
$21.09

Travel from the tops of skyscrapers to the depths of the subway system of a bustling city! Find out how people make...  Read More >>

Neighborhood Walk City

Neighborhood Walk City

Author: Peggy Pancella
ISBN: 9781484635872
Format: Paperback
$23.73

Some neighborhoods are parts of cities. A city is a very large community. It may have thousands or even millions...  Read More >>

Stickmen's Guide to Cities in Layers

Stickmen's Guide to Cities in Layers

Author: Catherine Chambers ,  John Paul de Quay
ISBN: 9781512406207
Format: Hardback
$73.89

Travel from the tops of skyscrapers to the depths of the subway system of a bustling city! Find out how people make...  Read More >>

My Urban Community

My Urban Community

Author: Portia Summers
ISBN: 9780766078291
Format: Paperback
$28.91

Shopkeepers, gardeners, families, and police officers: these are just a few of the people who live and work in an...  Read More >>

From Oil to Cities: Nigeria's Next Transformation

From Oil to Cities: Nigeria's Next Transformation

Author: The World Bank
ISBN: 9781464807923
Format: Paperback
$105.47

From Oil to Cities: Nigeria's Next Transformation serves the critical and timely purpose of understanding the challenges...  Read More >>

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