Urban communities books

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The Return of Food. Poverty and Urban Food Security in Zimbabwe after the Crisis

The Return of Food. Poverty and Urban Food Security...

Author: Godfrey Tawodzera ,  Jonathan Crush (Wilfrid Laurier University Canada)
ISBN: 9781920597146
Format: Paperback
$66.79

The nadir of Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis in 2008 coincided with the implementation of a baseline household...  Read More >>

Urban Horticulture: Ecology, Landscape, and Agriculture

Urban Horticulture: Ecology, Landscape, and Agriculture...

Author: J. Blum
ISBN: 9781771884235
Format: Hardback
$271.69

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Urban horticulture, referring to the study and cultivation...  Read More >>

The Punitive City: Privatized Policing and Protection in Neoliberal Mexico

The Punitive City: Privatized Policing and Protection...

Author: Markus-Michael Müller
ISBN: 9781783606979
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Reveals how the increasingly privatized and politicized nature of policing has resulted in the criminalization of...  Read More >>

Slumming It: The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty

Slumming It: The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty...

Author: Fabian Frenzel
ISBN: 9781783604449
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Looks at the growing phenomenon of 'slum tourism' and considers its limitations and potential in tackling inequality....  Read More >>

Doing Community-Based Research: Perspectives from the Field

Doing Community-Based Research: Perspectives from the...

Author: Greg Halseth ,  Sean Markey
ISBN: 9780773547278
Format: Hardback
$80.21

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Youth, Space and Time: Agoras and Chronotopes in the Global City

Youth, Space and Time: Agoras and Chronotopes in the...

Author: Carles Feixa ,  Carmen Leccardi
ISBN: 9789004225831
Format: Hardback
$599.28

This book engages with the experience of space and time in youth cultures across the world. Putting together contemporary...  Read More >>

Festivalisation of Urban Spaces: Factors, Processes and Effects

Festivalisation of Urban Spaces: Factors, Processes...

Author: Waldemar Cudny
ISBN: 9783319319957
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This is a multi-disciplinary scientific monograph referring to urban geography, urban regions management, event...  Read More >>

Mediterranean Cities: Historical Perspectives

Mediterranean Cities: Historical Perspectives

Author: Robert L. Hohlfelder ,  Irad Malkin
ISBN: 9781138980808
Format: Paperback
$92.99

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Slum Health: From the Cell to the Street

Slum Health: From the Cell to the Street

Author: Jason Corburn ,  Lee Riley
ISBN: 9780520281073
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Slum Health: From the Cell to the Street

Slum Health: From the Cell to the Street

Author: Jason Corburn ,  Lee Riley
ISBN: 9780520281066
Format: Hardback
$157.95

Urban slum dwellers - especially in emerging-economy countries - are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily...  Read More >>

Policy Choice in Local Responses to Climate Change: A Comparison of Urban Strategies

Policy Choice in Local Responses to Climate Change:...

Author: Hubert Heinelt (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany) ,  Wolfram Lamping (Darmstadt University of Technology, Bensheim, Germany)
ISBN: 9781138671485
Format: Hardback
$183.00

The book shows how climate change has received more and more attention in policy making at the local level and changed...  Read More >>

Shichigosan: Change and Continuity of a Family Ritual in Contemporary Urban Japan

Shichigosan: Change and Continuity of a Family Ritual...

Author: Melinda Papp
ISBN: 9781137565372
Format: Hardback
$181.95

This book presents a case study of shichigosan, an extremely popular childhood family ritual in contemporary Japan....  Read More >>

Beyond the City: Resource Extraction Urbanism in South America

Beyond the City: Resource Extraction Urbanism in South...

Author: Felipe Correa
ISBN: 9781477309414
Format: Hardback
$75.95

Presenting five case studies from South America, this foundational book examines the roles played by architecture...  Read More >>

Livelihood and Wellbeing in the Urban Fringe

Livelihood and Wellbeing in the Urban Fringe

Author: Nasrin Banu ,  Shahab Fazal
ISBN: 9783319396590
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book presents a detailed study on Aligarh’s urban fringe, focusing on the livelihood of the villagers who have...  Read More >>

Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes: Confessions from the Classroom

Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes: Confessions from the...

Author: Elizabeth Meyer ,  Karleen Pendleton Jiménez
ISBN: 9781433126956
Format: Hardback
$532.62

Tomboys and Other Gender Heroes is a study that brings together gender stories from approximately 600 children and...  Read More >>

Housing and Health in Europe: The WHO LARES project

Housing and Health in Europe: The WHO LARES project...

Author: David Ormandy (University of Warwick, UK) ,  Ormandy David
ISBN: 9781138972001
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Explanation and analysis of the World Health Organization's study of housing across Europe, providing new evidence...  Read More >>

Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000

Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000

Author: Stephen Lovell
ISBN: 9781501704406
Format: Paperback
$80.21

A fascinating work rich in detail, Summerfolk explores the ways in which Russia's turbulent past has shaped the...  Read More >>

Secondary Cities and Development

Secondary Cities and Development

Author: Lochner Marais ,  Etienne Nel
ISBN: 9781138952256
Format: Hardback
$315.00

The role secondary cities play in the global space economy and national urban hierarchies is increasingly receiving...  Read More >>

City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World

City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance...

Author: Catie Marron
ISBN: 9780062380203
Format: Hardback
$69.99

In this important collection, eighteen renowned writers, including David Remnick, Zadie Smith, Rebecca Skloot, Rory...  Read More >>

Public Interest, Private Property: Law and Planning Policy in Canada

Public Interest, Private Property: Law and Planning...

Author: Anneke Smit ,  Marcia Valiante
ISBN: 9780774829328
Format: Paperback
$77.60

Through selected case studies, this volume explores the complex interplay between the public interest and private...  Read More >>

The People and the Bay: A Social and Environmental History of Hamilton Harbour

The People and the Bay: A Social and Environmental History...

Author: Nancy B. Bouchier ,  Ken Cruikshank
ISBN: 9780774830423
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This engaging history brings to life the personalities and power struggles that shaped how Hamiltonians used their...  Read More >>

The Protestant Reformation in Europe

The Protestant Reformation in Europe

Author: Andrew Johnston
ISBN: 9781138144712
Format: Hardback
$183.00

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The Right to Buy?: Selling off public and social housing

The Right to Buy?: Selling off public and social housing...

Author: Alan Murie (Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781447332077
Format: Paperback
$23.99

In The Right to Buy, Alan Murie provides an authoritative account of the origins, development and impact of the...  Read More >>

Peri-Urban Developments and Processes in Africa with Special Reference to Zimbabwe

Peri-Urban Developments and Processes in Africa with...

Author: Innocent Chirisa ,  Elias Mazhindu
ISBN: 9783319342306
Format: Paperback
$129.35

The debates included highlight a number of issues in the peri-urban context, such as access to water, appropriate...  Read More >>

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