Urban communities books

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State of the World: Can a City Be Sustainable?

State of the World: Can a City Be Sustainable?

Author: The Worldwatch Institute
ISBN: 9781610917551
Format: Paperback
$74.99

State of the World first puts our current moment in context, tracing cities in the arc of human history. It also...  Read More >>

Technology and the City: Systems, applications and implications

Technology and the City: Systems, applications and implications...

Author: Tan Yigitcanlar (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138826700
Format: Hardback
$315.00

The interplay between smart urban technologies and city development is a relatively uncharted territory. Technology...  Read More >>

Delhi a Role Model of Urban India - Part 1

Delhi a Role Model of Urban India - Part 1

Author: Dr K P Agrawal
ISBN: 9781618133212
Format: Paperback
$70.49

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Sustainability Citizenship in Cities: Theory and practice

Sustainability Citizenship in Cities: Theory and practice...

Author: Ralph Horne ,  John Fien
ISBN: 9781138933620
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Urban sustainability citizenship situates citizens as social change agents with an ethical and self-interested stake...  Read More >>

Urban Recycling Cooperatives: Building resilient communities

Urban Recycling Cooperatives: Building resilient communities...

Author: Jutta Gutberlet (University of Victoria, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138921160
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Urban Recycling Cooperatives explores the multiple narratives and interdisciplinary nature of waste studies, drawing...  Read More >>

Sowing Seeds in the City: Ecosystem and Municipal Services

Sowing Seeds in the City: Ecosystem and Municipal Services...

Author: Sally Brown ,  Kristen McIvor
ISBN: 9789401774512
Format: Hardback
$362.22

Urban agriculture has the potential to change our food systems, enhance habitat in our cities, and to morph urban...  Read More >>

Knowledge Intensive Business Services and Regional Competitiveness

Knowledge Intensive Business Services and Regional Competitiveness...

Author: João J. M. Ferreira ,  Mário L. Raposo
ISBN: 9781138859364
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Research interest in the service sector has boomed in recent years as deindustrialisation became entrenched. Instead...  Read More >>

Humbugs of New-York: Being a Remonstrance Against Popular Delusion; Whether in Science, Philosophy, or Religion

Humbugs of New-York: Being a Remonstrance Against Popular...

Author: David Meredith Reese ,  Benno Loewy
ISBN: 9781355921394
Format: Hardback
$68.51

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Ecology of Urban Environments

Ecology of Urban Environments

Author: Kirsten M. Parris (The University of Melbourne) ,  John Parris
ISBN: 9781444332643
Format: Hardback
$219.95

Provides an accessible introduction to urban ecology, using established ecological theory to identify generalities...  Read More >>

Sustainability Citizenship in Cities: Theory and practice

Sustainability Citizenship in Cities: Theory and practice...

Author: Ralph Horne (RMIT University, Australia) ,  John Fien (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138933637
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Urban sustainability citizenship situates citizens as social change agents with an ethical and self-interested stake...  Read More >>

Constructive Feminism: Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in the American City

Constructive Feminism: Women's Spaces and Women's Rights...

Author: Daphne Spain
ISBN: 9781501703201
Format: Paperback
$62.07

In Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's...  Read More >>

Constructive Feminism: Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in the American City

Constructive Feminism: Women's Spaces and Women's Rights...

Author: Daphne Spain
ISBN: 9780801453199
Format: Hardback
$279.45

In Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's...  Read More >>

Rethinking Life at the Margins: The Assemblage of Contexts, Subjects, and Politics

Rethinking Life at the Margins: The Assemblage of Contexts,...

Author: Michele Lancione ,  Paul Kingsbury
ISBN: 9781472465757
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Experimenting with ways of looking at the contexts, subjects, processes and multiple political stances that make...  Read More >>

Wounded City: Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio

Wounded City: Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio...

Author: Vargas
ISBN: 9780190245917
Format: Paperback
$61.95

Through an ethnographic case study of Chicago's Little Village, Wounded City demonstrates how competition for political...  Read More >>

Bridge the Gap!: Modes of Action and Cooperation of Transnational Networks of Local Communities

Bridge the Gap!: Modes of Action and Cooperation of...

Author: Beate Ginzel
ISBN: 9783643905338
Format: Paperback
$158.27

In the course of a changed understanding of urban management and development cooperation, interest is increasingly...  Read More >>

Towards Industrial Freedom

Towards Industrial Freedom

Author: Edward Carpenter
ISBN: 9781355242093
Format: Hardback
$65.87

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1917 Edition.  Read More >>

Global Undergrounds: Exploring Cities Within

Global Undergrounds: Exploring Cities Within

Author: Paul Dobraczyk ,  Carlos Lopez Galvis
ISBN: 9781780235769
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A stunning, beautifully illustrated exploration of urban underground spaces, bringing together a collection of 80...  Read More >>

Filming the City: Urban Documents, Design Practices and Social Criticism through the Lens

Filming the City: Urban Documents, Design Practices...

Author: Edward M. Clift ,  Mirko Guaralda
ISBN: 9781783205547
Format: Paperback
$70.95

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Fear of Crime: Incivility and the Production of a Social Problem

Fear of Crime: Incivility and the Production of a Social...

Author: Dan A. Lewis ,  Greta W. Salem
ISBN: 9781412863100
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Mass incarceration and lower crime rates have not made city dwellers feel safe  Read More >>

City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston

City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic...

Author: Anthony Bak Buccitelli
ISBN: 9780299307103
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Digging into the ever-shifting terrain of American ethnicity and urban spaces, Anthony Bak Buccitelli investigates...  Read More >>

The Ancient Urban Maya: Neighborhoods, Inequality, and Built Form

The Ancient Urban Maya: Neighborhoods, Inequality, and...

Author: Scott R. Hutson
ISBN: 9780813062761
Format: Hardback
$224.27

Ancient cities were complex social, political, and economic entities, but they also suffered from inequality, poor...  Read More >>

Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums

Slums on Screen: World Cinema and the Planet of Slums...

Author: Igor Krsti?
ISBN: 9781474406864
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Combining approaches from cultural, globalisation and film studies, Igor Krsti? outlines a transnational history...  Read More >>

The Urban Uncanny: A collection of interdisciplinary studies

The Urban Uncanny: A collection of interdisciplinary...

Author: Lucy Huskinson (University of Bangor, Wales, UK)
ISBN: 9781138929517
Format: Paperback
$90.99

Examines urban spaces as locations of moral transgression, the use of schemes that impose power structures on residents...  Read More >>

The Mamluk City in the Middle East: History, Culture, and the Urban Landscape

The Mamluk City in the Middle East: History, Culture,...

Author: Nimrod Luz
ISBN: 9781107626713
Format: Paperback
$80.19

The Mamluk City in the Middle East offers an interdisciplinary study of urban history, urban experience and the...  Read More >>

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