Urban communities books

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Shadows of a Sunbelt City: The Environment, Racism, and the Knowledge Economy in Austin

Shadows of a Sunbelt City: The Environment, Racism,...

Author: Eliot M. Tretter ,  Deborah Cowen
ISBN: 9780820344881
Format: Hardback
$319.31

Austin, Texas, is often depicted as one of the past half century’s great urban success stories - a place that has...  Read More >>

Kentucky Countryside in Transition: A Streetcar Suburb and the Origins of Middle-Class Louisville, 1850-1910

Kentucky Countryside in Transition: A Streetcar Suburb...

Author: Stephanie Bower
ISBN: 9781621902003
Format: Hardback
$161.04

Charts the rise of the American middle class at the turn of the twentieth century by examining migration from the...  Read More >>

The Other Idahoans - Regular

The Other Idahoans - Regular

Author: Todd Shallat ,  Colleen Brennan
ISBN: 9780990736349
Format: Paperback
$60.69

Fallen angels in the bawdy houses. Migrants barred from Main Street. Homesteaders driven from homesteads when August...  Read More >>

Radical Space: Exploring Politics and Practice

Radical Space: Exploring Politics and Practice

Author: Debra Benita Shaw ,  Maggie Humm
ISBN: 9781783481521
Format: Paperback
$121.00

A multidisciplinary collection which brings together cutting edge research about the cultural politics of space....  Read More >>

A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida

A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking...

Author: N. D. B. Connolly
ISBN: 9780226378428
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Many people understand urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised,...  Read More >>

Understanding China's Urbanization: The Great Demographic, Spatial, Economic, and Social Transformation

Understanding China's Urbanization: The Great Demographic,...

Author: Li Zhang ,  Richard LeGates
ISBN: 9781783474738
Format: Hardback
$334.50

China’s urbanization is one of the great earth-changing phenomena of recent times. They describe China’s on-going...  Read More >>

Skills and Cities

Skills and Cities

Author: Sako Musterd (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) ,  Marco Bontje (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781138812239
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Creative industries have become fundamental in signalling the economic wellbeing of cities and urban regions. Workers...  Read More >>

The UK Regional-National Economic Problem: Geography, globalisation and governance

The UK Regional-National Economic Problem: Geography,...

Author: Philip McCann (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781138647237
Format: Hardback
$315.00

In recent years, the United Kingdom has become a more and more divided society with inequality between the regions...  Read More >>

Blowin' Up: Rap Dreams in South Central

Blowin' Up: Rap Dreams in South Central

Author: Jooyoung Lee
ISBN: 9780226348896
Format: Paperback
$37.95

Dr. Dre. Snoop Dogg. Ice Cube. Some of the biggest stars in hip hop made their careers in Los Angeles. And today...  Read More >>

Affordable Housing in US Shrinking Cities: From Neighborhoods of Despair to Neighborhoods of Opportunity?

Affordable Housing in US Shrinking Cities: From Neighborhoods...

Author: Robert Mark Silverman (University at Buffalo) ,  Kelly L. Patterson (University at Buffalo)
ISBN: 9781447327585
Format: Hardback
$109.99

With almost one in ten post-industrial US cities shrinking in recent years, this book looks at the reasons for the...  Read More >>

Blowin' Up: Rap Dreams in South Central

Blowin' Up: Rap Dreams in South Central

Author: Jooyoung Lee
ISBN: 9780226348759
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Dr. Dre. Snoop Dogg. Ice Cube. Some of the biggest stars in hip hop made their careers in Los Angeles. And today...  Read More >>

Understanding Complex Urban Systems: Integrating Multidisciplinary Data in Urban Models

Understanding Complex Urban Systems: Integrating Multidisciplinary...

Author: Christian Walloth ,  Ernst Gebetsroither-Geringer
ISBN: 9783319301761
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book is devoted to the modeling and understanding of complex urban systems. This second volume of Understanding...  Read More >>

Coming of Age in the Other America

Coming of Age in the Other America

Author: Stefanie DeLuca ,  Susan Clampet-Lundquist
ISBN: 9780871544650
Format: Paperback
$92.40

"Recent research on inequality and poverty has shown that those born into low-income families, especially African...  Read More >>

Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change

Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Change

Author: Andrew Solomon
ISBN: 9781476795041
Format: Hardback
$79.20

Essays chronicle the author's activist stint on the Moscow barricades in 1991, his 2002 account of cultural rebirth...  Read More >>

House, Home and Society

House, Home and Society

Author: Rowland Atkinson (University of Sheffield, UK) ,  Keith Jacobs (University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia)
ISBN: 9781137294029
Format: Paperback
$79.99

Issues around houses and homes reflect and inform our social, cultural and political worlds, from the subprime market...  Read More >>

New York and the First World War: Shaping an American City

New York and the First World War: Shaping an American...

Author: Ross J. Wilson ,  Dr. John Bourne
ISBN: 9781472419491
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The First World War constitutes a point in New York's history when its identity was challenged, recast and reinforced....  Read More >>

House, Home and Society

House, Home and Society

Author: Rowland Atkinson (University of Sheffield, UK) ,  Keith Jacobs (University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia)
ISBN: 9781137294036
Format: Hardback
$280.00

Issues around houses and homes reflect and inform our social, cultural and political worlds, from the subprime market...  Read More >>

A World Beyond Home

A World Beyond Home

Author: Stuart Albright
ISBN: 9781522712930
Format: Paperback
$36.93

George was a drug dealer at age 15. Siddiq was a gang member. Five years later, George was a world-famous spoken...  Read More >>

Urban Sustainability: Policy and Praxis

Urban Sustainability: Policy and Praxis

Author: Jay D. Gatrell ,  Ryan R. Jensen
ISBN: 9783319262161
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This book explores the environmental, economic, and socio-political dynamics of sustainability from a geographic...  Read More >>

When Good Jobs Go Bad: Globalization, De-unionization, and Declining Job Quality in the North American Auto Industry

When Good Jobs Go Bad: Globalization, De-unionization,...

Author: Jeffrey S. Rothstein
ISBN: 9780813576053
Format: Paperback
$100.19

From Chinese factories making cheap toys for export, to sweatshops in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewn—studies...  Read More >>

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