Urban communities books

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Kids in Jail: A Portrait of Life Without Mercy

Kids in Jail: A Portrait of Life Without Mercy

Author: Jane Guttman
ISBN: 9780967286112
Format: Paperback
$56.93

Kids in Jail, narrative nonfiction, sheds light on a deeply fractured juvenile justice system. In the grim setting...  Read More >>

DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City without Services

DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City without Services

Author: Kimberley Kinder
ISBN: 9780816697090
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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Priced Out: Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods

Priced Out: Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class...

Author: Rachael A. Woldoff ,  Lisa M. Morrison
ISBN: 9781479818631
Format: Paperback
$64.99

On an average morning in the tree-lined parks, plazas, and play-areas of Manhattan’s Stuyvesant Town housing development,...  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: 9780813576060
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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

The Insecure City: Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut

The Insecure City: Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut...

Author: Kristin V. Monroe
ISBN: 9780813574622
Format: Paperback
$102.83

Fifteen years after the end of a protracted civil war, Beirut broke out in violence once again, forcing residents...  Read More >>

Airport Urbanism: Infrastructure and Mobility in Asia

Airport Urbanism: Infrastructure and Mobility in Asia...

Author: Max Hirsh
ISBN: 9780816696109
Format: Paperback
$37.99

In Airport Urbanism , Max Hirsh undertakesan unprecedented study of airport infrastructure in five Asian cities-Bangkok,Hong...  Read More >>

Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?: A New Future for the Cottage Estates

Garden Suburbs of Tomorrow?: A New Future for the Cottage...

Author: Martin Crookston
ISBN: 9781138688919
Format: Paperback
$67.99

First Published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City without Services

DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City without Services

Author: Kimberley Kinder
ISBN: 9780816697076
Format: Hardback
$132.88

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Priced Out: Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class Neighborhoods

Priced Out: Stuyvesant Town and the Loss of Middle-Class...

Author: Rachael A. Woldoff ,  Lisa M. Morrison
ISBN: 9781479812462
Format: Hardback
$193.00

On an average morning in the tree-lined parks, plazas, and play-areas of Manhattan’s Stuyvesant Town housing development,...  Read More >>

The Insecure City: Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut

The Insecure City: Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut...

Author: Kristin V. Monroe
ISBN: 9780813574639
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Fifteen years after the end of a protracted civil war, Beirut broke out in violence once again, forcing residents...  Read More >>

Access, Property and American Urban Space

Access, Property and American Urban Space

Author: M. Gordon Brown
ISBN: 9780415704748
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book explains why the earliest cities had grid-form street systems, what conditions led to their being overwhelmingly...  Read More >>

Emergent Nested Systems: A Theory of Understanding and Influencing Complex Systems as well as Case Studies in Urban Systems

Emergent Nested Systems: A Theory of Understanding and...

Author: Christian Walloth
ISBN: 9783319275482
Format: Hardback
$284.60

This book presents a theory as well as methods to understand and to purposively influence complex systems. It suggests...  Read More >>

Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism

Dead End: Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American...

Author: Benjamin Ross
ISBN: 9780190263300
Format: Paperback
$44.95

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Multicultural Cities: Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles

Multicultural Cities: Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles...

Author: Mohammed Abdul Qadeer
ISBN: 9781442630147
Format: Paperback
$77.99

In Multicultural Cities, Mohammad Abdul Qadeer offers a tour of three of North America's premier multicultural metropolises...  Read More >>

Smart Green Cities: Toward a Carbon Neutral World

Smart Green Cities: Toward a Carbon Neutral World

Author: Woodrow Clark II ,  Grant Cooke
ISBN: 9781472455543
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Offers a comprehensive overview of what global cities are doing to become sustainable. Woodrow W Clark II and Grant...  Read More >>

Cities in Transition: Social Innovation for Europe’s Urban Sustainability

Cities in Transition: Social Innovation for Europe’s...

Author: Thomas Sauer ,  Susanne Elsen
ISBN: 9781138923843
Format: Hardback
$368.00

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Social Mobility and Neighbourhood Choice: Turkish-Germans in Berlin

Social Mobility and Neighbourhood Choice: Turkish-Germans...

Author: Christine Barwick ,  Professor Chris Pickvance
ISBN: 9781472462152
Format: Hardback
$305.00

What are the consequences of staying in or moving out of a socio-economically disadvantaged neighbourhood? In European...  Read More >>

Resilience by Design

Resilience by Design

Author: Alexandra Jayeun Lee
ISBN: 9783319306391
Format: Hardback
$168.16

This book discusses that disasters, whether natural or man-made, are essentially a human phenomenon. When a city...  Read More >>

Multicultural Cities: Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles

Multicultural Cities: Toronto, New York, and Los Angeles...

Author: Mohammed Abdul Qadeer
ISBN: 9781442630130
Format: Hardback
$175.00

In Multicultural Cities, Mohammad Abdul Qadeer offers a tour of three of North America's premier multicultural metropolises...  Read More >>

Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East

Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East

Author: Nelida Fuccaro
ISBN: 9780804797528
Format: Paperback
$60.95

This volume explores violence in the public lives of modern Middle Eastern cities—as a collective act, a historical...  Read More >>

Economics of Urban Externalities: Analysis of Squatter Settlements in Kathmandu and Quito

Economics of Urban Externalities: Analysis of Squatter...

Author: Shiva Raj Adhikari
ISBN: 9789811005442
Format: Paperback
$129.35

Thisbook provides a fresh look at measuring negative externalities in theurbanization process. While most urbanization...  Read More >>

Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East

Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East

Author: Nelida Fuccaro
ISBN: 9780804795845
Format: Hardback
$180.95

This volume explores violence in the public lives of modern Middle Eastern cities—as a collective act, a historical...  Read More >>

Superdiversity in the heart of Europe

Superdiversity in the heart of Europe

Author: Dirk Geldof
ISBN: 9789462924284
Format: Paperback
$87.12

The 21st century will be the century of superdiversity. Ethnic-cultural diversity in Europe continues to grow, even...  Read More >>

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