Urban communities books

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A Century of Violence in a Red City: Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, and Human Rights in Colombia

A Century of Violence in a Red City: Popular Struggle,...

Author: Lesley Gill
ISBN: 9780822360292
Format: Hardback
$284.99

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The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School

The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair...

Author: Ed Boland
ISBN: 9781455560615
Format: Hardback
$45.00

In the tradition of the classic Up The Down Staircase, an unforgettable book about a year inside a troubled New...  Read More >>

Urban Environments in Africa: A Critical Analysis of Environmental Politics

Urban Environments in Africa: A Critical Analysis of...

Author: Garth Myers
ISBN: 9781447322924
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Explores the impact of Africa's rapidly growing urban population on local resources and the environment, acknowledging...  Read More >>

The Truth About New York: The Long-Term Visitor's Guide to the City That Never Sleeps

The Truth About New York: The Long-Term Visitor's Guide...

Author: Amir Said (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto, California)
ISBN: 9780989398671
Format: Paperback
$49.16

'The Truth About New York: The Long-Term Visitor's Guide to the City That Never Sleeps, ' by Amir Said, is an innovative...  Read More >>

Urban Environments in Africa: A Critical Analysis of Environmental Politics

Urban Environments in Africa: A Critical Analysis of...

Author: Garth Myers
ISBN: 9781447322917
Format: Hardback
$167.99

Explores the impact of Africa's rapidly growing urban population on local resources and the environment, acknowledging...  Read More >>

Almost Home: Finding a Place in the World from Kashmir to New York

Almost Home: Finding a Place in the World from Kashmir...

Author: Githa Hariharan
ISBN: 9781632060617
Format: Paperback
$44.85

""In essays that bespeak a thoroughly cosmopolitan sensibility, Githa Hariharan not only takes us on illuminating...  Read More >>

Sir Peter Hall: Pioneer in Regional Planning, Transport and Urban Geography

Sir Peter Hall: Pioneer in Regional Planning, Transport...

Author: Richard D. Knowles ,  Céline Rozenblat
ISBN: 9783319280547
Format: Paperback
$129.35

Specialists from the fields of transport and geography testify to Sir Peter Hall’s enormous impact on urban planning,...  Read More >>

School and Atlanta's Hip Hop Generation: An Autoethnography of Being  Outkast'd & Claimin' True

School and Atlanta's Hip Hop Generation: An Autoethnography...

Author: Joycelyn A Wilson
ISBN: 9781433128202
Format: Hardback
$395.87

This is an education title in the Critical Qualitative Research series  Read More >>

Living Sensical

Living Sensical

Author: Dr Robert C Worstell
ISBN: 9781530130122
Format: Paperback
$20.99

You have a 5% chance of living the life you've always wanted.About 5% of the population know for a fact that the...  Read More >>

Children's Participation: The Theory and Practice of Involving Young Citizens in Community Development and Environmental Care

Children's Participation: The Theory and Practice of...

Author: Roger A. Hart
ISBN: 9781138136403
Format: Hardback
$284.00

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder...

Author: Jason L. Riley
ISBN: 9781594038419
Format: Paperback
$42.21

This book explains why so many efforts by liberals to help the black underclass not only fail but often harm the...  Read More >>

School and Atlanta's Hip Hop Generation: An Autoethnography of Being  Outkast'd & Claimin' True

School and Atlanta's Hip Hop Generation: An Autoethnography...

Author: Joycelyn A Wilson
ISBN: 9781433128196
Format: Book
$102.83

This is an education title in the Critical Qualitative Research series  Read More >>

Natural Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability: Floods and slum life in Indonesia

Natural Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability: Floods and...

Author: Roanne van Voorst
ISBN: 9781138860537
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Bangin & Belief Don't Mix: Bangin & Belief Don't Mix

Bangin & Belief Don't Mix: Bangin & Belief Don't Mix...

Author: Abdul-Latif Junaid
ISBN: 9781530593149
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs

The Only Street in Paris: Life on the Rue Des Martyrs...

Author: Elaine Sciolino
ISBN: 9781410487933
Format: Hardback
$84.45

A delightful and beguiling look at life on a small Paris street.  Read More >>

Common Space: The City as Commons

Common Space: The City as Commons

Author: Associate Professor Stavros Stavrides ,  Professor Massimo de Angelis
ISBN: 9781783603282
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The book explores the interconnections between processes of spatial transformation and processes of political subjectivation,...  Read More >>

The Politics of Staying Put: Condo Conversion and Tenant Right-to-Buy in Washington, DC

The Politics of Staying Put: Condo Conversion and Tenant...

Author: Carolyn Gallaher
ISBN: 9781439912652
Format: Paperback
$92.27

When cities gentrify, it can be hard for working-class and low-income residents to stay put. Rising rents and property...  Read More >>

Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities

Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for...

Author: Ryan Gravel
ISBN: 9781250078254
Format: Hardback
$105.57

The creator of the Atlanta Beltline, a proposed 22-mile loop of transit and trails that is already changing the...  Read More >>

The Politics of Staying Put: Condo Conversion and Tenant Right-to-Buy in Washington, DC

The Politics of Staying Put: Condo Conversion and Tenant...

Author: Carolyn Gallaher
ISBN: 9781439912645
Format: Hardback
$223.08

When cities gentrify, it can be hard for working-class and low-income residents to stay put. Rising rents and property...  Read More >>

Beyond the Metropolis: The Changing Image of Urban Britain, 1780–1880

Beyond the Metropolis: The Changing Image of Urban Britain,...

Author: Katy Layton-Jones ,  Rebecca Mortimer
ISBN: 9780719099694
Format: Hardback
$183.99

Draws on previously unexplored visual and ephemeral sources to re-evaluate the British city, its changing form,...  Read More >>

Kokoro

Kokoro

Author: Lafcadio Hearn
ISBN: 9781530377589
Format: Paperback
$23.73

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The Country and the City

The Country and the City

Author: Raymond Williams ,  Tristram Hunt
ISBN: 9781784870829
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Taking inspiration from classic authors from Jane Austen to Thomas Hardy, Williams shines a light on our society’s...  Read More >>

Harlem Supers: The Social Life of a Community in Transition

Harlem Supers: The Social Life of a Community in Transition...

Author: Terry Williams
ISBN: 9781349562411
Format: Paperback
$68.95

Superintendents play a large role in the formation of relationships and networks within their neighborhood; and...  Read More >>

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