Urban communities books

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Prairie Crossing: Creating an American Conservation Community

Prairie Crossing: Creating an American Conservation...

Author: John Scott Watson
ISBN: 9780252039867
Format: Hardback
$64.99

Carved out of century-old farmland near Chicago, the Prairie Crossing development is a novel experiment in urban...  Read More >>

The Archaeology of American Cities

The Archaeology of American Cities

Author: Nan A. Rothschild ,  Diana diZerega Wall
ISBN: 9780813061948
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Gravestones, cemeteries, and memorial markers offer fixed points in time to examine Americans’ changing attitudes...  Read More >>

Tourists in Historic Towns: Urban Conservation and Heritage Management

Tourists in Historic Towns: Urban Conservation and Heritage...

Author: Aylin Orbasli
ISBN: 9781138174641
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Examines the relationship of culture, heritage, conservation and tourism development in historic towns and urban...  Read More >>

The War on Slums in the Southwest: Public Housing and Slum Clearance in Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, 1935-1965

The War on Slums in the Southwest: Public Housing and...

Author: Robert B Fairbanks
ISBN: 9781439911167
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Provides compelling and probing case studies of economic problems and public housing plights in Albuquerque, Dallas,...  Read More >>

Poverty is a Person: Human Agency, Women and Caribbean Households

Poverty is a Person: Human Agency, Women and Caribbean...

Author: Theresa Ann Rajack-Talley
ISBN: 9789766378950
Format: Paperback
$64.56

Theresa Ann Rajack-Talley, in a participatory approach to development studies, raises the voices of those usually...  Read More >>

Chicago Then and Now®

Chicago Then and Now®

Author: Kathleen Maguire
ISBN: 9781910904053
Format: Hardback
$38.79

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Author: Matthew Desmond
ISBN: 9780553447439
Format: Hardback
$73.92

Arleen spends nearly all her money on rent but is kicked out with her kids in Milwaukee's coldest winter for years....  Read More >>

San Diego Then and Now®

San Diego Then and Now®

Author: Nancy Hendrickson
ISBN: 9781910904107
Format: Hardback
$38.79

San Diego Then and Now pairs up fascinating archive pictures of the city from its Spanish old town origins, to the...  Read More >>

Complex Systems Design & Management Asia: Smart Nations – Sustaining and Designing: Proceedings of the Second Asia-Pacific Conference on Complex Systems Design & Management, CSD&M Asia 2016

Complex Systems Design & Management Asia: Smart Nations...

Author: Michel-Alexandre Cardin ,  Saik Hay Fong
ISBN: 9783319296425
Format: Paperback
$336.35

This book contains all refereed papers that were accepted to the second edition of the Asia-Pacific conference on...  Read More >>

Cities and Power: Worldwide Perspectives

Cities and Power: Worldwide Perspectives

Author: Göran Therborn (University of Cambridge, UK)
ISBN: 9781138123809
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This is a global overview of power in major capital cities, analyzed from different angles by a set of urban scholars...  Read More >>

Urban Transformations in the U.S.A.: Spaces, Communities, Representations

Urban Transformations in the U.S.A.: Spaces, Communities,...

Author: Julia Sattler
ISBN: 9783837631111
Format: Paperback
$74.95

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The Multilingual City: Vitality, Conflict and Change

The Multilingual City: Vitality, Conflict and Change...

Author: Lid King ,  Lorna Carson
ISBN: 9781783094769
Format: Paperback
$77.50

This book is an exploration of the vitality of multilingualism and its critical importance in and for contemporary...  Read More >>

Owners of the Sidewalk: Security and Survival in the Informal City

Owners of the Sidewalk: Security and Survival in the...

Author: Daniel M. Goldstein
ISBN: 9780822360452
Format: Paperback
$62.07

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The Multilingual City: Vitality, Conflict and Change

The Multilingual City: Vitality, Conflict and Change...

Author: Lid King ,  Lorna Carson
ISBN: 9781783094776
Format: Hardback
$258.62

This book is an exploration of the vitality of multilingualism and its critical importance in and for contemporary...  Read More >>

Left Behind: Urban High Schools and the Failure of Market Reform

Left Behind: Urban High Schools and the Failure of Market...

Author: Edward P. St. John ,  Victoria J. Milazzo Bigelow (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Michigan)
ISBN: 9781421417875
Format: Hardback
$80.99

Left Behind provides crucial insights into the troubling trajectory of public policy while offering teachers and...  Read More >>

Owners of the Sidewalk: Security and Survival in the Informal City

Owners of the Sidewalk: Security and Survival in the...

Author: Daniel M. Goldstein
ISBN: 9780822360285
Format: Hardback
$284.99

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Planetary Gentrification

Planetary Gentrification

Author: Loretta Lees ,  Hyun Bang Shin
ISBN: 9780745671659
Format: Paperback
$39.95

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A History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas

A History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas...

Author: Clare Cardinal-Pett
ISBN: 9780415534932
Format: Paperback
$221.00

The first comprehensive architecture survey of the Western Hemisphere, combining the latest scholarship about the...  Read More >>

Urban Kryptonite: The Formidable Health Decline of African Diaspora Descendants Located In America

Urban Kryptonite: The Formidable Health Decline of African...

Author: Cochise Tarak-Saa
ISBN: 9781530156450
Format: Paperback
$52.77

Urban Kryptonite discusses the adverse health conditions of african diasporans in the Americas. These people are...  Read More >>

Planetary Gentrification

Planetary Gentrification

Author: Loretta Lees ,  Hyun Bang Shin
ISBN: 9780745671642
Format: Hardback
$113.95

This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series. At the beginning of the twenty-first century,...  Read More >>

A History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas

A History of Architecture and Urbanism in the Americas...

Author: Clare Cardinal-Pett
ISBN: 9780415534925
Format: Hardback
$347.00

The first comprehensive architecture survey of the Western Hemisphere, combining the latest scholarship about the...  Read More >>

Dharavi: From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm

Dharavi: From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm

Author: Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky
ISBN: 9781138660328
Format: Paperback
$101.00

A unique ethnographic study, this book reveals the social, economic, political and urban complexities that define...  Read More >>

Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South Asia

Urban Navigations: Politics, Space and the City in South...

Author: Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria ,  Colin McFarlane
ISBN: 9781138665026
Format: Paperback
$114.00

This book examines the diverse lived experiences of urban South Asia through a focus on contestations over urban...  Read More >>

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