Urban communities books

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Banaras: Urban Forms and Cultural Histories

Banaras: Urban Forms and Cultural Histories

Author: Michael S. Dodson
ISBN: 9781138660069
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The book provides a unique analysis of the city of Banaras and explores the city’s diverse urban cultures from the...  Read More >>

Participolis: Consent and Contention in Neoliberal Urban India

Participolis: Consent and Contention in Neoliberal Urban...

Author: Karen Coelho ,  Lalitha Kamath
ISBN: 9781138663992
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book critically examines the emerging deployments of citizen participation in neoliberal urban governance in...  Read More >>

Urban Infrastructure and Governance

Urban Infrastructure and Governance

Author: G Ramesh ,  Vishnu Prasad Nagadevara
ISBN: 9781138664944
Format: Paperback
$101.00

A book that provides insights on the theme of urban governance in developing countries. It covers topics ranging...  Read More >>

Scoring Off the Field: Football Culture in Bengal, 1911–80

Scoring Off the Field: Football Culture in Bengal, 1911–80...

Author: Kausik Bandyopadhyay
ISBN: 9781138659964
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This book attempts to chart, analyse and project the changing dimensions of Bengali football culture in the wider...  Read More >>

Water Resources Policies in South Asia

Water Resources Policies in South Asia

Author: Anjal Prakash ,  Sreoshi Singh
ISBN: 9781138660281
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This book analyzes the economic, demographic and ideological context in which water policies are framed and implemented...  Read More >>

Beyond Kolkata: Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination

Beyond Kolkata: Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination...

Author: Ishita Dey ,  Ranabir Samaddar
ISBN: 9781138660373
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book examines the politics behind, and the socio-economic and ecological repercussions of, the making of a...  Read More >>

Women at the Threshold of Globalisation

Women at the Threshold of Globalisation

Author: Narendar Pani ,  Nikky Singh
ISBN: 9781138662520
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Focusing on the less-explored, non-technological dimensions of the process of globalisation, this book examines...  Read More >>

Questioning the 'Muslim Woman': Identity and Insecurity in an Urban Indian Locality

Questioning the 'Muslim Woman': Identity and Insecurity...

Author: Nida Kirmani (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan.)
ISBN: 9781138660090
Format: Paperback
$101.00

The book examines Muslim women’s lives in India, in the context of their complex socio-religious identity and experiences...  Read More >>

State of the Urban Poor Report 2015: Gender and Urban Poverty

State of the Urban Poor Report 2015: Gender and Urban...

Author: Government of India, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation
ISBN: 9780199466719
Format: Paperback
$67.25

It is increasingly being recognized that effective management of the urbanization process across India is going...  Read More >>

Cities and Crisis

Cities and Crisis

Author: Josef W. Konvitz
ISBN: 9781784992903
Format: Hardback
$183.99

An ambitious global study of the state of cities in the early twenty-first century, their role in society, and their...  Read More >>

Tres Monos, Diez Minutos: Guia de la sociedad actual para urbanitas curiosos

Tres Monos, Diez Minutos: Guia de la sociedad actual...

Author: Jose Manuel Alarcon Aguin
ISBN: 9788494111273
Format: Paperback
$39.60

?Sabias que creerte el mas listo puede ser senal de poca inteligencia?...  Read More >>

S.T.E.M. 4 Girls: The Urban Girl's Guide To The S.T.E.M. Disciplines

S.T.E.M. 4 Girls: The Urban Girl's Guide To The S.T.E.M....

Author: Shalena D I V a Broaster ,  Jessica Aa Highsmith
ISBN: 9781530231546
Format: Paperback
$39.60

It is a well-known fact that there is a shortage of women who work in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering,...  Read More >>

Entre utopías y realidades

Entre utopías y realidades

Author: Viuche Ramirez Alexandra Viviana
ISBN: 9783659099328
Format: Paperback
$185.04

En el contexto actual de la migración en Chile, la presente publicación describe y examina los significados que...  Read More >>

Empowering Climate-Change Strategies with Bernard Lonergan's Method

Empowering Climate-Change Strategies with Bernard Lonergan's...

Author: John Raymaker ,  Ijaz Durrani
ISBN: 9780761866183
Format: Paperback
$90.99

This book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses. Using Bernard...  Read More >>

Planning Toronto: The Planners, The Plans, Their Legacies, 1940-80

Planning Toronto: The Planners, The Plans, Their Legacies,...

Author: Richard White
ISBN: 9780774829359
Format: Hardback
$116.44

This lavishly illustrated book will stand as the definitive history of Toronto postwar planning and of the impact...  Read More >>

Shanghai: A City in Tides

Shanghai: A City in Tides

Author: Zhang Xiufeng
ISBN: 9783639844320
Format: Paperback
$147.97

Shanghai has recently become one of the most notable cases in urban studies. However, the experience of the city...  Read More >>

What My Daddy Should Have Told Me: Life Lessons for the African-American Male

What My Daddy Should Have Told Me: Life Lessons for...

Author: Rickie Clark
ISBN: 9781518779046
Format: Paperback
$41.95

Life-Lessons for the African-American Male, What My Daddy Should Have Told Me goes one step beyond proven practices...  Read More >>

How to Live in the City

How to Live in the City

Author: Hugo Macdonald ,  Hugo Macdonald
ISBN: 9781447293316
Format: Paperback
$25.85

A handbook for mastering the art of living in a city.  Read More >>

Urban Horticulture

Urban Horticulture

Author: Tina Marie Waliczek ,  Jayne M. Zajicek
ISBN: 9781482260991
Format: Hardback
$368.00

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Never Never Lands: Unknown Fields

Never Never Lands: Unknown Fields

Author: Kate Davies ,  Liam Young
ISBN: 9781907896859
Format: Paperback
$18.11

In Never Never Lands Unknown Fields chronicle the creation stories of the city and head off on a dust-blown road...  Read More >>

High Strange: Unknown Fields

High Strange: Unknown Fields

Author: Kate Davies ,  Liam Young
ISBN: 9781907896897
Format: Paperback
$18.11

To chart the black sites of the Unknown Fields city the studio commandeers an old US school bus and heads off on...  Read More >>

Treasure Islands: Unknown Fields

Treasure Islands: Unknown Fields

Author: Kate Davies ,  Liam Young
ISBN: 9781907896873
Format: Paperback
$18.11

In Treasured Island Unknown Fields travels through Madagascar to catalogue the push and pull of economy and ecology...  Read More >>

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