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Reaching the Mountaintop of the Academy: Personal Narratives, Advice and Strategies From Black Distinguished and Endowed Professors

Reaching the Mountaintop of the Academy: Personal Narratives,...

Author: Gail L. Thompson ,  Fred A. Bonner II
ISBN: 9781681233192
Format: Paperback
$146.89

Idn this volume istinguished and endowed professors describe their personal journey to the distinguished or endowed...  Read More >>

Conflicts in the City: Reflections on Urban Unrest

Conflicts in the City: Reflections on Urban Unrest

Author: Luis del Romero Renau
ISBN: 9781634839136
Format: Hardback
$508.20

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Cracks in the Schoolyard: Confronting Latino Educational Inequality

Cracks in the Schoolyard: Confronting Latino Educational...

Author: Gilberto Q. Conchas
ISBN: 9780807757031
Format: Paperback
$108.11

Challenges deficit models of schooling and turns school failure on its head. Going beyond presenting critical case...  Read More >>

Sustainable Urban Energy Policy: Heat and the city

Sustainable Urban Energy Policy: Heat and the city

Author: David Hawkey ,  Janette Webb
ISBN: 9781138826120
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Minimising the most severe risks of climate change means ending societal dependence on fossil fuels, and radically...  Read More >>

Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South: Towards a feminised urban future

Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South: Towards...

Author: Sylvia Chant (London School of Economics) ,  Cathy McIlwaine (Queen Mary University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138192782
Format: Paperback
$124.00

Developing regions are set to account for the vast majority of future urban growth, and women and girls will become...  Read More >>

We Live in a City

We Live in a City

Author: Amy B Rogers
ISBN: 9781508141914
Format: Hardback
$66.71

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Cracks in the Schoolyard: Confronting Latino Educational Inequality

Cracks in the Schoolyard: Confronting Latino Educational...

Author: Gilberto Q. Conchas
ISBN: 9780807757048
Format: Hardback
$211.20

Challenges deficit models of schooling and turns school failure on its head. Going beyond presenting critical case...  Read More >>

George Merrick, Son of the South Wind: Visionary Creator of Coral Gables

George Merrick, Son of the South Wind: Visionary Creator...

Author: Arva Moore Parks
ISBN: 9780813061511
Format: Hardback
$84.35

The story of developers selling off the Sunshine State is as old as the first railroad tracks laid across the peninsula....  Read More >>

Reaching the Mountaintop of the Academy: Personal Narratives, Advice and Strategies From Black Distinguished and Endowed Professors

Reaching the Mountaintop of the Academy: Personal Narratives,...

Author: Gail L. Thompson ,  Fred A. Bonner II
ISBN: 9781681233208
Format: Hardback
$263.31

Idn this volume istinguished and endowed professors describe their personal journey to the distinguished or endowed...  Read More >>

Capital Dilemma: Growth and Inequality in Washington, D.C.

Capital Dilemma: Growth and Inequality in Washington,...

Author: Derek Hyra (American University, USA) ,  Sabiyha Prince (Anacostia Community Museum, USA)
ISBN: 9781138886902
Format: Hardback
$378.00

Capital Dilemma: Growth and Inequality in Washington, DC uncovers and explains the dynamics that have influenced...  Read More >>

Urban Drama: The Metropolis in Contemporary North American Plays

Urban Drama: The Metropolis in Contemporary North American...

Author: J. Chris Westgate
ISBN: 9781349296019
Format: Paperback
$113.95

Identifying an apprehension about the nature and constitution of urbanism in North American plays, Westgate examines...  Read More >>

Body Piercing and Identity Construction: A Comparative Perspective — New York, New Orleans, Wroc?aw

Body Piercing and Identity Construction: A Comparative...

Author: NA NA ,  Kenneth A. Loparo
ISBN: 9781349292752
Format: Paperback
$113.95

Based on a fifteen year longitudinal cross-cultural analysis on the role of the body in identity construction process...  Read More >>

Last Project Standing: Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago

Last Project Standing: Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare...

Author: Catherine Fennell
ISBN: 9780816697373
Format: Paperback
$44.99

In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago's Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition...  Read More >>

Cities Beyond Borders: Comparative and Transnational Approaches to Urban History

Cities Beyond Borders: Comparative and Transnational...

Author: Nicolas Kenny ,  Rebecca Madgin
ISBN: 9781472434791
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Drawing on a body of research covering primarily Europe and the Americas, but stretching also to Asia and Africa,...  Read More >>

Smart Urbanism: Utopian vision or false dawn?

Smart Urbanism: Utopian vision or false dawn?

Author: Simon Marvin (Durham University, UK) ,  Andrés Luque-Ayala (University of Durham, UK)
ISBN: 9781138844230
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Smart Urbanism (SU) – the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods,...  Read More >>

The Indoor Environment Handbook: How to Make Buildings Healthy and Comfortable

The Indoor Environment Handbook: How to Make Buildings...

Author: Philomena Bluyssen (Delft University of Technology)
ISBN: 9781138989450
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Shows how the human body and senses react to different indoor environmental conditions, together with basic information...  Read More >>

Planning for Climate Change: Strategies for Mitigation and Adaptation for Spatial Planners

Planning for Climate Change: Strategies for Mitigation...

Author: Simin Davoudi ,  Jenny Crawford
ISBN: 9781138978522
Format: Paperback
$96.99

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Designing High-Density Cities: For Social and Environmental Sustainability

Designing High-Density Cities: For Social and Environmental...

Author: Edward Ng
ISBN: 9781138967441
Format: Paperback
$96.99

First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural Economy

Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the Cultural...

Author: Tim Edensor ,  Deborah Leslie
ISBN: 9781138982710
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This book argues for a rethinking of what constitutes creativity, foregrounding non-economic values and practices,...  Read More >>

University Architecture

University Architecture

Author: Brian Edwards
ISBN: 9781138986534
Format: Paperback
$96.99

This book highlights the importance of university architecture. It is intended as a guide to designers, to those...  Read More >>

Urban Microclimate: Designing the Spaces Between Buildings

Urban Microclimate: Designing the Spaces Between Buildings...

Author: Evyatar Erell ,  David Pearlmutter
ISBN: 9781138993983
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Bridging the gap between climatology research and applied urban design, this title provides architects and urban...  Read More >>

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