Urban communities books

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Integrated Transport: From Policy to Practice

Integrated Transport: From Policy to Practice

Author: Moshe Givoni (University of Colorado, USA) ,  David Banister (University of Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9781138972865
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Addressing how the integration of transportation systems could promote more sustainable travel, this book covers...  Read More >>

Building Ventilation: The State of the Art

Building Ventilation: The State of the Art

Author: Mat Santamouris ,  Peter Wouters
ISBN: 9781138988019
Format: Paperback
$92.99

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Between Riverside and Crazy (TCG Edition)

Between Riverside and Crazy (TCG Edition)

Author: Stephen Adly Guirgis
ISBN: 9781559365154
Format: Paperback
$27.99

The Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy about one's struggle to hold on to the past.  Read More >>

Heterotopia and the City: Public Space in a Postcivil Society

Heterotopia and the City: Public Space in a Postcivil...

Author: Michiel Dehaene (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands) ,  Lieven De Cauter (Katholiek Universitat, Leuven, Belgium)
ISBN: 9781138975965
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Heterotopia and the City offers new explorations of Foucault's concept of ‘heterotopia’. The book brings together...  Read More >>

Compact Cities: Sustainable Urban Forms for Developing Countries

Compact Cities: Sustainable Urban Forms for Developing...

Author: Rod Burgess ,  Mike Jenks
ISBN: 9781138132054
Format: Hardback
$273.00

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Migrant Dubai: Low Wage Workers and the Construction of a Global City

Migrant Dubai: Low Wage Workers and the Construction...

Author: Laavanya Kathiravelu
ISBN: 9781137450173
Format: Hardback
$204.95

This book analyzes the everyday lives of labour migrants in a rapidly developing city-state. Using the emirate of...  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: 9781137446909
Format: Hardback
$204.95

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

There Goes the Gayborhood?

There Goes the Gayborhood?

Author: Amin Ghaziani
ISBN: 9780691168418
Format: Paperback
$44.99

"Gay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village, have long...  Read More >>

Gestion des espaces publics: cas des arrets de bus a Brazzaville

Gestion des espaces publics: cas des arrets de bus a...

Author: Ngodi Etanislas
ISBN: 9783841678607
Format: Paperback
$107.17

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Migration, Settlement, and the Concepts of House and Home

Migration, Settlement, and the Concepts of House and...

Author: Iris Levin
ISBN: 9780415720687
Format: Hardback
$305.00

What is the meaning of the house and its materiality for migrants? This book aims to find out through an exploration...  Read More >>

Addiction, Modernity, and the City: A Users’ Guide to Urban Space

Addiction, Modernity, and the City: A Users’ Guide to...

Author: Christopher B.R. Smith
ISBN: 9781138796539
Format: Hardback
$315.00

"This work explores the multiple intersections between addiction and each socio-spatial permutation of what Derrida...  Read More >>

Retrofitting the City: Residential Flexibility, Resilience and the Built Environment

Retrofitting the City: Residential Flexibility, Resilience...

Author: Stefan Bouzarovski
ISBN: 9781784531508
Format: Hardback
$260.00

"Cities are responsible for three-quarters of the world s energy consumption. If we are to reduce our demands on...  Read More >>

The Urban Struggle for Economic, Environmental and Social Justice: Deepening their roots

The Urban Struggle for Economic, Environmental and Social...

Author: Malo André Hutson (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
ISBN: 9781138817708
Format: Hardback
$326.00

This book discusses the current demographic shifts of blacks, Latinos, and other people of colour out of certain...  Read More >>

From Boom to Bubble: How Finance Built the New Chicago

From Boom to Bubble: How Finance Built the New Chicago...

Author: Rachel Weber ,  A01
ISBN: 9780226294483
Format: Hardback
$79.95

An unprecedented historical, sociological, and geographic look at how property markets change and fail—and how that...  Read More >>

The City: A World History

The City: A World History

Author: Andrew Lees (Distinguished Professor of History, Distinguished Professor of History, Rutgers University - Camden, Philadelphia, PA)
ISBN: 9780199859528
Format: Hardback
$237.00

The City: A World History depicts the rise of urban centers from the middle of the fourth century BCE to the early...  Read More >>

Healthy Cities: Public Health through Urban Planning

Healthy Cities: Public Health through Urban Planning...

Author: Chinmoy Sarkar ,  Chris Webster
ISBN: 9781783474455
Format: Paperback
$115.90

In this book, the authors conceptualize the `urban health niche’ as a novel approach to public health and healthy-city...  Read More >>

Urban Innovation Networks: Understanding the City as a Strategic Resource

Urban Innovation Networks: Understanding the City as...

Author: Alexander Gutzmer
ISBN: 9783319246222
Format: Hardback
$194.04

This book offers fresh insights into how companies can engage with, and make use of, the modern metropolis. Based...  Read More >>

Smart Cities as Democratic Ecologies

Smart Cities as Democratic Ecologies

Author: Daniel Araya
ISBN: 9781137377197
Format: Hardback
$254.95

The concept of the 'smart city' as the confluence of urban planning and technological innovation has become a predominant...  Read More >>

Leadership and the City: Power, strategy and networks in the making of knowledge cities

Leadership and the City: Power, strategy and networks...

Author: Markku Sotarauta
ISBN: 9781138804067
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The 21st century has been dominated by an almost compulsive race to find new pathways for city development. As cities...  Read More >>

Urban Informatics: Collaboration at the nexus of policy, technology and design, people and data

Urban Informatics: Collaboration at the nexus of policy,...

Author: Kristene Unsworth (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA) ,  Andrea Forte (Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
ISBN: 9781138119499
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book focuses on the creative application and management of information technologies in urban environments,...  Read More >>

A Good Investment?: Philanthropy and the Marketing of Race in an Urban Public School

A Good Investment?: Philanthropy and the Marketing of...

Author: Amy Brown
ISBN: 9780816691142
Format: Paperback
$37.99

Select students and teachers worked the room at a fundraising event for a New York City public high school Amy Brown...  Read More >>

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