Urban communities books

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Charleston in Black and White: Race and Power in the South after the Civil Rights Movement

Charleston in Black and White: Race and Power in the...

Author: Steve Estes
ISBN: 9781469622323
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Based on detailed archival research and more than fifty oral history interviews, Charleston in Black and White addresses...  Read More >>

Love: A Philadelphia Affair

Love: A Philadelphia Affair

Author: Beth Kephart
ISBN: 9781439913154
Format: Hardback
$64.68

Philadelphia has been at the heart of many books by award-winning author Beth Kephart, but none more so than the...  Read More >>

Working (With/out) the System: Educational Leadership, Micropolitics and Social Justice

Working (With/out) the System: Educational Leadership,...

Author: James Ryan ,  Denise E. Armstrong
ISBN: 9781681232249
Format: Paperback
$146.89

Explores issues of social justice and micropolitics in educational institutions. More specifically, it examines...  Read More >>

The New Bostonians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Area since the 1960s

The New Bostonians: How Immigrants Have Transformed...

Author: Marilynn S. Johnson
ISBN: 9781625341471
Format: Paperback
$73.79

Among the most consequential pieces of Great Society legislation, the Immigration Act of 1965 opened the nation's...  Read More >>

The Inevitable City: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and 10 Principles of Crisis Leadership

The Inevitable City: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans,...

Author: Scott Cowen ,  Betsy Seifter
ISBN: 9781137280138
Format: Paperback
$44.88

The incredible story of how New Orleans came back after Hurricane Katrina stronger than before, and how its success...  Read More >>

Working (With/out) the System: Educational Leadership, Micropolitics and Social Justice

Working (With/out) the System: Educational Leadership,...

Author: James Ryan ,  Denise E. Armstrong
ISBN: 9781681232256
Format: Hardback
$263.31

Explores issues of social justice and micropolitics in educational institutions. More specifically, it examines...  Read More >>

Changing Chinese Cities: The Potentials Of Field Urbanism

Changing Chinese Cities: The Potentials Of Field Urbanism...

Author: Renee Y. Chow
ISBN: 9789971698331
Format: Hardback
$100.78

Until the middle of the twentieth century, Chinese urban life revolved around courtyards. Whether for housing or...  Read More >>

The New Urban Area Development: A Case Study in China

The New Urban Area Development: A Case Study in China...

Author: Zisheng Shao
ISBN: 9783662449578
Format: Hardback
$258.72

​This book examines the formation trajectory and development path of China’s newly formed urban areas, which was...  Read More >>

Maturing Megacities: The Pearl River Delta in Progressive Transformation

Maturing Megacities: The Pearl River Delta in Progressive...

Author: Uwe Altrock ,  Sonia Schoon
ISBN: 9789400793514
Format: Paperback
$258.72

This edited volume covers the multiple changes concerning urban governance in the course of the progressive transformation...  Read More >>

Towns and Cities: Function in Form: Urban Structures, Economics and Society

Towns and Cities: Function in Form: Urban Structures,...

Author: Julian Hart ,  Professor Matthew Carmona
ISBN: 9781472458551
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The book makes a step change from any other comparable studies by understanding our towns and cities in terms of...  Read More >>

The """Katrina Effect""": On the Nature of Catastrophe

The """Katrina Effect""": On the Nature of Catastrophe...

Author: William M. Taylor (University of Western Australia, Australia) ,  Michael P. Levine (University of Western Australia, Australia)
ISBN: 9781472595171
Format: Paperback
$54.99

On August 29th 2005, the headwaters of Hurricane Katrina’s storm-surge arrived at New Orleans, the levees broke...  Read More >>

City of Crisis: The Multiple Contestation of Southern European Cities

City of Crisis: The Multiple Contestation of Southern...

Author: Frank Eckardt ,  Javier Sanchez
ISBN: 9783837628425
Format: Paperback
$65.95

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Urban Space, Identity and Postmodernity in 1980s Spain: Rethinking the Movida

Urban Space, Identity and Postmodernity in 1980s Spain:...

Author: MariteUsozdela Fuente
ISBN: 9781909662445
Format: Hardback
$183.00

This book encourages a rethink of the urban youth movement that came to be known as la movida through a close analysis...  Read More >>

International Perspectives on Age-Friendly Cities

International Perspectives on Age-Friendly Cities

Author: Kelly G. Fitzgerald (Western Kentucky University, USA) ,  Francis G. Caro (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)
ISBN: 9780415720717
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book brings together recent scholarly work concerned with efforts around the world to transform cities so that...  Read More >>

A Shot Story: From Juvie to Ph.D.

A Shot Story: From Juvie to Ph.D.

Author: David Borkowski
ISBN: 9780823265992
Format: Hardback
$195.95

David Borkowski was nearly shot to death during a botched robbery when he was 15. Soon before turning 40, he obtained...  Read More >>

The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City

The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the...

Author: William B. Helmreich
ISBN: 9780691169705
Format: Paperback
$34.99

"As a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called ""Last Stop."" They...  Read More >>

Why New Orleans Matters

Why New Orleans Matters

Author: Tom Piazza
ISBN: 9780062414779
Format: Paperback
$27.99

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, award-winning novelist, cultural critic, and New Orleans resident Piazza began...  Read More >>

Instruments of Planning: Tensions and challenges for more equitable and sustainable cities

Instruments of Planning: Tensions and challenges for...

Author: Rebecca Leshinsky (RMIT University, Australia) ,  Crystal Legacy (University of Melbourne, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138812048
Format: Hardback
$378.00

Instruments of Planning explores planning’s instrumentality to deliver important social and environmental outcomes...  Read More >>

No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions

No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions...

Author: Ryan Berg
ISBN: 9781568585093
Format: Hardback
$35.00

A deep and intimate look at the lives of LGBTQ youth in foster care, vividly chronicling their struggles, fears...  Read More >>

Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine

Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in...

Author: Daniel Monterescu
ISBN: 9780253016775
Format: Paperback
$30.95

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Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine

Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in...

Author: Daniel Monterescu
ISBN: 9780253016713
Format: Hardback
$161.95

Drawing on key theorists in anthropology, sociology, urban studies, and political science, he outlines a new relational...  Read More >>

Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars

Street Smart: The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars...

Author: Samuel I Schwartz ,  Don Hagen
ISBN: 9781469003009
Format: Audio
$240.21

"With wit and sharp insight, former Traffic Commissioner of New York City, Sam Schwartz a.k.a. ""Gridlock Sam,""...  Read More >>

Cities and Disasters

Cities and Disasters

Author: Davia Cox Downey
ISBN: 9781482247404
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Cities and Disasters presents interdisciplinary and multinational perspectives on emergency management policy, economic...  Read More >>

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