Urban communities books

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The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of the Mouth of the Supreme Leader of Iran

The Political Ideology of Ayatollah Khamenei: Out of...

Author: Yvette Hovsepian-Bearce (Federal, State and Municipal Court Interpreter and Translator, USA)
ISBN: 9781138813106
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Ayatollah ʿAli Hosseini Khamenei, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, is one of the most controversial...  Read More >>

Urban Diversities and Language Policies in Medium-Sized Linguistic Communities

Urban Diversities and Language Policies in Medium-Sized...

Author: Emili Boix-Fuster
ISBN: 9781783093892
Format: Paperback
$77.50

This book examines medium-sized linguistic communities in urban contexts against the backdrop of the language policies...  Read More >>

Urban Diversities and Language Policies in Medium-Sized Linguistic Communities

Urban Diversities and Language Policies in Medium-Sized...

Author: Emili Boix-Fuster
ISBN: 9781783093908
Format: Hardback
$258.62

This book examines medium-sized linguistic communities in urban contexts against the backdrop of the language policies...  Read More >>

Show Me a Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption

Show Me a Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and...

Author: Lisa Belkin
ISBN: 9780316391351
Format: Paperback
$44.85

Issues facing public housing in Yonkers and the people who live with the results.  Read More >>

Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City

Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global...

Author: James Farrer ,  Andrew David Field
ISBN: 9780226262741
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Drawing on over years of fieldwork and hundreds of interviews, the authors spotlight a largely hidden world of nighttime...  Read More >>

Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin: The Sociospatial Exclusion of Homeless People

Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin: The Sociospatial...

Author: Jurgen von Mahs
ISBN: 9781439908273
Format: Paperback
$81.71

An international account of homelessness, comparing Berlin and Los Angeles and the possibility of exiting homelessness...  Read More >>

Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore, St. Louis, Chicago

Environmental Activism and the Urban Crisis: Baltimore,...

Author: Robert Gioielli
ISBN: 9781439904664
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Focuses on the wave of environmental activism and grassroots movements that swept through America's older, industrial...  Read More >>

Mysterious Martin

Mysterious Martin

Author: Tod Robbins ,  Rebecca Peters-Golden
ISBN: 9781942885085
Format: Paperback
$28.44

"The brilliant and sinister Martin writes a novel from the perspective of a murderer-and if you read it you just...  Read More >>

Behavioral Biology: Neuroendocrine Axis

Behavioral Biology: Neuroendocrine Axis

Author: Trevor Archer ,  Stefan Hansen
ISBN: 9781138876163
Format: Paperback
$71.99

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Tool Kit for Rapid Economic Assessment, Planning, and Development of Cities in Asia

Tool Kit for Rapid Economic Assessment, Planning, and...

Author: Asian Development Bank
ISBN: 9789292548339
Format: Paperback
$63.39

The long-term physical and economic development of many Asian cities is not sustainable. Governments at all levels...  Read More >>

Walking Inside Out: Contemporary British Psychogeography

Walking Inside Out: Contemporary British Psychogeography...

Author: Tina Richardson
ISBN: 9781783480852
Format: Hardback
$361.00

This book brings together contemporary theorists and practitioners to critically explore the state of psychogeography...  Read More >>

Economy and Architecture

Economy and Architecture

Author: Juliet Odgers (Lecturer, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK) ,  Mhairi McVicar (Senior Lecturer, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138025479
Format: Hardback
$368.00

This book takes a critical look at contemporary architecture from across the globe, whilst extending its range back...  Read More >>

A History of Drinking: The Scottish Pub since 1700

A History of Drinking: The Scottish Pub since 1700

Author: Anthony Cooke
ISBN: 9781474407625
Format: Paperback
$62.07

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Civic Ecology: Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up

Civic Ecology: Adaptation and Transformation from the...

Author: Professor Marianne E Krasny (Cornell University) ,  Keith G Tidball (Cornell University)
ISBN: 9780262327169
Format: Undefined
$213.84

Stories of environmental stewardship in communities from New Orleans to Soweto accompany an interdisciplinary framework...  Read More >>

Digital Cities: The Interdisciplinary Future of the Urban Geo-Humanities

Digital Cities: The Interdisciplinary Future of the...

Author: Benjamin Fraser
ISBN: 9781137524546
Format: Hardback
$136.95

This book highlights an interdisciplinary terrain where the humanities and social sciences combine with digital...  Read More >>

Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe

Urban Grassroots Movements in Central and Eastern Europe...

Author: Kerstin Jacobsson ,  Professor Chris Pickvance
ISBN: 9781472434463
Format: Hardback
$284.00

By studying urban activism in Central and Eastern Europe, this volume argues that the recent resurgence of urban...  Read More >>

The Public Economy of Urban Communities

The Public Economy of Urban Communities

Author: Julius Margoli
ISBN: 9781138946408
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Originally published in 1965, Margolis brings together a wide variety of papers on a multitude of subjects relating...  Read More >>

The Art of Public Space: Curating and Re-imagining the Ephemeral City

The Art of Public Space: Curating and Re-imagining the...

Author: Kim Gurney
ISBN: 9781137436894
Format: Hardback
$181.95

A journey through Johannesburg via three art projects raises intriguing notions about the constitutive relationship...  Read More >>

New Orleans and the Design Moment

New Orleans and the Design Moment

Author: Jacob Wagner (University of Missouri, USA) ,  Michael Frisch (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA)
ISBN: 9781138946057
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Post-Katrina New Orleans has been a testing ground for many ideas about city planning and urban design. This volume...  Read More >>

The Suburban Apartment Boom: Case Study of a Land Use Problem

The Suburban Apartment Boom: Case Study of a Land Use...

Author: Max Neutze
ISBN: 9781138955301
Format: Hardback
$231.00

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Economy and Architecture

Economy and Architecture

Author: Juliet Odgers (Lecturer, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK) ,  Mhairi McVicar (Senior Lecturer, Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, UK)
ISBN: 9781138025486
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book takes a critical look at contemporary architecture from across the globe, whilst extending its range back...  Read More >>

Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai

Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from...

Author: Sharon Zukin (Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center, USA) ,  Philip Kasinitz (CUNY Graduate Center, USA)
ISBN: 9781138023925
Format: Hardback
$347.00

Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai, a cutting-edge text/ethnography, reports...  Read More >>

Young Homeless People and Urban Space: Fixed in Mobility

Young Homeless People and Urban Space: Fixed in Mobility...

Author: Emma Jackson
ISBN: 9780415722162
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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