Urban communities books

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UK Hip-Hop, Grime and the City: The Aesthetics and Ethics of London's Rap Scenes

UK Hip-Hop, Grime and the City: The Aesthetics and Ethics...

Author: Richard Bramwell, QC (University of Cambridge, UK)
ISBN: 9780415812382
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Young people in London have contributed to the production of a distinctively British rap culture. This book moves...  Read More >>

Better Must Come: Exiting Homelessness in Two Global Cities

Better Must Come: Exiting Homelessness in Two Global...

Author: Matthew D. Marr
ISBN: 9780801479700
Format: Paperback
$69.84

Matthew D. Marr compares and reveals how social contexts at various levels shape the experiences of transitional...  Read More >>

Better Must Come: Exiting Homelessness in Two Global Cities

Better Must Come: Exiting Homelessness in Two Global...

Author: Matthew D. Marr
ISBN: 9780801453380
Format: Hardback
$279.45

Matthew D. Marr compares and reveals how social contexts at various levels shape the experiences of transitional...  Read More >>

Factors affecting rural development: Comparison between Egypt and China

Factors affecting rural development: Comparison between...

Author: Radwan Mostafa Youssef Abouzaid
ISBN: 9783659715563
Format: Paperback
$176.48

The aim of this study was to identify the most important factors affecting rural development in Egypt and China,...  Read More >>

Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920

Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem,...

Author: Kevin McGruder
ISBN: 9780231169141
Format: Hardback
$99.95

Through the lens of Harlem real estate transactions from 1890 to 1920, Kevin McGruder reveals the complex interactions...  Read More >>

The Assault on Communities of Color: Exploring the Realities of Race-Based Violence

The Assault on Communities of Color: Exploring the Realities...

Author: Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner ,  Nicholas Daniel Hartlep
ISBN: 9781475819731
Format: Paperback
$115.00

The Assault on Communities of Color provides a critical look at issues such as racism, community segregation, whiteness...  Read More >>

The Proposal Economy: Neoliberal Citizenship in “Ontario’s Most Historic Town”

The Proposal Economy: Neoliberal Citizenship in “Ontario’s...

Author: Pamela Stern ,  Peter Hall
ISBN: 9780774828222
Format: Paperback
$100.19

This book, based on extended ethnographic and multi-method research in a small town in Canada, adds new perspectives...  Read More >>

Faithfully Urban: Pious Muslims in a German City

Faithfully Urban: Pious Muslims in a German City

Author: Petra Kuppinger
ISBN: 9781782386568
Format: Hardback
$181.95

A pious Muslim population lives in the southern German city of Stuttgart, where, even in the face of resentment...  Read More >>

Yearnings in the Meantime: 'Normal Lives' and the State in a Sarajevo Apartment Complex

Yearnings in the Meantime: 'Normal Lives' and the State...

Author: Stef Jansen
ISBN: 9781782386506
Format: Hardback
$256.16

Soon after they moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, this book's protagonists were overcome by the 1992-1995...  Read More >>

The Assault on Communities of Color: Exploring the Realities of Race-Based Violence

The Assault on Communities of Color: Exploring the Realities...

Author: Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner ,  Nicholas Daniel Hartlep
ISBN: 9781475819724
Format: Hardback
$249.00

The Assault on Communities of Color provides a critical look at issues such as racism, community segregation, whiteness...  Read More >>

We're Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City

We're Still Here Ya Bastards: How the People of New...

Author: Roberta Brandes Gratz
ISBN: 9781568585000
Format: Electronic book text
$73.89

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters is American history. A toxic combination of government...  Read More >>

Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago

Urban Green: Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class...

Author: Colin Fisher
ISBN: 9781469619958
Format: Paperback
$99.00

In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing...  Read More >>

The Politics of Urban Water: Changing Waterscapes in Amsterdam

The Politics of Urban Water: Changing Waterscapes in...

Author: Kimberley Kinder
ISBN: 9780820347950
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Reimaging water is a slow process, punctuated by small cultural shifts and informal spatial seizures that change...  Read More >>

Mobilities

Mobilities

Author: Ole B. Jensen
ISBN: 9781138021198
Format: Mixed media product
$2415.00

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Urbanizing China in War and Peace: The Case of Wuxi County

Urbanizing China in War and Peace: The Case of Wuxi...

Author: Toby Lincoln
ISBN: 9780824841003
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Rewrites the history of rural-urban relations in the first half of the twentieth century by arguing that urbanization...  Read More >>

The School Leadership Playbook: A Field Guide for Dramatic Improvement

The School Leadership Playbook: A Field Guide for Dramatic...

Author: Jean Desravines ,  Benjamin Fenton
ISBN: 9781119044215
Format: Paperback
$46.95

A proven framework for whole-school improvement The School Leadership Playbook is a practical guide for education...  Read More >>

The Life Space of the Urban Child: Perspectives on Martha Muchow's Classic Study

The Life Space of the Urban Child: Perspectives on Martha...

Author: Gunter Mey ,  Hartmut Gunther
ISBN: 9781412854917
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The heart of this book is the translation of The Life Space of the Urban Child, written in 1935 by Martha and Hans...  Read More >>

Neighborhood Technologies – Media and Mathematics of Dynamic Networks

Neighborhood Technologies – Media and Mathematics of...

Author: Tobias Harks ,  Sebastian Vehlken
ISBN: 9783037345238
Format: Paperback
$87.98

"Introduces the concept of ""neighborhood technologies"" as a model for intermediate, or meso-level, research into...  Read More >>

The Politics of Urban Water: Changing Waterscapes in Amsterdam

The Politics of Urban Water: Changing Waterscapes in...

Author: Kimberley Kinder
ISBN: 9780820347943
Format: Hardback
$319.31

Reimaging water is a slow process, punctuated by small cultural shifts and informal spatial seizures that change...  Read More >>

Technology and the Resilience of Metropolitan Regions

Technology and the Resilience of Metropolitan Regions...

Author: Michael A. Pagano ,  Randy Blankenhorn
ISBN: 9780252039164
Format: Hardback
$239.00

""Published for the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA), University of Illinois at Chicago.""  Read More >>

Sensing Chicago: Noisemakers, Strikebreakers, and Muckrakers

Sensing Chicago: Noisemakers, Strikebreakers, and Muckrakers...

Author: Adam Mack
ISBN: 9780252039188
Format: Hardback
$239.00

A hundred years ago and more, a walk down a Chicago street invited an assault on the senses. Untiring hawkers shouted...  Read More >>

In the Watches of the Night: Life in the Nocturnal City, 1820-1930

In the Watches of the Night: Life in the Nocturnal City,...

Author: Peter C. Baldwin
ISBN: 9780226269542
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks,...  Read More >>

The New Urban Agenda: The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area

The New Urban Agenda: The Greater Toronto and Hamilton...

Author: Bill Freeman ,  Christopher Hume
ISBN: 9781459731103
Format: Electronic book text
$58.05

Equal parts history, social science, and call to action, The New Urban Agenda focuses on fixing the major issues...  Read More >>

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