Urban communities books

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Chinese Migration to Europe: Prato, Italy, and Beyond

Chinese Migration to Europe: Prato, Italy, and Beyond...

Author: L. Baldassar ,  Graeme Johanson
ISBN: 9781137400239
Format: Hardback
$215.95

Through an analysis of Chinese migration to Europe, this volume examines the most pressing migration and integration...  Read More >>

Literature and the Peripheral City

Literature and the Peripheral City

Author: L. Ameel ,  Jason Finch
ISBN: 9781349504701
Format: Paperback
$233.95

Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries...  Read More >>

Planning Theory

Planning Theory

Author: Ali Madanipour
ISBN: 9780415746366
Format: Mixed media product
$630.00

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Literature and the Peripheral City

Literature and the Peripheral City

Author: L. Ameel ,  Jason Finch
ISBN: 9781137492876
Format: Hardback
$254.95

Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries...  Read More >>

Small-Town America: Finding Community, Shaping the Future

Small-Town America: Finding Community, Shaping the Future...

Author: Robert Wuthnow
ISBN: 9780691165820
Format: Paperback
$52.99

More than thirty million Americans live in small, out-of-the-way places. Many of them could have joined the vast...  Read More >>

In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence

In Harm's Way: The Dynamics of Urban Violence

Author: Javier Auyero ,  María Fernanda Berti
ISBN: 9780691164779
Format: Hardback
$67.99

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Food and the City: Histories of Culture and Cultivation

Food and the City: Histories of Culture and Cultivation...

Author: Dorothée Imbert
ISBN: 9780884024040
Format: Hardback
$145.20

Food and the City explores the physical, social, and political relations between the production of food and urban...  Read More >>

The Science of Crime Measurement: Issues for Spatially-Referenced Crime Data

The Science of Crime Measurement: Issues for Spatially-Referenced...

Author: Martin A. Andresen (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781138899957
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book builds on a growing body of literature on crime measurement and offers a comprehensive account of this...  Read More >>

Cities and Sustainability: Issues and Strategic Pathways

Cities and Sustainability: Issues and Strategic Pathways...

Author: S. Mahendra Dev ,  Sudhakar Yedla
ISBN: 9788132223092
Format: Hardback
$310.47

The book addresses the sustainability of cities in the context of sustainability science and its application to...  Read More >>

Civil Society and Participatory Governance: Municipal Councils and Social Housing Programs in Brazil

Civil Society and Participatory Governance: Municipal...

Author: Maureen M. Donaghy (Rutgers University - Camden, USA)
ISBN: 9781138915749
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Breaks new ground in the study of participatory governance by combining qualitative and quantitative research methods....  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: 9780231539258
Format: Electronic book text
$131.97

Through the lens of real estate transactions from 1890 to 1920, Kevin McGruder offers an innovative perspective...  Read More >>

Resilience in the Post-Welfare Inner City: Voluntary Sector Geographies in London, Los Angeles and Sydney

Resilience in the Post-Welfare Inner City: Voluntary...

Author: Geoffrey DeVerteuil
ISBN: 9781447316558
Format: Hardback
$174.99

Moving beyond theoretical notions of 'resilience' this is the first book to offer a conceptual and empirical approach...  Read More >>

Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing: Continued Lessons of Police Reform

Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century...

Author: Jonathon A. Cooper
ISBN: 9780739189047
Format: Hardback
$265.00

Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing argues that to fully understand contemporary American...  Read More >>

Handbook of Religion and the Asian City: Aspiration and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century

Handbook of Religion and the Asian City: Aspiration...

Author: Peter van der Veer
ISBN: 9780520281226
Format: Hardback
$248.95

Presents a creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian world cities. This book shows how projects...  Read More >>

Lessons from the Allocation of Food Vendors in Bangkok, Thailand

Lessons from the Allocation of Food Vendors in Bangkok,...

Author: Yen Lydia
ISBN: 9783659647147
Format: Paperback
$156.53

In the city of Bangkok, where food vendors play a large role in tourism and in the livelihoods of residents, the...  Read More >>

Death and Survival in Urban Britain: Disease, Pollution and Environment,  1800-1950

Death and Survival in Urban Britain: Disease, Pollution...

Author: Bill Luckin (University of Bolton, UK)
ISBN: 9781780768663
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Eminent urban historian Bill Luckin re-introduces a body of work which marks the beginning of this important strand...  Read More >>

Cities of Ambition

Cities of Ambition

Author: Charles Landry
ISBN: 9781908777058
Format: Paperback
$25.75

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Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans

Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the...

Author: Gary Krist
ISBN: 9780770437084
Format: Paperback
$52.80

From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war.  Read More >>

Transport, Mobility, and the Production of Urban Space

Transport, Mobility, and the Production of Urban Space...

Author: Julie Cidell ,  David Prytherch
ISBN: 9781138891340
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This volume traces the spatialities and politics of mobility, critically examining the articulation of urban space...  Read More >>

The Evolving European City

The Evolving European City

Author: Giuseppe Marinoni ,  Giovanni Chiaramonte
ISBN: 9780773545281
Format: Paperback
$139.73

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Violence at the Urban Margins

Violence at the Urban Margins

Author: Javier Auyero ,  Philippe Bourgois
ISBN: 9780190221454
Format: Paperback
$31.95

Violence at the Urban Margins seeks to shift the focus on discussions of public safety in urban society away from...  Read More >>

City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris

City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris

Author: Aimee Boutin ,  Aimaee Boutin
ISBN: 9780252039218
Format: Hardback
$239.00

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Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America

Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed...

Author: Marcus Anthony Hunter (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles)
ISBN: 9780190249670
Format: Paperback
$75.95

Black Citymakers revisits the Black Seventh Ward neighborhood and residents of W.E.B. DuBois's The Philadelphia...  Read More >>

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