Urban communities books

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Athens Transformed, 404-262 BC: From Popular Sovereignty to the Dominion of Wealth

Athens Transformed, 404-262 BC: From Popular Sovereignty...

Author: Phillip Harding (University of British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415873925
Format: Hardback
$135.00

Most studies of fourth century Athens end with the battle of Khaironeia or with the death of Alexander, and while...  Read More >>

Sensing Chicago: Noisemakers, Strikebreakers, and Muckrakers

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

Author: Adam Mack
ISBN: 9780252080753
Format: Paperback
$54.99

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The Mutual Housing Experiment: New Deal Communities for the Urban Middle Class

The Mutual Housing Experiment: New Deal Communities...

Author: Kristin M Szylvian
ISBN: 9781439912058
Format: Hardback
$209.88

In 1940, the U.S. Federal Works Agency created an experimental housing program for industrial workers. Eight model...  Read More >>

The Quality of the Urban Environment: Essays on ""New Resources"" in an Urban Age

The Quality of the Urban Environment: Essays on ""New...

Author: Harvey S. Perloff
ISBN: 9781138930360
Format: Hardback
$368.00

The quality of the environment in which people live, work, and play influences to no small degree the quality of...  Read More >>

Ghosts of Organizations Past: Communities of Organizations as Settings for Change

Ghosts of Organizations Past: Communities of Organizations...

Author: Dan Ryan
ISBN: 9781439912553
Format: Paperback
$71.15

In Ghosts of Organizations Past, Dan Ryan asks, “Why are urban communities such hard places to implement community...  Read More >>

The City in Urban Poverty

The City in Urban Poverty

Author: C. Lemanski ,  C. Marx
ISBN: 9781137367426
Format: Hardback
$204.95

The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not...  Read More >>

Ghosts of Organizations Past: Communities of Organizations as Settings for Change

Ghosts of Organizations Past: Communities of Organizations...

Author: Dan Ryan
ISBN: 9781439912546
Format: Hardback
$252.12

In Ghosts of Organizations Past, Dan Ryan asks, “Why are urban communities such hard places to implement community...  Read More >>

The Crisis of America's Cities: Solutions for the Future, Lessons from the Past

The Crisis of America's Cities: Solutions for the Future,...

Author: Randall Bartlett
ISBN: 9781317457701
Format: Electronic book text
$462.00

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Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit: de la agricultura al turismo

Bahía de Banderas, Nayarit: de la agricultura al turismo...

Author: Candelario Fernández Agraz
ISBN: 9783639554373
Format: Paperback
$193.59

En México y América Latina, el turismo se ha constituido como el medio a través del cual se reproduce el modo de...  Read More >>

Code of the Suburb: Inside the World of Young Middle-Class Drug Dealers

Code of the Suburb: Inside the World of Young Middle-Class...

Author: Scott Jacques ,  Richard Wright
ISBN: 9780226164113
Format: Paperback
$47.95

Offers an ethnography of the culture of suburban drug dealers. This book shows that suburban drug dealers accord...  Read More >>

Leadership and Place

Leadership and Place

Author: Chris Collinge (The Birmingham Business School, UK) ,  John Gibney (The Birmingham Business School, UK)
ISBN: 9781138879355
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book makes an important contribution to the discussion of the contemporary leadership challenges in the context...  Read More >>

The Physical City: Public Space and the Infrastructure

The Physical City: Public Space and the Infrastructure...

Author: Neil L. Shumsky
ISBN: 9781138874053
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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Religion and Community in the New Urban America

Religion and Community in the New Urban America

Author: Paul D. Numrich (Affiliate Research Associate Professor, Affiliate Research Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago) ,  Elfriede Wedam (Research Associate, Research Associate, Loyola University Chicago)
ISBN: 9780199386857
Format: Paperback
$86.95

Through an in-depth study of fifteen Chicago congregations--Catholic parishes, Protestant churches, Jewish synagogues,...  Read More >>

Code of the Suburb: Inside the World of Young Middle-Class Drug Dealers

Code of the Suburb: Inside the World of Young Middle-Class...

Author: Scott Jacques ,  Richard Wright
ISBN: 9780226164083
Format: Hardback
$163.95

When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening on urban streets, in disadvantaged,...  Read More >>

Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003

Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of...

Author: Richard C. Keller
ISBN: 9780226251110
Format: Hardback
$62.95

In a cemetery on the southern outskirts of Paris lie the bodies of nearly a hundred of what some have called the...  Read More >>

City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris

City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris

Author: Aimee Boutin ,  Aimaee Boutin
ISBN: 9780252080784
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Beloved as the city of light, Paris in the nineteenth century sparked the acclaim of poets and the odium of the...  Read More >>

Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland

Where the River Burned: Carl Stokes and the Struggle...

Author: David Stradling ,  Richard Stradling
ISBN: 9780801453618
Format: Hardback
$62.07

In Where the River Burned, David Stradling and Richard Stradling describe Cleveland's nascent transition from polluted...  Read More >>

The Sacred Identity of Ephesos (Routledge Revivals): Foundation Myths of a Roman City

The Sacred Identity of Ephesos (Routledge Revivals):...

Author: Guy Maclean Rogers
ISBN: 9780415740258
Format: Paperback
$105.00

The Sacred Identity of Ephesos offers a full-length interpretation of one of the largest known bequests in the Classical...  Read More >>

Citizenship Education and Migrant Youth in China: Pathways to the Urban Underclass

Citizenship Education and Migrant Youth in China: Pathways...

Author: Miao Li
ISBN: 9780415742382
Format: Hardback
$305.00

In East Asian economies such as China, recent mass rural-urban migration has created a new urban underclass, as...  Read More >>

Technology and the Resilience of Metropolitan Regions

Technology and the Resilience of Metropolitan Regions...

Author: Michael A. Pagano ,  Randy Blankenhorn
ISBN: 9780252080739
Format: Paperback
$43.99

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

Framing Spaces in Motion: Tracing Visualizations of Earthquakes Into Twentieth-Century San Francisco

Framing Spaces in Motion: Tracing Visualizations of...

Author: Susanne Leikam
ISBN: 9783825361785
Format: Hardback
$171.60

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Understanding Street Culture: Poverty, Crime, Youth and Cool

Understanding Street Culture: Poverty, Crime, Youth...

Author: Jonathan Ilan (City University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781137028587
Format: Paperback
$79.99

An insightful and theoretically informed overview of street culture in various parts of the world - its origins,...  Read More >>

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