Urban communities books

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Housing and Belonging in Latin America

Housing and Belonging in Latin America

Author: Christien Klaufus ,  Arij Ouweneel
ISBN: 9781782387404
Format: Hardback
$256.16

The intricacies of living in contemporary Latin American cities include cases of both empowerment and restriction....  Read More >>

Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism

Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist...

Author: Tamar W. Carroll
ISBN: 9781469619880
Format: Paperback
$112.20

Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community...  Read More >>

Transition to Common Work: Building Community at The Working Centre

Transition to Common Work: Building Community at The...

Author: Joe Mancini ,  Stephanie Mancini
ISBN: 9781771121606
Format: Paperback
$37.40

The Working Centre in the downtown core of Kitchener, Ontario, is a widely recognized and successful model for community...  Read More >>

Understanding Street Culture: Poverty, Crime, Youth and Cool

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

Author: Jonathan Ilan (City University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781137028594
Format: Hardback
$260.00

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

Landscape of Discontent: Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris

Landscape of Discontent: Urban Sustainability in Immigrant...

Author: Andrew Newman
ISBN: 9780816689637
Format: Paperback
$44.99

In Landscape of Discontent Andrew Newmandraws extensively from immersive, firsthand ethnographic research, as...  Read More >>

Landscape of Discontent: Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris

Landscape of Discontent: Urban Sustainability in Immigrant...

Author: Andrew Newman
ISBN: 9780816689620
Format: Hardback
$157.99

In Landscape of Discontent Andrew Newmandraws extensively from immersive, firsthand ethnographic research, as...  Read More >>

Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal: Partnerships in Action

Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal: Partnerships in...

Author: Rory Shand
ISBN: 9781138855939
Format: Paperback
$105.00

Environmental and sustainability issues are currently stretched by economic concerns and policy areas such as housing...  Read More >>

Sensing Cities: Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona and Manchester

Sensing Cities: Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona...

Author: Monica Montserrat Degen
ISBN: 9781138881358
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book identifies an important aspect in the analysis of urban change in the late twentieth century by highlighting...  Read More >>

Shanghai Expo: An International Forum on the Future of Cities

Shanghai Expo: An International Forum on the Future...

Author: Tim Winter
ISBN: 9781138822726
Format: Paperback
$114.00

In 2010 Shanghai hosted the largest, most spectacular and most expensive expo ever. Attracting a staggering 73 million...  Read More >>

The City in the Experience Economy: Role and Transformation

The City in the Experience Economy: Role and Transformation...

Author: Anne Lorentzen (Aalborg University, Denmark) ,  Carsten Jahn Hansen
ISBN: 9781138853454
Format: Paperback
$105.00

The book develops a new approach to urban development in which leisure, pleasure or experiences are seen as key...  Read More >>

Asian and Pacific Cities: Development Patterns

Asian and Pacific Cities: Development Patterns

Author: Ian Shirley ,  Carol Neill
ISBN: 9781138814424
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The cities of Asia and the Pacific are at the epicentre of development in what is arguably, the most populous, culturally...  Read More >>

Tourism in National Capitals and Global Change

Tourism in National Capitals and Global Change

Author: Robert Maitland (Centre of Tourism Research at University of Westminster, UK)
ISBN: 9781138850750
Format: Paperback
$71.99

This book explores the phenomenon of capital city tourism, and uses recent research to examines the appeal of ‘capitalness’...  Read More >>

Touring Poverty

Touring Poverty

Author: Bianca Freire-Medeiros (Getulio Vargas Foundation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
ISBN: 9781138822689
Format: Paperback
$114.00

"Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of impoverished neighbourhoods into...  Read More >>

The City as Target

The City as Target

Author: Ryan Bishop (National University of Singapore, Singapore) ,  Gregory Clancey
ISBN: 9781138851375
Format: Paperback
$33.99

Bringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, The City as Target provides a sustained and critical...  Read More >>

Lean Design Management

Lean Design Management

Author: Stephen Emmit
ISBN: 9781138853379
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This volume brings together authors from four continents to argue that lean thinking should be integral to design...  Read More >>

Gender Politics in Transitional Justice

Gender Politics in Transitional Justice

Author: Catherine O'Rourke (University of Ulster)
ISBN: 9781138850132
Format: Paperback
$88.99

What role do transitional justice processes play in determining the gender outcomes of transitions from conflict...  Read More >>

Healing Gotham: New York City’s Public Health Policies for the Twenty-First Century

Healing Gotham: New York City’s Public Health Policies...

Author: Bruce F. Berg (Associate Professor of Political Science, Fordham University)
ISBN: 9781421415994
Format: Paperback
$80.99

It helps policy makers understand how best to develop and implement effective public health strategies around the...  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: 9781317397328
Format: Electronic book text
$137.15

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

The Urban Condition

The Urban Condition

Author: Brendan Gleeson (Melbourne University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138905078
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress and Poverty in the Gilded Age

Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality: Progress...

Author: Edward O'Donnell
ISBN: 9780231539265
Format: Electronic book text
$100.29

The remarkable explosion of American industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century...  Read More >>

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City

Author: Alice Goffman
ISBN: 9780226275406
Format: Paperback
$29.95

War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a...  Read More >>

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering the City

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience: Encountering...

Author: Simon Parker (University of York, UK)
ISBN: 9780415520690
Format: Hardback
$378.00

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order...  Read More >>

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