Urban communities books

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Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice: Discourses on Architecture and the City

Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice: Discourses on...

Author: Teresa Stoppani
ISBN: 9781138874046
Format: Paperback
$116.00

A critical look at the making of Manhattan and Venice provides a background to addressing the dynamic redefinition...  Read More >>

Sustainability in European Environmental Policy: Challenges of Governance and Knowledge

Sustainability in European Environmental Policy: Challenges...

Author: Rob Atkinson ,  Terizakis Georgios
ISBN: 9781138874206
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book examines sustainability in European environmental policy and explores the related challenges of governance...  Read More >>

Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social Policy

Public Housing Myths: Perception, Reality, and Social...

Author: Nicholas Dagen Bloom ,  Fritz Umbach
ISBN: 9780801478741
Format: Paperback
$62.07

Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure. Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists...  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: 9780520961081
Format: Electronic book text
$290.37

Handbook of Religion and the Asian City highlights the creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian...  Read More >>

240 Ways to Close the Achievement GAP: Parents Only: Work Book

240 Ways to Close the Achievement GAP: Parents Only:...

Author: Mdonnell Tenner
ISBN: 9781512126006
Format: Paperback
$63.33

The 240 Ways Parents Only Action Guide has been provided as an aid to parents to help increase their child's success...  Read More >>

Ghost Cities of China: The Story of Cities without People in the World's Most Populated Country

Ghost Cities of China: The Story of Cities without People...

Author: Wade Shepard
ISBN: 9781783602186
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Looking through the lens of new cities, Ghost Cities of China shows the 'new society' that's being created to live...  Read More >>

Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Love

Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City...

Author: Wendy Ruderman ,  Barbara Laker
ISBN: 9780062085450
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A true story of the biggest police corruption scandal in Philadelphia history, a tale of drugs, power, and abuse...  Read More >>

Project Lives: New York Public Housing Residents Photograph Their World

Project Lives: New York Public Housing Residents Photograph...

Author: George Carrano ,  Chelsea Davis
ISBN: 9781576877371
Format: Hardback
$49.99

For a generation, tabloids, television, and Hollywood have defined the public image of New Yorkers who live in the...  Read More >>

Ghost Cities of China: The Story of Cities without People in the World's Most Populated Country

Ghost Cities of China: The Story of Cities without People...

Author: Wade Shepard
ISBN: 9781783602193
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Looking through the lens of new cities, Ghost Cities of China shows the 'new society' that's being created to live...  Read More >>

Urban Animals: Crowding in zoocities

Urban Animals: Crowding in zoocities

Author: Tora Holmberg (Uppsala University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781138832886
Format: Hardback
$284.00

"The city includes opportunities as well as constraints for humans and other animals alike. Urban animals are often...  Read More >>

Gaining Freedoms: Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin

Gaining Freedoms: Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin...

Author: Berna Turam ,  Turam Berna
ISBN: 9780804794480
Format: Paperback
$60.95

This book reveals and analyzes the ways in which highly contested, deeply divided urban space can generate opportunities...  Read More >>

Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture

Phenomenologies of the City: Studies in the History...

Author: Henriette Steiner ,  Maximilian Sternberg
ISBN: 9781409454793
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book brings architecture and urbanism into dialogue with phenomenology. The contributors are architects and...  Read More >>

Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions: An International Comparative Perspective

Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions: An International...

Author: Jiang Xu ,  Anthony Yeh (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781138867338
Format: Paperback
$92.99

First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Planning by Consent: The Origins and Nature of British Development Control

Planning by Consent: The Origins and Nature of British...

Author: Philip Booth
ISBN: 9781138873919
Format: Paperback
$92.99

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Cities, Nationalism and Democratization

Cities, Nationalism and Democratization

Author: Scott A. Bollens
ISBN: 9781138867178
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Filling a gap in the peacemaking and conflict literatures market and including a set of over 100 interviews with...  Read More >>

The Globalization of Advertising: Agencies, Cities and Spaces of Creativity

The Globalization of Advertising: Agencies, Cities and...

Author: James R. Faulconbridge (Lancaster University, United Kingdom) ,  Peter Taylor
ISBN: 9781138867345
Format: Paperback
$101.00

The role of advertising in everyday life and as a major employer in post-industrial economies is intimately bound...  Read More >>

Critical Reflections on Regional Competitiveness: Theory, Policy, Practice

Critical Reflections on Regional Competitiveness: Theory,...

Author: Gillian Bristow
ISBN: 9781138867321
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Engaging with the theory and policy of regional competitiveness, this title provides an integrated critique of the...  Read More >>

Urban Subversion and the Creative City

Urban Subversion and the Creative City

Author: Oli Mould (Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138797048
Format: Hardback
$273.00

Check out the author's video to find out more about the book: https://vimeo.com/124247409 This book provides a...  Read More >>

Gaining Freedoms: Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin

Gaining Freedoms: Claiming Space in Istanbul and Berlin...

Author: Berna Turam ,  Turam Berna
ISBN: 9780804793629
Format: Hardback
$180.95

This book reveals and analyzes the ways in which highly contested, deeply divided urban space can generate opportunities...  Read More >>

Unique Challenges in Urban Schools: The Involvement of African American Parents

Unique Challenges in Urban Schools: The Involvement...

Author: Eric R. Jackson ,  Carolyn Turner
ISBN: 9781610480086
Format: Hardback
$156.00

This study explores the various ways in which parental involvement can help to increase student academic success....  Read More >>

Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs

Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs...

Author: Lucia Lo ,  Valerie Preston
ISBN: 9781442650244
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how the combination of the low-density, car-centric...  Read More >>

Governing States and Localities Resource Center

Governing States and Localities Resource Center

Author: Kevin B. Smith ,  Alan H. Greenblatt
ISBN: 9781506303673
Format: Undefined
$129.75

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Unique Challenges in Urban Schools: The Involvement of African American Parents

Unique Challenges in Urban Schools: The Involvement...

Author: Eric R. Jackson ,  Carolyn Turner
ISBN: 9781610480093
Format: Paperback
$77.99

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Japanese Girls and Women

Japanese Girls and Women

Author: Alice Mabel Bacon
ISBN: 9781511973571
Format: Paperback
$23.10

After a year in Tokyo, American teacher Alice Mabel Bacon (1858-1918) became the first author to explore Japan's...  Read More >>

Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin

Hidden City: Adventures and Explorations in Dublin

Author: Karl Whitney
ISBN: 9780241966129
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Dublin is a city much visited and deeply mythologized. In this book, the author finds hidden places and untold stories...  Read More >>

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