Urban communities books

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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: 9781447316633
Format: Undefined
$356.40

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

Leading Small and Mid-Sized Urban School Districts

Leading Small and Mid-Sized Urban School Districts

Author: Karen L. Sanzo ,  Ian E. Sutherland
ISBN: 9781784418182
Format: Hardback
$174.00

The majority of research in the US public education system has been conducted in large urban areas that do not reflect...  Read More >>

Building the Inclusive City: Theory and Practice for Confronting Urban Segregation

Building the Inclusive City: Theory and Practice for...

Author: Nilson Ariel Espino
ISBN: 9781138814417
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book brings together debates on ethnic and economic segregation, combining theory and practical solutions to...  Read More >>

Explorations in Urban and Regional Dynamics: A case study in complexity science

Explorations in Urban and Regional Dynamics: A case...

Author: Joel Dearden (Swansea University, UK) ,  Alan Wilson (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781138019140
Format: Hardback
$79.99

The task of modelling the evolution of cities – the dynamics – is one of the major challenges of the social sciences....  Read More >>

Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban

Cartographies of Place: Navigating the Urban

Author: Michael Darroch ,  Janine Marchessault
ISBN: 9780773543034
Format: Paperback
$82.80

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Zoo Renewal: White Flight and the Animal Ghetto

Zoo Renewal: White Flight and the Animal Ghetto

Author: Lisa Uddin
ISBN: 9780816679126
Format: Paperback
$41.99

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Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities

Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and...

Author: Benjamin Fraser
ISBN: 9781137498557
Format: Hardback
$181.95

Toward an Urban Cultural Studies is a call for a new interdisciplinary area of research and teaching. Blending Urban...  Read More >>

Zoo Renewal: White Flight and the Animal Ghetto

Zoo Renewal: White Flight and the Animal Ghetto

Author: Lisa Uddin
ISBN: 9780816679119
Format: Hardback
$146.99

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Dan Edward Knight Sr. Chicago State University President 2016 Hes the Best Man for the Job Period: The Board of Trustees Should Look at the Possibility of Having a Open Minded President for the Future of the University

Dan Edward Knight Sr. Chicago State University President...

Author: Dan Edward Knight Sr
ISBN: 9781511939652
Format: Paperback
$1026.93

The need for leadership in the hood cannot be focused on enough. The man or woman that leads this great south side...  Read More >>

Rural by Design: Planning for Town and Country

Rural by Design: Planning for Town and Country

Author: Randall Arendt (senior conservation advisor, Natural Lands Trust, UK and fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute, UK)
ISBN: 9781611901528
Format: Paperback
$231.00

For America's suburbs, small cities, and rural areas, new challenges demand new solutions. Author Randall Arendt...  Read More >>

Capital: The Eruption of Delhi

Capital: The Eruption of Delhi

Author: Rana Dasgupta
ISBN: 9780143126997
Format: Paperback
$47.52

The transformation of Delhi into a twenty-first century metropolis is an intoxicating, at times terrifying story...  Read More >>

Town Twinning, Transnational Connections, and Trans-local Citizenship Practices in Europe

Town Twinning, Transnational Connections, and Trans-local...

Author: A. Langenohl
ISBN: 9781137021229
Format: Hardback
$197.95

Many Europeans think that town twinning has greatly contributed to integration in Europe after the Second World...  Read More >>

Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine

Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in...

Author: Daniel Monterescu
ISBN: 9780253016836
Format: Electronic book text
$84.45

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Planning and LGBTQ Communities: The Need for Inclusive Queer Spaces

Planning and LGBTQ Communities: The Need for Inclusive...

Author: Petra L. Doan
ISBN: 9781138798168
Format: Paperback
$116.00

Planning and LGBTQ Communities offers guidance to creating inclusive communities for lesbian, gay, bisexual and...  Read More >>

Milanese Encounters: Public Space and Vision in Contemporary Urban Italy

Milanese Encounters: Public Space and Vision in Contemporary...

Author: Cristina Moretti
ISBN: 9781442626997
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Milanese Encounters examines how the acts of looking, recognizing, and being seen reflect social relations and power...  Read More >>

Managing the City Economy: Challenges and Strategies in Developing Countries

Managing the City Economy: Challenges and Strategies...

Author: Le-Yin Zhang
ISBN: 9780415661751
Format: Hardback
$326.00

In a world increasingly organised as networks of cities, this book offers the first full-length treatment of the...  Read More >>

Family Systems Application to Social Work: Training and Clinical Practice

Family Systems Application to Social Work: Training...

Author: Karen Gail Lewis
ISBN: 9781138899049
Format: Hardback
$294.00

Originally published in 1991, this title is a valuable social work text which demonstrated how to apply family system...  Read More >>

Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination

Cities of Light: Two Centuries of Urban Illumination...

Author: Sandy Isenstadt (University of Delaware, US) ,  Margaret Maile Petty (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
ISBN: 9781138813922
Format: Paperback
$116.00

Cities of Light is the first global overview of modern urban illumination, a development that allows human wakefulness...  Read More >>

Christianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial Approach

Christianity and Culture in the City: A Postcolonial...

Author: Samuel Cruz ,  Peter Savastano
ISBN: 9781498515856
Format: Paperback
$107.00

This volume examines how the manifestation and development of diverse expressions of Christianities in the city...  Read More >>

Mi Rincóncito en el Cielo

Mi Rincóncito en el Cielo

Author: Theresa Barron-McKeagney
ISBN: 9780761865483
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Mi Rincóncito en el Cielo (My Little Corner of the Sky) tells the remarkable story of Alberto “Beto” Gonzales, who...  Read More >>

American Ethnic Practices in the Twenty-first Century: The Milwaukee Study

American Ethnic Practices in the Twenty-first Century:...

Author: Jill Florence Lackey
ISBN: 9781498515139
Format: Paperback
$117.00

American Ethnic Practices in the Early Twenty-first Century: The Milwaukee Study is a work based on a twelve-year...  Read More >>

The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco

The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart...

Author: Randy Shaw
ISBN: 9780692327234
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Named for a part of the city where bribes bought police the highest-grade beef, San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood...  Read More >>

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