Urban communities books

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Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City: Youth Experiences of Uneven Opportunity

Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City:...

Author: M. Makris
ISBN: 9781137429155
Format: Hardback
$181.95

Winner of the 2016 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award  Molly Makris uses an interdisciplinary approach to urban education...  Read More >>

Return to the Street

Return to the Street

Author: Sophie Fuggle ,  Tom Henri
ISBN: 9780957147058
Format: Paperback
$49.14

"""Some of the chapters in this book originated from papers given at the Return to the Street Conference hosted...  Read More >>

Urban Networks in Russia, 1750-1800, and Pre-modern Periodization

Urban Networks in Russia, 1750-1800, and Pre-modern...

Author: Gilbert Rozman
ISBN: 9780691617367
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book takes an entirely new approach to the evolution of cities and of societies in premodern periods. Refining...  Read More >>

The Eclipse of Community: An Interpretation of American Studies

The Eclipse of Community: An Interpretation of American...

Author: Maurice Robert Stein
ISBN: 9780691620459
Format: Paperback
$94.99

The author examines classic American community studies written during the past fifty years, such as Robert Park...  Read More >>

Corporate Power and Urban Crisis in Detroit

Corporate Power and Urban Crisis in Detroit

Author: Lynda Ann Ewen
ISBN: 9780691611648
Format: Paperback
$87.99

Lynda Ann Ewen offers the first thoroughgoing Marxist-Leninist analysis, based on primary research, of the structure...  Read More >>

Aftermass: Bicycling in a Post-Critical Mass Portland

Aftermass: Bicycling in a Post-Critical Mass Portland...

Author: Joe Biel ,  Alice Isley
ISBN: 9781621068990
Format: DVD
$37.99

How did both Europe and North America's greatest bike cities come to be? Aftermass: Bicycling in a Post-Critical...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: Phillip Harding
ISBN: 9781317435457
Format: Electronic book text
$369.60

During the heady, democratic days of the fifth and fourth centuries, the poorer members of Athenian society, the...  Read More >>

Great City Parks

Great City Parks

Author: Alan Tate (University of Manitoba, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415538053
Format: Paperback
$101.00

A comparative study of thirty significant public parks in major cities across Western Europe and North America....  Read More >>

Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer

Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese...

Author: Tom Gill
ISBN: 9781498511988
Format: Hardback
$220.00

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Sustainability in the Global City: Myth and Practice

Sustainability in the Global City: Myth and Practice...

Author: Cindy Isenhour (University of Maine, Orono) ,  Gary McDonogh (Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781107076280
Format: Hardback
$243.23

Urban sustainability has become integral to urban planning and policy making globally, but we know little about...  Read More >>

Urban Spaces in Japan: Cultural and Social Perspectives

Urban Spaces in Japan: Cultural and Social Perspectives...

Author: Christoph Brumann ,  Evelyn Schulz
ISBN: 9781138857421
Format: Paperback
$114.00

Urban Spaces in Japan explores the workings of power, money and the public interest in the planning and design of...  Read More >>

Great City Parks

Great City Parks

Author: Alan Tate (University of Manitoba, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415538022
Format: Hardback
$368.00

A comparative study of thirty significant public parks in major cities across Western Europe and North America....  Read More >>

Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy and Space

Restructuring the Chinese City: Changing Society, Economy...

Author: Laurence J.C. Ma ,  Fulong Wu
ISBN: 9781138881341
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Restructuring the Chinese City is an indispensable text for Chinese specialists, urban scholars and advanced students...  Read More >>

The Dynamics of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Asia

The Dynamics of Social Capital and Civic Engagement...

Author: Amrita Daniere ,  Hy Van Luong
ISBN: 9781138851924
Format: Paperback
$92.99

The purpose of this volume is to highlight the impacts on civic engagement of social capital, and its various component...  Read More >>

Chinese Globalization: A Profile of People-Based Global Connections in China

Chinese Globalization: A Profile of People-Based Global...

Author: Jiaming Sun ,  Scott Lancaster (Texas A&M University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138851917
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book examines the explicit effects of global connectivity on local culture and society in post-reform mainland...  Read More >>

State and Society in Modern Rangoon

State and Society in Modern Rangoon

Author: Donald M. Seekins (Meio University, Japan)
ISBN: 9781138858077
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Rangoon, a city of many identities, has since colonial times been a focus of conflict between the vertical power...  Read More >>

Urban Landscape

Urban Landscape

Author: Anita Berrizbeitia (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
ISBN: 9780415706957
Format: Mixed media product
$630.00

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Urban Transportation Innovations Worldwide: A Handbook of Best Practices Outside the United States

Urban Transportation Innovations Worldwide: A Handbook...

Author: Roger L. Kemp ,  Carl J. Stephani
ISBN: 9780786470754
Format: Paperback
$60.50

A handbook of international best practices on how cities throughout the world have improved their transportation...  Read More >>

Metrolingualism: Language in the City

Metrolingualism: Language in the City

Author: Alastair Pennycook (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia) ,  Emi Otsuji (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415831659
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This book is about language and the city. Pennycook and Otsuji introduce the notion of ‘metrolingualism’, showing...  Read More >>

The Gold Coast Transformed: From Wilderness to Urban Ecosystem

The Gold Coast Transformed: From Wilderness to Urban...

Author: Tor Hundloe ,  Bridgette McDougall
ISBN: 9781486303298
Format: Paperback
$59.95

The Gold Coast is Australia's premiertourism destination, a city cut out of coastalvegetation, including paperbark...  Read More >>

Tuff City: Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples

Tuff City: Urban Change and Contested Space in Central...

Author: Nick Dines
ISBN: 9781782389118
Format: Paperback
$72.32

During the 1990s, Naples' left-wing administration sought to tackle the city's infamous reputation of being poor,...  Read More >>

Consumption, Cities and States: Comparing Singapore with Asian and Western Cities

Consumption, Cities and States: Comparing Singapore...

Author: Ann Brooks ,  Lionel Wee
ISBN: 9781783084265
Format: Paperback
$40.00

'Consumption, Cities and States: Comparing Singapore with Asian and Western Cities' examines the fascinating intersection...  Read More >>

Urban Violence in the Middle East: Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State

Urban Violence in the Middle East: Changing Cityscapes...

Author: Ulrike Freitag ,  Nelida Fuccaro
ISBN: 9781782385837
Format: Hardback
$141.95

Covering a period from the late 18th century to today, this volume explores the phenomenon of urban violence in...  Read More >>

From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago

From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter...

Author: Jakobi Williams
ISBN: 9781469622101
Format: Paperback
$85.80

From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in...  Read More >>

Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs

Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs...

Author: Lucia Lo ,  Valerie Preston
ISBN: 9781442628328
Format: Paperback
$100.19

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

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