Urban communities books

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Empowering Climate-Change Strategies with Bernard Lonergan's Method

Empowering Climate-Change Strategies with Bernard Lonergan's...

Author: John Raymaker ,  Ijaz Durrani
ISBN: 9780761865124
Format: Hardback
$177.00

This book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses. Using Bernard...  Read More >>

Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon

Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping...

Author: Sanjay Srivastava (, Professor, Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi)
ISBN: 9780198099147
Format: Hardback
$83.95

What makes a city? Rather than a totality, a city is best understood through focusing upon different but interconnected...  Read More >>

Creative Industries and Urban Development: Creative Cities in the 21st Century

Creative Industries and Urban Development: Creative...

Author: Terry Flew (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138841772
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This collection draws together contributions that critically appraise recent urban cultural policy discourses, and...  Read More >>

Family and Social Change in an African City: A Study of Rehousing in Lagos

Family and Social Change in an African City: A Study...

Author: Peter Marris
ISBN: 9781138861886
Format: Paperback
$46.99

This book is a study of the pattern of social life which developed in the slums of central Lagos; and of the effects...  Read More >>

The World of Astrology: An Ethnography of Astrology in Contemporary Brazil

The World of Astrology: An Ethnography of Astrology...

Author: Luis Rodolfo Vilhena ,  Graham Douglas
ISBN: 9781907767043
Format: Paperback
$72.45

"Sleeve Notes from Brazilian Edition We see in the present century, after its relative decline in European societies...  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: 9781138813915
Format: Hardback
$389.00

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

The Re-Use of Urban Ruins: Atmospheric Inquiries of the City

The Re-Use of Urban Ruins: Atmospheric Inquiries of...

Author: Hanna Katharina Göbel (Universität Hamburg, Germany)
ISBN: 9781138795617
Format: Hardback
$315.00

How do urban ruins provoke their cultural revaluation? This book offers a unique sociological analysis about the...  Read More >>

The State of Food Insecurity in Maputo, Mozambique

The State of Food Insecurity in Maputo, Mozambique

Author: Ines Raimundo ,  Wade Pendleton
ISBN: 9781920597115
Format: Paperback
$84.22

Food insecurity is a fact of life for the vast majority of households across Maputo's poverty belt. The Maputo urban...  Read More >>

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

Author: Jill Leovy ,  Rebecca Lowman
ISBN: 9780449009734
Format: Audio
$118.80

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, USA TODAY, AND...  Read More >>

The American Dream and the Power of Wealth: Choosing Schools and Inheriting Inequality in the Land of Opportunity

The American Dream and the Power of Wealth: Choosing...

Author: Heather Johnson (Lehigh University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415832663
Format: Hardback
$326.00

Despite the overwhelming evidence against them, many people still believe they can overcome the economic and racial...  Read More >>

Town and Country Planning in the UK

Town and Country Planning in the UK

Author: Simin Davoudi ,  David Webb
ISBN: 9780415492270
Format: Hardback
$554.40

This book provides one of the most authoritative and comprehensive accounts of British planning history, institutions,...  Read More >>

A Season for Martyrs

A Season for Martyrs

Author: Bina Shah
ISBN: 9781883285616
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The U.S. literary debut of an up-and-coming Pakistani novelist and journalist. The last three months of Benazir...  Read More >>

Letters to a Young Queen: Redefining Their Throne

Letters to a Young Queen: Redefining Their Throne

Author: Jay Barnett
ISBN: 9781495136108
Format: Hardback
$44.85

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In Media Res: Race, Identity, and Pop Culture in the Twenty-First Century

In Media Res: Race, Identity, and Pop Culture in the...

Author: James Braxton Peterson
ISBN: 9781611486490
Format: Hardback
$273.00

In Media Res is a collection of critical essays and creative works that wrestle with key issues in twenty-first-century...  Read More >>

The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities: Infrastructures and Spaces of Belonging

The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities: Infrastructures...

Author: M. Diouf ,  R. Fredericks
ISBN: 9781137481870
Format: Hardback
$191.95

The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities pushes the frontiers of how we understand cities and citizenship and offers...  Read More >>

The Educated Person's Guide to Rap Music

The Educated Person's Guide to Rap Music

Author: Tyrone Humphries
ISBN: 9781502541284
Format: Paperback
$31.65

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Métodos para calcular el número de hogares futuros

Métodos para calcular el número de hogares futuros

Author: Brenda Yepez-Martinez
ISBN: 9783639645828
Format: Paperback
$193.59

La previsión del volumen y de la estructura por edad de la población es una información capital para que los poderes...  Read More >>

Izmenenie form dosuga molodezhi rossiyskoy provintsii

Izmenenie form dosuga molodezhi rossiyskoy provintsii...

Author: Kukanova Elana ,  Liberova Marina
ISBN: 9783659642760
Format: Paperback
$219.25

Sotsial'no-ekonomicheskie izmeneniya v nashey strane priveli k izmeneniyu situatsii v oblasti dosuga: rasshirilos'...  Read More >>

Urban Revolution Now: Henri Lefebvre in Social Research and Architecture

Urban Revolution Now: Henri Lefebvre in Social Research...

Author: Christian Schmid ,  Lukasz Stanek
ISBN: 9781409442936
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In an era when the tendency identified by Lefebvre in his 1970 work 'The Urban Revolution' has become reality, this...  Read More >>

Informal Labour in Urban India: Three Cities, Three Journeys

Informal Labour in Urban India: Three Cities, Three...

Author: Tom Barnes
ISBN: 9780415722339
Format: Hardback
$315.00

During the last two decades, rapid economic growth and development in India has been based upon the mass employment...  Read More >>

Global Port Cities in North America: Urbanization Processes and Global Production Networks

Global Port Cities in North America: Urbanization Processes...

Author: Boris Vormann (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
ISBN: 9781138814028
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book explores globalization processes under neoliberalism and their impacts on sociospatial dynamics in North...  Read More >>

Contemporary British Literature and Urban Space: After Thatcher

Contemporary British Literature and Urban Space: After...

Author: K. Duff
ISBN: 9781137429346
Format: Hardback
$167.95

Looking at writers such as Will Self, Hani Kureishi, JG Ballard, and Iain Sinclair, Kim Duff's new book examines...  Read More >>

Studies in Temporal Urbanism: The urbanTick Experiment

Studies in Temporal Urbanism: The urbanTick Experiment...

Author: Fabian Neuhaus
ISBN: 9789400795365
Format: Paperback
$232.85

This book is very much about what the name urbanTick literally says, about the ticking of the urban, the urban as...  Read More >>

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