Urban communities books

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Religious Representation in Place: Exploring Meaningful Spaces at the Intersection of the Humanities and Sciences

Religious Representation in Place: Exploring Meaningful...

Author: M. George ,  D. Pezzoli-Olgiati
ISBN: 9781137371331
Format: Hardback
$191.95

Religious Representation in Place brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the Humanities and...  Read More >>

Modernization, Urbanization and Development in Latin America, 1900s - 2000s

Modernization, Urbanization and Development in Latin...

Author: Arturo Almandoz
ISBN: 9780415521529
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Arturo Almandoz places the major episodes of Latin America’s twentieth and early twenty-first century urban history...  Read More >>

Infrastructural Lives: Urban Infrastructure in Context

Infrastructural Lives: Urban Infrastructure in Context...

Author: Stephen Graham (Newcastle University, UK) ,  Colin McFarlane (University of Durham, UK)
ISBN: 9780415748513
Format: Hardback
$368.00

Demonstrates that infrastructure is not just as a ‘thing’, a ‘system’, or an ‘output,’ but a complex social and...  Read More >>

(Sub)Urban Sexscapes: Geographies and Regulation of the Sex Industry

(Sub)Urban Sexscapes: Geographies and Regulation of...

Author: Paul Maginn (The University of Western Australia, Australia) ,  Christine Steinmetz (University of New South Wales, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415855280
Format: Hardback
$305.00

(Sub)Urban Sexscapes presents a mix of geographical, sociological, urban planning and legal viewpoints of the commercial...  Read More >>

Bronx Boys

Bronx Boys

Author: Stephen Shames ,  Martin Dones
ISBN: 9780292759428
Format: Hardback
$92.95

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Infrastructural Lives: Urban Infrastructure in Context

Infrastructural Lives: Urban Infrastructure in Context...

Author: Stephen Graham (Newcastle University, UK) ,  Colin McFarlane (University of Durham, UK)
ISBN: 9780415748537
Format: Paperback
$124.00

Demonstrates that infrastructure is not just as a ‘thing’, a ‘system’, or an ‘output,’ but a complex social and...  Read More >>

The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where...

Author: Judith Rodin
ISBN: 9781610394703
Format: Hardback
$79.20

Building resilience,the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively,is an urgent social and economic issue....  Read More >>

Capitale Sociale E Progetto Di Citta

Capitale Sociale E Progetto Di Citta

Author: Giovanna Regalbuto
ISBN: 9788867721061
Format: Paperback
$33.64

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America’s Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia

America’s Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in...

Author: Simon I. Singer
ISBN: 9780814760802
Format: Paperback
$64.99

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America’s Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in Suburbia

America’s Safest City: Delinquency and Modernity in...

Author: Simon I. Singer
ISBN: 9780814760536
Format: Hardback
$171.00

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Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice: Circles of sustainability

Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice: Circles...

Author: Paul James
ISBN: 9781138025738
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Cities are home to the most consequential current attempts at human adaptation and they provide one possible focus...  Read More >>

Community and the Human Spirit: Oral Histories from Montreal's Point St. Charles, Griffintown and Goose Village

Community and the Human Spirit: Oral Histories from...

Author: David J Flavell ,  David J Flavell
ISBN: 9781927032138
Format: Paperback
$62.10

Thoroughly researched and illustrated oral histories from Montreal's Lachine Canal districts: Irish, French and...  Read More >>

Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice: Circles of sustainability

Urban Sustainability in Theory and Practice: Circles...

Author: Paul James
ISBN: 9781138025721
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Cities are home to the most consequential current attempts at human adaptation and they provide one possible focus...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature

The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature

Author: Kevin R. McNamara (University of Houston-Clear Lake)
ISBN: 9781107609150
Format: Paperback
$80.19

This Companion takes as its subject the city in literary history. Its chapters explore the myriad cities that authors...  Read More >>

Towards Low Carbon Cities in China: Urban Form and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Towards Low Carbon Cities in China: Urban Form and Greenhouse...

Author: Sun Sheng Han (University of Melbourne, Australia) ,  Ray Green (University of Melbourne, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415743310
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book explores the relationship between urban form and greenhouse gas emissions in China, providing new insights...  Read More >>

Dealing with Deindustrialization: Adaptive Resilience in American Midwestern Regions

Dealing with Deindustrialization: Adaptive Resilience...

Author: Margaret Cowell
ISBN: 9781138791367
Format: Hardback
$315.00

A thorough understanding of how and why regions varied in their abilities to respond to deindustrialization in Mid-Western...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature

The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature

Author: Kevin R. McNamara (University of Houston-Clear Lake)
ISBN: 9781107028036
Format: Hardback
$196.62

This Companion takes as its subject the city in literary history. Its chapters explore the myriad cities that authors...  Read More >>

The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance

The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart...

Author: Stephen Goldsmith ,  Susan Crawford
ISBN: 9781118910900
Format: Hardback
$62.95

Leveraging Big Data and 21st century technology to renew cities and citizenship in America The Responsive City:...  Read More >>

Post-cosmopolitan Cities: Explorations of Urban Coexistence

Post-cosmopolitan Cities: Explorations of Urban Coexistence...

Author: Caroline Humphrey ,  Vera Skvirskaja
ISBN: 9781782386773
Format: Paperback
$72.32

Examining the way people imagine and interact in their cities, this book explores the post-cosmopolitan city. The...  Read More >>

The View from the Train: Cities and Other Landscapes

The View from the Train: Cities and Other Landscapes...

Author: Patrick Keiller
ISBN: 9781781687765
Format: Paperback
$21.99

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Inert Cities: Globalization, Mobility and Suspension in Visual Culture

Inert Cities: Globalization, Mobility and Suspension...

Author: Dr. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (The University of Lincoln, UK) ,  Christoph Lindner (University College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781780769738
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Chapters explore what happens when photography, film, mixed media works, architecture and design intervene in public...  Read More >>

Trendyville: The Battle for Australia's Inner Cities

Trendyville: The Battle for Australia's Inner Cities...

Author: Graeme Davison ,  Renate Howe
ISBN: 9781921867422
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Reviewed by Geraldine Doogue on Radio National S hortlisted for the History Publication Prizein the Victorian Community...  Read More >>

Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century

Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth...

Author: Steven Conn (Professor and Director, Public History, Ohio State University)
ISBN: 9780199973668
Format: Hardback
$62.95

It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about...  Read More >>

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