Urban communities books

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Making Diaspora in a Global City: South Asian Youth Cultures in London

Making Diaspora in a Global City: South Asian Youth...

Author: Helen Kim (London School of Economics, UK)
ISBN: 9780415716338
Format: Hardback
$284.00

"The exciting diasporic sounds of the London Asian urban music scene are a cross-section of the various genres of...  Read More >>

Co-operative Canada: Empowering Communities and Sustainable Businesses

Co-operative Canada: Empowering Communities and Sustainable...

Author: Brett Fairbairn ,  Nora Russell
ISBN: 9780774827881
Format: Hardback
$212.18

A comprehensive look at how Canadians are responding to the forces of globalization through collectively owned enterprises....  Read More >>

The Urban Section: An analytical tool for cities and streets

The Urban Section: An analytical tool for cities and...

Author: Robert Mantho
ISBN: 9780415642590
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Urban Section examines city and road types at cross-sections to teach planners the skills needed to tackle street...  Read More >>

Mobilität älterer Menschen

Mobilität älterer Menschen

Author: Viktoria Schmidt
ISBN: 9783639679410
Format: Paperback
$117.91

Mobilität ist auch im Alter eine Bedingung zur Selbstständigkeit, die im Hinblick auf die künftige demografische...  Read More >>

Global Cities and Climate Change: The Translocal Relations of Environmental Governance

Global Cities and Climate Change: The Translocal Relations...

Author: Taedong Lee (Yonsei University, Korea)
ISBN: 9780415737371
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Cities have led the way to combat climate change by planning and implementing climate mitigation and adaptation...  Read More >>

Representaciones sociales de los habitantes de San Rafael de Escazú

Representaciones sociales de los habitantes de San Rafael...

Author: Jesús Alberto Méndez Muñoz
ISBN: 9783659034190
Format: Paperback
$160.86

El estudio de las clases sociales se ha dado generalmente en Costa Rica a partir de una perspectiva parcializada:...  Read More >>

Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago

Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago...

Author: Laurence Ralph
ISBN: 9780226032719
Format: Paperback
$37.95

Walking the streets of one of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods - where the local gang has been active for more...  Read More >>

Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs: The Modernization of the Indonesian City, 1920-1960

Cars, Conduits, and Kampongs: The Modernization of the...

Author: Freek Colombijn ,  Joost Coté
ISBN: 9789004280694
Format: Hardback
$414.48

Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of Indonesian cities between 1920 and 1960....  Read More >>

Critical Realism and Housing Research

Critical Realism and Housing Research

Author: Julie Lawson
ISBN: 9780415864657
Format: Paperback
$29.99

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Shanghai in Transition: Changing Perspectives and Social Contours of a Chinese Metropolis

Shanghai in Transition: Changing Perspectives and Social...

Author: Jos Gamble
ISBN: 9780415861625
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development: International Perspectives

Theory and Practice of Dialogical Community Development:...

Author: Peter Westoby ,  Gerard Dowling
ISBN: 9781138838215
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This book proposes that community development has been increasingly influenced and co-opted by a modernist, soulless,...  Read More >>

Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change

Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change

Author: Sharon Zukin
ISBN: 9780813570976
Format: Paperback
$108.11

Since its initial publication, Loft Living has become the classic analysis of the emergence of artists as a force...  Read More >>

Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness: The Utopian Imagination in An Age of Urban Crisis

Italo Calvino's Architecture of Lightness: The Utopian...

Author: Letizia Modena (Villanova University, USA)
ISBN: 9781138847231
Format: Paperback
$101.00

This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and...  Read More >>

Cities, Networks, and Global Environmental Governance: Spaces of Innovation, Places of Leadership

Cities, Networks, and Global Environmental Governance:...

Author: Sofie Bouteligier
ISBN: 9781138833210
Format: Paperback
$83.99

As a result of global dynamics—the increasing interconnection of people and places—innovations in global environmental...  Read More >>

Voices from Prison

Voices from Prison

Author: Gerardo Hernández ,  Ramón Labañino
ISBN: 9789645783325
Format: Paperback
$18.48

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Single and the City

Single and the City

Author: Julita Czernecka
ISBN: 9788323336945
Format: Paperback
$90.56

"What does the single life look like and does it have anything in common with what the media show? This question...  Read More >>

The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs

The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs

Author: Sonia Hirt (Virginia Tech, USA) ,  Diane Zahm (Virginia Tech, USA)
ISBN: 9781138828889
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobs’s legacy....  Read More >>

The Age of Intelligent Cities: Smart Environments and Innovation-for-all Strategies

The Age of Intelligent Cities: Smart Environments and...

Author: Nicos Komninos (Aristotle University of Thessalonki, Greece)
ISBN: 9781138782198
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces...  Read More >>

Upscaling Downtown: From Bowery Saloons to Cocktail Bars in New York City

Upscaling Downtown: From Bowery Saloons to Cocktail...

Author: Richard E. Ocejo
ISBN: 9780691155166
Format: Hardback
$67.99

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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design...

Author: Charles Montgomery
ISBN: 9780374534882
Format: Paperback
$44.88

Tells the story of how the solutions to this century's problems lie in unlocking the secrets to great city living....  Read More >>

Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism

Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries...

Author: Ato Quayson
ISBN: 9780822357476
Format: Paperback
$59.49

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Urban Nightlife: Entertaining Race, Class, and Culture in Public Space

Urban Nightlife: Entertaining Race, Class, and Culture...

Author: Reuben A. Buford May
ISBN: 9780813569383
Format: Paperback
$108.11

Sociologists have long been curious about the ways in which city dwellers negotiate urban public space. How do they...  Read More >>

Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism

Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries...

Author: Ato Quayson
ISBN: 9780822357339
Format: Hardback
$284.99

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Rio de Janeiro: Urban Life through the Eyes of the City

Rio de Janeiro: Urban Life through the Eyes of the City...

Author: Beatriz Jaguaribe
ISBN: 9780415569316
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Jaguaribe’s book offers exciting and creative perspectives on the urban imaginaries and experiences of Rio de Janeiro....  Read More >>

Battle for Ground Zero: Inside the Political Struggle to Rebuild the World Trade Center

Battle for Ground Zero: Inside the Political Struggle...

Author: Elizabeth Greenspan
ISBN: 9781137279453
Format: Paperback
$28.44

In the aftermath of 9/11, Americans came together in a way not seen for a generation, pledging unity to rebuild...  Read More >>

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