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Chicago Hustle and Flow: Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class

Chicago Hustle and Flow: Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social...

Author: Geoff Harkness
ISBN: 9780816692293
Format: Paperback
$29.99

On September 4, 2012, Joseph Coleman, an eighteen-year-old aspiring gangsta rapper, was gunned down in the Englewood...  Read More >>

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

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

Author: Reuben A. Buford May
ISBN: 9780813569390
Format: Hardback
$396.00

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

Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman Urban History

Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective...

Author: Nazan Maksudyan
ISBN: 9781782384113
Format: Hardback
$124.95

Drawing on diverse theoretical backgrounds and a variety of source materials, the contributors to the volume reconstruct...  Read More >>

Wilderburbs: Communities on Nature's Edge

Wilderburbs: Communities on Nature's Edge

Author: Lincoln Bramwell ,  William Cronon
ISBN: 9780295994123
Format: Hardback
$178.95

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Chicago Hustle and Flow: Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social Class

Chicago Hustle and Flow: Gangs, Gangsta Rap, and Social...

Author: Geoff Harkness
ISBN: 9780816692286
Format: Hardback
$89.99

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Global Report on Human Settlements 2013: Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility

Global Report on Human Settlements 2013: Planning and...

Author: United Nations Human Settlements Programme
ISBN: 9789211325683
Format: Paperback
$153.12

Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility argues that the development of sustainable urban transport systems...  Read More >>

Economics of South African townships: special focus on Diepsloot

Economics of South African townships: special focus...

Author: World Bank ,  Sandeep Mahajan
ISBN: 9781464803017
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Countries everywhere are divided into two distinct spatial realms: one urban, one rural. Classic models of development...  Read More >>

The Archaeology of American Cities

The Archaeology of American Cities

Author: Nan A. Rothschild ,  Diana diZerega Wall
ISBN: 9780813049724
Format: Hardback
$184.67

Gravestones, cemeteries, and memorial markers offer fixed points in time to examine Americans’ changing attitudes...  Read More >>

Mobilities and Neighbourhood Belonging in Cities and Suburbs

Mobilities and Neighbourhood Belonging in Cities and...

Author: P. Watt ,  P. Smets
ISBN: 9781137003621
Format: Hardback
$208.95

Contemporary city and suburban dwellers are constantly on the move. Does this mean they lack a sense of belonging...  Read More >>

Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City

Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of...

Author: Choire Sicha
ISBN: 9780061914317
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Very Recent History by Choire Sicha is an idiosyncratic and elegant narrative that follows a handful of young men...  Read More >>

Alternative Real Estate Research

Alternative Real Estate Research

Author: Ling Hin Li (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
ISBN: 9781138782082
Format: Hardback
$315.00

"@text: This book aims to provide insight into the ""soft"" side of real estate research and the interesting results...  Read More >>

Otsenka kachestva zhizni naseleniya v gorodakh-millionnikakh Rossii

Otsenka kachestva zhizni naseleniya v gorodakh-millionnikakh...

Author: Khabibrakhmanova Rezeda ,  Akhmetbaeva Liliya
ISBN: 9783659562648
Format: Paperback
$156.53

V monografii rassmatrivayutsya teoreticheskie i metodicheskie osnovy otsenki kachestva zhizni naseleniya. Rassmatrivayutsya...  Read More >>

Incomplete Streets: Processes, practices, and possibilities

Incomplete Streets: Processes, practices, and possibilities...

Author: Stephen Zavestoski (University of San Francisco, USA) ,  Julian Agyeman (Tufts University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415725866
Format: Hardback
$305.00

"The ‘Complete Streets' concept and movement in urban planning and policy has been hailed by many as a revolution...  Read More >>

Boom Towns: Restoring the Urban American Dream

Boom Towns: Restoring the Urban American Dream

Author: Stephen J.K. Walters
ISBN: 9780804781633
Format: Hardback
$52.95

Boom Towns presents a bold analysis of the decline of American cities and a guide to restoring their vitality. Stephen...  Read More >>

Cities of the Mediterranean: From the Ottomans to the Present Day

Cities of the Mediterranean: From the Ottomans to the...

Author: Meltem Toksoz ,  Biray Kolluoglu
ISBN: 9781780767697
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Through its penetrating analysis of the various networks that connected the ports and towns of the Mediterranean...  Read More >>

A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida

A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking...

Author: N. D. B. Connolly
ISBN: 9780226115146
Format: Hardback
$163.95

Many people understand urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised,...  Read More >>

Stadtsoziologie

Stadtsoziologie

Author: Walter Siebel
ISBN: 9781322184852
Format: Electronic book text
$71.49

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When The Sax Man Plays: Part 1 - Making It

When The Sax Man Plays: Part 1 - Making It

Author: Yvonne Marrs
ISBN: 9798223189466
Format: Paperback
$32.97

Young and extraordinarily gifted saxophonist, Jason Bottelli, takes up the Head of Music post with Londonʼs Impervious...  Read More >>

Contemporary Adulthood and the Night-Time Economy

Contemporary Adulthood and the Night-Time Economy

Author: O. Smith
ISBN: 9781137344519
Format: Hardback
$184.95

This book examines the experiences of those dedicated drinkers at the forefront of the new night-time leisure industries...  Read More >>

The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China

The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban...

Author: Luigi Tomba
ISBN: 9780801479359
Format: Paperback
$62.07

Luigi Tomba investigates how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in Chinese...  Read More >>

The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban China

The Government Next Door: Neighborhood Politics in Urban...

Author: Luigi Tomba
ISBN: 9780801452826
Format: Hardback
$279.45

Luigi Tomba investigates how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in Chinese...  Read More >>

Incomplete Streets: Processes, practices, and possibilities

Incomplete Streets: Processes, practices, and possibilities...

Author: Stephen Zavestoski (University of San Francisco, USA) ,  Julian Agyeman (Tufts University, USA)
ISBN: 9780415725873
Format: Paperback
$114.00

"The ‘Complete Streets' concept and movement in urban planning and policy has been hailed by many as a revolution...  Read More >>

The Histories of a Medieval German City, Worms c. 1000-c. 1300: Translation and Commentary

The Histories of a Medieval German City, Worms c. 1000-c....

Author: David S. Bachrach
ISBN: 9781472436412
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The history of medieval Germany, particularly that of the lower social orders, has thus far remained largely unknown...  Read More >>

Inclusive Urbanization: Rethinking Policy, Practice and Research in the Age of Climate Change

Inclusive Urbanization: Rethinking Policy, Practice...

Author: Krishna Shrestha ,  Hemant Ojha (South India Institute of Advanced Studies (SIAS), India)
ISBN: 9780415856010
Format: Hardback
$378.00

Inclusive Urbanization shows how urbanization policy and management can be used to make more inclusive, climate...  Read More >>

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